Book Description
Israel, 1970s. Lily, a young emigrant student exploring the wonders and terrors of her new land, finds the man of her dreams -- Ami, a former actor. Handsome, intelligent, and exciting, but like his beautiful, disintegrating country, Ami has a terrible flaw -- he is an army interrogator. As Ami and Lily's unexpected passion grows, so too does the shadow that hangs over them. They must face the unspeakable horrors of Ami's work and their uncertain future.
While set in the '70s, Ten Thousand Lovers is a brilliant and terrifyingly contemporary tale of passion, suffering, and the transcending power of love.
Customer Reviews:
A beautiful love story set against the conflict; beautifully written (4.5 stars).......2007-08-10
BASICS:
I really loved this book and read it in a day. "Ten Thousand Lovers" provides everything an excellent novel should: laughter, insight, accessible characters with depth and life, beautiful language, and finally a window into another world. Ami and Lily are wonderful and you fall in love with them as they fall in love with each other. After finishing the novel I just sat for awhile and the feeling of fragile life and tragic beauty that "Ten Thousand Lovers" gave me stayed throughout the evening; it seemed almost wrong to return to everyday life.
THE WRITING:
Ravel did a wonderful job of intertwining Ami and Lily's love story with Hebrew and Arabic etymology and I think it greatly enhanced and deepened the story. Her writing is both poetic ("'... people are too emotional. There are seven hundred Greek tragedies taking place inside everyone. And another three hundred stories by Kafka.'") and starkly honest ("'People are very simple in some ways. We want simple things. Food, shelter, love, respect, fun. A flag. An apology. A sense of accomplishment.'"). Through Ravel's writing, Israel itself becomes a living and breathing character and Ravel describes it with such beauty and an aching sense of nostalgia and sorrow.
Though "Ten Thousand Lovers" deals with very heavy subjects - love, nationality and identity, tragic loss and suffering, all set amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - she approaches these issues and her characters with both humor ("Before we sat down to eat Bracha turned on the television for the news. 'Let's see whether we still exist,' she said. Israelis never tired of saying that before they tuned in to the news.") and tremendous insight ("'People aren't good or bad. They just do good and bad things. Your only hope is to know which is which.'").
SUMMARY:
(from the back cover)
"Israel, 1970s. Lily, a young emigrant student exploring the wonders and terrors of her new land, finds the man of her dreams - Ami, a former actor. Handsome, intelligent, and exciting, but like his beautiful, disintegrating country, Ami has a terrible flaw - he is an army interrogator. As Ami and Lily's unexpected passion grows, so too does the shadow that hangs over them. They must face the unspeakable horrors of Ami's work and their uncertain future. While set in the `70s, "Ten Thousand Lovers" is a brilliant and terrifyingly contemporary tale of passion, suffering, and the transcending power of love."
P.S.:
The review above is, in my opinion, slightly misleading, as though there is conflict that arises from Ami's profession and his work, its effect on those around him, and resulting occurrences greatly shape the story, I don't think that the summary gives an accurate impression.
RESPONSE TO OTHER REVIEWS:
I disagree with those who felt that either the love story was lost amidst the backdrop of the political scene or vice versa. I also don't think that this is political commentary passing itself off as fiction. The complete tragedy of this situation is felt more deeply by the novel's indirect, but steady, approach. I don't think that Ravel necessarily simplifies nor belittles the conflict; rather it is the constant backdrop for the characters lives'.
I don't agree with the assertion that Ravel takes a one-sided approach and I do not think that it should be considered so dangerous to point out the mistakes of either side. This novel is coming from an Israeli perspective and viewpoint and is it not always better for change to come from within? People have perpetrated, committed, lost, suffered, and cried on both sides and peace will never be achieved unless introspection, acceptance, and forgiveness occur and a hand is held out.
fast read.......2006-06-26
Edeet Ravel's book is about a woman who returns to Israel as a young adult, meets a man and begins a relationship with him. It is told in a simplistic and breezy style vascillating between the 70's, the era of her story, and her current time in England.
She inculcates the reader in the confusion of the time, as a liberal trying to deal with a lover who is an interrogator of Palestinian prisoners. Her lover is also conflicted, but there lacks depth in his motivations for his job. However, as the story between the two lovers unfolds, less emphasis is played on his job and more on the relationship of the two lovers.
The conclusion is moving and stayed with me.
Lily loves Ami.......2006-02-14
Ten Thousand Lovers has a lot to say about the daily conflicts and commonalities that make up Arab/Israeli life. It was refreshing to see this "hot" topic approached from such an ordinary perspective, even though Ami our main male character has anything but an "ordinary" job. We tend to see so much information that is polarized to one view or another, it's easy to forget that most perspectives are likely much more moderate than those we see on the evening news. I liked Ami and Lily; they were earnest, passionate, and quite believable in the immediacy of their love during turbulent times. I enjoyed the linguistic information which is sprinkled throughout the story, and I think this novel would be an excellent selection for a book club, as their is plenty of fodder for discussion; albeit the discussion could become quite intense in a hurry depending on your political beliefs.
well written but preachy.......2005-10-23
I enjoyed reading the book -- and it educated me into the thoughts of a kind, educated, and thoughtful person. The linguistics lessons throughout the book were quite informative and helpful. I found the ending to be too preachy. Yes, the world is far from perfect, and the novel presents multiple sides to the complex issues that it addresses. But the end comes down quite hard on the 'high ground' side and it's a bit simplistic. The reality is complex, the novel was complex, and the ending should have been equally complex. It was still a very good read -- hence I give it 4 stars.
Could have been an essay.......2005-10-09
A friend called this "beautiful and haunting", and so I went to the library to read it. At page 60 I began to skip ahead to the end; and then I placed it back on the shelf. What I read would have made a good essay on modern Hebrew and its co-existence with the Arabic from which it borrows certain terms of abuse and really, to Arab ears, abuses them; and it was a good picture of Israel and the everyday theatre of the absurd that Israelis live in. But passion? Emotion? I found the narrator to be an all too credible representative of the academic who sets out one day to write a novel; her 'passion' is a transference of her political 'feelings' into the personal. Real love, real loss? Tension, drama in the telling? None of that came across to me. Maybe her sheeplike promiscuity blinded me to the possibility that this was just stage-setting to her eventual commitment to a real love with all the risk that real love brings. The sex, as well, was far too close to the page; I could smell it, and it was no more erotic than urination or perspiration. It seemed to me that the writer took no risks; that she chose for a safe and uncommitted vantage point a 'passionate' moral outrage that such a fact of life as interrogation should exist; that she set forth her 'humanist-Marxist' allegiance at the start almost as if she expected this to render her immune from all criticism from lower down the mountain. As I see from the other reviews here, that worked, whether it was a culpably conscious strategy or just the natural consequence of being an academic with a great deal of personal security that tends to dampen thought about what it's really like to sit in a prison cell waiting for the punches. Instead, everything came filtered through chat. People who will read this book probably feel passionately about Israel (where I lived as well). That passion itself, I fear, may substitute for judgement. An essay in a magazine, yes. As a story: with harder work she might have tried to tell a more difficult story from the point of view of someone without the advantages of a citizenship and income that allow her to float up and away from real trouble. But this is only the impression I got from the first sixty pages. At that point, I didn't care if the narrator got blown against a wall in the Old City; and I couldn't believe that a soul this comfortable with herself and her self-deceptions ('Men hurt me; they lied to me; I only sleep with everyone because I'm vulnerable') - I couldn't accept that a character as weak as this would attract a lover of any credible stamp. Ami did seem to be a good character and a good man; which shows the mesmerizing power over a male of beautiful blond crinkly hair on a woman whose own character is way out of line with her surface appearance: fool's-gold-blond. 'I don't even know if I like you', she says repeatedly; this after they've shared bodily fluids many times. For me that disconnect between Ami and the narrator merely left bare the artifice of the story. I could no longer imagine the possibility of genuine emotion leading to some cathartic enlightenment at the end. The interrogator dies? The survivor gets to retail a 'story'. About a beautiful, sad, mad country. Not a country that can be understood by academics. A 'haunting' book? Yes, it is: it strikes real fear in me that readers can be so impressionable that a cover blurb really sticks. It's as if one wants to convince oneself that one can still be moved, touched, brought to the tissue box. At least when Beethoven bragged from behind the curtains that he would bring his audience to tears in five minutes, he hit the right chords.
Book Description
Discusses the novel, "Ten Thousand Lovers".
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Customer Reviews:
More tantalizing fun!!.......2007-04-27
Book Description:
Roy and Dee's new boss Caleb Rose has an agenda of his own and separates our heroes to new teams. Dee is assigned to work with foxy Diana Spacey, an FBI agent in town working on chasing down a serial killer. Commissioner Caleb Rose assigns Ryo to work one on one with him literally while investigating a human trafficking ring.
Can Ryo slip the Commissioner's grasp with out loosing his job and why is Dee coming out of a hotel with Diane? Ah, the heat gets turned up with a little jealousy being introduced. Dee hates the new commissioner and doesn't mind acting like a 2 year about it around Ryo.
Ryo oddly finds himself attracted to Caleb and can not fathom what it is that intrigues him. Ryo must figure out a way to elude Caleb's clever traps to get him alone. Diane is attracted to Dee but can't understand how he can not see how hot she is when standing she is standing right in front of him. At the same time Dee reminds her of someone she knows and can't quite figure it out.
Our favorite boys have several kissing scenes in this edition but not many with each other which causes the emotions between the two to fly high and unknown revelations are blurted out in the heat of arguments. We also find out more about Ryo's background and introduction to his parent's death which was first mentioned in book 1. This books signals new growth in Ryo's and Dee's relationship with a very touching chapter set on Christmas eve.
Bikky, of course, is in the sidelines keep Dee from making any advances with Ryo and when Diane suddenly becomes the target for the serial killer Bikky is there to save the day. In the final chapter we have the addition of two new characters Lai and Lass. Lai and Bikky both hate each other at sight and start competing to prove which is better but soon find that they are pretty equal in strength and skill. And then a bag up cash falls at their feet...who is going to get it?
My Review of the Series:
This series is a must for yaoi lovers. What more can you ask for? 2 cops one with a heart of gold and the other with a heart of passion for his partner. The story line is full of plots each chapter ties in well with the next. As the pages turn, the storyline grows-a nice variety of supporting characters are added in the mix to spice things up. And a wonderful selection of antagonists and triangle love interests (new and old) pop up. All which cause the main boys woes and worries, misunderstanding abound which lead to those wonderful kissing scenes we all love. The art work is good and the imagery is detailed. Ryo's mixed personality of innocent vs. seriousness charms you right off and Dee's devilish side enthralls while the sideline commentary makes you giggle.
Other Great Series/Manga by Sanami Matoh
By the Sword
Tenryu: The Dragon Cycle
Until the Full Moon
RA-I
TRASH
For those who like this series I recommend checking out "Yellow" by Makoto Tateno
Yaoi!!!! Love it to pieces!!!!.......2005-12-01
This is one of the first mangas I ever read (I got it from my friend) and now I'm collecting the series myself because I couldn't get enough. The characters seem so real, and relationship fits together like puzzle pieces. If you are into yaoi, or even if you're not, this is an awesome book/series and I reccomend it to anyone who enjoys anime. The only thing I don't like about the books is that they needed to continue forever or at least until Dee proposed to Ryo and they got married and adopted a kid (which Ryo already has, practically). That is when I would agree that the series needed to come to a close.
---Kira
One of the Best Manga Series Out There!.......2005-05-22
This is my all time favorite series - even though it's only Shonen Ai it is the greatest Manga Series out there. The art is great and the story is funny and sweet in a lot of places, especially when it reveals how much the two main characters care for one another. It focuses on Dee Laytner and his persistence to get into the pants of his new partner Ryo Maclean, your average uke not knowing what to make of Dee's advances and Dee isn't the only one after Ryo, their new boss Berkley Rose is and Dee has his own admirers including one hyperactive jealous JJ, who hates Ryo. This is a must have series for any Yaoi or Shonen Ai Fan!
Manga review from the experienced.......2004-10-31
I couldn't help but grin while reading this volume. The story just keeps getting better as the series progresses. If you liked volumes 1 and 2, then you'll love this one. There are few comedy manga titles out there, even less that are the same humor wave-length as me. This one is right on target. I plan to get the rest of the series. Great manga!
By the way, if you are uncomfortable with guy-guy love, this is not a title for you.
It actually surpassed my expectations for once.......2003-10-23
I bought FAKE at the recommendation of a friend and I now own the three volumes that are currently out and am eagerly awaiting the third! Pretty strange, considering that I'm usually a very cautious buyer. Sanami Matoh does a wonderful job of giving the characters depth and distinctive personalities, and the storyline is clever, weaving between several main and secondary characters. I'm kind of new to yaoi and all that myself, but so far I can honestly say that I enjoy this series very much due to it having an actual plot and the art being so gorgeously dynamic and active. Overall, I would highly recommend this manga for people who can tolerate the idea of a homosexual relationship and enjoy a good dose of humour with their (action driven) plot.
Book Description
Enter the explosive universe of the exciting online game
STAR WARS GALAXIES:
AN EMPIRE DIVIDED!
It is a time of great turmoil. The oppressive Empire is close to seizing complete control of the galaxy. The ragtag guerrilla army of the Rebel Alliance fights on, striking wherever it can, but now something has come to light that could spell certain doom. Hidden in the Jedi ruins of Dantooine is a Holocron containing a list of high-level Rebel sympathizers. If that list were to fall into the hands of Darth Vader, the Rebel Alliance would lose its most valued support—and possibly the war itself.
As an Imperial bio-engineer who frequently visits other worlds, Dusque Mistflier is the perfect cover for a Rebel who needs to travel far and wide without arousing suspicion. And so she agrees to help Rebel spy Finn Darktrin in his quest to recover the crucial Holocron. Despite help from Han, Luke, and Leia, the mission is fraught with peril. And as their journey takes them into the fiery belly of the beast that is galactic civil war, Dusque and Finn will learn that the hardest part of all is figuring out whose side you’re on—and how far you’re willing to go to win. . . .
Customer Reviews:
Ruined Dantooine.......2007-07-21
Really the best I can say about this book is that you can read it quickly. The story deals primarily with urgent attempts by the Rebel Alliance and the Empire to obtain a holocron that lists names of Rebel sympathizers. The holocron was hidden in a Jedi camp on Dantooine that was abandoned after the Empire troops came to visit. We have two main characters - Dusque Mistflier, an Imperial bioengineer who switches to the Rebel side, and Finn Darktrin, a Rebel spy when we first meet him. These two join forces to go to Dantooine and get the holocron. Along the way they survive various animal attacks and several run-ins with humanoid bad guys. Then the book ends with a surprise which you will see coming for at least half the book.
The trouble is that we really never get to sympathize with the main characters. We don't understand the reasons for their behavior. In particular, we know almost nothing about Finn. He appears early in the book, wins the trust of Dusque, and then double-crosses her in the end. Dusque changes from a somewhat meek and introverted scientist in the beginning to a superwoman using blasters and thermal detonators to get them out of scrapes. Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, C-3P0, R2-D2, Lando, and Darth Vader make token appearances, but they can't save the book. It is just simply too shallow.
If you must read it, read quickly.
Suprising light but fun read that's worth the time.......2007-06-23
I've heard some negative comments about "Star Wars Galaxies: the Ruins of Dantooine" but it is actually a really good book. The book successfully recreates the feel of the game by featuring many different worlds and locales, cameo appearances by the core movie characters, and the appearance of only the races you can be when you make your game character (ie, the Mon Cal, Zabrak, etc). The descriptions of the planets' biology and their species adds some novelty to the book and the author draws upon her bioscience background to achieve that. The plot was solid and kept the pace moving quickly. My only criticisms are that the romance seemed somewhat cliche at time, but never contrived, and a casino on Naboo doesn't strike me as something the Naboo would build. The central characters are Dusque, an Imperial biologist that's searching for meaning, her gentle friend the Ithorian Tendau and a rebel named Finn, who surprises the reader and Dusque in the end. Ultimately, the existential themes of the book surface, as Dusque, after a transforming galaxy-hopping adventure, realizes that life is "deciding who and what you are going to be, and being able to live with those decisions" (p. 265).
Shallow novel based on Star Wars Galaxies videogame.......2007-04-25
Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine written by Voronica Whitney-Robinson with Haden Blackman was the first Star Wars novel published based on a videogame. When I hear about an upcoming movie or novel based on a game, I tend to believe that it will likely be a shallow, cash-in type of affair. Unfortunately, with this novel, that is indeed the case. The feel of the book is that of an overlong and not very compelling advertisement for the massively-multiplayer Star Wars Galaxies game, rather than being a quality read that stands on its own.
The storyline concerns Dusque Mistflier, an Imperial bioengineer who falls in with a mysterious apparent Rebel sympathizer named Finn Darktrin. Dusque is uncertain of the morality of her job and fears the Empire is using her research for nefarious ends. The sudden loss of her closest comrade at the tender mercies of Imperial Stormtroopers throws her over the edge and she's suddenly off on the run with Finn trying to round up a missing holocron for the Rebel Alliance. As they adventure together, a plot twist is foreshadowed MANY times to a point where I can't believe a single reader wouldn't see the ending of the novel coming from miles away.
Dusque and Finn are largely generic character-types like you would find in your typical videogame. They are assigned small quests and have random encounters just like a game. They have boss fights and missions just like a game. In short, there's no organic flow to their story: it feels like arbitrary plot points strung together. Adding to this in a negative way is the shoe-horning into the plot of almost every main film character from the classic trilogy. Vader shows up twice, Luke and Leia bop in and out, Han and Chewie are randomly flying escort to Dusque and Finn at one point, C-3PO is assigned to be a pathfinder droid for the duo (!), and Lando shows up just because a scene takes place in a casino. These cameos add nothing. I did enjoy the cameo of Nym, the pirate from the Starfighter videogames; he felt like a more natural addition to this story, even though he didn't really have anything to do.
The key plot point is hard to reconcile. Would the Rebel Alliance really be so foolish as to encode a holocron (typically a device only used by Jedi or Sith in the rest of the EU) with a full contact list of every spy in their network? This defies the whole concept of organization by cell and doesn't seem very likely. To top it off, they lose this fantastically critical asset and it ends up stuck in a fire pit in a cave? I find this difficult to swallow.
One of the interesting aspects of the book is how frequently it delves into biology and zoology. We are treated to a veritable parade of fauna as the story winds along. Whitney-Robinson has worked as a veterinary assistant and as a marine biologist, so it's easy to see where this focus came from. It does lend the book a bit of much-needed character and distracts from the cardboard-cutout main characters.
I take no joy in writing a review this negative but I simply didn't find much to like about Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine. Thankfully, this book didn't stop Del Rey from trying a second book based on a videogame, Karen Traviss' superb Republic Commando: Hard Contact. The difference in readability and insight in the novels is dramatic, and I'm not surprised that Traviss was asked to start producing Republic Commando sequels, as her books don't read like a game at all. I'm sorry to say that I could only recommend The Ruins of Dantooine to someone obsessive enough to have to read every Star Wars novel written like myself.
Started out good..........2007-03-27
Okay, I'm a pretty big Star Wars nerd, I am a player of SWG, and I really liked the beginning of this book. It was funny to hear references to "crafting stations," and the "transport shuttles." And seeing the moons of Lok and Rori mentioned were really nice and I enjoyed reading a book about places that my Jedi character had been. Also the appearances of the creatures that my character had fought was great too.
However the book took a little long to get started. I mean the book is about 280 some pages long and they don't get to Dantooine until around page 200. Also everyone worth their Star Wars salt knows that you don't make a holocron to keep a list. Holocrons can only be made by Jedi Masters or Sith Lords. Now if they had said that there was a computer terminal or something like that that had the list of rebel sympathizers, that would have been more believable.
Also, unless you actually play the game before reading this book, a lot of it won't really make any sense to you.
In closing, it's a good quick read, but let's face it, this could have been a lot better.
A decent Star Wars book.......2007-03-12
It's still a Star Wars book, so I won't give it 1 star. That said, the book doesn't fall in with the other books in the Expanded Universe series. It isn't particularly well written, probably because it is based off a video game.
Book Description
The book covers some of the miracles in my medical practice, including a dead child raised from the dead through prayer. It deals on my conversion and the health challenges that only God could have delivered me from, it covers my bout with bereavement during the death of my father and how my faith in God saw me thru this most difficult time. The book answers the most common question asked by people when sickness or disaster strikes. Where is God ,if there is a God, how could all these horrible problems happen to good people, especially children.
Customer Reviews:
Possibly the worst book ever?.......2007-03-25
First, before I am bashed as a "liberal," a term used liberally in this book, I must say I believe in God and many of the premises in this book. However, it is hard for me to believe a physician wrote this book, much less a graduate of Temple University Medical School. From the opening page, I was amazed at the multitude of spelling errors, gramatical errors, and apparent lack of even rudimentary editing. Even the back cover has blatant gramatical faults.
The text is rambling and the "medical" portions are embarassingingly poor. The charts are copied out of texts with no apparent relevance to the topic, other than to impress with complexity. As a physician I was embarassed for the author.
In the final chapters we get to the "meat" of the matter, a rambling religious pseudo-sermon, which, although likely sincere in spirit, loses any power due to the impression it is written by someone with poor command of the English language. The author's name leads me to believe otherwise, but if English is a second language for her, this might explain alot. If not, she needs much better editing help.
The bottom line, I believe, is that spirituality and prayer can indeed play a large part in medical success, but to rely on it exclusively, with little medical reasoning or understanding of medical systems, may be pretty assuming on the author's part. This book is a personal sermon thinly disguised as a "physician's revelation of miracles she has seen."
I suffered through this text as best I could, but I would not recommend it to anyone....save your money!!!
Book Description
Fifty-two tested recipes using an extract of the herb, Stevia rebaudiana. Stevia is a non-caloric, naturally sweet herb from Paraguay. Contains a full range of dessert and beverage recipes including muffins, quick breads, cakes, cookies, bars, puddings, pies, toppings, sauces and more. The book also contains a glossary, baking tips section, food substitution chart, directions for making stevia extract at home, and a resources section.
Customer Reviews:
baking with stevia.......2007-07-03
am trying to eliminate sugar from diet and recipes still have maple syrup and other sweetners in them. Wasn't what I was hoping for.
What a wonderful discovery!.......2000-01-17
I've been addicted to sugar for years, and never knew what to do about it. Believe me, I had tried everything. I got my hands on this precious book, and tried some of the recipes. They were wonderful. Easy to make (a big plus for me, since I'm a real klutz in the kitchen), tasty. And I didn't get that "sugar buzz" after eating the foods. I'm going to buy the second book as well, Baking With Stevia II.
Major Disappointment.......1999-12-01
As a diabetic looking for sugarless recipes, I found "Baking with Stevia" a grand disappointment. While the recipes do contain Stevia, most also contain maple syrup and/or honey. While these sugars may be viewed as more "wholesome" than processed sugars, the effect on glucose levels is the same . . . a quick-acting simple sugar . . . and undesirable for a diabetic. Info provided about Stevia is particularly skimpy. The book does have some useful cooking facts, tips and substitutions but they are not related to Stevia or its use. All in all, I found this book to be a waste. On the bright side, in the same package I received "The Stevia Cookbook" by Sahelian and Gates. It's WONDERFUL and, unlike "Baking with Stevia," delivers all (and more!) that it promises re: true sugar-less cooking/baking and LOTS of info about Stevia.
It was a very good book to read about Stevia........1999-03-15
It was a good book to read about Stevia. I really enjoyed the recipes. We use Stevia in our home and we like it very much. We use the crushed leaf powder in our oatmeal and our coffes and teas and the we use the white powder in baking things.
Book Description
Sixty tested recipes using the naturally sweet herb, Stevia rebaudiana. Contains recipes using the whole, dried herb; herbal concentrate; and herbal extracts. The book contains a full range of dessert and beverage recipes including, muffins, cakes, cookies, bars, puddings, pies, gelatin desserts, toppings, sauces, frozen desserts, and more. Also a list of stevia products, their descriptions and uses, a glossary, baking tips section, directions for making a stevia extract, food substitutions chart, and a resources section.
Book Description
Today, Nippon porcelain is very popular with collectors. This deluxe hardbound volume features this beautiful porcelain in full color. Hundreds of pieces are illustrated and described, and a value guide is included. A special section on marks helps with identification. 2000 values. AUTHORBIO: Joan Van Patten has written hundreds of trade paper and magazine articles and is a contributor to Schroeder's Antiques Price Guide. She has been on the board of the International Nippon Collectors Club since its inception.As co-founder of the INCC, she also served as its first president and was a director of the club for many years. Joan edited and published the Nippon Notebook and the INCC Newsletter for five years. REVIEW: This book is the first in a bestselling seven-volume series by the author. A detailed history of Nippon, discussion on the manufacture of Nippon, hints on taking care of your Nippon, marking system, designs and techniques used on Nippon items, and Japanese symbols are all included.
Customer Reviews:
Significant Work Simplifies Mine.......2004-12-07
This book is well documented, thorough and the pictures are excellent. In addition, this book discusses the Nippon history, provides an excellent chapter on marks and backstamps with a short commentary on the different mark colors and their meanings.
I particularly liked the glossary, and cross-referenced price guide index which is placed in the back of the book yet neatly references to pages and plate #'s. Because of the extensive patterns in the Nippon history, every pattern is not in the book but I was able to identify particular shapes of pieces which I could check against marks/backstamps and the price guide to get a reasonable value range.
Any collector or dealer will suit their library well by having this book for education and reference to Nippon.
From painted vases and stamps to plates and smoking pieces.......2001-12-08
Joan Van Patten's Nippon Porcelain focuses on Japanese porcelain, from painted vases and stamps to plates and smoking pieces. Gorgeous color photos abound.
If you haven't bought this book, then you better get it soon.......2001-07-29
As part of the 5 series volume, this series contains some updates. From my previous reviews of the collection series, I've mentioned that if you are beginner, a keen buyer/seller, or an experienced collector/trader of Nippon items, then you need to have this book, along with the other series. Like the previous series, this book contains information on Nippon porcelains. It provides actual photos, and price ranges for each items featured. Nippon porcelains have their disctinctive mark, based on the year and place they were manufactured, so this book gives you what to look and watch out for, in order to identify the authencity of the item.
Get this book if you're a Nippon trader/buyer.......2001-07-29
Like the series 2 book, this is part of the 5 series volume. If you are beginner, a keen buyer/seller, or an experienced collector/trader of Nippon items, then you ought to get this book, along with the other series. The book contains a lot of information on Nippon porcelain collections. It provides nice photos, and price ranges on each items featured. It also gives you the marks to look and watch out for, in order to identify the authencity of the item.
You need this book.......2001-07-29
I bought this book as part of the 5 series volume. If you are beginner, a keen buyer/seller, or an experienced collector/trader of Nippon items, then you ought to get this book, along with the other series. The book contains a lot of information on Nippon porcelain collections. It provides nice photos, and price ranges on each items featured. It also gives you the marks to look and watch out for, in order to identify the authencity of the item.
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From the burnt orange of Yosemite's sunsets to the cobalt blues and foam greens of the Pacific, Camps and Cottages invites you to make a fresh, bold statement by combining the warmth and comfort of cottage living with a rustic blend of old and new. Camps and Cottages is a combination of the rustic living style so prevalent prior to World War I and of a more casual style that exploded onto the scene in the 1930s and 1940s, emphasizing excitement, color, and whimsical seaside living. It is cozy, colorful, and truly American. As indicated in Country Home magazine, it has regained momentum and enthusiastic acceptance from those intent on recapturing the art of comfort and a sweeter and far less complicated lifestyle. Whether the location is New England, the Midwest, the Rockies, or the Pacific coast, Camps and Cottages reflects the form and function of the heartland energized with the color and movement of our country's forests and seashores.
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COTTAGE LIVING.......2007-08-24
I was looking for a book with a softer approach and lighter colors. This book would be great for someone who loves dark colors, such as greens, browns, reds and plaids, and wants a more primative old fashioned approach. Also some of the pictures were quite small.
camps and cottages review.......2004-05-13
I loved this book. I can't tell you how many times I've picked it up and looked through all of the wonderful pictures. If you love the camp and/or cottage style, this book is a must for you.
Almost like being there..........2003-06-17
The book's text and photographs made me wish I could be there (in Oregon). I enjoyed reading the author's growth in the book, what led her to write it. I found the step-by-step projects well detailed and the pictures excellent. Thank you.
A Marriage of Shabby/Cottage & Cowboy/Native American Chic.......2002-10-02
I loved this book. For years I have been collecting Cowboy and Native American items and have gotten tired of the basically "masculine" feel of the rooms. This book incorporated many of these same elements in a shabby chic, cottage chic way. It showed me how to marry all these styles into one visually appealing look. I found my style! I just wish that there had been more written substance to the book. It took me all of 45 minutes to digest both the written dialogue and the pictures. However, I did especially find moving the dedication to Popeye, the resident cat. Gotta love an animal lover!
Review of Camps and Cottages.......2001-09-09
Camps and Cottages has some nice photographs of interior home furnishings. What I didn't like about the book are several things. The pictures are repeated throughout the book. For the price of this book I want to see original pictures on each page. The use of small pictures, about 1" square is really difficult for the eye to see. Printing text over textured, colored pages is extremely difficult to read. Descriptions are given of various rooms with no pictures to match, causing the reader confusion. Some photographs are cut off, even though the description includes items not seen. Some of the photographs are out of focus.
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Art Directors Annual 81 (Art Directors Annual)
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The most respected and comprehensive publication of its kind, the Art Directors Annual 81 presents Gold, Silver, Distinctive Merit and Merit winners from 53 countries in the communication arts. This book is a visual feast, coming complete with a DVDrom with all of its New Media and Broadcast winners. It is an essential reference for the media and new media industries.
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Where is the DVD?.......2003-05-21
Since I own last year edition, which came complete with the dvd I was disappointed to see that this didnt have one.
Seeing all of the ads on the dvd and all of the stuff (flash files from the web, etc.) It was really not a good move not to include one with this edition. Especially since it still states that dvd is included on book description page. Someone should change that.
It would be great selection of adds otherwise...
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The Boys: The Cinematic World of Laurel and Hardy
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The Boys provides new ways to view and evaluate the work of this famous comedy team. The initial chapter summarizes the critical reception of the two and compares Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy to other contemporary comedians. Brief biographies analyze their early solo films and the development of the team. Special attention is given to the team's cinematic and comic style, use of camera techniques, early sound practice, and gag development. The comics' complex relationship is detailed and analyzed. A complete filmography, including a rating and an indication of contents, covers each film. The team's final film, Atoll K (1951), is discussed in depth. Throughout the text quotes from such persons as Laurel and Hardy themselves, Buster Keaton, George Stevens, Dick Van Dyke, and Woody Allen enlighten and entertain. Great stills and posters.
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