Jonathan Jackson Books

This is the most beautiful book that has ever been written. I cried as I read it. My tears over it's beauty and poetry could fill the ocean (probably the Indian Ocean, because the Atlantic might be too big of a stretch.) I foresee a Nobel Prize for literature in its future. Even the cover of this book makes me tremble with delight. The buxom beauty is drawn with such classical perfection that I sigh with pleasure as i look upon her lily-white breast. Her story is told with such passion, such fervor, my palms filled with sweat merely holding this sacred book. I plead with all the world to read this novel! Oh, beauty, thy name is Emily Donelson

I read an excerpt of this book on the J- books site. The excerpt was about the Jewish changing relation to G-d, through the various tragedies of Jewish history, from the destruction of the First Temple to the Shoah. I found the chapter profound and moving . And I am looking forward to purchasing and reading the rest of what I know will be an outstanding book.

The book is a collection of essays and ideas about the future. But what is the future? It can be a frontier, promising wealth and a high standard of living. It can be a vision of a city of the future, shiny and smelling of gas. The collection includes one story and even a future game and also a time about...well, timelines. From cell phones in the Philippines to Heaven's Gate, explain mankind's many futures for yourself. Like it or not, this book really forces one's mind to expand. A must for any sci-fi fan or person interested in the many facets of history.

Mask of the Wolf Boy by Dave Jackson is the book I am reading right now. I am almost finished.It is about a young Chinese boy named Fu-Lin that wears a mask all of the time. He has to eat alone, so no one will see what his face looks like . He lives with and helps a family of missionaries, but when he has a dream telling him that something is wrong, the Boxers scare them out of the town.Many things happen, but you'll have to read it to find out what happens to him. It is a great Christain book.

I rarely find a work of this level of excellence. Every single essay in this book is necessary, accessible, illluminating, compelling, and fulfilling. There are times where I read a compilation such as this one and find one or more of the parts to be lacking, superfluous, or just plain boring. Not this book. Bate and Jackson even had the foresight to include an essay by an actor - Judi Dench. Foakes and Wiggins don't just gloss over what is known about his contemporaries, but challenge and engage new ideas about Shakespeare's first performances. Holland offers a fascinating glimpse at the first superstar reviver of his work, Garrick. Thomson covers subsidized Shakespeare and Smallwood incisively explores the current approaches towards his work, Director's Shakespeare. I could go and on and on, but this book has it all. Recommended for academics and students, professionals and amateurs, life-long devotees and the novice who merely wants to learn more about Shakespearean performance.

Endearing illustrations of a tiny, white veiled Queen Victoria cavorting with courtiers the color of midnight accompany a tongue-in-cheek description of a monarch on a risque holiday adventure. This charming picture book is a wonderful addition for anyone who collects memorabilia from Jamaica.

I have been a fan of the American Civil War for over five years, and I have read many books on the subject and especially on Stonewall Jackson. I have never found a book more thorough about both subjects in my life. The author dives into several contravercies like: Why did the Civil War started, Did Stonewall fall asleep at the Seven day Battle? He also doesn't just stick to Stonewall, he also talks about other important figures in the Civil War. So if you are interested, kinda like, or a fanatic about Civil War and Stonewall Jackson like I am, I would recammend this book to every one!

I bought this book for my sons and it is just lovely! The recipes are wonderful and not hard to make. I could get my sons involved on kitchen with it. My favorite recipe is the Czech Chicken.

I had never seen this movie until this past October, and that was only a portion. Still, I must say I was intrigued enough to order the DVD. And then I thought, hey, I'll go for the director's cut. So I really have nothing to compare that to, but let's just that I truly enjoyed it.

I understand that the movie is something of a cult classic and it is easy to see why. I hate to call it pure horror as it is much funnier and sweeter than that, but it does have the stuff of such. In truth, it is a movie about ghosts rather than a scary movie and the tortured man who works a con operation with them.

I'm a huge fan of Michael J. Fox and I think he does pretty good in this. His character is a little more sensitive than what I have seen him and he pulls it off, but he most comes to life as the stalwart and brave soul we all know he is.

The tale itself is really quite imaginative, especially those fascinated by the fun ghosts can offer. In fact, most of the ghosts we meet are nice and funny rather than scary. And hey, someone was actually to make ghosts work with objects in a logical way!

This is a great Halloween movie and if this had extra scenes I liked them. The extras are also plenty of fun, featuring the making of, interviews, and even a bit on real ghostly experiences.

I caught this movie on TV, and it was entertaining enough for me to sit through the whole film. I would have liked to give it a 3.6 stars if I could. I think it has a spark of something which makes it a little better than average, but I hesitate to call it excellent (4 stars). Since I knew nothing about this film, I was quite amazed to find people categorize it as a horror-comedy when I later looked it up here on Amazon.

I am an easily terrified person, so I generally stayed away from horror or gory movies. I remember when I finally gathered enough courage to watch "The Shining" because it is said to be such a classic, I had to turn my head away every time I sensed something potentially scary coming up. In the end, my total viewing time of that movie was less than 5 minutes. I suppose this explains how much I can stomach a horror movie. When I watched this movie, the word "scary" never came into my mind. I though it was fun, the special effect nice, and it was nice to see Michael J Fox again after a long while (although I wished his character weren't so headstrong, as usual). The plot could have been a little more unpredictable. But it was fun, entertaining, but no horror movie.

The director's cut of The Frighteners doesn't help the film's awkward shifts of tone much, but then this always seemed like two or three good ideas that never really gelled into the same movie. The idea of Michael J. Fox's paranormal investigator running a scam with a trio of real ghosts who haunt the houses he charges to exorcise is never given enough of a comic workout, just as the inspired idea of an undead serial killer trying to beat the competition in the body count stakes because "the title should be held by an American" never becomes a genuinely chilling figure. There are a few neat twists, but the film still feels more like it had a pitch and a treatment rather than a solid script, offering only a third as much fun as it really should. Still, no complaints about the lavish extras on this flipper disc (theEuropean release spreads the same extras over a 3-disc set) - aside from the usual deleted scenes and trailer there's even a four hour documentary produced by Jackson!

ITEM ARRIVED IN PERFECT CONDITION AND VERY FAST SHIPPING. I WOULD DEFINATELY ORDER FROM SELLER AGAIN!!!!!

Having never seen "The Frighteners" in the theatre, and now seeing Peter Jackson's Director's Cut makes me wonder why such a cut was released? This film, with all of it's slick special effects and Alan Silvestri-Knock-off-music by Danny Elfman, goes on and on and on without being truly funny (the endless one-liners are as old and corny as can be!) or truly scary; in short, the film is probably best described as campy with an overuse of effects and no focus on acting. If Trini Alvarado was meant to be bad, then this Andie MacDowell knock-off WAS every bit as numbing as her more famous look-alike. Michael J. Fox was not funny at all, and the endless barrage of ectoplasm and spirits and a Dee Wallace Stone in her finest role since Cujo (25th Anniversary Edition), made this film pretty tough to stomach. Glad to see that Peter Jackson did better work before AND after this one! Why a Director's Cut, though? Wasn't the theatrical release silly enough?

I had never seen this movie until this past October, and that was only a portion. Still, I must say I was intrigued enough to order the DVD. And then I thought, hey, I'll go for the director's cut. So I really have nothing to compare that to, but let's just that I truly enjoyed it.

I understand that the movie is something of a cult classic and it is easy to see why. I hate to call it pure horror as it is much funnier and sweeter than that, but it does have the stuff of such. In truth, it is a movie about ghosts rather than a scary movie and the tortured man who works a con operation with them.

I'm a huge fan of Michael J. Fox and I think he does pretty good in this. His character is a little more sensitive than what I have seen him and he pulls it off, but he most comes to life as the stalwart and brave soul we all know he is.

The tale itself is really quite imaginative, especially those fascinated by the fun ghosts can offer. In fact, most of the ghosts we meet are nice and funny rather than scary. And hey, someone was actually to make ghosts work with objects in a logical way!

This is a great Halloween movie and if this had extra scenes I liked them. The extras are also plenty of fun, featuring the making of, interviews, and even a bit on real ghostly experiences.

I caught this movie on TV, and it was entertaining enough for me to sit through the whole film. I would have liked to give it a 3.6 stars if I could. I think it has a spark of something which makes it a little better than average, but I hesitate to call it excellent (4 stars). Since I knew nothing about this film, I was quite amazed to find people categorize it as a horror-comedy when I later looked it up here on Amazon.

I am an easily terrified person, so I generally stayed away from horror or gory movies. I remember when I finally gathered enough courage to watch "The Shining" because it is said to be such a classic, I had to turn my head away every time I sensed something potentially scary coming up. In the end, my total viewing time of that movie was less than 5 minutes. I suppose this explains how much I can stomach a horror movie. When I watched this movie, the word "scary" never came into my mind. I though it was fun, the special effect nice, and it was nice to see Michael J Fox again after a long while (although I wished his character weren't so headstrong, as usual). The plot could have been a little more unpredictable. But it was fun, entertaining, but no horror movie.

The director's cut of The Frighteners doesn't help the film's awkward shifts of tone much, but then this always seemed like two or three good ideas that never really gelled into the same movie. The idea of Michael J. Fox's paranormal investigator running a scam with a trio of real ghosts who haunt the houses he charges to exorcise is never given enough of a comic workout, just as the inspired idea of an undead serial killer trying to beat the competition in the body count stakes because "the title should be held by an American" never becomes a genuinely chilling figure. There are a few neat twists, but the film still feels more like it had a pitch and a treatment rather than a solid script, offering only a third as much fun as it really should. Still, no complaints about the lavish extras on this flipper disc (theEuropean release spreads the same extras over a 3-disc set) - aside from the usual deleted scenes and trailer there's even a four hour documentary produced by Jackson!

ITEM ARRIVED IN PERFECT CONDITION AND VERY FAST SHIPPING. I WOULD DEFINATELY ORDER FROM SELLER AGAIN!!!!!

Having never seen "The Frighteners" in the theatre, and now seeing Peter Jackson's Director's Cut makes me wonder why such a cut was released? This film, with all of it's slick special effects and Alan Silvestri-Knock-off-music by Danny Elfman, goes on and on and on without being truly funny (the endless one-liners are as old and corny as can be!) or truly scary; in short, the film is probably best described as campy with an overuse of effects and no focus on acting. If Trini Alvarado was meant to be bad, then this Andie MacDowell knock-off WAS every bit as numbing as her more famous look-alike. Michael J. Fox was not funny at all, and the endless barrage of ectoplasm and spirits and a Dee Wallace Stone in her finest role since Cujo (25th Anniversary Edition), made this film pretty tough to stomach. Glad to see that Peter Jackson did better work before AND after this one! Why a Director's Cut, though? Wasn't the theatrical release silly enough?