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- I DON'T WANNA BE RIGHT
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- Relationship's like this can really turn CRAZY!
- A lesson to be learned
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I Don't Wanna Be Right
Alisha Yvonne
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Book Description
Roman Broxton has it going on for himself in the good looks department, and he even has the lucrative career in which aids his ability to keep the ladies flocking at his feet. Since money is no object and women are the subject, sex for Roman is a warranted consequence, earning him the playah's degree he so rightfully deserves. But, what Roman doesn't see coming is a dose of his own medicine. That remedy comes in the form of one Holiday Simmons, a force which causes Roman to rethink his womanizing ways.
Holiday Simmons is a sexy sr. financial analyst, former colleague and friend of Roman Broxton. Until Holiday, Roman's never known anyone with all the makings to possibly be his wifey. The two become a couple, but hard luck begins when Roman discovers his good looks and charm alone isn't enough to maintain such a headstrong woman. Worse than that, double misfortune lies within the possibility of Holiday leaving him for his best friend.
What happens when the tables are turned on a player? He could either wallow in the bed he's made, or he will rock the world surrounding it. For Roman Broxton, both depictions are likely and extreme scenarios.
Customer Reviews:
I DON'T WANNA BE RIGHT.......2007-02-13
THIS BOOK WAS OK IT WAS NOT WHAT I THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE
Great Story.......2006-08-04
I loved the book because first of all I love drama and secondly the book did an excellent job at capturing the emotions of the characters. I think that Alisha Yvonne is a great writer and I believe that this book is worth reading and buying.
Relationship's like this can really turn CRAZY!.......2006-06-20
When I pick up "I Don't Wanna Be Right" I haven't realized that this was a part two of a previous book, so I quickly pick up "Lovin You is Wrong" before reading "I Don't Wanna Be Right." It made a difference because it help me understand the main characters dilemma even better. I must admit I am quite impressed with Alisha because she shows some serious writing skills. I have notice a lot of confusion from certain amount of reviewers between these two books regarding this mini series. The books are not repetitive at all. The books tells, help, and clarify the confusion of this crazy love triangle between Holiday and Roman. Alisha even clarify this in her Amazon plog.
She stated " Lovin' You Is Wrong is told from Holiday's point of view, but she leaves quite a bit of the story untold. So, I Don't Wanna Be Right had to be written, and since there's always more than one side to a story, Roman Broxton gets to speak his peace. However, Roman shares the things Holiday couldn't tell you, and more importantly, wouldn't tell you. There are a few familiar scenes from Holiday's story written in
"I Don't Wanna Be Right, but that was done so that the open details of Lovin' You Is Wrong could be closed through Roman's eyes."
"I Don't Wanna Be Right" seize to grab you in many different ways and brings out a number of emotions out of you by these characters, Roman I will also have to admit is one crazy cat. "Drama".........please....... its too nice of word between what goes on in this book. This book held my attention from start to finish. Alisha Yvonne definitely has a great talent in telling a story.
If your looking for a couple of books to spark up your summer I recommend you start with "Lovin You is Wrong," and extinguish it with "I Don't Wanna Be Right." Keep them rolling Alisha.
A lesson to be learned.......2006-06-15
I read this book about a month agao and it was a page turner. There's absolutely no way you can pick this book up with out finishing it. Please read. This is a good book with lessons to be learned by all women who plan to sllep with a man and his best friend.
Don't waste your money..........2006-05-29
I received this book for free and even THAT was a waste of money (printing and marketing costs). I would be highly surprised that anyone would call this a good read. It was horrible. It was more like the author put this together with a write by numbers quick and easy tool for writing novels.
In addition, I would even go as far as saying, the reason the RAWSISTAZ Memphis Chapter Book club gave the book such high ratings is because...according to the bio of the author in this book...she (the author) is the President of that chapter. How bias is that? Perhaps if this review came from Tee Royal the founder of RAWSISTAZ, or someone from her group, I would be more apt to believe it was worth five (5) stars.
I am sure I'll get some non-helpful votes, but the review is unbaised. The book is not a good read. :-)
Book Description
Night Elves - Wicked Pleasures By Nelissa Donovan Book 1 in the Night Elves series
Selena DeLaPava is just out for a little fun at her best friend's grad party. But 'fun' can't quite describe how terribly wrong the night goes. One minute she's gyrating in a circle of body-painted ancient history grads, and the next she's flat on her back, buck naked, under a bright summer sun with an equally nude golden god looming over her—commanding her to pleasure herself, and she is compelled to obey.
Serosen Isil-Gan, high prince of the Night Elves, finds her—deliciously naked, and fully enchanted by his licentious cousin. Knowing that it is forbidden to bring humans to Tir na n-Og, Serosen liberates the maid, only to realize too late, that there is much more to the lusty Terran than meets the eye…
Customer Reviews:
Erotic pleasures.......2005-12-27
Ms. Donovan has created a world where the characters come alive and are so vivid, as if you could reach out and touch them. You feel as if you are actually living the story from the hero and heroine's point of view--or at least you wish you were! An erotic read, this one's a keeper.
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“The Jedi are keepers of the peace. We are not soldiers.”
—MACE WINDU
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Mace Windu is a living legend: Jedi Master, senior member of the Jedi Council, skilled diplomat, devastating fighter. Some say he is the deadliest man alive. But he is a man of peace—and for the first time in a thousand years, the galaxy is at war.
Now, following the momentous events climaxing in the Battle of Geonosis, Master Mace Windu must undertake a perilous homecoming to his native world—to defuse a potentially catastrophic crisis for the Republic . . . and to confront a terrifying mystery with dire personal consequences.
The jungle planet of Haruun Kal, the homeworld Mace barely remembers, has become a battleground in the increasing hostilities between the Republic and the renegade Separatist movement. The Jedi Council has sent Depa Billaba—Mace’s former Padawan and fellow Council member—to Haruun Kal to train the local tribesmen as a guerilla resistance force, to fight against the Separatists who control the planet and its strategic star system with their droid armies. But now the Separatists have pulled back, and Depa has not returned. The only clue to her disappearance is a cryptic recording left at the scene of a brutal massacre: a recording that hints of madness and murder, and the darkness in the jungle . . . a recording in Depa’s own voice.
Mace Windu trained her. Only he can find her. Only he can learn what has changed her. Only he can stop her.
Jedi were never intended to be soldiers. But now they have no choice. Mace must journey alone into the most treacherous jungle in the galaxy—and into his own heritage. He will leave behind the Republic he serves, the civilization he believes in, everything but his passion for peace and his devotion to his former Padawan. And he will learn the terrible price that must be paid, when keepers of the peace are forced to make war. . . .
From the Hardcover edition.
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Possibly the best and most faithful.......2006-08-28
A.J. Arberry's translation of the Koran has taken pre-eminence among religious and world literature scholars. Although Abdullah Yusuf Ali's translation of the Koran has pride of place in many English-speaking Islamic households, Arberry's work above all others renders the Koranic language in suitably appropriate, easily-comprehended, English.
Unlike any other translation before or since, Arberry's work adheres closely to the original Arabic syntax, meaning that this translation can easily be used in tandem with a recitation in Arabic of the Koran. Arberry's language is striking and beautiful, comparable to more recent offerings from N.J. Dawood and Thomas Cleary. Note, for example, the striking immediacy and rhythmic flow of this passage:
"He is God;
the Creator, the Maker, the Shaper.
To Him belong the Names Most Beautiful.
All that is in the heavens and the earth magnifies Him;
He is the All-mighty, the All-wise."
(Surah 59 'Hashr' v. 24)
Arberry eschews the Elizabethan intricacies of Abdullah Y. Ali and the reader will not find themselves fighting a river of parenthetical entries, as are found in Muhammad Asad and the infamous "Wahhabi Koran" of Muhammad Muhsin Khan.
All that being said, there are problems with the presentation of the translation. The verses are not numbered individually, although the paragraphing on each page helps in determining where verse divisions are. Arberry opts to adjust the layout of the text in accordance with the action or commands in the words themselves. This is a unique approach, but does tend to make difficulties for the reader hunting down a particular verse. Also, especially in the longer chapters ('Baqara' and 'Imran'), the numbering of the verses is off by about four.
The introductions to the two sections of the volume are fine discourses from the translator on the actual act of translating this book, but don't offer the first-time reader any introduction to the Koran itself--what it is, the purpose it serves, etc. There are also no footnotes at all in the text.
Overall, Arberry's work is a magnificent achievement, but one that is more suitable to the scholar than the casual reader. He is especially useful as a second Koran (with Oxford's Abdel Haleem offering being the first) or as a reference in English for one studying either the original text itself or the recitation of the Koran. For sure, Arberry's work belongs on the bookshelf of all who are interested in digging deeper into Islam, the Koran, or the great works of world literature.
TO AMAZON.COM moderators!.......2006-06-28
I look through the reviews of the Qurans available on amazon and I see many hatemongering diatribes. I want to read reviews that tell me the quality of the book, not to read peoples religious fanaticism and political viewpoints. I see waaaay too much hatemongering in these reviews. Please clean it up or I will take my business elsewhere. Please people, don't take the bait and respond to them, instead report the posts, give them a no rating for 'helpfulness' and call and complain to Amazon customer service.
Answer to 'mistake in Quran'.......2006-05-14
This interpretation of the Quran is quite good- however much is lost in terms of meaning as a result of the translation, which is often the case when translating a book like the Quran. For instance, one word in Arabic may have multiple meanings. Much is also lost in terms of the sounds of the Quran and it's beautiful rhetoric. This is even what A.J Arberry said himself:
In making the present attempt... to produce something which might be accepted as echoing however faintly the sublime rhetoric of the Arabic Koran, I have been at pains to study the intricate and richly varied rhythms which-apart from the message itself-constitute the Koran's undeniable claim to rank amongst the greatest literary masterpieces of mankind... This very haracteristic feature-"that inimitable symphony," as the believing Pickthall described his Holy Book...-has been almost totally ignored by previous translators; it is therefore not surprising that what they have wrought sounds dull and flat indeed in comparison with the splendidly decorated original.(17) (From Arthur J. Arberry's book, The Koran Interpreted)
I would suggest another translation along with this one for comparative analysis.
In answer to `The Mistake in the Quran' comment, I would like to suggest that Amazon is not a place for polemics, so that should be left for the appropriate websites. Nonetheless I will say a quick word- on analysis of the verse you will see the word `Wajd' is used, which means to perceive something- in other words it appeared to Zul Qarnayn that the sun was setting in water. This is similar when you go to the beach- you PERCEIVE (it appears to you) that the sun is setting in the water, but obviously it isn't. Furthermore, the word used is `balagha' is used in this verse, which is used metaphorically and not literally throughout the Quran. The alternative words are `yudrik' and `tudrik', which are used literally, but aren't used in this verse of the Quran; this is the same throughout the Quran. See books on Arabic grammar and Arabic dictionaries (a good one in the Hans Wehr dictionary of Modern written Arabic). It is clear from this that there is no suggestion that the sun literally went into the water nor is there a suggestion that the earth is flat.
Mistake in the Koran!!!.......2006-02-13
One of the questions which puzzled the ancient Arabs was, "Where did the sun go when night time came?" The Qur'an gave them Allah's answer.
He [i.e. Zul-qarnain] followed, until he reached the setting of the sun. He found it set in a spring of murky water.
(Surah XVIII ( Kahf) vs. 85-86)
We agree with Muslim scholars that Zul-qarnain refers to Alexander the Great (see Yusuf Ali's appendix on this subject in his translation of the Qur'an). According to this surah, Alexander the Great traveled west until he found out what happened to the sun. It went down into and under the murky waters of a pond. When it was completely covered by the water, darkness fell upon the earth.
To the early Muslims, this surah gave the divine answer as to why darkness fell when the sun set in the West. They assumed that the sun, like the moon, was the size perceived by the human eye, about the size of a basketball. Darkness came when with a mighty hissing roar it went down under the dark waters of a pond. They boldly and proudly proclaimed that this marvelous answer proved that the Qur'an was indeed the Word of God.
Today, modern Muslims are quite embarrassed by this passage and try to ignore it or to quickly dismiss it as poetry. But the passage is not part of a poem. Thus it cannot be dismissed as figurative language or poetic license. In the context, it is part of a historical narrative which relates several historical incidences in the life of Alexander the Great.
The mistake was based on the erroneous assumption that the earth was flat. The authors of the Qur'an did not know that the earth was a sphere which revolved around the sun.
Most Worthy of Reading in English.......2006-02-05
If someone wants to read a version of the Koran in English, s/he ought to read one that has some literary qualities, and reads like a book ought to, rather than some kind of reference text full of odd punctuation, awkward and unusual expressions, brackets etc. To be sure, no one can give us a translation into English that will capture every nuance or connotation of the original Arabic, and no amount of bracketed dictionary entries inserted next to words will really help. These kinds of things detract more from the reading than add to it. I am very dismayed by the awkwardness of many of the other translations available for us, including that of Yusuf Ali, whose popular work, while praised for it accuracy, leaves a lot to be desired in the realm of style, enjoyment and ease of understanding.
Arberry's work, however, is simple, direct, formal and hits a mid-point between poetry and prose; in other words, tries as much as possible to present the Koran for English speakers the way the Koran would have functioned for listeners of Arabic.
To enhance the clarity of the translation, Arberry distinguishes between the second person plural and second person singular by making use of the word 'thou' and its accompanying grammar for the singular. This distinction is critical for determining when God is speaking about others and when He is speaking to the Prophet directly. This is surely the only sensible way to render the distinction, in a translation that wishes itself to be readable. Arberry does not use any other archaic words, such as 'ye' or archaic grammar such as 'he hath', but uses fully modern English throughout.
It should be noted that people who are bilingual and have actually taken the time to read through Arberry's translation have found it to be very accurate.
The fact that Arberry has no religious axe to grind makes the translation more reliable than the many sectarian translations put out more for the sake of publicizing particular beliefs than for the sake of producing accurate, well-written texts.
The educational value of this book is far greater than that of the awkward translations, since it presents a style worthy of emulation rather than one unnatural or strange.
Reading a good translation such as this one can help us not only gain wisdom, but also articulate this wisdom for others. The Koran is a work of divine rhetoric, and the more we can apply its lessons into our own lives and language, the more useful it will be for us.
I encourage you to read this translation above all others, if English is your native tongue.
Book Description
Want to come home every night to a hot, hearty meal ready and waiting? Now you can. From America’s most trusted kitchens come a cookbook with 140 slow cooker recipes fro main dishes, side dishes, soups and more!
- Honey-Dijon Pork Roast
- Mango Chutney-Chicken Curry
- Creamy Butternut Squash Soup
- Winter Vegetables Stew
- Texas Chili
- Hot Turkey Sandwiches
- Old Fashioned Baked Beans
- Garlic Smashed Red Potatoes
Customer Reviews:
Good Cookbook for your recipe collection!.......2007-01-20
This large cookbook has color photos with some of the recipes. It starts with an introduction that explains basic slower cooker tips (timing, flavor, altitude adjustments, basics, etc.) It has 5 categories:
1. Meaty Main Dishes
2. Busy-Day Chicken and Turkey
3. Super Soups, Stews and Chiles
4. Slow-Cooked Sandwiches
5. Very Easy Vegetables and Sides
Plus it has an index in the back of the book that is helpful.
Some interesting recipes such as "Key West Ribs" that has a citrus flavor and "Thai Peanut Chicken" for something new. There are also favorites like "Bratwurst and Sauerkraut" and "Family Favorite Beef Stew." This cookbook is well worth buying because of the wide variety of recipes.
Book Description
In today’s fast-paced world, convenience is a key ingredient to any good recipe. With
Pillsbury Doughboy Slow-Cooker Recipes—and a little bit of planning ahead—you can serve savory meals that took “hours” to cook and still have time to spend with your family. For success in your kitchen, the Pillsbury Kitchens have double-tested each recipe in various slow cookers. Check out the introduction, which is packed with helpful information, from how to adapt your favorite recipes to food safety and cooking at high altitude. And, with more than sixty mouthwatering color photographs, you can almost smell the wonderful aromas!
There’s a reason these are called “fix-and-forget” recipes. The recipes require minimal, easy preparation, and while you spend the day in class, at work, running errands, or driving carpool, the slow cooker does all the work. When you come home, a bubbling, fragrant, one-pot meal is ready and waiting! And the slow cooker is useful all year round—in the warmer months, this small appliance won’t heat up your entire kitchen the way an oven does.
You’ll find chapters starting with Meaty Main Dishes, like Caramelized Onion Pot Roast, and ending with Very Easy Vegetables and Sides, like family-favorite Au Gratin Potatoes and Onion. In between are Busy-Day Chicken and Turkey, with recipes like Thai Peanut Chicken, which is great for casual entertaining; Super Soups, Stews and Chilies, including Spicy Vegetarian Chili; and Slow-Cooked Sandwiches, like So-Easy Sloppy Joes. With this much variety, you are certain to please everyone in the family.
Each of the 140 easy-to-follow recipes includes a useful sidebar with a tip for serve-with items, suggestions on how the kids can help, or ideas to make it special. Set the table, whip up a fast salad or side dish, if you like, and sit down with your family to a real home-cooked meal. When a hot, hearty meal is what’s needed,
Pillsbury Doughboy Slow Cooker Recipes is just the ticket!
Customer Reviews:
Slow Cooker Recipes Book.......2007-01-29
I bought this book mainly as a "little buddy" to my brand new Slow Cooker.
Pillsbury always has reliable recipes, and I didn't need any more than the ones in this book. I first read it from beginning to end to inspire myself, and then went about cooking up storms. All the meals came out tasting wonderful. Now I am ready to "tweak", you know - a little more here, a little less there -, but sticking to the main recipe in the book.
After all, it's Pillsbury - the experts!
Very similar to Betty Crocker's!.......2003-10-17
While this is a fine cookbook, my wife and I were startled to find that many of the recipes contained herein are virtually identical or very similar to ones found in "Betty Crocker's Slow Cooker" book. Even some of the pictures are the same!
Our advice: buy one or the other, but not both.
Pillsbury + Slow Cooker = YUMM!.......2003-05-04
I have a cookbook collection that exceeds five hundred titles. Ten of my books are from Pillsbury and I have never been disappointed. When I received a card from Pillsbury announcing the newest in their collection, I immediately ordered it.
Pillsbury and the slow cooker are a great match. The recipes are easy to put together with ingredients that you probably have on hand or are readily available, and what could be easier than cooking in a slow cooker? I have already prepared several of the recipes and I am looking forward to trying more of them. The Turkey and Bacon Wild Rice Casserole was a big hit. Hearty Steak and Tater Soup brought ooh's and aah's at work too. The slow cooker is particularly good with lean cuts of beef. For this, try Beef Brisket with Cranberry Gravy or Carmelized Onion Pot Roast. Actually try them BOTH as they are scrumptious!
For readers new to using a slow cooker, Pillsbury shares ten 'secrets' for using the appliance successfully. There are five sections in the book covering main dishes, poultry, soups, stews and chiles, sandwiches and vegetables and side dishes. There are 140 recipes in total and many have illustrations. Each recipe is accompanied by Nutritional Information and a sidebar offering tips and serving suggestions.
Although a bit smaller than some of the other books in the collection, the Pillsbury Doughboy Slow Cooker Recipes is outstanding in quality. It's a big hit in my kitchen...it will be one of your favorites as well!!
Book Description
Sari to Sarong brings together some of the greatest surviving examples of traditional Indian and Indonesian textiles to demonstrate the remarkable exchanges of ideas, materials, designs, and imagery--royal and religious--between the two great cultures of India and Indonesia over the last 1000 years. The publication shows not only the great variety and beauty of the cloths but also the many sources of inspiration carried across the Indian Ocean by sailors and merchants, priests and warriors.
Drawn from the National Gallery of Australia's famous Asian textiles collection, the silks, cottons, batiks, gold brocades, tie-dyes, and embroideries feature Ramayana epics, elephant and camel processions, trading ship and floral designs from Indian chintz.
Customer Reviews:
I am impressed with this book............2007-02-02
I agree with Juan's assessment that using "Interior Design" in the title could mislead potential readers. Since Juan sufficiently addressed this issue in his review, let's now assume that this book is titled more correctly, "How to Start a Home-Based Interior Decorating Business".
After a successful 11-year career in apparel design/production, I found myself jobless due to corporate downsizing. After soul-searching and research, I decided that I wanted to go into business for myself and that becoming an interior decorator would be a perfect fit for my skills and interests. So I purchased this book several months ago and have referred to it on an almost daily basis as I take steps to set up my business.
Ms. Phillips has a clear, concise writing style. There is no "fluff" in this book. Even though I already know some of the details on business/home office set-up, it was helpful to read it in this format and in the context of interior decorating.
There is so much I do NOT know about this industry, and that is where this book shines. The author does a stellar job of explaining the day-to-day nature of interior decorating, how to decide if this business is right for you, and the importance of writing a detailed business plan.
The book also provides business form templates that you can copy and use. Finally, the Product Overview section outlines specific instructions on measuring and costing out your projects.
I strongly recommend this book as a starting point and ongoing reference guide for anyone interested in starting a home decorating business from home.
how to start a home-based interior design business 4th.......2006-09-07
Before I purchased this book I read Juan's review, but being the"Doubting Thomas" kind of person I am, I bought it anyway. I should have listened to Juan. His review is completely accurate.
The title should have been: "How to Start a Home-Based Decorating Business".......2006-03-08
An even better title would have been "What You Need to Start and Maintain a Successful Home-Based Decorative Surface & Window Treatment Retail Business". If it had that title, I would have given it 5 stars! Why do publishers encourage such deception?
The dust jacket information about this book leads you to think it is all about Interior Design, and it is not. For example: Ms. Phillips states one of the key differences between the designation of "Interior Designer" and "Decorator" is becoming a member of ASID (American Society of Interior Designers) which requires Interior Design or Architecture related education and experience in related fields.
I would assume most readers picking up this book have little of either if any. Then she decides to use the term "designer" throughout the book, instead of the more appropriate and realistic term of "decorator". Why? Is there a stigma about being a decorator? (By the way, one can also become a member of IIDA (International Interior Design Association) as well and legally be called an Interior Designer.)
As for a home-based surface treatment and/or decorating business, this book is good. The listed topics are important and Ms. Phillips does a good job of covering the details in simple language. She has some good questions on whether running your own business is for you and the pros and cons of entrepreneurship. Obviously she has been there, and has sweated it out too! Also featured are smart advertising and marketing ideas.
I felt the information on office set-up and computing was behind the times, but then again I am a gadget guy and tend to be up on these matters.
In conclusion, a person, without any experience, wishing to start and effectively run an interior decorating business that focuses on surface treatment decoration products and services (such as flooring, carpets, textiles, fabrics, wall coverings, wallpaper, and window treatments) would do quite well with this book. I think it is a great business, and there is great potential for a lucrative business.
However for someone wanting to do "Interior Design" (more than just surface treatments), they will be left dissatisfied. I advise you to look elsewhere.
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- A thought provoking book... but come to your own conclusions
- A very nice monograph on Goya.
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Goya: A Genius Defined by Passion--His Life in Paintings
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This paperback edition of the award-winning study of the life and work of Goya is filled with the same fine reproductions as the original 1994 hardcover. Goya was one of Spain's greatest and most controversial painters, famous for incisive portraits and the "black" paintings of his later years. Scholars have often attributed Goya's progression from producing light-hearted court paintings to creating somber images of the Napoleonic wars to the artist's serious illness of 1792, which left him deaf. Writer Janis Tomlinson's aim here is to show a continuity in his work before and after the illness. She sees in Goya's vast output--at least 1,800 works--a vital drive to explore and exploit his personal creativity, which was strengthened by the deafness that cut him off from all but visual communication with the world. With detail supported by formidable research, Tomlinson presents Goya's life chronologically, analyzing his work from icons like the Naked Maya to his Los Caprichos series of etchings with their biting social satire and supernatural imaginings of a world turned upside down. The demonic intensity of Saturn Devouring His Son and Witches Sabbath, painted on the walls of his "Country House of a Deaf Man" at the end of his life, suggest to some the work of an embittered madman. Rather, these disturbing paintings reflect Goya's profound empathy for the victims of a predatory and unjust society--empathy that a modern audience readily shares. --John Stevenson
Book Description
Explore Goya's life and art, and the influences that shaped his work.
DK gives a new look to the series that forever changed the nonfiction genre and set the standard for highly informative visual guides. This volume, and those to follow in future seasons, forms part of an indispensable library for the whole family. Focusing on the life and work of Goya, this book uses superb full-color photography to bring the artist's work to life and to explore the conditions and motivations that inspired it.
Customer Reviews:
A thought provoking book... but come to your own conclusions.......2004-02-02
This was my introduction to Goya. The great thing about this book (and about all the books in Phaidon's Art & Ideas Series) is that it does an excellent job of putting the artist in historical context. I think this is really important, because Goya (like David in France) really is inseparable from his time, and we simply can't understand his images if we don't have any idea about what was going on in Spain and the rest of Europe at the time. "The Disasters of War", for example, means so much more to me now that I understand what happened when Napoleon invaded Spain. I was also glad to see that pictures by some of Goya's contemporaries are included, pictures that would otherwise be pretty hard to find.
Some of the author's interpretations, though, annoyed me. Intellegent readers shouldn't have any problems drawing their own conclusions, but I'm a little more concerned about readers who aren't very good about questioning authors. For example, when talking about "The Second of May 1808" and "The Third of May 1808", Symmons says that the figure stabbing the horse in the first painting is the same man lying dead in the heap of bodies in the second one -- and then she says that repetition of figures like this is a major theme in Goya's works. It is, but apart from the fact that both of these men are wearing green coats, there's no way of saying they are the same man. Maybe Goya said they were, but if he did, the author hasn't pointed that out. Seems minor, but it isn't. Another quirk is the author's search for Goya's sources. I understand that artists borrow motifs from each other every now and then, but when Symmons tries to tie in a couple of Goya's images with political prints by James Gilray, for example, simply because some of Goya's poses (which really aren't that unusual) vaguely resemble some of Gilray's, I think she's going out on an awfully big limb. Maybe Goya did take them from Gilray, but he could have taken them from a thousand other places just as easily, and without more substantial proof of Goya's sources, I just don't see what the author is trying to accomplish. This is a very useful book, but leave room for forming your own opinion about Goya.
A very nice monograph on Goya........2000-01-19
Janis Tomlinson, the writer of this book, seems primarily concerned in showing that there is a continuity in Goya's work, that it did not suddenly change from light-hearted to dark after Goya went deaf. For the most part, I feel she achieved this end, I for one am convinced. I wish she wrote more on Goya's technique and his personal life, both of which she does not go into much. The 300 or so colour reproductions of Goya's work are excellent, and there are many good close-ups. Unfortunately, Goya produced around 1,800 works, so it is disappointing that only a fraction of them are in this book.
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