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These stories are offered together for the first time in English translation. They cover a period of more than 30 years, and were originally published in French periodicals and in Russia. Zola's racy tone is faithfully rendered by Parmee whose translations have been highly acclaimed.
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There's some great movies hiding in this book........2005-02-25
Emile Zola is one of the greatest writers of all time. His novels "Germinal" and "L`Assommoir" easily place in my List of Top 10 Novels. "The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories" is an impressive collection of short stories spanning Zola's career. The thing I found most surprising is how funny Zola could be! All of the novels I've read have been dark and depressing, but the story "Rentafoil" was absolutely hilarious. Another thing that struck me was how some of these stories ("A Flash in the Pan", Coqueville on the Spree" and "Rentafoil") would make great movies.
"The Girl Who Loves Me" 3.5/5 A guy finds "love" at a fairgrounds
"Rentafoil" 5/5 Side splitting story about a business that rents out ugly girls to decent looking girls so they can go out in public together.
"Death by Advertising" 4.5/5 Humorous story about a guy who believes everything he reads in ads.
"Story of a Madman" 3/5 Wife drives husband nuts.
"Big Michu" 3.5/5 Revolt at a boy's school.
"The Attack on the Mill" 5/5 Classic Zola. Just read it. Best story in the collection.
"Captain Burle" 3.5/5 Captain Burle is a lazy ol' sod.
"The Way People Die" 5/5 Just what the title says. Sad.
"Coqueville on the Spree" 5/5 Residents of a remote coastal village put their differences aside when something special washes up on shore. Very funny.
"A Flash in the Pan" 5/5 Could easily be made into a very erotic movie. Hot.
"Dead Men Tell No Tales" 5/5 Who knew Zola wrote horror? Very uncomfortable and disturbing story. I had a hard time reading it.
"Shellfish for Monsieur Chabre" 4/5 Funny story about a twit who doesn't notice what his sexy young wife is doing.
"Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder" 2.5/5 Long slow story about a guy who is thought to be dead, but isn't. Way too long.
"Priest and Sinners" 4/5 Obviously Zola didn't care much for priests.
"Fair Exchange" 2/5 Boring story about a talented but drunk painter who marries an ugly woman. Skip it.
"The Haunted House" 2.5/5 Lame. A guy investigates a haunted house. Very weak. Skip it also.
Great stories from a master storyteller.......2000-09-27
Zola is my favorite author and this is a wonderful selection of his short stories. Recently translated by Douglas Parmee, these stories were originally published between 1864 and 1899, spanning most of Zola's writing career. Arranged chronologically. you can see the author's style develop as you move from one story to the next. A great introduction to Zola's writings! The stories: The Girl Who Loves Me - A great description of a carnival sideshow's effects on a lonely young man. Rentafoil - An amusing satire on society's attempts to package and sell beauty. Story of a Madman - A woman and her lover plot to put her husband in an asylum. Big Michu - Boarding school students organize a hunger strike and a simple peasant's son takes the blame. The Attack on the Mill - The German Army occupies a French village and a young woman is forced to decide between the lives of her father and her lover - a wonderful love story. Captain Burle - A French officer embezzles funds to support his mistresses. The Way People Die - A series of brief tales showing death in different social settings. Coqueville on a Spree - Two feuding families in a small town resolve their differences in a most unusual way. A Flash in the Pan - Love between the classes is thwarted when a peasant girl falls in love with the son of a well-to-do lawyer, but her jealous father gets in the way. Dead Men Tell No Tales - A dead man tells his tale. Shellfish for Monsieur Chabre - A young woman has an affair while her aging husband gobbles shellfish to increase his virility. Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder - An exiled revolutionary given up for dead returns to France searching for his wife and daughter. Priests and Sinners - Like The Way People Die, this is a series of short sketches; this time dealing with the relationship between priests and people who are thought of as sinners. Fair Exchange - An excellent portrayal of the evolving power relationships in the long-term intimate relationship between a husband and wife. The Haunted House - A haunting story about how rumor can color our perception of reality for the worse. Seven pages of Explanatory Notes by the Translator, are very helpful in bringing these tales to the modern English reader.
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Interesting Read ... leaving more questions than answers........2003-05-12
I followed the exploits of Montrovant through numerous decades and three books to see this trilogy through to its conclusion. I am also reading the follow-up trilogy set in the modern nights, called the Trilogy of the Blood Curse - which chronologically precedes the serial set of Clan Novels (13 total).
I am intrigued by the introduction of new characters and the way the quest ends for our protagonist. I do not know if it was something worked out between Gherbod Fleming and David Niall Wilson, but it seems like certain things were purposely left unexplained, as well as certain other things left "open" ....
(I'll let you read the book judge for yourself)
One thing I liked was the way David Niall Wilson presented the relationships between certain key character pairings/groupings. Examples include Montrovant and his childe, LeDuc and an aspirant to the Bitter Ash, called Abraham and his childe of necessity - Fleurette. In a novel populated in majority by emotionless, cold-hearted corpses ... you will come across moments of recognizable "human" sentiment expressed by these blood-drinking predators.
Overall, I felt it was a worthwhile read. The historical setting contributed a lot to the flavour of the prose. The inherent mystery surrounding the Holy Grail and other mystical artifacts provide much for the reader to digest. The brotherhood of knights founded by Kli Kodesh is also an enigma worth further exploration (provided there are authors up to the task). What happens to the Knights of the Bitter Ash? In a world of darkness, it is not always easy to determine who is "good" and who is "evil". There are many shades of gray. If you are interested in the Grail, the Inquisition, the Dark Ages, or a simply well written story - get this book. (I'd recommend you get the previous 2 books in the trilogy as well!)
Nail biting page turner, deliciously concluded!!!.......1998-09-17
D. Wilson - simply one of the best dark fantasy writers of our times! I can't get enough of his trilogies - more please!!! If you want excellent, page turning dark adventure, he's the man!
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This groundbreaking science-fiction collection explores worlds separated from our own by imperceptible veils. In Liquid Earth, reality melts along a rustic Main Street in Shrub Oak, New York. The Lobotomy Club begins in a New Orleans bar, and Sushi Never Sleeps in a New York electronics store. Egg Drop Soup starts with a walk along the tranquil Chesapeake River. All familiar settings at first glance, but a new reality awaits...
You'll visit worlds replete with beautiful women and their surgically altered brains, fractal sex, Noah's Ark, hyperspace physics, hallucinating androids, prophetic ants, exotic sushi, satanic aliens, vitamin B-12, novel plastics, cosmic wormholes, and quests for God and the structure of ultimate reality.
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Philip K. Dick Redivivus.......2005-01-14
If Philip K. Dick were alive today he would be writing the Neoreality series. Pickover continues the task in Egg Drop Soup where parallel worlds make us ask, how can be sure we are living in the same reality we were living in yesterday? Whether you like real science, religious symbolism, or a fun story to keep you awake; this book will surely entertain you. Wonder and surprises await. You will never look at an egg the same way.
Parallel Universes in the Oceans.......2003-09-11
There are parallel universes all around us, just millimeters away -- or so this book would make it seem. From the opening pages, I found the book pulled me in. The egg falls from the sky and is so mysterious that we just have to learn more. I love the interplay between the main characters: the romance, the strangeness... All around them are little roads that lead to new worlds, new shores to explore, and eerie seas to sale on.
Egg, Mystery, Parallel Universes.......2002-09-14
In Egg Drop Soup, an alien object allows people to explore countless realities populated by a host of mysterious beings. I like the Chesapeake setting, the beautiful scenery, the quirky inhabitants. My favorite character in the book is Nautilus, a very scary, deadly, and perhaps even sympathetic girl. Perhaps parallel universes like the parallel-Chesapeake exist. Someday I'd like to visit some of the Chesapeake settings...
Most of the books in Pickover's Neoreality series have a bit of fun strangeness tossed in, and Egg Drop Soup is no exception. For example, I like the cryptic puzzle in the Enochian language that David finds in the library. I've read the four books in the Neoreality set (they can be read in any order) and really liked this one.
Egg, Mystery, Parallel Universes.......2002-09-14
In Egg Drop Soup, an alien object allows people to explore countless realities populated by a host of mysterious beings. I like the Chesapeake setting, the beautiful scenery, the quirky inhabitants. My favorite character in the book is Nautilus, a very scary, deadly, and perhaps even sympathetic girl. Perhaps parallel universes like the parallel-Chesapeake exist. Someday I'd like to visit some of the Chesapeake settings...
Most of the books in Pickover's Neoreality series have a bit of fun strangeness tossed in, and Egg Drop Soup is no exception. For example, I like the cryptic puzzle in the Enochian language that David finds in the library. I've read the four books in the Neoreality set (they can be read in any order) and really liked this one.
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This digital document is an article from Children's Digest, published by Benjamin Franklin Literary & Medical Society, Inc. on January 1, 1995. The length of the article is 497 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Gung ho sun hse!(recipes for egg drop soup, Chinese chicken salad and wikiwiki sherbet for a Chinese New Year meal)
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Children's Digest (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 1995
Publisher: Benjamin Franklin Literary & Medical Society, Inc.
Volume: v45
Issue: n1
Page: p10(3)
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- "New-Age" humor classic
- Tired of Chicken Noodlers?
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Egg Drop Soup for the Mind
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.
Manufacturer: BookSurge Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1591095948
Release Date: 2004-01-02 |
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Buddhist literary style, much like Latin, is a dead language. Written centuries ago, these pearls of Oriental wisdom tax Occidental minds with hard-to-digest ambiguity on the road to enlightenment. The present work is an irreverent personal odyssey from "Huh?" to "A-ha!" - a literary mockumentary of one Westerner's attempt to snub the Zen Buddhist Masters through imitation that led to a kind of paradoxical (but no more than partial) self-indoctrination in the essence of Buddhism.
Designed as a humorously-cerebral alternative to the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" series, "Egg Drop Soup for the Mind" is intended for a complex yet open-minded reader who yearns for a daily intracranial dosage of meditation that cattle-prods the mind and lightens the heart. This book is equally likely to appeal to the spiritually irreverent youngster as to the seasoned spiritual seeker who may have found as much emptiness as meaning in the New Age and Self-Growth literature. The book also serves as a kind of spiritual sales pitch, a springboard of curiosity into Buddhism.
The book is organized into 7 chapters, each reflecting different genres and aspects of Buddhist literature, from koans to haiku. "Egg Drop Soup for the Mind" consists of original work, and is not a translation of any of the Buddhist texts.
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"New-Age" humor classic.......2003-06-25
This is an adorable little book of Zen puzzlers and Buddhist philosophy in the form of fortune-cookie shorts or in one chapter, bathroom stall graffiti of a philosophical rather than scatalogical bent.
If you have friends who like Buddhist philosophy, this would make a great little gift. It's amusing and yet it makes you think.
Tired of Chicken Noodlers?.......2003-05-15
As he shares with us in his introduction, Egg Drop Soup for the Mind represents psychologist author Pavel Somov's personal journey from skeptic of eastern thought to appreciator of eastern form and finally to seeker of eastern wisdom. With a hilarious true deadpan style, Somov runs the gamut between satire and sincere emulation of his eastern targets. When you are tired of aphorisms and the same old chicken noodles, Somov's devious new book Egg Drop Soup for the Mind serves up a surreal feast of humor and challenge.
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- Best book on greens
- Great Greens Glorious Greens
- Amazing & Simple
- Good way to start eating luscious greens
- Love this book!
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Greens Glorious Greens: More than 140 Ways to Prepare All Those Great-Tasting, Super-Healthy, Beautiful Leafy Greens
Johnna Albi
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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ASIN: 0312141084 |
Book Description
The latest word from the nutrition front is that green leafy vegetables may be our most powerful weapon against cancer and other diseases of aging. Plus, most dark leaft greens are high in nutrients such as beta-carotene, anti-oxidants, folic acid, and fiber.In Greens Glorious Greens! Johnna lbi and Catherine Walthers, both gourmet natural foods chefs, unlock the mysteries of buying and preparing these delicious vegetables. IN an easy-to-use A-to-Z format, they cover thirty-give different greens, providing nutritional information and a brief historical profile for each, plus tips on how to shop for freshness, and how to store, wash, and cut the greens for maximum flavor. Albi and Walthers offer more than 140 ways to turn these nutritional superstars into delicious salads, soups, stews, entrees, and sautees. Most dishes are quick and easy, low in fat, and of the scale in terms of nutrients and taste. Many of vegetarian and therefore cholesterol free, come contain chicken, beef or fish. Any home cook will delight in this clear and engaging guide to preparing all the vegetables that are not only good for you, but just plain good.Recipes include:Grilled Polenta with Dandelion Greens, Southern Style Black-Eyed Peas and Collard Greens, Cajun Kale Salad, Broccoli Rabe with Toasted Pecans and Currants, Skewered Chicken Teriyaki over Frisee and Arugula
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Best book on greens.......2007-09-17
This is the best book on greens I've ever found. If you're serious about incorporating a lot of greens into your diet, then do yourself a favor and get this book. Not only does it have several great recipes for each different green, it also has an introduction to each green citing it's particular health benefits. It even lets you know not to eat particular items like beet greens too often. Amazing book.
Great Greens Glorious Greens.......2007-06-14
This is one of my favorite cookbooks. The recipes are great. Every recipe I have tried has come out fabulous!
Amazing & Simple .......2007-03-08
I love this book because it puts everything into context- it breaks down the nutrients of each green, the origin, how to buy it, when to buy it, how to store it and finally how to cook it. Most recipes start simple and then evolve. It's a great book for beginners and experts.
Good way to start eating luscious greens.......2005-08-12
I have been wanting to add greens to our family diet for years but needed help learning about the individual plants and how to cook them. This book is a good primer, teaching the reader about the general character of each of the most commonly available greens, what nutritional aspects they add to the diet, their flavor, texture, and how they combine with other foods to make a better meal. Importantly, the authors provide advice about the best (and worst) ways to cook each green. The recipes are simple and tasty.
There are no pictures of completed recipes, but after trying one, the reader will probably not need pictures, simply because all the recipes end by gently tossing the ingredients. Nothing complicated here. A cookbook worth buying.
Love this book!.......2005-08-09
It has so many recipes to choose from. This book is great. I recommend it to all of my clients.
Book Description
Picking the best of the delicacies from a number of states in India Sanjeev Kapoor once again brings a winner.
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Good.......2007-03-09
This is an good book. The Khana Khazana shows on TV were excellent hence I bought the book.
Book Description
The articles in this volume were presented at A Region of Regions: Cultural Diversity and the Furniture Trade in the Early South -- a symposium co-sponsored by the Chipstone Foundation and the Williamsburg Institute in November 1997.
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English, American and Continental Furniture and Decorative Arts, Asian Works of Art, Rugs and Textiles, Jewelry, Old Master, 19th & 20th Century Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Prints - Leslie Hindman Auctioneers - Chicago, IL - May 18-21, 1997
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Manufacturer: Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000H4MNLI |
Book Description
Youngsters will love coloring boldly outlined images of 8 species of wild cats: lion, puma, bobcat, tiger, wildcat, ocelot, leopard, and cheetah. Printed on translucent paper, the figures come vibrantly to life when hung in a window or near another source of light. Identifications.
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Well known for her gorgeous design and style books, bestselling author Diane Dorrans Saeks now brings her flair for breathtaking interiors to a new series with a practical twist and a great price, the California Design Library. Starting with the kitchen and living room and featuring inspiring color photographs throughout, each edition focuses on one home area, setting the trend for homes around the country and offering ideas, examples, and tips from the professionals on everything from selecting a great sofa to choosing the right countertops. Diane Saeks consulted with designers, decorators, architects, savy homeowners, and, for Kitchens, even some of the country's best chefs, to discover the most exciting, livable, and innovative ideas in design today. Including big ideas for small spaces and advice on how to avoid common pitfalls, the California Design Library makes the comfortable elegance of West Coast style a perfect fit for almost any setting, wherever you live.
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The How-To of Living Rooms.......2000-06-05
This book is the step-by-step authority on creating great living spaces. I took it on a shopping trip today and found it an incredible inspiration and resource.
Book Description
Interactivity has moved from a cool differentiating element to a mandatory and often central aspect of Web design. To deliver the goods for their increasingly demanding clients, more and more designers are turning to Flash as their program of choice.
The latest book in Rockport's popular Web Tricks and Techniques series offers designers an in-depth tutorial on using Flash to create standout interactive Web pages. The only book on Flash to focus exclusively on the critical topic of interactivity, this hands-on guide explores the best techniques for grabbing and keeping users' attention in the highly competitive environment of the Web. From rollovers to cruiser polls to shopping cart technology, each interactive trick is accompanied by detailed step-by-step instructions and illustrations.
Covering a range of Flash-generated techniques from the simple to the complex, this user-friendly guide will help designers of all levels create Web pages that keep users coming back for more.
Daniel Donnelly is the publisher of InYourFace.com, a Web-based multimedia design magazine. He is also the author of In Your Face: The Best of Interactive Interface Design; In Your Face Too: The Best Interactive Interface Design; Cutting Edge Web Design: The Next Generation; Upload: Taking Print to the Web; and the forthcoming WWW Design: Flash. He lives in Chico, California.
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Book is in poor condition.......2005-09-07
I've received the book that took 3 weeks to arrive (when the seller told me 1) and it was it poor condition. At least I've got it. M
It's beautiful but sparse.......2004-03-19
This book is good if you haven't done much in flash. It has a beautiful layout and great (looking) examples, but doesn't do much in the way of in depth flash. Very little action script is applied to animations outside of the game example at the end. The best thing I got out of this book was a reference to www.miniml.com :)
Every heard of....????.......2004-03-05
Ever heard of image numbers (image 1a) or bulleted or numbered lists for step-by-step instructions (that seem to skip a few steps). I read a lot of books and this one is driving me insane because I want to learn what's in here. Great ideas. I've taken one tech writing class and feel this author should do the same.
Hard to follow- but good ideas.......2004-03-05
Once i understand the mistakes here I like what I learn. But it is getting a little bit aggravating. The ideas are good and very applicable to me so I will continue using the whole book to make sure and learn it. But the instructions can lack many details and sometimes seems to skip some steps that matter. I have wondered if the author stopped in the middle somewhere and started again without realizing exactly where we were.
I am using this with MX 2004 which can cause a conflict if you do not know how to go about using expert mode for the actions (which is all that is available with the newest version). That is easy to fix if you can write the simplist of actionscript from what I have seen so far. this came out just under a year ago and the descriptions and pictures I see are from the version before that one.
So this has great ideas but you are going to have to figure some things out for yourself while reading.
The Web site is up and running.......2003-10-29
Of course it's 5 stars, I wrote the book :-)
It took a while longer then normal for the publisher to get the book site up and running, but it's now there and all of the FLAs are available for download.
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- Definitive and enthusiastically recommended biography
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Lucille Lortel: The Queen of Off Broadway
Alexis Greene
Manufacturer: Limelight Editions
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0879103027 |
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Written under the auspices of The Lucille Lortel Foundation, this book is the first biography of the grande dame of avant garde theater. Lucille Lortel became a leader of a burgeoning Off Broadway movement during the 1950s and '60s and one of the few women of her generation to be a significant player in New York City theater.
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Definitive and enthusiastically recommended biography .......2004-09-09
Lucille Lortel was an actress, a producer, a determined negotiator, a patron of the arts, and a women who know just how to cultivate friends win over reviewers, persuade producers, and charm publicists. Lucille was legendary for her ability to work a room and was an acknowledged master at self-promotion, knowing how to develop her name and reputation within and throughout the avant garde theater community. Lucille Lortel: The Queen Of Off Broadway by author, editor, and theater critic Alexis Green is the definitive and enthusiastically recommended biography of a definitive lady that draws upon her immediate family and friends, as well as the playwrights, actors, producers, and directors who engaged in her productions throughout her illustrious and influential theatrical career.
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