When the Senate Halls Were Hallowed

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At the age of twenty-five, Arthur Rimbaud--the infamous author of A Season in Hell, the pioneer of modernism, the lover and destroyer of Verlaine, the "hoodlum poet" celebrated a century later by Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison--turned his back on poetry, France, and fame, for a life of wandering in East Africa.

In this compelling biography, Charles Nicholl pieces together the shadowy story of Rimbaud's life as a trader, explorer, and gunrunner in Africa. Following his fascinating journey, Nicholl shows how Rimbaud lived out that mysterious pronouncement of his teenage years: "Je est un autre"--I is somebody else.

"Rimbaud's fear of stasis never left him. 'I should like to wander over the face of the whole world,' he told his sister, Isobelle, 'then perhaps I'd find a place that would please me a little.' The tragedy of Rimbaud's later life, superbly chronicled by Nicholl, is that he never really did."--London Guardian

"Nicholl has excavated a mosaic of semi-legendary anecdotes to show that they were an essential part of the poet's journey to become 'somebody else.' Not quite biography, not quite travel book, in the end Somebody Else transcends both genres."--Sara Wheeler, Daily Telegraph

"At the end of Somebody Else Rimbaud is more interesting and more various than before: he is not less mysterious, but he is more real."--Susannah Clapp, Observer Review

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A Great Adventure.......2007-08-25

Somebody Else is one of my favorite books. People tend to like Rimbaud for his excesses -- his drug and alcohol abuse. Or they admire him for being an "out" queer when to be "out" would and did earn Rimbaud social ostracism (although he did his best to earn it in every way he could). Or they admire his intelligence and the sheer brilliance of his poetry. Make no mistake about it, Rimbaud is a heroic figure, but many feel that what was interesting about his life ended when he laid down his pen.

Not so. What made Rimbaud a brilliant poet is the same quality that made his entire life interesting, even when he was marooned in Africa. Rimbaud had an insatiable intellect and a need to understand and master EVERYTHING, both inside him and in the world without. This need made him uncompromising and fearless, which is why he is so attractive. Rimbaud could be nasty and cantankerous and amoral -- which raises the question just how charming he would be if we actually knew him at close quarters. However, Nicholl's account describes a man who NEEDS to know, who will stop at nothing to learn himself and the world, all the dark recesses and all the light. Rimbaud's life is a great adventure.

In Harrar, Ethiopia, Rimbaud explores hostile territories from which no white man has emerged alive. He can do this because he has learned the language, the culture, the mannerisms -- he presents himself as a Koran scholar and his knowledge of the Koran is so extensive that he gets away with it, blue eyes and all. The character of Indiana Jones was a tourist compared to Rimbaud. Rimbaud walked the world.

The last decade of his life, we see him stuck. He is marooned in a day job he can't afford to leave. He orders books from France on every field of endeavor, he wants to be an expert on everything. You can see his dreams, to bring plumbing and civil engineering and all the accomplishments of the European civilization to Africa, but he only gets so far. He dresses like a worker, lives like a pauper, sleeping on a roof. He sends money home in the hopes of one day returning to France, not as the peasant he was born to be, but as a rich man -- which he never becomes. He organizes trading expeditions into the African interior -- 100-camel caravans -- and still, he never makes the scale of money he wants. He'll trade anything -- garments, guns, slaves, anything, without morals, without values, anything to make money -- and in the end he loses his shirt. He never achieves the legitimacy he wants as badly as he wants knowledge.

And he never finds love. You see him at the end, dreaming of the love of an innocent convent girl, an orphan, a hypothetical woman who could accept him as he is...

Rimbaud is an Icarus. His fall is heartbreaking.

Rimbaud's poetry was just one facet of his need to explore himself and the world around him. I think what Rimbaud feared most was stagnation. Somebody Else is the tale of his quest to always go deeper, always keep learning, fearlessly.

He died hard. But he is still a hero, and still a role-model. He stopped making art in order to live. And his life was a piece of art.

A Season in Hell.......2007-06-24

I've never really appreciated Rimbaud's poetry. Perhaps that's understandable, given that I'm not a linguist and that, for me at least, there's always something a little suspect about poems in translation. This is no doubt my loss. However, I've always liked a good read, and the one about Rimbaud, poet and traveler, who gave up his muse while still in his teens and left Europe for Africa, where he was rumored to be a gun runner and slaver, is a damned good tale. Charles Nicholl, author of "Borderlines" and "The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe,' does it ample justice in his memoir "Somebody Else," subtitled "Arthur Rimbaud in Africa: 1880-1891." Actually, the first quarter or so of the book is given over to the poet's formative years, including his well-documented relationship with Paul Verlaine, the older poet who came under the spell of Arthur's often-violent persona (and strikingly beautiful eyes), regarding him as the quintessential poète maudit. Readers familiar with the Agnieszka Holland film, "Total Eclipse" (1995) may be forgiven for interpolating an image of Leonardo DiCaprio for that of the real Rimbaud, but one look at the Carjat photograph on the cover of Nicholl's book should be enough to set them straight. More reminiscent of Katherine Hepburn in "Sylvia Scarlet" than the ever-wholesome DiCaprio, the photo hauntingly portrays Rimbaud's "hooded frightening eye" and somewhat cruel mouth at age seventeen. But Nicholl is more concerned with the "somebody else," also portrayed on the cover of my Vintage (1998) edition of the book: a Rimbaud self-portrait (the poet briefly took up photography in Harrar), arms folded and wearing a white smock, that has him looking, a year or two shy of thirty, more like a product of Bedlam than Hollywood. This is the man who turned his back on poetry and dedicated himself to exile, settling for eleven years in East Africa, where he developed a single-minded desire to succeed at some aspect of trade. Whether he became a gun runner or slaver (Nicholl is ambivalent on both points, but his apology for slavery as it existed in the late 19th century fails to convince) is still debated, but Rimbaud's early death, at age 37, in 1891, renders the question essentially moot. "Somebody Else" is meticulously researched (quotes from later travelers such as Evelyn Waugh and Lawrence Durrell are especially welcome) and a pleasure to read. I recommend it to anyone who wants to learn about the "other" Rimbaud.

Fill in the Blanks.......2006-11-04

Any attempt to chronicle Rimbaud's Africa years is an exercise in filling in the blanks- Rimbaud himself seemed intent on essentially disappearing. Nicholl's work is relatively short, but he manages to extensively mine the archives for the right nuggets. The book is well referenced - (sources are extensive and as complete as they can be), and at times quite poetically written.
Nicholl is thoughtful with his subject and careful to tell us what is fact, what is rumor, and what is his own conjecture. He also gives us a look at what the social and political landscape was at the time of his writing (1997) for the relevant stomping grounds.
Still, it is not an "easy read" due to the complexity of it all- the elusive subject, the many cameos by traders and natives, the deliberate enigma of Rimbaud. Nicholl also pulls passages from A.R.'s poetry to highlight his accidental prescience - fun, but a bit contrived. (Dare I be the first to say that the majority of Rimbaud's poetry is not good? That the minority that stands out is so brilliant that we tolerate the drivel and obscenity in hopes of finding another gem?)
Yet there is a pull to the book, no doubt the same powerful forces that draw us to the work and life of A.R., always pulling us in as he runs faster and farther away.

Well-Written, But What A Downer.......2001-01-18

As another reviwer has already stated, this book will not definitively answer the question that so many lovers of Rimbaud ask. To wit, "Why did he stop writing?"-But the book is a well-researched and well-written account of Rimmbaud as "un autre," somebody else than a poet...But it's all so grindingly depressing. Yes, Rimbaud had incredible endurance and will and courage. But he had no business acumen as the accounts of his many endeavors in the world of commerce amply illustrate. The book is essentially a tale of his slow degeneration in body, if not spirit.-I used to have a friend who loved Rimbaud more than I do who would call me in the middle of the night drunkenly, tearfully asking me why he quit. Well, there was nothing I could say at 3 A. M. that he would remember the next morning.-But what I feel is that the answer lies in Rimbaud's most famous poem, "Le Bateau Ivre." At the end of the poem, he says that, after all the exhilarating and mystical insights, after all the rapturous visions amidst the mad seastorms, there is nothing he would like better now then to return to being a litle boat being pushed across a placid pond by a little boy. Rimbaud had been through more hell in his life by the end of his teens than would fit in the lives of many a tortured soul.-It's really not so remarkable when you consider it that, his poetry unrecognized, his soul tortured by the relationship with Verlaine and the other atrocities and privations he endured that the young man would flee the literary world that had given him nothing but anguish in the end.-Unfortunately , the world to which he fled offered little in the way of compensation, as this book sadly chronicles. I recommend this book to those who, like myself, had no clear idea of exactly what Rimbaud DID after he stopped writing besides vague ideas of his being a gun-runner, slave-trader and amputee (This book, by the way, casts serious doubts over whether he was ever either of the former two, except perhaps when forced to do so by bad luck and necessity).-So, all in all, a sad but informative work.-I still think the last lines of "Le Bateau Ivre" are the key to why he stopped writing. But, as is commmonplace, you can't go home again, as those last lines express a yearning for. This book is an excellent chronicle of the alternative Rimbaud was forced to accept.

Odi et Ami.......2000-10-01

Arthur Rimbaud was one of the most brilliant poets the human race has ever seen. He belongs in the company of Callimachus, Sappho and Catullus, the spoiled child from the north whose frank and erotic poems scandalized Rome: odi et amo, Catullus had written. I hate you and I love you. That says it all. About Rimbaud as well.

Rimbaud was an illusion, a ghost, someone we conjure up and then spend the rest of out lives trying to shake off. Dead for more than a hundred years now, Arthur Rimbaud wrote poetry for a few brief years, while he was still in his teens, from about 1870 to 1873. He could never have imagined the extraordinary influence his slim collection of poems would have over the following century. Rimbaud. however, abandoned the world of literature at a very young age. When he was nineteen, he gave in to a mixture of rage and pride, and threw his marvelous talent onto a bonfire, along with his manuscripts. By the time his anger had eaten its way through his soul, he could not speak of poetry without contempt. He lived another eighteen years, wandering from one end of Europe to the other and as far afield as the East Indies. He joined the Dutch Colonial Army and was sent to Java, but deserted and returned to France. He got work in Cyprus, as an overseer of a stone quarry, but his temper got the better of him, "I have had some quarrels with the workmen," he wrote, "and I've had to request some weapons." He collapsed with typhoid and hurriedly returned home.

In March 1880, when he was twenty-five, he left France for the last time. He found work in Cyprus again, as foreman of a construction gang in the mountains. He got involved in another quarrel and, it seems, threw a stone which hit a local worker and killed him. Rimbaud fled, traveling through the Red Sea, ending up in the British port of Aden, a sun-baked volcanic crater perched at the gateway to the Indian Ocean on the coast of Yemen. He spent the next eleven years in exile, working as a trader in Aden and Abyssinia.

Charles Nicholl's book is chiefly the story of those years, from the time Rimbaud disembarks at Aden in 1880 to his death in Marseilles in 1891, at the age of thirty-seven, from the cancer which had started in his right leg. It is very stylish, thoroughly researched, and shows a great deal of insight into the character of this angry and bitter man. Arthur Rimbaud's adolescent rebellion was so brief and the flowering of his talent so violent and astonishing that it has overshadowed his essential character. His life is often seen through a romantic blur, and the astringent view of his career that Nicholl presents in this book is a useful corrective.

Rimbaud was born in the northern French town of Charleville in October 1854, the son of an army captain and a farmer's daughter. There were two younger sisters and an older brother. The father, who had spent some years in Algeria and in different parts of France, found provincial life stifling and family life difficult. He was often absent. Rimbaud was six when his father left for the last time, never to return.

His mother was a dour, hard-working woman of peasant stock, impatient with her husband's fecklessness, and embittered by his final desertion. For most of his life Rimbaud was like his mother--devoted to hard work. As a child he was obedient, studious and even rather prim. In his final school examinations he swept the board, winning all the prizes in his form except for two.

In his sixteenth year, everything changed. Two catastrophic public events shook France, and a private calamity changed Rimbaud forever. The French emperor Napoleon the Third declared war on Prussia in July 1870. The German armies swept through north-eastern France, the countryside where Rimbaud had grown up, and within six months the French had been defeated.

In the aftermath of the Armistice in January 1871, the people of Paris, republican to the core and disgusted with their government, set up a Commune. Eventually French government troops put it down, killing twenty thousand French men and women in the streets of Paris in a single week in May. Rimbaud had run away from home to join the Commune, though it's unlikely he was there during that week of horror.

Rimbaud though, had his own, personal nightmare to live through. At some time during this visit to Paris he was raped, perhaps gang-raped, probably by a group of soldiers at the Babylone barracks. The evidence is indirect but, as Charles Nicholl says, and most biographers agree with him, it is persuasive. Rimbaud went home to Charleville in a state of profound shock and confusion. He sent batches of his poems to important poets in the capital, Banville and Paul Verlaine among them. Verlaine summoned him to Paris and to his fate. It was September 1871 and Rimbaud was sixteen; Verlaine twenty-eight. The two men--rather, the man and the schoolboy--became lovers. The older poet Banville lent Rimabud an attic flat for a while as a favor to Verlaine. Rimbaud became friends with the musician Ernest Cabaner, who also put him up for a while, the novelist Jules Claretie, and the poets Charles Cros and Germaine Nouveau. These bohemians were scandalizing the bourgeoisie with their sexual indiscretions, their immodest writings and their indulgence in absinthe and hashish and opium. Rimbaud outdid them in every respect.

He made many enemies. Verlaine's future biographer Lepelletier disapproved of his influence on his old friend Verlaine, and Rimbaud responded by calling him an obscenity. When Lepelletier told Rimbaud to shut up, the boy threatened him with a table knife. He called poor Banville yet another obscenity, he stabbed the photographer Carjat with a sword-stick, he repaid the hospitality of Cabaner by going into Cabaner's room when he wasn't there and committing an unspeakable act. In short, Rimbaud was as arrogant and bad-tempered as one could get.

In July 1873, less than two years after they had first met, Verlaine shot Rimbaud in a fit of drunken jealousy. The boy was wounded in the wrist, and Verlaine burst into tears and begged his forgiveness. The next evening while they were out walking in the street Verlaine turned ugly again and pulled the revolver from his pocket. This time Rimbaud called out to a passing policeman. They were in Brussels; the police discovered evidence of their homosexual relationship, and incriminating letters. Rimbaud tried to take back the charges, but it was too late. Verlaine was sentenced to two years' hard labour in a Belgian jail.

Odi et amo. It is a phrase that sums up, not only Rimbaud's work but his life as well.

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Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa 1880-91
Charles Nicholl
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Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa 1880-91
Charles Nicholl
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The essays in this book treat the relationships among politics, taxation, and the rule of law. A central tenet of democratic ideology is that taxation is something that we choose to do to ourselves, rather than being something that is imposed on us by some ruler. The basic ideology of the American constitutional founding is that government is not the source of our rights of person and property. To the contrary, government is something we establish with our prior rights of person and property to preserve and protect those rights. While it is possible to articulate some intellectual notions about good government and appropriate taxation, it does not follow from the mere fact of this articulation that actual taxation works as articulated. Taxation may be a necessary means of preserving and protecting rights of person and property, but it might also operate in various ways to undermine, abridge, and erode those rights. The central tenet of democratic ideology, a tenet that is reflected thoroughly in the American constitutional founding, is that it is people's prior right to their property that limits the reach of government. This ideology rejects without a second thought any notion that government defines the limits of people's right to property. Yet democratic practice may well contradict and subvert democratic ideology, though the relationship between practice and ideology is not so simple as one being dominant over the other.

Politics, Taxation, and the Rule of Law; the Power To Tax in Constitutional Perspective.

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Politics, Taxation, and the Rule of Law; the Power To Tax in Constitutional Perspective.
Donald P. Racheter And Richard E. Wagner
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Barbie doll Fashion-1968-1974

Barbie Doll Fashion Vol 2

Collectors shouldn't be without it:

Bible for Barbie collectors!

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Barbie Doll Fashion: Vol. 2, 1968-1974 (Barbie Doll Fashion)
Sarah Sink Eames
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Barbie Doll Fashion II continues the documentation of the wardrobes of Barbie doll, her family, and friends. Volume II progresses from 1968 through 1974. Many outfits included a hat, shoes, jewelry, and other tiny accessories. Over 700 gorgeous color photographs with detailed descriptions and current values.2002 values. AUTHORBIO: Sarah Sink Eames's favorite plaything as a child grew into a lifetime of Barbie doll collecting. Sarah has been a speaker and judge at national Barbie Doll conventions. She was president of Star City Doll Club, a UFDC club, and she edited A Detailed Listing and Value Guide to Barbie Doll Fashions, Volume I and II. She is the author of Barbie Doll Fashion Volume I,II, and III. REVIEW: This is the second volume in a three-volume series by author Sarah Eames. Spanning the years 1968 through 1974, the book contains the continuation of documentation of the wardrobes of the Barbie doll, her family, and friends. The book is broken into chapters which contain the outfits for each of the dolls for that particular year, based on Mattel's dealer catalogs and dating. Costumes are photographed out of the box when possible to show more detail.

Customer Reviews:

Barbie doll Fashion-1968-1974.......2007-07-05

Another great book by Sarah Sink Eames!-Great outfits and pictures-easy to see values-Fun to see how Barbie and friends followed current fashion trends for the late 60's and early 70's-very helpful to any vintage collector!!

Barbie Doll Fashion Vol 2.......2006-08-17

Great book. Found outfits and the year they came out. Do Recommend if you are into Barbie clothes...

Collectors shouldn't be without it:.......2003-08-31

If you are a collector, you should have this book on your shelf. Comprehensive, complete, with photos galore. A+++++

Bible for Barbie collectors!.......2003-08-28

In Hong Kong, it is not popular to collect vintage Barbie dolls so that it is not easy to explore specific related knowledge. This book really helps a lot. It is a bible for every Barbie collectors!

The Most Beautiful and Informative of All Barbie Books.......2003-01-25

This book and its companion volume, 'Barbie Doll Fashion: 1959-1967', are without doubt the most beautiful and informative books on the market for the vintage and mod era Barbie collector today. They are very well-written, with lovely photographs of absolutely pristine examples of each outfit, enough to make you drool over on every single page!

'Barbie Doll Fashion: 1968-1974' covers the fashions from Barbie's exciting Mod era, and includes fashions not only for Barbie, but for her friends and family as well. These include original outfits, Pak outfits, Best Buys, Get Ups and Gos, Store Exclusives and every other type of outfit available from 1968 to 1974.

Each outfit is described in detail, with a photograph showing the outfit and all accessories next to it, laying flat. Some outfits are shown on the doll. The photography is stunning, by far the best of any Barbie book I've ever seen.

'Barbie Doll Fashion: 1968-1974' isn't just informative, it's a catalogue of dreams to build on, and a fun book just to sit and look at. You'll never be sorry you own it!

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Super "How-to" on Stripwood Canoe Building

Excellent book for the beginning builder

Most comprehensive book on strip building

Reveiw Illustrated guie to canoe buildilg

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Now anyone can make their own, custom-built canoe guaranteed to draw raves on land and water alike. The Illustrated Guide to Wood Strip Canoe Building is a comprehensive, detailed guide to the process of contructing a high-quality wood strip canoe, written especially for the novice boat builder. Sheathed strip boat construction is becoming increasingly popular among both amateur and professional builders. This is a method of producing a light weight, strong, beautiful boat of the sleekest design using materials, tools, and techniques available to the recreational builder. This book offers complete coverage of the procedures and techniques of mold set-up, assembly of the wood strip hull, epoxy resin, and fiberglass application, finishing, and more. All phases of construction are extensively illustrated with color photos and line drawings. For each stage of the building process, a range of alternative methods is presented, enabling the builder to select those which will yield a craft customized to his or her own needs. Source lists for canoe plans, building materials, and tools are included. This book is dedicated to helping the backyard boat builder achieve professional quality results in creating a fine canoe to use and be proud of for years., 490 color photos, 67 line drawings, 11" x 8 1/2"

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Super "How-to" on Stripwood Canoe Building.......2007-08-28

This book will give you the confidence to tackle your first stripwood boat project, guaranteed. Susan takes you methodically through each and every step of the process of building a stripwood canoe. She presents alternate methodologies of construction and woodworking that are tempered by knowledge and experience. I have two references at my side while building my Whitehall Pulling Boat - this book and Susan's latest work on building stripwood row boats. Other than the plans for my boat and the occasional advice of experts at The Newfound Woodworks where I got my plans, these books are all you need.

Excellent book for the beginning builder.......2004-12-15

I used this book extensively along with my regular plans book when building my Cosine Wherry. The well done illustrations and explanations helped answer many a question on "how" or "why" do do a particular building task. A highly recommended book.

Most comprehensive book on strip building.......2001-02-03

I have just completed Mac McCarthy's Wee Lassie using this book. The amount of detail in the book answered all my questions and some of the techniques (like reinforcing the deck with thin marine plywood) was better than using carlins and stripping the deck onto the carlins. I had no trouble building the boat. I built the boat with no staples or nails. Her stapleless building technique was straight forward and easy to do. The most difficult part was beveling the inside stems. I would not bevel the entire stem at once, but bevel as I stripped. The only part of McCarthy's book worth having are the mold patterns for the canoes. This book is the one you need to actually build the canoe.

Reveiw Illustrated guie to canoe buildilg.......2000-01-18

Very good color pictures, but not always helpful. Gives a lot of different approaches and methods but leaves the choice to the reader, It is obvious, and sometimes stated, that she has no experience with some of even the more basic ones.

An excellent addition to the canoe building literature........1999-08-08

This book has two great features. One is the fantastic color photographs showing the process of building a wood strip canoe. The second is that the author answers questions and gives details of construction that most other authors on the subject gloss over or ignore. The only negatives are the poor quality binding and the tiny size of the print.

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This a 1989 Huntington Library exhibition catalogue on the eclectic California architect Wallace Neff. Best known for his Mediterranean-inspired houses, Neff's varied career also included pioneering work in Bubble Housing during and after World War Two. The book also contains essays on the contrasting styles of Neff and Neutra and on Neff's plans and renderings.

Wallace Neff, 1895-1982: The Romance of Regional Architecture.

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There is nothing new ......

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Graham Masterton
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Pornographic but Redeeming.......2002-08-02

My earlier review of this book has changed due to the fact I don't feel it(review) was fully responsible. While I personally was able to handle this book which is in no way medical, but rather uses street slang and extremely graphic depictions, I previously neglected to warn the reader it easily could be considered pornography, thus, as a Christian, viewing pornography is not something I should be promoting. As with all of Masterton's books, I think the the potential reader would make a more informed choice by paging through one of his books first, then making up their own mind. As for me, I found some use and enjoyment in it, but then again, pornography has no lure for me. Buy at your own discretion.

Open Minded and Exploring.......2000-10-22

At first I was surprised with the language use in this book but as I read on (with an open mind) it didn't bother me. When my boyfriend saw what I was reading he became interested, so I read it aloud. We both found it to be amusing, open and interesting. It gave me some wild ideas and in reading it aloud to my boyfriend I found out which examples he thought were sexy and provoking. I think that it is definitely worth reading! If you aren't comfortable with your own sexuality and aren't open minded, then this book is not for you. Have fun with it and learn to explore yourself!

This is Ridiculous.......2000-05-16

I purchased this book hoping to surprise my husband some evening. I read a few pages and then leafed quickly through the book. Simply put, it is soft porn. There is very little instruction - unless you call exploits ( written a bit too professionally for these so-called "candid women") instruction. No, I have not read the entire book. It is hard to tell one page from the others. The lowest rating possible is one star - this book does not come up to meet the scale. As I do not want porn in my house, I have burned the book. Unless you have matches nearby, don't waste your money.

There is nothing new .............2000-05-06

I got this book so that I could spice up my sex life....but....I already knew everything that was already in this book...so it was very disappointing....

Should have been titled: Drive the Author wild!.......2000-01-16

Seems like more of a personal wish list of the author's rather than helpful advice that would apply to the "man on the street." If you're looking to add some spice to your sex life, try any of Laura Corn's books. If you're looking for encouragement to try oral sex, buy this book.

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In a gripping exchange of letters written in the closing years of the 20th century, two men linked by history though separated by time and space struggle to come to terms with the signal event of their time, the Holocaust. Paul Friedhoff, a German Jew born in the Rhineland-Palatinate region in 1907, and Dr. Emil Georg Sold, a Catholic born in the same region in 1920, struck up a correspondence decades after the end of the war. Despite the obstacle of never having seen one another, the two grew to become very good friends, and the correspondence became an integral part of their lives. In remembering and attempting to understand the Holocaust, Friedhoff and Sold hope to save future generations from enduring what their generation has endured. And in that way, their letters are not so much about the past as they are about the future.

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Make Time to Read This.......2004-10-23

This book was one of the best first person to first person histories of the German Holocaust. It deals with real issues that Germans on both sides of the war had to work through. If you need to get a wonderful history to understand what the "common" German man would have experienced and what it meant to him many years later upon reflection, this is a book for you to add to your library. The translation by Ivan Fehrenbach is right on the money. Both of the author's are intellectually honest and thorough. The use of letters made the reading personal,yet it always would give a great back and forth "conversation" that you could follow.
Get this book. You will be glad you did.

That Time Cannot Be Forgotten ": A Correspondence On The Holocaust.

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That Time Cannot Be Forgotten ": A Correspondence On The Holocaust.
EMIL GEORG; FRIEDHOFF, PAUL; FEHRENBACH, IVAN (EDITOR & TRANSLATOR); ROTH, JOHN K. (AFTERWORD). SOLD
Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQ4IB2

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