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* Mass Market Paperback: 464 pages * Publisher: Vision (January 1, 2006) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 0446617113 * ISBN-13: 978-0446617116 * Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches * Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) * Average Customer Review: based on 65 reviews. (Write a review.) * Amazon.com Sales Rank: #26,437 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books) Popular in this category: (What's this?) See less

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As you browse the millions of photos available on Flickr and other web photo sharing sites, it is apparent that most people wielding a camera do not - cannot - aspire to the special talent of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Renowned for capturing the... See more

As you browse the millions of photos available on Flickr and other web photo sharing sites, it is apparent that most people wielding a camera do not - cannot - aspire to the special talent of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Renowned for capturing the "decisive moment," Cartier-Bresson was also a highly skilled portraitist. Ninety-seven of his portraints appear here accompanied by one mercifully short essay by Agnes Sire and a pretentious attempt at intepretating HCB by Jean-Luc Nancy. ("What HCB gave his subjects was an air, an aura, an allure; these portraits convery a manner, a disposition, a habitus, an ethos, a mood, a grace and a favour, a gaze and a gift; the gift he has given to them.") Surprisingly, many of the portraits are formulaic, though this does not detract from their striking nature. A 1966 picture, titled simply "Zurich" embodies Cartier-Bresson's skills as a portraitist and the capturer of the "decisive moment". A wizened, old man in a three-piece suit carrying a briefcase is... See less

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From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Wambaugh's outstanding new novel, his first in a decade, is not only a return to form but a return to his LAPD roots. Times have sure changed since the 1970s, the setting for some of Wambaugh's best earlier... See more

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Wambaugh's outstanding new novel, his first in a decade, is not only a return to form but a return to his LAPD roots. Times have sure changed since the 1970s, the setting for some of Wambaugh's best earlier works such as The New Centurions and The Onion Field. Grossly understaffed, the officers of Hollywood Station find themselves writing bogus field interviews with nonexistent white suspects in minority neighborhoods to avoid allegations of racial profiling. Crystal meth rules the streets, and crackheads and glass freaks dressed in costume (Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Darth Vader, Elmo) work the tourist strip, bumming money for their next fix. With an impressive array of police characters, from surfer dude partners "Flotsam" and "Jetsam" to aspiring actor "Hollywood" Nate Weiss and single mother Budgie Polk, Wambaugh creates a realistic microcosm of the modern-day LAPD. Today's crop of crime writers, including Michael Connelly and George Pelecanos,... See less

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* Reading level: Young Adult * Hardcover: 255 pages * Publisher: Hand Print; 1 edition (March 31, 1998) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 1886910723 * ISBN-13: 978-1886910720 * Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 1 inches * Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View... See more

* Reading level: Young Adult * Hardcover: 255 pages * Publisher: Hand Print; 1 edition (March 31, 1998) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 1886910723 * ISBN-13: 978-1886910720 * Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 1 inches * Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) * Average Customer Review: based on 7 reviews. (Write a review.) * Amazon.com Sales Rank: #644,202 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books) Popular in these categories: (What's this?) See less

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From Publishers Weekly The Soviet authorities made a dangerous mistake when they drove Aleshkovsky into exile in 1979 for being desperately unhappy in his native land; since then he has been writing in the U.S. In this, the first of his novels to... See more

From Publishers Weekly The Soviet authorities made a dangerous mistake when they drove Aleshkovsky into exile in 1979 for being desperately unhappy in his native land; since then he has been writing in the U.S. In this, the first of his novels to appear in English, his narrator, smalltime criminal Fan Fanych, (aka Citizen Etcetera), is peremptorily requested by the KGB to appear at the Lubyanka in the year 1949. He is accused of the "vicious rape and murder of an aged kangaroo in the Moscow zoo on a night between July 14, 1789 and January 9, 1905." In an acid-soaked monolog Fan addresses the KGB agent and beyond him the nation and the world, ranging up and down the dark corridors of Soviet history, allowing no one and nothingno prominent figure, no infamous event, no ideological peculiarityto escape his scalding notice. Not a novel in any conventional sense; this is a sustained cry of rage and despair delivered at the top of the lungsunremittingly foulmouthed, deadly, on-target,... See less

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This is a nasty little gem of a novel written fairly early in Nabakov's career, when he was still writing in Russian. The copy I just read does not indicate who translated it, although I suspect it may have been his brother, who translated many of... See more

This is a nasty little gem of a novel written fairly early in Nabakov's career, when he was still writing in Russian. The copy I just read does not indicate who translated it, although I suspect it may have been his brother, who translated many of his earlier works. It also may have been Nabakov himself. Either way it doesn't matter. It is the story of a well-to-do German, Albinus, with an inheritance, wife, child and sedate happy life. I am still not clear on what he does; he is apparently some kind of an art critic. He becomes infatuated with the beautiful but deceitful and manipulative Margot, a woman far too young for him. He leaves his wife and child for her, and as time slowly crawls by, loses everything else: his money, his happiness and his health. The young woman is assisted in her deceit by her lover, Rex, who pretends to be the protagonist's friend. Yes, we've heard this tale before, and will hear it many, many more times, but in the skilled hands of the great Nabakov, all... See less

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I've read a few other of Picoult's books (the first being My Sister's Keeper, by far the best one I've read) and I have to say I was pretty disappointed by this one. It wasn't as good as her others, and I found the characters flat and predictable... See more

I've read a few other of Picoult's books (the first being My Sister's Keeper, by far the best one I've read) and I have to say I was pretty disappointed by this one. It wasn't as good as her others, and I found the characters flat and predictable (especially Delia), with the exception of Andrew. Picoult usually has creative analogies in her books, but seems to think the reader is too dumb to figure out the metaphor without her help and her spelling it out precisely. The metaphors in this book were much too obvious, and yet she STILL had to tell us how they related. Definitely not her best by far, but still kept me interested and reading until the predictable end. Also recommended: About a Boy, The Bourne Identity, The Tipping Point A reviewer, an avid fictional reader, 04/14/2006 See less

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Amazon.com Oprah Book Club® Selection, September 1996: The horror of losing a child is somehow made worse when the case goes unsolved for nearly a decade, reports Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel columnist Jacquelyn Mitchard in this searing first novel. In... See more

Amazon.com Oprah Book Club® Selection, September 1996: The horror of losing a child is somehow made worse when the case goes unsolved for nearly a decade, reports Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel columnist Jacquelyn Mitchard in this searing first novel. In it, 3-year-old Ben Cappadora is kidnapped from a hotel lobby where his mother is checking into her 15th high school reunion. His disappearance tears the family apart and invokes separate experiences of anguish, denial, and self-blame. Marital problems and delinquency in Ben's older brother (in charge of him the day of his kidnapping) ensue. Mitchard depicts the family's friction and torment--along with many gritty realities of family life--with the candor of a journalist and compassion of someone who has seemingly been there. International publishing and movie rights sold fast on this one: It's a blockbuster. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly One of the most remarkable things... See less

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There was a time when reading Joseph Heller's classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his... See more

There was a time when reading Joseph Heller's classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament, could be heard throughout the counterculture. As a result, it's impossible not to consider Catch-22 to be something of a period piece. But 40 years on, the novel's undiminished strength is its looking-glass logic. Again and again, Heller's characters demonstrate that what is commonly held to be good, is bad; what is sensible, is nonsense. Yossarian says, "You're talking about winning the war, and I am talking about winning the war and keeping alive." "Exactly," Clevinger snapped smugly. "And which do you think is more important?" "To whom?" Yossarian shot back. "It doesn't make a damn bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead." "I can't think of another attitude that could be depended upon to give greater... See less

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Cat's Cradle travels from the home turf of Vonnegut's imagination, Ilium, N.Y. to a Caribbean banana republic where an illicit religion called Bokononism is practiced, as a sense of doom (in the form of icenine) overtakes mankind.

Cat's Cradle travels from the home turf of Vonnegut's imagination, Ilium, N.Y. to a Caribbean banana republic where an illicit religion called Bokononism is practiced, as a sense of doom (in the form of icenine) overtakes mankind. See less

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Kurt Vonnegut's novel "Breakfast of Champions" follows the odyssey of oddball science fiction writer Kilgore Trout from his melancholy childhood in Bermuda, to the sleazy underside of New York City, and eventually to a fateful encounter with car... See more

Kurt Vonnegut's novel "Breakfast of Champions" follows the odyssey of oddball science fiction writer Kilgore Trout from his melancholy childhood in Bermuda, to the sleazy underside of New York City, and eventually to a fateful encounter with car dealer Wayne Hoover, a man "on the brink of going insane." Within this framework Vonnegut weaves an amazing satiric tapestry that looks at racism, mental illness, environmental crises, the nature and function of art, and many other issues. The book is filled with Vonnegut's own quirky illustrations. "Breakfast" is harsh, even cruel, but also tender and compassionate; it's laugh-out-loud funny, yet haunting and tragic. It's also a reality-warping metaphysical triumph; Vonnegut breaks down the barriers between reality and fiction, and invites the reader into the very process of the novel's creation. He creates a more intimate bond between author, reader, and fictional character than any other writer I can think of. Vonnegut presents some of... See less

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A Man Without a Country is a collection of essays published in 2005 by the author Kurt Vonnegut. The extremely short essays that comprise this book deal with topics ranging from the importance of humor, to problems with modern technology, to... See more

A Man Without a Country is a collection of essays published in 2005 by the author Kurt Vonnegut. The extremely short essays that comprise this book deal with topics ranging from the importance of humor, to problems with modern technology, to Vonnegut's opinions on the differences between men and women. Most prevalent in the text, however, are those essays which elucidate Vonnegut's opinions on politics, and the issues in modern American society. * Published by Seven Stories Press (September 15, 2005), ISBN 1-58322-713-X * Published by Bloomsbury in the UK, ISBN 0-7475-8406-0 Works of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.[hide] This article about an essay or essay collection is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. See less

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From Publishers Weekly Buster Casey, destined to live fast, die young and murder as many people as he can, is the rotten seed at the core of Palahniuk's comically nasty eighth novel (after Haunted; Lullaby; Diary; etc.). Set in a future where... See more

From Publishers Weekly Buster Casey, destined to live fast, die young and murder as many people as he can, is the rotten seed at the core of Palahniuk's comically nasty eighth novel (after Haunted; Lullaby; Diary; etc.). Set in a future where urbanites are segregated by strict curfews into Daytimers and Nighttimers, the narrative unfolds as an oral history comprising contradictory accounts from people who knew Buster. These include childhood friends horrified by the boy's macabre behavior (getting snakes, scorpions and spiders to bite him and induce instant erections; repeatedly infecting himself with rabies), policemen and doctors who had dealings with the rabies "superspreader"; and Party Crashers, thrill-seeking Nighttimers who turn city streets into demolition derby arenas. After liberally infecting his hometown peers with rabies, Buster hits the big city and takes up with the Party Crashers. A series of deaths lead to a police investigation of Buster (long-since known as... See less

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Amazon.com: Survivor: A Novel: Books: Chuck Palahniuk by Chuck Palahniuk

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* Survivor: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk * Choke by Chuck Palahniuk * Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk * Diary: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk * Fight Club: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk Explore similar items : Books (48) DVD (1)

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"We spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or Insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heros or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe its our... See more

"We spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or Insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heros or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe its our job to invent something better." Palahniuk never ceases to inspire. Behind all the satire. Behind his often hillirous look at life and the little things that make us human, or at least the views that he portrays in his unforgetable characters, Palahniuk, never stops to apologize, and there no reason to because he writes the truth in it most crulest of ways. "People sit home and watch Friends, because they have no Friends." I dare you to read any Palahniuk book, be it, Fight Club, Survivior, IM, or Choke, and not be inspired to do something better with yourself. Improve yourself. Create something. Destroy something. Do Something with yourself other than sit in front of a mind-numbing television set, and dream about the life you could have,... See less

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