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Giacometti: A Biography In Pictures
Alberto Giacometti
Manufacturer: Hatje Cantz Publishers
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ASIN: 377570793X
Release Date: 1999-05-02 |
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Paragraph-long quotations, from the artist and others, about Giacometti's life and artistic struggles... [have] been arranged chronologically and interspersed with some interesting snapshots of him at work in the studio (a Gitane invariably gripped in his plaster-stippled fingers) and reproductions of individual works.... An engaging read.--Library Journal
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- Julius Knipl, where are you now?
- So sad and terrifying you'll laugh your head off
- For sure funny, but in a strange beautiful intoxicating way.
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Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories
Ben Katchor , and
Michael Chabon
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
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The Quitter
ASIN: 0316482943 |
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Ben Katchor's dreamscape is peopled by transistor radio listeners, door-knob triers, false eyebrow importers, and a late-night-perambulating real estate photographer named Julius Knipl. The vaguely melancholy stories in his eight-panel comic strips reflect a fondness for the forgotten, the obscure, and the merely overlooked. What happens to the city's wholesale calendar salesmen in February? Who buys last year's tinned seedless grapes? Katchor's shadowed line drawings of a gray metropolis evoke musty smells, the shuffling steps of retirees, and a proliferating autumnal chill. Readers who enjoy his work in their local weekly papers, as well as NPR listeners who have been held captive by the "Knipl Radio-Cartoons" will be glad to linger a little longer in the dream life of Katchor's world.
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Ben Katchor's dreamscape is peopled by transistor radio listeners, door-knob triers, false eyebrow importers, and a late-night-perambulating real estate photographer named Julius Knipl. The vaguely melancholy stories in his eight-panel comic strips reflect a fondness for the forgotten, the obscure, and the merely overlooked. What happens to the city's wholesale calendar salesmen in February? Who buys last year's tinned seedless grapes? Katchor's shadowed line drawings of a gray metropolis evoke musty smells, the shuffling steps of retirees, and a proliferating autumnal chill. Readers who enjoy his work in their local weekly papers, as well as NPR listeners who have been held captive by the "Knipl Radio-Cartoons" will be glad to linger a little longer in the dream life of Katchor's world.
Customer Reviews:
wonderful.......2002-05-03
these haunting stories are a notch above the first julius knipl book. one can only wonder where katchor is taking us with this series. his comic stories bounce around between the panels and the reader is forced to create other stories that are only hinted at on the page. it's totally beautiful. great book for anyone into old new york, american yiddishkeit, or gorgeous comics.
You can only get it here.......2001-07-29
Ben Katchor's eerie cityscapes evoke the ruins of the kind of world that appeared to be happening in the background of 1950's films noir, and his fanciful industries, charities, and fraternal organizations hearken back to the same imagined time. Reading his work, one becomes nostalgic for a time that never existed. This form of humor is subtle. In fact, it is not the humor for which I buy Katchor's work as much as it is for that strange feeling of fictional nostalgia. You can get humor anywhere, but Katchor's world view is unique to the man himself. If you ever get jaded, remember this review: immersing yourself in a book of Katchor's is unlike anything you've ever felt before.
Julius Knipl, where are you now?.......2001-03-28
Julius Knipl: Real Estate Photographer Stories is a collection of Ben Katchor's comics about about middle-class guys in New York City. At first glance each comic (usually 4 or 8 panels) seems to have no point, and the tone tends to remind me of the Jim books (I Made Some Brownies, And They Were Pretty Good, etc.), but Katchor seems to have staked out some pretty bizarre literary territory with these little stories.
One of my favorites concerns a man who is nearly poked in the eye with an umbrella on a rainy day. He's telling a companion his story, when a bystander overhears and tells him that many city residents are actually suffering from eye injuries on a day like this. This eye-injury enthusiast takes our man to the hospital, to see him "offer condolences to the families of the injured."
Another story concerns a group of volunteers who man phone lines all night, just to take calls from concerned citizens who have heard fire engine or ambulance sirens. Lots of the stories are about businessmen with bizarre, pathetic, or just loopy invention ideas: a suitcase that turns into a wastebasket, a storefront which sells rock candy, but only wholesale...
The text is punctuated by hilarious proper names, such as:
Blood & Sawdust Brand Cirkus Straws
The Ascending Colon, with Horace Bismuth and Vivian Scybala
Citric Acid Council
Viosh Shirue's Natural Rainwater Cistern
Katchor doesn't look down at his characters or approach them with anything similar to condescension. If I am motivated to feel anything at all after reading this, it's a bit more humility and compassion for my fellow man. At times these little stories are laugh-aloud funny, but mostly they just bring a smile and a little chuckle.
I am glad I ran across this book.
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And yes, these pieces were not created to be consumed en masse. If you find a few amusing or worthwhile, but they get tiresome after a bit, just put the book down, and read a few of them each day, as you would if your daily newspaper carried them.
So sad and terrifying you'll laugh your head off.......2000-11-05
A "knipl" is colloquial Yiddish for a secret stash, like money saved for a rainy day or some last relic of an old way of life. Those populating the unnamed city of Ben Katchor's extended graphic novel are essentially gripped by nostalgia for a way of life that probably never existed. In cartoon vignettes, they pine for the days when you could visit the famed "Pygmy Penitentiary" (attempted breakouts scheduled every hour) and pick up some of Virosh Sherue's bottled rain water on the way home. Many try to preserve their way of life, if only because they fear change ("Static Day" is an official holiday) and grab a hold on the present as if it were a lifeline (one man has dozens of items on lay-away in stores thruought the city, because the goods are kept perpetually new until he has to pick them up). And the city doesn't lack for opportunists - like street toughs who scavenge TV antennae from buildings that have gone cable; tour operators who bus tourists through the decayed parts of the city (the driver soon becomes the primaddona) or show biz operators who conceive of turning manual labor into public spectacle. For much of the city, it's business as usual as reporters for the vile evening combinator scour the city for tales of the dreams of its populace, or as bra-strap statisticians try to chart the rise and fall of the city's fortunes. The titular real estate photographer notes all dispassionately. Katchor parodies and mourns his citizens at the same time, yet he never condescends to them not tries to milk them for tears. Instead, Katchor, through the lens of his alter ego, a real estate photographer seems to have mastered the perfect balance of bittersweet, a quest that, for his charachters, seems one more casualty lost to the years.
For sure funny, but in a strange beautiful intoxicating way........1999-10-24
It's like a hilarious dream that makes perfect sense but you can't explain it, and it permeates your whole day. You have to put the book down and stare into space every little chunk or so. It's rich. I can't explain it. There's probably a German word for it.
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"For the most part, the stuff in this book will not be advertised on billboards to draw you off the highway exits. This is a book for people who like the quirky, the offbeat, and the unusual. If you have absolutely no interest in how to astro-turf your car or where to find the John Wayne Museum, or a good frog race, you might want to buy one of those other books. . ." From the Introduction.
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Great book!.......2005-08-08
This book is really intersting and funny! It offers so much information about IN--things you never knew that are great trivia! Great for planning day trips in the state, too!
Funny, interesting reading.......2003-05-09
You'll enjoy this book even if you don't live in Indiana -- and you'll definitely enjoy it if you do. Packed with the odd and unusual, this book was filled with surprises even for me, and I've lived in Indiana for almost 20 years. Strange things you'll see along the road, folks who collect or build wierd stuff, bizarre legends and history... Dick Wolfsie explains them all with both wit and respect, and turns in a first-rate book that you should have with you on any daytrip you take around the Hoosier state.
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"For the most part, the stuff in this book will not be advertised on billboards to draw you off the highway exits. This is a book for people who like the quirky, the offbeat, and the unusual. If you have absolutely no interest in how to astro-turf your car or where to find the John Wayne Museum, or a good frog race, you might want to buy one of those other books...." From the Introduction.
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Engagingly written, extensively researched, and lavishly illustrated with rare stills and poster art, Vatnsdal adjusts the focus on Canadian horror films, and unwinds the history of this neglected genre to learn "why we fear what we fear and how it came to be that way". With a forward by director/producer David DeCoteau. "They Came From Within is a revelatory and informative study of a previously underexpored area of horror history." - Fangoria Magazine
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Wonderful addition to any horror movie collection.......2005-09-19
This book thoughtfully examines an often overlooked area of horror movies: Canadian horror. The author covers not only the most well-known horror films to come out of Canada (Black Christmas, the works of David Cronenberg), but also the most minor efforts (even Rituals is discussed). The book is quite easy to read but very substantial in content; I have recommended that my college library purchase a copy. I recommend it highly for anyone interested in international horror cinema.
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- Everything You Need To Know About LA Hip Hop
- Cross' true picture of the development of westcoast rap.
- I'm in this book
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Everything You Need To Know About LA Hip Hop.......2003-02-08
Simply put, there is no book like this about rap in Los Angeles. From KDAY to the Watts Prophets to Death Row, this book covers EVERYTHING you know about Hip Hop in LA, a story that is distinctly different from Hip Hop in New York. It features interviews with LA's biggest - Dre, Eazy, Cube, Ice-T, Cypress Hill, etc. - and leaves nothing out. This is a story that's rarely told, which is strange when one considers that LA rap was the force that mainstreamed Hip Hop. Hard to find, but a must have for any mainstream rap historian.
Cross' true picture of the development of westcoast rap........1999-06-27
I have to give it up to Brian for the very honest and understanding picture that he paints of the early to middle development of the westcoast hip hop scene. Through his interviews and writings, hip-hop fans get a real sense of how rap music developed on the west coast and they hear the stories directly from the artists themselves. This book is priceless and a definite must have for all music fans. In fact, somebody stole my only copy so I need to buy another one. Cli-N-Tel
I'm in this book.......1999-02-02
My bedroom in the Picture section LINK'S Room with the SP1200 from back in the days
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Due Props to MIKAH 9.......1998-08-06
Freestyle Fellowship's Mikah 9 is the preeminent freestyle rapper of all time. He is the John Coltrane of the modern era.
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As the long, lazy afternoons of summer beckon, this giant volume of 200 great, easy New York Times puzzles will provide lots of solving power for fans to enjoy in their hammock, on their patio, or curled up indoors. Edited by Will Shortz, the #1 man in American crosswords, this omnibus-size volume provides: -Hundreds of hours of brain stimulating fun -Easy crosswords-the most popular puzzling level -Lots of puzzles at a great value.
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NY Times Crosswords for Lazy Afternoon.......2006-01-30
Although it is a real quality book, I found it much harder then what I consider easy. Larger print was easy on the eyes.
Don't Buy this book if you have others.......2005-01-28
I frequently do crossword puzzles and am always buying the New York Times Easy Crossword Puzzle books. This one is really disappointing, it has many of the same puzzles as The New York Times Easy Crossword Puzzle Omnibus Volume 3 : 200 Solvable Puzzles from the Pages of The New York Times. It was a waste to spend money on this book when it has the same puzzles as the other book. It sucks to open up to a random page and have the puzzle be exactly the same as one I have already done. I wanted an easy crossword book, that just makes it too easy.
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In this revised and expanded second edition of the bestselling
Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, Thomas Bulkowski updates the classic with new performance statistics for both bull and bear markets and 23 new patterns, including a second section devoted to ten event patterns. Bulkowski tells you how to trade the significant events -- such as quarterly earnings announcements, retail sales, stock upgrades and downgrades -- that shape todays trading and uses statistics to back up his approach. This comprehensive new edition is a must-have reference if you're a technical investor or trader. Place your order today.
"The most complete reference to chart patterns available. It goes where no one has gone before. Bulkowski gives hard data on how good and bad the patterns are. A must-read for anyone that's ever looked at a chart and wondered what was happening."
-- Larry Williams, trader and author of Long-Term Secrets to Short-Term Trading
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"In this revised and expanded second edition of the bestselling
Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, Thomas Bulkowski updates the classic with new performance statistics for both bull and bear markets and 23 new patterns, including a second section devoted to ten event patterns. Bulkowski tells you how to trade the significant events -- such as quarterly earnings announcements, retail sales, stock upgrades and downgrades -- that shape today¿s trading and uses statistics to back up his approach. This comprehensive new edition is a must-have reference if you're a technical investor or trader. Place your order today.
""The most complete reference to chart patterns available. It goes where no one has gone before. Bulkowski gives hard data on how good and bad the patterns are. A must-read for anyone that's ever looked at a chart and wondered what was happening.""
-- Larry Williams, trader and author of Long-Term Secrets to Short-Term Trading"
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Chart Patterns.......2007-08-02
This book is fine, it was just a bit too technical for me, but it is not the fault of the book but my interest in the subject matter. I found it for myself to be too difficult to digest. Again, it has nothing to do with the message, it was not what I needed and I don't think I will use it a lot. I believe you need to know a lot more about the technical analysis than I do, although I hve a finance background.
pattens.......2007-07-14
very well researcher and very useful book for any body who want to punt on the market.
encyclepedia of chart patterns.......2007-01-11
Its just what its supposed to be a reference book . When it comes to trading its not that big a help. I am
learning that to make money its money managment and stop loss that makes the difference.
Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns.......2007-01-11
The book is very good, perhaps so extensive, but it approach in detail all the formations some one can found in trading
In Depth Analysis of statistical patterns........2007-01-03
A Great piece of work! You won't find statements like "usually this is bullish", instead, you will see something like "This works 26% of the time and the prices rises an average of 18%. This book is written like an engineer thinks. Facts, Facts and Facts. Nice to see in a field (stocks) that has much more conjecture than stocks. I'm buying his other books! Thanks.
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