The Favored Child : A Novel

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Julia Lacey

These are getting a little creepy

Good Book

incredibly powerful....

Disappointingly Miserable

The Favored Child : A Novel
Philippa Gregory
Manufacturer: Touchstone
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0743249305

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The Wideacre estate is bankrupt. The villagers are living in poverty and Wideacre Hall is a smoke-blackened ruin. But, in the Dower House, two children are being raised in protected innocence.

Equal claimants to the estate, rivals for the love of the village, they are tied by a secret childhood betrothal but forbidden to marry. Only one can be the favored child. Only one can inherit the magical understanding between the land and the Lacey family that can make the Sussex village grow green again. Only one can be Beatrice Lacey's true heir.

Sensual, gripping, sometimes mystical, The Favored Child sweeps the reader irresistibly into the eighteenth century, a revolutionary period in English history. This rich and dramatic novel continues the saga of the Lacey family started in Philippa Gregory's bestselling and enduringly popular Wideacre.

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Julia Lacey .......2007-09-04

The book is called The Favored Child, due to a legend that has sprung up around the village of Acre that Beatrice's true heir will return and the land will be happy again.

That's the only interesting thing about this book. Julia is an extremly weak character, due mostly to the fact that she is raised by Celia, the late Harry Laceys wife. But her real mother, Beatrice, is hardly in evidence in her daugther. Other then her love of the land and it's people,Julia is very different. She was raised as an indoor girl, and was taught to know her place. But i still can't believe how she puts up with Richards abuse. From almost the first chapter, when see her cavng in time and again, simply because he's the boy!

Her only attempt to escape Richard, a betrothal to James,a man she meets in Bath, is thwarted by Richard.

Richard is himself a very unlikable character. i never felt sympathy for any of the charcters. Well, a little bit for Julia at the end. Thats why the book got two stars. She finally starts tro prove herself towards the end.

Read it as the middle part to the wideacre trilogy.

These are getting a little creepy.......2007-08-11

In this second book in the Wideacre trilogy, Julia and her cousin Richard have grown up together among the ruins of their family estate and have always planned to marry, despite their guardians' disapproval. When, as a teenager, Julia begins to demonstrate a talent for working with the land and its inhabitants, Richard grows resentful. After all, only one of them can be the rumored favored child, the true heir to Wideacre.

Gregory's early works are starting to remind me of V.C. Andrews' style of near-horror stories, only with richer detail and better writing. I really wanted to strangle Julia for her stupidity at times. Yes, she was confined within the role of women in her time, but had she told someone - anyone! - what was happening, at least some of the tragedy might have been avoided.

Good Book.......2007-07-19

After reading the first book in this trilogy (Wideacre), I was not too excited to read this one but I wanted to find out what happens to the Lacey family. I have to say this book is much better than Wideacre. I am now reading the third book (Meridon) and I believe it is even better than the second book. So, if you got through the first book and are wondering if you should venture into the other two, it is definitely worth your time.

incredibly powerful...........2007-07-06

so i just finished reading this book and my stomach is still in knots. philippa gregory is a puppet master and with every word she will tug on your emotions with this book along with her many other masterpeices....simply amazing. there were times when i was afraid to continue reading it because i was actually scared of what would happen next. it is beyond powerful. truly spectacular. i cant give this book or this author enough praise.

Disappointingly Miserable.......2007-06-11

This book did not live up to Gregory's later book, Meridon. I don't know about Wideacre because I haven't read it yet but reading The Favored Child made me not want to go back to the first book.

Julia is just an idiot. I felt really bad for her but she kind of just screwed herself over throughout the entire story. And nothing good ever came out of all of her struggles.

It left me with a really disturbed, and unsatisfied feeling. I do not recommend this novel.

Wideacre Trilogy: Wideacre, The Favoured Child, Meridon (Set of Historical Novels)

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Wideacre Trilogy: Wideacre, The Favoured Child, Meridon (Set of Historical Novels)
Philippa Gregory
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Three softcover books: Wideacre/THE FAVORED CHILD/MERIDON. Included are these three books; there isn't any kind or case or box just the three books in new condition

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Gabriel Knight, Sins of the Fathers

Story based on game of same name.

"Three Women Have Loved You Purely..."

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Great book version of the popular horror adventure game
Sins of the Fathers: A Gabriel Knight Novel (Gabriel Knight)
Jane Jensen
Manufacturer: Roc
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Gabriel Knight, Sins of the Fathers.......2007-03-29

I knew this first as a computer game by Sierra. I was beautifully done, animated, the subsequent Knight game had real actors, places, very well done. The stories are intense, puzzle.

Fate steps in, Gabriel Knight writer and owner of a book store, in Louisana, is led, almost pushed-proded to his destiny that won't take "no" for an answer.

It turns out, that he comes from a long line of "Shadow Hunters" and his father who came to America, fled what he called the family curse. It is their duty, and priviledge to be Schattenjager.

The book is good, I can carry it with me, and read my favorite passages.

Awesome story.

Story based on game of same name........2005-11-14

For those of you who have played Jane Jensen's supernatural thriller, Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, will be familiar with the story. For those who did not, though, Gabriel Knight is a novelist working at St. George's Books in New Orleans. He is working on a new novel about the Voodoo Murders. Every night, he has nightmares about them ever since he started writing the book. He reads the New Orleans Times-Picayune that has articles about the murders almost every day, and decides to help police with the case. Ignoring his assistant, Grace Nakimura, he continues to work on the case, and as he goes deeper into it, he realizes that his life is in grave danger and just wants out.

The novel consists of ten chapters. Each chapter documents exactly what happens in the game's ten days. What's different between the book and the game is that the book expands on the conversations between Gabriel and another character. Also what sets this novel apart from others is that illustrations are included. These illustrations range from the voodoo code written at a tomb at the cemetery to the actual drawings of the vévés.

There is nothing bad about this novel. Each of the ten chapters are quite long, mainly consisting of ten or more pages. However, I was hooked reading each one and was always desperate to find out what happens next.

As stated in another review, the game is best played first before reading the novel, since the novel expands the story, but even for those without the game will find this book enjoyable to read.

"Three Women Have Loved You Purely...".......2004-08-25

"Sins of the Fathers" is the novelisation of not a movie or a television series, but in fact a computer game! Gabriel Knight was designed by Jane Jenson, and is a wonderful trilogy of games that deals with the horror novelist and bookstore owner Gabriel, researching for his new book by investigating the gruesome murders that have been occurring in New Orleans lately. Bodies have been found surrounded by voodoo paraphernalia with their hearts removed, and thanks to the fact that his best friend is Detective Mosely, Gabriel can get up close and personal to his research material. The "Voodoo Murders" as they've been dubbed by the press are causing quite a stir - though the voodoo is believed to be a scare tactic, Gabriel can sense a wave of fear among the practitioners of voodoo within the city. As he continues his investigation he comes into contact with a range of colourful characters - in particular the stunningly beautiful Malia Gedde, to whom Gabriel feels an almost supernatural connection with.

But as well as this ever deepening mystery that points to nothing less than a city-wide conspiracy, Gabriel is dealing with his own personal problems. Since a very young age he's been plagued with nightmares, and now they have gotten worse. Scarily enough, the grotesque images in his mind seem to collaborate with certain elements of the case - a woman changing into a leopard, a strange curved-blade knife, three crawling snakes, a double circle wheel. The scary part is however, that he's been having these dreams since he was fifteen years old. With the help of Grace Nakimura, his sharp tongued research assistant, Gabriel unravels the mystery of his own family history, and how and why it is entwined with the modern day murders.

"Gabriel Knight: The Sins of the Fathers" is classified as an "old" game now - it came out way back in the early 90's, but the quality of the intricate storyline and the strength of the characters still make it a very enjoyable game...provided that you can track it down. This novelisation however will sort you out if you can't, as it contains the complete story, as well as the inevitable advantage of being able to explore ideas and characters more deeply on the page than one could on the computer screen. Jane Jenson knows her creation well, and is able to fully flesh out her characters and the situations that they're put in. The descriptions she invokes are just as spooky and mysterious as they were on the screen, in a story that stretches over several centuries, from Africa to Germany to New Orleans. Jenson has a nice, clear narrative style (often the wrong people think they're qualified to write novelisations - thankfully Jenson knows what she's doing) and takes the opportunity to add in a few other little scenes that weren't present in the game. Predominantly among this is a fleshed-out version of the journal that Wolfgang sends to Gabriel - it gives a much clearer idea of what went on in Charleston in 1693, and makes Gunther and Tetelo's story a lot more meaningful.

However, sometimes there are odd changes in the transition from the screen to the book - Gabriel's grandmother for example has gone from "Rebecca" to "Ester". Likewise, the details surrounding Gabriel's father's (Philip) death have been altered - in the game he is killed in a car crash when Gabriel was seven years old, in the book he is only one. This may not seem a big deal, but the game also reveals that Gabriel's grandfather died when Philip was also seven, leading the player to wonder if perhaps a family curse is a possibility. It doesn't come to much in this particular story, but I had wondered if perhaps the young death rate of the male family members (dying when their sons turn seven) would pop up again in future games - as I have not yet played "Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned" it remains to be seen.

Furthermore, some things that happen on the game to do quite mesh well into book format - namely many of the puzzles that Gabriel has to solve. The prime example is near the beginning, when Gabriel needs to get closer to a police motorcycle in order to listen to his radio. In order to lure the cop away from the bike the player must walk past a performing mime, who will follow him and then begin impersonating the cop when they get closer. The cop gets mad, chases the mime and Gabriel is free to get the radio. But a mistake is made in transposing this from screen to page - it just doesn't gel properly, and my guess would be that people who don't know that this book is based on a game would possibly deduce that fact by themselves.

Despite all this however, "Sins of the Fathers" was the beginning of a successful role-playing franchise that resulted in two sequels "The Beast Within" and "Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned", both of which were top-selling games. The novelisations do them justice (you can also buy "The Beast Within" in book form, though I'm not sure about the third one yet), and although there were only three of them, they stood as a testimony to a great gaming tradition. One could easily read this book without ever having played the games - Jenson explains everything for the newcomer, though personally I think it would be best to track down the games before tackling the book.

Top 5 Best Books I've Ever Read.......2002-05-22

This book was far better than the game and went deeper into details. Especially if you've played Gabriel Knight II: The Beast Within, you can actually picture everything in your head as the characters from the game. I finished this book in 3 days. Whenever I had free time, it would be in my hands. Just cant beat it if your a true GK fan.

Great book version of the popular horror adventure game.......2001-08-20

Gabriel Knight is an owner of rare books store in New Orleans and his life is quite normal, quiet and with no exciting or even dangerous events. But everything changes when he decides to take his chance on a field of horror novel writers and starts to gather information about mysterious Voodoo murders which begin to appear in the city. With a help of his pal, inspector Mosely of New Orleans police, Gabriel finds out more and more details about the murders and Voodoo religion but he also starts to feel strange about horrible dreams he faces every night and memories of his ancestors. When he finally unleashes the whole truth about the relation of him and the old Voodoo curse, it is too late to return back and Gabriel will have to prepare to fight even worse evilness he could ever imagine.

I strongly recommend to play the game first and then read the book, your impression will be much stronger and you will be pleased how the game and the book can precisely lead you to the mystery in its particular way. But even if you do not want to play the game, the book is definitely worth reading.

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Sins of the Fathers: A Gabriel Knight Novel
Gabriel; Jensen, Jane Knight
Manufacturer: New Amer Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000T40KVQ

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Two members of the Green Berets survive the vicious battle and so they pit themselves against Keisuke's group. Their travels take them onto Keisuke's aircraft carrier and a strong battle of wills ensues. An arrangement is made that will finally finish Keisuke's adventure: if he wins, the green berets will tell him who the real boss of GPX is and they will bow down without further problems; however, if the Berets win, then it will be the loss of Keisuke's life. Be sure not to miss this rumble because someone from the CIA will be watching

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This was written by the guy who gave us Lone Wolf and Cub!?.......2004-05-11

Imagine for a minute if John Waters and Andy Sidaris teamed up to make a movie. Now imagine if instead of producing a film they moved to Japan to create a really trashy manga. The end result would probably be something like Wounded Man. The whole thing is brimming with such insane amounts of misogynistic sex and violence I'm tempted to say it's one of those "so bad it's good" kitsch artifacts.

disapointment.......2004-01-27

After reading a good portion of the Lone Wolf and Cub books I was very curious to see what else Kazuo Koike had written. While Lone Wolf and Cub had very intelligent and interesting writing this book is totally childish (ex. The heroin pissing in the hero's eyes to wash away blood) and not worth a second glance. I read through the entire thing looking for some sort of redeming quality. There was none. The entire point of the book seems to be Rape and Showing the heroin naked as often as possible. Unless you are looking for several hundred pages of badly scripted porn I cannot recommend this book to anyone. I really hope this book is not an example of the rest of Kazuo's writing.

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300 quick, Simple Ways to Make Every Day a Happier Day!

Spirit games make children feel brighter and more confident. By tapping into children's natural delight, spirit games restore the sparkle to their eyes. By sharing the upbeat activities in Spirit Games, you can encourage your child's self-esteem and provide a lasting foundation for happiness.

Developed by Barbara Sher over the course of thirty years as a parent, teacher, and play-therapy specialist, this collection of 300 wise and nurturing ideas fosters parent-child interaction and requires no special preparation or equipment. Play these games with your family-or any children you cherish-to increase the level of joy in their lives.

SPECIAL SECTIONS HIGHLIGHT:

Creating joy every day
Getting past anger and self-doubt
Learning compassion and sharing wonder
Healing sadness and overcoming fear
Nurturing your own spirit, too!

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Much more than just games.......2002-05-17

We just got this book and we are already playing these games all of the time! The design of the book makes each game simple to understand, most of them don't need any special set up or props, and the activities are divided into age groups (2-7, 8-12, 13-15, 16+ and adult) But the book is about much more than fun activities, it is about a whole way of approaching life to find the joy in everyday situation (she includes activities to deal with getting dumped by a teenage boyfriend, on how to make important carrer choices, and on how to avoid the blues, even when they are the result of something very sad). One game I especially like is for ages 2-7, called "young ones" in the book. It is called Grouchy Food. The game is for when your child is grouchy or sad or in some other unplesant mood you say to them "Hmm, you look like you are in a grouchy mood today, I better adjust the lunch menu so you can eat what grouchy people eat. What do grouchy people eat, anyway? Worms, probably." Then you make spagehetti (we added food die until it was brown). The author notes that sad people sometimes need a little blue food coloring in their eggs, "lots of water to drink so they have extra for their tears," and "gental" pudding for dessert. How could any kid stay upset after that?! According to Barbara Sher laughter is an "organic, free, all-natural blues buster" and you and your kids will find plenty to laugh about with this book on hand.

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Love it!!!

Most-used cookbook on the shelf!

Essential 3-4-5 Ingredient Cookbook
Barbara Jones
Manufacturer: Cookbook Resources, LLC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Plastic Comb

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Release Date: 2005-03-15

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Over 1,000 Quick and Easy Recipes. 3 Cookbooks in one.

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Love it!!!.......2007-06-25

I bought it to take some notes of some recipes I loved at the store, but I can't decide which one I want so I am keeping the book. I bought it on thursday, and I already made 5 recipes (today is Monday). My husband love the new tastes so I recommend this book.
You can find very easy recipes here!!
Bought it at borders store at $7.99

Most-used cookbook on the shelf!.......2006-08-24

I collect cookbooks ... I have more than 300 ... and this is the one that I use the most! I have given it as a wedding gift to nieces and nephews, and they all say it is the only cookbook they use on a regular basis. I LOVE it!!

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World War II was the most devastating conflict in human history, but the tragedy did not end on the battlefields. During the war, Germany--and, later, the Allies--plundered Europe's historic treasures. Between 1939 and 1945, German armed forces roamed from Dunkirk to Stalingrad, looting gold, silver, currency, paintings and other works of art, coins, religious artifacts, and millions of books and other documents. The value of these items, many of which were irreplaceable, is estimated in the billions of dollars. The artwork alone, looted under Hitler's direction, exceeded the combined collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the British Museum, and the Louvre. As the war wound to its conclusion in 1945, occupying forces continued the looting. The story of these celebrated works of art and other vanished treasures--and the mystery of where they went--is a remarkable tale of greed, fraud, deceit, and treachery. Kenneth Alford's Nazi Plunder is the latest word on this fascinating subject.

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Nazi Plunder: Great Treasure Stories of World War II.......2007-01-30

I agree completely with "John's" assessment of the book. I found the numerous grammatical and spelling errors to be quite distracting. One wonders if the author was this sloppy with the writing, did he also make mistakes with the historical facts?

Actually: American Plunder Of Nazi Plunder. .......2006-11-10

"Nazi Plunder: Great Treasure Stories Of World War II.
By Kenneth D. Alford. Da Capo Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2001.

Although the title of this book is "Nazi Plunder", most of the book is concerned with the American Army plundering all the Nazi loot that they ran across at the end of the war in Europe. As a conquering army and as an agent of the United States government, the American Army had the right and the duty to capture and hold the masses of gold, silver, jewels, painting and books that were scattered around the Third Reich in April/May 1945. But, as the author, Kenneth D. Alford, points out, there were many American soldiers, (officers and enlisted men) who were willing to pocket as much as they could of the captured Nazi loot. Alford tells engaging stories about golden reliquaries that were in Texas for half a century and later returned to the church in Germany and about Adolf Hitler's library which ended up in the Library of Congress in Washington. With the exception of the Russians and the "Amber Room", it seemed that all the looting had been done by Americans. What did the British, Canadian and French soldiers loot?

I found the book to lack continuity. The author announces a subject change by the simple expedient of placing a blank page in the book and then jumping from German War Art to "Fabulous Horses". Further, the book would benefit from more editing. On the same page, page 7, the author uses two different spellings for the town as (1) Frankfort and (2) Frankfurt. He does not tell you if it is Frankfurt Am Main or Frankfurt on Oder, but the context shows the town to be Am Main. On page 72, he calls Heinrich Himmler's home as "Haus Schmeewinkel". I would expect that the proper spelling is "Haus Schneewinkel". On page 123, he writes the "Unties States" instead of the United States.
When I was working on my MA thesis (History), my thesis advisor made me use an old-fashioned brown wooden ruler and go through the text line by line. Spell checker does not cut it. On page 187, the picture does not show a "...shape like a bishop's hat", but rather, a ... "shape like a bishop's mitre". In fact, many of the captions for the different photos just repeat the words found in the associated text.

For the great amount of research, four stars. For the lack of continuity of the story, one star. For the need for a more through editing, one star. Average: two stars.

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Crafters AND Customers should read this book.......2001-04-23

This book neatly details what goes into producing craft shows, and makes points along the way for what both the crafters and the customers are looking for in a good show. This is an excellent book also for those putting on charity bazaars as well.

My only quibble with the book is that the author does not come down strongly enough on the "truth in advertising" about what type of crafters a show accepts. It is unfair to a customer to pay an admission fee for shows which purport to be "crafts handmade in the USA" only to see imports and junk that is featured in every gift shop you walk into.

It is especially bad for the crafter/artist who winds up in a flea market next to framed prints and kitchen gadgets when they thought they were entering a "fine art and craft" show. Caputo says that she is not willing to use security to escort the offending merchants out, but she could at least advocate the use of some form requiring that monetary damages be paid (at the very least the crafter entry fee refunded to all of the other artists). I also don't see why you as producer can't have someone walk around observing what is for sale (taking pictures if necessary) as soon as booths open as is practical to catch this type of flagrant fraud.

Having said that, she does a good job going into how to minimize expenses, piggyback onto events, and making up welcome packages for the crafters. A valuable book.

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From the early twentieth century until the Communist takeover in 1949, Shanghai commercial artists created thousands of colorful posters and black and white advertisements that formed an essential part of modern life in the city. This visually appealing and richly illustrated work describes the origin and evolution of modern commercial art in China, focusing on colorful advertisement calendar posters that featured distinctive feminine images. It makes clear how essential commercial art and its institutional backing were to the development of modern art and even modern society in China over the past century.

The transformation of the Chinese advertisement calendar was the achievement not of the advertisers but of the artists themselves. With their varying artistic styles and different personalities, the artists brought the calendar posters to life. Through their artistic capacities they visualized effective and captivating images and through their technical skills rendered these images into perceptible form. Ellen Laing has assembled data scattered in a wide range of written sources to produce coherent biographies for eleven major commercial artists who designed calendar posters. She documents how they made their livelihoods as independent artists or in association with advertising departments of large companies or as members of commercial art studios. Their artistic achievements outside the realm of advertising art, such as Chinese painting and photography, are revealed. For the first time, Laing examines the fruitful relationships between commercial and fine artists and the important connections between those in advertising and publishing. (Commercial artists designed covers for popular fiction magazines, and, in turn, authors supplied the poetic inscriptions found on calendar posters.)

Selling Happiness discusses not only advertising art but also the production and marketing of the calendar poster. These posters, like other advertisements, were rendered in a Western realistic technique and were wildly and widely popular. Ordinary people throughout China often acquired them to decorate their homes. Laing outlines how the Chinese commercial artist, who rarely attended formal Western art classes, gained skills in Western representational art. She also illustrates the Chinese reliance on direct copying of existing images, from advertisement pictures printed in Western periodicals like Ladies' Home Journal or the Illustrated London News to photographs of movie actresses published in fan magazines. In the final chapter of the book, she explains how the styles developed by the commercial poster artists during the 1920s and 1930s became the basis for certain types of propaganda art under the Chinese Communists in the 1950s and 1960s.

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The past eight years have seen the renaissance of the Diva, with the rise to prominence of a number of female singers who are capable of drawing mass audiences as well as delivering performances to rival those of the stars of the past. The divas analyze their roles, both vocally and dramatically, discuss choices in repertoire and reflect on their lives and careers. Matheopoulos interweaves her narrative with insightful and critical commentary, and peppers her profiles with remarks from conductors, directors, voice teachers, coaches and, on occasion, famous colleagues from the past. She also highlights changes in the opera scene, including the appearance in recent years of many talented Russian singers and the prominence of American-born divas during the last decade.

Interviews include 14 sopranos, including Barbara Bonney, Renee Fleming, Angela Gheorghiu, Galina Gorchakova, Catherine Malfitano and Carol Vaness, and seven mezzos, including Cecilia Bartoli, Olga Borodina and Jennifer Larmore.

Customer Reviews:

MISSING IN ACTION.......2007-05-29

Ms. Matheopoulos' tome "Diva" is very impressive; however, one cannot write a book on the most famous sopranos and mezzos wihtout including the presence of, arguably, the greatest human voice of the last half of the 20th century, Marilyn Horne. The absence of this inclusion delimits the importance of the book in question. What is the answer, Ms. Matheopoulos?

Diva is Divine.......2002-01-14

I have borrowed Diva from the library - I hate to return it so...I plan to buy this book, so I can read it over and over. As an aspiring opera singer - it has been not only helpful but, inspirational. It is not only interesting to read about how each singer got her start, it is also enlightening to read about the repetoire they choose to sing, the when and the why of it.

This is an enjoyable read, even if you don't plan to study opera. If you just want to understand why people love opera- or why others love to sing it, if you want to know how these women became Diva's, or about the triumphs and the failures they experienced....and just a little about their interesting lives, then this book is for you. It makes me want to know more about each of them.

Also, Ticket to the Opera is another enjoyable book. (If you are new to being an Opera buff).

Interesting Book.......2000-12-29

When I bough this book, I expected more than a huge list of gossips about my favourite opera singers. In deed this book is a summary of interviews made to the most famous female opera singer. Here, you can find their feelings, their thoughts, their points of view of their principal characterisations in a very interesting way. I was very pleased to find this book. But, I felt the author gave diverse and different deepness to these interviews, in addition you can feel which are the author's favourite singers. This is difficult to cope like a reader because you have your own favourite ones. I would have preferred a more balanced document. There are weird things in some chapters. You ask yourself why doesn't the author ask Joan Sutherland more about her Lucias and Normas? I miss chapter dedicated to Birgit Nilssen, Leonie Rysanek, Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, Regine Crespin, Retana Tebaldi, Marilyn Horne. In some aspects, this book could cope my expectations, but in others it couldn't.

Diva: Great Sopranos and Mezzos Discuss Their Art.: An article from: Notes

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Diva: Great Sopranos and Mezzos Discuss Their Art.: An article from: Notes
Gary A. Galo
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This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on June 1, 1994. The length of the article is 1148 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Diva: Great Sopranos and Mezzos Discuss Their Art.
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Date: June 1, 1994
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Diva. Great Sopranos and Mezzos Discuss Their Art

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Diva. Great Sopranos and Mezzos Discuss Their Art
Helena Matheopoulus
Manufacturer: Northeastern University Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O5Y46M

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