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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
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When it was first published in 1993, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven established Sherman Alexie as a stunning new talent of American letters. The basis for the award-winning movie Smoke Signals, it remains one of his most beloved and widely praised books. In this darkly comic collection, Alexie brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. Against a backdrop of alcohol, car accidents, laughter, and basketball, Alexie depicts the distances between Indians and whites, reservation Indians and urban Indians, men and women, and, most poetically, modern Indians and the traditions of the past.
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Alexie is brilliant.......2007-09-28
This collection of short stories about the American Indian experience is brilliant. I teach this collection in my college lit classes and students love it. The story "Because My Father...." is a favorite. We read it along with analyzing clips of Jimi Hendrix playing the Banner at Woodstock. I've presented several professional papers at conferences of this story along with the Hendrix clips and the audience of lit profs like it too. Always generates a lot of discussion of the intersections of cultures and classes. Students also love Reservation Blues. (I can't get rid of the "Kid" tag. Definitely not for kids.)
"Everybody in this book is drunk or in love with a drunk.".......2007-09-03
States Alexie in the introduction (pp xviii, xix) to this collection of short stories. Of his leap from literary obscurity to published author and member of the middle-class, he writes, "all because I wrote stories and poems about being a poor Indian growing up in an alcoholic family on an alcoholic reservation." And that about sums them up. Read the introduction and you can't help but like the guy (especially his brief experience with a too big for her britches agent). His tales are unusual, spiritual, and immensely important, but often sad. Even so, after reading several with similar themes, most will have had their fill. It is possible to have too much of a good thing. Likers of Alexie's stories may also enjoy: Love Medicine by Louis Erdich, The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner.
Hilarious and Heart Breaking.......2007-05-16
Sherman Alexie fearlessly confronts the problems faced by the Native Americans of Spokane, Washington. With his sense of hilarity and deep berevity, Alexie points to such problems as alcoholism, broken families, drug abuse, poverty, loss of culture, loss of community, and loss of pride. While it may appear as though Alexies' musings are all "fun-and-games," it will not be difficult for the reader to discern that there is something deeply troubling about most of the characters in Alexies' writings. One gets the sense that when ALexie paints a verbal picture of the reservation, a sense of utter hoplessness prevades the entire situation. Just look at the picture on the book cover. If one were to look closely, they would be able to see a pickup truck making its way away from the reservation. The reservation that it is leaving appears to be in flames. One of the main character's father drinks himself to death, and his son is too poverty stricken to even come collect the remains. It is not all bad, however. Alexie does offer a corridor of redemption when the main character ( a young Indian named Victor) adopts a child and turns his life around, leading one to beleive that all hope is never lost. All in all, this read is both heart breaking and hilarious as Alexie writes some genuinely funny material.
great book, Indian reservation look.......2007-05-12
I had to read this book for my comp. lit class, and I am very glad to have had the chance. Throughout the stories, the location of hope and hopelessness on the reservation is made apparent, and while in general there is much poverty and degeneration described within the community, the narrators of the stories within Alexie's novel bring hope and a human touch to the experience.
Wonderful collection of short stories.........2007-02-19
There's nothing more powerful than a good story. And Sherman Alexie proves it with this collection of stories about life on the reservation. Many stories touch up on very personal elements of Alexie's as well as his past love life and mix ins with racial inequality outside of the reservation (these stories are printed in the newer editions of this book). Overall a thorough read and I am very glad I brought it to read during a long trip.
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Penzler Pick, December 2001: This is a compulsively readable tour de force that keeps more balls in the air than a pitching machine. On top of that, in this 14th novel featuring the one-legged Moscow cop Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, Stuart Kaminsky once again catapults us straight from our armchairs into the mindset of modern Russia in all its perverse dysfunctions.
Kaminsky must have had fun cooking up the plotlines, which ingeniously plunder the storage bins of mystery history. There's everything from a Jane the Ripper to homages to train-bound thrillers like The Lady Vanishes, North by Northwest, and the more obvious Murder on the Orient Express. At the same time, there's the conscious, skillfully presented element of social realism, an aspect that never intruded into the action of any of those tales. Kaminsky is wonderfully artful at conveying the pervasive cynicism that comes with the territory at all strata of existence in the former Soviet Union, and he does it without ever being repetitious. At an organic level, it seeps into and informs every level of the mystery as it unfolds.
One must marvel at the manipulations of the political and legal systems engaged in by Chief Inspector Rostnikov and his dedicated colleagues as they endeavor to deliver the semblance of a not-always-welcome law and order. To top it off, there are some terrific set-piece scenes, such as when the policeman Zelach reveals his unexpected familiarity with heavy-metal arcana as he and his partner interrogate some punks about a missing pal.
Kaminsky won the Edgar Allan Poe award in 1989 for the Rostnikov mystery A Cold Red Sunrise. Reading Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express, it's not hard to understand why, only difficult to know how he keeps the series' quality so high. --Otto Penzler
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Inside the Moscow Police Department, madness reigns. Inspectors Karpo and Zelach enter the underground world of post-punk rock clubs searching for clues to the disappearance of an anti-Semitic rock star who happens to be the son of one of Moscows most powerful Jewish citizens. And Chief Inspector Rostnikov is en route to Vladivostok in a first-class carriage on the Trans-Siberian Expressthe greatest train in the world. It now carries two hand-picked officials of the Moscow Police.... and an extortionist who may have information that could bring down the entire Russian government.
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Sadly this may be the last in this series.......2007-04-29
Sadly this may be the last in this series, but if so, it ends with a great story, maybe the best in the series. Once again as in all the PPR novels, there are three crimes to be investigated, one by each of the 'teams'.
Iosef and Elena are looking for a murderer on the Moscow Metro system. She has been attacking middle-aged men who look like mid-level bureaucrats. So far she has managed to kill four and wound two. In the last of the attacks observed by a six year old girl, a good description is gotten and Iosef goes onto the subway as a decoy, after Porfiry figures out that all the attacks have been at stations beginning with "K".
Karpo and Zelach are sent out to find the "Naked Cossack" who is the lead singer in a 'skinhead' band. He is the darling of the disaffected in the Moscow underground, where people are known by names like 'Bottle Kaps' and 'Pure Knuckles'. The fear is that one of the Skinny has found out that the Cossack is the son of a wealthy Jewish family, and has kidnapped him for ransom. Once again Zelach surprises us with his knowledge of underground 'heavy metal' music and groups. But there is a problem with Karpo...the 'Vampire' is acting strangely as if his emotions are not under control.
PRR and Tkach are on a mission to find a mysterious courier who is to make a swap of half a million dollars for a package. The "Yak" sends PRR and Tkach on the Trans-Siberian Express, to watch for the swap, catch the courier and recover the 'package' and money. There is a catch (as always) because there is a FSB agent on the train who is also looking for the courier; and worse yet, an assassin sent to kill the courier, and recover both the money and the package.
In addition, we get an interesting lesson as to the building of the T-S Railroad, the conditions and hardships; as well as that of the city of Ekaterinaberg (Sverdlovsk under the Soviets) where the Tsar and his family were murdered and the home and power base for Boris Yeltsin.
There is some fine interplay between Iosef and Elena; Porfiry and Sarah; Karpo and Zelach; Tkach's mother and her boyfriend; and Tkach and his wife Maya. Hopefully at some time Kaminsky will decide to give us one more book that will rap up the series in a nice "package" and we get to say goodbye to everyone.
very good series.......2006-03-03
If you are a mystery fan, or a fan of interesting characters in interesting locales, you should check out Stuart Kaminsky's Russian Police series featuring Porfiri Petrovich Rostnikov.
Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express is quite a good example of the series.
It is well-plotted, with several interweaving story-lines all being pursued by the Special Branch, of which Rostnikov is the head cop.
But, interesting as the plots are, and interesting as the insights on current-day, post-Soviet Russia are, the real charmers in this series and this book are the characters.
They evolve as the series evolves, but they are never less than quirky and fascinating.
Rostnikov, with his shriveled and then amputated leg, his quick but secret mind, his wide-ranging interest in many subjects, is only the start.
There's Sasha Tkach, boyish and impulsive and by turns brave and bedeviled, losing his family to his taste for women and even stronger taste for danger.
There's Zelach, a man of limited intelligence but paranormal intuition.
There's Rostnikov's son Iosef, first a soldier, then a playwright, then a policeman, and his fiancee, Elena Timofeyeva, brilliant and tough as nails but always consumed with self-reproach.
There's crazy Paulinin, the demented pathologist, who speaks to corpses and likes them better than the living.
But best of all, there's Karpo, the vampire, the monk-like devotee of Communism, who, having lost his guiding ideal, and then the only woman or even person he ever felt anything for, now forges implacably ahead making up the law as he goes along.
Votz the big deal mit Kaminsky?.......2002-11-01
I have never read anything by Kaminsky and solely on the basis of reader reviews, I tried this one. Alas, 'twas a fizzle. Mildly interesting but basically fluff. I'll grant you it's "clever" but in wholly predictable ways. When it comes to weaving together suspense, violence, plot twists, and insight into Mother Russia, there are others who do it much better. Kaminsky stays on the surface of the snowdrifts. It's a formula book wearing a fancy disguise with a great title that deserves better.
Policework in a city without laws.......2002-05-19
I'm new to Kaminsky, so all the Russian named characters living in a different world made the early going slow. By Book II, however, I was up to speed and turned onto the pace of three overlapping plots:
1. Porfiry Rostnikov, the seasoned Moscow cop with a plastic leg, along with Sasha Tkach is on a mission on the title train in a compartment with a couple of Americans, an intriguing female agent and Pavel Cherkasov, Russia's answer to Henny Youngman. Igor (the Yak) Yaklovev is Rostnikov's Machiavellian boss. He thrives running a police department in a society that acknowledges law enforcement but has no clearly accepted laws and has his own reasons for sending them on the assignment.
2. Rostnikov's son Iosef and partner Elena are chasing Inna, a psycho whose answer to a father's lack of attention is to plunge a kitchen knife into Moscow commuters who remind her of him.
3. Emil Karpo another hardened police vet and his more mystical junior partner Zelach are looking for the missing lead singer in a skinhead rock band. The Naked Cossack, whose real name is Misha Lovski, is the son of a Rupert Murdoch like Moscow media mogul rebelling against his father's life.
The investigations weave through each chapter moving toward independent but simultaneous conclusions. The drama of the chase or who did what to whom, however, is the sideshow. The real story is about how Kaminsky's characters react to what happens around them, both on and off the job. In the end it's not about justice but rather Rostnikov and the Yak manipulating each other to preserve what passes for order in their chaotic worlds. Even if you can't remember their names or identify with their lifestyles, you'll know what makes Kaminsky's characters tick and empathize with the way each plays the hand life has dealt.
Don't you know we're riding on the Trans-Siberian Express?.......2002-04-06
(That title had more of a "ring" to it when it was the Marrakesh Express, nyet?)
In his Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov series, Stuart M. Kaminsky has deftly transplanted the Ed McBain police procedural to Russia: individual detectives, each having his/her own serial back stories, (Zelach has a much larger piece this time than he ever has,) investigating different cases. This is all played out against a panoramic backdrop through the time span of the series: the disintegration of the former Soviet Union.
It's not easy trying to be a force for Law and Order in a country having tenuous little of either:
"The laws of Russia were a shambles: a basis in old Soviet law, assumptions of common sense and vague precedents, smatterings of Western manipulations gleaned from reruns of "Law and Order," "L.A. Law," "Rumpole of the Bailey," and ancient black-and-white episodes of "Perry Mason."
The law, in short, was whatever the politically appointed and frequently corrupt judges wanted it to be. While corruption and politics pervaded the old Soviet system, there were still occasional Communist zealots on the bench who stood behind and believed in the oppressive laws in the books they seldom read.
Now the law was written by Kafka."
In the 14th installment of the series, the men and sole woman of the Office of Special Investigations are plunged into the Russian underground heavy metal/neo-Nazi music scene, the Moscow metro subway system, and, of course, riding the Trans-Siberian Express. Prolific author Kaminsky gives the reader a feel for the people and politics while raconting a riveting tale. Rostnikov's immediate supervisor, Igor "The Yak" Yaklovev, a former KGB functionary intent on gathering as much 'dirt" on as many people as possible, is totally devoid of human kindness - reminds this reader of Daniel Benzali's smarmy serpentine character (Robert Quinn) on "The Agency." Through it all, Rostnikov and his crew persevere - like the laborers who built the 6,000-mile Trans-Siberian Express.
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A fun read........2002-07-10
I thoroughly enjoyed this book in the Arabian Nights vein, and I intend to read the others in the series.
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A wonderful contribution to the field of vision and eye health.......2006-12-20
This is an incredibly thorough, yet succinct overview of the field of vision and eye health. The book is informative, well written, and an interesting read. It will be of great interest to everyone who would like to find out more about the eye and eye health. I personally recommend it to everyone who would like to take good care of his/her eyes.
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David loves spending time with his parents. One Saturday, his parents volunteered to help at a Habitat for Humanity building project, so they leave David at the church playground. He is surrounded by other children and decides to build something. As his project takes shape, he meets new friends and learns the fun of building things together.
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Whether it's historic relevance or artistic impression that draws people to collect magazines, this handy reference with 1,000 full-color photos and updated pricing is the perfect tool for collectors. With listings for magazines of 1830 to post-WWII, Antique Trader Vintage Magazine Price Guide is the most comprehensive guide on the market.
This thorough reference explores magazines that feature the work of literary giants like Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, and famed illustrator Maxfield Parrish. Magazines including The Saturday Evening Post and The Strand Magazine are featured with sub-categories and listings to assist collectors in identification. This celebration of print history is sure to please current collectors, and spark an interest in anyone with an attic full of vintage magazines.
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A Recommendation for this book.......2007-03-11
I've been interested in old magazines for a few years now, and have been looking for a helpful price guide. I just bought this, and I highly recommend it. There's a lot of information, not just about the magazines most of us are familiar with, but also about many lesser knonwn older magazines that have great value due to authors who published their early work in them--e.g. Edgar Allen Poe. It's not just helpful information as a price guide, it's very interesting reading! Lots of great color photos also. I looked through another magazine price guide in a bookstore, and this one is much, much better.
Great writing found in between this collector's guide!.......2006-11-17
I picked up this book to learn more about vintage ads and magazines I was interested in. I was pleasantly surprised that not only was the book a complete guide to magazines but had great analgoies and stories the "editors" wrote within.
Great information on a subject that seems to be little explored.
What's In Your Attic? I Found Erte!.......2005-10-05
When we moved into our 1920's home,we found boxes left in the attic filled with old fashion magazines. My husband was ready to trash the lot, but being of the pack rat variety I found a home for them in my office.
With the help of The Antique Trader Vintage Magazines Price Guide the door was opened for me to the world of old magazines. The beautiful color photos helped me to easily identify my boxes of "trash" and give them a value.
Most important, the love affair the authors have for magazines comes across in their historical entries. The unique way they organize collectible magazine people into Sleepers like OZ artist W.W. Denslow or Stars like F.Scott Fitzgerald makes me want to haunt local yard sales. My major problem with the book was that I became so fascinated that I wanted more. The book could easily have been double in size and information and kept my interest as both a reader and for use as a desk reference. With what I've learned, our next home will hopefully be an 1890's Victorian with a basement full of Godey's Lady's Book magazines.
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What can you accomplish in a weekend, start to finish? Any one of the more than fifty-five exciting projects in
Debbie Travis' Weekend Projects, by the star of the TV series The Painted House. Following the inspiring full-color photographs and simple instructions, even the beginning do-it-yourselfer can create beautiful pillows and frames, boxes and screens, and slipcovers -- each in just two days or less.
In transforming a home from plain to personalized, it's the little touches that make the difference. "The furniture and accessories you make or decorate yourself are the most successful," Debbie explains. "It's not just about the money we save . . . it's the experience of creating something by hand." Not only are these projects quick, inexpensive, and easy to make, but they also yield some of the most appealing and useful objects you could own. For example, a plain dresser or shelving unit can be completely restyled with a few hardware store add-ons and a bit of paint. With no-sew Velcro and self-adhesive hemming tape, anyone can hang patterned curtains or create a decorative pillow. A roll of screening and a staple gun turn a frame into a kitchen divider and tool rack in one. In sections that cover tables, screens, frames and mirrors, lighting, storage, fabrics and floorcloths, and garden furniture and accessories, Debbie visits every room of the house. Each project has been photographed to show not only the finished results, but also the step-by-step techniques needed. With so much variety in materials, processes, and end results, Debbie promises over a year of fun weekends, with a beautiful house as the bonus.
Lavishly illustrated with more than 350 full-color photographs,
Debbie Travis' Weekend Projects is also the weekend crafter's manual, packed with valuable information, including tips on where to find pieces to make over, a complete listing and explanation of tools and materials needed, and instructions on how to prepare an array of different surfaces.
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Preparation Chapter best part of the book.......2005-12-23
Debbie Travis' books are a mixed bag. Some of them I really like and some are scarce on steps and details. This book falls into the latter category. The best part of the book to me were the two chapters, "Preparing your Project for Decoration" and "The Professional Touch". These chapters cover repairs of pieces, sanding, stripping, glazes and how to tint glazes, plaster, varnishes, stains, etc. and the best way to apply them for a professional finish.
This book covers all kinds of projects, indoor, outdoor, furniture, curtains, floors, screens, slipcovers and more.
Like another reviewer I thought many of the projects were very plain, but the beautiful ones sometimes seemed to leave out steps. Some of the more interesting projects were the:
~ vinegar-grained table (pg 70),
~ crackle varnish clock table (pg 76),
~ classical screen (pg 111),
~ faux leather frame (pg 118)
~ some of the curtains
The most interesting project that immediately caught my eye was a lamp made from an antique silver coffeepot (pg 130). Even though it had a full page photograph, it was not covered at all.
Very disappointing book.
Just not enough.......2005-11-06
I agree with other reviewers that this book has some great projects, some of which I plan to do, and it gave me some very good ideas. The problem for me is too few pictures and, in some cases, incomplete instructions.
For example, on page 70 is a gorgeous vinegar-grained and faux tortoiseshell table. But the instructions are incomplete, explaining and showing just two small sections of the work and parts of the process, and not giving instructions for the remainder of the table. The table has a very nice border that separates the center and the tortoiseshell edge, but the instructions don't even acknowledge its existence.
In several other cases, the pictures with the instructions seem to stop in mid process. It would be much better if the pictures continued through to the finished product.
This book feels as if Ms. Travis tried to jam as many projects into a set number of pages as possible, which gave me the feeling of being hurried while I was looking at the book.
I think she paid too little attention to giving full instructions and providing enough pictures. If expanded to include these things, this would be a five-star book.
Better books on the market than this one........2004-11-01
This book looks good at first glance, but then it falls apart. The nice colored pictures cannot compensate for the poor hints and guidelines in creating the same effects. Also, many of the finished projects were downright ugly.
I expected this book to offer something really fresh but it didn't. I feel majorly ripped off.
Inspirational!!.......2003-06-20
Debbie Travis really breaks down projects that look complicated into easy steps. In looking for info on one project, I immediately became inspired to do several of her projects. They are all easilly adapted to your home and style, and definetly make you want to go for it!!
Great projects!.......2003-04-12
Lots of easy to do projects. Most of the projects can be adapted to suit your own decorating style.
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Eighteenth-Century Decoration: Design and the Domestic Interior in England
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Excellent costume resource, as well.......2003-08-24
This is an elegant large volume, full of paintings of 18th-century interiors and the families who occupied them. The result is an almost year-by-year record of the clothing, furnishings, and daily routine of the British in that era. Includes sketches from the booths at (now vanished) Vauxhall Gardens, Highmore's illustrations for "Pamela", and several detailed tea table settings. Rich resource for clothing information, as well.
Excellent research.......2000-07-01
Gorgeous, lavish book full of gorgeous photos and helpful information. Incredibly thorough. Excellent resource for period costume and set design.
Excellent Research.......2000-07-01
Gorgeous, lavish book full of gorgeous photos and helpful information. Incredibly thorough. Wonderful resource for period set and costume design research.
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Classification and qualification seem almost to be the enemy of artistic endeavour. Yet in The Natural History of Vedovamazzei, the curator Mirta D'Argenzio has produced an elliptical collation of the artists' ideas and hopes that offers a remarkable insight into a rarely defined world, that of Vedovamazzei's creative process. Simeone and Stella were lovers, from Naples. They were, and are, artists, painters, sculptors. As a matter of course they sketched out ideas in drawings and watercolors, produced cartoons for future projects, dallied with line and colour for experimental concepts. Some of them didn't work or were put away for another day. These sketches, sometimes no more than doodles or jokes, were also their means of communication when one was away, so that at any moment, on their return, they would find a scrap with an illustration to muse over pinned to the wall. Mirta D'Argenzio, the art historian and curator, came across these fleeting memoranda and resolved to make sense of them, like an Egyptologist deciphering hieroglyphs or an entomologist ordering the development of the Wing-tailed Cabbage White. She set about classifying them into an almost scientific order, from their larval forms through the pupae to the first spread of wings. She has produced a collection of the sketches in eight sections that makes up a visual record of the nascent ideas of Vedova and Mazzei, even in the 21st century cognisant of the traditions of Leonardo. The result of her work is as if one were treading the hallowed halls of the Natural History Museum, with its polished cases of botanical and insect collections, minutely marked and classified by the scientist's copperplate hand. It is a dazzling display.
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An interested party.......2000-09-30
While I have never read Noel Hynd before, I got this book because it's subjects are of interest to me. (Blossom was my father's sister). I never expected it to be so easy to read. Noel writes as he might talk to you at a family outing. As if he were chatting over coffee. It was really a pleasure to read.
Mesmerizing!.......1999-03-15
Although I am a Noel Hynd fan, but not a baseball fan, I loved this book nevertheless. Hynd is such an excellent story teller, I read this book in one weekend not because I was interested in the subject matter, but because I found myself immersed in the story itself. Hynd has a way of doing that with his readers. The history was interesting, and I learned quite a bit about baseball and vaudeville. But the best part was the romance surrounding the main characters, and Hynd related this true tale with compassion and sympathy.
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