An Ode to Joy: Posters, Prints and Other Work of Frank Kozik

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America's most outrageous rock artist strikes again! Touting big-name and no-name bands at various San Francisco venues, the posters in this all-new collection capture Bugs Bunny getting it on with Wilma Flintstone, Richie Rich shooting up, and many other transgressive tableaux.

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An Ode to Joy by Frank Kozik.......2002-12-14

Just want to make a comment about the review here from NY - the statement says Frank Kozik's art is second hand poster art. Well I hate to disappoint that customer but Frank Kozik is pretty much the person who SAVED poster art. That comment is clearly based on an unknowledgeable buyer. Please do not let it prevent you from checking out this wild book! Kozik's style is all about regenerating art - thats the most significant point it makes about POP art.

The book is a continuation of a long career by an artist who literally saved rock art as a serious form of creation and helped to bring punk subculture into mainstream America. He started this stuff a VERY long time ago. Prior to his work, poster art was not considered fine art. Now its in museums and galleries all over the world - Japan, Australia, Canada, Europe, etc.... ANY poster artist and POP gallery will confirm that. All successful poster artists today, with exception to Art Chantry, are following in Kozik's footsteps, and his work is respected for that - gaudy and mean and abnoctious as it is, afterall, thats rock-n-roll! He paved the way for poster art and took it to a completely new level never previously seen in history; poster art/artist as art/pop star - thats why we collect the book. I bought the book and do think some things could be different, but its totally worth owning it and I look at it for my own art inspiration all the time.

An Ode to Joy by Frank Kozik.......2002-12-14

Too much--or not enough?.......2001-07-27

I agree with the other reviewers that Frank Kozik's ODE TO JOY is plainly overproduced. But, I'm unconvinced that the book is spoilt by its overproduction. On the one hand, the clarity of Kozik's prints clearly suffers from the competing background noise of so much vibrant digitized wallpaper and acid commentary. But on the other hand, isn't this brilliant pop art gaudiness exactly what Kozik's artwork is all about?

I'd liken this to the headache of hanging a baroque or Queen Vickie period painting: yes, we the modern, general viewing public may yearn to see the work hung on a clean, white wall--as art for art's sake--but an art historian would want to see it in its proper context, in a room loaded to the gills with seafoam velvet wallpaper, cherry red furnishings, gilt bric-a-brac and the like.

Admittedly Kozik has become well-known enough that his work is now hung in galleries on those same clean, white walls, but I find it boring in such tasteful surroundings! Perhaps this is because I remember Kozik posters in their early context, plastered on walls and electric posts against generations of competing punk rock posters, well before Kozik became a post-pop art darling and his work started selling to collectors.

Never mind. Kozik's artwork IS overproduced, and commercially so; that's part of it's devilish charm (?). It deserves and looks right against the shrine of weird, self-referencing, self-aggrandizing background noise that ODE TO JOY makes. Busy, ugly, distracting, obnoxious, but right!

As for the quality of Kozik's recent work in and of itself, it's true that it has have lost some of the edge of his earlier work.

But that's to be expected. With his best indie clientele moving to fame, fortune and MTV (with or without his help?), Kozik the poster artist is facing the music that he is much too popular a talent to create and publish as a pariah anymore. Call it the loss of street credibility--after all, you don't see his posters pasted, unprotected, to building walls in bad neighborhoods much anymore!

I would never call Kozik a "sell-out" for his success (what a rotten, jealous term that is!), but I do think he might broaden his scope, evolve with his clientele--beginning by calling himself an artist instead of a poster artist. At least as long as he's going to hang his work on those clean, white gallery walls...

Disappointing but intriguing.......2000-11-21

The second Kozik book is disappointing but not without its charms. Contrary to a previous review, I find the production value VERY poor, with confusing background overprinting and thin magazine paper ultimately taking focus away from the images themselves. Too much reliance on computer graphics cripples the low-brow immediacy of the best of Kozik's "art."

Kozik's recent stuff isn't up to the level of his earlier work --he'd probably be the first to admit this! This book is certainly worth getting for Kozik completists and those interested in poster art's slide into the 21st century.

If you DON'T have the first Kozik book, "Man's Ruin," GO GET IT NOW!!!

Ode to Kozik.......2000-05-08

While this book has nice production values, Kozik's work lacks any true sense of originality or invention. Recycled imagery, day-glow colors...somehow it all comes off as second-hand poster art.

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Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03

Spider is still working underground, for an independent web publisher, to get his work out there. The government would still censor him in a hot second, and he has pretty much pissed off everyone, including his filthy assistants.

That is not the only problem he has, while people would like to get rid of him, his own body may just do the job for them.

Spider 7.......2006-02-25

It seems like Ellis wanted to stretch out the story over by one book, because this one does very little to further the story. Don't get me wrong it was still what you would expect from Transmet, but it just wasn't as intense.

Eerily relevant.......2002-11-24

This most recent Transmetropolitan collection takes a distinctly darker turn as Spider and his 'filthy assistants' go underground and Spider's health begins to suffer. More than ever before, Ellis' social commentary on his dystopian City hits close to home. Previous collections have satirized the decadence and sloth of modern American life by exaggerating it in daringly hilarious ways, but _Spider's Thrash_ descends to address modern-day social problems more directly. Although the issue on child prostitution presents a still more corrupt and degraded world than the one we live in now, the issue on the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill and their subsequent homelessness is not exaggerated at all. Ellis' demonic president, The Smiler, also seems creepily relevant to the post-9/11 attack on civil liberties, particularly when Spider quotes the newsfeeds as saying, 'The President is officially 'studying the constitution to protect the people from outmoded language and ideas therein.''

If it sounds like this collection gets a bit preachy, it does, and plot continuity suffers as a result. But those of us who have come to know and love Spider and his mad quest for the truth aren't likely to stop reading. As director Darren Aronofsky (_Pi,_ _Requiem for a Dream_) says in his introduction, 'Profanity + anger + revolution + cynicism + drugs + cigarettes + truth + justice - fair = Spider Jerusalem. . . . A true original.'

Spider Jerusalem is back...........2002-11-14

Your friendly neighborhood outlaw journalist is back. Warren Ellis combined the humor of Palahniuk, the prose of Hunter S. Thompson, and the anarchic sensibilities of British punk rock into the greatest comic book character of all time: Spider Jerusalem. The comic is consistently funny, satirical, and eye-opening. Ellis uses the medium for his trademark brand of cynical social criticism...and it shows more than ever in this collection. Spider gives the big F-YOU to the government, and corporate America in this trade. He branches out on his own, publishing his column illegally for no money. This time neither the president nor the paper can censor him. God help us all. I definately recomend this trade to any fans. You must read this, it's Ellis and Robertson at their best.

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A Galaxy Not So Far Away is a collection of essays that set out to seriously explore the vast landscape of the Star Wars cultural phenomenon. Premiere magazine editor Glenn Kenny has complied 18 well-crafted pieces from a wide array of pop culture aficionados, including ribald filmmaker Kevin Smith and Onion satirist Todd Hanson.

The pieces range from serious scholarship to self-deprecating geek confessionals. Some--such as "Pale Starship, Pale Rider: The Ambiguous Appeal of Boba Fett" by Tom Bissell--tend toward the esoteric minutiae of fandom, and are sure to please the rabid devotee. But most are kindly universal and range far beyond the spacey subject matter into more human territory. Thankfully, most of the writers don't take themselves too seriously as they make the jump to hyperspace. Thus, the collection is a pleasure to read and an interesting foray into the passionate media culture surrounding the Star Wars universe. Overall, an excellent intellectual exercise for anyone who has ever found escape in a galaxy far, far away. --Jeremy Pugh

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A Galaxy Not So Far Away is the first ever exploration of the [ innumerable ways the Star Wars films have forever altered our cultural and artistic landscape. Edited by Glenn Kenny, a senior editor and critic at Premiere magazine, this singular collection allows some of the nations most acclaimed writers to anatomize, criticize, celebrate, and sometimes simply riff on the prismatic aftereffects of an unparalleled American phenomenon. Jonathan Lethem writes of the summer he saw Star Wars twenty-one times as his mother lay dying of cancer. Neal Pollack chips in with the putative memoir of a certain young man having problems with his father, written in the voice of Holden Caulfield. Erika Krouse ponders the code of the Jedi Knight and its relation to her own pursuit of the martial arts. New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell meditates upon the mysterious figure Lando Calrissian.A classic assemblage of pop writing at its best, A Galaxy Not So Far Away is a book for everyone who loves Star Wars films and seeks to understand just what it is about these films that has so enchanted an entire generation of filmgoers.

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A critical mass of critics . . ........2004-08-10

I was just out of graduate school and working in my first professional position when the first Star Wars movie (now known as "Episode 4") came out. I loved it. I had been a confirmed pulp-sf addict since the mid-1950s, and I was predisposed to enjoy the film for what it was, not for what the critics thought it was (and what they apparently wanted me, as a card-carrying intellectual, to believe it was). But I'm not too proud to admit that I also loved "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" when they came out. I mean, this stuff is great fun, right? The stuffier film critics, though, decided that George Lucas had killed the movies -- just as there were cries of anguish back in the late '20s, when the movies began to talk. Yes, the Star Wars universe has had a great influence on culture, and not just "pop" culture, but so have Gucci and Ronald Reagan and McDonald's. Most of the contributors to this anthology are of an age to have grown up on Star Wars, and the distinction can easily be made between those who don't take it, or themselves, too seriously (Jonathem Lethem, Neal Pollack, Erika Krouse, and Elwood Reed), and those for whom Lucas is Evil incarnate (notably Arion Berger and Tom Carson). The book is an interesting read for those, like me, with an interest in film-making and screenwriting that goes beyond just sitting there with a bag of popcorn, but I could only shake my head at some of the breast-beating Jeremiads.

Not So Long Ago, Pretty Close to Home........2003-02-17

A GALAXY NOT SO FAR AWAY is a collection of essays that attempt to illustrate just how far reaching STAR WARS has impacted and influenced our society and culture. Most of the essays are positive, many are humorous, and several are nostaligiac in their reflections. Some, however are negative and a few are quite thought provoking. I especially enjoyed reading Kevin Smith's "Married to the Force" and Todd Hansen's "A Big Dumb Movie About Space Wizards". The two essays that paint the STAR WARS phenomenon in the most negative light "Jedi Uber Alles" and "Anakin, Get Your Gun" are also the two essays that made me pause and think the most. I also enjoyed the essay that illustrated just how STAR WARS has influenced hip-hop music, suggesting that hip-hop wouldn't exist (at least not in it's current form) without STAR WARS.

This book is not a collection of essays about "What STAR WARS means to me" (though there are a few of those in here). Instead, it is a book illustrating just how huge and powerful the little space opera that could has influenced our society. This is a great book for most STAR WAR fans or for anyone interested in popular culture.

Star Wars Realpolitik.......2002-09-11

Don't listen to disgruntled Star Wars fans on this book. There are only a few out and out negative pieces here (one, "Jedi Uber Alles" by Tom Carson, is actually pretty good); most are fond, respectful, but above all they're *interesting.* No, this isn't a licensed love fest. Nor does it claim to be. It's about how the movies have affected our culture and our minds, and it's done so in good and bad ways. Star Wars, as this book's editor Glenn Kenny points out, did not at all kill movies. But it seems pretty inarguable that it made them louder and dumber, which (again as Kenny points out) is weird because George Lucas is the world's biggest independent filmmaker who controls with an auteur's pickiness his own product. But anyway: The really good essays here are Jonathan Lethem's (about seeing Star Wars 21 times in one summer), Tom Bissell's (about Boba Fett), Todd Hanson's (about The Phantom Menance), Lydia Millet's (about Darth Vader), Elvis Mitchell's (about Lando), and the above-mentioned Carson essay which I hate as a fan but admit makes some good points. There are also some really quite dreadful essays (say nothing but good of the dead) which I won't stoop to name. All Star Wars fans should get this book; it's important, and it's funny, and it has smart, tough things to say.

Opinionated gobbledygook.......2002-09-05

I bought this book, imagining it was filled with fans doting on about my favourite movie series. But in fact, it was filled with that awful self-important ranting that so many annoying critics favour. Some of the chapters were ammusing trips down memory lane, a trip I can certainly share. But most were simply attacks on the Star Wars saga (a more and more common stance these days, since George has now decided that Greedo fired first, and since he introduced us to Jar Jar Binks, it has become cool to rag on the series). I began skipping chapter after chapter, constantly muttering under my breath, "Why did I waste my money on this opinionated gobbledygook!?"
Save your time and your money. Unless of course you enjoy listening to critics whine about how stupid things are.

Awesome.......2002-08-24

One of the funniest books I have ever read. You think the pieces are cute, and they are, but then they're serious, and you're stunned. What a weird, wonderful project and what a perfect gift for movie-lovers. Lydia Millet's piece on Darth Vader is a must-read whether you like Star Wars or not. This book should sell for a long, long time.

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Since its inception in 1976, Computer Music Journal has led the field as the essential resource for musicians, composers, scientists, engineers, and computer enthusiasts interested in contemporary electronic music and computer-generated sound.

In The Music Machine, Curtis Roads brings together 53 classic articles published in Computer Music Journal between 1980 and 1985, providing a cohesive survey of the major developments in computer music and in the related technology during the last decade. The book includes interviews with major figures in the field and articles devoted to composition, artificial intelligence, and the popular Music Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI). Roads has written an overview of each of the book's seven parts, highlighting the major topics and placing the various articles in a thematic and historical context.

Curtis Roads is a composer, a producer, and associate editor of Computer Music Journal.

THE MUSIC MACHINE: SELECTED READINGS FROM THE COMPUTER MUSIC JOURNAL

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THE MUSIC MACHINE: SELECTED READINGS FROM THE COMPUTER MUSIC JOURNAL
Curtis (editor) Roads
Manufacturer: MIT Press Cambridge, MA
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ASIN: B000IWLXJC

The Music Machine: Selected Readings from Computer Music Journal

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Docks Review

Bradygames does it again

My Son thinks it's great

Dante is one heck of a Bishonen.

Devil May Cry(tm) 3 Official Strategy Guide (Signature)
Dan Birlew
Manufacturer: BRADY GAMES
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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BradyGames' Devil May Cry 3 Official Strategy Guide includes the following:

COMPREHENSEIVE WALKTHROUGH: Each mission starts with a recommended Style and equipment selection. Once the action starts, maps show you the way through each area.
ALL WEAPONS & STYLES COVERED: Learn about all the abilities Dante has at his disposal, from different fighting styles to weapon-based skills.
ENEMY & ITEM DATA: Meet all the enemies before you encounter them in the game! There are also puzzles to solve, and this guide dedicates an entire section to Key Items.
AND SO MUCH MORE! Unlock game secrets, and learn a bit of history on each of the main players in this adventure!
BONUS FOLDOUT: All of Dante’s special moves!

Platform: PlayStation 2

Genre: Action/Adventure

This product is available for sale in North America only.

Customer Reviews:

Docks Review.......2006-06-26

This book is adequate in getting across the information, but it is difficult to read and the strange placement of writing on the pages makes people miss important information the first time thru.

Bradygames does it again.......2006-03-19

Awesome strategy guide! Between Bradygames and Prima, nobody else can make strategy guides like them. All full color, maps, and tons of useful information. If you are like me and like to find everything in the game you can't go wrong with this guide.

My Son thinks it's great.......2005-09-13

He's 10 and thihs book helped him get more ouf the game (which he probably should'nt have anyway).

Dante is one heck of a Bishonen........2005-05-22

This Guide is alot bigger then the last 2 for the other Devil May Cry Guides, and helps alot more. It has pictures to drool over of Dante and Vergil as well where secrets are located and in depth boss battles. It helps getting through tuff missions and where to find all those blue orbs. This Guide also comes with a bonus fold-out for all of Dante's avaliable moves in each of his classes. So this is a must get for any fan of Devil May Cry, either for help or like me for the gorgeous pictures of Dante, with the bonus of Vergil, Dante's older twin brother. It's true what they say, Sparta's twin sons have differences to work out and it'll be an all out Bishonen Brawl with Dante vs Vergil. Get seats today ^__^

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Easy to follow strategy guide
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Thorough and Concise
Very good guide much better than all the others

Devil May Cry Official Strategy Guide
Dan Birlew
Manufacturer: BRADY GAMES
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0744000947

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BradyGames Devil May Cry Official Strategy Guide provides a detailed walkthrough and area maps to guide players through the castle. A complete listing of weapons and items is included along with boss strategies on how to defeat the dreadful enemies. Solutions for puzzles and game secrets.

This guide is part of BradyGames' Signature Series line, a strategy guide format that showcases quality product design to produce true collector's edition books for avid gamers. Some of the features include: heavier paper and special cover treatment, art gallery and behind-the-scenes secrets, and an exclusive Secret Missions Pack.

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Easy to follow strategy guide.......2002-10-06

Dan Birlew (better known to survival horror fans on the web as "President Evil") penned this easy-to-follow strategy guide.

I'm one of those players who doesn't have great reflexes and normally gets sliced to ribbons playing a game like this. But thanks to Birlew's guide, I was able to survive some of the toughest bosses, bad reflexes and all. The book points out the bosses's strengths and weaknesses, how to attack them and how to avoid them, as every good game guide should.

Oh, yeah, I did find one mistake in Birlew's guide: he states that you can't purchase untouchables (items that temporarily make you invincible). In fact, untouchables can be purchased at any time, though it'll cost you. Perhaps this was a change in the game that was implemented after Birlew's guide went to press.

..........2001-12-12

Even I have to admit that Dan Birlew is getting much better. After that FFIX guide I thought this guy would be bad. Anyways, to start off. I've been a HUGE collector of video game guides (I may be 15 and have high expectations for a guide such as they do need to help me a give me a gaming experience in the process) and I know a good guide when I see it.

This guide is defenitely good. Anyways, I read the other reviews, and Dan Birlew didn't do the Xenogears guide nor did David Cassady, it was Ronald Wartow, its right there on the fron cover. The maps are easy to read while I do admit they get tiresome every guide does. I know the maps aren't done by Dan Birlew but still they could use a little work. I look more at the detail in the walkthrough rather than how flashy the maps and screenshots are.

The walkthrough helps you out a lot and doesn't give off any spoilers at all and gets right to the point. I like this guide because the walkthrough is put together organized and doesn't look like it was rushed to get out. Its 160 pages and the guide has extremely good detail to it. Unlike the Prima (only 90 pages) and VERSUS BOOKS (112 pages) this guide has a ton of info.

I'd recomend this guide for anybody who likes strategy guides as much as I do.

Thorough and Concise.......2001-11-21

Addressing the previous reviewer: Dan Birlew didn't even write the Xenogears guide, someone else named David Cassidy did. And why would you compare Mr. Birlew to Casey Lowe who writes guides for Pokemon? That's comparing apples to apples seeds. As for the maps, they were obviously not done by the author, just read the credits. Now for a more mature and observant review: This particular Devil May Cry guide is concise and thorough. It's written for an audience that is intelligent and sharp, a compliment to all gamers. The writing style does not talk down to the reader, as some guides tend to do. The slick design and stylized cover are done in such a way that it attracts gamers like me--adults with jobs and money to spend on toys. Overall, this guide is perfect for those gamers who do not fall into the "living in my parent's basement" stereotype. Kudos to BradyGames for targeting mature gamers with jobs!

Very good guide much better than all the others.......2001-11-14

This guide is absolutely brilliant in ways that can't all be described! This guide is very detailed with some brilliant things to offer. Detailed maps, great walkthrough, and some bonus material make this DMC guide a must own.

Anyway, the guide really seems to live up to my expectations. Detailed maps of EVERY AREA unlike some of the other guides, and they pin-point the location of items and blue orb fragment. Not to mention that the strategy is very good as well. The maps are colorful and very detailed.

The walkthrough is well done giving you a brief details on bosses. For each boss they show you a suggested Life Gauge and a suggested Devil Trigger. Now thats something that I found really helpful in this guide.

The guide covers all the secrets including how to lock hidden characters and game modes! The guide also features an art gallery and exclusive Interviews! Again, it doesn't hurt to read them!

Overall, this is probably the best DMC guide out there. Much more detail and organization went into the walkthrough. Forget VERSUS BOOKS, this is your perfect guide to DMC!

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No Time

Devil May Cry 2 Official Strategy Guide
Dan Birlew , and BradyGames
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BradyGames' Devil May Cry 2 Official Strategy Guide provides secret room locations, and strategies for unlocking hidden characters, costumes, and all play modes. In addition, the detailed area maps illustrate items and weapons in each area. Mighty boss strategies will help players defeat every fiend. Complete walkthroughs for both main characters are also provided, along with tips to achieve the highest ranking for each mission.

This Signature Series guide features a special cover treatment, bonus content, and a cool poster depicting the game's heroes.

Customer Reviews:

No Time.......2007-01-12

The ONLY reason I'm giving this 4 stars is because my husband can't find time to finish the rest of the game. Otherwise than that, it's perfect for finding every hidden thing, and it has very detailed maps.

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Nationally recognized communication expert Debra Fine reveals the techniques and strategies anyone can use to make small talkin any situation Do you spend an abnormal amount of time hiding out in the bathroom or hanging out at the buffet table at social gatherings? Does the thought of striking up a conversation with a stranger make your stomach do flip-flops? Do you sit nervously through job interviews waiting for the other person to speak? Are you a Nervous Ned or Nellie when it comes to networking? Then its time you mastered The Fine Art of Small Talk. With practical advice and conversation cheat sheets, The Fine Art of Small Talk will help you learn to feel more comfortable in any type of social situation, from lunch with the boss to an association event to a cocktail party where you dont know a soul.

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The Fine Art of Small Talk.......2007-05-14

this is a great training and useful to all who are either fearful of speaking to other people in general or as debra described herself for people who just do not know how to move conversations along.

Not much there.......2007-04-18

A slim book with a lot of white space. Wish I had read the book over a cappuccino at a local bookstore rather than actually buying it.

This tape really helped.......2007-01-31

I'm sorry to see so many bad reviews, so I'm taking my first step into cyberspace reviews. I can't speak for the book, but the tape made a real difference in my life. I was painfully shy as a child and teenager and had no clue how to interact with groups until I started teaching myself by observing others at college. I'd gotten better by my mid-20s, but I still dreaded parties where I knew no one or other social gatherings. My attitude was, "I hate small talk, give me something 'real' to talk about."
When I was hired as an executive director of a nonprofit in my mid-30s, I realized I had to teach myself how to work a reception and represent my organization comfortably and competently. This tape gave me the tips I needed, like: Walking in taking responsibility for making others feel comfortable puts you in a better mindset. And seek out the other people who are standing alone -- they'll appreciate you saving them, as they are probably as uncomfortable as you. So - give this a chance.

Good, but not great.......2007-01-03

A little bit boring to read, 'cause it repeats itself a lot

Great Book.......2006-08-24

This books gives great tips and suggestions on how to start conversations. It even give you sample ice breakers. Good book to have and keep around to refresh your small talk skills.

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