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Title: Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur.(Review)
Author: Sally Dunham
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The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2000
Publisher: American Oriental Society
Volume: 120
Issue: 4
Page: 669
Article Type: Book Review
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Dress, Bodies & Business: Fashioning Women at Work
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Whether he's down on the farm, lost in a world of his own, or camping out with the gang, Garfield always finds a way to keep life interesting. Now, that might be bad news for Jon and Odie, but it's great for the rest of his millions of fans, as Garfield takes the spotlight for his nineteenth star turn! Or, as Garfield might say, when the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.
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The cover is even funny!.......2002-05-23
"Garfield" is one of the funniest comic strips, next to "Baby Blues"! You would still laugh if you were to skip the words and just look at the facial expressions! I find that in the earlier "Garfield's," there were more witty one-liners, which are shown in this book. I recommend!
Hit the funny bone.......2000-08-02
I thought this a more well done Garfield book though i admit i had seen some of the strips before, this has been the most enjoyable Garfield book I've read and would recomend it to both non-Garfield readers and readers who may not have it, otherwise, read it again!Why? this book has been the done the best job livening-up my "down" days, plus i especially enjoyed the sunday comics and the funny garfield's humor page. This book also remined me of the 36th garfield book in its humor basic aspects. I Love this book!
GARFIELD RULES!.......2000-06-24
Everybody out there keep buying Garfield books! They can be worth a lot of money someday and can become collector's items! I'm always going to keep all of mine so when I have kids they can read them!
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Al Roker, the genial weatherman on NBC's top-rated Today show, has written a book that reads like a long chat over coffee. Light and involving, Don't Make Me Stop This Car talks frankly about fertility problems, parenting, divorce, adoption, and... 'toons. It turns out that Roker's a cartoon fanatic, and his own capable, funny drawings grace the back cover and chapter headings. In the first half of Don't Make Me Stop This Car, Roker and his wife, 20/20 correspondent Deborah Roberts, struggle to get pregnant. They conceive a child the old-fashioned way but lose it during the first trimester. Roker candidly discusses the causes of their impaired fertility: his low sperm count and his wife's plummeting progesterone levels. Key doctors are introduced (and, annoyingly, reintroduced) in the ensuing chapters before Leila is delivered via C-section in November 1998. Part two is a collection of essays on topics ranging in seriousness from Ricky Martin to racism. Roker's better with weightier subjects, such as the challenges and pleasures of adoption and foster care. And there are some compelling descriptions of his childhood that make you admire his salt-of-the-earth parents. At times the writing sounds as if Roker dictated and didn't spend much time editing. It's punctuated by exclamations that surely sound better on TV ("Yesss!" "Is this a great country, or what?" "Gotta go!"). But the informality grows less irritating as the book goes on. Ultimately, you're left with a sense of Roker as a middle-class hero--proud of his bus-driver dad but rich enough to buy fertility treatments and then decorate the baby's nursery with trinkets from the "statusphere." All in all, it's a sunny forecast for Mr. Roker's fatherhood book. --Kathi Inman Berens
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In Don't Make Me Stop This Car!, Al Roker takes us home. Here we meet his wife, Deborah, and his daughters, Courtney and Leila. Just like men all over the country, Al is a modern father, and in this book, he takes an affectionate look at the joys and perils of fatherhood. Al provides an unprecedented, intimate look into his experiences with infertility treatments, adoption, and the normal fears and wonders of an expecting parent. As Al manages the needs of his daughters from two marriages and the demands of a high-profile career, he is like millions of others who fantasize about the newest sport utility vehicle, struggle with a GapKids addiction, and bask in the golden moments of first steps and special Father's Day meals. Of course, being a father brings back memories of his own childhood, and Al reminisces about riding his father's bus route in Brooklyn, disobeying his parents' command "Do not let Andrew watch Psycho," and the beginnings of his passion for cartooning. Along the way, Al comes to a deeper understanding of his parents' love for him and a whole new appreciation of them as grandparents.
Heartwarming, honest, and funny, Don't Make Me Stop This Car! is a sneak peek into the heart of the guy in the driver's seat, the modern American dad.
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Sometimes laugh out loud funny, sometimes tedious and maudlin.......2005-11-15
This book on tape, read by Al Roker himself is a mixed bag. There are laugh out loud moments and sweet moments, but generally speaking the book has too many filler moments, WAY too much information about his second wife's attempts to get pregnant and sometimes is sickeningly sentimental. The last half of the book saves the first half from being a total disaster.
a favorite.......2004-02-29
By now, I've probably read this book three or four times. Although the beginning was a bit boring, a couple of chapters in I got really into it. All of it was told with a bit of a funny tint. You can tell he loves his kids through it!
Al Roker is a sweet man.......2003-08-18
I expected something really funny and light. Instead, I learned WAY too much about the birth of one of Al Roker's children. I walked away thinking that I had learned a lot more about what a wonderful person Al Roker is......but the title led me to believe that I would have something funny to listen to over and over again.
YUCK!.......2003-03-14
Frankly, I am disappointed. I thought this book would be humor filled. I guess I was hoping for another like "Bill Cosby: Himself". This was not to be.
All the other reviews are excellent, but I cannot recommend this one. Where he tried to be funny about his wife and things they went through, I thought instead he was being utterly RUDE toward and about his wife. He even criticizes his wife when he asked her to look over and critique his manuscript and she left her opinion for him. Why ask her opinion if he is just going to throw her suggestions back into her face?
I do not recommend this book to anyone and that is a rare thing for me to do.
The worst book ever. I wish I could give it zero stars!.......2003-02-23
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Perry is the best at.......2003-01-03
Danny Perry's obvious love of film is infectious. His knowledge lost and beloved classics of the odd and forgotten will make you run out to th local video store in search of gem after gem. Even when you disagree with him, Perry supports his viewpoint in a fun, quickwitted style. My only complaint is that as 20 years has gone by since its intial publication where is CULT MOVIES 4?
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A Wonderful Delight.......2007-09-08
MadLibs have always been a favorite of mine, from roadtrips to random entertainment, and "ready for landing" checks. I bought a bunch of these for a recent roadtrip and we laughed a lot at the different things we came up with. My suggestions i always to ahve one person come up with the random words, or just trading off throughout a carload or ...friendload... of people. Everyone with their own intentions tend to wildly adjust how the story plays out!
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Get the Biggest Bang for Your Home Improvement Buck
People all over the United States are continuing to make improvements to their homes. Need evidence: Just look at the increased number of home improvement centers that have popped up in neighborhoods and communities across the U.S. in recent years. But before you start planning your next home improvement project, it’s important to know if the money you spend today will result in an increase in your property value tomorrow.
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Attention, all home sellers!.......2006-08-23
I was disappointed to read the (less than enthusiastic) reviews of this book. As a real estate agent, I've taken it out of the library so often that I'm finally going to break down and buy it. There may be some saavy home sellers who have a handle on the information in this book, but it's unusual when they follow through. Making these improvements may seem obvious, but nine times out of ten, sellers don't think about how they are exactly the same things they notice when they become buyers.
If Berges repeats himself, it's because his suggestions can't be repeated often enough. Some sellers don't want to bother with his advice, and that's fine, but then it's important to be realistic about pricing. Home selling is like any retail--if the product is shopworn, damaged or has defects, the store takes a markdown.
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"OK", but I'm being generous.......2006-04-07
Mr. Berges purports to offer ways to increase home values, but there's hardly any aspect of home improvement he doesn't rate as a worthwhile imvestment. Even a swimming pool gets a "moderate" rating, and most markets in the U.S. consider a pool a real albatross.
Mr. Berges also includes a worksheet that should let the reader calculate almost any aspect of home improvement and its impact on value -- nice, but he implies it's available online at "valueplay.com" when it isn't.
All in all, a generally OK guideline book, but it misleads.
not what I was expecting.......2005-08-15
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A little helpful, but mostly just really annoying.......2005-08-10
First, what I thought was useful about this book: the author does seem to really have thought about how much value various home improvements add to your home. It's basic, but probably something we don't always think about. Essentially, what you can see is what sells. So even if your wiring really needs updating, don't expect buyers to be wowed by that. They expect it. On the other hand, just cleaning up your yard (much cheaper) will result in much more of a "wow" factor.
Now for the various annoyances.
Grammar and usage: I'm a word nerd, and when I see words used incorrectly or sentences constructed poorly, it kind of pokes me in the eye. My eye got poked a lot in this book (affect for effect, it's for its, in to for into...). Oh, and in his introduction, he doesn't even address the parts of the book in the correct order; he has Parts Two through Four completely goofed up.
Telling us how clever and wonderful he is: we keep hearing how great his company is, and just what that company's name is, just in case we forgot it. We hear how much experience he has in the business, just in case we forgot how he explained it in the introduction.
NOT giving us 101 ways to increase the value of our home: As the previous reviewer noted, the book is divided into 101 sections, but not all of them deal with home improvements, per se. Examples: Pros and Cons of Using Subcontractors; Licensing, Insurance, and Bonding Requirements; Appraisal Method #1 through #3 (each listed as a separate "home improvement")...
Not even writing much of a new book: He constantly quotes directly from his previous books, listing the title, publisher, and year each time he does, so we can rush out and buy it, I guess. Sometimes his quotes last for more than a page! I would say at least 10% of the book is just direct quotes from his other books. I'm sure glad I didn't read them! Now I don't have to!
And the worst annoyance... going on and on and on to explain something any moron could understand instantly: On removing junky cars, boats, etc from your property, he goes into this ridiculous analogy of trying to sell a dirty car to illustrate why the cleanup is a good idea. On cleaning up the inside of your house, he rambles for two pages about how he chose a tree nursery based on the cleanliness of the place, then writes one paragraph about cleaning up your house. He uses a makeover analogy (two paragraphs about women getting made up) to tell us why we should paint the interior. He gives the helpful advice of putting seldom-used items on the top shelves of very tall cabinets (after he pointed out that tall cabinets might be a disadvantage to shorter people -- really?). And did you know that a dining table and chairs are the main pieces of furniture in a dining room? Very revealing! I could go on (I really could; there were examples on almost every page), but I won't.
This book could have been a pamphlet and would have been just as useful. The one good thing it did do is present some things you might not have thought about when deciding to improve your home. Unfortunately, it also presented plenty of things that everyone already knows.
There are actually 75 ways listed... .......2005-03-10
They kinda cheat a little. There are only 75 ways listed (they start numbering with chapters like "how to work with your subcontractor," in order to get a total of 101 chapters.
Further, it's on a five-star rating system: only four star and five star items are considered cost beneficial. It would be a lot nicer to focus on the four and five star stuff, and leave the excess out. I don't want to read about things it costs me more money to do than I'll get back in selling: I just want to know what those things are, so I don't concentrate on them.
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