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Written in perfectly deadpan, Mulderish style, Chris Carter's X-Files: Fight the Future movie novelization (adapted by noted SF author Elizabeth Hand) is a faithful reproduction of the film, with the addition of a couple of cutting-room-floor sequences to make it worth an X-phile's while. X-Files neophytes will probably be confused by the appearance of unexplained characters and in-jokes, but the story is like a really good episode of the show, and if you can be hooked, you will be. A few purely visual things don't translate well in the novelization. For instance, dialogue between the Cigarette-Smoking Man and the Well-Manicured Man, both referred to by their complete "titles" throughout, becomes an exercise in ridiculousness. But that could hardly have been helped, and otherwise the book accurately adapts the action and fast pace of the movie. A nice color-photo spread completes the package.
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Beneath the tranquil surface of a North Texas town, the future of the human race awaits...
After forty years, members of the Global conspiracy known only as The Project are finally nearing the completion of their plans. Only FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully have a glimpse of the nightmare that lies ahead for the rest of the world: an alien invasion fueled by the most devastating virus in human history.
And only they know that the Truthisn't out there anymore--
It's already here.
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A faithful adaptation featuring a little extra information.......2003-12-18
This is an excellent adaptation of the feature film The X-Files: Fight the Future. Elizabeth Hand took Chris Carter's script and transferred it to book form in the most faithful way possible. If you've seen the movie (and I would certainly recommend seeing the movie before reading this adaptation of it), you will "see" the entire movie in your mind as you read along. The dialogue is word for word, the descriptions are an exact match to the scenes in the movie, and you will not find anything from the movie that is not translated onto these pages. Strangely enough, the book feels more rushed than the movie did, and the written word doesn't convey as strong a visual image of the film's culminating action in Antarctica, but I think this is clearly due to the fact that this book was borne of the movie and not vice versa.
Lest you think there is no reason to read this adaptation of the movie, I should point out that there is a tiny bit of material here that you will not see in the film itself. This extra material concerns the fate of Mulder's little sister Samantha, and I can't imagine why such an important exchange between Mulder and the Well-Manicured Man was left out of the film. This is information that goes to the very root of Mulder's obsessive commitment to uncovering "the truth."
The initial hardback release features several pages of excellent color stills from the film, which make quite a nice addition to an important and very readable novel. Even if you've seen the film so many times you have all the lines memorized, this is a book every X-Files fan really should read and own.
Good book, but weak movie.......2002-02-10
The book by itself is well written and it is almost the screenplay for the movie. The greatest problem in my opinion is the movie, which was more a long X-Files chapter than an exciting movie, which all X-Files fan would expect.
This book is good, it helps you understand the movie better.......2000-05-04
I was all in all quite impressed with this book. It explained everything quite well, and sometimes during the movie they were talking too fast, so it was nice to see the script written. The only dissapointment was that it did not really give much insight on the character's thoughts and feelings throughout the story. I was hoping it would, since the movie did not. But I do recommend the book still, hey, I actually enjoyed doing a book report for once in my life!
X-Files Fight The Future.......2000-03-17
The X-Files novel, Fight the Future, is a great book if you like the X-Files in general. Fight the Future goes into more detail into the government's conspiracy of denying the existence of aliens. Mulder and Scully are two FBI agents who are trying to make these men keeping thier existence a secret "famous", which mean to expose them. Mulder's sister, Samantha Mulder, was abducted by aliens, he believes, long ago. The search for Samantha is what spurs Mulder on. Scully joined Mulder on the X-Files, but she was assigned to him to keep an eye on him and tell the conspirators what he was up to. Scully broke her truth with these men and became loyal to Mulder. Fight the Future begins with a bomb explosion destorying a building. This building was destoryed to cover up bodies which were infected with an alien virus. Mulder and Scully find the bomb, but the man who was to disarm it ordered an evacuation and let the bomb go off to cover up the bodies. Mulder and Scully are blamed for the bomb and are ordered to be split up. Mulder gets advice from a man whom the government is trying to find and kill to shut him up, and he finds out why the building was destroyed. Mulder and Scully then venture out on clues to a huge tent-like building filled with bees. Scully gets stung by one of these bees, and Mulder calls a hospital. The conspirators have intercepted his call and they go and take Scully, who is spasiming. Mulder is grazed by a bullet from a gun in the hands of the fake hospital men. When Mulder wakes up he gets help from one of the conspirators, who later kills himself. Mulder never thought that he would get help from one of the original conspirators. He has the vaccine to the virus Scully has and the coordinates to her location. Mulder comes to the coordinates and falls into an alien shuttle. Mulder searches through many human infected corpses untill he comes to Scully. He gets her and gives her the vaccine and escapes while the space shuttle leaves. When Mulder and Scully try to tell others about thier adventure they are laughed at as usual, but the X-Files were reopened. The investigations will continue, but it was said that one man alone cannot fight the future.
good for the future.......1999-10-23
This is one of the better books based on movies. Elizabeth Hand is a great author.
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Swirski begins with a series of groundbreaking questions about the nature of popular fiction, vindicating it as an artform that expresses and reflects the aesthetic and social values of its readers. He follows his insightful introduction to the socio-aesthetics of genre literature with a synthesis of the century long debate on the merits of popular fiction and a study of genre informed by analytic aesthetics and game theory. Swirski then turns to three "nobrow" novels that have been largely ignored by critics. Examining the aesthetics of "artertainment" in Karel
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Simply brilliant!.......2007-09-05
Call me cynical but I've never thought that the book which examines the blurring phenomenon between "brow" cultures and the emergence of the "nobrow" space could ever stir my emotions in such a powerful way! Who said that social trend setting should be reserved only for sociologists, psychologists, marketers and futurists? The author, who certainly does not belong to the circle of conventional thinkers, alerts us to a powerful social change that emerges from the popular literature. This book helped me realise that wherever it is that we are going, it is mass literature, which conveys the values and attitudes of its readers, shapes the full character, behaviour and lives of its audience. What amazes me is the fact that the change that emerges from this ocean of mainstream thinking still remains somehow unnoticed and not because of its movement but because of the impact it makes on its audience. It is brilliant book that strangles many orthodox ideas in the periphery of their thinking!
From Lowbrow to Nobrow - A Book WELL Worth your time! .......2007-06-17
Peter Swirski is on a mission!
Peter Swirski's book From Lowbrow to NoBrow is a compelling and ambitious work in the area of literature studies. As has been mentioned, Swirski's main argument lies in the fact that he is trying to "wipe the brow" (pun intended) of distinction amongst works of literature, essentially calling for the banishment of the title "lowbrow" for those books deemed "not sophisticated enough for serious academic study". Swirski contends that while there are many books out there that don't warrant said serious academic study, there are just as many that do, and should be examined through an academic framework.
It is my belief that Swirski is correct in this line of thinking; it is sad and indeed flippant to dismiss a novel and reserve academic study of it, because it is considered "genre fiction" or simplistic. There is a great distinction in the halls of academia concerning what is studied and what is not, what is worthy and what is worth glossing over or not covering at all. Swirski is saying, and indeed proving with his examples, that many previously glossed over works, which would be looked at with disdain, and more than a little contempt, need to be truly examined, and not simply pushed to the side because of their sources or content. It is a very provocative idea indeed to challenge the academic snobbery that is present in the study of literature, and even more admirable to submit that not only should the "canon" be studied, but things like genre fiction, at that, should be examined also, expanding the scope of investigation and getting a look at the whole picture, not just a segment of it. This is a rather bold idea, and Swirski, armed with his examples, wit, a wealth of knowledge about what he is writing about, and a little bit of attitude, tries to prove this to the reader.
Swirski blazes forward with his contention that genre fiction, whatever type it may be, may stand on its own merit, should not be considered "lowbrow". In fact, wait for it - the study of literature should not pit "highbrow" versus "lowbrow", and in the end, we should have "nobrow", simply evaluating books on their own strengths and weaknesses, not placing labels on them.
It is my opinion that Swirski takes a wonderful swipe at the "looking down the nose" of academia, and that he is successful at his attempt. By no means can this book cover all arguments and examples in terms of this debate, but it exerts a valiant effort to do so, and to change people's minds. "Leveling the playing field" in literature is a tall order, and Swirski has shown that he is more than up for the challenge. I highly recommend this book - prepare to have a shift in your "brows"!
A slim book with a big vision.......2006-12-29
From the back cover: "This superb book will make all previous studies in popular culture moot. Swirski demonstrates that in cultures there are no brows whatsoever. This book must be owned by all libraries and cultural studies scholars," Ray B. Browne. That about sums it up.
Nobrow again.......2006-08-09
I have just finished this book and was struck that none of the previous reviewers mentioned what is surely the obvious point of comparison. For the record, this book actually mentions John Seabrook's Nobrow published in 2000, so relatively recently. Unfortunuately for John Seabrook, the comparison is one sided: From Lowbrow to Nobrow is a much better book. It shows how the critical job of analyzing the cenceptual nature and cultural significance of "nobrow" ought to be done. Almost all reviewers on Seabrook's site agree that his book is for the most part self-indulgent, although I admit that it has its moments, especially when blitzing through the various fads and cults that add up to movie culture. Swirski's book is not only better written but supplies what Seabrook's doesn't: a gargantuan amount of information about all aspect of popular and nobrow cultures on less than 200 pages. I currently own both but I am hanging on to one, the other's for sale (guess which).
Comments from a non-frequent reader of fiction.......2006-07-13
A lot of people seem to be talking about this book. Though I am not a frequent reader of fiction, the book introduced me to some interesting analysis of different types of books and readers. The author led me to understand the essence of highbrow literary culture and lowbrow culture, mainly American but not only, and the many similarities between them. In between them, goes the cogent argument, there is a nobrow culture that provides just as entertaining and intellectually satisfying reading as anything in the canon. The greatest joy in
reading the book is that the author uses very clear, clever and colorful illustrations to back up his arguments. Here in brief is the breakdown into chapters (the titles say it all): Introduction "Books Without Frontiers", Part I Lowbrow: Positions and Oppositions, including: Chapter 1 "Facts and Popular Fictions", Chapter 2 "Towards Nobrow Aesthetics", and Chapter 3 "Genres and Paradoxes". Part II is called Nobrow: Varieties of Artertainment and is more practical than the more theoretical part I, including a detailed discussion of Raymond Chandler's nobrow classic, Playback. From Lowbrow to Nobrow is great stuff, not only for teachers and scholars but for general readers too. Happy reading to those who will buy this book.
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This comprehensive administrators reference delivers the details you need to successfully deploy, manage, and support Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2. The authors, experts and MVPs in Microsoft operating systems and server technologies, provide easy-to-follow procedures, practical workarounds, and key troubleshooting tactics for everyday, on-the-job results. Delve into system features and capabilitiesand get hands-on insights for implementing messaging and collaboration, Internet access, data storage, printing, faxing, support for line-of-business applications, and end-to-end network administration for your small business. This book covers all Small Business Server 2003 R2 components.
Customer Reviews:
Saved Me Hours of Time.......2007-08-04
I maintain a small business server for a local company. When we recently upgraded to MS SBS I found I needed some help, so I purchased this book. In just the first use it saved me many hours of time and enabled me to set up the Exchange Server to automatically download mail from POP3 Website accounts and store it in the local mailbox. Users are happy, I'm happy (no storage used on the Web server and I don't have to configure Outlook on every computer in the building for the user's POP3 email), and life is good. After that, I read the rest of the book. (OK, I only skimmed parts of it.) I found several other tips that I have since used, like redirecting the user's "My Documents" to a folder on the server. The book also comes with a CD that contains a PDF copy of the book along with numerous Knowledge Base articles, white papers, and other such support documents. I left the hard copy of the book at my home but put the CD onsite so I would have it there in case I need it. All-in-all, this was a great investment and I recommend it to others using MS SBS.
Tremendous store of information on SBS.......2007-07-13
This book has everything in it. That said, for the neophyte SBS user, it's organization and presentation challenges even the most persistent reader.
Key steps in a procedure are often submerged in the center of paragraphs without any highlighting to indicate the special importance of the content. I would much prefer the use of lead-in paragraphs with bulleted lists of the sequential steps in which a procedure must be accomplished. The action verb in each step should be well high-lighted in bold type.
And, the choice of fonts for the publication makes it difficult to read for those of us with limited vision. Thankfully, the inclusion of the full (PDF) book on CD helps overcome this shortcoming. Still, the only _real_ way to use a book is to flip through it; you can't do that with a PDF.
I think the book's content is remarkably current. Anyone who has used one of these very, very complex software packages knows that the only constant is change. Mr. Russel has helped me understand concepts that persist through the inevitable changes.
It's easy to tell that the preparation of the Administrator's Companion is a labor of love; it will surely become a treasured volume in my library.
Excellent must read for all SBSers out there.......2007-06-15
This is a great book. Easy to read, full of real world footnotes, that the authors shares with the reader. I like the format, the detail on most topics covered. There are some weaknesses I found, but they are minor complaints when compared to the overall quality of this guide:
1. Very little explanation of Volume Shadow Copy, that its enabled by default is nice, but what partition (or what logic does SBS use when deciding to enable it), no detailed explanation on how it works, how to adjust it, nor how the clients get the Shadow Copy Client.
2. I would have also liked a little more advanced custom installation walk-through, with explanations and justifications for changing pathnames for folders such as "User Shared Folder", "ClientApps", Exchange itself, some SBS compononets..
Great Success using Microsoft Windows SBS Administrator Companion.......2007-06-12
This guide/manual is extremely detailed and walks you step by step through the process of installing and configuring a server using Windows Small Business Server 2003.
I didn't have experience using Small Business Server and I couldn't have completed a proper installation/setup and configuration of our Server unless I had this book. I tried prior having the book and ran into several issues. I had to restart the process and I'll was well when I had this manual to guide me.
I would recommend this book to anyone looking to install Windows Small Business Server 2003. It makes the process go much quicker and without error. I also learned quite a bit just browsing through the entire book.
Great Book, 5 stars, do not listen to the 1 star review.......2007-06-06
This book has everything you need. I've installed SBS 2003 R2 for 3 different companies so far, this book came in handy each time.
If I have time I will come back and share some specific examples, but for now I just wanted to say this book does not deserve a 1 star rating, its 5 stars all the way!
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Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 - Administrators Companion - reference book - CD
Customer Reviews:
Great book as a reference.......2007-03-16
If you are new to SMS and you want to start working with this technology then this is not the right book. NOT because it is to complicated - more because it is way to detailed. But the book is great as a reference. I think it is even a must for a SMS admin. The topics are explained very clear and so far I found all the information I was looking for.
If you are new to SMS and you want to start working with it I recommend use the SMS 2003 CBT Nugget and work additional with this book to get deeper into specific topics.
But again - as a reference for you daily work this book is great.
Not for Beginners.......2007-02-06
This book is wriiten with the expectation that you have working experience with SMS.
Excellent book for SMS Admins.......2006-07-10
I am new to SMS and I must say that I now love it because of its power. This book made it easier for me to understand the ins and outs of the product. It will help you out a lot to know your windows environment well enough as well as your AD, after a couple of service packs SMS gets into deep waters. I would like to see the future editions of the book include chapters regarding free add ons such as the OSD Pack and ITMU, it would make it even better at least for admins looking for implementing it into a windows shop.
Ok for basics but nothing ground breaking.......2006-03-08
As you probably realize there is not a large selection of books that cover SMS 2003. This book is probably an acceptable book for an SMS 2003 beginner or an admin who doesn't typically use all of SMS's functionality. The primary benefit this book provides is that it helps you to more clearly understand the poorly written documentation that Microsoft provides with SMS. It shows the reader in a logical well-ordered way how to setup SMS from the 1st SMS server through configuration of each of the major components of SMS as well as adding additional servers and sites into SMS. It also provides step by steps for each activity and simplified examples of how to use the major components and perform common SMS tasks. While step by steps are provided the authors could really haved used more and different types of examples in many cases.
The areas where this book could use significant improvement are in "real world" troubleshooting, design, and ongoing maintenance activities. It could also use more detailed information on configuring SQL for SMS usage as well important activities such as creating and setting container permissions in Adsiedit or ADUC. It also needs to be updated to include SP2 and the available feature packs that are out for SMS.
Over all this book is probably a tad overpriced for the information it provides since most, if not all, of the book information is in the SMS docs. I think this book should be no more than $40 but since there are so few other books I guess they can get away with the $60 price.
MS-SMS 2003 Admin Companion.......2006-01-31
This book contains some good examples if you are upgrading from MS-SMS Version 2.0. Planning a new System Management Server within Active Directory can become quite complex, thus referring to the book made the task straight forward when creating a plan, implementation as well as upkeep. I would recommend this book if you need a guide through System Management Server.
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This comprehensive administrator's reference delivers the details you need to successfully deploy, manage, and support Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003. The authors, experts in Microsoft operating systems and server technologies, provide easy-
Customer Reviews:
Too Basic.......2006-08-06
Provides basic understanding of SBS at best. I found more useful information from Knowledge Base. I was really disappointed. Skip this one and try something else.
SBS 2003 Administrator's Companion Book.......2006-03-15
Very valuable resource for installing and maintaining SBS 2003. It is also an indispensible reference for the 70-282 exam.
Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Administrator's Companion.......2006-02-23
Very basic - minimal assistance for someone with some experience.
Great indepth stuff in untouched areas.......2005-10-20
This is not a beginners book or one for the feint hearted. It delves deep inside some of the hard to do things with SBS 2003 such as Wireless integration with SBS. Great examples and easy to follow. Great addition to the advanced SBSers library for sure
Full of Good Tips and Useful Information.......2005-08-23
This book has at least 50 good tips of useful information that go beyond any wizards. Reviewers who say this book has nothing but wizards, probably did not actually read the book.
There are sidebars titled "Under The Hood" and "Real World" that provide explanations and suggested practices. There also are sections entitled Note, Tip, Secutity Alert, Caution and Planning that provides additional emphasis and information. The authors specifically state that "... this book is required when you want to do something slightly out of the ordinary--or when you need additional understanding of what a wizard is doing." (See page xxii.) In my humble opinion, they accomplished that feat very well.
I have been using SBS since version NT 4.5 so I'm not a newbie. Yes, some of the information may already be known to experienced users, but it is nice to have it all at your fingertips. It also can validate your current practices and give you confidence that you are doing it right.
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