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Las Calles de Polanco

Published in Mass Market Paperback by Editorial Valdepeña, S.A. De C.V. (2000-09-13)

Author: Federico Anaya-Sánchez

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MARAVILLOSO

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Review Date: 2002-09-04

este libro lo recomiendo muchísimo, me encanto la forma en que el autor te lleva conociendo las calles de polanco, todo lo que aprendes.
yo tengo 16 años y en la escuela me lo hicieron leer y la verdad no se me antojaba porque no sabía de que se iba a tratar, pero cuando lo leí desde las primeras páginas me quedé clavado en el libro deseando que no se acabara.
léanlo, lo recomiendo para toda la familia.
Doy gracias al autor por todo lo que me enseñó.

POLANCO...ALGO MAS QUE TIENDAS Y RESTAURANTES

Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2002-07-30

CUANTAS VECES PASE POR LAS CALLES DE POLANCO, CAMINANDO, CUANTAS VECES VISITE AMIGOS, MEDICOS, RESTAURANTES, CINES Y TIENDAS SIN SABER QUINES ERAN LOS PERSONAJES CUYO NOMBRE LLEVAN LAS CALLES DE POLANCO? NO FUE SINO HASTA QUE MI PADRE ESCRIBIO ESTE LIBRO, QUE JUNTO CON EL RECORRI LAS CALLES DE POLANCO, PASEAMOS Y CHARLAMOS ACERCA DE LA VIDA DE CADA UNO HOMBRES QUE DIERON VIDA A ESTA COLONIA.

Las Calles si, pero nada más?

Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2001-08-02

Dirigido a: Federico Anaya Sánchez

Acabo de leer su libro sobre las calles de Polanco y la verdad me gustó. Lo leí en una sola tarde, ya que la letra es grande y la lectura es fácil. Encuentro que el libro es muy interesante ya que da la historia de los hombres cuyos nombres se encuentran en las calles de esta tan hermosa colonia. El libro como fue concebido es bueno, repito, pero me hubiera gustado que se dieran más datos sobre el origen de la colonia. Estos datos adicionales pudieron haber sido:

1)Fecha en que se decide fraccionar la colonia 2)Los primeros habitantes 3)Estilo arquitectónico utilizado en la primeras casas 4)Personalidades que han habitado la colonia en el pasado y en la actualidad 5)Fotos existentes del pasado y del presente y hacer una comparación sobre cómo han cambiado las cosas y las casas en cada calle

Por lo demás, el libro es bueno. Sin más, me despido. Atte:

Aarón Hevia Miranda (Arquitecto) y Elda Perla Miranda 20 años 44 años Vázquez de Mella 429-11 Col Los Morales Chap. CP 11510

Simplemente me encantó

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2000-10-07

El libro simplemente me encantó, me recordó parte de mi infancia entre los libros y la escuela, los trabajos e investigaciones y mi adolecencia, ya que recordé cuando mi abuelo me preguntaba quienes eran los personajes a los que inquietabamos con nuestros pasos. No es facil la responsabilidad que tienen estos personajes, ya que estos visten, dan forma y fortalecen los recuerdos que podríamos ir adquiriendo en el trascurso del paso de nuestras vidas por estas calles. Independientemente ¿A quien no le gustaría tener a PRESIDENTE MASARIK o a HORACIO junto a la cama?

Generosamente Espléndido.

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2000-09-28

El título y la portada del libro me invitaron a leerlo. Que podría esperar de el? Que me hablara acerca de la arquitectura? Que me llevara por estas calles hablándome de la diversidad de sus culturas? Que me hablara de la historia de esta hermosa colonia de la Ciudad de México dandome santo y seña de sus inicios en el siglo pasado? Para mi sorpresa, el autor me fue llevando de la mano, por una colonia por la que he transitado desde niña; poco a poco, he recordado algunas veces y aprendido las mas, quienes son estos personajes con los que he convivido por más de 40 años, sin haberles prestado mayor atención que la que nos requirió la secundaria o preparatoria. El autor que comenta la trayectoria de hombres de la cultura occidental, provocó mi APETITO CEREBRAL desmesurado, engolosinándomé al abrir cualquiera de las páginas de este libro. Las Calles de Polanco, una caminata intelctual como la llama Anaya Sánchez, que bien podría ser interminable.

Law V. Life: What Lawyers Are Afraid to Say About the Legal Profession

Published in Hardcover by Four Directions PR (1995-02)

Author: Walt Bachman

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The whole truth in less than 200 pages

Helpful Votes: 11 out of 11 total.
Review Date: 1999-04-15

This is a dead-on description of law practice today. I can't speak too highly of this book. It disillusions would-be lawyers and validates the second thoughts of practicing attorneys. All this in a well-written, mercifully concise format.

I practiced litigation in fairly large New Jersey firms for five years. I didn't read this book until I had been out for a year. I wish I could have read it during my transition out of law practice; it would have saved me a lot of self-doubt, anguish and guilt. Now I recommend it to law students, "pre-law" undergrads, and lawyers. I also assigned it to an upper-level undergrad class I taught recently on law and legal studies.

Buy this book. Read it. Then lend it to someone who needs it.

Excellent source for lawyers wannabe!

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2004-09-21

This book is mind opening for those who want to be lawyers. It presents the reality in the life of the lawyer within himself, family, work and society. It also presents the truth that lawyers are afraid to say when working for a firm. After reading it you might learn that the time and money spent might not be worthy. It is an insight in the career for those who know nothing about what they will be facing.

Should be required reading for all aspiring lawyers

Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2005-01-18

A seasoned attorney gave me this book when I was in my third year of law school. Eight years later I remain very grateful that I received this gift, because it is the most poignant, blunt, and accurate synopsis of the legal profession I have ever come across. The point of this book is not to deter people from being lawyers or scare the daylights out of them. Rather, it aims to prepare aspiring lawyers for what lies ahead of them in the real world of the law. If you're in law school or thinking about going to law school this book will open your eyes to the practice of law, but even if you're already a practicing attorney there is plenty in here that you'll recognize and appreciate.

Excellent Beginning, Elaboration on Author's Analysis Needed

Helpful Votes: 5 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2001-05-16

This book is EXCELLENT and the kind of book to buy and KEEP on one's shelf as a law student and lawyer. Fast moving, easily read in one afternoon but material to be digested slowly. The author's vivid, extraordinarily creative analogy of lawyering to a money experiment - only that one short chapter - is well worth the price of this book...and then some. That analogy was well-crafted, like a great trial lawyer would tell. What the author begins here on his sociological analysis is absolutely TOO DAMN GOOD to skim as he did. I was left wanting of more depth to his observation, more thought, more help.

To me, this book did not warrant five stars because I place a higher burden on this author with what he has started here. I feel it is the duty of an author of such intellect and keener, stronger analytical ability than others to take us not further, but deeper, into understanding what this book has the potential to do, what it introduces us to in its 140 pages.

NONETHELESS, this is the kind of book that needs to be written, one which needs to be read BY EVERYONE, NON LAWYERS ALIKE!!!! to better understand ourselves and our present society. Excellent beginning job for Walt Bachman.

Honest, well conceived, and to the point...

Helpful Votes: 6 out of 8 total.
Review Date: 2001-10-19

In nine quick and easily accessible chapters, Bachman outlines many striking truths about what an aspiring lawyer can expect to encounter in contemporary practice. This text is an absolute must read for anyone pondering law school.

Bachman reveals some brutal truths, such as "Lesson Seven: 10% of a lawyer's soul dies for every 100 billable hours worked in excess of 1,500 per year" (p.107). I appreciated his earnest approach to quantify, as scientifically as possible, his ideas about problems in the law.

As for others criticisms of this book- that he outlines only the problems and does not present possible solutions- well, that's just too bad. The very fact that he chooses not to is a direct reflection of the severity and fixed nature of these problems.

Lay siege to heaven;: A novel of Saint Catherine of Siena

Published in Unknown Binding by V. Gollancz (1960)

Author: Louis De Wohl

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Very powerful

Helpful Votes: 12 out of 12 total.
Review Date: 2004-07-17

This is a very uplifting and entertaining read. St.Catherine was one of the most amazing saints the church has ever had. She was a very humble person yet she had great influence on many of the politcal and church leaders of her day. The book starts off with her struggle with her mother who was very stubborn. She wanted Catherine to marry, but Catherine wanted to dedicate her life to God. In the book you read about the many people Catherine led to Christ, many of them were very hard hearted, and her influence on the pope convincing him to come back to Rome. Catherine lived in a very difficult time, there were many wars going on, the church was very divided, and it was also the time of the plague, but through it all Catherine was a shinning light who inspired others. I think anyone interested in the lives of the saints will love this book. I'm looking forward to reading more books by this author.

Following God's Will

Helpful Votes: 14 out of 15 total.
Review Date: 2000-02-07

I read this book in a matter of days. St. Catherine has always interested me, and this book put a new dimension to a very well-known and loved saint. Among other things, this book showed me how Catherine prayed. As she spoke to her Lord, she was filled with fire and persistence, saturated in love for her Lord. Truly a book that sheds light on the true strength of an incredible woman.

Lay Siege to Heaven, An Appreciation

Helpful Votes: 34 out of 36 total.
Review Date: 1999-11-27

I first read this book in 1963 - as it was being serialised in Extension Magazine. I was drawn to Catherine Benincasa, the stubborn, forthright, reclusive young woman who refused to allow herself to be used for any reason by her mother or her city - or even the Church. Catherine was a woman of rare courage and spirit. She was spiritual - but that did not stop her from denouncing cardinals & bishops as "whoremongers" when she found them chasing after wealth and political advantage. Mr DeWohl's wonderful introduction to Catherine is a bit superficial, but if this is understood at the beginning the reader will not be disappointed. It must also be remembered that DeWohl wrote during a less critical age when the culture of the Faith was stronger and an effort to demean th subject of a biography was not the all-consuming sine qua non of such books as it is now. Because of this book I began to read as much of DeWohl as I could find. He was a straightforward wordsmith and his Faith shines through in every page. Mr DeWohl has many titles to his credit while also contributing to journals and articles to World Book Encyclopedia. I am very happy to see that his novels are being reprinted in time for another generation to discover him. DeWohl made saints much more real than their official hagiographies ever did. Teenagers especially will find the story of St Catherine eye-opening as they will find DeWohl's other saintly subjects were not made of plaster and synthetic feelings but were men and women of the world who overcame the carnality of life, but only through the help of Jesus Christ.

WOW!

Helpful Votes: 6 out of 7 total.
Review Date: 2001-12-27

An amazing book and inspiring to anyone yearning to lead a Christ centered spiritual life.

A real treasure

Helpful Votes: 7 out of 7 total.
Review Date: 2006-10-23

Lay Siege to Heaven is a real treasure, and one of my favorite books of all time. DeWohl does a wonderful job bringing St Catherine alive. This is a book I would recommend to anyone. An enjoyable & pleasing volume, and one of the best historical novels I've ever read.

Letter from America (BBC Radio Collection)

Published in Audio Cassette by BBC Audiobooks Ltd (2005-03-07)

Author: Alistair Cooke

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A Love Letter To America

Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2006-05-18

When I left England to live in the United States for one year last August, there was only one book I took with me - Alistair Cooke's `Letter From America'. What else could I have taken? Cooke saw into America like no other Brit (or no other non-American, for that matter).

Starting at the mid 1940s, the book winds its way through post-war America nearly right up until the authors death in 2004, picking out the best of his weekly broadcasts. The subject matters range from politics, history, current affairs, entertainment and the topics from the New England fall, jazz, Robert Kennedy's assassination and O.J Simpson.

But it is not the subject matter that makes this book so special (for we already know about most of them anyway) it is none other than Cooke's insight and writing style. The articles flow like the finest novel or poem (which is probably attributed to Cooke's background in theatre). Each time you come back to read the book again it feels as though you are receiving the opinions of a familiar friend, and not some distant journalist.

There are drawbacks. Cooke was often criticised, and quite rightly so, for ignoring the darker side of the American dream. The other possible drawback, depending on your viewpoint, is that Cooke was a committed conservative, especially in the latter half of his career. Many of the final articles from the late 90's and early 00's lament the current position of America and (what he saw as) the sliding standards of journalism. Maybe, but you also can't help feel that he was by this point slightly out of touch.

These minor quibbles, however, cannot undermine Cooke's overall achievement of helping us better understand this important nation, which could be described as love letters to America.

looking in a mirror

Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2006-03-31

Alistair Cooke is an observer of the American social fabric, of our heros, of our blemishes, of our short history and sense of place. His first hand accounts of American and Americans is not unlike a nation looking at itself in a mirror. He is at times generous with his observations. At other times he is very British in his ability to be critical with a smile. He can describe a familiar person and make us see the person anew. The book is a pleasure to read, each chapter a new adventure of wit and insight. He wanders a bit but his style makes you enjoy the journey and look forward to the next excursion.

For 58 years Cooke was unfailingly at the heart of the complex nation. This is a treat.

Helpful Votes: 11 out of 11 total.
Review Date: 2006-01-08

Alistair Cooke's wonderful Letter from America broadcasts were heard world-wide and were an institution for close to 60 years. In that time, Cooke - UK born but for most of his life a resident of New York City - sought through his thoughtful pieces to convey the complexity of life, of society and of politics in the United States.

In this collection of essays, organised chronologically, Cooke takes us from post-war America through to mid 2005, and his subject matter ranges from the specific relatively "small" topics (for example McLaren's dogged creation of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park) through to large, world-changing subjects including the Vietnam question and the assassinations of both John and Robert Kennedy. The latter is a riveting account because Cooke was there when it happened and his journalistic and observational skills come through as finely honed, dispassionate yet all the more powerful.

What gives this volume real richness are two things in particular.

First; Cooke has an unfailing grasp of history. In writing each week's snapshot of a changing nation, he manages to contextualise what he sees, and to draw upon both his enormous grasp of history and his unparalled contact with top politicians, writers and artists over 60 years. In today's age of soundbyte editorializing and glib simplifications (history seen through the eyes of Forrest Gump, if you will), Cooke's essays are thoughtful, well researched and highly reasoned. As a reader I'm struck by how prescient his comments are, and I'm also struck at how relevant his thought provoking comments about previous political events resonate in today's unfolding history.

The second facet of this rich gem is Cooke's beautifully crafted writing style. He wrote these essays for radio and perhaps this is why they read so beautifully. In his portrait of Charles Lindbergh, for example, he talks about the man for 500 words - creating a vivid, recognisable picture before he even mentions the name of his subject. In so doing, Cooke furnishes the reader (or listener) with the frisson of a delightful guessing game (he's talking about Lindbergh, right?) that allows us to hear more about the subject matter without letting us backfill the story with our own preconceptions. His humour is delightfully wry, and his ability to choose surprising and sometimes quite earthy quotes from the history makers of the past 60 years provides additional pleasure. Cooke clearly laboured over each and every essay to ensure their seamless recipe of wit, fact and observation.

This volume is a remarkable collection of essays: a format that encourages thoughtful, enjoyable bedside reading. In devouring this marvellous book, you are taken to the heart of a complex nation. An easy 5 stars; I'd add that this book makes an excellent gift, regardless of which way your friends vote.

A Love Letter To America

Helpful Votes: 8 out of 9 total.
Review Date: 2006-05-18

The Masters at Augusta and the Kentucky Derby too

Helpful Votes: 9 out of 9 total.
Review Date: 2005-06-28

For many years I listened to Alistair Cooke's ' Letters from America'. The calm, erudite voice , the super- civilized tone , the suggestion of great intelligence somehow always promised to provide insight into America that no one else had. The British Tocqueville of the airways who knew more about the Americans than the Americans knew about themselves.
Yet somehow I more often than not felt a certain disappointment in the communications. Reading them without the Cooke tone and pause, without his special emphasis diminishes them further. There is it seems to me a great deal of observation and color , and not enough striving for deep general understanding.
And there is too in the calm of Cooke's tone something strange and distant.The many rich voices of America, its ways of shouting and making itself felt are not transmitted strongly here.
Nonetheless in close to sixty years of reporting there are numerous insights and observations and much that entertains.
I think of Cooke's elegy for his old friend Isaiah Berlin. I think of reports made from all kinds of whistle stops on Presidential campaigns. I think too of his capacity for friendship, and how that does move through these letters and give them a warmer feeling of comraderie.
I think also of Cooke's basic real affection for America, his interest and appreciation of much what is good and beautiful in it.
I think too of how many listeners he delighted with his wit, and dry humor and clear - cut language.
This is a lifetime work of special meaning and value for the many thousands who waited each week for those fifteen minutes of his often most delightful and insightful talk.

Literature an Introduction to Reading and Writing

Published in Hardcover by Prentice Hall College Div (2000-11)

Author: Edgar V. Roberts

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Excellent Anthology of Literature

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Review Date: 2008-03-20

It's an excellent anthology. Here are some of the writers, playwrights, authors, and others who have contributed to this text.

Aesop; Matthew Arnold;
Anne Bradstreet; Aphra Behn; William Blake; Robert Burns; Lord Byron; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Robert Browning; Robert Bridges;
Thomas Campion; Richard Crashaw; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Lewis Carroll;
Michael Drayton; John Donne; John Dryden; Emily Dickinson;
Anne Finch;
Thomas Gray;
Robert Herrick; George Herbert; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Frances E.W. Harper; Thomas Hardy;
Henrik Ibsen;
Ben Jonson;
Henry King; John Keats;
Richard Lovelace;
Christopher Marlowe; John Milton; Andrew Marvell; Moliere;
Thomas Nashe;
Katherine Phillips; Alexander Pope; Edgar Allan Poe;
Sir Walter Raleigh; Christina Rossetti;
Sophocles; Saint Luke; Edmund Spenser; Sir Philip Sidney; William Shakespeare; Jonathan Swift; Percy Shelley;
Edward Taylor; Lord Alfred Tennyson; Mark Twain;
Sir Thomas Wyatt; Edmyund Waller; Phyllis Wheatley; William Wordsworth; Cornelius Whur; Walt Whitman;

For a textbook it's a really good book

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Review Date: 2008-01-22

Obviously I purchased this for class, but unlike some textbooks which can be boring this one was really great. It's more of a collection of plays, stories, poems, etc. than a "literature is blah, blah, blah". It's also very informative, some of the english books I've had for other classes have been really boring or they've cut some of the authors work short. This one gives you so much that I'd really call it more of a book of collected works than a textbook.

It's also broken into sections like Fiction, Poems, which makes it easy to navigate through and the sections are further broken into chapters such as theme, setting, etc. with works that correspond, so you really get a good example of what each chapter is talking about.

One negative though would be the size, it's really big but with all that's included I guess it only makes sense that it would be that massive.

All in all it was a great purchase plus I think I bought it from someone on Amazon for a $1 (for a hardcover!) so it was also a good buy. My suggestion would be that more English professosrs should use it or for anyone who just wants to be informed literally, this is a really good book.

Pretty good text with online adjunct videos for free

Helpful Votes: 0 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2005-10-30

Used for my college English II class, this text presents many literary ideas which could be useful for fully learning the many apsects of english.

There is an adjunct video course also usually taught in conjunction with this text, and its available for free on demand online at learner dot org.

I've kept this text for the many stories and usefull English info. Worth having.

Is there a teacher's manual with this book?

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 15 total.
Review Date: 1999-03-18

This is not a review. I am searching for a teacher's manual for this book. Is there one?

Great teaching book

Helpful Votes: 5 out of 7 total.
Review Date: 1999-09-20

This book has a companion video series called Literary Visions. That series alsoo includes a study guide. I would highly recommend it.

Little Butterfly, Volume 3

Published in Comic by Digital Manga Publishing (2007-01-25)

Author: Hinako Takanaga

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Cute and with a nice ending

Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2007-07-16

Little Butterfly is one of my favorite so far. Though there is child abuse in the plot that doesn't really get resolved, it has a sweetness that at least for most, won't find objectional (no non-con). From kissing and a little groping in Vol. 1 to the consummation in Vol 3 the story is believable and endearing. Could one ask for better that that? Well one thing that can be confusing and it may be because of the translation is that: Are they really going into college? I mean Kojima looks 14 at most and Nakahara looks nearly the same. Could it be they changed it from going to high school to going to college to make some more accepting? Well over all, if you look past the potential ages, it is a good read and something you can re-read.

Predictable Ending... :(

Helpful Votes: 1 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2007-02-13

Why such an odd rating for one of the best series out there (at least from DMP!) because it's just so predictable. If you were looking for a fantastic un-expected ending...nope. You can just already guess. Happy, dull ending. Don't get me wrong; I woulda loved a happy un-expected ending.
Mother gets fixed, father stays away, boys together, go to collage. That's the end in a summary.
But at least we have our main characters together. With smut scenes!

I love the new plot to this series though, it was more real-life. Lovely Sick is another one, and that Manga was adorable.

As I've said before, be aware of some of DMP's releases, many are just slash or just plain horrible choices, much like their choice to license anything by Lily Hoshino, whose work of Alone in my King's Harem won number 8 on the worst Manga Ever Award. by AnimeNewsNetwork.

A fitting conclusion to a lovely series !

Helpful Votes: 15 out of 15 total.
Review Date: 2007-01-07

I love the conclusion, vol 3 is the best in this short series. Kojima and Nakahara are simply adorable. This mangaka's artwork is something to behold. The facial expressions of her 2 boys are vividly alive, expressing their emotions and individual character beautifully. The ending is not an entirely happy one. Nakahara is never united with his dysfunctional parents, which actually gives more depth to the emotional pull of the story. The scenes between mother and son are painful to read, bringing a few lumps to my throat. His father's implicit heartlessness is chilling. Fortunately Nakahara has Kojima, who is simply endearing. Sunny, caring, earnest and wide eyed Kojima is just the balm Nakahara needs. Nakahara finding the courage to say "goodbye" in Osaka and his few words as the 2 boys stood outside Nakahara's now abandoned family home are such effective and stirring scenes.

In Vol 3, the mangaka does a marvellous job expressing the boys' love for one another, their emotions built-up and the sexual tension. Kojima's awakening desire for Nakahara is a delightful read. The quiet and more experienced Nakahara has always been the "lusty" one in their relationship and Kojima's initiation in Vol 3 is just something so sweet and cute.
This is of course soft core Yaoi. Anything more explicit and "rough" would have been completely unsuitable. The boys hugging/clinging to each other so tightly really gets to me. There is an innocence and sweetness in their love which is deeply moving. (right I am getting sappy here...)
Ultimately this is a beautiful story of two boys very much in love and no BL/Yaoi fan should miss it.

Love Story

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2007-03-08

A most beautiful conclusion to the trilogy that is "Little Butterfly". A sweet, well-illustrated and written yaoi manga. I would have liked to have seen the story carried on further than it is, but that is all I can say without giving away the ending. All-in-all though a satisfying read. I would recommend this to anyone that enjoys yaoi with a plot.

So... cute...

Helpful Votes: 4 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 2007-03-12

I admit, when I first started this series, I thought it was going to be another fluffy boy's love book with just a little kissing and maybe groping when they made it to the most exciting part of the story. Man, I was wrong and how happy I was to realize that.

These boys are so cute, especially when they get all blushy. The art is fantastic (it's one were I look at it for 20 minutes trying to figure out how Takanaga can draw so well...) and although the storyline is strange, at least it's not cliche boy/boy that seems to keep coming up in yaoi books I buy.

I definitely recommend this one to those look for juicy boys' love, and also those who want a really cute love story.

Little Lulu Volume 1: My Dinner With Lulu (Little Lulu)

Published in Paperback by Dark Horse (2005-05-04)

Authors: John Stanley and Irving Tripp

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My Girls Are Loving These!

Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-05-08

I have two daughters, ages 12 & 7. Their brother has enjoyed the classic Marvel comic book reprints for years. But have you ever looked for comics for young girls that are worth their reading? Slim pickings! Happily, it's Little Lulu to the rescue!

Both of my girls have had a ball reading and rereading these paperback volumes collecting the classic strip of a bygone era. Even my little one, whose reading skills are just emerging, has her nose in these books constantly (sometimes reading them out loud to me).

They're clever, clean, and genuinely entertaining. My only wish is that they were reproduced in color, instead of b&w. (That would probably triple the price of each installment, though). There is one special color issue, so be sure to snag that one.

Good wholesome fun!

Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-02-20

I have all the Little Lulu books. I grew up reading Little Lulu comic books and now my children are reading them. Besides being great fun, they tell stories usually involving morals and have great storylines. Why don't they make comics like this anymore?

Dennis the Menace, eat your heart out...

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2007-02-06

I recently finished plowing through the collected paperback editions of the classic 1950s "Little Lulu" comics, and wanted to put in my vote... yes! yes! yes! True, it's a little disappointing that the strips are reprinted in black-&-white and not in the original color versions, but the real genius of these works is in the draftsmanship of artists John Stanley and Irving Tripp, and once you get onto their wavelength, even these half-size B&W reprints are a pure delight. They can say so much with such economy -- a single panel of Lulu's unbridled mischief can have you laughing your head off, and here, in this multi-volume collection, you've got a real treasure trove of some of the best graphic-art humor produced in the 20th Century. Great stuff, highly recommended, and major kudos to Dark Horse for making this artwork both available and affordable.

Quite a Bargain!

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2006-12-03

The numbering and publishing order of Dark Horse's "Little Lulu" series is rather confusing. Although "My Dinner with Lulu" was their third release, it is labeled Volume #1 in the series. This is because it reprints the first comic "books" featuring the character; Dell Four Color #74, #97, #110, #115, #120 (published over a two year period, 1945-1946). All 52 pages of content from these five books is included, unfortunately the covers and advertisements are not. And the reprints are black and white, which makes the volumes very affordable if poor substitutes for the original four-color pages.

John Stanley did all the pencils and some of the inking for these five books, in partnership with Irving Tripp. Cartoonist Marge Buell created the characters in 1935 for the Saturday Evening Post and the early comic books had to secure her approval before publication. Judging from the obvious style differences, it is likely that several of Buell's multi-panel one-page SEP stories were included in the comic books and reprinted in this volume.

The 1945-46 drawings are more faithful to Buell's style than later Lulu issues. Note that the characters' mouths are only shown when they are speaking and they have only a single eyebrow line going across their foreheads. Despite this both Buell and Stanley are able to convey an amazing number expressions and emotions.

Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.

First 5 Little Lulu Comics

Helpful Votes: 6 out of 6 total.
Review Date: 2005-05-05

While this is 'volume 3' of Dark Horse Comics' reprint series of Little Lulu, it actual reprints the first 5 of the 10 "Four Color" Little Lulu comics (#74, 97, 110, 115, 120) which were published before Little Lulu got her own title. Hopefully volume 4 of the series will reprint the last 5 of the Four Color issues.

Los nueve conocimientos sexuales para el adolescente. (Nine step basic information on TeenageSex )

Published in Mass Market Paperback by Encuadernacion Geminis S.A. DE C.V. (2002-04-23)

Author: Cristian Totti

List price: $15.90

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I love this book

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2004-09-07

and one by one, my teenage kids have read it... and they got the best information about sex... Wether we like it or not... They NEED IT

NO QUIERO NI PENSAR QUE, CON LA AMENAZA MORTAL

Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2003-04-14

DEL SIDA, HAYA PADRES QUE LE NIEGUEN ESTE LIBRO MARAVILLOSO A SUS HIJOS Y A SUS HIJAS...

TAN LIMPIO, TAN UTIL, TAN VERAZ

Helpful Votes: 4 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 2003-04-28

Y TAN NECESARIO, QUE SE LO ACABAMOS DE DAR A LEER A NUESTRA HIJA DE TRECE AÑOS...

Considera la importancia de que tus hijos se documenten. Y este libro ES EL INSTRUMENTO IDÓNEO!

LA MAESTRA DE ORIENTACION NOS LO

Helpful Votes: 4 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 2003-03-25

RECOMENDÓ A TODAS LAS MADRES DE FAMILIA PARA DARLA A LOS CHICOS PRE ADOLESCENTES.
Como soy medio desconfiada, lo leí con suma atención y le devuelvo su crédito a Miss Muñoz: TIENE RAZÓN Y VOY A ENTREGAR EL LIBRO A MI HIJO DE 14 AÑOS.
No quiero que salga al mundo sin SUFICIENTE INFORMACION !
Y este libro la ofrece toda, Y LIMPIA !

I RECCOMEND IT HIGLY FOR

Helpful Votes: 4 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 2003-03-10

TEENAGERS.
I read it and just gave it to my almost 13 year old son !
It teaches and warns them !

Love and Power

Published in Paperback by (1998-11-01)

Author: Lynn V. Andrews

List price: $13.00

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Fantastic! Inspirational to a deep connection to the heart

Helpful Votes: 11 out of 17 total.
Review Date: 1998-11-19

LOVE AND POWER If you feel a little lost in this land of hopelessness, LOVE AND POWER, is the book for you. I found it to be a guide to a lost heart. Of course, the Holy Bible is the best in my opinion for a wounded soul. But, LOVE AND POWER is still a wonderful book, one of the best I ever read.

SYNOPSIS:

Helpful Votes: 15 out of 15 total.
Review Date: 1997-09-05

In her powerful new book, best-selling author, Lynn V. Andrews, tackles the notion of imbalance--in life, in love, in work, in spirit. LOVE & POWER: AWAKENING TO MASTERY offers a timely message about how we can find wholeness by balancing our need for love with our desire for power.

In LOVE & POWER Lynn Andrews shares what she has learned about the fine art of mastery--where love and power walk hand in hand. In a culture dominated by a striving toward technology and materialism that has left many people, especially women, yearning for a spiritual or emotional sustenance, Andrews offers practical steps for focusing one's intellectual and spiritual energy. The result is healing and integration for a generation seeking balance.

Today most people are living incredibly stressful lives, and as a result lose focus, feel personally unfulfilled, or most common of all, many people feel a sense of spiritual emptiness. In LOVE & POWER, Andrews helps us to look at what we really want, and access what really works on a daily basis to move our lives forward.

LOVE & POWER is based on the understanding that in order to balance our need for love with our desire for power we must first establish and connect with the spiritual. At the heart of a genuine relationship with spirit is a deep and abiding love, which, when we tap into it, attracts goodness to us.

The journey for the reader of LOVE & POWER is a journey toward self completion, as Andrews helps us to see that our lives can become an art form when we weave together love and power

Thank you for helping me find my reality.

Helpful Votes: 17 out of 17 total.
Review Date: 1998-11-09

I am new to Lynn Andrews's work but have been told of her for several years. Frankly, to my surprise, I was enthralled with her style and insight. She is very unique and this is a wonderful book. I will definitely start at the beginning of her journey with Medicine Woman.I truly did not know what it was I needed or wanted to make me happy and to have "balance" in my life. The man with everything materially- but nothing spiritually or in love.I can honestly say that this book helped guide me to see what was attainable and now, blissful. Thank you.

Absolutely First Class!

Helpful Votes: 5 out of 7 total.
Review Date: 1998-10-21

Ms. Andews has done it again, but with even more clarity and insight this time! Fabulous, I'm giving a copy of this wonderful book to everyone I know for the Holidays!

Choosing love and power ... a radical ideal

Helpful Votes: 8 out of 8 total.
Review Date: 2005-03-28

This is more a self-growth book rather than a visionary autobiographical account of Andrews' shamanic lifestyle. This memoir and workbook is a collection of how love and power can be held together without compromise to either. Written for a mostly female audience, Love and Power, helps to educate women on how the possibility to be powerful and experience love on all levels, can manifest. Examples and excercises throughout help to facilitate action items to create love and power in one's life.

Love Hina, Volume 9

Published in Paperback by TokyoPop (2003-03-11)

Author: Ken Akamatsu

List price: $9.99

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Let's go to Tokyo U!

Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2004-12-01

This is another hilarious volume in this great manga series. Our hero, Keitaro, has finally gotten into Tokyo University. But don't think his problems are over. I won't tell you what happens, but it's very funny. If you liked the previous volumes in the series, you will like this one.

i believe in a thing called love hina!

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2004-03-22

This is a wonderful manga series. I diacovered Love Hina a few months ago and I have all the books and the anime series, but the manga series is a little better because you get some closure at the end in book 14 plus there are some tales that were not put into anime that are hilarious.

Some of the highlights of book 9:

Keitaro's first day at Tokyo University (sort of)

Motoko's battle with her sister (shown in anime episode 25, but a little different in the manga)

Shinobu goes on a date with Keitaro!

Haruka and Seta's past is revealed - and who is Sara's mother?

A nice transition into the endgame

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2003-03-07

If you liked the earlier books in the series, then you'd like this one. Book 9 starts on the day of the entrance ceremony for new Toudai, or a.k.a., Tokyo U., students. Keitaro, as usual, managed to get himself in trouble immediately, and things don't go as he had planned or hoped. Despite everything, however, Keitaro finds himself involved in various situations, in the various stories within the book, that inevitably ends up with him on the receiving end of a Naru special. Good thing the guy is immortal!

The stories contained within Book 9 are fun. If you have the Christmas Special DVD, also, episode 25's [very basic] storyline is in here, and there's a story about Shinobu and her wishes. I would definitely read the one about Haruka and Seta, though, as its plot concludes in Book 13 and provides a good intro to Book 13.

Great!

Helpful Votes: 3 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2003-08-01

Finally! After all that work it has finally paid off! Naru, Mutsumi, and Keitaro make it into Tokyo U! But he can't make it to the ceremony because of a freak accident that puts him in the hospital. But while in the hospital he tells Naru how she really feels but her reaction wasn't even what Keitaro expected. Now he's going to have to miss half a years worth of classes. What is he going to do now? Not to mention the fact that Motoko's psycho sister comes to town and Keitaro is going to have to marry Motoko! What is he going to do now! Very exciting! You must read this volume!

A great series that gets better with each new release

Helpful Votes: 9 out of 9 total.
Review Date: 2003-03-08

I'm not sure what drew me into Love Hina in the first place, but each successive graphic novel seems to get better.

My initial thoughts on Love Hina was that it was just another one guy/thousands of girls manga with too contrived a premise to really enjoy. And after the first few, it still felt that way. But soon enough, the writing and characters won me over and steered away from some of the cliches that normally bombard this type of manga.

Love Hina rises above most romantic comedy style manga by keeping a good balance of romance and comedy to keep it from being too saccharine or too goofy. Another aspect that's refreshing is that not every single girl that Keitaro, the main protagonist, comes across falls for him. All the girls in the comic have very distinct personalities that play off each other so well, and yes I'll admit it, all of them are pretty cute in their own ways.

Getting back to volume 9 though. Volume 8, to me, seemed like it would be a good ending to the series, where it seems all the loose ends get tied up. After all, the series is mostly about Keitaro trying to get into Tokyo University and he finally does at the end of volume 8. I didn't think there would be anything much further to take the Hinata clan, but there are some nice revelations and stories in volume 9 to suggest Love Hina has a long way to go before the premise gets exhausted.

It starts out with Keitaro having an unfortunate accident at Tokyo U (a pretty over-the-top accident, even for Love Hina) forcing him to take a leave of absence. Other stories include Motoko's sister visiting Hinata House, Shinobu having her first real date with Keitaro-sempai and Seta proposing to Haruka. Oh yeah, we finally get to see where Keitaro and Naru's relationship is going too.

What sets it apart from previous volumes is that it looks like several of the girls are starting to fall for Keitaro. Motoko, Shinobu and even Kitsune start to display more affection for him. Because this is happening in volume 9 and not right at the beginning of the series makes it much more believable and based in reality. Series like Tenchi Muyo and Ranma 1/2 get bogged down with so many love triangles that have no basis for existing that it just gets tiring.

The comedy, writing and drawing in the series is as good as ever. Although there are still several obvious grammatical errors that make it feel like it was rushed. (Shinobu says "I'm going right to be here to cheer you on!!" when it should be ...going to be right here...) The editing needs some work, but other than that, Love Hina volume 9 doesn't disappoint.