Slow Heat in Heaven

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When her adoptive father suffers a life-threatening heart attack, Schyler Crandall returns to her hometown of Heaven, Louisiana, after a six-year absence. It isn't just the heat that's sizzling in Heaven. Schyler's sister hates her enough to do her harm; her father's logging empire is about to go under; her beloved home, Belle Terre, may be lost; and Cash Boudreaux threatens Schyler's heart with a sensual pull that's impossible to resist. Unfortunately for Schyler, Cash is a dangerous, complex man with a dark past and a wild reputation that he won't deny. Schyler needs Cash's expertise to save her father's business, but can she let the handsome Cajun into her life without losing her heart?

Slow Heat in Heaven is a rip-roaring tale that grabs the reader's attention on page 1 and doesn't let go until the book's end. Complex and vivid characters, family intrigue, and old scandals all make for the perfect romantic suspense read. --Lois Faye Dyer

Book Description

When her adoptive father suffers a life-threatening heart attack,Schyler Crandall returns to her hometown of Heaven, Louisiana, after a six-year absence. It isn't just the heat that's sizzling in Heaven. Schyler's sister hates her enough to do her harm; her father's logging empire is about to go under; her beloved home, Belle Terre, may be lost; and Cash Boudreaux threatens Schyler's heart with a sensual pull that's impossible to resist. Unfortunately for Schyler, Cash is a dangerous, complex man with a dark past and a wild reputation that he won't deny. Schyler needs Cash's expertise to save her father's business, but can she let the handsome Cajun into her life without losing her heart?Slow Heat in Heaven is a rip-roaring tale that grabs the reader's attention on page 1 and doesn't let go until the book's end. Complex and vivid characters, family intrigue, and old scandals all make for the perfectromantic suspense read. --Lois Faye Dyer

Customer Reviews:

Not her best work........2007-07-31

Sandra Brown is an author always in control of her writing, and in top form when she wants to be. Slow Heat in Heaven is one of her earlier romantic suspense novels, and can be forgiven certain flaws on that basis. Sure, it features lots and lots of steamy sex and nasty intrigue by a lot of evil characters. It was a fun read, for sure.

But what prevented this from being a great piece of fiction were a few problems: (1) none of the characters were particularly likable or sympathetic; most were downright despicable, like Ken, Tricia and Cotton Crandall. Cash Boudreaux as the romantic love interest was always (until the last page) hostile, crude, bad-tempered, and even hateful of the woman he was supposed to be in love with. He was also a womanizer who jumped into bed with just about every woman in the parish. Never did I consider him a sympathetic character or care what happened to him. The sex was brutal "tough sex" that never rose to the level of passion motivated by love. This made it hard to identify with. (2) The entire motivation for everything in the story was the rivalry over who got to own and use the plantation: Belle Terre. Just a wee bit shallow as the driving force in the universe.

(3) I didn't buy the fact that Gayla would become the unwitting slave of the boorish, hideous Jigger Flynn. She's portrayed as intelligent and beautiful, and as a young woman, even though black, she would have had many resources that would have kept her from becoming a prostitute and that a black slave to an old-fashioned slave master. I did like what happened to old Jigger, however. No one ever deserved his fate more than he did. Sandra Brown is master of that.

Slow Heat in Heaven is just like the setting where it takes place: steamy, unredeemable and trashy. A fun read but nothing serious.

One Problem With This Book.......2007-03-13

Good story and I enjoyed it, but I felt Cash Boudreaux was extremely crude and this took away from my enjoyment of the character. At times it was difficult to even like him.

Slow Heat in Heaven.......2007-02-18

This is my favorite author so all her books are excellent and I will keep buying her books as long as she's writing them!
Thanks!

Was she depressed when she wrote this?.......2007-02-15

I have always liked Sandra Brown's work, but this was so depressing, I couldn't finish it. I just skimmed the last 85-90 pages to see if anything good happened!! It never does!! Every character is nasty and hateful and it's just one horrible thing after another.

Heat Fizzles.......2007-02-04

I'm sorry but I did not find this a suspenseful story at all. Very predictable and not one of the pathetic characters was worth liking. Nothing that was revealed surprised me in the least. What a bunch of lying, cheating, money grubbing people starting with Cotton and working all the way down to the swampy bottom of Jigger's world. What will Schyler do next? Run for office and clean up the so called law enforcement maybe for starters and I understand there's an opening at the bank.

Mirror Image + Best Kept Secrets + Slow Heat in Heaven (COMPLETE / UNABRIDGED, 3 novels in 1 volume)

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Mirror Image + Best Kept Secrets + Slow Heat in Heaven (COMPLETE / UNABRIDGED, 3 novels in 1 volume)
Sandra Brown
Manufacturer: Wings Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J1NMDM

Set of 10 Romance Titles By Sandra Brown:(1)Best Kept Secrets;(2)Breath of Scandal;(3)Devil's Own;(4)Heaven's Price;(5)A Kiss Remembered;(6)Secret Splendor;(7)Seduction By Design;(8)Slow Heat in Heaven;(9)Treasure Worth Seeking;(10)Where Theres Smoke

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Set of 10 Romance Titles By Sandra Brown:(1)Best Kept Secrets;(2)Breath of Scandal;(3)Devil's Own;(4)Heaven's Price;(5)A Kiss Remembered;(6)Secret Splendor;(7)Seduction By Design;(8)Slow Heat in Heaven;(9)Treasure Worth Seeking;(10)Where Theres Smoke
Sandra Brown
Manufacturer: Various Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000VHQVQ4

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Slow Heat in Heaven

Manufacturer: Popular Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000HEB9CM

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Not a mystery at all

A Very Slow Start Develops into a Good Read -- Until the End...

Outstanding mystery

Marseille atmosphere and colorful prose make this a winner

terrific French police procedural
Jacquot and the Waterman
Martin O'Brien
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Minotaur
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 031234998X
Release Date: 2006-01-10

Book Description

The Waterman is no ordinary killer, but then Daniel Jacquot is no ordinary detective.

Daniel Jacquot always jokes that he joined the police force so he could earn a living and still play rugby. And play he did, for France, scoring the winning try in a Five Nations final against the English. Nearly twenty years later, Daniel Jacquot is still remembered for his mighty victory. But now he's a chief inspector, working homicide with the Marseilles judiciaire.

Like playing rugby, tracking down killers is a game that Jacquot understands. And Marseilles just happens to be Jacquot's own home ground. It's here, in this city by the sea, that a shadowy, elusive killer steps onto the field of play--drugging, raping, and drowning three young women.

With a new partner, a rising body count, and only a three-word tattoo to work with, Daniel Jacquot gradually closes in on the methodical murderer whom the press have christened "The Waterman." Highly atmospheric and intensely gripping, Jacquot and the Waterman introduces a stellar new writer to America's must-read mystery list.

Customer Reviews:

Not a mystery at all.......2006-11-14

Although it seemed promising, the book tries to be both a thriller and a mystery. Sadly failing in both. The plot's convulated and there are far too many walk in characters. Poorly organised and messy.

A Very Slow Start Develops into a Good Read -- Until the End..........2006-05-26

This debut crime novel from longtime magazine writer O'Brien introduces the reader to Chief Inspector Jacquot, a ruggedly handsome, ponytailed ex-rugby player turned policeman in his native Marseilles. The story revolves around serial killer dubbed "The Waterman" due to his signature M.O. of drugging, raping, and then drowning young women. However, this main plotline has to compete with another more complicated one involving shady public officials, crooked developers, sexual blackmail, drug-running, and all kinds of nasty business. Indeed, the first 150 pages or so of the book are a bit of slog, as the very short chapters bounce between various characters, perspectives, and plotlines in rapid succession, introducing the large cast and setting everything up. The pacing leaves quite a bit to be desired as we are never with each character long enough to develop a strong sense of them, and it takes a while to sort out all the relationships and agendas.

Fortunately, we do at least get a sense of Jacquot, who is smarting from having just been dumped by his live-in girlfriend, and whose regular partner is laid up in the hospital with a broken leg. O'Brien is perhaps writing to the traditional mystery reader audience, as Jacquot is somewhat of a fantasy figure for the ladies in terms of physique, intelligence, instinct, and even soulfulness. Still, he is interesting enough to capture one's attention and drive the story forward. Naturally, his investigation of the serial killer ends up overlapping with elements of the other storyline, and while the reader must accept a certain number of coincidences, O'Brien manages to keep one guessing as to whether there's a direct connection or not. The unveiling of the serial killer, while possibly more realistic than one may be used to in a crime story, is nonetheless anticlimactic, and most readers will probably find the villain's capture and identity to be wholly unsatisfying after 390 pages of buildup.

Although the book is reasonably entertaining, it has to be said that in addition to the slow start and weak finish, there are plenty of other imperfections. Rather surprisingly, considering O'Brien's extensive background as a travel writer, he never manages to generate a real sense of place for Marseilles. Scenes certainly take place in all the right locations (docks, alleys, dim bars, restaurants, fancy villas, boats, etc.), but the city never really comes alive as a vibrant setting, as it does in, for example, Jean-Claude Izzo's book "Total Chaos." Another problem is a certain amount of fat in the prose. For example, each victim of the serial killer is introduced via a chapter in which an innocent bystander's day is described up until they find the body (in particularly lame case, we are given the thoughts of a seagull). None of these are necessary or add much to the proceedings. Still, on the whole, Jacquot is an appealing enough character that it's a promising start to a series which I will look forward to continuing.

Outstanding mystery.......2006-03-12

More than just a police procedural, this is one of the best mysteries I have read in a long time. The characters are well developed, the mystery is not contrived, and although the author is British, he knows Marselles like a native. I couldn't wait to read the sequel, ordered it from England.

Marseille atmosphere and colorful prose make this a winner.......2006-03-09

Travel writer O'Brien's debut introduces Marseilles police detective Daniel Jacquot, an intuitive, straight arrow who is still recognized on the street for his rugby exploits 20 years earlier.

Jacquot, his personal life on the skids, throws himself into the hunt for a serial killer who drugs, rapes and drowns young women. His search takes him into the neighborhoods, byways, docks, boardrooms and mansions of Marseilles and beyond, giving the reader a gritty, atmospheric tour.

The plot is intricate and at times confusing with a plethora of viewpoints, from the intrinsically evil genius of a disfigured mobster to the ambitious risk-taking of a morally ambiguous businessman, to the peculiar sexual proclivities of a wealthy city functionary. And more, from victims to journalists to wives, all of them contributing bits of the puzzle outside of Jacquot's view, while his adroit footwork slots the puzzle pieces into a coherent whole.

The ending is less than satisfying, particularly given the intricacy of a story filled with corruption and blackmail on a grand scale, but O'Brien's writing is so colorful and atmospheric and Jacquot such an engaging, well-rounded individual, that most readers will forgive the lapse and look forward to the Jacquot's next appearance.

--Portsmouth Herald

terrific French police procedural .......2006-01-12

As his personal life is in the dumps since his relationship with his beloved Boni Mihaud teeters on the brink of extinction, Marseille Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot buries himself in his work. He even left town to allegedly see the latest corpse, the third battered drowned victim in a month; he knows that he did not have to go to the crime scene, but did as a rationalization to escape domestic hostility.

When Boni finally leaves him, Jacquot feels the blues deeply finding only work as an escape from his depression. There are three brutalized beautiful young women drowned by what appears to be a serial killer in the Marseilles area. The media is going crazy, which makes the politicians on edge and even wackier. Marseille Police Judiciare Chief Yves Guimpier is grumpy and jumpier than usual as he tells Jacquot to catch the perpetrator immediately. As he continues to investigate while wondering what happened with Boni, Jacquot ironically thinks he has never worked harder on a case yet his superior says work even harder. Rugby was never this difficult.

JACQUOT AND THE WATERMAN is a terrific French police procedural starring a wonderful protagonist who finds his life falling apart on the personal and professional fronts. Jacquot cannot understand why his relationship with Boni collapsed and how he can do anything more than he is on the serial killer investigation. His troubles almost drown the likable detective, but in spite of the pressure and nothing and no one to help him relieve it, Jacquot keeps plugging away even as each clue makes the case spin further out of resolution. This is a fabulous tale with apparently other Jacquot stories already released in England.

Harriet Klausner

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Jacquot and the Waterman
Martin O'Brien
Manufacturer: Headline Book Publishing Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000O638VS

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This is not the FF, I know..........2000-02-19

Before Marvel relaunched this book, the Fantastic Four was on the verge of being cancelled for many years. This story can show why. It is full of plots that always contradict each other and the artwork is even worse then what you find in the Sunday newspaper cartoon strips. I think comics as a whole are dying as an artform and this book was just another example of it.

a Fantastic story.......2000-01-22

I couldn't agree less with the other guy. The art and writing in "Nobody Gets Out Alive" were great. 'Nuff said.

DeFalco is not good for the FF.......1999-05-07

You want to know the reason why the Fantastic Four has not been all that fantastic for the last decade or so, read this book and you will see why. It's so convoluted that ou will not have a single idea what's going on from the first page to the last.

Book Description

If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with breast cancer, you're probably confused, afraid, shocked, or even angry. Or you may be all of the above. Let this book become your trusted manual. Discover more about the cancer, explore treatment options, find ways to make this part of your life easier. Let shared experiences serve as your knowledgeable guide and anchor to help you make wise and confident choices.

Think of breast cancer as a journey and this book as your roadmap. Have you already been diagnosed? In that case, this book can help you explore these important truths:

Breast cancer is not a death sentence. Most women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer can look forward to enjoying a healthy, full life.
Not only are you unique as a person, but so, too, is your particular form of cancer, your treatment options, and your prognosis.
Every day more is discovered about how to prevent, detect earlier, and more effectively treat breast cancer.
You are not alone. More than two million women in the United States today are breast cancer survivors. Thousands of groups and programs across the country offer support, and chances are, one is close to your neighborhood.

All the information in this book is based on the most recent research findings, the clinical expertise of oncologists, and the invaluable experiences of the women who have walked this road before. Breast Cancer For Dummies covers all of the following topics and more in simple, easy-to-understand terms:

Coming to grips with breast cancer
Decoding your pathology report
Finding the right treatment for you
Rekindling intimacy after treatment
Health Insurance and money woes
Talking to children about breast cancer

This book can help you feel like you have a sister who's a doctor, a sister who tells you what to expect every step of the way, who gives you the best advice she can, and guides you along the way. (Of course, there is absolutely no replacement for advice about you from your own doctor.) You'll feel empowered to know and understand what's going on in your body, so that you can become a part of your own treatment team and make decisions along with your doctors and your family.

Customer Reviews:

Recommended Highly.......2006-04-07

As a surgeon who does a fair amount of breast surgery, I recommend this book, HIGHLY, to any body (including men) who may have or may be facing breast cancer. The book (which, yes, I have read), is given, by myself, to each and every patient of mine who has breast cancer. It IS, unfortunately, rather technical--but breast cancer isn't easy--and hence, this book. I believe strongly in educating patients as much as possible; my ONLY criticism of the book is lack of good, SIMPLE, photographs and illustrations which, of course, always makes a book easier to read. 4/5 stars because of this. I will continue to purchase the book and give it to my patients. It will answer ALL of their questions--they will just have to dedicate their lives to educating themselves if they want to survive breast cancer.

Finally a book that is readable in a time of need........2005-02-17

I bought this book for a friend who has cancer. It offers information and support both medically and emotionally for anyone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer. It is a gift for its clarity and kindness. An easy read that can help someone begin to be empowered when their world has been turned upside down. Thank you.

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Shaken, not stirred

How to Face the Next Four Years

Shaken and Stirred : Through the Martini Glass and Other Drinking Adventures
William L. Hamilton
Manufacturer: Amazon Remainders Account
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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Book Description

William L. Hamilton loves a good gimlet. Rose's and lime. Straight up. Perfectly iced. Make the glass pretty too. "It ruined my reputation for thinking before I speak," he writes of that love. "I accept the trade-off." Like Lewis Carroll's Alice, when Hamilton sees it, he drinks it -- and tells the incredible tale.

In "Shaken and Stirred," his biweekly Sunday Styles column, now an original book of his drinking adventures, the intrepid New York Times reporter offers a gimlet-eyed look at contemporary culture through the panoptic view of a cocktail glass. From the venerable martini to the young Dirty Jane, Hamilton shares his tip on the sip.

You hold in your hands a guide to "how it goes down." Not a cocktail manual or a Baedeker to the bar scene but a drinker's guide to drinking. These are four-ounce adventures of cocktails and the people who make them, from the bartenders and chefs to the patrons, the politicians and the power players of the liquor industry.

There are tales of the Champagne high life, the Long Island Iced Tea low life; men like Dr. Brown and his celery soda, and women like Eve and her Apple Martini. Hamilton's weekly Runyanesque rounds cover all the watering holes and their poisons, from the East Side's Southside to the Incredible Hulk in the Bronx, and monitors the latest trends, from the ultra-premium vodka wars to the Red Bull market. Shaken and Stirred is a report on a popular culture that comes alive after five, when the mood turns social and the moment is sweet (or sour, or bitter, or dry).

Hamilton has also picked up the best (or the most unbelievable) cocktail recipes from bars, lounges and restaurants in New York City and beyond. There is common sense and creativity in the classics, and new inventions with their eye on the prize, such as the Huckleberry Ginn and the Bleeding Heart. "drink me," said the bottle in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Hamilton has, in every instance, and bottled his thoughts in sixty-four essays that are as readable as they are drinkable. Mix a gimlet, or a Minnesota Anti-Freeze, or a Gibson or a Bone. And spend a night in, on the town.

Customer Reviews:

Shaken, not stirred.......2004-11-25

A post-election bonanza. Bring on the swizzle sticks and the shaker. We're gonna' need this.
I've been clipping Mr. Hamilton's pieces for a couple of years and this is a welcomed compilation of his best offerings. He has a yen for the art of the bar and a true sense of elagance.
This is a winner.
I plan to work my way through the volume with dispatch.
Now all I need are some accompanying lines;
"Come here often", "You look familiar", "My, what an elegant cocktail", etc.
Sidle up to the bar and enjoy. And make it a double.

How to Face the Next Four Years.......2004-11-06

What could be more perfect? A book you can drink and read at the same time! What Susan Orlean found in Orchids, NY TIMES columnist Hamilton has found in the perfect Gimlet: the meaning of life. Even better than Hamilton's dry and dirty war/bar stories from his New York City beat is the childish glee you'll get while mixing mysterious potions made from all those odd liquor bottles you've never bought before. Way more fun than popping a cork! The enlightenment that comes from reading Hamilton's saucy prose and sipping your new cocktail is not sanctioned by the Religious Right, AA, or Mr. Rogers, but who's to say in this topsy turvy world that a well-made, well-shared cocktail may not be one of the few answers we have?

Shaken & Stirred: Through the Martini Glass and Other Drinking Adventures

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Shaken & Stirred: Through the Martini Glass and Other Drinking Adventures
William L. Hamilton
Manufacturer: Collins
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OEOIAK

Book Description

The Arts and Crafts Movement is probably best known for the furniture that came from it. Indeed, many claim that the furniture from this period was the one truly great product of the era. Now, enthusiasts of this popular furniture style can follow the rise of the design movement from its beginnings in mid-19th century England to the major American manufacturers of the 20th century.

Warman's Arts & Crafts Furniture covers the giants of the designers and manufacturers of Arts and Crafts furniture: John Ruskin, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, William Morris, the Stickley Brothers, designer Harvey Ellis, Charles Limbert, Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters, Charles Rohlfs, and more. Over 1,500 listings include detailed descriptions and pricing for each piece, and more than 1,000 vibrant full-color photos convey the functional beauty of the era's furniture.

Customer Reviews:

Just like a lot of "price guides", but great reference material.......2007-04-14

This book has some fantastic examples of Craftsman and Arts & Crafts furnishings. Great to look at for reference material or styles that you may wish to emulate as a designer, furniture maker, or decorator. If you are a fan of the arts and crafts or Craftsman style, this book has plenty to drool over. The book has excellent photography and lots of examples of many different furnishings.

Why this book doesn't get 5 stars: Like many "price guides", much of what is contained in this book are period pieces in excellent condition and will rarely, if ever, be seen by the average person at an auction or flea market. The prices generally have the feel of the highest estimate available. On the low end are simple, framed mirrors for $500 to the high end Harvey Ellis bookcase/desk for $115,000. Don't buy this for a price guide unless you like paying for your furniture what the most expensive antiques dealer would like to charge you.

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A Great Start

4

You need this book

A Great Beginner's Guide

Ho Railroad from Start to Finish (Model Railroad Handbook, No 36)

Manufacturer: Kalmbach Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0890241554

Product Description

HO Railroad From Start to Finish, by Jim Kelly. If you've ever dreamed of building a model railroad layout, here's all the help you may need. Just follow the construction steps through photographs, diagrams and explicit instructions to build a four by eight foot walk around layout, complete with everything from detailed structures to weathered freight cars.

Customer Reviews:

A Great Start.......2007-04-10

Building a model railroad is fun but doing more than the "oval track" needs some skills that all starters to not have. Often, modelers learn by doing and learn a lot from mistakes. This is valuable experience but it is also frustrating. This book attempts to address this problem by presenting the construction of a very modest but still well though out layout that is simple.

This book is made up of reprints of a series of articles from MODEL RAILROADER MAGAZINE. It starts with a simple idea. The layout must be simple to build and not too messy. Each article covers a different facet and the result is a nice little railroad.

Among the topics considered are the building of the table, laying track, building basic plastic kits of buildings, building of some basic car kits along with Kadee couplers, adding specialized track, adding streets, simple kitbashing of plastic structure kits, adding a backdrop, adding water features, weathering, building relief and scenery, control systems, scratchbuilt wood structures, metal structure kits, using mirrors to make a scene look larger, making rocks, adding foliage, building a tunnel, adding signals and operating of the railroad in a realistic manner. Each article is simple but teaches foundational skills.

It is well done.

4.......2001-11-25

If you don't have any background in model railroading than this book is a good place to start. It will read great the first time through but don't expect to ever go back to it for reference later down the line. Concepts like control panels, wiring, switches, etc. are all left vaugely discussed, and for this reason it can be frustrating. Make sure you buy this is conjunction with another book better detailed in any areas you don't understand (like wiring).

You need this book.......1999-09-28

If you are considering entering the world of Model Railroading you must have this book. It will guide you from an empty room to a fully functioning railroad. Lots of tips and step by step make it very easy for a novice to make a pretty nice layout. Î can't recommend this enough.

A Great Beginner's Guide.......1998-08-28

I had been struggling with how to start railroading for about 6 months when I ran across this book at the library. I finally have some direction and the available know-how to get going. The book covers the most basic subjects of how to get started as well as a few more advanced subjects. It's a must for new modelers!

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HO RAILROAD FROM START TO FINISH
Jim Kelly
Manufacturer: Kalmbach Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000J3VRD2

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It was wonderful.......2000-09-18

I design on my spare time. i plan to become an arcitect. this book informed and helped me to begin the journey. my plans now look better and more professional. i got many ideas in this book too.

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Transit Planes

Transit Planes

Glaciers and glasses

Free with its force

Bird on a Plane

Until You Find Another Plane
Eugene Timerman
Manufacturer: Klaudpress
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0970735820

Book Description

Until You Find Another Plane is an art book of Eugene Timerman's drawings, collages and monotypes completed during 1998-2000 in San Francisco.

Customer Reviews:

Transit Planes.......2001-02-23

The drawings, collages, and monotypes from Eugene Timerman's new book "Until You Find Another Plane" are odd, clever, playful and uncannily beautiful, all the while being refreshingly devoid of the expected self-consciousness of "high-brow" art. They shift effortlessly from the realm of ephemeral visual poetry to almost material abstract surfaces. The aesthetic employed by Timerman resonates with that of Sigmar Polke, Cy Tombly and Marcel Dzama; the content shares traits with literary works of the early Russian Avant Garde, explorations of Dada movement, Bauhaus designs, and mysterious self-contained worlds of outsider art. Timerman's works surprise and entertain by performing a perversely comedic act of self-destruction - drawings that may initially be described as diagrammatic promptly overthrow all traditional notions of visual organization; others that seem to engage in storytelling soon break down into non-linear sequences of random visual elements. Seductive and entertaining, able to captivate a large diapason of viewers, the drawings open up a vast terrain of associations and cultural references.

Transit Planes.......2001-02-23

Glaciers and glasses.......2001-02-23

Eugene Timerman's "Until You Find Another Plane" is a rediscovery of Euclidean geometry in a multi-dimensional mind. An encyclopedia of all nodes humane and a dictionary of pencil pitch, it reverberates with basic kindness of abstraction styled recognition. For maximum results, I recommend to read "Until You Find Another Plane" as warm-up for any travel that will take you beyond the border; or before going to a business interview - for coziness' sake.

Free with its force.......2001-02-23

Until You Find Another Plane is terse, hilarious art of the book. Sensual, playful, even German in its craft, the images seem to come from some cyrillic reliquary, hot with theme and play. The riff is constructivist, with thematic debt to Polke, Kippenberger, free with its force. Truly original work.

Bird on a Plane.......2001-02-19

The Russian-Israeli-American artist Eugene Timerman has until now been known to residents of San Francisco primarily through his bus-stop posters for SF MoMA. Readers of American poetry may have also come across his work in 6,500 magazine and limited-edition chapbooks by the poets of 9X9 Industries. Until You Find Another Plane is the first publication entirely devoted to Timerman's designs, drawings and etchings. Its games with line and color are remarkable for their visual wit, especially striking in the semi-abstract, semi-animal-like shapes that populate his pseudo-scientific taxonomies. Timerman's book thrums with the kind of joyful and ludic inventiveness that may be considered the opposite of Romantic irony.

Book Description

Johnny Cash is one of the most influential figures in music and American popular culture today. While he was an icon to people of all ages during his life, Cash's legacy continues after his death. His remarkable story is captured in this exclusive authorized biography, addressing the whole life of Johnny Cash-not just his unforgettable music but also his relationship with June Carter Cash and his faith in Christ. His authenticity, love for God and family, and unassuming persona are what Steve Turner captures with passion and focus in this inspiring book.

Different from other books written about him, The Man Called CASH brings Cash's faith and love for God into the foreground and tells the story of a man redeemed, without watering-down or sugar-coating. Unquestionably one of the biggest book releases of 2004, The Man Called CASH will be a huge success with his millions of fans and will draw in many new fans with this inspiring story of faith and redemption.

The audio book, ISBN 084996377X, is narrated by Cash's close friend and musical partner, Kris Kristofferson.

Customer Reviews:

Great book.......2007-02-09

The Man Called Cash is a very good book. very informative.I think a child 11-12 years old could read it and beable to understand what they are reading.I think it gose behond some of the other books I have read on Johhny Cash.I would recomend it to any one who is interested in seeing where Johnny Cash were he came from and the legacey he left.

Fantastic biography of a true ledgend.......2007-01-11

I am a legally blind man and and I usually get my books to listen to through the library, but after I saw the movie walk the line I felt I had to know more about the ledgend of Cash through an audiobook if I could find one. I was lucky to find this one. I love the way Kris Kristofferson reads the book. Since he was a friend of cash's, he put feeling into the reading like no other person can. Through the author's extensive research on Cash, I found out things I never knew about him. The Movie is good, but if you really want to know who Cash is, just by this and Listen to Kristofferson tell you about his friend. The man in black.

piety and weakness.......2006-08-25

I learned a lot about Johnny Cash, as well as people like Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, and many others who were the ones that generated so much buzz about music in the 1950's. Toward the end of the book, I was sad because I knew that it would speak of his death. I found myself not wanting to hear about it, because I had loved learning about his life so much.

My favorite story in the whole book was about a prayer he prayed at dinner. His dinner guest recalled the story:

Cash prayed and said, "... and we thank you Lord for this food, and we ask that you would bless it to our body. We pray these things in Jesus' name, Amen. When he finished praying he winked at me and said, "I still miss the drugs though."

It is precisely that juxtaposition of piety and weakness that I think I love about him. It reminds me of another man who is known well for his writing when he said:

I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do ... What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

In case you didn't catch that, the other man to whom I referred is the Apostle Paul. He happened to be one of Cash's favorite people for obvious reasons. I have wondered why I am so enamored by people like Johnny Cash and Paul; these men of such conviction, but at the same time so open about their transgressions. I think it is because they knew themselves well, and they never allowed the good in them to elevate them to a place where they could look down at others. They knew the darkness, and that it was always waiting if they would just relent and turn to it.

Cash turned to it a lot. However, like Paul, he also said:

Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!

At the end of his life, after June Carter died he hung around for a few months more. He could barely walk, was in massive pain, and was eighty percent blind. In this state, however, he still had the Bible enlarged big enough so he could read it. Others spoke about his love of Jesus, his kindness, his generosity, and his faithfulness to June.

So many want to be cynical about people who struggle, fall, get up, and fall again. They like to point and yell to expose someone else's flaws. I am more convinced that the ones who yell the loudest are the ones who are the most scared of having their flaws exposed.

One of my favorite lines in music comes from a song sung by Cash. It was written by Bono and performed with U2 (yeah, I know big surprise). The line goes:

I went out there,
In search of experience,
To taste and to touch,
And to feel as much,
As a man can,
Before he repents.

Isn't that all of our stories? I know it's mine. I also know that it is mine everyday. I walk around, and like a little kid test the boundaries of God's love. Some days, I may not go far, other days I may feel restless and I just want to run. Yet each time I return home to talk with God I find myself speaking the words of Paul:

Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!

Hello, I'm A Johnny Cash Book!.......2006-06-10

I usually don't read many biographies, but I received this one for Christmas one year since I am a huge Johnny Cash fan. I was glad to see that this book was very well written and also a very easy read. I knew it was going to be good when the first chapter was pretty emotional, as it starts off with June Carter Cash dying. The book also focuses well on some key moments in Johnny Cash's life that made the most significant difference - the first being the death of his brother, Jack, and the others that revolved around June. Like other reviewers have stated, Walk The Line used a lot of moments from the book and I would recommend reading the book as well as watching the movie. I think what was great about Johnny Cash, and what we can all relate too, is how open he was with how he was a sinner and how he had made a lot of mistakes (ie. drugs, affairs, etc.), but he changed his ways when he fully committed himself to Jesus and his faith. I think this book can be a great tool to those who have struggled and have difficult pasts because Cash showed that it doesn't matter what you have done, that you have forgiveness and that you can always start over. Great message and this book has a lot of interesting and funny stories that will want to make you laugh, smile, shake your head, or make you feel sad. Steve Turner has done a great job and had made me rethink biographies. If you're a Johnny Cash fan, this a must-have!

Informative and In-Depth! A Good Biography to Start Learning About the Life of Johnny Cash........2006-05-10

Before I read this book, THE MAN CALLED CASH, by Steve Turner, from 2004, I had also read the 1997 book called CASH: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY (with Patrick Carr). They both cover similar ground. The 1997 book seems more homey, like Johnny Cash is talking to you, but this book, by Steve Turner, seems more accurate.

Having know Johnny and his family for over a decade, author Steve Turner was actually hired to help write another autobiography, but June and Johnny died unexpectedly, and the book turned into an in-depth research research project, instead of just helping Johnny write with decent grammar, or whatever it takes two authors to do with an AUTObiography.

Both books seem to be equally long in content, though the page counts and page sizes differ between the hardcover of this book and the small paperback of THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY book that I read.

Though both books cover a lot of the same incidents from Johnny's life, this book, THE MAN CALLED CASH, features some highly interesting coverage of the last living days of June and Johnny, before they both passed on in 2003. There is also plenty of more in-depth coverage of events told in THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY, and there are also plenty of events from Johnny's life that are not mentioned in the 1997 autobiography. I recommend that you read both books, actually.

The author also points out that since he had to do research, instead of just typing out whatever Johnny told him, he has discovered that Johnny Cash never had trouble telling a good story, or making a good story even better! For example, Johnny Cash has written and talked about how rowdy he was in the Air Force, fighting with the military police, etc., but Steve Turner points out that the people who were in the Air Force with him don't remember any of that kind of rowdiness from Johnny, who never got into much trouble, and would have been widely known on the air base if he HAD fought with the guards, etc. This book also tells about how Johnny would play music with other airmen in his dorm, and Johnny was the worst of the bunch, learning a lot from the others!

There are many interesting b/w photos, although mostly small, but in high quantity! There is a photo of his brother Jack, whose childhood death affected Johnny for the rest of his life.

This book also has a chronology of major events in Johnny's life, and a discography of his primary releases, which is good to use as a shopping list, for me.

This book does have some distracting typos that I hope get fixed in future printings. On one page the same sentence appears twice in a row. In the Chronology, the death of his father, Ray Cash, appears twice on the list, in 1985 (correct), and then again in 1993 (incorrect). This is unfortunate, but these two are the worst distractions that I found without even trying.

It is also interesting to see how the movie WALK THE LINE compares to what is contained in both of these books! For instance, both books say that June Carter never really met or toured with Johnny until he was a big, established star, years into his music career, while the movie gives me the impression that they met on Johnny's first fledgling tour.

THE MAN CALLED CASH gives information about the the saw accident and his brother Jack. This book says that actually there was another 12 year old boy there, who witnessed the event, and Johnny suspected him of being involved in a bad way, though none of the adults thought so at the time, or ever! Both books mention how Johnny would see Jack appear in his dreams for the rest of his life, always a few years older than Johnny at whatever the age Johnny dreamed the appearance.

This book talks about Johnny's friendship with the evangelist, Billy Graham. I personally enjoy Johnny's Gospel albums and projects, but I am a little bit disappointed over the wasted years of drug abuse and family neglect from Johnny, who thought of himself often as a lost Christian, but a Christian none the less. What do you think about that?

The Bible says, "What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice." -- Philippians 1:18. Using this Bible verse as a model, it tells me that Johnny Cash's Gospel works, as good as they are, are also totally legitimate as long as they correctly preach the Word of God--regardless of the depths of sin and abuse that Johnny heaped upon himself and his loved ones.

As long as Jesus Christ is being preached correctly, the sins of the messenger do not negate the message itself (and we are all sinners, just not as extreme as Johnny was, I suspect)! I do not and cannot condone his sinful abuses, (though I have done most of them myself, before I got Saved 8 years ago), but I will let God judge his own servant, and I will continue to enjoy the many beautiful Gospel projects which Johnny Cash was always eager and happy to work on!

GOSPEL GLORY is my favorite Johnny Cash Gospel CD, so far. His movie, THE GOSPEL ROAD, is on DVD and is also really cool! My favorite Gospel project from Johnny Cash is his spoken word reading of the entire NEW TESTAMENT on 16 CDs, very affordably priced from amazon.com, and all three of these items come highly recommended by me!

I can recommend both of these books for anybody who enjoyed the WALK THE LINE film.

Bottom line: read CASH: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY for a fun time spent with Johnny Cash in his own words, then read this book, THE MAN CALLED CASH, for the REAL story on how many of those stories actually went down!

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A very informative book

Johnny Cash: An American Legend
Michael McCall
Manufacturer: AMI Books
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Book Description

Johnny Cash, a legend in the music business, died from complications of Diabetes. Entire generations grew up with "The Man in Black" and over 50 million copies of his songs were sold throughout the world. Most recently, he received seven nominations at last month's MTV Video Music Awards for his Nine Inch Nails son "Hurt."

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A very informative book.......2004-04-02

This book describes the tragedy, accomplishments, loved ones, and close friends of Cash's life. He was a dark, somber and broodingly quiet by nature, not prone to making friends easily and he rarely talked without giving his first words much thought. His wife June gave Cash a playful sense of life. Cash, in return, anchored June with a weight that grounded her in reality. Although people thought of his music as rock n' roll, Cash found that as an insult and said his music is from the country spirit within his soul. He was devoted to his music and spent much time in the record studio with his close friends Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley. Johnny had two daughters from his previous marriage to Vivian and their names were Rosanne and Kathleen. He regretted the fact that due to his drug abuse, he was separated from them and no longer had the duties of being a father. I liked Johnny Cash because even though he had multiple drug addictions and had dealers throughout the country, aside from his difficult life, it is very impressive to me that he can do al of these drugs, have a hangover, and be able to go on stage the next day in a different state and perform perfectly fine. He had been through many depressing stages of his life aside from the drug addiction, which makes me so envy of him. He was also so dearly devoted to his wife, especially near the end of his life, although whenever she would tell him her worries about his health and drug addiction, he would ignore her completely. Vivian is another character that I envy. She had been through so much with Cash through his addiction but still loved him just the same, and both in love with their music. Growing up in Arkansas working on a cotton field with his two brothers and sister was just the beginning of his difficult life. Such a talented singer that he was, most of his album's reached the top of the country charts. This book accomplished the history and achievements of Cash, though I would have liked to see more of what his personal thoughts were, what was deep inside his soul since he was such an interesting man. Johnny Cash is truly, "The Man in Black".

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