Book Description
Carmen Boullosa is one of Latin America's most original voices, and in Cleopatra Dismounts she has written a remarkable reconstruction of the life of the Egyptian queen, who famously died in Marc Antony's arms. But is this really the true Cleopatra?
Through the intervention of Cleopatra's scribe and informer Diomedes, Boullosa creates two previous Cleopatras, and in effect two deliriously wild other lives for the young monarch-a girl escaping the intrigues of royal society, and the young queen who is carried across the sea on the back of a magical bull, to live among the Amazons and become part of their society.
Magical, multifaceted, and rippling with luminous imagination, Cleopatra Dismounts is a work that recalls Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry and confirms Carmen Boullosa as an important international voice.
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- A Creative Look at an Alternate Reality
- Ten stars: you can't handle the pun.
- Light & Entertaining
- A Lost Friend Found
- Not one of his better books
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The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump
Harry Turtledove
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Customer Reviews:
A Creative Look at an Alternate Reality.......2007-05-27
Harry Turtledove does a good job of looking at things in a new way. He has certainly done that in this book which features the bureaucracy of the EPA fighting those who would poison the world for profit and, possibly, start World War III.
There are differences, however, between this and your run of the mill thriller. In this case EPA stands for Environmental Perfection Agengy and they are not the result of some green fantasy. They look out for the environment by tracking hazardous pollution coming from magic. In fact, the entire society replaces mechanistic techology for magical technology. From this interesting premise an interesting and fun story come forth.
Just because a society works on magic does not mean that bureacracies and red tape are any more palatable. Thy are just more fun. This is a fun book, well worth the time to read it.
Ten stars: you can't handle the pun........2006-03-25
I loved this stupid book. PLEASE write a sequel Harry T!
Light & Entertaining.......2006-01-13
This is not a deep intelectual story. This is a great light read. A pretty straightforward plot mixed with some radical ideas kept me entertained throughout the story. At no point did the story bog down. The only problem I see with this book is horrid proof-reading before it went to print. Some of the typos are bad enough to be a distraction from the story. I still suggest that anybody interested in fantasy should pick it up and read it.
A Lost Friend Found.......2005-07-19
"The Case of The Toxic Spell Dump" has been in my list of "re-readers" since it was first published. When I went to find it, I discovered that the ogres that live in my library must have eaten it, or it was seriously misplaced. Even though it was first published a few years ago, I was lucky that Amazon still carried it. As with the first time I bought it, it is a most satisfying read. The subject matter is just as applicable today as it first was. Harry Turtledove is a marvelous story teller and his twists on language and the puns in the book bring smiles and lighten up what could be a very dark, somewhat exotic story. If you have never read this gem, I highly recommend you do.
Not one of his better books.......2003-08-17
I'm a really big fan of Turtledove's alternate history series. In comparison I found this book to be disappointing. Granted, it's a completely different kind of book. It's a humorous first person story dealing with magic, whereas his alternate history series of World War II and the Civil War are serious and in the third person format with a large cast of characters. But if you're interested in humorous fantasy, I think the Xanth series by Piers Anthony or the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett is a better place to start.
Book Description
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction is a new collection that features 25 hard sci-fi stories that really push the boundaries, from names like Charles Stross, Robert Reed, Peter Hamilton, and Neal Asher. Highlights feature a perpetual war fought within a cosmic string; a machine that detects alternate worlds and creates a choice of Christs; murder in virtual reality; and a spaceship so large that there’s an entire planetary system within it.
Customer Reviews:
Not Free SF Reader.......2007-08-01
Ashley has done very well here, putting together an excellent collection of stories (3.95 average), even including one he has resurrected from 1909. Nice work indeed on his extreme them.
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : Extreme Science Fiction - Mike Ashley
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : Anomalies - Gregory Benford
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : ...And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon - Paul Di Filippo
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : Crucifixion Variations - Lawrence Person
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : The Pacific Mystery - Stephen Baxter
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : Flowers from Alice - Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : Merlin's Gun - Alastair Reynolds
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : Death in the Promised Land - Pat Cadigan
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : The Long Chase - Geoffrey A. Landis
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : Waterworld - Stephen L. Gillett and Jerry Oltion
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : Hoop-of-Benzene - Robert Reed
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : The New Humans - B. Vallance
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : The Creator - Clifford D. Simak
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : The Girl Had Guts - Theodore Sturgeon
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : The Region Beyond - Harlan Ellison
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : The Days of Solomon Gursky - Ian McDonald
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : Wang's Carpets - Greg Egan
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : Undone - James Patrick Kelly
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : Judgement Engine - Greg Bear
Mammoth Book of Extreme SF : Stuffing - Jerry Oltion
Error observation religion.
4 out of 5
Needy girlfriend and too much combined crap a very bad situation.
4 out of 5
Schrodinger's Christ.
4 out of 5
Alternate nazi monster zeppelin expedition shows Pacific that time forgot lives up to hyperbole.
4 out of 5
Post-human furniture with passions.
4 out of 5
Black hole shooter crucial in prevention of stellar duo's stupendous collapse and civilisation sterilisation.
4.5 out of 5
Digital deadly doings.
3.5 out of 5
Soldier's marathon space race conversion.
4 out of 5
Resupply when dry is a problem in O2 atmosphere fry.
4 out of 5
Planet nuking and nicking plotter captain finally undone by ritual.
4 out of 5
Malleable bunch not fond of miscegenation.
3.5 out of 5
Puny humans to save a universe or three.
2.5 out of 5
New planet exploratory team has basically a face-hugger episode, without the large monster phase.
4 out of 5
Fomenting anti-Succubus insurrection.
3.5 out of 5
Dead rebellion expansion.
4.5 out of 5
A conservative transhuman polis sets out to search for alien life on other planets. The planet they find surprises them in a bit way, as the carpetlike inhabitants seem to grow by a pattern described by an obscure mathematician. Their nature allows them to perform as a Turing machine, and they are running one pretty impressive simulation.
A story you might just have to read a bit of twice.
4 out of 5
Future escape a problem of many dimensions.
4.5 out of 5
Large scale libraries need some old fashioned teaching.
3.5 out of 5
Solar sustenance people's xmas dinner experiment ends with big farty-poo.
4 out of 5
The SF is extreme, but not all that interesting.......2006-12-21
Unlike a previous customer review of the Extreme Science Fiction anthology, I'm writing this review after reading the entire book, every story, all 562 pages. First I'd like to address the fact that most of the stories have been previously published. (Although there are actually three new stories original to this book.) I've been reading science fiction on and off for nearly four decades and have been a subscriber to F&SF for almost all of that time, and there were only one or two of these stories I had read before. In a couple of cases the editor explains that the stories had never been reprinted since their original publication. Anyway, I did not find that aspect of the book to be a problem. In fact, I appreciated the editor's sequencing of the stories from least to most extreme (except for the final one). He possibly could not have done that so well without drawing from prepublished material, including several tales from the early days of the genre.
What I DID have difficulty with was the relatively uninteresting nature of the majority of the stories. There were too many that were either baffling - i.e., the author's striving to write an "out there" tale meant they left understandability behind - or densely scientific at the expense of good storytelling. To illustrate the latter problem, here is a quote from "Wang's Carpets" by Greg Egan: "Catalytic sites strewn along the sides of each unit trapped the radicals in place, long enough for new bonds to form between them. Some simple sugars were incorporated straight into the polymer as they were created..." There's a LOT of stuff like that throughout the various stories. Too much Scientific American, not enough FICTION in this SF.
I also found the degree of overlap or redundancy between stories to be a problem. Two separate stories had almost identical plots, and there was also a bad editing choice to put two stories back to back with each having a secondary character named Elena, each the lover of the main character.
There were really only two stories in this entire collection I liked a lot, the entries by Theodore Sturgeon and James Patrick Kelley. I was also grateful to the book for steering me clear of any writing by Pat Cadigan in the future - the Cadigan story is so awful I know I will never want to read anything by her ever again. Otherwise, the Extreme Science Fiction anthology was one of the least worthwhile books I've read this year.
Deceptive Title.......2006-10-05
I was looking forward to this as cutting-edge SF. However, despite the title "New Generation Far-Future SF," 11 of the 19 stories in this anthology are pre-2000. I dislike the experience of being halfway through something and realizing I've read it before, so I'm moving this from my high-priority-read to my whenever-I-get-around-to-it pile.
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- The Talisman Cookbook
- From Grandma, With Love
- Great, classic cookbook
- Good traditional Italian recipes
- Before its Time
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The Talisman Italian Cookbook: Italy's bestselling cookbook adapted for American kitchens.
Ada Boni
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Book Description
Il Talismano is and has been for over 50 years the one great standard Italian cookbook. It is to Italians what Joy of Cooking is to Americans. Containing in simple and clear form the best recipes for all the foods that we associate with Italian cuisine, it covers all the regional variations of Italian cooking: Milanese, Bolognese, Venetian, Neapolitan, Sicilian, Veronese, and Florentine.
Appetizers range from the simply elegant, like Cantaloupe and Prosciutto and Artichoke Hearts in Olive Oil, to the sublime, like Tunnied Veal and Crostini of Mozzarella and Anchovies. Soups include Stracciatella, Fish Brodetto Rimini Style, and Tuscan Minestrone.
No part of Italy is very far from the sea, a fact reflected in the variety and quality of Italian seafood preparations: Flounder with Black Butter Sauce, Lobster alla Diavolo, Mullet in Piquant Sauce, Scungilli Marinara, and Shrimp Buongusto. For the landlocked there are recipes for Beefsteak alia Pizzaiola, Ossobuco, Saltimbocca, Scaloppine al Marsala, Loin of Pork with Milk, Chicken Cacciatora, Chicken Livers with Sage, Wild Duck with Lentils, and Rabbit in Egg Sauce.
Pasta is perhaps Italy's greatest contribution to world cuisine, and The Talisman contains dozens of authentic recipes like Homemade Ravioli, Green Lasagna Modena Style, and Spaghetti Marinara. There are recipes for Polenta, the Italian cornmeal preparation, as well as rice dishes and pizza.
Finally, Italian desserts are explored in full: Almond Macaroons, Pine Nut Cookies, Ricotta Pie, Zeppole, and Zuppa Inglese. There is also a glossary (complete with pronunciation guide) to Italian cooking terms.
For the American edition of The Talisman, all weights, measurements, instructions, and ingredients have been adapted to American usage. The result is a collection of recipes that are as easy to prepare as they are delicious to eat.
Customer Reviews:
The Talisman Cookbook.......2007-08-13
This is a excellent collection of recipes and includes many that are not found in other cookbooks. I have been using this book for years and am replacing a very old copy which I ordered from Ronzoni years ago.
From Grandma, With Love.......2007-08-08
When I moved away from home and then returned to visit my grandmother, I decided it would be a good idea to get her recipes. She would create a feast every Sunday for our family and I wanted to carry on the tradition. Imagine my surprise when she handed me this cookbook and said, "they are all in here." Naturally, Grandma would experiment with the recipes, here and there, but the basics are in there just waiting for your personal touch.
Note: These are old world recipes, not what you would expect from a cookbook published today. Be prepared to start from scratch.
Great, classic cookbook.......2007-01-13
Simple, authentic recipes. Many recipes in this book have become family favorites for us. This book sits next to The Joy of Cooking on the bookshelf in my kitchen.
Good traditional Italian recipes.......2007-01-03
An Italian cookbook that is very traditional. . . . The introduction by Mario Pei highlights this: "It may be emphasized that this is an Italian, not an Italo-American cookbook. The recipes here listed describe dishes which are regularly eaten throughout the length and breadth of the Italian peninsula rather than dishes which are the specialty of a single Italian region, or those which have grown up in Italian communities in America." The end result, Pei observes, is that "a large number of these dishes will be almost totally unfamiliar to the American reader."
The book is divided into many sections, starting with antipasto, going through soups, egg dishes, cheese, and so on through macaroni, spaghetti, rice, to pizza, and finishing with desserts and beverages. All in all, the cookbook covers a lot of territory.
Many of the recipes will not be so simple to manage, if one wants to put something together quickly. Other reviews have mentioned this in one way or another.
However, there are some good recipes in this cookbook, traditional as they might be, that promise a nice taste treat. Among these are Beefsteak Hunter Style, Ragout of Beef with Tomato Sauce, Pork Chops in Tomato Sauce, Pork Chops Modena Style, Macaroni with Ricotta, and so on. Again, some recipes call for an awful lot of up front work that many readers won't be interested in. But there are also many others that can be done quite handily.
A good book to add to one's cooking library.
Before its Time.......2006-12-31
This book-an adaptation, not a translation of an Italian
cookbook was published in 1950. This was a time when
many Americans still held to various dumb and demeaning
stereotypes about Italy and Italians. If there was any
knoweldge of Italian food at all, it was based on an
experience at a few southern Italian-styled restaurants
that had opened in major American cities.
This book and the television show that accompanied it were
useful correctives to the few Americans who were aware of
them. The TV show was a pioneering 'food-tv' effort by a
husband and wife team called the Bontempi. The book itself
was sponsored by the Ronzoni Pasta Company in Queens, New
York and was sold for $3.00 on the show.
Fifty-five years later, the recipes look remarkably soph-
isticated. The only tomato sauce recipe is on the fourth
page of the sauce section and rice dishes get almost as
much space as pasta. Classic dishes-like Saltimbocca and
Osso Buco Milanese abound and Lasagne are prepared in
both Northern and Southern versions. There are a few Italian-
American dishes included-you can have two different
versions of spaghetti and meatballs, but the recipe listed
under 'meatball' is for a one and half pound loaf,
simmered in stock.
The introductory essay by the linguist Mario Pei is priceless.
He explains in the most gentle terms the difference between
American stereotypes and Italian reality.
For a snapshot of Italian food before it became modernized,
this book is irreplaceable. It is also the source of
the kind of simple and elegant recipes that made Italian
food both wildly popular and strongly influential. For
many cooks it will be the only Italian cookbook they'll
ever need.
--Lynn Hoffman, author of THE NEW SHORT COURSE IN WINE and
the forthcoming novel bang BANG from Kunati Books.ISBN 9781601640005
Book Description
"The Well-Connected Dog: A Guide to Canine Acupressrue" is an easy to follow manual with lots of illustrations, photographs and charts. Acupressure connects you with 1000's of years of natural healing and has proven to enhance performance, health and overall well-being. This book gives you the tools to participate in your dog's optimal health.
Customer Reviews:
Good start, could be improved.......2007-01-07
This book contains very good information and is useful. It could be improved by adding an index, giving page numbers for specific techniques mentioned in the table of contents, and giving written descriptions of how to find the points. It is not possible to precisely pinpoint the acupuncture/pressure spot with just the dot on a dog diagram. There are some typos that should have been caught by the publisher. Over-all a useful book. I hope they come out with an updated edition that particularly contains an index.
I love this book.......2006-08-01
My copy arrived earlier than expected, and in excellent condition. Kudos to [...].
I have found the book to be easy to read, and the diagrams are very clear, and easy to understand.
I have already tried some accupressure on my little schnanuzer, and noticed some improvementin her pain level.I hope to improve on this, as I get more proficient with practice.
More than I expected.......2005-09-21
I am thrilled with the book the service was great and the amount of information in this book is overwhelming.
Thumbs up for a much needed canine acupressure book!.......2004-11-22
Well researched, superbly written and easily understood by the beginner, this is the primer for all dog lovers who are striving to improve their animal's health.
Traditional Chinese medicine is a difficult conceptfor most Westerners, and the authors explain the basic principles in a manner that allows we "newbies" to start affecting change in their dog's health immediately after reading their book.
I highly recommend this book to those who are searching for a more holistic approach to their animal's health care.
very enlightening and helpful.......2001-11-07
I found this guide to acupressure for pet dogs to be clear and easy to use. It is the only book of its type that I could find, targeted for beginners. I especially liked the lists of specific conditions or problems, and how to treat them. One of my dogs was treated for a hot spot using this book. The relief he got was immediate and evident to everyone in the room. Another dog has benefited from acupressure treatment for joint disease. Both my dogs and I have enjoyed a closer, more satisfying relationship using regular acupressure techniques described in this book. People with an open mind, willing to try something different for their pets, will love it.
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BECOME AN ABOVE-PAR COLLECTOR!
This comprehensive guide to all things golf walks you through an 18-hole game of collectibles. With a fascinating history of the 300-year-old sport, this book provides both the information you need to build a collection and advice about the traps that may await you in the form of fakes and overpriced items. Whether you just bought your first Whistler club or you're a veteran looking to expand your collection with a $1,950 Blacksmith Cleek iron, tee up for fun and profit!
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The 1st Hole: The evolution of the game, detailing the changes in balls and clubs.
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The 2nd Hole: The fun and profitable pastime of collecting golf artifacts, from common $300 clubs to a "featherie" ball that fetches upwards of $20,000.
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The 3rd Hole: What makes a golf collectible valuable—judging condition, rarity, and desirability.
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The 8th Hole: Where the finds are and how to finalize sales.
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The 9th Hole: How to buy on the Internet without winding up in the "rough".
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The 15th Hole: Medals, magazines, scorecards, trophies, and autographs.
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The 18th Hole: Tips on preserving, storing, and displaying golf collectibles.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO BECOME THE TIGER WOODS OF COLLECTORS!
Customer Reviews:
A disappointment.......2005-07-28
When a book to bills itself as the "Official Price Guide" I would expect more. Over the years others have attempted to produce a price guide and due to the vast array of golf collectibles it is a daunting task. Unfortunately, this was one of the weakest eforts to date. The author merely skims over categories and quotes auction results for select items which is hardly what one expect from "The Official Price Guide of Golf Collectibles". The photos are small and poor quality which does not help either. All golf collectors will probably buy it to have in their library but it is definitely not a reference guide.
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Knitting and Crochet from McCall's Needlework and Crafts
Manufacturer: Olympic Marketing Corp
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Binding: Hardcover
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Sources on the Alans: A Critical Compilation (Handbook of Oriental Studies/Handbuch Der Orientalistik)
Agusti Alemany
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In the 1950s horror comics flourished to the extent that fifty or more different titles could be published in a single month. Later these comics were effectively banned, indicted as a cause of 'juvenile delinquency'. Prurient imagery incorporating scantily clad women, limb-chopping and 'trauma to the eye', was often outlawed.
Tracing their development from the grotesque visions of the 'pre-code' horrors through to the relative sophistication of b&w titles in the sixties and seventies, Ghastly Terror! is an entertaining examination of this most persecuted and popular of comic genres.
Customer Reviews:
Sennitt's attacks on EC pull down an otherwise quality product.......2006-07-17
Sennitt does quite a good job at displaying plenty of horror stories, particularly many rare ones that generally don't get covered in books about horror comics. This book contains many images from the comics as well, and for the most part makes good selections of horrific images to draw us in. His coverage of the Warren classics Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella is also great for the uninitiated who are unfamiliar with them.
That said, the book isn't without its flaws, which pull it down to an at best 3 star rating. For starters, as has already been mentioned, coverage of the pictures in the book are generally up to 10 pages away from the page where the picture appeared, making things tough. And while Sennitt tries to dispel myths and inaccuries about EC comics, what he ends up doing is making even more inaccurate and misleading comments about them. For example, Sennitt's claim that the EC horror comics weren't the first horror comics is certainly spot on. But for every instance where he dispels inaccuracies about EC's history, he has two or three where he appears to purposely mislead the reader. For example, he tries to make the claim that Atlas was a higher profile and better horror comic publisher than EC because at their peak they published 18 horror comics to EC's 3. He completely ignores the fact that one of the main reasons why the EC's were of such high quality was because they didn't push the quantity to such points that the quality suffered. Yes, Atlas published more total horror comics, but very few could argue that the quality of Atlas's work was better than EC's. His claim that other comic book publisher's had an overall group of artists just as good as EC's is also an opinion out of line with virtually anyone familiar with comics of that era. Sennitt claims Bill Gaines, publisher of EC is a hypocrite by earlier conforming to the ACMP Comic Code, conveniently leaving out the fact that ACMP's standards weren't anywhere as strict as the Comics Code put into place in 1954 that effectively put EC out of business. Probably worst of all is when Sennitt out and out lies by claiming that EC threw in the towel completely and didn't even bother trying to do comics under the Comics Code when they actually launched an entire line of 'New Direction' comics that were under the watchful eye of the code in 1955.
Sennitt's coverage of rarer, lesser seen horror comics is great. But his attacks on EC in this book are quite absurd at times and really pull down his credibility. If you're an EC fan, you probably don't want to bother with this one, although the coverage of other horror comics is pretty in depth and intriguing.
My favourite book on the subject actually... .......2005-05-18
Stephen Sennit's "GHASTLY TERROR" is a fantasic book to own for anyone really into the horror comic genre. Warren, Skywald, E.C., and loads of precode titles can be read about in this book. Oh and the author is British. We British rule.
I loved it!.......2005-01-23
I really loved this book. I found it refreshingly non EC, as many other works seem bound to push EC and nothing else. Ghastly Terror goes places the others don't. A plus is that it is filled, not just with information, but also many images from the pages of interesting and rare old horror comics. The history is completed in a chronological and not overly rhetorical fashion. Break the mold and check out a fresh look with this one. Highly recommended.
Not bad, but nothing new.......2004-11-30
After having read New England Comics's Tales Too Terrible To Tell collection, and a lot of the wonderful EC reprints from Russ Cochran/Gemstone, I have to reassess this book. While Sennitt keeps the book moving, his work is extremely derivative. His anti-EC bias is also way off base, and just plain old tiresome after a while. I did enjoy his stuff on Warren and Skywald, but he's no athority on pre-code.
For that, the above-mentioned TTTTT, and Mike Bentons Illustrated History of Horror Comics (if you can find it cheap) are recommended.
Problematic.......2004-07-24
Mr Hilliard's review is right on the money. However, it should also be mentioned that a good deal of the information on pre-code horror appears to have been simply lifted from the hard work conducted in Tales Too Terrible to Tell--a reprint/history series from the 90s.
Customer Reviews:
A pimp's struggle........2006-05-14
Credit Iceberg Slim with raising the bar on just how a ghetto novel should read. In that respect Andrew Jackson's book is not bad in any regards. On its own the book makes for a straight forward read, with an intriguing story-line. Unlike Donald Goines who follows suit with Robert Beck's style, Andrew Jackson doesn't feel the need to glorify the pimp. At times Jackson is depicted as a junkie just looking for a fix. The story has many twist and turns that are sure to leave you guessing until the end. In lieu of Robert Beck's Pimp, Gentleman pimp lacks in key areas.
Depressing.......2005-09-12
The first few chapters of this book were really good as the author talks about how the main charater got into the game as a pimp, but as you get deeper off into the book the author seems to be more focused on telling how the main character's real motive for pimping is to support his drug habit. But I must admit the main character does have a good mouth piece, and the author keeps your attention with slang being used.
Sad but True.......2005-03-16
This book has the ring of truth, but he definitly "made the pimpin' look raggedy."
Girls, Please read.......2004-04-03
I recommend every woman, especially of color read this book. Also read Iceberg Slim's book, watch American Pimp and Pimps Up, Ho's Down. These men are insecure and use racism as a crutch! They need to know how to become real men. They are predators who are after women, vulnerable adults, children and young teenagers who have been hurt, abused mentally(physically, emotionally and psychologically). Just as a drug loon sells drugs to his own community these men put their own future into the street to demise their whole culture. Any woman who is especially going into entertainment should read this stuff and take God with you. PEACE and I'm outta here!
Iceberg wannabe.......2001-12-04
This book is obviously a con by a self professed con man. This book has a small merrit in that it does let you see some old cons that may prevent you from being a victim of a similar con in the present, but beyond that the story itself is nothing more than an egomaniacal con job. The some of the events are totally unbelieveable, and obviouly fraudulent. The price (...) is slightly more than this book is worth. Read Iceberg Slim instead of this (...).
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