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Hello He Lied
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Lynda Obst
Edward Martin III
, July 20, 2009
It would be easy to read "Hello, He Lied" and take away from it that no ordinary mortal can crack the shell of Hollywood, but that would be the wrong lesson. The REAL lesson is one that anyone can take away and use in practically any social or professional situation: keep your eyes open, watch what you say and how you say it, pay attention to what has happened before you, and note how what you do ripples outward. It's not just a book about navigating Hollywood -- it's a handbook on navigating life.
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Dream Quest Of Unknown Kadath Gallardo
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H P Lovecraft
Edward Martin III
, April 26, 2007
Although H. P. Lovecraft is best known for a scientific sort of turn-of-the-century horror, he produced a marvelous collection of fantasy stories, and "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" is the crown jewel of the collection, with page after page of constantly new experience, without a single wizard, elf, or dragon in sight. Follow adventurer Randolph Carter (a recurring character in Lovecraft's literature) as he journeys through the Land of Dream in search of a fabulous Sunset City. In this journey, he is helped and hindered by one of the strangest collections of creatures ever collected under one cover, from gugs and gasts to zoogs, nightgaunts, dholes, ghouls and even that peculiar creature known as "cat". All this and a happy ending!
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Dhalgren
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Samuel R. Delany
Edward Martin III
, December 07, 2006
The first time I read this book, I was about sixteen years old and even at that early an age (for this sort of book, that is a fairly early age), the imagery haunted me. A city on the edge of nothing, eternally wreathed in smoke and fog and fires that never went out. Things would burn down, there would be fire and chaos, and the next day, those same buildings would be intact -- subtly different, but intact. The huge bloody sun leaping up into the sky, curling in a short arc, and then dropping back out in a matter of hours. A man who can't remember his name writing poetry in a half-filled book claimed by no one else. A newspaper that has the same date on it whenever it's published. Flashing flowers of razor brass blades strapped to hands with leather thongs. Flashing brilliant gangs of holographic creatures marching down dark, silent streets. Two moons blazing in the sky, people staring in awe. This I remember from the first time I read it, more than twenty years ago. Now, I read it again and all of these images are there, all as brilliant and vivid as before and there's even more than that -- a woman shifting, melding, turning into a weeping tree beneath her lover's protesting hands, people sheathed in chains of crystal prisms, each chain found in circumstances as cryptic as they are individual. The snapping of power projectors, filling a dark street with the dancing lights of mythical creatures, scorpions, hippogriffs, dragons, and one amorphous blob. A boy at the bottom of an elevator shaft, his body broken and shattered, being carried to his mother, who is already testing her own limits against the environment of an insane city. Outrageous and marvelous sex in lofts and rooms. Houses packed with people, dangerous, lazy, and unforgettable. A girl, barely a woman, orbiting around her only lover, loathing him and loving him and terrified of him. Red eyes glowing in the dark night and blind people with pits for eyes being led through fires and raining debris. Artichokes. The voice from behind the bricks. The mouse on the moon that no one ever knew about. Good science fiction should leave you breathless. It should take what you know and push you to a place that you never expected to be. Good science fiction should leave you uncomfortable, feeling awkward, feeling raw, even, as if to say "There, but for the grace of God go I.". Sometimes I like to read to escape and sometimes I like to read to be glad I already have. Dhalgren is the story of a stable system, a city of perpetual and unbelievable violence and savagery. It's the story of a man entering the city -- a man with no name and no memory, a poet, a visionary,a lover, a madman. But in this city, in Bellona, where night and craziness and unreality rules, twin moons lurk in the sky and the occasional giant sun casts it sickly light below, this madman makes his own place and calls it home. Here he finds a new family, a family that treats him as a new person, who aren't bothered by his past or his name or his purpose, who all have their own pasts and names and purposes to forget.
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Stupidest Angel A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror Version 2.0
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Christopher Moore
Edward Martin III
, December 03, 2006
The Stupidest Angel isn't JUST a funny book. It isn't JUST a clever book. It isn't JUST an astonishingly addictive to read book. It's an astonishingly addictive to read hilarious and brain splatteringly clever book to read. Christopher Moore doesn't just use language to tell a story -- he uses language to delight and thrill you. He serves up phrases that are so breathtaking that you have to read them again, as if you simply could not believe that you read them the first time. For example: "Blessed are the minimarshmallows," the angel said, swooning a little. And I haven't even talked about the BOOK yet! The Stupidest Angel is a Christmas tale of beauty, hate, greed, love, power, death, secrets, murder, revelations, magic, miracles, resurrection, the inexplicable appearance of Star Trek shirts, and the sweet peppery taste of gunpowder. Every character is perfectly drawn -- even the bat. If you miss this book, then you'll spend Christmas wondering what the cool people are snickering about.
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Emotional Blackmail When the People in Your Life Use Fear Obligation & Guilt to Manipulate You
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Susan Forward
Edward Martin III
, September 11, 2006
An astonishing and brilliant book that lays bare one of the most ubiquitous and horrifying hidden aspects of relationships gone bad. [a]Susan Forward's [/a]extensive use of real-world and meaningful examples pulls this kind of relationship poison out into a bright light, and does not allow it to hide again. A measure of how powerful [kw]emotional blackmail[/kw] can be is to mention it during practically any kvetch session addressing relationship issues. Dollars to doughnuts at least one person will perk up and say "Holy smokes, that's EXACTLY it!". More than just a revelation, Forward provides positive, decisive tools for dealing with situations where emotional blackmail is the driving force. These tools are primarily targeted to halt the [kw]blackmail [/kw]situation at once, but Forward also makes sure that if at all possible, mechanisms are installed to help encourage behavior change from both directions of the relationship where possible. This includes, once again, extensive and detailed examples from her own casefiles. "[t]Emotional Blackmail[/t]" is not only helpful for detecting and coping with existing problems, but even without the presence of a blackmailing situation, these tools and techniques help create a more healthy psyche and a more healthy partner for any relationship, from familial to intimate to professional.
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