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One of the most widely praised and rapturously entertaining first novels in recent years begins with a little girl falling down an abandoned mineshaft in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Her name is Ursula Wong, she's part Chinese, part Finnish, only two years old, and soon the dangerous effort to rescue her has an entire country glued to the TV. As it follows that effort, Ursula, Under re-creates the chain of ancestors, across two thousand years, whose lives culminate in the fragile miracle of a little girl underground: a Chinese alchemist in the third century bc, the orphaned playmate to a seventeenth- century Swedish queen, Ursula's great-great-grandfather who was the casualty of a mining accident that eerily foreshadows Ursula's dilemma, and many more. A work of symphonic richness and profound empathy, Ursula, Under dramatically demonstrates that no one is truly alone.
Customer Reviews:
Brilliant.......2007-09-09
This was a fantastic book! This multi-generational tale of the Wong family spans centuries, circling back to a present-day crisis. Two and a half year old Ursula Wong has fallen down an abandon mine shaft. As rescue efforts take place, the story flashes back to her ancestors. From a Chinese alchemist two thousand years ago on her father's side to a Finnish immigrant at the beginning of the twentieth century on her mother's side, the novel spans history and geography. The chapters alternate from the current situation in Upper Peninsula Michigan to various stories of the lives of Ursula's ancestors. It is a brilliant tale that encompasses Ursula's heritage and lineage.
But Ursula isn't really a main character in all of this. She has minimal "screen time," and a great deal of focus is on her parents, Anne and Justin. As they endure this catastrophe, the novel flashes back to their younger years and the hardships they have endured. Anne is crippled by a hit-and-run when she is twelve, and Justin's father walked out on his family when Justin was three. Other supporting characters include Justin's mother, Mindy, his absentee father, Joe, and Jinx Muehlenberg, a "random" who has more connections to this family than anyone realizes.
Ingrid Hill has written a beautiful book full of tension, hope, and history. Anyone who enjoyed "Middlesex" by Jeffery Eugenides would love this. I felt so attached to this family through the generations and felt that each ancestor's story could have been elaborated into separate novels. I was sad to finish it, wanting to learn so much more about the Wongs, but I look forward to recommending it!
Amazing........2007-08-27
This book definitely helps you understand how connected we all are. It also tells a story of how alone we're NOT in this world.
Ursula Under.......2007-01-05
I chose this book for my book club. The majority of the 10 members liked it.........the scanners did not. It is a book you must really read and pay attention while you read. I found it facinating with all the twists and turns of so many generations in two families that were so different and yet generations later they came together to focus one one small girl. The author must have done a great deal of research to know so much about the different cultures as the families moved through time. I really liked the "near misses" that she inserted several times......pointing out what would have happened if someone had made a different choice. Definately a good read.......I was sorry to see it end.
A great read.......2007-01-05
I really enjoyed this book. I loved the way it emphasized that little Ursula was a miracle of connection between so many people in the past. It makes you think about all the thousands of people over time it took to come together to make each person and how fate can may such an interesting role.
Ursula, Over and Above.......2006-12-08
If I have for some time now been reading books to illuminate the meaning of life, here was a break to turn that coin on its other side and ask of its value. To ponder meaning, after all, assumes life has value. And if it does, are all of our lives to be valued equally?
When 2 1/2-year-old Ursula falls into an old mine shaft in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, media and curiosity seekers swarm the scene, and not one alone asks about the mixed race child born of poor parents - is she worth saving? How much investment and effort is one such child worth?
Ingrid Hill, in this debut novel, explores the question of one life's value by going back into history, traveling the long and complex limbs of a family tree, to an ancestry of two thousand years and a genealogy that contains within it royalty and peasants, slaves and alchemists, immigrants and miners. Little Ursula's ethnic roots wind through China, Sweden, Finland, Poland, traveling over land and oceans, passing through the courts of royalty with as much intrigue as through the tents and barracks of immigrants, until the two branches of her parents' families, the Wongs and the Makis, finally meet to create this child. In one tiny child: the spans of millenia and the bloodlines of countless generations. Such is the value of one human life, that it contains the lives of many, and these many are intertwined by all who have ever lived, all across the globe, a concentration of all humanity and all the characteristics and traits, good and evil, therein. Every life, we soon see, is a vessel holding all that has been and all that will be.
To hold so many threads in the plotting of a novel such as this, author Ingrid Hill has accomplished a no less than amazing feat, her writing skill already at such a level of artistry that it is nearly impossible to imagine how she might top this stellar debut. Yet, realizing what value, what hidden treasure and untold promise our bloodlines may contain, why not? Indeed, every stop along the way in this novel beckons a novel of its own.
I first picked up this book for the very simple reason that its story frame was out of the Keweenaw, a place I too once lived, my own storyline weaving through the area, holding now my own personal bits and pieces of hidden treasure. But if my expectations were simple enough, seeking but a pleasurable revisiting to the warming of nostalgia, Ingrid Hill astounded me with her range and reach, her skill and her sense of beauty combined with deeper meaning, winning me over with a standing ovation by the turning of the final page. "Ursula, Under" proved to be not only an excellent story well told, but a masterpiece of literary artistry that now tops my list of all-time favorite books.
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Democracy Under Construction: Patterns from Four Continents
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The book compares five newly emerged democra¬cies in Europe, South East Asia, Latin America and Africa. Cutting across vastly different historical and cultural backgrounds it tells the story of how societies come to terms with a painful past and how politics, culture and the economy intertwine in the process of creating new democratic nations. The volume pioneers a new approach to the study of democrati¬sation. It does so by combining comparative and interdisciplinary analyses of South Africa, Poland, (East) Germany, South Korea and Chile, that is, five countries where a similar general thrust of democrati¬sation is set against the most diversified cultural and historical backgrounds. From the Contents: Political Society Institutional engineering; post-autocratic party systems; citizen support for democracy. Economic Society Economic policy and performance. Civil Society Civil society and democratic consolidation. Historical Memory Historical memory and democracy.
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Down under with Carol and Johnny (Penguin series)
Ursula M Hedges
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International Joint Ventures (IJVs) combine the resources of local and foreign firms to create independent business entities that are able to avoid the risks of cross-border transactions and to gain access to new markets. Despite these advantages, the failure rate of IJVs is very high. This book takes a theoretical approach to the lifecycles of IJVs. Game theory is used by the author to foresee potential problems that may be caused due to conflicting and co-operating elements in the formation, management and termination processes of IJVs. Using rigorous theoretical tools including bargaining, contract/incentive theory and repeated games, the author suggests solutions to the problems predicted.
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In this, the latest in the Aurelio Zen series, Zen is in Venice under false pretenses. He's ostensibly there to investigate the "haunting" of an old family friend, but actually, and illegally, in town to find the body--dead or alive--of the missing patriarch of a wealthy American family.
"Zen is as sharp as ever in dealing with sneering Venetian lowlifes and bent Venetian cops. This masterfully atmospheric tale...will make most readers wish he could have stayed on the case forever." --Kirkus Reviews
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Among the emerging generation of crime writers, none is as stylish and intelligent as Michael Dibdin, who, in Dead Lagoon, gives us a deliciously creepy new novel featuring the urbane and skeptical Aurelio Zen, a detective whose unenviable task it is to combat crime in a country where today's superiors may be tomorrow's defendants.
Zen returns to his native Venice. He is searching for the ghostly tormentors of a half-demented contessa and a vanished American millionaire whose family is paying Zen under the table to determine his whereabouts-dead or alive. But he keeps stumbling over corpses that are distressingly concrete: from the crooked cop found drowned in one of the city's noisome "black wells" to a brand-new skeleton that surfaces on the Isle of the Dead. The result is a mystery rich in character and deduction, and intensely informed about the history, politics, and manners of its Venetian setting.
Customer Reviews:
Dead Lagoon -- Dead Book.......2006-08-25
This is the first Dibdin/Zen book I've tried and I found it wanting. I didn't feel I got to know Zen like I got to know Brunetti in Donna Leon's supberb Venice books. Maybe he's just not as likeable as Brunetti. And I found the plot someone artificial. And, as another reviewer noted, Dibdin's Venice must be awfully small because Zen keeps running into people he knows. I guess, in a nutshell, the plot didn't reach out and grab me. All in all, a disappointment.
"Deeply atomospheric and creepy...amusing and entertaining".......2004-09-01
A crime novel for those who may not think they enjoy crime novels. Deeply atmospheric and creepy, protagonist and cynical police detective Aureilo Zen returns to his native Venice to find a vanished American millionaire. The character of Zen is a beaten-down yet resilient revelation-and a character that consistently amuses and entertains. Italy is a morally ambiguous landscape full of unsavory characters where it's hard to discern the criminals from the crime fighters. The good news is that if you enjoy this Zen crime mystery, there's plenty more enjoyment in store for you since Dibdin has written several in the series.
Venice as character.......2004-04-27
Misty, mysterious Venice is always a favourite "character", whether it be in fiction or biography. Venice does not give up its secrets easily, and Dibdin is a master at ensuring the tension builds and the plot is assisted through location. He is equally adept at characterisation - the restless, driven Zen, who confronts several ethical dilemmas along the way, and several of the supporting "cast" , all of whom come to life and populate the setting magnificently.
The story itself is intriguing, with enough revelations along the way. There is no great finale denouement, more a piecing together of the jigsaw, and one great personal revelation about Zen's family background.
I thought Dibdin was at his very best when the action moves to the Questura (police headquarters). I half expected Donna Leon's Commissario Brunetti to come strollign along the corridor!
The "chase" sequence - on foot and boat through wintry night time Venice was also excellent.
Thoroughly recommended for anyone who enjoys top quality crime fiction. No formulaic writing here!
An Evocative Representation of Venice.......2002-11-15
In this installment of the Aurelio Zen series, the protagonist's visit to his native city of Venice is fraught with desire. Zen's dreams include moving away from the detestable Rome and installing himself with his mother and girlfriend Tania into a the Zen villa off the Cannaregio canal. His fantasy lacks substance only because the money he has isn't nearly what he needs to refurbish the decaying house. With his hachet-sharp mind, Zen figures out a way to subsidize his scanty paycheck; he will discover the whereabouts, alive or dead, of a wealthy missing American whose family is willing to pay him plenty to end the legal quagmire his estate is in. In order to stay in Venice in an offical capacity, he attaches himself to a seemingly simple case involving one of his mother's acquaintances, a batty old countess who swears she is being terrorized by intruders in her own stately palazzo. But, Aurelio's best laid machinations fall, so-to-speak, in the black wells known as the pozzi neri or septic tanks over which all the houses of Venice are built. As Zen attempts to solve his investigative puzzles and family problems with his best intentions, he is sidetracked by meeting old friends, one of which is immersed in a political movement meant to eventually restore Venice to it former strategic position as a great trading nation---the other the attractive wife of the movement's leader. With the addition of these new factors, Zen's intital dreams shift and change like the waters in the canals.
Being lucky enough to have visited Venice myself, I found Dibdin's audio, visual and olifactory portrait of the city remarkable. The labyrinth of small bridges, canals and walkways are expertly rendered and a joy to read. As always with this series, Zen's ability to bend the law to his own advantage and pull in favors embues the novel with a gritty realism. His thoughts of his mother, his girlfriends, past and present are priceless, adding just the right comedic touch to lighten his otherwise cynical existence.
Dead Loss.......2002-09-28
Dire, cliche-ridden crime 'thriller'. Silly, contrived plot. Venice feels about 10 blocks wide with characters bumping into each other. Dead Lagoon almost works as a parody with its mad spinster, bent cops, dodgy politicians, nazi past, beautiful love foil and terrible prose style weighed by comically bad metaphor and simile.
In the three Dibdin novels I've read there is always a climatic chase scene at the end. Unfortunately the 'big chase' here is just tendious and the outcome contrived.
There are some passages which made me giggle as they were so badly written. Zen's reaction to a night of passion for instance. Or when a character blows a puff of smoke (there is a lot of gung ho smoking in this novel by the way) and makes a non-smoking sign gently spin.
This mess doesn't so much as come to an end but collapse in a heap with a particularly risible final paragraph.
Try Dibdin's Last Sherlock Holmes Story instead. It is infinitely superior.
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Mary Ellen Copeland applies the hands-on format that helped thousands overcome depression using her Depression Workbook to one of today's most pervasive problems: loneliness. Taking seniors, singles, and others through the steps necessary to relieve loneliness in the short run, the book also helps map out long-range goals for developing better relationship skills, reaching out for support, joining community activities, and fostering intimate relationships.
Customer Reviews:
useful, but a workbook cannot do everything .......2005-12-01
I found the workbook useful, sensitive and clear guide. However, not all problems are solvable by self-help workbooks. Relating lonliness to one's own person is appropriate. Recent work by Dr. Katherien Fiori of the Max Plank Institute suggests that lonliness has a genetic component - it is the common lot of humanity that merely winning friends and influencing people is not enough. As a chaplain, I find the only fulfilling response to lonliness is a spiritual awakening.
Not What I Expected.......2004-06-12
I'm glad the other reviewer found this book useful, but I'm afraid I didn't. I found the author's advice simplistic and naive. She seems to believe that a simple resolution to have only nice thoughts about oneself will drive out self-doubt and self-criticism, and that resolving to improve one's social skills is the same thing as actually doing it. (How the reader is supposed to identify these deficits specifically enough to eliminate them, with no feedback from others, is another story...)
If this approach worked as well as she seems to think, then why do most people struggle to keep their New Year's resolutions?
Again, I'm happy the book helped someone, but it didn't help me.
Enlightening............2003-08-08
This book is wonderful. It touches upon everything that is important for making, reconnecting, and maintaining friendships. The author has done a wonderful job making the reader feel confortable, confident, and loved on their journey. I give this book five stars. Anyone who reads this book will benefit.
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"I hit rock bottom in 1996, when I was overweight, in debt and terribly unhappy," writes Sarah, the Duchess of York. She credits Weight Watchers with saving her life by teaching her how to control her habits and her weight--and respect herself. In Win the Weight Game, she teams up with Weight Watchers to offer a support group in print, with friendly, practical advice and a four-week meal plan with 50 recipes. She traces a female's physical and emotional development, and describes how this relates to the development of weight triggers. This is a very practical book dealing with real issues, real situations, and real solutions. How can I keep from overeating when I go home for the holidays? How can I raise a daughter to be a healthy eater? What if my husband is sabotaging my weight-loss efforts? Whatever obstacles are getting in the way of your weight-loss success, Sarah and Weight Watchers have strategies for overcoming them. The four-week meal plan follows Weight Watchers' 1-2-3 Success plan and avoids boring diet food in favor of dishes like Lemon Ricotta Blintzes, Lo Mein Peanut Noodles, Turkey Oaxaca with Spicy Oven Fries, Winter Vegetable Pasta, and Cornmeal and Almond-Encrusted Trout. All recipes include a nutritional breakdown with calories, total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium, total carbohydrate, dietary fiber, protein, calcium, and Weight Watcher points. --Joan Price
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"I now realize that the first step toward taking control of my weight is knowledge and acceptance.... With control and direction, I have found, you can succeed." —Sarah, The Duchess of York
Including a four-week menu plan and 50 delicious recipes Features Weight Watchers
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Customer Reviews:
a gentle push towards self-confidence.......2000-03-05
While sometimes I pondered over just how much of this book Sarah Ferguson wrote by herself,it is very helpful and practical. Most diet books are so difficult to follow, as good as they are. This one is not. And for the first time I've ever seen in a diet book, the author explains our eating behaviors exclusively from the female perspective. Perhaps the best part of this book is how to prevent weight-teasing and body anxiety in both your children and yourself. The book is very short (I read it in one day and I work!) but I really enjoyed it. The only problem I had with it is that they recommend diet sodas and other aspartame sweetened products in order to cut sugar and calories. They shouldn't promote using chemicals to control weight! Otherwise, a perfectly sensible diet plan I can't imagine not working for anyone.
Focus on something else in your life........2000-02-13
This book is so tiresome. I'm so tired of the same diet books recycling the same message- control your weight- be happy! There is more to life than controlling your weight but you'd never know living in our culture or looking at the besteller lists. Try reading Simple Abundance or the Mass Market Woman. Those books are far better than wasting all your time, money and effort on trying to fight with your body all the time.
Thank You Sarah.......2000-02-01
I bought Sarah's first two books written in conjunction with Weight Watcers and haven't regretted it. This book too, was well worth the money.
This book addresses the real psycological issues and gives practical, usable advice on how to fight your food demons at 1:00 in the morning and at your favorite restaurant.
Sarah is a wonderful role-model, she's conquered her weight issues and has accepted that you don't need to be pencil-thin to be healthy or attractive.
The recipes, a mixture of exotic and simple, are as always a delight.
She makes WW's 1-2-3 success program well worth the effort.
Win the Weight Game.......2000-01-19
This is a wonderful book. I think that Sarah Ferguson,(teamed with Weight Watchers),does an excellent job discussing the psychological aspects/roots of weight gain, loss, and management. Her personal experiences and feelings enhance the content. Chapter 3, titled, "My Mother, My Weight", is extremely insightful and useful. The weight issue seems to be passed from generation, and I will try to use the information she presents to break this cycle in my own family.
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Here is the book that finally unlocks the secrets that professional restorers have been using for years. It explains critical (and previously closely-held) restoration techniques in a way that even the most uninitiated can understand and follow, giving the reader confidence throughout and making the art of restoration not only extremely remunerative for the collector, but satisfying and fun as well. There are chapters covering all the categories of tools, as well as a general chapter on cleaning and refinishing. The author explains how to make a bow for a bow drill, how to tighten loose heads on Sheffield and Ultimatum braces, how to make wedges for planes, how to replace vials in levels, how to repair chipped or missing threads on a plow plane, and literally hundreds of other such invaluable instructions.
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The M3 and M5 Stuart were the most significant light tanks of the US Army, as well as many other allied armies, during World War II. They have proved to be popular modelling subjects ever since, largely due to the large number of kits available in many different scales covering a broad selection of the different variants used. The Stuarts were also painted in a wide range of colourful camouflage schemes, reflecting their widespread service, and this adds to their appeal. This title shows a number of different ways to model this popular tank in 1/35 scale, covering construction, painting and weathering the vehicle.
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We Could Use More of Zaloga's How-to books.......2004-07-14
Steve Zaloga focuses on 1/35 scale Stuart models beginning with the Tamiya kit introduced in 1974 and brings us up-to-date with the AFV Club M3A3 kit of 2003. After some preliminary advice, like don't buy Model Kasten after-market tracks unless you're a glutton for extra work, Zakoga builds the AFV M3A3 pretty much out-of-the-box, because the box contains so very much. He then moves on to more difficult projects: cross-kitting the Tamiya M3 with the Academy M3A1, resulting in a beaufiful Soviet M3A1. Zaloga then goes on to show how to correct the dimensional problems of the Tamiya M5A1. There's a section called "Other Stuart Modeling Projects" and includes modeling a British Honey from an early Tamiya kit; an exercise no longer necessary thanks to Academy; the Academy kit becomes an earlier M3; an old Tamiya becomes an M3A1; an Italeri PaK 40 75-mm finds itself inside an M3A1 to become a Yugoslav tank-killer. The last project, the most extensive use of resin after-market parts, is an M8 75-mm howitzer motor gun carriage. Step by step photos are shown throughout this little gem, although it would seem they were shot with insufficient maga-pixels for the sharpest color ever. Yes, there are plenty of hints, brand-name identification of after-market parts and, finally, a process color rendering of color chips for the paints used. If nothing else, Zaloga's modeling is splendid in color, and there's lots of that here.
Well done.......2004-01-23
This is the first AFV book in the new modelling series by Osprey, and is probably the best one so far. After being fairly dissapointed with the Harrier and Phantom books, Zaloga's quality builds, photos, and research comes through to save the series from another strike-out.
The good: research, in progress steps well documented, a number of differnt stuarts all in the same book. A complete package for the same price as what you could pay for a single issue of a high-end model magazine
The fair: some photos appear washed out, others are too dark or too small.
The poor: 20 of the 80 pages are re-hashed models and articles that he has written for Military Modelling. If you already have those magazines, then this book could be a bit of a let down. I didn't, so I appreciate having all the Stuart info in one volume.
Osprey would do well to get rid of a lot of the repetative text such as "I did this, then I did this, then I did this" which is inevitable in this type of book, and instead use the space to do some full page and half page photos of the work. In this case, pictures really do speak a thousand words. Overall 4/5 stars, very good value.
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Casa Republicana: La Bella Epoca en Colombia
Alberto Saldarriaga Roa
Manufacturer: Villegas Editores
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1998 Premio Bienal: Historia
Both an architectural and a social history, this book examines the social implications of the elaborate design, construction, and decor details of Colombian republican houses of the 19th and 20th centuries. The elegant hallways, warm bedrooms, and eclectic combinations of foreign styles are the main characteristics of Colombia's post-colonial homes and an evocative means to rediscover the majesty of Colombia’s Belle Époque.
Una historia tanto de arquitectura como de una sociedad, este libro fotográfico ilumina las implicaciones sociales de los elaborados detalles de diseño, construcción, y decorativos propios de las casas republicanas de Colombia durante los siglos diecinueve y veinte. Los pasillos elegantes, acogedoras recámaras, y la combinación eclÉctica de estilos foráneos que caracterizaron las casas post-coloniales son una manera evocativa de redescubrir la majestad de la Bella Época en Colombia.
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Master Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery
Malcolm Rogers
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Master Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery/from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II
Malcolm Rogers
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Shocking, What The Inquirer cant print.......2007-10-16
I had to give this book 5 stars because it is one I never forgot. I found it in a condo years ago I was renting on vacation. You will never look at Marlo Thomas and believe her goody goody TV persona again. This woman is not only has a potty mouth where no sentence to her house help is without the F word, but is spoiled and rotten. The outrageousness of the stuff about Marlo written in this book matches Marlos' absurd face on the cover.
Guilty Pleasure.......2007-08-08
I read this book years ago, but still remember it well. It was pure entertainment and trashy fun. While not flattering to Marlo Thomas, I think you have to take this type of book with a grain of salt. You also have to remember that as the daughter of a rich and famous man, she no doubt grew up comfortable with and accustomed to household help. If you've never had to do for yourself, you may be simply oblivious to the path of destruction you leave behind you for someone else to deal with.
What made the book such fun was the gleeful and campy writing of the authors. I got guilty pleasure in reading the book, but certainly didn't necessarily believe it all. I'm sure the authors felt it was true and accurate but there are two sides to every story.
Bottom line, this is a light and amusing look at the rich and famous.
Another Author Attempt to Make a Quick Buck.......2007-07-04
This book comes across as a low-integrity "author" trying to make a buck at a famous couple's expense. It's poorly written and poorly organized, just from a book standpoint. If you read between the lines, Marlo Thomas was more than fair with Desmond Atholl and some of the other spoiled servants, who were obviously paid very well - more than they deserved, based on some of the shenanigans they played during working hours. In one section, Atholl claims Marlo broke the covenant of the employer-employee relationship when she rebuked him for leaving the Thomas-Donahue household without notifying a soul, so that he could (supposedly) see his mother off on a plane trip out of New York. In my view, Thomas should've fired Atholl for that. You can't just abandon ship without at least letting someone know at any workplace, so they can pass the message along to the owner(s). I mean, that takes all of five seconds. I think Marlo Thomas's relentless charity work for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and the high character, integrity and talent she has displayed over the years says it all. Most of the things Atholl writes in this book sound like sour grapes and exaggerations/distortions. I also salute Marlo's feminist activism over the years. She's always been classy about that, too, never "bitchy" as some sexists say.
Diamonds, daisies, snowflakes? Try, thorn bush, thumbtacks, strychnine! .......2006-12-13
As a little boy in the early 1970's, I had my fair share of pop culture crushes! Among them were Peggy Fleming, Karen Carpenter and Marilynn McCoo. Perhaps none of those crushes came anywhere near the intensity of the one I had for "That Girl" Ms. Marlo Thomas. Her hair, her eyes, her wardrobe, WOWSA! It was almost too much for this kindergartener! Throughout the years, I would occasionally (and quite fondly) watch "That Girl" re-runs in order to relive some almost heavenly childhood memories.
A few years ago, I found myself alone and board in the home of an in-law's looking after an ill nephew. That is when I spotted this book on a coffee table and read almost all of it. Suddenly, all those fine memories went to hell in a hand basket thanks to this "insider's" account about my once-upon-a-time dream girl.
Let me continue by saying that I agree that you can't always believe what you read. However, if even SOME of these stories are even BASED on the truth, Marlo should do us all a favor and put a revolver in her mouth. What a downer! Marlo's Ann Marie character was just so precious, how could I have assumed that she was any different in real life? I guess all this really shouldn't surprise me though. The Hollywood left has always been the masters at crafting a do-gooder's image aided by charitable work and donations. Ultimately, we come to find out that it was all in the name of shameless self-promotion (yawn!).
As for the book itself? Entertaining, yes. Author and house manager Desmond Atholl is not shy on brains or wit. However, that does not mean that this novel does not read like the trashy attempt to cash-in that I'm sure it is. What does that say about me you might be asking? Why, I was really board. Really!
Deliciously Fun, Trashy Gossip...Ann Marie she ain't!.......2001-07-11
Imagine hearing sweet Ann Marie of "That Girl" swear, uttering the word "F--K" in every other sentence? Imagine "That Girl" mistreat the help and never clean up after herself, ever?? Her house manager Desmond Atholl debunks the carefully honed image created by Marlo Thomas in this dishy, tell-all book. Poor Danny Thomas must be rolling over in his grave over this one. As a child, Marlo Thomas grew up spoiled and indulged, a privileged little princess whose every whim was catered to by servants. Such odious pampering resulted in an adult woman who is an immature, selfish, self-absorbed, flaky, scatterbrained control freak, used to ALWAYS having her own way. It's sad to see that, because the public Marlo Thomas tries to do good, lending her name to good causes, rubbing shoulders with liberals and feminists, but apparently it's all for show. She claims to be an advocate for the disdvantaged and the poor, yet she treats her own servants and staff like dirt. In spite of being in charge of this difficult woman and her Household from Hell, Desmond Atholl manages to retain his cheeky humor and outrageousness. I supposed he had to, in order to survive Hurricane Marlo. You'll never be able to watch old re-runs of "That Girl" the same way after reading this hilarious book. It should be entitled, "Free to Be...ME ME ME!"
Average customer rating:
- This book is an effing knockout!!!
- Greatest book I ever read!
- Sour grapes from a dramatic former butler.
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That Girl and Phil: An Insider Tells What Life Is Really Like in the Marlo Thomas-Phil Donahue Household
Desmond Atholl , and
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This book is an effing knockout!!!.......2003-12-03
The book is fabulous from beginning to end! It's great to see the veils pulled back on evil hollywood pigs! This book is funny, beautifully written and extremely entertaining. Don't pay any attention to the guy who only put one star on his review: he is the sour grape in the bunch. Get this book or miss out on all the fun!
Greatest book I ever read!.......2002-02-28
This is a great book! A true story of Hollywood rich and excess! It seems only Carly Simon and Olympia Dukakis are the only other ones who know what life is really like in the Thomas-Donahue household! It's so funny, I'm reading it again today, It's amazing how rich people live, way different than poor little ole' me! I only live on ten thou a year, and Ive lived like this for 37 of them! He is very careful to put the plusses of Phil and Marlo also, I like the line Phil would use to be casual when being served, "at your leisure" I'm sure Phil loves this book, and although Marlo probably does'nt like to admit it, she's a good egg and laughs at it too! The part where Rena and Marlo Square off, is pure housekeeper torture laughs, this book is a must for any poor person or household help! What a Gas!
Sour grapes from a dramatic former butler........1999-02-04
When I made the mistake of reading this tell-all book,It was clear to me that the writer was very bitter. The book tells us little that shock`s,and seems to have been a means of revenge towards Marlo Thomas. What is also odd, is that not one unkind word is written about Phil Donahue,leading the reader to believe he must not have any say in his own home.
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