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Of the Smaller Books This is One of Larson's Best.......2007-03-11
Larson released this collection in 1993 and it has more than stood the comedy test of time. The Chickens are Restless is about 2/3rds the height of an A4 bit of paper, all Far Sides are in black and white and are either full page or two to a page. Classic Far Sides inside include the classics Ernie getting a wrong number call from God then for the rest of his life telling his friends he had talked with God, Popeye on the Dating Scene, Death seeing his girlfriend in the movie theatre with Dr Jack Kevorkian, dumb painter in hell holding the work order upside down, Edna being forced to sell her brussel sprouts house, Hookhand telling the tale of "The Two Evil Teenagers", testimony against Mr Pumpkineater being given by his sister Jeannie Jeannie Eatszucchini and the cow sitting on the electric fence saying to the others, "Look if it was electric could I do this" as the angry farmer is about to flick the switch.
Every Far Side Collection is a must own but if you are strapped for cash the better value for money option is usually the larger Far Side Galleries which are a collection of three of these smaller books.
More Subtle Gary Larson Humor.......2006-02-05
This 1993 compilation collects about 361 Far Side illustrations. I found this collection to be a bit less riotous than some others of Larson's collections, and in many cases I had to think more to understand the joke.
For example, there is an illustration showing workers in a chicken processing factory. It took me a moment to realize that there was a basket on the wall with a "GIZZARDS" bucket below the basket. There is another illustration of the famous "Larry of the Lemurs," who was significantly less famous than his African counterpart, Tarzan.
I also thought there were a number of illustrations that were very funny. Adam calls Eve to ask her out on a date and the first thing she thinks is that she doesn't have a thing to wear. Another good one is the lady walking through the sinister woods with a vacuum cleaner and the caution that nature abhors a vacuum.
A few illustrations failed to tickle my funny bone. The image showing a dog hallucinating about cat mirages went no where with me. Another one about shortening Dodge Ball City to Dodge City after the arrival of the Earp brothers fell flat for me as well.
Gary Larson always offers an "outside the box" view of the world. Often his images offer a new twist on a cliché, either reinterpreting the cliché with an image, such as two robots sitting side-by-side, noting that each knew how to push the other's buttons. Sometimes Larson changes one word to achieve a new variation on an old phrase, such as when Jeannie Jeannie Eatszuchinni testifies against her brother, Mr. Pumpkineater. Regardless of how well each image or caption works, you can be assured that this book will stretch your mental muscles, and perhaps you will be able to look at the world in different and more humorous way.
I love this!.......2004-07-27
My Grandpa has this book and every time I visit his house, I read it. If I get finished with it and his other Far Side book, I read them all over again! This book is awesome!
Humor for connoisseurs of the absurd!.......2002-01-02
Mutinous canines, alien-spotting rednecks, dung beetles, and all the assorted occupants of the spaced-out mind of Gary Larson are here in this fun-filled compilation.
Larson is one "acquired taste" that I am glad to have developed.
Gary Larson fan , all the way !.......1999-12-16
Gary Larson knows how to add humor to any creature on any planet
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The Chickens are Restless
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In 1953 when Lucille Ball became pregnant, the censors required the characters on "I Love Lucy" to say only that the wacky redhead was "in the family way"-they feared the word "pregnant" might conjure up, in the minds of viewers, images of a man and woman having sexual intercourse. Now, some fifty years later, from giant billboards featuring nearly nude models in Times Square to Bill Clinton's creative definition of sex to Madonna and Britney's prime-time kiss, sex pervades virtually every aspect of public life, including the films and television programs we watch, the music we listen to, and the racy ads that bombard us. What happened?
Through lively prose and engaging examples, Sex Sells! illuminates this arc from repression to obsession vis-^-vis changing sexual mores during the last five decades. Not only does the author examine how a broad range of media genres have reflected this libidinous journey, but he also shows how the media have played a leading role in propelling the Sexual Revolution. Whether it was the decision by Cosmo editor Helen Gurley Brown to run a photo of a nude Burt Reynolds in 1972 or the recent success of Showtime's sexually explicit "Queer as Folk," the media have led the charge in bringing sex into the mainstream.
Along the way, what the author terms "sexual literacy" has become vital, especially for young media consumers. For Rodger Streitmatter, unlike many critics, believes that much of the media's sexual content is beneficial, as it gives parents and educators a jumping-off point from which to discuss such matters as AIDS, sexual identity, and sexual mores. In this age of continuing sexual liberation, such a viewpoint seems especially important and timely.
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Amazing.......2007-05-09
So basically, this book, in addition to being factual, is also facinating. The information has helped me greatly and the whole book kept my attention for more than a week. A great find and a great read!
Good Primer, provides little analysis .......2006-06-30
This book is a good primer but contains little analysis or original ideas. It does a good job on giving a brief historical background on several examples of the sexual revolution, without getting very deep into any of it. Chapters devoted to television programming do little more than summarize episodes and state that they were groundbreaking, mentioning media examples referring to them as such, but does little to analyze the effect on society. A good, light, book for those who don't know much on the sexual revolution, but a better book would be David Allyn's Make Love Not War.
Sex Sells? I'll take 2 please........2005-11-04
I recently chose this book for an English paper in my Comp II class. Had I never had that assignment, I never would have read the book and I would have missed a lot. Streitmatter does an excellent job at taking an issue, sex in the media, that is generally looked down upon, and giving it a positive outlook. This book focuses on Americas exceptance and openess of sexuality, and the steps that took them there. From topics such as birth control, so sex in music and The Doors, and from Cosmo to Reality TV. Streitmatter covers them in a very educational way. All these things influenced what the media is today.
Better Luck Next Time.......2005-07-15
Any nonfiction book implies a level of trust between the author and the reader. Mr. Streitmatter lost that trust early in the book and never quite got it back. In the first chapter, he made two assertions which are clearly false. First he cites the statistics in Alfred Kinsey's work and only in a footnote does he reveal that Kinsey's research population was so flawed (up to 80% of his interviewees were criminals or homosexuals) that it makes no sense to cite the statistics as examples of anything. Then, he cites the long discredited allegation that J. Edgar Hoover wore women's dresses. He even gets the false allegation wrong. Mr. Streitmatter cites Anthony Summers, whose sole source for the charge in his very flawed biography was the wife of a man the FBI sent to jail. Summers claimed that Hoover wore a women's dress to a fancy ball at New York's Plaza Hotel (which would have meant that hundreds or thousands of people would have seen him, making it bizarre that Summers could find no witnesses other than a source with a grudge against Hoover), not in his own house, as Streitmatter would have it.
Anyone with standards loses patience with Mr. Streitmatter after that. And that's a shame, because the author has an important point to make: that the media has hidden messages even in its most frivolous amusements and that it behooves us all - puritan or libertine - to understand them. This is a lesson that everyone needs to learn about all media, not just the sexually oriented ones. It is, indeed, important to look beneath the surface to figure out just how the media is trying to influence you. All messages are propaganda and you need to be alert.
The author takes several examples of popular media - movies, magazines, television shows, etc. - from Playboy in the 1950s to modern media to show how the media has operated to change sexual mores in America. Although the author's sympathy, with his references to "outdated moral codes" and "sexual repression," are clear, he does an admirably fair job of presenting opposing views.
I would have preferred a more complex analysis. He presents these media at the height of their power and shows how they changed the prevailing mood, but I would have preferred it if he went a little farther to look at the downfall of these media: why did Playboy lose circulation to Penthouse and why did they both later lose out to less explicit magazines? Why was All in the Family cancelled or Three's Company lose its audience? You should be able to understand not just how these media made changes but why they got left in the dust. It would have also been worth examining the connection between more explicitness in the media and such modern phenomena as low birthrates and young people uninterested in sex or marriage. It may very well be, as a better book has it, that it is sexual taboos which kept sex interesting for so many centuries and that destroying those taboos also destroys the sex drive.
Streitmatter gets straight to the matter.......2004-11-10
This book is the final outcome of years of research and hard work... and using his students as guinea pigs for it. Streitmatter in this work, as in most of his writing, is insightful and presents facts in a tounge-in-cheek and humorous yet academic way so that you don't even realize that you are reading what some might use as a textbook. Read it to learn, read it for fun, but definitely read it.
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Title: The American media's sex addiction.(Sex Sells! The Media's Journey from Repression to Obsession)(Book Review)
Author: Carl Sessions Stepp
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American Journalism Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 27
Issue: 4
Page: 75(1)
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Phil Spector is the reclusive maverick producer who invented The Wall of Sound. Widely imitated, but never bettered, the records he made with The Righteous Brothers, The Ronettes, The Crystals, and Ike and Tina Turner are among the most played to this day. This collection gathers the best articles, interviews, and reviews about the enigmatic man and his revolutionary music.
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Rule the Realms
You’ve survived countless deathtraps, slain hordes of monsters, and overthrown your fair share of petty warlords and would-be tyrants. Ever wonder what it would be like to hold sway as an influential member of the royal court, a mighty general, a powerful religious figure, or a successful merchant prince? Power of Faerûn shows players and Dungeon Masters how to play high-level characters and run high-level campaigns in the Realms. It presents worthy challenges and opportunities for heroes who have had their fill of crawling through caverns and plundering forsaken tombs.
For use with these Dungeons & Dragons® products
Player’s Handbook™ Dungeon Master’s Guide™ Monster Manual™
Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting
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AMEN.......2007-04-07
Ed Greenwood has lost whatever he might have had. The man is responsible for killing my interest in Forgotten Realms RPGs. He has turned magic into somethat that can be bought for a few pennies out of a vending machine. Everyone in the realms seems to have some uber powerful magical item to make free use of. The history of the place has been way over developed and the creatures that are running amok across the countryside, its amazing that there is anyone left alive, but then if someone does die no big deal, just raise them so death does not matter either. Also there are way to many gods, as pointed out in some other book its amazing there is not a god for dinnerware. Also I fully agree with previous article about the man being obsessed with naked women oddly attracted to fat bushy old men, I noticed that in Spellfire and he repeats it in every one he has written, is there one of the Seven Sisters that Elminster hasn't scored with?
power..........2006-08-09
not update info on the epic characters ofthe realms
could have used some more umph like epic spells and the like
Power delivers on many areas for role playing but..........2006-05-26
Power of Faerun
Written by Ed Greenwood and Eric L. Boyd
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ISBN 10: 0-7869-3910-9
$29.95
Power of Faerun is devoted to bringing the game outside the dungeon and to the courts, churches and wilderness by focusing on areas of character growth that while involving power, often involve power of a sort not traditionally associated with Dungeons and Dragons characters.
Ed Greenwood and Eric L. Boyd are two of the best scribes of Forgotten Realms material and while the game mechanics fall flat more often than not, thankfully the majority of the book is in the form of non-game mechanics with background details.
Interior artists include Lucio Parrillo, who also handles the cover, as well as fan favorite William O'Connon along with others like Eric Deschamps, Francis Tsai and others. Kyle Hunter handles the cartography this time around and provides maps that are generally easy to read and easy to use.
The graphic design, like most of the Forgotten Realms books, is top notch. The yellowed parchment pages still look great even years latter. Use of sidebars with darker yellow easily catch the eyes. Chapter titles are at the top of the page centered while on the bottom are page numbers. Layout is standard two-column format and makes good use of white space despite the page within a page design of the book.
In terms of coverage, the book provides little bites on numerous areas. It starts off with wielding power in the courts and moves to the battlefield. From the battlefield to the churches. From the churches to the market. From the market to the wild frontier. From the frontier to patrolling the roads.
Each section provides use of the Leadership feat as well as how to `play' that type of game. For example, when looking at Keep the Faith, information on what religious leaders do, as well as methods of daily worship, are provided. One nice resource is the listing of Faith Specific Prestige Classes in one spot.
Notes on moving up the different ranks are included. Looking at the frontier section for example, provides information on being a vassal state or a fiefdom, how to hold a territory and how to fight off the various threats ranging from bandits and brigands to diseases and monsters.
Each section has it's own maps and NPCs to help the GM use the material right away. If you wanted some sample frontier strongholds, you have Wolfwatch Manor and Stormhawk Keep, each mapped out with an overview and numbered with details. Stormhawk for example has fifteen different locations from the Foreyard to the Feasting Hall.
The section on Play the Market provides Dabron Sashenstar, a high powered merchant prince and his unique mount as well as details on his challenge to the Iron Throne's hold on weapons trade in the Heartlands. A place where clever players can start with Dabron as a patron and perhaps move into their own efforts.
My favorite part is probably the section on the market. When reading one of Raymond Feist's books, there was a whole section with the characters working the market and effecting change on the setting not through swords, but through trade. It's an area that despite six years of an open game license, has rarely, if ever, been detailed. The only weakness is that the section relies on the user have the Dungeon Master's Guide II as it uses the rules for running a business.
From there it moves on to discussing challenges for high level characters. Some of these are obvious like working for or against deities. Regardless of character level, deities are often able to provide challenges. After deities the older dragons are another great adversary. The most interesting option for high level characters though, are other high level characters.
This involves the most work on the GM's part while providing the most dangerous options. For some GM's, it's almost too easy to customize a villain to counter a player, especially a player whose ultra-specialized in one field. Have a fantastic ability to deal death with a greatsword but a terrible fortitude save? Have awesome abilities with fire magic but no enchantment? Still, the advice on using rivals is a good place to get ideas.
Sometimes though, it's not the strength of an individual enemy, but rather, that enemy's horde that you have to worry about. Wizards of the Coast recently put their money where their mouth was with this idea and their adventure, The Red Hand of Doom, deals with adventurers fighting against humanoids and their masters, the dragons.
In addition to details on different character options, details on the Border Kingdoms are included. The Border kingdoms fill a useful role in being a place that the GM can manipulate for his own use, much in the way a similar named kingdom in the Warhammer setting can be used. A place where characters should be able to make long term changes.
Details are included for numerous parts of the land including Bedron, The Land of Two Princes, Owlhold and the Realm of the Ready Sword. Each section gets it's own brief details but is more or less there to provide the GM a place to put his own marker, much like say the Wilderlands of the old Judges Guild.
The book closes off a bit weak with a section on how to rule. This includes expanded Leadership scores and rules for bringing in, and losing cohorts and followers. It's a solid chapter but could be used for any campaign as opposed to just a Forgotten Realms game. Included with the expanded chart for Epic Leadership, are feats to augment leadership such as, yes, Epic Leadership and Born Leaders, a feat that provides a bonus to your leadership score and a bonus to your Influence modifier.
Power of Faerun is a solid book for any D&D campaign. While the specifics are Forgotten Realms, they can serve as examples for someone running a Greyhawk or Eberron game. The rules and methods of working for the church or fighting in the courts are often overlooked in the game and this book provides background information on ideas of what type of conflicts and rewards await those whose dungeon is a castle or cathedral.
An interesting sourcebook for high level play in the realms.......2006-04-23
Very short review time. This book has NO CRUNCH. no prestige classes, no feats, no new spells. It does, however, have a lot of interesting information and tips on how to conduct an epic-level game in the land of Faerun.
Not to say that the book isn't fascinating, but its about 8 light years away from what I've come to expect from Forgotten Realms supplements. Know what you're buying, and if you think this sort of thing might interest you then give it a whirl. I can't give it more than faint praise overall though.
A sub-standard and not very useful Realms book.......2006-04-19
It's unfortunate that I can only give this book one review, as I really feel like it's two different books; a solid one written by Mr. Boyd and a terrible one written by Mr. Greenwood. Those familiar with Mr. Greenwood's writing style will easily be able to pick out his contributions to this work. His prose jumps from one subject to another and back again repeatedly without ever seeming to get to the point; the end result is pages and pages of unreadable material that should be condensed to a much more useful handful of paragraphs.
Lambasting Mr. Greenwood's style is anathema to most Realms fans, but I find that his work has become less and less creative over time; he rarely has anything new to say. I'm getting very tired of hidden caches of magical artifacts under every tree, ghosts of uber-powerful mages hiding in the walls of every inn, overly-buxom heroines who are very comfortable with their nakedness and who are unusually attracted to out of shape older men (wishful thinking, Ed?), and the plethora of other Realms cliches that Mr. Greenwood can't seem to let go.
This book touches upon some roleplaying subjects (ruling a kingdom, running a mercantile empire, etc.) that could prove to be a lot of fun in some campaigns, but this book rarely made me feel like I needed it in order to explore these ideas. I did find the mercantile section and the frontier section better than the others, although as another poster alluded to, I wish that there were more Realms-specific plot hooks in the book. The courtly rule section was butchered particularly badly by Mr. Greenwood, which was unfortunate as that was the one that I was most looking forward to.
All in all, I would say that Heroes of Battle does a much better job with the military stuff attempted in this book (this book references that work quite a bit, in fact), and Dungeon Master's Guide II gives a good presentation of how to deal with PCs getting involved in organizations (again, that book is referenced a lot in this one). This book feels like something that Ed really, really wanted to do, and the editors at Wizards finally just let him do it despite the fact that it's really a rehash of a lot of prior material that doesn't need to be presented separately in a Realms format. Most of it I could have come up with myself; I usually roll my eyes when people make that statement concerning RPG books, because usually I can at least get a lot of good plot hooks out of them, but in this case I really thought most of the book was worthless.
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Telenovela/Telenovelas: Los Relatos de Una Historia de Amor (Coleccion del Circulo)
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