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A secret agent is sent to spy inside a city built on a Sioux Indian reservation in South Dakota. There he meets and falls in love with the daughter of the man who owns the city. She is abducted by other agents and he must find her in the wilderness of the Black Hills. He learns many things about the collapse of old paradigms and the rising of new paradigms for government and economics.
Customer Reviews:
To read and reread.......2005-03-28
First time through its a great read. Being a writer, I enjoy a good story. But, take a second deeper look(and on) and you will find that Atlantis is an interesting answer to the cause of today's problems with a hopeful and interesting solutions. Believable concepts that make you think and rethink.
Ideas about doing without government.......2004-10-21
If you are interested in ideas about how society could operate without government -- taxes, laws, and regulations -- this book is for you. In particular, the concept on how to deal with intellectual property is by itself worth the price of the book.
I found the exact scenario depicted in the story somewhat unlikely, but that is not the point.
And if you didn't like "Atlas Shrugged", don't bother, you won't like this one either.
Stop the madness!.......2004-05-02
A new, freedom-minded city in the Western US called Atlantis, to which the innovators and entrepreneurs flee... a speech on innovation, wealth, rationality, and politics... a villain called Wesley Couch...
*groan*
This book was in a "free" pile at the library and I don't wonder why. I didn't read it, but I flipped through it for the howlers.
New paradigms.......2000-09-05
Mr. Klassen explores a new world created with the idea that all creators of ideas have ownership. Comparing an old world with a new world we see how this new view could replace old systems. A clearly written and exciting novel challenging us to reexamime our own ideas. Integrity is the glue of this vision of a new society and how it relates to the individual. I would recommend this novel to any person that is searching for new solutions to old problems.
Truly Progressive.......2000-08-31
What would a revolutionary social vision be, who could create it, and where? Inspired by the works of Ayn Rand and Andrew Galambos, among others, Robert Klassen paints an interesting scenario. When ancient wisdom discovers science, a proprietary interest and the right piece of land, social paradigms can shift. For those familiar with Galambos and Rand, Klassen's interpretation is delightfully understated. Thinking of others, I'd pay 5 stars for fuller treatment.
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- dragonsong
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- An all time favorite
- Great if you like Sci Fiction
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Dragonsong (Harper Hall Trilogy)
Anne McCaffrey
Manufacturer: Aladdin
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Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern Trilogy)
ASIN: 141692499X |
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Science FictionLarge Print EditionMenolly loved music and wanted to be a Harper, though her father would not allow it. It was a disgrace for a woman even to think of such a thing. Finally, he forbad Menolly to even sing for fear her ambition would become known. Menolly had no choice but to run away. On her journey she meets a group of fire lizards who bring new adventure, challenge and direction to her life.
Customer Reviews:
dragonsong.......2007-10-02
Read all 3 books when published separately. Enjoyable reading for fals of the Pern stories.
Stayed up WAY too late to finish it........2007-09-06
I reread the Dragons of Pern series a few months ago, but didn't pick this one up until yesterday. Once I started reading, I could not put it down. It is easy to feel sorry for Mellony and her life. Having read the Dragons of Pern books, I knew how it turns out, but it still leaves you wondering HOW she will become a Harper.
Many people have said they found this book confusing and that it leaves you hanging. It leaves you hanging because it is the first book in a trilogy. As for confusing, if you haven't read the main Dragons of Pern books, yes, it will be confusing. This book is not a stand-alone, but is intended to go along with what you already know. (Several main characters from the other books make appearances and one major event is relived from a different point of view.)
If you haven't read most of the other Pern books, read them first. Then get this one. You won't be sorry.
An all time favorite.......2007-08-22
This book could very well be the first SF/fantasy I ever read. It was my introduction to Pern and sent me hunting for the other books. I highly recommend this book.
Great if you like Sci Fiction.......2007-05-13
The Pern series of books from Anne McCaffery are great. Better if you read them in order, (look online at her website for recommendations). This is futuristic science fiction, but if you liked Aregon, you would probably like this series too
Dragonsong.......2007-05-08
This book was bought for my husband because it is a book series that he really enjoys. He had lost his copy so I bought him a new book. He read it right away. Finished it in 2 days.
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3 favorite Pern books........2007-04-26
These 3 Pern books, other than the trilogy of Dragonquest, Dragonflight, and The White Dragon, plus The MasterHarper of Pern are my favorite Pern books. I wish there were more Pern books about the regular people and the Harper Hall itself. I absolutely love the dragons and dragonriders, but I also love the Harpers and the Craftspeople.
If you're looking for Pern books to get a teenager, or anyone, and are confused; I recommend the Dragonriders of Pern trilogy(Dragonquest, Dragonflight, and The White Dragon), along with the Harper Hall trilogy.
Three Harper Hall trilogy books in one volume - not a new book.......2007-01-28
This book contains Dragonsong, Dragonsinger and Dragondrums. I liked the Harper Hall trilogy. These three books stand alone and take place concurrently with Dragonflight, Dragonquest, and The White Dragon. It is written as a young adult series but is definitely readable by adults as light reading. If you like McCaffrey's Pern series, these are recommended for you.
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Enchanting classic of fantasy by the author of Dragonflight and Dragonquest.
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Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03
First off, fire lizards are cool. Smart, flying lizards are cool in general. They would also help with feral cat problems, I reckon.
This is the story of an outcast young musician girl, who loses her sponsor, ends up wandering, meets some fire lizards, does some good work and ends up living at a much groovier weyr.
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Dragonsong
Anne McCaffrey
Manufacturer: Bantam
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000GRMLAE |
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- An enthusiastically recommended & memorable picturebook
- A truly beautiful picturebook story.
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Dragonsong: A Fable for the New Millennium
Russell Young
Manufacturer: Shen's Books
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ASIN: 1885008120 |
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Dragonsong? No human alive today, nor any human in living memory, has heard dragonsong. But legend has it that it is an awesome, spell-binding sound, a song to haunt your heart forever! Chiang-An, the youngest dragon at only 224 years old, vies for the honor of being named Keeper of the Mountain, an honor bestowed by the four Imperial Dragons of China only once every thousand years. Challenged to prove themselves worthy, the dragon community must discover the perfect gift. What gifts, wonders Chiang-An, could he possibly find which would elevate him above th older dragons? Which part of China could he search where the older and more powerful dragons wouldn't get there first? Chiang-An decides he must journey where he has never gone before to search for his treasures, far from his village and far outsiide China. As he travels, each dragon he meets, from England, Africa, Mexico, and North America, shares with him wonderful dragon wisdoms and contributes unique gifts! to Chiang-An's search. When he returns to China on New Year's Eve of the Year of the Dragon, Chiang-An carries the gift which "will be able to last a thousand years."
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An enthusiastically recommended & memorable picturebook.......2001-03-12
Once every thousand years the four Imperial dragons choose one dragon to be "Keeper of the Mountain". Now, little Chiang-An, being the youngest dragon, must find a gift that will last a thousand years to win the honor of the title. Ching-An searches around the world for the prize, coming into contact with dragons from the West. Each shares his wisdom and gives Chiang-An a meaningful gift. When he finally heads home, he transforms all he has discovered into the gift that will provide prosperity for his beloved village. Dragonsong unfolds a fascinating, original, enthusiastically recommended and memorable picturebook story that is superbly illustrated in full color by Taiwanese artist Civi Cheng.
A truly beautiful picturebook story........2000-05-09
Russell Young's Dragonsong requires good reading skills but provides an involving story of a young dragon who must find a gift that will last a thousand years. A search for the prize leads to prosperity for the entire village.
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DRAGONSONG
McCAFFREY ANNE.
Manufacturer: ATHENEUM
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Dragonsong
Anne McCaffrey
Manufacturer: Corgi
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Dragonsong
Anne McCaffrey
Manufacturer: Bantam Books
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- Good on its own, inconsistent with the rest...
- An epic, two-fisted adventure!
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Timecop: Viper's Spawn: (#1)
Dan Parkinson
Manufacturer: Del Rey
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Timecop: The Scavenger (Timecop)
ASIN: 0345421957
Release Date: 1998-08-29 |
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There are rumors that the Nazis have successfully unlocked the secrets of time travel. Now TEC agent Jack Logan must discover the terrifying truth . . .
It's 2007, and the Time Enforcement Commission's every move is being scrutinized by someone in another timefield, someone who's playing hell with the future by planting time bombs in the past. Finding the malevolent enemy is a job for TEC's top cop--Jack Logan.
Logan mounts a quest in which he combats killers, thieves, pirates, slavers, and zealots in a variety of exotic and deadly places, from Nazi torture chambers to Spanish galleons loaded with Inca gold. Until finally he breaks into the Viper's Nest itself and confronts the kingpin of evil: a despot determined that Logan and his partner will never again see the light of day--in any year.
Customer Reviews:
Good on its own, inconsistent with the rest..........2003-07-11
Viper's Spawn is a fair kickoff to the Timecop novel series (outside of Perry's film novelization), but fans of the show should keep in mind a few things.
1. The novel is not consistent with the series. Characters wear blast suits to travel in time (as seen on the cover of "The Scavenger"), for instance. Also, somehow, this story features the "first" introduction of Logan and Claire, but it takes place on Dec. 31, 2007, *after* the TV series where they were paired takes place. Continuity's something that can be fudged by saying "oh, things changed somehow," but still, stuff like that would be a no-brainer for consistency, wouldn't it?
2. As such, Claire has virtually no role in the story. The historian side more closely resembles the original pilot for the show (aired 5th, called "Rocket Science"), with Amy Fuller and Bob O'Donnelly paired with Easter, rather than Claire.
3. The novel's timing also isn't consistent with Parkinson's own immediate follow-up, "The Scavenger," as that novel references events in this one, but is dated, again, earlier in 2007 than the ending of Viper's Spawn, which is on 12-31-07.
If you can get past those glaring inconsistencies, it's a fun read.
An epic, two-fisted adventure!.......1999-05-25
A major improvement on the first book in the series, Dan Parkinson brings us a grand tale of time travelling Nazis versus the heroic TEC. Loads of fun, this tale reads like a pulp adventure in the classic style, with plenty of time-jumping and event manipulation thrown in. Parkinson explains some of the stuff he threw in to the first book, which allows this tale to make a lot more sense. The pace of the book is frenetic from beginning to end, with some genuinely nail-biting moments. If you liked the series, or are just after some thrilling entertainment, pick this book up.
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Ann Byrn is on to something. Her first book, The Cake Mix Doctor, showed readers how to tweak store-bought cake mixes to produce "like-homemade" treats. The sequel, Chocolate from the Cake Mix Doctor repeats Byrn's foolproof approach, focusing solely on chocolate. The strategy? Begin with commercial mixes like chocolate cake, devil's food, and chocolate brownie; alter them with ingredients that add flavor, such as cocoa powder, or richness and moistness, like sour cream; use homemade frostings (supermarket versions won't cut it); and you're in business. "My mission," says Byrn, "is to help busy cooks find the time to bake even when company is not coming." If her sweets lack true homemade quality, they nonetheless produce entirely creditable desserts most bakers, and those they feed, will applaud.
Beginning with a blueprint for mix-doctoring success, which includes information on pantry essentials and a useful chocolate primer, the book then presents over 150 easy recipes for a full range of chocolate layer, pound, sheet, angel food, and chiffon cakes, as well as muffins, cookies, brownies, and more. Among these, readers will surely want to try Triple Decker Raspberry Chocolate Cake, White Chocolate Peach Cake, Frozen Chocolate Neapolitan Cake, and Jessica's Caramel Chocolate Brownies. Besides more basic finishes, the frosting chapter offers recipes for the likes of Crushed Peppermint Buttercream Frosting. An introductory section presents color photos of all the cakes; Byrn also supplies interesting technical information, lore (Nuggets of Chocolate History, for one), and a chocolate cake glossary all bakers can use. --Arthur Boehm
Book Description
The Cake Mix Doctor goes chocolate! Anne Byrn brings her proven prescription for doctoring cake mix to an ingredient that inspires love bordering on obsession.
It's a marriage made in baker's heaven-150 all-new, all-easy recipes for cakes, starring the ingredient that surpasses all other flavors, including vanilla, by a 3-to-1 margin, and that Americans consume to the tune of 2.8 billion pounds a year. Starting with versatile supermarket cake mixes and adding just the right extras-including melted semisweet chocolate bars, chocolate chips, or cocoa powder, plus fresh eggs or a bit of buttermilk, dried coconut, mashed bananas, or instant coffee powder-a baker at any level of experience can turn out dark, rich, moist, delicious chocolate layer cakes, time and again. Not to mention sheet cakes, pound cakes, cupcakes and muffins, cheesecakes, cookies, brownies, and bars. Rounding out the book are 38 all-new homemade frostings and fillings, and a full-color insert showing every cake in the book.
Customer Reviews:
Yummy!.......2007-05-12
Just found this book and I am very impressed! I've made two cakes and they were both hits! The pumpkin w/choc chips and moist chocolate cake. In addition, there are basic bundt cakes frosting recipes that are easy and delicious! If you like chocolate, you'll love this book! Some great and easy recipes!
Both for beginners and advanced bakers!
Yum!.......2007-05-02
This is a great book for people who don't want to bake cakes from scratch, but want something better than store bought or straight from the box. This book is focused on chocolate cakes, though there is also another book from the same author focused on all types of cakes.
A Chocolate Lover's Must Have!.......2007-01-14
Just a easy as the original Cake Doctor, but think CHOCOLATE! Easy to follow recipes that promise your cakes will be a favorite at parties and pot-lucks. By the way, don't let anyone know just how easy your baker's treats are, that's between you and the cake mix!
Great cookbook~Good variety~Lots of recipes.......2007-01-14
Perfect book for busy moms and grandmas who bake a lot. This is a great book if you have to do a lot of potlucks, school treats, etc. I like her other cake mix dr cookbook even better but her dinner dr book is awful.
Recipes are really good and so easy. Ingredients are easy to find and keep on hand.
Love all of her tips.
Good purchase.
Great & Easy dessert ideas.......2007-01-10
Easy & tasty ways to make desserts starting with a simple cake mix! You'll want to try them all!
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Set of 3 Books By Anne Byrn - Cupcakes! From the Cake Mix Doctor, Chocolate From the Cake Mix Doctor, The Dinner Doctor.
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An illustrated step-by-step guide to roast turkey, goose, Cornish hens, ham, prime rib, and leg of lamb
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There's no trick to producing succulent roasts if you know the basics. How to Cook Holiday Roasts & Birds provides those and more in a succinct tutorial. In fewer than 100 pages it offers illustrated, step-by-step instructions for roasting turkey, goose, Cornish hens, hams, prime ribs, and leg of lamb--recipes, tips, and information that all cooks can use.
The roasting cook's goal is to maximize flavor, texture, and moisture, and the book begins with a detailed discussion of how this is best accomplished. It explores temperature issues (proper temperature depends on the nature of the roast) and provides useful equipment council. Exemplary instruction on roasting the birds and meat mentioned above follows, plus recipes for the likes of Bread Stuffing with Sausage, Pecans, and Dried Apricots, as well as formulas for a range of gravies and glazes. Throughout, underlying techniques are explored and illustrated (goose preparation is one of several excellently depicted procedures), and sensible tips abound (cook dressings separately and you optimize the possibility of a perfectly done bird).
A true primer, the book is part of the Cook's Illustrated Library series. Like the magazine, the books are dedicated to presenting tried-and-perfected recipes and cooking techniques in a concise, approachable way. --Arthur Boehm
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Long regarded as the bible for knife collectors, this new, expanded edition provides everything one needs to know to successfully collect knives. Knife collecting is a rapidly growing international activity where “finds” are still plentiful. The author is regarded by many as the leading full-time writer on knives and cutlery. He has refined and corrected information - as appropriate - on brands, models and overall cutlery history - while providing fully updated prices.
Organization of the book is clear and logical, making the subject accessible to novice and advanced collectors. There is detailed coverage of the important aspects of knife collecting, followed by major sections on popular collectible folding knives and fixed blade knives. Each section goes into great detail about companies, brands and models. A comprehensive appendix provides useful reference.
-More than 1,500 knife values, fully updated.
-New edition, expanded with 32 new pages.
-Added chapters on modern folding knives and plier/tool knives.
Customer Reviews:
The Real Facts on This Guide.......2006-05-25
Krause asked me to update specific articles in Levine's Guide #5 by employing the SAME WRITERS Bernard used. Krause removed some material from some of the other articles. They also added 16 or so pages to the book, and told me what they wanted. Again, I used some of Bernard's writers, and a couple noted collectors suggested by some manufacturers. If Bernard's writers are so bad, why did HE employ them? Bernard later bad-mouthed me in Knife World regarding this book. I contacted Mr. Houston Price, the publisher and friend of mine, noting this wasn't a very smart move (lawsuits?), and Price sent me a later copy of Knife World with a written retraction by Bernard. To this day, Bernard will not speak to me even though we see one another maybe 10 times a year, almost face-to-face. But, that's his right. Most who have savaged Book 5 have a right to do so. I do feel they should know what they are speaking about first. Bud
Hack Job.......2005-06-17
Publishing has sunk to a new low with this edition. Levine had nothing to do with it, and the publisher hired some dealer to give prices made from thin air. Save your money and buy the 4th edition again. The 4th edition remains the standard in the hobby.
Don't waste your hard-earned dollar on this book........2002-05-28
I'm not a publisher, but I bet I could compile a better book than this. I feel like I've wasted my money. The book is incomplete, hard to index and the pictures are shoddy. What more needs to be said?
Wheres the Beef?.......2002-05-07
Maybe calling this the "stripped down for racing version" would have been more appropriate. It certainly isn't the family station wagon, full of Knife Information, that it was before Krause slashed all the pertinent data out of it. The 5th Edition is a classic case of creating a new version just for the sake of sales. That may not have been so bad, except they removed much important data which knife collectors use to identify and collect knives. Then, to make it appear they had changed it, they added superflous "bloatware," in an effort to make it look different. If Levine's 4th Edition didn't exist, it would be better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, but you can still get the 4th Edition so that option can be avoided. One of the major facinations of old knives is their level of handmade quality. The historical record tells us that newer is not always better.
A big disappointment.......2002-04-16
First of all, Bernard Levine WAS NOT involved with this book even though it contains his name. Krause publication owns the rights to Levine and due to problems between the author and publisher Levine has publically stated that he does not support this book--thus, the unassuming buyer believes Levine wrote this book. This is simply not true. This is a huge warning sign. No one can write a book on Knives and their values like Levine. This book was edited by Bud Lang, the former editor of Knives Illustrated and though I highly respect Bud and miss him at the helm of KI, this wasn't his baby and it shows.
In my opinion there is not enough new material here to warrant a new book. Yeah, there are a few new pictures and an interesting article on William Scagel but there are some very confusing values in the book and according to Levine they were inflated and do not reflect the current market value of many collectable knives.
Levine wrote a very interesting editorial regarding "his" book that was published in Knife World last summer. ...
You be the judge.
Since Bernard Levine does not endorse this book I would buy the 4th edition from Amazon.com instead if you can.
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NO. 1295 -- Craft Book
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Don't do a thing to your house until you read this........1998-05-12
Understanding the ways changing and "improving" our homes affects the comfort and performance of the whole house is a science that has advanced tremendously in the last ten years. This is the first book for the homeowner/do-it-your-selfer that makes all that building science accessible and practical. You'll save the price of the book the first month in reduced energy bills, and thank yourself every month for the added comfort and the peace of mind. You will also want to keep it for reference and to loan to your friends and relatives.
A must read for a first time remodeler, or homeowner.......1998-03-08
I spent months digging up a portion of the information contained in this book. If you're planning on remodeling, adding on, buying your first house, or if your house is uncomfortable in any way, or your utility bills are too high, then you need to read this book.
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Esther Dudley
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- Miss Her When She's Gone
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- About Time Soph Got a Good Bio
- A Fascinating look at the original 'Red Hot Mama'
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Sophie Tucker: First Lady of Show Business
Armond Fields
Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
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Sophie Tucker appeared in only seven American stage musicals and appeared only twice on Broadway but, then, it was difficult to cast her in a show. A buxom and ebullient performer, she—and her audiences—quickly found that playing herself was most effective.
This is a biography of a vaudeville and cabaret performer who saw herself as one of the first liberated women and one of the last "red hot mamas." It tells the story of her birth as her mother traveled to Boston from Russia, her childhood in Boston, and her first public performance at Poli's Vaudeville Theatre at the age of 13. It also tells the story of her troubled marriage to Louis Tuck and the birth of their son, her meeting with Willie Howard, a vaudeville veteran who encouraged her to go to New York and pursue a stage career, her discovery by Flo Ziegfeld (of the Ziegfeld Follies), and her rise to headliner status under the guidance of her agent William Morris. She was best known for appearing on stage with just a piano player, and openly discussing her life and Jewish upbringing.
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Miss Her When She's Gone.......2005-07-03
Fields, the author, takes us into some rarefies show bix realms in his lavishly illustrated volume. I appreciate his industry in compiling this record, but he seems totally uncritical of Tucker, and paradoxically this makes me distrust his judgment. Was she always perfect, always on? The interesting part comes towards the end of the book when she sinks her money into an ill-fated 1963 Broadway musical version of her life (with music by talk show host and prolific composer Steve Allen), starring someone else as herself, and when the show flops, Fields reports, she is devastated, apparently seeing this as a rejection of herself by the show business she had served with such devotion for so many years.
Fields has otherwise dug up a lot of rare material. Among the most enjoyable items was reading the lyric of Irving Berlin's 1950s salute to her called "Song For Sophie." I don't believe I have ever heard this song and i wonder if it is recorded anywhere. The lyric is one of Berlin's best and captures his bewildered fascination with the show business behemoth who, like himself, was never afraid to show off his Jewish heritage and to building considerable comedy out of the contrast between their humble roots and their exalted present circumstances.
Tucker's movies are good ones, but I've only seen a few, and maybe others have her in larger parts, though I imagine she was hard to cast in the glamorous MGM of the 1930s. Wish someone would release tthe British 1934 vaudeville backstager they had the foresight to call GAY LOVE--that sounds like a pip. Until then, we can catch some of her act on DVD and in the US films THOROUGHBREDS DON'T CRY and BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938.
The Last of the Red Hot Biographies.......2004-01-10
I learned a great deal in this easy-to-read, well-written biography, and not just about sophie Tucker but about the world of entertainment during much of the twentieth century.
Armond Fields' book is a must read for lovers of Sophie, theatre, vaudeville, cabaret, or just plain histiory.
This book is not the success that Sophie Tucker was........2003-09-01
I looked forward to reading Armand Fields' book about Sophie Tucker. This is only the fourth book about the late "Queen of Show Business". There is indeed much new material not included in the other books and that makes this one worthwhile. However, this book is filled with errors. One photograph of Sophie Tucker and her grown son Bert is captioned as Sophie and her husband Frank Westphal. Also an ad from the Florentine Gardens circa 1947 is captioned as from the 1930s despite her 40s coiffure and shoulder pads.
Mr. Fields seems not to have bothered to watch her films. He calls her role in "Broadway Melody of 1938" a cameo. A role with three songs and five wardrobe changes is hardly a cameo. Sophie does sing two songs in "Sensations of 1945" but not the titles listed by Mr. Fields. He also claims that her scene was cut out of "The Joker Is Wild". She appears in every print of this film that I have ever seen.
Shelton Brooks, writer of Sophie Tucker's anthem "Some Of These Days" has his name spelled as "Sheldon" Brooks. Also, songwriter Jack Yellen's name appears as "Yellin" despite the reproduction in the book of a piece of sheet music with the correct spelling.
The author also states that Tucker recorded every song on which her picture appears on the cover. If only that were true! There are many such errors in this biography.
To pay (money) for a paperback, you really should have an accurate book as well as more pictures for your money. Sophie Tucker still has not had the treatment she desereves.
About Time Soph Got a Good Bio.......2003-08-21
One of the most colorful and important performers of her time--and "her time" stretched from 1906 to 1966! Fields is a seasoned biographer and has done his homework; this is a thoroughly balanced and well-researched book, a must for students of theater and fans of Soph.
A Fascinating look at the original 'Red Hot Mama'.......2003-08-07
Armond Fields has produced another in his series of fascinating portraits of show business icons from an almost forgotten era. Sophie Tucker is a rich subject, indeed and Armond depicts her humor and gumption with great authority. This guy is both a wonderful historian and cultural detective, finding out the truth about leading figures in the formative years of the American entertainment business. I particularly like how he gets beneath the myth-making that Sophie Tucker spun, to discover the full-bodied, hot-blooded human being beneath the blarney.
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