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Over the past three centuries, artists, craftspeople, and designers have engaged with modernization as a way to make sense of the changes it imposes. This exciting new book is a groundbreaking examination of modernity, beginning in the 18th-century Enlightenment movement. It considers the pivotal question in today's turbulent, post-postmodern era: What is art for and where is it going?
Surveying issues in the contemporary art and design scene and speculating about the next phase of modern practice, this landmark volume positions the rise and collapse of idealism in modern art as being of central concern. Concepts that are essential to the meaning of modernity-style, progress, and universality-are explored, as are movements across all disciplines, from neoclassicism to postmodernism. The thought-provoking text will stimulate anyone with an interest in the history of ideas in the arts.
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Throughout history, humans have used clothing and accessories to lift, squeeze, frame and pad the body. In Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed, Harold Koda deftly weaves anthropology, sociology, art history, and haute couture into a lively survey of shifting notions of the body beautiful. Divided into five sections--Neck and Shoulders, Chest, Waist, Hips, and Feet--the book surveys fashion's literal imprint on the body while tracing the history of clothing styles. The long neck may be the only bodily ideal equally prized by all cultures. Young Padaung women of Burma traditionally wore weighted brass coils that pushed down their collarbones and shoulders, creating the illusion of a remarkably long neck. The wide van Dyke lace collar achieved a similar "triangulated" shoulder-line in 17th-century Europe. Fashionable women in the 1830s relied on hugely inflated sleeves—-held up with down-filled or wire-ribbed supports—-to create the rounded dropped shoulder then in vogue. In the "Feet" section, Koda, who remains scrupulously nonjudgmental throughout, juxtaposes the miniaturized "Golden Lotus" bound foot of pre-Revolutionary China with the reshaping effect of today's stiletto heels. The platform shoe was another way of encumbering a woman's gait, whether as a way of keeping her at home (away from sexual temptation) or as a means of showing her off (the courtesans of Japan and Renaissance Venice perched on elevated soles). Men's body-altering fashions also get their due, from sculpted codpieces and male waist-binding to a front-padded shirt by Issey Miyake that resembles a baseball catcher's uniform. Koda's discussions of the historical allusions of avant-garde designers like Viktor and Rolf, Olivier Theyskens, and Hussein Chalayan vividly illuminate an often murky aspect of contemporary couture. Copiously illustrated with works of art and photographs of clothing and undergarments from many eras, Extreme Beauty packs a wealth of information into a slender volume. —-Cathy Curtis
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Over time and across cultures, shifting concepts of beauty have given rise to extraordinary fashions that constrict, enhance, minimize, or exaggerate various zones of the human body. This stimulating book displays and discusses an array of such extreme fashion practices, from the bound feet of aristocratic Manchu women to the tea-tray supporting bustle of an 1880s French visiting dress.
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Unexpected Beauty Transformation.......2007-07-16
To read this book reveals not only plenty of interesting and quite often surprising information on fashions past and current but its text and pictures are highly complementary. In addition a lot of the provided information gives insight into social structures of the centuries referred to - and once more it is proven that fashion is one of the quickest instruments to testify social and historical changes to the world.
A brilliant book to celebrate a brilliant exhibit.......2007-04-11
Extreme Beauty is a wonderful book that celebrates the Metropolitan's equally brilliant exhibit about fashion and it's different preoccupations with the body. The exhibit was magnificent, and the book truly honors the tone and feeling of it, while being extremely informative in it's own right. The book is divided into different chapters such as neck and shoulders, waist, chest, etc. Each chapter features photos of the garments displayed in the original exhibit, as well as additional historical drawings and photographs of the various fashions and cultural trends that have celebrated the parts of the body. And, as promised in the title, the book explores the cultural foundations of bodily transformation and mutilation(?) through everything from extreme corsetry, [..] footwear and peircing to the tribal women who use metal rings to actually elongate their vertebrae. Harold Koda's insightful and meticulously researched commentary is just the icing on the cake. This is a must for any fashion library, but also of great interest to non-fashionistas.
Human preoccupation for Millennia.......2002-02-22
Sentient humans with brains as well as bodies have always been fascinated by the way we adorn ourselves and why. Once we can get past the cultural anthropology of fashion, and the fads that make it a billion-dollar world industry, we can dig down to discover the roots of historical and current adorned beauty, and EXTREME BEAUTY does this . . . beautifully.
It is pleasing--in an era in which physical beauty and adornment typified by fashion have been roundly rejected by most of the jeans-wearing public--to find a book that lets beauty out and helps us exercise our sense of mystery and wonder, based in no small part on human sexuality and attraction. Harold Koda (curator of the Costume Institute at New York's Met) has mounted a show and created a book with marvelous insights and passion, and the illustrations are wondrous--consider, as a case in point, Thiery Mugler's 'Chimere,' with its savage eroticism.
One could quibble with Koda's arbitrary division of the body into 'neck and shoulders,' 'chest,' 'waist,' 'hips' and 'feet,'
and his exclusion of the fascinating face/head/hair perplex, and the hands, with their magical touch and allure. But this book and its illustrations will become a benchmark by which human adornment is judged, and is a keeper of power and importance.
Considers the evolving, changing strategies of beauty.......2002-01-06
Harold Koda's Extreme Beauty surveys concepts of fashion and beauty. Koda considers the evolving, changing strategies of beauty around the world, focussing on different body parts and how they are accented and displayed through varying uses of clothing and cultural perception. Black and white and color photos of unusual fashion choices and styles make for some eye-opening insights.
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- Knee-Slapping Humor You Can't Get Enough of
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Knee-Slapping Humor You Can't Get Enough of.......2007-02-17
I have been a faithful FoxTrot reader for years. Roger, Andy and their kids Peter, Paige and Jason are always good for a reality check with a large dose of laughter. I've got two girls and let me tell you, I see a lot of my kids in Paige with, I believe, even a healthy dose of Jason thrown in. And they have Peter's bottomless stomach. Of course, they're faithful FoxTrot readers too. I used to read the strip to them, explain what was going on, but now they get it just fine and we three all laugh together. Then my girls try and explain the strip to their dad, who pretends he doesn't get it.
The FoxTrot folks are a great family, one we sort of got used to checking up on every day, so we took the news that Mr. Amend was going to cease daily distribution of his wonderfully funny people and turn his strip to Sunday only, with a bit of sadness. Still, we have these terrific FoxTrot books to keep us going with our FoxTrot fix. Mr. Amend is to be commended for his great gift to our culture and his great gift to so many lives. I truly believe a laugh a day, helps keep the blues away and the FoxTrot gang are always good for a laugh. Heck there are a lot of laughs in the FoxTrot books. I know, I have them all and I am, along with my girls and my hubby dear, eagerly awaiting the next one.
Oh yes, I forgot to mention, we don't have an iguana, but my girls do have a pet gecko and, you guessed it, his name is Quincy.
Wildly FoxTrot. Foxtrot, All Great! .......2007-01-20
I've been a Foxtrot reader for a long time and personally I think there is something suspiciously wrong with people who don't find Bill Amend's characters funny as all get out. If you want a good laugh, check out Bill in your local newspaper, or better yet, get one of the Foxtrot books. They are all great, really, they are.
Like many of Mr. Amend's fans I'm a bit disappointed he's switching his strip to Sunday-only, but fortunately I can still read him daily in the Foxtrot books. Get them one and all and you can keep right on a laughing.
So much fun.......2002-06-25
I can sit and read this book over and over and over and the jokes are just so funny. I find it quite odd but I can relate to Jason Fox in so many ways.
The Funniest!.......2000-04-09
This book is so funny. It makes you laugh your head off!
Bill Amend has done it again!.......1998-12-31
Bill Amend has created several treasuries, including "Enormously Foxtrot" and "Camp Foxtrot". This book is "wildly" hilarious and the rereading factor is greater than almost any other 'comic book that has ever existed in the past,say, 1999 years. If you buy it, you certainly will NOT regret it.
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hen 21-year-old Jay Mohr moved from New Jersey to New York City to pursue his dream of stand-up stardom, he never thought the first real job he'd land would be on Saturday Night Live. But, surprisingly, that's just what he did. What followed were two unbelievable, grueling, and exciting years of feverishly keeping pace with his talented cohorts, outmaneuvering the notorious vices that claimed the lives of other cast members, and struggling at all costs for the holy grail of late-night show business: airtime. In Gasping for Airtime, Jay offers an intimate account of the inner workings of Saturday Night Live. He also dishes on the guest hosts (John Travolta, Shannen Doherty, Charles Barkley), the musical guests (Kurt Cobain, Steven Tyler, Eric Clapton), and of course his SNL castmates (Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, and David Spade). Refreshingly honest and laugh-out-loud funny, this book will appeal both to fans of Jay Mohr and to devotees of Saturday Night Live.
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GASPING FOR AIRTIME is a hilarious and often moving memoir by former Saturday Night Live cast member Jay Mohr. When twenty-year-old Jay moved from New Jersey to New York City to pursue his dream of stand-up stardom, he never thought he'd land his first real job on Saturday Night Live. But he did-and what followed were two crazy years of trying to keep up with his talented castmates and get on the air as often as possible (a daunting feat for a rookie cast member). Jay offers an intimate first-person account of the inner workings of Saturday Night Live-the audition process, the first week on the job, what goes on at the pitch meetings, and how skits make the final cut of the show. Jay also dishes on the guest hosts (John Travolta, Shannen Doherty, Alec Baldwin, Charles Barkley), the musical guests (Kurt Cobain, Steven Tyler, Eric Clapton), and of course his SNL castmates (Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Mike Myers). You'll learn which cast member was told off by guest host Sally Field, what happened when Janeane Garafalo told the New York Post that the show was biased against women, and why the show's opening monologues are often not funny. Finally, Jay writes candidly about his insecurities and frustrations on the show, and why he made the decision to leave after two years. Refreshingly honest and laugh-out-loud funny, this book will appeal to both fans of Jay Mohr and fans of Saturday Night Live.
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Jay Mohr is funny........2007-09-21
Good read, very insightful and revealing. Wait, are not those the same things! I'm a moron! Fruuuuuuuuuuuuunkis! Jay is hilarious on O&A and on Ron & Fez.
Loved Every Page.......2007-07-04
Of course the book tells stories of the inner workings of SNL, but the book itself is 3 stories: Jay's dealing with, and treatment of a panic disorder, hilarious stories of things he witnessed and played a part of, him getting totally screwed during his tenure. It's a fantastic book.
Wish it were longer.......2007-03-23
An insider's view of working in the trenches of "Saturday Night Live". This book is not meant to be a tell-all book nor a production diary. Some other reviewers have bemoaned the dearth of juicy gossip tidbits in the text. But Mohr's account is open and honest and rightfully one-sided. "SNL" has long been a fascinating cultural phenomenon, and Mohr gives you a peek behind the curtain. He speaks as a lower-rung writer/performer, and is certainly unjaded by the whirlwind success that other "SNL" alums achieved, mostly because he never achieved it himself.
He fawns over a musical guest or two, and has nothing but loving things to say about Chris Farley, but the rest is basically a week-for-week, show-for-show account of how the show's inhumane production schedule brought out both the best and worst in him (and everybody else).
REALLY GOOD BOOK!.......2007-03-13
This book was GREAT, I heard of Jay mohr and knew well of him but not knowing who he was you still could enjoy this book its a autobio on his life starting and ending in saturday night live. He tells some reallly funny stories about him and the cast at the time, like chris farely and adam sandler. It ends sad definitly but really good book its hard to put down.
A decent book.......2006-06-19
The review from Publishers Weekly, while being somewhat on the mark, doesn't give this book enough credit. I enjoyed this book, although I had never heard of Mohr. While few of the author's skits aired, he was having better ideas his second year, and one gets the feeling that if he hadn't been so impatient he would have met success.
What I really liked about the book is its feeling of authenticity. You feel as if you are there, getting the job, suffering the anxiety and witness to the SNL creative process. Also authentic is the portrait the author draws of himself, which is the main thread in the book. With all the defects that the author exhibits, he still comes off as quite likeable.
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In Film and Television After 9/11, editor Wheeler Winston Dixon and eleven other distinguished film scholars discuss the production, reception, and distribution of Hollywood and foreign films after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and examine how moviemaking has changed to reflect the new world climate.
While some contemporary films offer escapism, much of mainstream American cinema since 9/11 is centered on the desire for a “just war” in which military reprisals and escalation of warfare appear to be both inevitable and justified. Films of 2002 such as Black Hawk Down, Collateral Damage, and We Were Soldiers demonstrate a renewed audience appetite for narratives of conflict, reminiscent of the wave of filmmaking that surrounded American involvement in World War II.
The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon galvanized the American public initially, yet film critics wonder how this will play out over time. Film and Television After 9/11 is the first book to provide original insights into topics ranging from the international reception of post-9/11 American cinema, re-viewing films of our shared cinematic past in light of the attacks, and exploring parallels between post-9/11 cinema and World War II-era productions.
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my son used this book for a social studies project on 9/11.......2005-04-18
and he took finalist honors in the state competition....this book is very impressive with it's breadth and depth of study....definitely worthwhile reading
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This hands-on, interactive training CD-ROM provides a unique way to work through a basic production from start to finish. Gain a solid understanding of Reason while learning how to use all the exciting new features in version 3. Packed with approximately 2.5 hours of movie tutorials, this interactive training product guides you through the process of creating and producing a song. Sit back and watch as a pro shows you the ins and outs of Reason 3, and then practice what you've learned with the quizzing features. With the updated CSi MT Player 4 interface, you'll enjoy a new custom movie playback bar with fast forward and rewind scan options, and location markers that provide an easy way to instantly access the key location of the each movie tutorial. Work your way through easy-to-follow tutorials, including: audio/MIDI setup ReWire setup importing Rex files toolbar overview mixing adding effects exporting mixes backing up.
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You're new to Reason and you need to get up and running quickly. Reason™ CSi Starter is here to help. This interactive, tutorial CD-ROM allows you to work your way through a basic production from start to finish as you discover how easy it is to get down to the business of producing a song. Sit back and watch a DAW pro show you the ins and outs as you work through over two hours of movie tutorials, including Audio/MIDI Setup, ReWire Setup, Importing REX Files, Toolbar Overview, Mixing with reMix, Adding Effects, Exporting Mixes, Backing Up Sessions. Use the quizzing feature to test yourself along the way. Reason ™ CSi Starter is full of movie tutorials that include not only basic functionality, but also production techniques, special shortcuts, key commands, and before and after audio examples.
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One of chess’s great inventive geniuses presents his 220 best games, with fascinating personal accounts of the dazzling victories that made him a legend. Includes historic matches against Capablanca, Euwe, and Bogoljubov. Alekhine’s penetrating commentary on strategy, tactics—and a revealing memoir. Numerous diagrams. Approx.
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Great Faults, Great Merits.......2007-08-11
This book (originally published in two volumes, covering 1908-1923 and 1924-1937) has some great faults. Yes, Alekhine's analysis is sometimes unobjective. Yes, he sometimes (though rarely) presented as the actual gamescore a faster win that, in fact, he had only found in a post-mortem analysis. And, yes, of course, his opening ideas and opinions are outdated.
That said, this book (these books?) are still, justifiably, considered a classic. The real reason has nothing to do with Alekhine's outdated opening analysis or his creation of a quicker win in the endgame after the fact. It is Alekhine's analysis of the MIDDLEGAME, of attack, defense, and counterattack--the very meat of the game--that makes this book great.
As a master of the complicated attack, of turning nebulous strategic advantages into concrete winning variations, Alekhine had seldom, if ever, been equalled. Choosing a game at random (Game 62, Tarrasch-Alekhin, Pstyan 1922) and skipping over the opening variations, Alekhine notes, inter alia:
1. Move 14: White is already strategically lost because he "ceded the center to his opponent in exchange for a pawn of little value".
2. Moves 18-24: After launching an attack to take advantage of this, Alekhine notes in detail the only correct tactical way to carry on the attack, praising White for defending very well (incidentally, praise for his opponent's moves--and criticism of his own--are quite common in Alekhine's analysis, contrary to the usual claim that he despised his rivals.)
3. Move 28: How he prepared a bishop sacrifice to break down white's final defense and mate.
It is probably true that, in top-flight games among the world's top 20 grandmasters, such games are impossible today, due to improvement in defensive technique that would not allow Black to achieve this kind of strategic advantage in the first place, or perhaps find resources to defend once the mating attack is launched.
But for anybody is not one of those top 10 (or perhaps 100) players, knowing how to conduct an attack in the middlegame once you have a strategic advantage is the single most important subject to learn, as this is how most games are decided; and here, Alekhine is unrivaled. Even if one (unfairly) ignores *all* of Alekhine's opening analysis as outdated and *all* of his endgame analysis as invented, what is left is an absolute gem.
the best of Alekhine are among the most splendid.......2007-05-08
In my early years of playing and studying chess, Alekhine's games made the most impression on me (let me say first I didn't study more modern masters after Botvinnik in those years because I read materials which were dated years ago so it excluded Fischer, Kasparov, etc.) I heard that some players including Kasparov also remarked that. If you think of chess as an art, Alekhine's games certainly have quite distinct qualities which I try to describe.
Alekhine's games possess qualities which someone may find very attractive (myself in early years) but another one may find it heavy (like Fischer; although Fischer did made some positive comments on Alekhine's chess). I like to compare Alekhine's art to that of Beethoven while Capablanca's to Mozart's). Alekhine in his early years did not possess the positional mastery which is necessary to propel a player to the top rank, but he did have combination gift which makes his games fascinating. This reason (there is also psychological block which Reuben Fine pointed out)explains why Lasker and Capa were superior than him in his early years. Later Alekhine developed his positional mastery and he's a well-rounded player with a rare ability to produce beautiful games. At his peak, he is distinguished even among world champions.
The decision to buy this book may depend on your taste and your stage of development. Some masters' games are complicated and beginners may find them a bit difficult to understand without annotation. In my opinion, beginners will benefit from studying Morphy's games and learn the importance of development and how to play in open positions. Capablanca's games are also very good to beginners. His games improve my playing with positional understanding. Besides, I believe that one can imitate Capa's playing style with no risk. The same is true for investors to imitate Warren Buffett's investment style (but there's no gaurantee that you can achieve the same results as Buffett). But you can hardly imitate Alekhine's style as it's risky to try to imitate George Soros's investment style.
In conclusion, I think you will not regret buying Alekhine's games but it's possible (depend on your taste) that you will like other masters. At the same time, some will find great inspirations from his games. One of Alekhine's greatest games, Reti-Alekhine 1923 (if i'm not mistaken) is truly spectacular, a rare beauty. I wonder if a very strong computer program (perhaps even stronger than Alekhine) can produce this game.
1400-1500 rated player Review.......2006-07-19
The only reason I rated this book a 3 is because I only understood a little from the annotations as well as his games. I can see that the games are powerful, but I can't use them to my advantage, or use the sight-of-alekhine in my games.
I have purchased this book in hopes that I would become stronger very quickly. I was dissilusioned by the idea that buying a book by one of the greatest (if not best) chessmasters would make me a master myself in no time at all! I was very wrong.
For those people who are rated 1500 or below, save your money. Save the 10 dollars for a book you can actualy understand. "Art of Attack" is what im readin so far, and so far so good.
SUMMARY: Good price, but is over most people's head.
Only buy if your rated higher than 1600, and have a willingness and the pateince to learn.
Indispensable.......2004-08-05
I am working throught this book presently. I have had it since '95 and each time I come back to it I am more blown away by how great it is. The only negative--and it has nothing to do with the quality of the book--is that there aren't a lot of Sicilians and King's Indians, so we don't really know how the great man would have dealt with those. This book represents one of the best values on the market, at 500-some pages at around ten bucks. If you don't have this book, you cannot be said to have a chess library.
Disgraceful.......2004-07-12
As others have mentioned, Alekhine's analysis is highly unobjective. He often neglects to mention defensive oversights by his opponents in order to make a dubious attack seem like a forced win. Furthermore, his opening analysis is incredibly weak in this book. Many of the lines he criticises harshly are now considered the "book." It almost seems that the more rudely he treats a line, the more respect that line currently receives.
But the most appalling thing of all is that a good number of games have been doctored or made up out of whole cloth. Just a few of the most egregious examples:
Volume 1 --
(1) On page 69, he discusses a game he played as White in Moscow 1915 which ended with 5 queens on the board. In fact, his opponent Grigoriev had White, and the game provided never happened (White played 11.O-O-O, not 11.NPxP). The line he cites as the game actually come from an analysis of the game.
(2) On page 79, he changes the ending of the game. The game proceeded 36....QN5 not 36....BR5!
(3) On page 84, he claims Mieses resigned. In fact the game went on an additional 15 moves.
(4) On page 107, he changes the move order to highlight some analysis.
(5) On page 109, he claims he played 27.QK3! In fact, he played a weaker move and the game dragged on 21 more moves.
(6) On page 240, he cites a game Alekhine-Tenner 1907 which never took place.
Volume 2 --
(7) On page 250, he changes the ending of the game. He had played the weaker 22....PxB not 22....QxB leading to mate.
Utterly disgraceful.
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It's hard to think of anyone more intense or opinionated, or who wears as many hats as James Cramer. In Confessions of a Street Addict, the man who first made a name for himself on Wall Street successfully managing his hedge fund--and then became famous on Main Street with his manic appearances on CNBC--tells the improbable story of his career as journalist, Wall Street pundit, Internet entrepreneur, and television commentator. For the most part, Cramer manages to avoid the self-congratulatory hype that mars so many books of this ilk; in fact, what makes Confessions so compelling are the shots that Cramer takes at himself, be it his now infamous capitulation during the stock market panic of October 1998, when he wrote a piece for TheStreet.com advising readers of an impending crash just as the market began to rebound, or the callous way he treated so many around him in pursuit of the next trade. Here's an informative, honest, and rollicking read for fans of CNBC, TheStreet.com, or anyone who has ever lost sleep thinking about their portfolios. Highly recommended. --Harry C. Edwards
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Everyone on Wall Street knows Jim Cramer, and Cramer knows Wall Street better than anyone. In the most candid and outrageous look at Wall Street since Liar's Poker, Cramer, co-founder of TheStreet.com, radio and television commentator, and for years a premier money manager, takes readers on the wild ride that is Wall Street -- revealing how the game is played, who breaks the rules, and who gets hurt.
Confessions of a Street Addict takes us from Cramer's roots in the middle-class Philadelphia suburbs to Harvard, where he began managing money, and then to Goldman Sachs, where he went into business with his wife -- Karen, the "Trading Goddess" -- as his partner. He brilliantly describes the life of a money manager: the frenetic pace, the constant pressure to outperform the market and other fund managers, and the sharklike attacks fund managers make as they circle a fund perceived to be in trouble.
Throughout the book Cramer is characteristically outspoken, offering his hard-won insights about the market and everyone in it, himself included. There has never been a more eloquent market insider than Cramer, nor a more high-octane book about Wall Street.
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"In the most candid look at Wall Street since Liar's Poker, James J. Cramer, cofounder of TheStreet.com, radio and television commentator, and for years one of Wall Street's premier money managers, takes readers on a no-holds-barred tour of life on Wall Streetrevealing how the game is played, who breaks the rules, and who gets hurt. Everyone on Wall Street knows Jim Cramer, and Cramer knows Wall Street better than anyone. For fifteen years he ran Cramer, Berkowitz, one of the Street's most successful hedge funds with a compounded annual return of 24% after all fees. In Confessions of a Street Addict he takes us from his fascination with the stock market as a middle-class kid in the Philadelphia suburbs to Harvard, where he began managing money. After an apprenticeship at Goldman, Sachs, Cramer set out on his own with his wife, Karen, the ""Trading Goddess,"" as his partner. Cramer brilliantly describes the life of a money manager -- the frenetic pace, the constant pressure to outperform the market and other fund managers, and the shark-like attacks fund managers make as they circle a fund perceived to be in trouble. Throughout the book Cramer is characteristically outspoken, outrageous, and candid about everyone, himself included. There has never been a high-wired, high-octane book about Wall Street like this one. "
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Fascinating read!!!.......2007-09-18
After having read this book I am no longer convinced that Jim Cramer is crazy. Hyperactive, eccentric - maybe, but not crazy. Fascinating read! I highly recommend this book!
In The Middle Of It All.......2007-08-03
This book is not about investing. Rather, it is about Cramer's interesting life and the millions he made and lost in the stock market in the past few decades. As a former journalist, Cramer writes well compared to most traders and the reader will have a hard time putting this book down once started. Cramer takes the reader from his days as a struggling journalist and Harvard law student to the hallowed halls of Goldman Sachs to his chaotic life as a hedge fund manager and media commentator. This book also provides good perspectives on the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the fallout of the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management as well as the dotcom madness of the late 1990s. In many ways, Cramer was in the middle of it all and thus provides good insights in buying stocks in hard times. This book should be read by everyone interested in a job in the financial markets because, love him or hate him, this book will not disappoint.
Keeping it Real.......2007-07-29
Cramer is a loveable egomaniac. If you can get past his hubris, you will get a real feeling of what he went through while managing his hedge fund. I particularly liked his writing style. Maybe it was the subject matter, but I think more so, his style, kept me turning the pages faster and faster. I couldn't get enough. Really.
I guess you could say it was a combination thriller, real life story, informational, documentary, etc.
As you can tell, I really enjoyed reading it. He's a wonderful writer with a first-hand knowledge of the stock market. Cramer is smart and wants you to understand the "inside" of the market. I think he succeeds wonderfully.
Jay Lowenthal
A glimpse into Jim's world........2007-07-21
You either hate Jim or love Jim, it is hard to ignore him and his antics. I generally liked reading his books. His books are very inspirational to me. They give me a glimpse of how hedge funds operate. I know in his books, he mentions how he had to live in his car during his not-so-rich days, and how from there, he went on to make over 100 million dollars. In his books he also touches on the human side of his journey, he talks about his wife supporting him all along and sometime it felt like he thought his wife was actually a better trader than him. That is obviously his humbleness, what he has achieved is not an easy feat. Reading the financial media (I was a subscriber of his website realmoney.com for a long time), he is dubbed a believer of fundamental analysis, and generally bullish on the market. His books reflect some of the same themes.
If you are a technical analysis person, this book is probably not for you, but if you want to get involved in a hedge fund some day, this book is for you.
Interesting book for all, not just financial types.......2007-07-16
I bought this book for my husband, who watches Cramer on TV religiously, and found myself reading it when he was done. It was very interesting so learn how Cramer came to be where he is today. A little boring in some of the pages where he gives very detailed information about some of the stocks and higher level market data, but the rest of the book is very good.
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