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Through her engaged and articulate essays in the Village Voice, C. Carr has emerged as the cultural historian of the New York underground and the foremost critic of performance art. On Edge brings together her writings to offer a detailed and insightful history of this vibrant brand of theatre from the late 70s to today. It represents both Carr's analysis as a critic and her testament as a witness to performances which, by their very nature, can never be repeated.
Carr has organized this collection both chronologically and thematically, ranging from the emphasis on bodily manipulation/endurance in the 70s to the underground club scene in New York to an insider's analysis of the Tompkins Square Riot as a manifestation of the cultural and social conflicts that underlie much of performance art. She examines the transgressive and taboo-shattering work of Ethyl Eichelberger, Karen Finley, and Holly Hughes; documents specific performances by Annie Sprinkle and Lydia Lunch; and maps the development of such artists as Robbie McCauley, Blue Man Group, and John Jesurun. She also describes the "cross-over" phenomenon of the mid-80s and considers the far-right backlash against this mainstreaming as cultural reactionaries sought to curb the influence of these new artists.
CONTRIBUTORS: Linda Montano, Chris Burden, G.G Allin, Jean Baudrillard, Patty Hearts, Dan Quayle, Anne Magnouson, John Jesurun, John Kelly, Shu Lea Changvv, Diamanda Galas, Salley May, Rafael Mantanez Ortiz, Sherman Fleming, Kristine Stiles, Laurie Carlos, Jessica Hafedorn, Robbie McCormick, Karen Finley, Poopo Shiraishi, Donna Henes, Holey Hughe, Ela Troyano, Michael Smith, Harry Koipper, John Sex, Nina Jagen, Ethyl Eichelberge, Marina Abramovic, Ulay.
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An Inspiration!.......2007-07-31
Not only have I read and enjoyed this book of essays on performance art collected from the Village Voice - you could say I live it! And the book may inspire you to do the same! For what it's worth, here's my testimonial:
Calling myself "Sparkles", I became a full-time performance artist and scored a large grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. (I told them I was paranoid schizophrenic, so they'd know I was legit/ on par with New York city performance artists). I (as Sparkles) toured liberal arts colleges and reflected a freaky society, by freaking people out. Among other things: I blew my nose in a Canadian flag; coughed out feathers on the crowd (I hid down pillow feathers in my hand and coughed into them) and told them I had oral sex with a chicken and had avian flu; rubbed a hard rubber comb across my chest - leaving pink marks for a few minutes; freak danced the school mascot; antagonized the crowd by pinching peoples cheeks and tousling their hair; snorted pop rocks and held the mic to my nose; turned the lights off and chewed Wintergreen Lifesavers with my mouth open (sparks!!); before holding a lit sparkler between my teeth and dry-humping an inflatable Oscar trophy until it popped.
If you don't understand why my art was so important to this country, and why I deserved federal funding to open your narrow minds to new possibilities, then you should read this book. It will inform you about my art form. If all people read it, I'll have a lot less contempt for my audience. I'll be at Boston College this Friday. Tell `em Sparkles Mach II (if you want to see the new stuff, you gotta be there!) sent you, and get a free (taxpayer funded) Edie Sedgewick PEZ dispenser.
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Thanks to famous documentary photographs of Americans during the Great Depression, we tend to visualize everything that happened in the 1930s in black-and-white. In fact, Kodachrome first became available in the U.S. in 1935, and several photographers for the Farm Security Administration experimented with the new color film as they traveled across the country. Bound for Glory: America in Color 1939-43 presents an oddly startling world of small towns and country roads ablaze in the vivid hues of real life. A sunburned family in Pie Town, New Mexico, eat a dinner of homemade biscuits, grits, and gravy. Sisters wearing print dresses all made from the same rose and blue fabric seem dazed at the wonders of a state fair in Vermont. Work horses graze on bright green grass under a moody Kansas sky. Chosen from an archive of about 1,600 vintage color slides, the 175 photos in the book are the work of several documentary photographers, including Marion Post Wolcott and Jack Delano. Partway through this panorama of Americana, the tone and subject matter shift. Suddenly, the U.S. is at war, and the casual, unposed quality of the earlier images shifts into self-conscious glorification of the American war effort by the Office of War Information, with shots of steel mills and train yards, and of women newly hired by factories to assemble bomber parts. It's clear from Paul Hendrickson's engaging introduction that the pre-war images are the ones he finds most captivating. This slender volume--which aptly borrows the title of Dustbowl troubadour Woody Guthrie's autobiography--offers a window on a distant era in which grinding poverty and racial segregation coexist with the simple pleasures of rural and small-town life. —Cathy Curtis
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The photographs of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), which recorded American life in the late 1930s and early 1940s, remain among the most moving and famous documentary images from the first half of the 20th century. Yet few people know that, along with thousands and thousands of black-and-white photographs, the FSA photographers also took color pictures. Here, for the first time, is a selection of the best of the FSA color photographs-introduced by National Book Award finalist Paul Hendrickson and assembled to create a vivid portrait of America as it emerged from the Great Depression to fight World War II.
Covering countryside and city, farm and factory, work and play, the images in this book open a window onto our national experience from 1939 to 1943, revealing a world that we have always seen in our mind's eye exclusively in black and white. Never before has there been a book that paints this picture in full color.
Published in association with the Library of Congress.
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Inspiring.......2007-06-13
My mother saw the Bound for Glory exhibition in Germany and was so impressed with it that she got ME this book, knowing how much I love to photograph rural Georgia (USA), then became so captivated by it that she was reluctant to give it up. The first time I opened the book I was so overwhelmed that I had to close it again; the images are stunning and truly inspiring, and each photo has so much depth, it takes time to properly digest. Not your average photo book. Highly recommended.
Back and White into Technicolor - Spectacular.......2007-03-16
Like many of us, I have come to think of this era in balck and white - a perception honed through years of poring over my parents books and photo albums. Looking at these images gives me the sense of Dorothy exiting her sepia farmhouse into the Technicolor Munchkinland - it's mezmerizing, and the images themselves tell detailed stories about their itme and place. Another book that evokes the same feelings in a more contemporary moment is Sam Fentress' Bible Road, which has beautifully rendered photographs from across the American landscape in black and white and color - if you like Bound for Glory, you are bound to like Bible Road.
Great collection for any Woody Guthrie fan........2007-01-06
I saw the collection in Fort Worth in 2006, and the photos look as is they were taken last year, not in the dustbowl. Very interesting to any student of americana. It's like having a photo album to go with my Woody Guthrie songs.
Amazing. See. Admire. Be amazed........2005-08-01
The book is called "Bound for Glory" and is a collection of 175+ COLOR photographs of America from 1939-1943. Many of you may be aware of the work of the new deal photographers who were dispatched to document the plight of the Depression. The majority of these pictures (and thus our own viewpoint on the period) was in black and white.
However, in the late 30s, Kodak unveiled Kodachrome film and these gifted "squinters through a box" were given a new weapon in their visionary arsenal -- color.
This book and its barely 10% of the minimal 1600 color shots in the archives is a literal eye opening experience. No Hollywood creation of the era comes close in terms of presenting to us how things really were. But to see men, women, children, animals, stores, and events through the eyes of other photographers is always fascinating... and to see this period as if we had just taken the picture is amazing.
I highly recommend you find this book to just look at -- American or otherwise -- and take in the beautiful work of these masters of our craft.
Marvelous.......2004-11-30
I brought this book after reading a NY times review. Finally-history that is in real color, not the typical black and white we're so use to. It makes the era seem so much more alive and real. The photos displayed are beautiful - there's such a real display of feelings and emotions. I just love this gem.
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Gtos (Great American Muscle Cars)
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great american muscle cars-GTO's.......2000-04-19
this book is nothing more that a few pictures with basic information generally known. A disappointment.
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When trouble at school reaches the boiling point, Eikichi Onizuka is left to wonder if his job, and all of his teaching dreams, are history. But the promise of a date with a cute co-worker means he can't give up now! It'll take more than violent kids and the killer school sports meet to keep Onizuka from crossing the finish line. And if can get through this big mess, he may finally become the Great Teacher he's destined to be.
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REVENGE OF GTO.......2003-09-23
After surviving a assasination plot by his homeroom (they tried to mix a cockroach into his food), GTO's job is in trouble. In the previous volume GTO helped one of his students named Noboru Yoshikawa take revenge on a trio of girls who abused and humiliated him. One of the girls told her influential mom about what he did and she is out for his blood. After that crisis Gto continues to try to win over the hearts and minds of Class 4, especially the constant hostility of its ringleader, Kunio Murai. It doesn't help that he has a thing for Kunio's young and beautiful mother. The thing about Gto that makes it funny is that he considers himself a pervert but he's nothing compared to the principal who longs for his own daughter or the track coach who is just there to check out girl's legs. Put into the mileiu of what he THINKS he is, Gto finds out that his lust is replaced by caring for his students. Another volume in a very entertaining series.
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Eikichi is still living the hard-knocked life, and this time around, an old acquaintance has shown up with a very humiliating request: Pay him and bow down. Will Eikichi fall to the whims of this bully--or go to war! While the battle is brewing, Oni-Baku prepares to mount up and defend their honor... "A high-school soap opera full of street fighting and unrequited love... There's slapstick galore...lots of rowdy high-school fun...and an abundance of good humor." â€"Publishers Weekly
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Best One So Far.......2007-10-04
After the last volume I was getting a little tired of the bad guy shows up then gets beat up formula; however, this volume has renewed my faith in the series due to how the characters act. This really is a high school series, but Fujisawa keeps it fresh and exciting with his heartful characters who really do care. If you enjoy this series that GTO, by the same author, is a must read.
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REVENGE OF GTO.......2003-09-23
After surviving a assasination plot by his homeroom (they tried to mix a cockroach into his food), GTO's job is in trouble. In the previous volume GTO helped one of his students named Noboru Yoshikawa take revenge on a trio of girls who abused and humiliated him. One of the girls told her influential mom about what he did and she is out for his blood. After that crisis Gto continues to try to win over the hearts and minds of Class 4, especially the constant hostility of its ringleader, Kunio Murai. It doesn't help that he has a thing for Kunio's young and beautiful mother. The thing about Gto that makes it funny is that he considers himself a pervert but he's nothing compared to the principal who longs for his own daughter or the track coach who is just there to check out girl's legs. Put into the mileiu of what he THINKS he is, Gto finds out that his lust is replaced by caring for his students. Another volume in a very entertaining series.
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Set of 4 Graphic Novels (Manga). Great Teacher Onizuka Series: Volumes 4-7 By Tohru Fujisawa - Contains Lessons 24-59.
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Not as classic as "Maze", but still fun........2000-12-20
Christopher Manson is the author and illustrator of the book "Maze", which is subtitled as "Solve the World's Most Challenging Puzzle" (and it deserves that title, in my opinion). "The Rails I Tote" is not another "Maze", and that's why I can't give it the same 5-star rating. Still, it's another unique book with Mansons' similar avant-garde feel.
There are 45 sections, each containing one page-long short story, accompanied by an illustration. In each illustration, you have to find the spoonerism. For those who don't know, you "spoonerize" two words by swapping their first letters or first consonnant sounds (so for example, the spoonerism of "peas and carrots" sounds like "keys and parrots"). The title of each short story and the story itself lend clues as to what the spoonerism is. For example, there's one picture showing a scientist tying little tags to the bodies of a bunch of bees. The title of the related story is "In Hot Water". So "bee tags" becomes "tea bags", and that's the solution.
But like "Maze", these puzzles aren't all as easy as they sound. I don't give up easily when it comes to brain teasers, but some of these ones really stumped me. Fortunately the book's last page shows all 45 of the answers. The answers are encoded by letter where 1 is for A, 2 is for B, 3 is for C, etc., so that you don't accidentally glance at an answer you didn't want to know yet. I hope this book goes back into print, because it's another example of Manson combining his brainteasers, wild art work, and bizarre stories into one clever little book.
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Liz an Intimate Collection:: Photographs of Elizabeth Taylor
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A lavish photographic tribute to the last great Hollywood icon.
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Gorgeous Photographs and Balanced, Brief Biography.......2000-11-02
The strength of this book lies in the many beautiful photographs of Elizabeth Taylor from her childhood to recent times. Many of these images will be familiar, and many will not be. By putting rare images in this collection, the author has significantly enhanced its value. I wish the book had added another 100 photographs to the 100 plus, mostly color, ones here.
The biography is perfectly adequate, but it is too brief to really get into any detail that might expand your knowledge very much beyond what you know already. The best aspects were putting Ms. Taylor's career in perspective. She performed in around 65 films and television movies, a number matched by few actors of her era. She also was one of the few child stars to have an adult film career. Further, she outlived most of the stars she appeared with by many years. Despite ill health and many accidents, she has been the ultimate survivor in the most fickle business we have.
The main story line of the biography is in the transformation of her life and career roles from child, to child actress, to child star, to multiply married person and mother, to adult star, to a celebrity, to an entrepreneur, and then to a social activist for AIDS. Long before Madonna, Ms. Taylor and her advisors were expert at reinventing her in ways that were almost continuously popular with the public.
Today, the world is changing very rapidly and most of us will have many different jobs and careers before we die. After you finish enjoying this book, I urge you to consider what lessons you can draw from Ms. Taylor's career and life that can help you in yours. While many would be thrilled to have some of her fame, few would envy her pain. How came a good balance of life and career be yours? I suggest that you read Anna Quindlen's recent book, A Short Guide to a Happy Life, for more ideas.
Smile, be interesting, be balanced, be careful, and be interested in others!
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Some voices you will hear in The Voice of the Blues:
"I sing blues for some money and I sing because I love 'em. They tried to put me over in another bag but I just don't fit no other bag. Exactly I fits one shoe, and that is the blues."-Muddy Waters
"I never did name one of my records 'the blues' . . . Everybody else called my sounds what I made 'the blues.' But I always just felt good behind 'em; I didn't feel like I was playin' no blues. I felt like it sound just as good to the spiritual people as it would to somebody in a bar. . ."-Jimmy Reed
The Voice of the Blues brings together lengthy interviews with pioneering blues performers including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Jimmy Reed, B. B. King, and many others. Each interview captures the "voice" of the blues performer, reflecting life experiences, musical influences, and achievements. Illustrations include rare archival photographs and documents. A must for fans of the blues-both traditional and electric.
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Great interviews.......2006-09-01
Living Blues magazine has always been the leading periodical in the field in the US; one reason for this is the superb interviews with bluesmen/women that have graced its pages since its founding in the 1970s. Allowing artists to tell their stories fully and freely, often prodded on by knowledgeable and probing question by the interviewers Jim O'Neal and Amy Van Singel, produced important first-hand documentation of the art form. This book compiles a dozen of those interviews, ranging from Georgia Tom Dorsey to Muddy Waters, Eddie Boyd to Little Esther. One of the most fascinating is the very long (the longest in the magazine's history) interview with Delta blues legend Houston Stackhouse who was able to relate first-hand information and reminiscences of just about all the great bluesmen who worked in Mississippi and Arkansas going all the way back to Tommy Johnson. But all of the interviews plumb deeply into each artist's background, career, opinions, and memories, and that's what makes them (and the book) so interesting and indispensable. Hopefully additional volumes of more Living Blues interviews will be issued.
Not just the Voice of the blues.......2004-01-29
Living Blues Magazine has long been the champion of the common man with uncommon talents. These interviews from this fine magazine are drawn from a wide range of blues masters, now all but gone. In their own words, they reveal not only the sense of purpose that marked their lives, but something about their music, something of the hardships of growing up and old in a racist society.
The reader cannot easily distance himself from this fact. This alone can make it a tough, but fascinating read. The violent life in the ghetto is not new and it took many a bluesman's life early. The cry for justice is at the core of the blues, as these voices recount. Their words paint a picture of hope and angst in colors as vivid as the best Van Gogh.
Great blues book.......2003-11-10
This is really a great book, if you want to hear about the blues from the men who created it first hand. The blues is often either treated as an academic subject with big sincerity or as a subject of legends. This way the it is undramathized and becomes much more alive, but without losing the fascination. For example read about Houston Stackhouse drinking canned heat together with Tommy Johnson in the delta or how Muddy Waters felt when he heard his first single being played from every house as he was walking down the street just a few days after its release. The book is packed with stories like this as well as the opinions and thoughts of these great artists.
Reprinted for the first time in book form.......2002-04-12
Voice Of The Blues gathers many lengthy interviews with pioneering bluesmen under one cover, revealing their life and times and an unusual participation in a dialogue over the history and directions of the blues music genre. These interviews first appeared in the pages of Living Blues magazine and here have been reprinted for the first time in book form.
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BradyGames strategy guide will include a complete walkthrough of the game. The guide will feature full-color maps. Secrets of the game direct from Square. Bonus items for hard-core gamers.
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GREAT.......2001-05-23
The game is good and this guide make it perfect.
It was good about not revealing the story but lacked detales.......1999-06-19
I appriceated the way it tells you how to get out of a fix. It explains for example that when you climb twinpeak mountain to find Jon it explains the directions. Some guids just say climb twinpeak and go to Jon. But I wish it would give better atack stratagies and not just say how to defeat the foe.
It was good about not revealing the story but lacked detales.......1999-06-19
I appriceated the way it tells you how to get out of a fix. It explains for example that when you climb twinpeak mountain to find Jon it explains the directions. Some guids just say climb twinpeak and go to Jon. But I wish it would give better atack stratagies and not just say how to defeat the foe.
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In this timely book, Mr. Bowser shares the magic of leverage that comes with studying, buying and selling stocks for $3 or less for three decades. All his wisdom and accumulated experiences are digested in this book. Also, he discusses in detail his unique Game Plan and his 12 Point Rating System. The book outlines the historical basis for the author's theories, which have resulted in startling gains. This is a raod map that guides one to success in what are admittedly speculative investments. A must read!!
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Great book for new investors.......2007-04-02
R. Max Bowser's 1st book, Making Dollars with Pennies, is a great book for those individuals looking for a manual to introduce them to the stock market, its inner workings, and those vital parties involved in it. The terms of the stock market are clearly defined and the down-to-earth writing makes the reader feel like the author is speaking directly to the reader. The author very quickly develops a rapport with the reader. There is a certain humor written into every sentence as Mr. Bowser pokes a little fun at himself and occasionally at fellow investors that have in some way fouled themselves in the stock market game.
The main purpose of Making Dollars with Pennies is to introduce the reader to the program he uses to determine which stocks to purchase and when to sell. Some points that are very precisely followed are: Why an investor would be interested in "ministocks"; What the Bowser Game Plan is; Its evolution; and even how the Bowser Ratings are determined.
Mr. Bowser does a very good job in showing the reader exactly why he/she should consider "ministocks", even taking into account the relative volatile nature of the minipriced stocks. The author succeeds in convincing the reader that if he is patient, has a versatile portfolio, and follows Mr. Bowser's suggestions as to which stocks to buy, that the reader will do fairly well. Mr. Bowser backs up his statements by showing the reader a piece of his past in which he was not so successful in the stock market and how he learned how the stock market works. He explains how these findings of how the stock market works were developed into The Bowser Game Plan. He also explains in depth the mysterious Rating System and what it entails, raising the veil on how Mr. Bowser finds these little moneymakers.
As for the book, its layout and other mechanical factors of the book, I found the large print very easy on the eyes, making it a pleasant to read. The catchy titles of the chapters and subchapters encourage the reader to continue on with the next chapter. Plenty of charts help explain anything the reader may not understand. Perhaps the only thing that might be considered slightly off is that there doesn't seem to be any real order in which the chapters are presented. The first half of the book is devoted to explaining the stock market basics and the value of "ministocks" and the second half of the book is devoted to the explaining the Bowser Game Plan and how it is used. Otherwise, there really isn't any method to the chapters. However, it doesn't affect the readability and enjoyment of the book. It's kind of a go-with-the-flow type of reading.
All in all, R. Max Bowser's Making Dollars with Pennies is a greatly useful and enjoyable book that should be read by anyone considering entering the stock market. Mr. Bowser is very knowledgeable in the ways of the stock market and is obviously very willing to help those who are willing to learn and succeed in it. He very clearly demonstrates how his program works and how it should be used to make it work, and he does it in a charming and humorous way, making it easy for the reader to continue in what can be a very boring subject. This reader found the book very useful and enjoyable. A definite must-read for those entering into or interested in the stock market.
An explanation of how the "Bowser Report" picks stocks.......2004-09-19
I have read several investment guidance books where the only guidance offered is to buy the authors newsletter/consulting/mutual fund/etc. "Making Dollars with Pennies" at least explains the methodology of how the "Bowser Report" picks stocks before recommending that instead of spending your free time analyzing stocks you pay Max Bowser to do it for you.
The "Bowser" system is simple enought to understand and follow, with a list of "buy" indicators that can be learned from any financial page, and most refreshingly a system for when to sell. Although I have my reservations about whether the mechanical application of this system will make money, I have to give Mr. Bowser credit for explaining his system. If nothing else, it is a basis for further esploration.
An Unusual and Refreshing Approach to the Market..........2001-12-08
This is possibly the worst written book that I could conceive of giving four stars. The reason I am rating "Making Dollars with Pennies" so highly is due to its content and because Max Bowser, who has been publishing his "Bowser Report" for over 25 years, is the real deal. Actually, the book is a quick and easy read, with a folksy demeanor. No high finance here. The book may be most helpful for people who have already been in the market for a little while (and perhaps been burned). The book is weak as a work of literature due to its poor organization and repetitiveness (stressing diversification among 12 to 18 stocks several times).
I believe that to succeed as an active investor in today's market, you need some kind of an "edge" or a niche. One way to obtain that is to focus on stocks trading under $3 per share, as Max does. Let the book serve as your trail guide into the jungle of smaller stocks. While Max rails against the studious ignorance among institutions of these supposedly risky shares, in practice he is quite careful about what he does. Although the selection of new issues is somewhat shrouded in mystery (with Bowser encouraging readers to subscribe to his monthly report in order to get new picks) he gives sufficient detail of his "Bowser Rating" system to uncover his thought process. Two significant ways Bowser reduces risk of investing among smaller stocks is by having a bias towards companies with strong balance sheets and a consistent record of past earnings - no development-stage, long shot concept stocks here.
One important caveat to keep in mind about Bowser's system is that it was honed during the mid-to-late 70s, when treading water was often difficult. To the extent that his methodology or conclusions have become stale or outdated, it may trace to ideas he tested at that time. Personally, I find the vintage comforting as our 2000-2010 market may possibly have more in common with the 70s than the 80s or 90s bull runs. Also please note that some of his suggestions, particularly for the mechanics of setting up and monitoring a portfolio, appear to have been made obsolete by the internet.
Aside from diversification, Bowser's possibly most important other safeguard is a formula for selling. First of all, whenever a stock's "Bowser Rating" falls below 8, the stock is sold, forcing an investor to sell companies with deteriorating fundamentals. Secondly, whenever a stock doubles, an investor is encouraged to sell half of his or her position, recouping cost. The remainder of a rising position is then held until it declines 25% from its most recent high.
How have Bowser's picks (from over 25 years of newsletters) done over time? As he says towards the end of the book [p. 157], 47% of the companies are still in business, 26% have been bought out and 27% are bankrupt. Over their holding periods, more recommended stocks have declined than have advanced. However, absent audited statistics, it appears that tiny minorities of winning stocks have more than made up for the losers. These big winners are mentioned in an "honor roll", and include firms such as Semtech, Smithfield Foods and Alpha Systems. The great hope of the investor in small stocks is not that the average pick will do well, but that a small number of them will be big winners - which is why diversification is so important.
"Making Dollars with Pennies" is only a beginning. It is no substitute for doing more work on your own.
Beat Wall Street.......2000-12-01
If you can consistenty beat Wall Street you will be headed for the record books. I do agree with the author that you can beat Wall Street but you need to put in allot of time and research. There are books like The guide for penny stock investing that can help. The key is to do your research and then to hold on to your stock as it moves up. Donny Lowy in his guide and Max in his book do supply the extra leverage to make it happen.
Great Book.......2000-08-08
I read this "great book" and it showed me the steps to buying and selling penny stocks... The author gives you a wide range of stocks to chose from in his newsletter. You can get a sample copy of the newsletter with the coupon in the back of the book. Get your money's worth here.
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- Picture Postcards in the United States, 1893-1918
- Pictures of People: Alice Neel's American Portrait Gallery
- Ready-to-Use Performing Arts Illustrations (Dover Clip Art)
- Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s
- Responding to Art's Core Concepts in Art CD-ROM v. 2
- ROAM: A Reader in the Aesthetics of Mobility
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