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To garner the attention and recognition that will get a film distributed, entering film festivals is a must. With more than 500 festivals worldwide, each listing features detailed information, including contact names, addresses, Web sites, entry materials, entry deadlines, and fees. Insider information for each festival is also included, such as what types of features are shown most frequently, festival reputations, noteworthy celebrity sightings, location details, and more than a dozen interviews with festival industry professionals. It includes a listing of the 16 best festivals including the hugely diverse Berlin International Film Festival, the revamped and vastly improved Chicago International Film Festival, and the Valladolid International Film Festival, where A Clockwork Orange premiered. This book also includes a handy guide for film buffs who want to plan a vacation around an interesting festival in a marvelous setting, as well as film house listings for a great escape into the dark for a movie fix.
Customer Reviews:
Very Good Book.......2004-05-28
This is an excellent book and a great guide to film festivals, for both filmmakers and film lovers
I wish there were more film festivals listed within this book, however, the important ones are covered
Hopefully, we'll also see an update of it soon
I recommend it to anyone who is submitting films to festivals, anytime soon
an excellent and succinct overview of festival process.......2000-08-07
I found this to be an excellent and helpful guide to navigating the film festival process. Most helpful were the pointers about how to save money applying for film festivals and how not to "cancel out" your chances at one festival by applying to another. Like with any guidebook, some of the entries will go out of date. That's why they should always be checked before you apply to a particular festival. Most festivals will mail you their application materials, so this book is a good starting point to find which of the festivals are right for your film.
good source; bad contact info.......1999-11-03
This is a comprehensive guide to film festivals, however there are so many mistakes in the contact information: wrong phone and email addresses, no contact info, or info for one festival listed as contact info for another -- that contacting these festivals becomes an exercise in frustration. I don't think all this is due to the fact that the pub date was 1998. It appears that the info was never correct. Ugh!
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With the release of her first album Genuine, fifteen year old Stacie Orrico quickly skyrocketed to the top of today's new Christian music artists. In her gift book, Genuine , Stacie expands the main theme of her album into a powerful message for teenage girls. Writing to her peers, Stacie candidly addresses issues that all girls struggle with- from their appearance and dating to faith and friends. Filled with fun photos, journal entries, doodles, and unexpected insights, this honest look at what it takes to be real in an artificial world.
You can read an excerpt of Staci's book this month by clicking on this link! www.passageway.org/link.asp?etc.asp?loadpage=etcetera/genuine.asp
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Great book!.......2003-04-19
I absolutely love this book! Whenever I'm struggling with being a genuine person, I read this. I knew Stacie was a strong Christian but then I read this book. It's great because it just gives insight into Stacie's life. What's she's like, what her family's like, etc. It also attacks the issue of all of the struggle of trying to be genuine in an artificial world. Great job Stacie!
A must read book for teenage girls of today.......2001-07-17
Stacie Orrico is a truly amazing girl and shows how mature and genuine a person is in this book. She is so open to many topics that face teen girls today in this artificial world that we live in and she blows my mind how far ahead of her time she is with such mature thoughts. I think that any teenage girl should read this book. It's good to see that there are still some good girls around in this day and she is definitely one of them. Her book is awesome and I think it will leave it's readers with a new knowledge and understanding of how we all should be in this day and age. She truly is a genuine girl who hopes that what she has to say on life and what faces teen girls of today. Her points she makes throughout the make are priceless and I believe that this book is a must have. We love you Stacie.
good Book.......2001-06-15
I really liked Stacie Orricos cd when it came out. So I though I'd check out this book. It's a good book about keeping it real in a world so full of people acting and pretending. she talks about how she stays genuine in her faith with her family with her music and with guys and dating. It's great book for any girl who likes her music and is looking for a good book.
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One of the most touching songs of the past year was "Dear Friend" by Christian music phenomena Stacie Orrico. What many people don't know is that this powerful song was written by Stacie specifically for a real-life struggle that her close friend was going through. The core message of the song is the bond of unconditional love and support between friends. The design of this gift book and the tender message of this song will appeal to women of all ages. Included with each book is a CD single if the song Dear Friend.
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Inspirational.......2003-12-24
I, for one, loved the fact that each girl truely expressed their true feelings and thoughts with one another and the reader.
I LOVE THIS BOOK AND SONG!!!!.......2002-01-25
I think every girl should go out there and this [read] book!!!! and DOn't forget to get Genuine:being real in an artificial world! OK! ok.
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Our matching folio to the debut release from teen CCM star Stacie Orrico - who's been compared to Christina Aguilera and Lauryn Hill - is an infectious and inspiring collection of songs. It features the single "Don't Look at Me" and 12 others: Confidant * Dear Friend * Everything * Genuine * Holdin' On * O.O Baby * Restore My Soul * Ride * So Pray * Stay True * With a Little Faith * Without Love.
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All 12 genre-crossing songs from the eponymous sophomore album from 17-year-old Stacie Orrico, who the All Music Guide calls "America's newest diva/role model." Includes: Bounce Back * Hesitation * I Could Be the One * I Promise * Instead * Maybe I Won't Look Back * (There's Gotta Be) More to Life * Security * Strong Enough * Stuck * That's What Love's About * Tight.
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Play Bridge with Reese was a lot better.......2007-05-16
I much prefered the authors other book: Play Bridge with Reese
1 - I didn't like his attitude. Regardless of his skill, he does not seem like someone I'd care to play with.
2 - the bidding is outdated and franky bad. Some of Reeses ideas would be rejected today. Its *VERY* hard to try and figure out teh shape when an opponent makes horrible bids like opening 1 NT with a spot singleton spade. Thats a horrible bid, and you are better off using the few minutes you have during each hand to think abiout a realistic set of hands.
3 - A number of the hands involved some non simple squeezes. They are not all that common, and even advanced players would be better off if they used their time looking at other types of problems. I think teh selection of problem types was just not that good. Soem problems were good, some were fair, some were poor.
I think one of the reasons this book got so much acclaim is Reese was one of the first authors to use this style. Since there are now many otehr books that also present the reader problems in this format, thsi book has not aged well. I would recommend reading many other play of the hand books before this. (Eddie Kantar, Mike Lawrence, Kelseys Test Your XXX, Win the Bermuda Bowl with Me, Danny Roth)
The book isn't bad, its just not a great book. Read it, but don't expect it to be as good as its hype.
How to think at the table.......2006-12-24
What does an expert think about?
How does he go about testing his hypothesis?
Don't worry if the bididng is a little old fashioned, look deeper, at the problem, and the tools (bidding) the author had at the time.
Play these hands with me........2006-03-20
This is a great book to for intermediate or even advanced player. It addresses the thought process of the expert (Terence Reese) on his bidding and declarer play on a wide variety of hands. Some of the bidding conventions are now outdated, but even for today's ACBL bridge player it is an excellent learning tool to improve one's declarer play, as well as an enjoyable bridge read.
Dazzling, delightful.......1999-06-04
It's a shame Play Bridge with Reese and this book are out of print because they're classics. Some books give you rules and group hands into topics and chapters. These are different. You pick up a bridge hand with the late, great Terrence Reese, and follow his thoughts and choices through the bidding. When the bidding is over, the opponents lead, dummy comes down and you follow his thinking through the play of the hand as he develops a plan and builds up a picture of the hidden hands card by card. The method is simple but the results are dazzling, entertaining and instructive. Play Bridge with Mike Lawrence and Play a Swiss Team of Four with Mike Lawrence use a similar style - also wonderfully done - but Play Bridge with Reese is probably the best of the four.
Customer Reviews:
generally a good set of not so easy problems.......2007-05-16
I liked the style of the book, an "over the shoulder" explanation of the authors reasoning while defending 60 hands, some of which are advanced.
The reader is asked to visualize the unseen hands, and must frequently reject the obvious play upon closer examination. At the end of the problem the author discusses the theme and may show anotehr example.
My main gripe is it was difficult to follow the card play. I would have gotten a lot more out of the book had the card play been easy to follow.
Also, a few of the hands I did not care for, but most were good.
The book is worth reading, but first I'd read all the Eddie Kantar books on Play and defense (Kantar for the Defense 1,2, A new appraoch to Play and Defense 1,2, Test your Bridge Play 1,2)
I like the style.......2006-12-09
Good thought provoking problems.
Not just the simple stuff (2nd hand low, 3rd hand high).
Pottage gets you thinking about taking partner off endplays, and what declarer might hold.
This might be hard for average players who are not used to thinking in this depth. The problems aren't super hard either. They are just right.
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Enron was a $100-billion-a-year company in October 2001--America's seventh-largest. The Houston-based energy firm enjoyed warm ties with newly installed President George W. Bush. Earnings were up 26 percent from the previous quarter, while Fortune magazine had named Enron the country's most innovative company six years in a row. Less than two months later, Enron filed for bankruptcy in the biggest corporate failure in history. Enron became synonymous with the greed and fraud of the go-go high-tech stock bubble of the late 1990s--the worst of a series of spectacular corporate collapses that also took down WorldCom, Tyco, and Global Crossing.
What went wrong? Veteran New York Times financial journalist Kurt Eichenwald does an epic job of telling Enron's story in his 742-page tome Conspiracy of Fools. Eichenwald, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, also authored The Informant, an acclaimed account of a vast international price-fixing scandal at Archer Daniels Midland. Conspiracy of Fools tells the Enron tale with a cinematic narrative style, relying almost exclusively on scene and dialogue to bring his account to vivid life. We see how federal regulators opened the doors for the Enron fraud early on when they let the company loosen up its accounting rules and essentially cook its books. We read how Enron bullied Wall Street firms into issuing favorable reports about its share price by threatening to take away lucrative banking fees. Eichenwald also reveals how Enron manipulated electricity prices during the California energy crisis of 2000. Eichenwald's book is less successful in situating the Enron debacle in its wider context--the cycle of market speculation that reached a historic summit in the dot-com bubble. Was Enron just a cautionary sign of the greed and lack of ethics of a few bad apples, or was it more symptomatic of an entire market system? That may be a debate for another book. --Alex Roslin
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From an award-winning New York Times reporter comes the full, mind-boggling story of the lies, crimes, and ineptitude behind the spectacular scandal that imperiled a presidency, destroyed a marketplace, and changed Washington and Wall Street forever . . .
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In 2000, when The Informant was published, few would’ve imagined that a story about price fixing at Archer Daniels Midland could be as un–put–downable as the best crime fiction. Yet critics—and consumers—agreed: The New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald had taken the stuff of dry business reporting and turned it into an unparalleled page–turner. With Conspiracy of Fools, Eichenwald has done it again.
Say the name “Enron” and most people believe they’ve heard all about the story that imperiled a presidency, destroyed a marketplace, and changed Washington and Wall Street forever. But in the hands of Kurt Eichenwald, the players we think we know and the business practices we think have been exposed are transformed into entirely new—and entirely gripping—material. The cast includes but is not limited to George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Paul O’Neill, Harvey Pitt, Colin Powell, Gray Davis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Alan Greenspan, Ken Lay, Andy Fastow, Jeff Skilling, Bill Clinton, Rupert Murdoch, and Michael Eisner. Providing a you–are–there glimpse behind closed doors in the executive suites of the Enron Corporation, the Texas governor’s mansion, the Justice Department, and even the Oval Office, Conspiracy of Fools is an all–true financial and political thriller of cinematic proportions.
Customer Reviews:
Comprehensive Character List and Complex Issues.......2007-08-04
Without going in to great detail about the book - I am sure we all know it dealt with the collapse of one of corporate Americas' big swingers. The book contained quite a deal of information about events from inside Enron. I guess the only reason I didn't give it 5 stars was because the author had a way of really annoying me by trying to write the book as a novel (in places). I look forward to the movie - hopefully the ending is better for the investors.
How easily the "system" failed........2007-07-28
You will be amazed at how Enron was able to frustrate every check and balance in place in American Finance. The SEC, individual and institutional investors, auditors, lawyers, accountants, rating agencies, banks, creditors, peers, and even insiders were blindsided by a couple of smart but foolhardy executives who were willing to exploit every loophole in the name of manufacturing *profits* (and not products).
All in all a very readable and addictive book.
Couldn't put it down!.......2007-06-24
I do *not* have a high degree of financial acumen, but this book laid out what was really wrong with Enron in a thoroughly engaging manner. I couldn't put it down, and I finally understand the financial reasons for the collapse, not just managerial incompetence...which was EPIC, by the way.
This review is for the audio cds.......2007-06-16
I borrowed these cds from the library because I'm interested in corporate governance and case studies. I'm not an expert on Enron, but this felt like fiction from the first couple of minutes. When the narrator speaks for Ken Lay, he uses a deep, fatherly voice. Andy Fastow's voice is whiny and child-like. Its content is obviously biased and selective. So from a factual standpoint, I'm not learning a heck of a lot.
As fiction, it's way too long at 25 cds; should be abridged by about 2/3. There's just not that much content, and it's often painful to listen to. If I didn't have a one-hour commute to fill, I'd have given up on it hours ago.
I highly recommend The Smartest Guys in the Room instead.
A fun read.......2007-05-14
Although the book was near 700 pages, it was easy to read. However, there were times when I was really pissed at the stupidity displayed by the excutives at Enron. How could they let one guy run the show and not know anything about it? What's worse was that none of the top executives know the fundamentals of finance. Nevertheless, "Conspiracy of Fools" was a compelling story that build up well and cause you to want to read to the end to find out how everything is solved.
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"The FBI was ready to take down America's most politically powerful corporation. But there was one thing they didn't count on."
So reads the cover of this high-powered true crime story, an accurate teaser to a bizarre financial scandal with more plot twists than a John Grisham novel. In 1992 the FBI stumbled upon Mark Whitacre, a top executive at the Archer Daniels Midland corporation who was willing to act as a government witness to a vast international price-fixing conspiracy. ADM, which advertises itself as "The Supermarket to the World," processes grains and other farm staples into oils, flours, and fibers for products that fill America's shelves, from Jell-O pudding to StarKist tuna. The company's chairman and chief executive, Dwayne Andreas, was so influential that he introduced Ronald Reagan to Mikhail Gorbachev, and it was his maneuvering that ensured that high fructose corn syrup would replace sugar in most foods (ever wondered why Coke and Pepsi don't taste quite like they used to?). There were two mottoes at ADM: "The competitors are our friends, and the customers are our enemies" and "We know when we're lying." And lie they did. With the help of Whitacre, the FBI made hundreds of tapes and videos of ADM executives making price-fixing deals with their corrivals from Japan, Korea, and Canada, all while drinking coffee and laughing about their crimes. The tapes should have cinched the case, but there was one problem: Their star witness was manipulative, deceitful, and unstable. Nothing was as it seemed, and the investigation into one of the most astounding white-collar crime cases in history had only just begun.
Kurt Eichenwald, an investigative reporter, covered the story for The New York Times and interviewed more than 100 participants in the case. He methodically records the six-year investigation, leaving no plot twist or tape transcript unexplored. While his primary focus is on deconstructing the disturbed Whitacre and revealing the malleability of truth, the portrait of ADM (and even the Justice Department) is damning enough to make anyone a cynic. --Lesley Reed
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From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes an outrageous story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy—which left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man . . .
It was one of the FBI's biggest secrets: a senior executive with America's most politically powerful corporation, Archer Daniels Midland, had become a confidential government witness, secretly recording a vast criminal conspiracy spanning five continents. Mark Whitacre, the promising golden boy of ADM, had put his career and family at risk to wear a wire and deceive his friends and colleagues. Using Whitacre and a small team of agents to tap into the secrets at ADM, the FBI discovered the company's scheme to steal millions of dollars from its own customers.
But as the FBI and federal prosecutors closed in on ADM, using stakeouts, wiretaps, and secret recordings of illegal meetings around the world, they suddenly found that everything was not all that it appeared. At the same time Whitacre was cooperating with the Feds while playing the role of loyal company man, he had his own
agenda he kept hidden from everyone around him—his wife, his lawyer, even the FBI agents who had come to trust him with the case they had put their careers on the line for. Whitacre became sucked into his own world of James Bond antics, imperiling the criminal case and creating a web of deceit that left the FBI and prosecutors uncertain where the lies stopped and the truth began.
In this gripping account unfolds one of the most captivating and bizarre tales in the history of the FBI and corporate America. Meticulously researched and richly told by New York Times senior writer Kurt Eichenwald,
The Informant re-creates the drama of the story, beginning with the secret recordings, stakeouts, and interviews with suspects and witnesses to the power struggles within ADM and its board—including the high-profile chairman Dwayne Andreas, F. Ross Johnson, and Brian Mulroney—to the big-gun Washington lawyers hired by ADM and on up through the ranks of the Justice Department to FBI Director Louis Freeh and Attorney General Janet Reno.
A page-turning real-life thriller that features deadpan FBI agents, crooked executives, idealistic lawyers, and shady witnesses with an addiction to intrigue,
The Informant tells an important and compelling story of power and betrayal in America
Customer Reviews:
Gripping narrative of FBI investigation.......2007-08-30
After reading the first few chapters of "The Informant" by Kurt Eichenwald, I could not put this book down. Eichenwald should be commended for maintaining a thrilling narrative that offers incredible insights into corporate crime, the workings of the U.S. judicial system, and the psychology of a disturbed individual.
That person, Mark Whitacre, a former Archer-Daniels-Midland executive, was by all prior accounts a talented rising star at ADM, the politically powerful Fortune 500 food processing company bearing the slogan "Supermarket to the world."
Whitacre was in charge of a billion-dollar business at the company, but decided to become an FBI informant who secretly recorded meetings among ADM and its competitors in which they plotted a multibillion-dollar price-fixing scheme that ensnared several multinational companies.
The FBI at first considered Whitacre a star cooperating witness, but gradually began to worry that its investigation would fall apart as Whitacre began to demonstrate all kinds of erratic behavior (I don't want to give away too much of the story--Eichenwald does a great job of adding new details and twists that are very compelling).
Eichenwald also details all the turf battles and power plays among the FBI, U.S. Attorney's office, and the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust and antifraud divisions.
I only wish there could have been more details about the behind-the-scenes efforts by ADM's lawyers to derail the case, but I'm sure those accounts will never become public. I was also curious about the reaction among ADM's customers, who were getting totally exploited by the company and its "competitors." Great book, overall.
Better than Fiction.......2007-08-07
My review may not be needed - since the "Informant" has already received many positive reviews. However, I do need to echo that the truth is often stranger than ficiton.
The story of "The Informant" could not have been invented through imagination... the author would have believed that the plot was too much of a stretch from reality and would have been unbelievable. Kurt Eichenwald has weaved together a very intelligent and informative read on the dangers of slippery slopes of lying and disception.
Back to the book- I highly recommend "The Informant" to lovers of non-ficition and those who enjoy John Grisham style novels (although Eichenwald style is superiot to Grisham's). You have crime, disception, cheating, and all of the other elements of a great crime novel....just remember that this one actually happened! Clearly a 5 star read.
Eichenwald is great.......2007-02-18
This is the second book I've read by Eichenwald (Conspiracy of Fools being the other) and I thought they were each fantastic.
Could not put it down!! ADDICTIVE!!.......2007-02-07
Well-written. I'm not a business major nor a businessman, but this was an easy read for me. I really loved reading this book. Of particular interest is a scene when FBI agent Hoyt talks to his hard-working, average Joe brother-in-law. In this scene, you will realize how this white collar crime affects the average person, like you and me. His research was incredibly thorough. I can't say enough about this book. It's well-written, thorough, and it's all true. Truth is stranger than fiction.
Like a Grisholm novel...but true.......2007-01-12
I dreaded reading this because it's long and the type is small. However, once I started it, I couldn't put it down. The story is astounding, made more so because it's true. It reads like a Grisholm novel. I remember the story when it happened, and learning the details made it even more fascinating.
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A man in Pittsburgh, nicknamed “Shark,” turned from drug dealer to a confidential mercenary drug informant for the Attorney General's drug task force of Pennsylvania. From a young boy of four or five years old, Shark had hung out with his grandfather and father learning the bar scenes and street life. While growing up, he witnessed them booking numbers, selling booze and acquiring cash. Later, Shark became involved with a circle of bad guys supplying cocaine to the entire city of Pittsburgh. He helped them supply the cocaine until his family pulled together an intervention. But, the intervention didn't go quite normally, and a payment for Shark's services was offered. He got paid for every cocaine buy whether he was present at the scene or not. Many attempted hits on Shark failed because of Shark's brother-in-law, Big John, and Shark's father, the Baker. Big John, 6'7” and an undefeated boxer, tore apart everybody who came after Shark, and the Baker used his police friends and the Larimer Avenue mob to divert Shark from the legal system.
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Used to be a friend.......2005-06-13
I grew up with Anthony (The Author) I don't want to bash him, but his book was pure fiction. He glamorized a seedy life of petty deals and betrayal. He was always so greedy and shady and this book just confirms his true self. He acted tough until he was confronted by some real hard asses. I just have to remind him (if he reads this) of the time when Chris S. took Anthony's car over some coke and I had to go and retrive it because Anthony was too afraid. I did like him at one time, but I regret any association. A Rat is a Rat.
A snitch is a snitch.......2005-05-17
I think this was the worst book I ever read.It isn't "true cime" but FICTION.This person cannot really exist.He betrayed his family,his friends and everyone he came in contact with.After reading this book I would never want to be associated with this man.He is someone a person could never trust.As he proved throughout the entire book.I feel sorry for "Desi" if she really existed ,which I doubt. No one is that stupid to get involved with a lying snitch like that.If he does exist he will one day get what he truly deserves. I'm sorry I wasted the $20.00 to buy this book.
Knowledgeably helpful.......2005-03-03
Shark, The Baker's Son was one of the mosr truest stories about Pittsburgh Pennsylvania that I've ever read. The book showed, to me, that a person can make so much money legally or illegally, and that same person can hit rock bottom and lose all their money because of drugs. The cars, the jewerlry and the being able to go and to do whatever you want whenever you want is nice, but it never last. I loved the writing prescriptions part of the book. Whoever can think of something like that and to make it actually happen, vigorously can accomplish anything because that seems almost impossible to do. The Corpus Christi connections with the Mexican Marijuana showed me that wherever somebody goes, they can find drugs and in mass quantities. The intervention part of the book showed me How the drugs not only affect the person, but they also affect the addict whole family. I hope that this author writes another novel and focuses on the recovery side of drug usage; however, with the title of this book, and, moreover, the sub-title, seems like the author wanted to focus this book on confidential drug informants. Although, I read signs of recovery in this story, and I hope the author decides to write a book on recovery from addiction.
Great story.......2005-02-27
I saw this book on the Internet and i had to `ave it. I like to read true stories about the American criminals da get arrested because they all think they are John Wayne. I had to buy the book from an online bookstore, but it was worth the few extra pounds to `ave it shipped to me. Shark got arrested but didn't spend any time locked up, but he helped to lock other criminals up; i was so made up over that. Because shark knew police, he got quite a bit of passes in his lifetime. The chapter 'Getting paid to buy cocaine' also made me up, but it's hard to beleive. But I did find out how da went off so well by the way the author wrote about it. Also, I enjoyed all the places da shark travelled to. The author dsribed the places over the pond very well. I'd like ta see those American islands da Shark went on holiday to. Hopefully Mr. Aliberti will write another book.
An enjoyable book.......2005-02-26
Shark, The Baker's son is a great novel. I've never heard of the author, but he wrote the book in an odd way; I thought. Some chapters were very short, if they are called chapters because they appeared to me as title descriptions, or scenes, for the page or pages that follow. However, the story kept a steady and interesting pace. I like to read real sories, things that actually happened in this world; instead of ficticious stories that authors make up, and Shark, the baker's son was just that; a real story. Although the intervention scene, the revenge on Donny scene and some of the romantic or sex scenes didn't quite seem true to me, but I never lived a life of crime or drugs and I don't read romance; therefore, those scenes probably are true. I've read other true crime and mafia books, and Shark, the baker's son fits right in; just on a much smaller scale and in a smaller city. I now know things about crime and policing in Pittsburgh, PA, for the plot of the story tells and shows all the things in Pittsburgh that I never knew before. For instance, I now know the real reason that the bar in Swissvaille, which the author wrote about in the book under an anonymous name, got shut down. I showed the book to a fellow worker of mine, and he read the bak cover and ordered a copy of the book right then and there on-line on my computer. The ways in which Shark was diverted from authorities and the ways in which Shark avoided attempted killings quickly grabbed his attention because he likes to read about those things. If you like to read real stories, this book is one to read.
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Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide
The Variety Guide to Film Festivals (Variety)
International Film Festival Guide
Independent Feature Film Production: A Complete Guide from Concept Through Distribution
The Complete Independent Movie Marketing Handbook
