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Polidori is a genius. This is exactly the type of book that once it is sold out, and not reprinted, people will be clamoring for it and wondering why they didn't buy it when it came out. gorgeous. great gift for lovers of architecture, history and of course photography.
This isn't a book I lingered over instead finishing it in a little over a day including a very late night. I saved the last chapter for when I woke up in the morning. There are a few passages so good I wanted to flip the previous page back and experience it again or notate them and save them for myself and others...but I kept on moving forward knowing that I will have to re-read the whole thing. Usually I don't go back to a book but I just finished another fine memoir, Kafka Was The Rage by Anatole Broyard, and I had exactly the same feeling. I'm going to shelve them together.
This is a book that while I was reading I was thinking of who
I could give it to next. That doesn't come off like a compliment
but what I mean is that I thought off my special auntie who\
I share titles with and my friend who loves vintage clothing, and on and on...
Lily Koppel has written a great first book.
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Fast read. I really thought about this book when I wasn't near it to scoop it up and read on into the night. It was
a short love affair really....this is a good read for people that love
whack jobs and American history. I do. Peaches was such a riveting
tragic sexy sicko. And Daddy--hard to say but I know who I have
in mind to play him in the movie version. I won't ruin it for you but
it isn't Sam Shepard I can tell you that...
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Robert Polidori: Parcours Museologique Revisite by Robert Polidori
ruth-ida, October 28, 2009
Polidori is a genius. This is exactly the type of book that once it is sold out, and not reprinted, people will be clamoring for it and wondering why they didn't buy it when it came out. gorgeous. great gift for lovers of architecture, history and of course photography.The Sisters Antipodes by Jane Alison
ruth-ida, August 6, 2009
This isn't a book I lingered over instead finishing it in a little over a day including a very late night. I saved the last chapter for when I woke up in the morning. There are a few passages so good I wanted to flip the previous page back and experience it again or notate them and save them for myself and others...but I kept on moving forward knowing that I will have to re-read the whole thing. Usually I don't go back to a book but I just finished another fine memoir, Kafka Was The Rage by Anatole Broyard, and I had exactly the same feeling. I'm going to shelve them together.The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal by Lily Koppel
ruth-ida, November 27, 2008
This is a book that while I was reading I was thinking of whoI could give it to next. That doesn't come off like a compliment
but what I mean is that I thought off my special auntie who\
I share titles with and my friend who loves vintage clothing, and on and on...
Lily Koppel has written a great first book.
(7 of 9 readers found this comment helpful)
Peaches & Daddy: A Story of the Roaring Twenties, the Birth of Tabloid Media, and the Courtship That Captured the Heart and Imagination by Michael M. Greenburg
ruth-ida, November 27, 2008
Fast read. I really thought about this book when I wasn't near it to scoop it up and read on into the night. It wasa short love affair really....this is a good read for people that love
whack jobs and American history. I do. Peaches was such a riveting
tragic sexy sicko. And Daddy--hard to say but I know who I have
in mind to play him in the movie version. I won't ruin it for you but
it isn't Sam Shepard I can tell you that...
(4 of 5 readers found this comment helpful)