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Berkley Trade
Usually ships in 24 hours IPhone 3G used's review (Hot Hot!!!) 『loved this book the story of lyssa and jacob and him having 2 proove 2 her that hes good enough 2 be her servant when shes fighting it 2 her core that she dont want 2 give him the marks he needs 2 b a servant』
(Something different) 『I love vampire books and picked this one up on the sale rack... WOW a little erotica, was I in for a treat...The characters have really strong personalities and fit so well together. I enjoyed the story line and look forward to the next book.....』
(Greatly disappointed) 『As a long time fan of JWH, this one was a great disappointment. I can't even get the concluding book to finish this story. I found the story and dialogue so so slow bordering on long-drawn and tedious, that I found myself skimming half way through. I did not feel the strong emotional and romantic pull that I've come to expect from JWH's books. I was so excited that JWH was venturing into the vampire genre because I love reading and watching vampire stories (ie Underworld, Delilah Devlin's My Immortal Knight series) which naturally have alot of eroticism and action adventure. This is a gifted writer but unfortunately she must be going through a different spell or inspiration because this is the second book of hers that I've read in a row which I've found lacking (Mistress of Redemption being the other one). I understand in order to grow, authors like to challenge themselves with different themes and genre, but the story still needs to be engaging, passionate, and keep moving forward. There were sections that felt like forever filled with internal battle/dialogue. Okay I get it she's hesitant about making Jacob her servant but does the whole book have to be about that struggle. I realize her other books (Ice Queen, Mirror of My Soul, Natural Law, If Wishes were Horses) were also about guy likes girl, girl is scared but drawn to guy, girl pushes guy away, guy pushes back, and eventually guy gets the girl, BUT those books had good pacing that made them engaging and the stories were aways moving forward with good character and story development not to mention action (ie kicking the heck out of that perverts, base jumping between buildings, Wiccan rituals). Now I will definitely be hesitant about picking up another JWH book without reading the reviews.』
(worth the $) 『this was one of the better books ive read lately. unlike some of the other erotic novels this one actually had a rather intresting story line. i would recomend that you purchase the 2nd book 'the mark of the vampire queen' as well. both books are rather long and well writen. this was one book i actually didnt find myself fliping through and skiping segments to try and keep my attention. i only wish there were more.』
(This is a GREAT BOOK!!!!!) 『I love erotica, expecially explicit. I've always been curious about the D/s roles. The fact the book was about a dominant Vampire Queen and a Alpha Submissive interested me. As another reviewer has previously stated, it is a little bit of a slow read, but is graphic and compelling. It has all these twists and turns. This is NOT a book for the faint at heart. It is also not a traditional love story, that part really peaks my interest more. This book as had me reach into depths of my mind that I never have really explored.
This book has tickled my fancy and has me wanting more. Not ever wanting to leave the story of Jacob&Lyssa. Do not read this book if you are not ready to experience something you have never experience before. It will take you places you've probably only about as a surface of an idea for mere seconds.
I would definantly recommend this to anyone who is looking for a good erotica, D/s themed genre.』 『Paranormal erotica from an award-winning author who stands out in a genre known for its out-of-the-ordinary love play." (Romance Studio)
Lady Elyssa Yamato Amaterasu Wentworth is a centuries-old vampire who's been given a new servant-Jacob, a total alpha male unaccustomed to submitting to any woman's wishes. What really binds Jacob to her are not her sensual midnight hungers, but something far more provocative. It stirs her blood, renews her life, and awakens her soul like only true love can. The passion between Elyssa and Jacob yields something else unexpected-a shared history that reaches back through the centuries and is fated to challenge their destiny like nothing ever will again.』
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Eurotica
Usually ships in 24 hours IPhone 3G used's review (Great artwork, definitely graphic enough...) 『I was really impressed by the quality of the artwork in this comic. The story line is a bit thin with sex thrown in at every chance, but, to be honest it was pretty hot and sexy, which is why i gave it 4 stars. Wish it could've been a bit longer, but i'll definitely buy the next one.』
(Truly fun erotica with cheesy translations but an interesting storyline) 『This somewhat oddly-titled series is an import from NBM's Eurotica imprint, created by Dutch author/artist Frank Mensink and then translated into English. I tell you this at the beginning so that you won't be disappointed by the rather strange dialogue, which veers back and forth between spot-on, almost childishly silly, and downright bizarre. If you've ever read HEAVY METAL magazine, chances are that you've already been exposed to this phenomenon. For whatever reason, the distributors of foreign comics will spend boatloads on top artistic talent, and then apparently hire the cheapest translators they can find.
This is a shame, because KRISTINA is that rarest of creatures, an erotic comic with a fun and engaging storyline. The protagonist was slain in the Middle Ages by an angry mob, but apparently they weren't very thorough about it; some fresh blood in her unmarked grave restores her to unlife in the modern day. What makes this interesting is that Kristina seems committed to turning over a new leaf: after preying on the innocent in her first unlife, she decides this time around to feed only on criminals, the human flotsam whose deaths will be unnoticed (or at least unlamented). She quickly takes a couple of human thralls to help protect her during the day, and it's obvious that she truly cares for them.
Kristina's actions bring her into conflict with the human protagonists, a pair of very horny police investigators named Mike and Iris who are trying to find out why street thugs keep showing up exsanguinated. Mike has some kind of mystic connection to Kristina, which causes the vamp to become obsessed with claiming him as her eternal soulmate -- something that Iris obviously objects to. For all that she is trying to be a better person (so to speak), Kristina really doesn't care what Iris wants, and her blithe willingness to try stealing Mike away from the human woman is the one thing that costs her sympathy with the audience. Still, Kristina is such a fun character that it's hard to root against her, even as we also hope for a happy ending for Mike and Iris.
The quality of the art is generally very high, with great facial expressions and gorgeous colors and shading. It occasionally veers toward the more cartoony, particularly when blood and gore are involved, but that doesn't really detract from it.
On the whole, this is a very well-done book, if you can forgive the shortcomings in the translation. If you like sexy stories about vampires, this one and its sequel are both worth a look.』
(Porn in comic form) 『I thought this was going to be a sexy vampire comic but instead its literally like looking at a storyboard of a cheap porno. Don't get me wrong, I definitely dont mind XXX films but I watch them cause I want to watch them - I read comics to be entertained - not... you know. And anyway, besides that point - its not even good. The art isnt that bad but the main character's face isnt really consistent throughout the book.
The formula for the book goes a little like this: -Opening scene - raunchy sex thrown in for effect -Introduce new character - find excuse to throw in raunchy sex -Plot idea - sex in the meantime -uh oh! this book needs to end! uhhhh... kill the character and have sex at the end!
This whole comic is exactly like a porn film in that its all about the sex, no one cares about the story - XXX films just have "story" there for filler I guess. It should happen like, "lets make the coolest story ever with some really interesting characters that people will want to get to know and be dying for the next book" but these guys said, "lets make some raunchy sex in comic form and throw in something about a vampire to get all the fanboys to buy our crap!"
Avoid this. Get something awesome like Bomb Queen. 』
(Interesting...) 『One of the first Eurorotica that I purchased. It is not that bad, but I prefer manga better for the story lines. If you like a tale that gets straight to the point you would like this. It is just too short for my tastes.』
(Sexy fun with Vampire) 『I love graphic novels, and I love anything with vampires. So naturally, this peaked my interest. After reading the reviews, I was not disappointed. It was kinky fun, and very erotic. I can't wait for the next issue to come out. Hope it does.』 『Kristina is a powerful vampire with unquenchable lust, and not just for blood! She wakes back up in our age and quickly commandeers a man or two as hypnotized subjects for blood and raunchy lust! An X-rated Vampirella beautifully painted.』
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Picador
Usually ships in 24 hours IPhone 3G used's review (Disserent perspective) 『This book was great in that it gave me a different perspective into the life of the French Queen. I've read many bio's but this was completely different, and it was refreshing. Although I did notice that this book wasn't as sympathetic towards Marie-Antoinette as Frasiers' The Journey, or others.』
(Biography of a fashion icon) 『Pros: Unique and successful way of approaching Marie Antoinette's life, well written and entertaining.
Cons: Sometimes gets a tad bit too descriptive with the costumes.
"Queen of Fashion" approaches the life of Marie Antoinette by looking at the wardrobe that she was infamous for. Caroline Weber has a brilliant talent for showing both what Marie Antoinette's wardrobe said about her as a person, a political entity and for what her subjects perceived it as saying. Part cultural history, but above all, biography, each chapter of "Queen of Fashion" reveals a different aspect of Marie's personality. Weber does not merely focus on the queen's most outrageous fashion choices, but shows the progression of her life through her clothes. We see Marie Antoinette as a scared fourteen-year-old, stripped of her clothing and power, as a glittering diva spending obscene amounts of money to be the first lady of fashion, and as a widow dressed in black, deprived of the clothing choices that had come to define her, but still attempting to make statements with what little she had left. The book doesn't make any apologies for Marie, but neither does it cast blame. It merely helps the reader to understand her better.
"Queen of Fashion" is superbly written. There is enough documented research to give the book weight, but it never feels dry or academic. I have trouble finding any faults with the book, but if anything, I would say that Weber just occasionally gets carried away with describing Marie Antoinette's outfits and goes on longer than needed.
Overall, though, a lush, entertaining book about a fascinating woman. 5 stars. 』
(Good book to add to a MA collection) 『I was very impressed with this book and how the author was able to blend historical fact with the fashions of the time. This book ties in well with The Journey as well as with the Marie Antoinette movie. I would highly recommend checking this book out.』
(Marie Antoinette and Fashion will always be connected) 『I found this book to be a fantastic read! Out of the many, this is the book I chose to read first when I became interested in Marie. Caroline Weber did a beautiful job destroying (if you will) old stereotypes that are associated with this woman. One reviewer stated," Not sure whether it wants to be a biography or fashion." I respectfully disagree. I'm not sure you can have one without the other. I'm very pleased that I chose this book to be my first. It made me want to know more about this courageous woman as well as the fashion of the 18th century, the French Revolution, and all who were involved. Just recently I pick this book up from my shelf, dusted it off and decided to read it again, only to realize that there were things that I had either dismissed or forgotten, and am now studying them further.
All in all, a fascinating and fast paced bitter sweet telling of how fashion and Marie Antoinette are intricately entwined. A must read for those who are just starting to learn about her as well as the seasoned expert.』
(Great read) 『Wonderful new viewpoint on the age old subject of Marie Antonette. She never really said "Let them eat cake..." but she did a lot of other interesting things!』 『
AWashington Post Book WorldBest Book of the Year When her carriage first crossed over from her native Austria into France, fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette was taken out, stripped naked before an entourage, and dressed in French attire to please the court of her new king. For a short while, the young girl played the part.
But by the time she took the throne, everything had changed. InQueen of Fashion,Caroline Weber tells of the radical restyling that transformed the young queen into an icon and shaped the future of the nation. With her riding gear, her white furs, her pouf hairstyles, and her intricate ballroom disguises, Marie Antoinette came to embody--gloriously and tragically--all the extravagance of the monarchy.
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Beacon Press
Usually ships in 24 hours IPhone 3G used's review (A Queen Hidden from View) 『"The Wanda" had influence and access that boggles the imagination, and that most journalists can only dream about. Yet, few people outside the upper reaches of the oil industry knew who she was, and the importance of what she did. This book renders an important service by putting a spotlight on Wanda, and by laying bare some of what the oil industry has done to create dangerous tensions in the world, and a flaw in our economy that could turn out to be deadly. It's too bad that the author didn't expose more of the dirt. But, as it is, this book is a fascinating read. It tells the reader a great deal of who Wanda Jablonski was, warts and all, and what made her tick. It also tells us a lot about how society's prejudices and ignorance spread into the oil industry, and in turn how the oil industry has influenced politics in America and elsewhere. For whatever reasons, this book does not talk about Mexico, Italy, the mob, or any number of important aspects of the oil industry. Oh well, what it does have is worth more than the price.』
(Engaging history!) 『Oil affects us all more and more financially, environmentally and geopolitically as time passes. This engaging biography provides wonderful insight into the incubation of our current oil markets. Rubino also gives us a memorable image of a unique brave pacesetter for investigative business journalism, her uniqueness amplified by the fact that she was a woman. You will never read another article about this vital resource in the same way after being impacted by this book.』
(Great Read on Many Levels) 『While I expected to find Queen of the Oil Club to be an educational read, I wasn't prepared for the page turner I found. Rubino's first person and you are there approach to Wanda's amazing life was riveting. So far,I've recommended it to friends looking for a lively summer read, writer friends, my graduate student niece who is pursuing Women's Studies and a friend who grew up in Saudi Arabia in the 1960's. There's something there for each of them.』
(The Seeds of Today's Oil Crisis) 『The seeds of today's oil crisis were sown during the five decades that Wanda Jablonski reported on industry events and, through that reporting, influenced their outcome. To understand the current surge of oil nationalism on the part of both producer and consumer nations that will determine the future of hydrocarbons for years to come, we need to go back to the earlier rise of oil nationalism that led to the creation of OPEC. This book takes us there through the life of an extraordinary woman. Wanda, her first name sufficed to identify her whether in the court of the King of Saudi Arabia or the Exxon executive offices, had access to the boardrooms and bedouins that created the oil machine. She spoke the truth to their faces and told her readers what went on behind the curtain. In an all-male oil world, she earned respect and fear for the power she wielded as a journalist who knew as much or more about this crucial industry than the men who ran it. Anna Rubino captures Wanda, a strangely reclusive woman who quietly re-wrote the rules of business journalism and influenced the world we live in today.』
(Queen of the Oil Club) 『Review for "The Queen of the Oil Club" Anna Rubino takes us into the world of oil in the 1950's through the eyes of a remarkable woman, Wanda Jablonski. In this clearly readable book the reader is exposed to the personalities of the industry leaders, the look and feel of the Middle Eastern cities and the customs and concerns of its people. Filled with high drama, this book tells a fascinating and timely story, perhaps even more relevant in view of today's oil crisis. Donald and Kathie Eppert 』 『This is the story of a gutsy journalist who challenged power—and succeeded. WandaJablonski was an investigative reporter, publisher, and power broker who came to wield exceptional influence on twentieth-century geopolitics by shedding light on the secretive world of oil from the 1950s through the 1980s. Jablonski unveiled many mysteries of the oil club, an elite group of Western executives who once controlled the international petroleum business.
Nicknamed the midwife of OPEC, Jablonski undermined Big Oil's dominance by exposing the vulnerabilities of the major oil companies and encouraging the rise of oil nationalism. Her scoops, commentaries, and private networking helped shape the debate that led to the creation of OPEC, the oil shocks of the 1970s, and the largest transfer of wealth in history.
Tenacious and glamorous, Wanda—as she was known in the oil world—coaxed her way into exploration sites in Middle Eastern deserts, drilling camps in the Venezuelan jungle, male-only boardrooms in New York and London, and the king's harem in Saudi Arabia. She survived threats, boycotts, and suspicions of espionage as she elicited information and insight from CEOs of the oil giants and political leaders, including the shah of Iran.
Working for the Journal of Commerce and other New York publications, Jablonski defied the prevailing view that a woman reporting on business had no credibility. In 1961, divorced and suddenly jobless, she took a big gamble by starting her own newsletter, Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, which was soon dubbed the "bible" of the oil world.
Today, when conflict in the Middle East and climate change cause us to reexamine our reliance on oil, Jablonski's prescience—whether about oil dependency, cultural insensitivity, or market manipulation—proves remarkable.
Anna Rubino, who reported for Jablonski in the 1980s, uses scores of interviews, exclusive access to her private papers, and newly declassified information to tell the dramatic story of this journalistic pioneer and the power of information.
"A riveting life story that illuminates a whole era—an era that continues to have so large an impact on our own times." —from the Foreword by Daniel Yergin, author of The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
"Part detective story and part political thriller, The Queen of the Oil Club is the true account of the most influential woman of the early oil age. It's a book you can't miss." —Gregg Easterbrook, author of The Progress Paradox
"Wanda Jablonski was one of a kind—a reporter who revealed the secret world of the oil business, a woman who penetrated the inner sanctums of the Arab oil sheiks, and an entrepeneur who created a publication that was the industry's bible. Jablonski's colorful career comes alive in Anna Rubino's richly reported memoir." —David Ignatius, columnist for The Washington Post and author of Body of Lies: A Novel
"A page-turner and a substantive biography, Queen of the Oil Club makes Middle East oil history come alive through the eyes of a truly trailblazing woman journalist." —Ambassador Connie Morella, former Congresswoman from Maryland
"What a fascinating story and what a remarkable woman! Before women were even allowed to join the National Press Club, Wanda Jablonski managed, through determination, hard work, and excellent reporting, to overcome the odds and become one of the most influential journalists in our history. Jablonski not only chronicled the growth of the oil industry, she helped shape it—and brought oil barons to their knees." —Bill Press, host of the Bill Press Show and author of Trainwreck
"A gem of a book about a remarkable woman and the shadowy world of oil and global politics. Anna Rubino has followed in Wanda Jablonski's footsteps, mining the data and presenting a fascinating story." —Rachel Bronson, author of Thicker than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia』
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Vintage
Usually ships in 24 hours IPhone 3G used's review (Beauty and the Beast) 『This is another of Martin McDonagh's black comedies in his growing canon in the theater of malice and cruelty. He'll soon corner the market on the make `em laugh, then shock `em Irish village genre. Here a mother and daughter exist together in am atmosphere of mutual hatred. The mother Mag is a harpy, a harridan, lazy, spiteful, self-centered, and malicious. Her daughter Maureen, frustrated, unstable and equally malicious, is shackled with her. A local man Pato Dooley, headed for the States, dubs forty-year-old Maureen the beauty queen of Leenane which is their tiny Irish village in Connemara. McDonagh's characters often start with verbal nastiness and graduate to physical cruelty with torture, blood and gore. He's carved out a niche for himself that can cause his audiences to cringe and cower at the lengths he'll go to finish off a character or two. There may be bloody consequences. A McDonagh character must learn to duck to fend off violence and nastiness. Herein beware of hot cooking oil and heavy pokers. His characters often seem like simpletons teetering on the edge of insanity who speak at times in an absurdist nonsensical dialogue. The playwright see saws his audience between seemingly harmless comic absurdity and dark cruelty and sadism. In his theater of savagery human life is negotiable and precarious, and often valueless. He's an original, edgy creative talent who may turn off the queasy and those easily shocked, but he is a force in the theater to be reckoned with. Making his audiences uncomfortable, making them wriggle in their seats may well be his goal. In this play expect less blood and gore than in "The Lieutenant of Inishmore," but don't expect much compassion for the human race. Sickly brilliant, perhaps? Nine Lives Too Many The Daemon in Our Dreams The Rice Queen Spy Clawed Back from the Dead』
(Not for the feint of heart) 『The best way to sum up Martin McDonagh? Quentin Tarantino meets Edward Albee. All three of these plays, also known as the Leenane trilogy, have several things in common: (1) violence (2) black humor (3) grotesque characters and (4) did I mention violence. Like Tarantino, McDonagh's use of violence is mostly humorous. When Maureen smashes her old mothers head witha fire poker, we laugh. We laugh because the poker has been conversed about at great length, about how it would make a supreme weapon. It displays the Chekov adage perfectly - if you show a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it better go off in the third. We also laugh because Muareen and her mother are so nasty, so disgusting and despicable that one of them deserves a sweet release. But not all the characters die - some are beaten with shovels, others crashed into walls, others have their heads shot off: and somehow they return, bloodied, confused, but alive, as stupid and indestructible as ever. And at times the violence is not funny, but chillingly cold - like when Maureen burns her mother's hand in boiling oil. We are caught in between, as our laughs melt into gasps.
Juxtaposed to all this violence is an attention to the prosaic. In an instant the characters can go from arguing about the merits of different brands of potato crisps to pointing a gun at one another's head. Very Tarantinoesque. Think of Vince and Jules tucking their guns into their shorts as they leave the diner in their "dork" t-shirts at the end of Pulp Fiction. One of McDonagh's characters blows off his father's head because he makes fun of his haircut. Sure, all this is funny, but I think McDonagh is also trying to show the petty, ignorant absurdity that is the human condition. Like Edward Albee there is a lot of witty repartee between the characters. They use esoteric words like "maudlin" that belie their boorish ignorance. Two of the brothers call one another "virgin gayboys." I don't know, but there is something funny about brothers calling one another "virgin gayboys." Not far from the way so many of the brothers I knew growing up talked to one another. The construction of the narratives are tight, dramatic, usually with sharp twist at the end. I've heard it before, and it was written in the New Yorker, that McDonagh is finished with play writing. So be it. But if Six Shooter is a sign of where he plans to go with film in the future, rest assured we will be entertained. 』
(Brilliant Plays) 『As a translator of different plays from english to spanish I can assure you if there's an outstanding english playwright nowadays, then that's Martin McDonagh... it's only a shame he recently announced he won't be writing any new plays soon and will turn his talent to filmmaking, which is just as great but the theatre will have a terrible absence in years to come.』
(Synge-speak a century later?) 『The comments here reflect the larger debate roiling about McDonagh's use of stereotypical language and stock characters. There definitely is a rhythm sustained in each one of these three, with its ironic echoes of another observer of the West of Ireland, Synge, in his dialogues that veer near parody even as they for other listeners ring true of "English as she is spoken in Ireland." Whether this register is one of cruelty or affection or neither seems to still be an open question when critics and audiences are discussing these plays.
These three plays interlock with each other, with references tying characters and events into those of the other two dramas. Like "Cripple of Inishmaan," these three rely on a twist of a family set-up, a bitter and decades-long rivalry that at last bursts into violence, and a pause halfway on for a letter back from a character off in America or England that'll figure in the rest of the action. Of the three, "Skull" seems to drag on more than the others, perhaps because of its graveside setting that draws the characters into a place and locks them there for a time. "Beauty Queen" relies on a letter never received as its ploy, and while this moves the plot along, it does seem old hat. "Lonesome West" has been, in one review I read, called to task for the "ridiculous" Father Welsh Walsh Welsh (or vice versa), but I found his character the most recognizable of his caricatures, and in this play I believe McDonagh's working slowly towards arguably more empathy with the characters and situations he contrives. Girleen for the first time also gives us somebody we can listen to without feeling like she's distorted beyond all verisimilitude.
McDonagh does love his domestic brutality, and the cartoonish nature of his exaggerated disputes over Kimberleys, Wagon Wheels, Taytos, and the merits of cow burials five years exhumed make for entertaining repartee. With "Pillowman," I wonder if he's exhausted the codding and slagging of his Connemara/Aran forebears; after the "Lieutenant of Inishmore," it seems as if he's gotten sham-roguery out of his system and gone on to more "European" representations of more serious intent. Time will tell if these early plays are only the start of a long career or a burst of energy before calming his post-adolescent shock value gradually diminished into more subtle and intricate--and perhaps then more horrifyingly recognizable--explorations of violence and disruption within the mental worlds, no longer the propped-up Irish settings sketched wittily if loosely here in three Leenane plays from his relative youth.』
(Grotesques but well done grotesques) 『What he does he does well. Lonesome West is outrageous and hilarious and even a "wee bitten" sad. Beauty Queen has plenty of wit and poignant moments as well. But, his main characters aren't people. They're grotesques. The mother in Beauty Queen, the brothers and priest of Lonesome West, pretty much every character in Skull in Connamaragh. You never could confuse these characters with real people, they will always remain characters on stage or on the page. McDonagh and the audience look down on these characters and rightly so, they're psychopaths, freaks. You laugh at them not with them. McDonagh is entertaining and after years of Beckett and Ionesco and other avant garde types, its nice to see some action and a coherent story-line on stage, but there are times when you think that McDonagh is the quivalent of a good pulp writer, somebody along the lines of a Hammett or Chandler or even a Steven King or John Grisham. He writes good stories and is very entertaining, but he is not the kind of writer who will change the way that you look at the world or the way that you perceive yourself.』 『These three plays are set in a town in Galway so blighted by rancor, ignorance, and spite that, as the local priest complains, God Himself seems to have no jurisdiction there.
The Beauty Queen of Leenaneportrays ancient, manipulative Mag and her virginal daughter, Maureen, whose mutual loathing may be more durable than any love. InA Skull in Connnemara, Mick Dowd is hired to dig up the bones in the town churchyard, some of which belong to his late and oddly unlamented wife. And the brothers ofThe Lonesome Westhave no sooner buried their father than they are resuming the vicious and utterly trivial quarrel that has been the chief activity of their lives.
"[McDonagh is] the most wickedly funny, brilliantly abrasive young dramatist on either side of the Irish Sea.... He is a born storyteller."--New York Times』
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Atria
Usually ships in 24 hours IPhone 3G used's review (Lots of cleaning info. for everyday things!!) 『This book is jam packed with lots of information for cleaning things from tile an grout (which is the reason I bought the book) to carpets with various stains, as well as what to do to get clean/organized each month. I recommend this book over the other one I bought "Talking Dirty with the Queen of Clean" because it contains much of the same information, but more of it.』
(How the Queen Cleans Everything) 『What a fun and useful book this is !! It is written and illustrated in an amusing and easy to understand style and has an index which makes it simple to locate the information you are looking for. I have used it on many occassions and it has saved the day ! I have often given it as gifts to new home owners, friends and family who have just gotten married, as a fun present at Bridal showers and engagement parties,and to young men and women going off to College or starting out in their first apartment. ..... A must for every household !!』
(Book Review) 『This is a wonderful book. I can't believe how many suggestions are in here. I'm very glad I bought it』
(So Helpful) 『I have used this book over and over again. It contains not only suggestions for areas where I had questions but also for areas I did not realize there were alternatives. For example, I now have an effective and cheap alternative for stain removal on clothes. Highly recommended.』
(Great for just about EVERYTHING!) 『I got this book as a gift and it got lost when I moved. I missed it so much, that I had to buy a replacement. If there's (almost) any kind of stain, this lady knows how to remove it. The only one that I can't find a "cure" for is ORANGE DRINK, UGH! Highly recommended for the cleaning challenged (as I seem to be).』 『
A how-to manual for housekeeping amateurs and pros alike,How the Queen Cleans Everythingis a collection of fast and ingenious tips from #1New York Timesbestselling author -- and housekeeping's royal lady -- Linda Cobb, the Queen of Clean®.
It's all here. All of the Queen's miraculous tips and surprising shortcuts on how to solve hundreds of cleaning challenges -- inside and out. Let the Queen show you how to turn your home into a sparkling palace in no time at all. Learn how to put an end to washday drudgery with her collection of nifty and natural solutions for stress-free washing and ironing -- and enjoy a year's worth of tips, tricks, and picks for a cleaner house and a more organized life. But most of all, discover how the Queen's no-nonsense "tips and hints" method of housekeeping means less time cleaning your home, and more time enjoying it!
Let the Queen show you:
the best way to clean your kitchen and bathroom
the multitude of natural stain removers that are hiding in your cupboard
how to garden the natural way
what to do for spots, stains, scorch marks, and odors
why you shouldn't clean your windows with newspaper
how to clean your carpet and bare floors
the right way to allergy-proof your home
what those care labels really mean
how to treat troublesome stains and delicate fabrics...and much more!
At last...all the Queen of Clean's® famous advice for a clean house, cleaner laundry, and a year of timely tips -- right at your fingertips!
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Hal Leonard Corporation
Usually ships in 24 hours IPhone 3G used's review (Grand!!! What a great way to celebrate Queen) 『This sheet music is a wonderful way to be inspired by Queen and the arrangements that made them who they were. They are timeless』
(Not as advertised) 『This is advertised as being written for vocals, guitar, and piano. Well, that's partly true. The only way I can figure it out is that the notes are given for whatever is playing the melody. So if the vocals are the melody, those are the notes you are seeing, but if the piano is playing the melody, it will switch to that without telling you that there's a change in instruments, therefore you're not getting the full arrangement for each instrument, only what is in the melody. It will give you the full arrangement for the vocals, but I'm guessing most people are buying this for the guitar/piano. If I'm wrong about my assumption above, then this book is just WAY off and doesn't deserve to be in publication. I'm not an amateur, I've been playing for 9 years and this thing is the biggest clusterf*ck I've ever seen.』
(Decent guide) 『This book's arrangements give a good glimpse of the originals, but even beyond the difficulty of putting a band like Queen's songs on just a voice and piano, it contains some serious errors in rhythms, especially in "Killer Queen." Someone with a good grasp of the originals and musical ideas can change it to the version recorded by Queen, but it takes work. Don't expect this to be perfect right off the page.』
(excellent piano music) 『The piano music in this book is excellent. It is true to the actual music and I would recommend it to anyone who has been taking piano for a few years. I play bohemian rhapsody sometimes at school and it is a big hit!』
(Great book!) 『I have thoroughly enjoyed this book! The pieces are fun to play and the variety is good. It is totally worth every penny.』 『Their 30 biggest hits, including: Another One Bites The Dust * Bohemian Rhapsody * Crazy Little Thing Called Love * Under Pressure * We Are The Champions * We Will Rock You * You're My Best Friend * and more.』
