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Rare and charming spots from authentic periodicals of the 1910s and ’20s include a wealth of royalty-free vignettes of a child’s world: children reading, playing games, in school, doing chores, playing the piano, at meals, and in hundreds of other settings and situations.
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Brings back childhood memories!.......1998-04-26
This Dover publication is a wonderful collection of cuts
from magazines and children's publications from the
1910's and 1920's. The illustrations were collected by
the author and her family over the years. The collection
includes children of all ages and in all areas of life -
including various seasons - Christmas, Easter, Hallowe'en, - and children of different cultures. There
are some lovely sets of cut-outs - children with different
sets of clothing with tabs like the paper dolls we played
with as children. This book would be a wonderful source
of clipart for many applications, including scrapbooks.
Limited permission is given to use the cuts for graphic
and crafts applications. A companion publication by the
same author is 'Spot Illustrations from Women's
Magazines of the Teens and Twenties'.
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Get your geek on! Penny Arcade, the comic strip for gamers, by gamers is now available in comic shops and bookstores everywhere. Not familiar with Penny Arcade? What? It's only the most popular comic strip on the web. It's the funniest, most twisted comic that ever lampooned gamer culture, and takes shots at everything from Star Wars to Steve Jobs. Experience the joy of being a hardcore gamer as expressed in vignettes of random vulgarity and mindless violence! Get online and direct your browser to penny-arcade.com, check out the latest strips, then, to read Penny Arcade from the very beginning, get the first collection, Attack of the Bacon Robots, which includes strips, sketches, and creator commentary not available anywhere else!
Customer Reviews:
Successful attack.......2007-06-30
My husband is a fan of Penny Arcade & I purchased this book as a birthday present - he loves it!
From the desk of a Fan.......2007-03-26
I've been an avid PA reader since nigh on 2000 can't recall the actual date I got hooked on it, but I have to say that the way it is written and illustrated had me from the start.
The humor sometimes borders on crude remarks, yet it is direct to the point, which is why I believe it has been so successful.
Their remarks center around video games and the video game industry, but overall, they embark on a flurry of comments that go through the whole spectrum and not just games.
The illustrations have evolved through the ages, and right now you have the chance of reviewing these original drawings, on paper!!
Personally I just had to have this, but others may find that it is simpler to go online and Check the Penny Arcade Archives, having read them for the last 7 years or so, I found that I wanted to be able to review them offline as well, in the comfort of a la-z boy, and without the permanent glow of radiation from my monitor; YMMV.
If you love Penny Arcade, this is like a treasure trove.......2007-03-09
True, Penny Arcade is viewable for free on the internet, but with this book, you get insight into the brilliant mind of Jerry Holkins with each comic. If there was anything you didn't really understand and there is no archived news post available, he will explain it in a helpful and very humorous way. A great purchase, as is "Epic Legends of the Magic Sword Kings" and "The Warsun Prophecies."
Great for Penny Arcade fans; needs more comments.......2007-02-15
I love Penny Arcade and think they are one of the more consistently funny webcomics out there. This book consists of their early work, and to be honest is not as funny as their more recent stuff. I think it's great for fans who want to see how Penny Arcade started, and get some comments from the creators. I also think longer comments would've been great, as I love Jerry Holkins's humor (but why didn't Mike Krahulik say anything?). All in all, I liked it well enough for the sake of learning PA's backstory, but on the early comics are not that impressive on their own.
Great times, fun times but only for gamers.......2007-02-07
This book took me back a few years. All the classic Penny Arcade goodness. Totally worth the price when considering the trouble to wait for it to load. The comics are great, but I would only recommend this to gamers and internet junkies, they would be the only ones to understand the jokes.
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"Archy and his racy pal Mehitabel are timeless," noted E.B. White in his essay on Don Marquis and his famous creations. The undimmed enthusiasm of several generations of fans (including yrs. truly) -- who every year buy thousands of copies of Marquis' earlier collections -- testifies to their appeal. A whimsical and sophisticated sage, archy the cockroach entertains readers with iconclastic observations on pretensions, politics, and our place in the cosmos. This collection of long-lost pages from archy's writings is funny yet profound.
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"Archy and his racy pal Mehitabel are timeless," noted E. B. White in his essay on Don Marquis and his famous creations, and the undimmed enthusiasm of several generations of fans -- who every year buy thousands of copies of Marquis' earlier collections -- testifies to their appeal. A whimsical and sophisticated sage, archy the cockroach entertained readers with iconoclastic observations on pretensions, politics, and our place in the cosmos during Marquis' career as a New York newspaper columnist in the 1920s and 30s.
Allegedly tapping out stories at night by leaping from key to key on Marquis' typewriter, archy couldn't quite manage the shift key for capital letters. Although his tales appeared in lower case, his views achieved a level grand enough to solidify Marquis' reputation as an American humorist in the tradition of Mark Twain, Joel Chandler Harris, and Ring Lardner. archyology brings together selected "lost" tales that were literally rescued from oblivion by Jeff Adams, who found them among papers stored in a steamer trunk since Marquis' death.
And so archy emerges from his long silence. Whether reporting on characters like emmet the ghost, sailing to Paris to visit the insects of Europe, being trapped for days in a New York subway train, or hanging out in a Long Island orchard enjoying fermented cherries, archy is always both provocative and inimitable. With illustrations by Ed Frascino, a New Yorker regular, this collection reintroduces a delightful cast of characters who reconfirm archy's view of the world: "the only way to live with it is to laugh at it."
Customer Reviews:
Archyology the long lost tales of archy and mehitable.......2005-08-06
These are some of the most wonderful humorous writings ever. I first encountered them back in the '40s (1940 that is). Even copied them on an old manual typewriter (like Archy used). Have had the copies for over fifty years. It's great to get them in a book (my pages had become yellowed and crinkley). I hope to get the other books to go with these. For fun and entertainment and a good chuckle, you can't go wrong with "archy and mehitalbe"
Nearly Lost Art.......2004-03-20
Of course there's a value in teaching Emily Dickinson to our children. And no one would debate that every college student should immerse themselves in the likes of T.S., Joyce and Williams. But why are teachers missing out on such a classic collection of incredible poesy? wotthehell? Give it a read and see if you don't immediately take a copy to your next PTA meeting.
archy and mehitabel are as unique as hamlet!.......1998-07-18
picture two characters who inhabit the newsroom of a daily newspaper only in the night hours in the 1920s and 30s. a cat who believes and acts as if she s the reincarnation of cleopatra and a cockroach who writes his boss - that s in quotes - who s a reporter on the paper. but writing comes so hard that it is, well n-o-t what is written in the - booklist - review in amazon s internet review. i quote from the review - the cockroach, archy, couldn t hold down shift and hit another key. - wronggggg.,.,., i quote from don marquis s description - he did not see us, and we watched him. he would climb painfully upon the framework of the machine and cast himself with all his force upon a key, head downward, and his weight and the impact of the blow were just sufficient to operate the machine, one slow letter after another. he could not operate the capital letters... - can t you just cry with pain as you picture archy, or rathe! ! r, don marquis, writing his material, any and all material , for us. and suggesting that many writers must suffer as did archy to give us their thoughts, their beliefs, their observations, their opinions, their joys, their sufferings.... b-u-y- t-h-e b-o-o-k .,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,., - imagine caps, or parentheses - i can't do it, you see....
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Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the humorist Don Marquis charmed New Yorkers with his whimsical newspaper column, which often featured the prose stylings of an opinionated cockroach named Archy. This final collection of Marquis's columns was edited by Jeff Adams, who found these gems in a long-lost trunk of the journalist's papers. Parts of that archive have already been published in the 1996 volume, Archyology: The Long Lost Tales of Archy and Mehitabel. Fans of Don Marquis, light verse, and talking vermin are likely to enjoy this book.
Archy writes by hurling himself headfirst toward the keys of a typewriter. In "archy comes out for simplified spelling," the little fellow recommends changes in standard English spelling and describes the physical hardships of his writing style:
in the small of my back theres a kink
and the rapid sukseshin of shocks
is putting my chin on the blink
In other columns, Archy makes wry observations about politics and American society. When he visits Washington, D.C., he worries that he might get tacked onto a piece of legislation because it seems like everything is being added to that particular bill. On another occasion, he gets caught up in a ticker-tape parade and is tossed around the streets of New York for two full hours.
The volume also contains several installments of The Great False Teeth Mystery, a serial novel about the international adventures of Archy and a bejeweled set of dentures. This picaresque parodies the conventions of serials but is less entertaining than Marquis's other work. Marquis is at his best when his sidekick Archy is in charge of the typewriter, giving us all a bug's-eye view of the universe. --Jill Marquis
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In this second and final volume "composed" by archy, the literary cockroach, the wonderfully whimsical insect and his fractious feline friend, mehitabel, engage in misadventures large and small and comment with quirky accuracy on the common state of humanity. Previously unpublished in book form and literally recovered from a steamer trunk by editor Jeff Adams, these stories are the product of Don Marquis, a New York columnist and raconteur who was one of America's most popular humorists during the early twentieth century. archy supposedly worked at Marquis's newsroom typewriter at night, diving headfirst onto individual keys to tap out columns; unable to use the shift key, of course, Archy settled for lower-case letters and dispensed with punctuation entirely.
Ungrammatical as they may be, Archy's wry insights are a true delight, for, as he puts it, "one advantage of being a cockroach is that i see things from the under side." From that unique perspective we follow the continuing saga of archy, the Cockroach Detective, a spoof on the gumshoe genre in which the six-legged private eye encounters a raja, his chorus-girl harem, Bolshevist twins, an Egyptologist, seven sister manicurists, and a set of bejeweled false teeth. In other episodes archy saves the US fleet from a German U-boat attack, muses with a spider about humanity's inhumanity to insects, stows away on a freighter to London, and climbs to the top of the Washington Monument.
In the Capitol building itself, archy says, "there is no attention paid to me because there are so many other insects around it gives you a great idea of the american people when you see some of the things they elect." The Ku Klux Klan, he observes elsewhere, "is going strong and the national emblem will soon be the great american kleagle." Meanwhile, mehitabel, who claims to be a reincarnation of Cleopatra, offers to hire hit-cats to clean up City Hall, not of rats but of reporters. Accompanied by the inspired drawings of cartoonist Ed Frascino, these new archy tales are, Adams writes, "classic American humor, as vivid and amusing today as they were decades ago."
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- Nostalgia for 60 year olds
- handle with care
- Yesterdayýs Fad, Todayýs Flat Beer
- One of the finest collections of short stories in english.
- Excellent reading, one of my favorites
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Plain Tales from the Hills (Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling)
Rudyard Kipling
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1888. Kipling, English short-story writer, novelist and poet, who celebrated the heroism of British colonial soldiers in India and Burma, he was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Kipling's first collection of stories published in journals, contains tales about India and about the British in India. He establishes the subject which inspired so much of his work right at the beginning; that is, how India affected the British soldiers and officials who worked there. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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No man will ever know the exact truth of this story; though women may sometimes whisper it to one another after a dance, when they are putting up their hair for the night and comparing lists of victims. A man, of course, cannot assist at these functions. So the tale must be told from the outside--in the dark--all wrong.
Customer Reviews:
Nostalgia for 60 year olds.......2006-08-12
I bought this book to recall the halcyon days of my secondary schooling in the years 1957 - 61. Then the book was an assigned text for all students in English in New Zealand. The language and the concepts were then frankly beyond the comprehension of 15 year olds. As I grew older, I became aware of the position Kipling held in the Late Victorian era, and the period following the end of the First World War.
I came to understand a little of what the British Empire meant in those times, and the great debt owed by the world to the British Army which subdued Iraq, Pakistan, and the Indian Continent for almost 200 years.
Without the benefit of the bomb, with a tiny armed service, and a desire to provide fair and equitable government, the Raj governed fearlessly through the efforts of the thirds sons of many of the great English Families, while the fourth sons provided the humanity of the Church. Patterns we could well emulate again today!
This was bread and butter to Kipling. In his early years as a huge supporter of the system, as a spiritualist after the death of his son in the First World War, and in his later years as the designer of the huge Military Cemetaries established in France and Belgium after the War to the Empire's dead, he truly became in his own words a "Builder of the Silent Cities".
In 2006, the concepts of his writings are remote from many. In terms of the trials of people, and their attempts to rise over their circumstances through a sense of duty and moral propriety, Kipling's works are without peer. For those starting out to discover him, start with "Stalky and Company", and move to this book, and his other works as extended learning. I hope you come to love his simple characters as I have, and that your School System, and its weird sense of Boyhood Literature does not destroy the desire to read Kipling until your late 60's
This book has brought great joy to someone in the prime of life, and brings back some important memories of Scouts, Church and Honour in a time when these are so sadly lacking.
handle with care.......2005-02-18
A fine collection of extremely well-crafted stories.
But these pages are crammed with racism, with remarks on the worthlessness of a native indian's life, their stupidity and their weakness.
One of the stories starts with "we are a high-caste and enlightened race", any man who shows interest in the ways of life of the natives is ridiculed over pages and the only remark on the death of a native child is: "They have no stamina, these brats."
Well written, but disgusting.
Yesterdayýs Fad, Todayýs Flat Beer.......2004-05-17
I believe Kipling was wildly popular in his day. This collection of stories about English life in India may have entranced the masses and sold a lot of newspapers in the first decade of the 20th century, but in the context of almost exactly a hundred years later, they have lost most of their shine. While Kipling might have been the foremost raconteur of British India, compared to great short story writers like Chekhov, de Maupassant, or Twain, he comes across today as coy and contrived. Certain phrases make their appearance in far too many of the tales, for example: "Once there was a....but that's another story." Cute kids, the wisdom of animals, the wiles of the fair sex, the unfathomable nature of "natives", gruff officers, perfect ladies, the one-dimensional earthiness of the common soldier---these are stories filled with stereotypes. Kipling's stories may hold your interest for a short time and you can wonder at the change in taste that has occurred between 1907, when he published these, and today. In many tales, Kipling depicts the lifestyle among the higher echelons of the British Raj, but only through a veil of irony or humor. A regular topic is the struggle for social status among the British; efforts to short circuit the pecking order and reversals suffered thereby. People marrying "beneath them" or trying to marry "above them" are often found here. Though people still refer to Kipling as "a writer about India", it is still true that he wrote about his compatriots, not about India. The two or three tales with Indian characters who are anything other than servants lack any depth. Even the pathos-filled "Story of Muhammad Din", which shows understanding, ultimately deals with illness as something inevitable in India---there are no questions as to why death comes to small children so frequently. Overall, Kipling provides a certain local color to British literature of the late 19th and early 20th century, but cannot be regarded as a great British writer on the level of Maugham, Conrad, Lawrence, Forster or Greene because he lacks broader humanity, deep thought, and universal vision.
One of the finest collections of short stories in english........1998-05-12
Rudyard Kipling writes concisely and with great insight on a wide range of issues. With each story only taking up a few pages the depth of characterisation is superb. 'The gate of one-hundred sorrows' is one of the finest short stories ever written.
Excellent reading, one of my favorites.......1998-03-13
My copy has 36 stories, but Kipling's Plain Tales tells about life in British-occupied India from every imaginable angle. It's touching, it's funny, and at times it's unbelievably sad. Don't let the author put you off, this is a highly readable book. My personal favorites are "Thrown Away" and "Beyond the Pale", but be careful; they're sad.
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Set of 6 Books.
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American Notes, Plain Tales from the Hills, Soldiers Three, Barrack Room Ballads, The Light That Failed, The Phantom Rickshaw, In Black and White, The Story of the Gadsbys, Wee Willie Winkie, The Courting of Dinah Shadd
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10 volumes, Standard Classics, covered in red cloth with gilt lettering on the spines.
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1907. A selection of poetry by Kipling, English short-story writer, novelist and poet, who celebrated the heroism of British colonial soldiers in India and Burma. He was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. This volume contains all the verses by Kipling originally printed in Departmental Ditties and Barrack-Room Ballads. It also brings together for the first time the various titles of Plain Tales from the Hills, Soldiers Three, In Black and White, American Notes, Mine Own People, The Courting of Dinah Shadd, The story of the Gadsbys, The City of Dreadful Night, Under the Deodars, The Phantom Rickshaw, Wee Willie Winkie, and The Light That Failed. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILL
RUDYARD KIPLING
Manufacturer: MACMILLAN
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Kipling, Rudyard
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ASIN: B000SAZBVK |
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With a Biographical Sketsh by Charles Eliot Norton.
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Titles are: 2000 Light Years Away * Welcome to Paradise * One for the Razorbacks * Christie Road * Private Ale * Dominated Love Slave * One of My Lies * 80 * Android * No One Knows * Who Wrote Holden Caulfield? * Words I Might Have Ate * Sweet Children * Best Thing in Town * Strangeland * My Generation.
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EVERQUEST
ITS YOUR WORLD NOW!
It reigns supreme as the world's #1 MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) and now the setting and characters of EverQuest are available in the original roleplaying game format: the book! The EVERQUEST ROLEPLAYING GAME puts the entire world of Norrath -the heroes as well as the villains -in your hands for the first time.
THE WORLD'S #1 RPG SETTING MEETS THE WORLD'S #1 FANTASY ROLEPLAYING SYSTEM!
Created under the Open Gaming License, the EVERQUEST ROLEPLAYING GAME is 100% compatible with the 3rd edition rules of the world's most popular fantasy tabletop roleplaying system. The EQ RPG PLAYERS HANDBOOK contains everything you need to create characters and begin experiencing EverQuest in a whole new way. All the character classes from the paladin to shadow knight. All the races from dark elf to the lizardmen iksar. Hundreds of spells, skills, feats, equipment and more are packed into this essential volume.
Hardcover, full color
Cover Art by Keith Parkinson
Customer Reviews:
Perfect 3rd Ed book.......2004-03-14
If you buy any 3rd Edition rule book this is the one to get. It is just shy of being completly self-containted. Unlike this book, anything produced from a 3rd party still requires the WOTC core books as a component to play. All the classic races and classes are here in this book. So far from what I can see is that it lacks only two things, monsters and advanced classes (providing that hasn't been acounted for the creation of the class system in this)
Not to mention the art is pretty nice in there too, a rarity in alot of these poorly illistrated RPG books and WOTC is guilty of the same thing.
Ahh, finaly an Everquest where Shadowknights and Paladins don't happily co-exist. An Everquest where an Iksar could logicly choose to be a rogue for adventuring beyond Kunark.
Good for fans of both EQ and DnD.......2002-12-31
This book provides an interesting twist to the 3rd edition rules. There are both new concepts in this game and other parts of 3E thrown out.
For example, there are several damage types added to this game like acid and electricity. This leads to new spells and character development rules to accomodate.
On the other side, taken away are magic-user's craft magic item feats. There is no scribe scroll or any other creation feat.
Fans of DnD can enjoy the new way of looking at classes, from an EQ perspective. However beware of the races, the balancing on racial modifiers, bonuses and penalties are only for the most avid RP'ers. In my opinion the races are far from being balanced.
Probably the best part of the conversion from EQ online to pencil-paper game is the spells. The writers did a fantastic job trying to maintain all of the spells from original to luclin expansion. EQ fans should be pleased to know that they are all useful now also! It's neat to see some life put into some of the really stupid spells from the online game.
Happy adventuring.
Fun RPG.......2002-12-30
I liked it. There are some useful thinking in it. I can't get the group to play 'Evercrack' though. ~sigh~ Well, I still liked it.
Not too bad, but not flawless........2002-09-09
I have always wanted to play Everquest, but never had the net connection to do it. After looking at the book at GEN CON 2002 a couple of times, I went and bought it.
First, it is mostly compatible with 3rd Ed. D&D but a warning to DMs: the EQ classes were figured with a different experience table than reg d20. Instead of needing (current level *1000) more experience points to gain the next level, as in regular d20, you need (current level *2000) to gain the next level, which may result in slower progression of your characters. Plus, EQ RPG does not use challenge ratings, another divergence from standard d20.
My recommendation in using this book is as an extension of TSR's Epic-Character Handbook, as characters above 20th level in EQ keep the same rates in gaining attack bonuses and new spells as they do in lower levels, whereas in TSR's Epic Handbook the rates tend to retard into a slow pace. There are also spells of up to 14th level in EQ RPG, another perk for Epic Characters to use this book instead.
EverQuest RPG.......2002-08-27
This game from Sword and Sorcery Studios is great for all type of roleplayers from beginners to advanced. The game, based on the EverQuest computer game, takes roleplayers into the actual realm of Norrath.
As a player, you are offered a variety of races from the EQ game. You can play races such as the Dark Elves, Erudites, and Vah Shir. Each picks a class to play from the game such as the Enchanter, Beastlord, and Shadow Knight. Characters are then given points to spend on their skills and some character classes can cast spells or songs, as in the computer game.
The game uses the familiar d20 system used by Dungeons and Dragons 3rd Edition with some slight differences. One of them being instead of rolling your attributes, you spend points to buy them. The game even gives you a conversion chart to create your PC character into a roleplaying character.
The book is full color, over 400 plus pages, hardbound, and has great art of scenes from the EQ world, but great writing as well. The price is cheaper than most roleplaying games that large and it is worth every penny. For Dungeons and Dragons fans, the character classes can be easily used in your own games or you can bring D&D characters into the world of EverQuest.
This book is a must buy for all EverQuest fans, fantasy gamer fans, and fantasy fans alike.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent book, got me a 760.......2006-08-03
I saw this book at the bookshop *3 days* before my GMAT and spent the entire weekend with it. The book helped polish my analytical as well as passage reading skills. My final score is 760; I would guess that without this book I would not have gone beyond 720 and might have stalled at 700. It is also a little wistful to think of what I could have scored had I got it two weeks earlier. But enough about me; the book is meant as additional preparation for someone who has already read a "normal" preparatory book. In my case I read Barron's, it does not really matter which you have. All problems except essay questions are tackled here. The problems are a bit tougher than the ones you get on a typical GMAT and you may be surprised at frequently getting the answers wrong initially (this is not good 3 days before the exam!). But going through them will give you a solid preparation for whatever ETS throws at you. Everything - logic problems, passage reading, sentence correction and mathematical questions - are quality material. If you are serious about getting a high score I would recommend checking this out at your local bookstore. Again, do not read this before having already finished an initial preparatory book (and doing well with its problems).
A little silly, but worth it and easy to power through it quickly.......2006-03-22
I had done a bunch of studying before this book (beginning with Princeton Review, then "math workout" books by Princeton Review and GMAC, methodical plowing through the official guide, and even some surreal time spent with crazy Barron's GMAT prep). This was just what I needed to regain some humility a few weeks before taking the test. The questions are indeed hard and I got a lot of them wrong. To me, that was a really good thing. You can lull yourself into a false sense of security with the other books because they are geared for 600-650 scores. Don't get me wrong - those are good scores - but if you are determined to break through 700 then you need a book that will light a fire under your rear. The reason I say this book is silly is because throughout the book it has these tips that use the language: "An 800 test taker recognizes..." or "An 800 test take is able to..." To me, that's a little corny and insane. But after you start to feel a little bored by the other books, give this one a try. You can get through it in very little time (the type is big and the margins are wide) - even though it's thick, it goes very quickly.
Very good tool if you need a high score.......2006-03-18
I agree that the questions in this book are harder than average. It's quite useful understanding all of the questions and solutions in this book if you need a good score (700+). If you aim for 600 then Princeton review or something equivalent might be sufficient for you.
I took the test 5 years ago and got 600 (75th) so I knew what I was up against and had done all the OG 10th edition questions before. This time around my goal was 90th+ percentile (690), but I had very little time to practise, about a month and max 10 hours pr week, as I was busy studying Mandarin at an intensive program in Beijing. My strategy for achieving the score I needed:
- Study with the hardest questions.
- Understand why you fail. Do the questions that you got wrong again in the following week to make sure you know why you did them wrong and how to do them right.
- Try to find more than one methodology to solve each question. After each practise-test, go through all the exercises again, this time with no time-limit. The purpose is to find better methods of solving the q's you got right, to understand why you got some wrong and how best to solve these questions. You especially need to focus on remembering the correct/smartest methodology (perhaps do a couple of questions of each type), but I'd say it's best having a repertoaire of 3 or more methods for each type of question.
- Multiple choice is a game of odds, so you need to perfect your techniques for guessing in case you get questions you cannot solve easily and quickly, or if get stuck. 1) Use POE/process of elimination (I did it on a piece of paper during the test - very useful), especially on CR and SC. 2) Plug in on PS questions where it can save you time. These two methods definitly helped me increase my score.
- Practicalities: Check out the center before test-day to reduce stress come test-day. On the test day: take the breaks and try to clear your mind before commencing the next part.
My practise test results (after I had done all the exercises in the Kaplan 800):
- Princeton 1: 670 Q43 V40 (a year and a half before the test)
- Kaplan Diagnostic: 650 (2 weeks before the test)
- Kaplan 1: 550 Q33 V31 (1 week before the test)
- Kaplan 2: 570 Q31 V36 (1 week before the test)
- Powerprep 1: 680 Q46 V38 (1 week before the test)
- Kaplan 3: 560 Q32 V35 (5 days before the test)
- Kaplan 4: 550 Q32 V33 (3 days before the test)
- Princeton 2: 640 Q34 V44 (3 days before the test)
Notice that my scores were not improving. I got 710 on the test, perhaps I was lucky given that my practise test results were not on that level. But I still think it should be possible getting 750 with more practise. Overall I'd say I couldn't have gotten the score I got without using the Kaplan 800 or a similar tool, not sure whether other alternatives exist on this level of difficulty though.
The Best!.......2006-03-03
If you know you are a high scorer - look no further!
I am an engineer, and I had very limited time to study (2-3 weeks). I worked only on verbal as I figured I had the math covered.
I almost cancelled the test because I thought I screwed up the verbal. I finished with 5 minutes to spare, and I had only easy questions the whole way through the test, so I figured the CAT was not giving me hard questions because I had gotten so many wrong.
I wound up with a raw score of 47 on the verbal - where a 44 is the 99th percentile! The questions in this book were so much harder than the actual test that I couldn't believe it!
My best piece of advice is to stay loose. I was so focused on getting every question right on the math that I got hung up on several questions and ran out of time at the end. I wound up getting 49 score/90 percentile on the math, which I thought was my strong suit! If I had cut my losses and guessed on the hard question on the math, I would have done much better. On the verbal, I 50/50 guessed on many answers since I wasn't so focused on getting everything right. YOU DON'T NEED TO GET ALL THE ANSWERS RIGHT TO DO WELL!
My final score was a 760. I'm sure I would've gotten 790-800 if I had not wasted time on hard questions on the math.
If you bought the regular Kaplan book, DON'T BUY THIS.......2006-02-25
This book is not good. It repeats many of the questions from the regular Kaplan GMAT prep book. I bought both books together to study for the GMAT but I found neither of them very good. The official GMAC book is extremely good ....the questions are tough and thorough....if I had more study time I would have bought all three of the regular GMAC books.
I ended up getting a 740 on the GMAT but it wasn't due to Kaplan, my score was great because I bought the real test-takers study guide.
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