The Magician's Study: A Guided Tour Of The Life, Times And Memorabilia Of Robert "the Great" Rouncival

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"The Magician's Study is a sparkling tour de force. Seamon leads us through the odd memorabilia belonging to Robert 'The Great' Rouncival and along the way gives us his marvelously bizarre and convoluted biography. . . . If anything is more astounding than Rouncival's trickery, it's the endless inventiveness of the author."-Eugene Mirabelli

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Superb!.......2004-09-22

Tobias Seamon crafts this work into layers of illusions, and he does so with formidable skill. His knowledge and use of history--the events, people, and places--make it increasingly difficult to maintain the belief that Robert is a fictitious character. Somewhere along the way, Robert becomes human and, then, somewhere else along the way, he becomes truly magical. Seamon is a writer of tremendous depth and perception and he takes us on an odyssey that is magical, mythical, and ultimately human. In the end, he reminds us of the magic that can lie behind the pain, the mishaps, and the failings of human flesh, and his novel has my highest recommendation! Interested readers should also purchase Seamon's poetry!!

Stupendous.......2004-09-18

A strange, terrific read. Reminiscent of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay with its focus on boisterous old New York, dazzling showmanship, and the showman's own personal demons (which often conjure newer, more menacing demons). There's a memorable encounter with Houdini, stage magic that becomes harder and harder to dismiss as mere illusion, a couple of knock-down, drag-out love stories, and so much vivid detail I'd almost have sworn the story wasn't fiction. Robert the Great's apparently tragic tale ends up feeling quietly exhilarating, a kind of lifelong survival story about an angry young man who ultimately turns his whole life into a crazy, thrilling act. Great great great.

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Another fantastic entry in the XXXholic series!.......2005-01-28

If you love XXXholic, #4 won't disappoint! The hilarious bickering continues between Watanuki and Domeki (or as Watanuki-kun refers to him, "Mr. Zero Expression Face"), as Watanuki seeks to show his true feelings to Himawari-chan by exchanging chocolate with her on Valentine's Day and White Day (it's a Japanese thing). Meanwhile, Yuko-san shows Watanuki how "words are bonds that only humans can use." Neat!

Bottom line: if you've enjoyed the first three volumes of XXXholic, you'll love this one too. If you haven't yet read XXXholic...what are you waiting for? It has beautiful art, terrific characters and dialogue, a goth sensibility and philosophic introspection galore. What else is there in life?

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Seven Tales from a Master Story Teller

Mediocre title story and repeat stories

Awesome...

Not Martin's best writing

5 of the best George R.R. Martin Sci-Fi early Sci-Fi stories

Nightflyers
George R. R. Martin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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Seven Tales from a Master Story Teller.......2007-06-23

NIGHTFLYERS is a collection of 7 SF stories written by George R.R. Martin between 1973 and 1981.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Nightflyers"

The Volcryn legend tells of an ancient race whose giant ships travel through interstellar space, bound ever outward to the edges of the galaxy. Seeking the truth of the myth, Karoly has assembled an expedition of linguists, biologists, technitians and telepaths; and chartered a flight in an attempt to intercept the path of the volcryn and make first contact. Soon the telepaths begin to feel fear, sensing danger, that someone is watching them, and the touch of a cold and inhuman mind. Suspicions alight on the reclusive captain, a secretive man who never shows his face to his passengers, speaking with them only through a hologram projection of himself. Iin the confines of a ship in the depths of space, tensions and paranoia rise among nine innocents trapped with a murderer who can be anywhere, and do anything. I really enjoyed the novella/short story. Questioning what is alien and the different meanings of distance, the story plays on fears on many different levels. I also enjoyed the homages to Hitchcock's "Psycho," Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," and Agatha Christie's "And Then there Were None."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"Override"

Matt is a successful prospector on a beautiful colonial world. He works for a mining company, leading his team of deadmen (corpses with synthabrains that he can manipulate via telepathic control) to mine for swirlstones. But when a local magnate buys out the company and vows to drive all the corpse handlers off the planet, Matt learns that there is no loyalty among the living nor the dead.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"Weekend in a War Zone"

Andrew Birch has just paid a large sum of money to spend a weekend at war, receiving from Maneuver Inc. a uniform(ill fitting and cold), a gun (made of plastic, but the bullets it shoots are real enough), and a hellicopter ride out to the war zone. Seated between a coworker hates and a veteran who's been maneuvering on the weekends for the last 10 years, Andie can't help thinking that people die on these trips. Maybe this won't help him get that promotion at work after all, he thinks, and playing tennis or golf is a much safer(not to mention cheaper) endeavor. As Andie joins a group searching for Concoms in the mountains ( killpoints earn a discount for next time), the reader realizes that this isn't a real war at all; the only war between Maneuver Inc and Concom (Consolidated Combat) is the corporate war between profit margins. Their customers keep coming back, paying to go out and shoot at each other, taking the risk that they themselves might die. But then, that's what makes it interesting, right? "A man hasn't lived until he's seen death," claims Maneuver's advertisements. I really enjoyed this story. The stream-of-consciousness narrative brings the reader very close to Andie as he struggles to live out the weekend. While the ending is not entirely surprising, it is nonetheless very effective.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"And Seven Times Never Kill A Man"

What happens when a pacifist culture faces off against a highly militaristic society following a manifest destiny? When on either side pragmaticism has fallen to forces that know no reason. Well, what do you think happens?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"Nor the Many-Colored Fires of a Star Ring"

This is an unusual stroy for GRRM--it has a lighter tone, despite its darkest of settings. A scientific breakthrough has given man the stars. Exploiting anomalies in space man built star-rings that send passing ships---to other galaxies or other times or parallel worlds--well, no one is sure. The strangest of the portals leads to the infinite empty darkness of Nowhere...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"A Song for Lya"

Beautiful and Haunting, this is one of my favorite of Martin's stories. "And here we are as on a darkling plain..." A Song for Lya returns to Mathew Arnold's famous question. It's the story of a love that can have no secrets, of an alien culture that is still in its infancy after fourteen thousand years, and of a young telepath who succumbs to the chilling consequences of its religion. Whether from this collection, or from the "A Song for Lya" compillation, or from Dreamsongs, if you have enjoyed any of GRRM's works, this story is one you should read.

Mediocre title story and repeat stories.......2005-02-21

The title story of this book, Nightflyers, had an interesting setting, some good characterization, and a genuinely suspenseful beginning. Overall it was an enjoyable read.

However, the plot eventually disintegrated into a horror stereotype similar to that of the Event Horizon. The speculations surrounding the mysterious ship's captain ended up being a lot more interesting than the truth. Also, I found the main character to be unsympathetic and arrogant enough to be unlikable. She constantly repeated that she was the "improved model" and that she was capable of thinking "three steps ahead", but demonstrated her abilities in robotic and unpersonible ways. The secondary characters were personified in a much better way, and showed both repulsive and humane characteristics equally, making me sympathise with them as "real" people.

Two of the stories in this collection are also in "A Song for Lya". Override was underdeveloped and similar to Nightflyers in feeling, although not in setting, and was not a story that I would have chosen to reprint. A Song for Lya is an excellent story about aloneness and reaction to religion. Although there were some stereotypes, the last few pages of the story were rich with the reality of human nature.

If you like short sci-fi or psychological horror stories, I recommend this book. I have given it such a high rating because of my love for the writings of George RR Martin, but feel that these stories are inferior to his Song of Ice and Fire novels.

Awesome..........2005-01-10

Yet another great collection of short stories by the Master. The title story is about the crew of the Nightflyer that is in search of an ancient race of people who travel through space. But there is madness on the ship and the crew becomes in danger from the unseen and mysterious captain. This story was made into a rather poor movie, but the short story is fantastic nonetheless. Other stories in this compilation are the twilight zone like "Weekend in a War Zone" where people pay to battle other people with their lives at stake. "Overide" is another story of Martin's Corpse Handlers - dead bodies that are implanted with computer chips to make the dead body do labour for the living handlers. This collection finishes of with the wonderful story A Song for Lya - a Hugo winning tale of sorrow and lost love - truly one of Martins best. A definite buy for someone looking for a great read or to tide yourself over until the next instalment of the Song of Ice and Fire.

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Not Martin's best writing.......2004-01-11

I picked this up after reading the three books completed so far in Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series. I thought I couldn't go wrong with an author who had written those books so well. However, these stories were written many years ago, and I think it shows.

I found several of them kind of, well, cheesy. "Nightflyers" kept refering to who had "sexed" with who, for example. Some of them seemed like stories I would have liked a lot when I was 14, but now I could see plot twists telegraphed from miles away. I did like "Weekend in a War Zone" and "Song for Lya." I could see the endings coming on these also, but the ride was more enjoyable.

5 of the best George R.R. Martin Sci-Fi early Sci-Fi stories.......2003-05-28

Nightflyers: In the title story, nine people set off on the Nightflyer, a space trader owned and operated by Royd Eris, in search of the Volcryn, a mythical race of sentient beings traveling through space for more than eighteen thousand years. As they travel through space to the outer edges, they begin to realize something is wrong. Their captain shows up only as a hologram, and their only telepath begins to sense something wrong. One by one the passengers begin dying, and the survivors discover they are not alone on the ship. Now they must trust the captain they have never met face to face, and as the Volcryn come within range of the Nightflyer, they learn also that the massive, alien, quiet ship is not what was expected either.

Override: Imagine you make a decent living as a corpse handler on a pretty planet named Grotto. To you, working with the corpses is a job, not all that unpleasant, but others on Grotto call you and your kind "Meatminds" and want to do away with corpse labor. And then, you discover someone has an "override box", and they are able to take control of the corpses away from you. Miles away from town, without control of your corpses, will you survive?

Weekend In A War Zone: Welcome to Maneuver, Inc., where you can pay a great deal of money to sign up for some weekend war games. Only unlike a weekend of tennis, you might not come back alive, because these games are real.

And Seven Times Never Kill A Man: On the world of Corlos, the Children of Bakkalon reside within the City of Steel Angels. Outside the city are the forest folk called the Jaenshi, living quiet lives in harmony with planet and gathering around their clan's pyramid. The Steel Angels come out from their city and destroy the pyramids, hunting and killing the Jaenshi, calling them soulless animals. The trader neKrol has come to Corlos in his ship, the Lights of Jolostar, in an effort to save the Jaenshi. Is there room on this planet for more than one race?

Nor The Many-Colored Fires Of A Star Ring: All around the galaxy are the Star Rings, "gates" to different parts of the universe. Kerin and Jenny are at the Nowhere Ring, ready to try Jenny's theory of a self-sustaining ring using no nullspace engines.

A Song For Lya: Robb and Lya are summoned to the planet Shkea, where the
Terran planetary administrator has become concerned with the number of humans joining the Shkeen Cult of the Union. With their psi talents, they travel to the city to learn of the creatures called Greeshka and their role in the cult. It is the only religion of the Shkeen, and one of the Talented will fall victim to this cult of love.

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ANALOG - Science Fiction Science Fact - Volume 100, number 3, 4, 5 - March April May 1980: World in the Clouds; Golden Rule; Industrial Accident; Think Ethic; The Lyran Case; Detour; Nightflyers; Memo from the Big Chief; Grotto of the Dancing Deer
Stanley (editor) (Bob Buckley; Mack Reynolds; Lee Correy; W. T. Quick; Bill Ponzini; Barry N. Malzberg; Rick Gaugel; George R. R. Martin; David A. Roach; Clifford D. Simak; Jack Williamson; Robert L. Forward; George O. Smith; Thomas A. Easton) Schmidt
Manufacturer: Conde Nast Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000IA6E02

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an out of body experience!

A great horror thriller.

A great horror novel about out-of-body experiences

Nightflyer
Christopher Fahy
Manufacturer: Jove Pubns
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0515062170

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"A shamelessly satisfying fantasy. . . The prose is that ideal compromise between plain and vivid that allows the story to unreel through the videocassette player of the imagination to maximum vicarious effect. . . Nightflyer is fresh, hot, buttered popcorn."

—Thomas M. Disch

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an out of body experience!.......2006-06-07

Have you ever wondered what it is like to leave your body?Well,this book is the answer.After discovering how to leave his body astrally,a boy uses the "power" to gain revenge on bullies at school and then his father...The ending is brilliant and I would definitely recommend this book...Nigel

A great horror thriller........2001-07-25

This is my favorite novel from Christopher Fahy. It made me a fan of his and I've been looking for his novels every since. A young boy, who leads a kind of tortured existence at the hands of schoolyard bullies and a cruel father, discovers an amazing talent: He can leave his body. As the boy's life begins to fall apart, he is lured towards the dark side of his new power and the hunger for revenge... This was a great read and Fahy did a fantastic job with it. Do yourself a favor and track it down. A must for horror/thriller fans.

A great horror novel about out-of-body experiences.......2001-01-08

A great horror novel about a boy who can separate his spirit from his body. During his out-of-body experiences, he has some of the powers of a ghost. His spirit can fly and pass through solid objects. He is invisible but he can see and hear.

The characterizations of the boy, Jonathan Petrie, and his father, Doug, are particularly well done. Jonathan is in conflict with his parents, teachers, and the school bullies. First he uses his ability only as a temporary escape, exhilarated by the sensation of flying. Then he uses it in self-defense, and eventually for revenge against those he feels have hurt him.

The story is fast-paced and engrossing with a large cast of characters.

This novel would probably make a great gift for anyone who was a fan of the young-adult horror novels of R.L. Stine or Christopher Pike but has since outgrown them.

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Binary Star #5: Nightflyers; True Names
George R. R.; Vinge, Vernor Martin
Manufacturer: Dell SF
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000KOZHY0

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NIGHTFLYERS.
George R. R. Martin
Manufacturer: St Martins Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTZ55W

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Wonderful Basic Italian Cookbook

Wonderful Book as with her others

Excellent cookbook!

Terriffice Book

A new favorite cookbook

Lidia's Family Table: More Than 200 Fabulous Recipes to Enjoy Every Day-With Wonderful Ideas for Variations and Improvisations
Lidia Matticchio Bastianich
Manufacturer: Knopf
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Release Date: 2004-11-23

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Warm and calmly authoritative, Lidia Bastianich has won the trust of many cooks, who also devour her TV shows and books including Lidia's Italian Table and Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen. Lidia's Family Table also presents homey Italian fare--savory dishes like Cauliflower Soup with Poached Garlic Purée; Potato, Leek, and Bacon Ravioli; Skillet Green Beans with Gorgonzola; and Grilled Tuna Rollatini Under Tomato-Lemon Marinade--over 200 recipes in all. But Family Table is equally about technique; readers will find it crammed with instructive asides like "Using 'Pasta Water' to Make a Quick Sauce" (the water's starchiness can add body to sauces) and "Reduced Wine Vinegar for Vegetables" (heat-concentrated vinegar makes a deliciously mellow seasoning).

But the teaching doesn't stop there. Bastianich's discussions of risotto and polenta are particularly good (when preparing risotto, for example, the liquid must simmer for the dish to become properly toothsome), while a section on quick skillet sauces, like one made with sausage, onions, and fennel, will get many readers to the kitchen pronto. Bastianich also offers advice for preparing lesser-known yet attractive meat cuts like shoulder and butt, as well as quick-take recipes for the likes of whole corn cooked in tomato sauce and eggplant with scrambled eggs. The Bastianich approach also applies to the dessert section, which offers simple fruit-based sweets like Fig Focaccia, and Crostata with Poached Apricots and Pignolala. (Included, too, are a number of simple strudel recipes, a bow to the cooking of Istria, Bastianich's birthplace.) Color photos make succinct technical points as well as showing Lidia's extended family at table and very much in action. --Arthur Boehm

Book Description

The best-loved and most-admired of all America’s television cooks today, Lidia Bastianich, now gives us her most generous, instructive, and creative cookbook. The emphasis here is on cooking for the family, and her book is filled with unusually delicious basic recipes for everyday eating Italian-style, as well as imaginative ideas for variations and improvisations.

Here are more than 200 fabulous new dishes that will appeal both to Lidia’s loyal following, who have come to rely on her wonderfully detailed recipes, and to the more adventurous cook ready to experiment.

• She welcomes us to the table with tasty bites from the sea (including home-cured tuna and mackerel), seasonal salads, and vegetable surprises (Egg-Battered Zucchini Roll-Ups, Sweet Onion Gratinate).

• She reveals the secret of simple make-ahead soup bases, delicious on their own and easy to embellish for a scrumptious soup that can make a meal.

• She opens up the wonderful world of pasta, playing with different shapes, mixing and matching, and creating sauces while the pasta boils; she teaches us to make fresh egg pastas, experimenting with healthful ingredients–whole wheat, chestnut, buckwheat, and barley. And she makes us understand the subtle arts of polenta- and risotto-making as never before.

• She shares her love of vegetables, skillet-cooking some to intensify their flavor, layering some with yesterday’s bread for a lasagna-like gratin, blanketing a scallop of meat with sautéed vegetables, and finishing seasonal greens with the perfect little sauce.

• She introduces us to some lesser-known cuts of meats for main courses (shoulders, butts, and tongue) and underused, delicious fish (skate and monkfish), as well as to her family’s favorite recipes for chicken and a beautiful balsamic-glazed roast turkey.

• And she explores with us the many ways fruits and crusts (pie, strudel, cake, and toasted bread) marry and produce delectable homey desserts to end the meal.

Lidia’s warm presence is felt on every page of this book, explaining the whys and wherefores of what she is doing, and the brilliant photographs take us right into her home, showing her rolling out pasta with her grandchildren, bringing in the summer harvest, and sitting around the food-laden family table. As she makes every meal a celebration, she invites us to do the same, giving us confidence and joy in the act of cooking.

Customer Reviews:

Wonderful Basic Italian Cookbook.......2007-09-01

I really liked the completeness of her recipies, with lots of cooking tips and techniques so the book could be used by a beginning cook or a veteran in the kitchen. For me the directions were a bit wordy to want to use the book a lot, but once the techniques are learned, I feel like I can be creative and use this as a quick reference.

Wonderful Book as with her others.......2007-07-08

I love this book as well as Lidia's other books, not only the receips but the heartfelt stories.Beautiful colorful pictures, easy receipes.

Excellent cookbook!.......2007-05-13

If you love to cook, you'll love this cookbook. The directions are a breeze to follow, with photographs of some of the techniques. The recipes are fab, and there is room to be creative. Being a fan of the PBS series, it's great to see a show, then be able to go to the book and re-create the recipe. Generally, after seeing a cooking show, making the shown meal isn't really in the cards. But, like Delia Smith's series and books, Lidia gives the same quality and access to her art. I highly recommend this book.

Terriffice Book.......2007-05-07

I purchased this book for myself and loved it so much that I ordered another one for my grown son. He loves it as much as I do... Wonderful book, great Recipies. True to her style wich is simply Wonderful!

A new favorite cookbook.......2007-04-08

I've enjoyed Lidia's Public TV cooking program for years, and now have recently read her cookbook. It's a real testament to Italian home cooking being the glue holding a family together. The editors kindly allow Lidia's voice to come through her writing so saliently that I could imagine her telling the stories and sharing the historical information abou the foods as she cooks them. A real winner for those seeking to change up their typical Italian dishes for tastier, more interesting choices.

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Not real Lundy's recipes

More of a history book than a cookbook

A loving culinary memoir of a community institution

GREAT FIND

A great gift for my parents--NYC in the 40's

Lundy's: Reminiscences and Recipes from Brooklyn's Legendary Restaurant
Robert Cornfield
Manufacturer: Morrow Cookbooks
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Binding: Hardcover

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Book Description

For more than five decades, F.W.I.L. Lundy's Restaurant of Sheepshead Bay was an institution of Brooklyn life, as essential to defining the borough as the Bridge and the Dodgers.When the restaurant reopened in late 1995 after a hiatus of 16 years, residents greeted it as if a long-lost family member had come home. For thousands of people, Lundy's was their own personal restaurant, a place where they knew the waiters -- and the waiters knew them -- by name and where dining was always an event, an experience to be treasured.

In its heyday it seated 2,800 and today, with room for a mere 800 patrons, it's still no little restaurant. Then and now, Lundy's served a distinguished American cuisine, with generous portions of fresh seafood -- lobsters, clams, oysters -- perfectly cooked; fluffy biscuits; and well-filled fruit pies. It reminded Brooklyn's immigrant community of the plenty that was possible in America, and allowed industrial tycoons and working-class families to dine together.

Through his provocative essays, illustrated by distinctive historical photographs, Robert Cornfield celebrates the vibrantly revitalized Lundy's while breathing life into the old one. He conjures up images of rooms full of women in hats and fur pieces and men in pinstriped suits, all sipping cocktails while requesting more of those incomparably flaky biscuits. Lundy's diners past and present share their memories of the grand occasion of eating there, and Kathy Gunst's recipes allow cooks to reproduce the nostaligc seafood chowders and bisques, entrees from land and sea, sides such as creamed spinach and buttermilk onion rings, and those fabulous Lundy's desserts: Blueberry pie, cheesecake and rice pudding.

When Lundy's closed, says one patron, it "became the the Brooklyn Dodgers of restaurants, but unlike Ebbets Field and the Dodgers, it did come back."

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Not real Lundy's recipes.......2007-03-10

I am a direct relative of Fedrick Willaim Irving Lundy and I can tell you that none of the recipes in this book are true Lundy recipes. Our family never gave the recipes away. The people who took over Lundy's in the 90's took our name and claim their recipes as Lundy's recipes. I find it sad that so many people don't know this.

More of a history book than a cookbook.......2003-01-02

I bought this book because I was attracted to the many reviews and descriptions extolling the wonderful food and great retelling of the restaurant's illustrious history. The authors have done an excellent job of detailing the restaurant's founder and the institution's beginnings.

However, I was most disappointed that more space was given to the history and not to the recipes. It was also indicated that the recipes are not the originals, but are re-creations of the originals.

In fairness, the recipes are enticing and include some of the most tempting seafood recipes I have come across in one book.

However, to get the most out of this book, I recommend that you should at least have been to Lundy's (or at least be familiar with the Sheepshead Bay area); and have plenty of fresh seafood (lobster, crab, and oysters) at your disposal in order to try the recipes. Without those, this book may be a disappointment, like it was for me.

A loving culinary memoir of a community institution.......2002-05-26

For those of you who have never set foot in Brooklyn's Sheepshead Bay, Lundy's may not be a familiar name. But for the thousands (millions?) who ate at the famed restaurant from its opening at the height of the Depression to the beginning of its 16-year hiatus in 1979, this book will evoke powerful memories.

Lundy's was an immense establishment, seating 2,800 patrons in its heyday, but the enormousness of the space was second to its food. The food was not only excellent, according to nearly every source listed--the portions were in keeping with the grandiose feel of the building itself. Author/historian Robert Cornfield writes, "The oddity is that for all its great size, simple fare, crows, and noise, Lundy's was not a cold, impersonal restaurant, but was replete with community excitement, curiosity, warmth, and the delirious happiness of a splendid holiday."

Lundy's was, for the mostly immigrant population of Brooklyn, New York, the pinnacle of the American experience: plenty, and plenty of it. The recipes are mostly an adjunct to what amounts to a love letter written to the restaurant which fed Brooklyn's appetite for more of nearly everything. This is a wonderful book for anyone who ever enjoyed a meal at Lundy's, and a necessary record of Brooklyn in the mid-20th century.

GREAT FIND.......1998-12-28

As the great-granddaughter of a Sheepshead Bay restauranteur, this book was a great family find. I am ordering more to send to others in the family. My mother remembers all of the terrific dishes that are in the book, especially the "shore dinner." However, I am told the the reference to Billy Shierr"s restaurant is incorrect. My great-grandfather's was named Eddie Sheirr, and that was also the name of his restaurant. Some of you will remember it (or him) being called "Hook" Shierr's. He had a large nose.

A great gift for my parents--NYC in the 40's.......1998-10-26

I enjoyed it but I wish it included an address of the restaurant and phone number so I could send my folks a gift certificate for an evening of nostalgia. Anyone know it?

LUNDY'S: Reminiscences and Recipes from Brooklyn's Legendary Restaurant

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LUNDY'S: Reminiscences and Recipes from Brooklyn's Legendary Restaurant
Robert & Kathy Gunst Cornfield
Manufacturer: Morrow Cookbooks
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OEGAHE

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Arts and Crafts Exhibition.......1999-11-20

This paperback is a reprint edition of an important exhibition catalog that was originally issued in 1987. The exhibition, which was held at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and which bore the same title as this book, was comprised of 225 design-related artifacts (furniture, glass, silver, ceramics, textiles, wallpaper, books and architectural drawings) from the era in design and architectural history known as the American Arts and Crafts movement. The book is important because of the thoroughness with which it documents, interprets, and illustrates the moral, esthetic and social reforms that enabled the Arts and Crafts movement to flourish. Included in the 400-page volume are eight essays by various experts on the subject, who introduce more than 300 photographs (including 55 color plates) in discussing a wide range of topics, among them American Arts and Crafts Architecture, The Art of Work, The Role of the Schools, House and Home, and A More Reasonable Way to Dress. The text and illustrations provide ample evidence of the continuing influence of Arts and Crafts: "In altering attitudes toward the fabrication and use of objects," writes curator Wendy Kaplan, "it changed the fundamental perceptions regarding design, the home, and work." (Copyright by Roy R. Behrens from Ballast Quarterly Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, Autumn 1999.)

A well illustrated reference of American Arts & Crafts........1998-12-07

Wendy Kaplan has succeeded to capture in her book, "The Art that is Life," the broad scope of the movement. It is wonderful to see and read of the various elements that made up this rich period in American craftsmanship. From the aesthetics in architectural styles, to the furnishings within them, this book helps to put into perspective the far--reaching impact the movement had on the American consiousness. This well illustrated volume has been a handy reference to me as a collector of Arts & Crafts items, since its publication in 1987. Fortunately now it is available in paperback form as well.

The Art That Is Life: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920

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A seminal, inspiring and in depth presentation of A*C M

The Art That Is Life: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920
Wendy Kaplan
Manufacturer: Little Brown & Co (T)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0878462783

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A seminal, inspiring and in depth presentation of A*C M.......1997-08-06

Of all the books on the arts and crafts movement in America I regret and am dismayed at the discontinuance of this book. I have read some fifty books and none presents as clear and concise a documentation of the A&C Movement in America as Ms. Kaplans. Those seriously interested in the movement can not achieve a solid understanding without reading this work. Comprehensive, extremely well documented with photographs and research with essays that are remarkable for their breadth and depth. Exceptional book

Art That is Life: The Arts & Crafts Movement In America, 1875-1920

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Art That is Life: The Arts & Crafts Movement In America, 1875-1920
Wendy Kaplan
Manufacturer: LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OKQZDM

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This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1854 edition by John Henry Parker, Oxford.

The Bible in Athanasius of Alexandria (Bible in Ancient Christianity)

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The Bible in Athanasius of Alexandria (Bible in Ancient Christianity)
James D. Ernest
Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0391041762

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A Rare Gem.......2006-02-16

Ok. Don't laugh. This was one of the best books I have ever read. Granted, I read this book during a time in my laugh where I needed to hear some "woman-power" words. Dr. Berry *wowed* me with her insight into womanhood and society issues.

I loved her writing style. She was so funny and equally...so deep and perplexing. AFter reading this book I felt like I wish I could sit down and have a long chat with Dr. Berry.

She talks about Alice Walker in the book and quotes her as saying "sometimes even greif becomes absurb and that's when laughter gushes up to retreive the sanity". Wow.

I loved her insights on being beautiful. She says that she made herself the measure of beauty and suddenly everyone around her paled in comparison...Woman Power!

I loved this book and I have recommended it to everyone I know. It was recommended to me by a WHITE MAN! Nevertheless...it is a must read.

inspirational.......2001-03-03

This is the best book I've read this year. Dr. Berry gave a real insight to the 'black experience' . I had the pleasure of hearing her speak at a conference a couple of days ago and she is one of the most marvelous people that I have heard. Her words go far beyond that of John Grisham, or Stephen King. She is truly an inspirational person. I can't wait to read her other books

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