Slag Books

I am writing to advise that the availability listed by Amazon is very misleading. I ordered one on October 19 and my promised ship date now could be as late as December 24. I'd advise you to buy this book where you can rely on the shipping promised when you place the order. Sign me unhappy with Amazon.

Outstanding book on slag glass. Any one thats in slag glass will find this very helpful. Excellent pictures, tells the year it was manufacture, and tells what its worth than and now.

This is a good book for American or "recent" slag. It was informative, especially with the recent pricings in the back.

Outstanding book on slag glass. Any one thats in slag glass will find this very helpful. Excellent pictures, tells the year it was manufacture, and tells what its worth than and now.

This book is about one thing, drugs. 'Et Slags Liv' goes through the life of Lisbeth, a 15 year old girl. She goes through alot of things, including drinking, smoking, drugs, parties, problems and much more.
All the characters and happenings are fiction.

Cecilie Grorud was 16 years old when she first published this book in 1977. She herself had gone through this tough environment. She wrote this book because she wanted to warn and open peoples eyes. She wanted people to be aware that there still are drug addicts that need help and that need support.

This is an excelent book, very well written. I give it 5 stars.

Mark Sullivan's poems are rooted in the experience of daily life. A keen and thoughtful observer, his gift is in examining the world carefully, deeply, intensely. There is a sense of discovery in the writing, it is not just describing phenomena but illuminating them.("The houses sit like broken radios.") Sullivan turns his eye to art, animals, film, a comet, basketball, the city, and finds insights about time, death, illusion. The complex and philosophical are arrived at through observing and considering the actual stuff of the world we live in. Watching a slow loris at the zoo leads him to consider zero gravity and the "void of Newton's first law." A chance ramble through Manhattan's Diamond District leads him (and the reader) to the possibility that "this is/all we're here for, to exchange every moment/ for its opposite, for what endures and we/ can't hope to hold. To watch as it/ outlasts us, like fragments of starlight/ arriving at the backs of our retinas/ after million-year trajectories . . ." The book as a whole is testament to the importance of observation, empathy and inquiry, and points the way to a life worth living.

I found this book several years ago through Scholastic and my 2 daughters love it. It is a great story about how Molly Lou Melon is different than other kids and for her to be proud of herself. It teaches them that it is okay to be different. The pictures in the book are incredible.

That Was Then This Is Now

Bryon is a strong, 16 year old teenager in the book That Was Then This Is Now by S.E. Hinton. Bryon has a very special talent which is hustling people in pool. He has been doing this since he was 12 years old. Bryon lives with his mom in a little town in Oklahoma. His best friend Mark is living with him.
There's a reason why Mark is living with him. That reason is that his parents died when he was nine. Mark's parents were drunk and they were arguing that night. His dad got mad at his mom. Then his dad shot his mom and she fell to the ground. Then his mom shot his dad back. They both bled to death. Then Mark went to live with Byron and his mom.
Byron and Mark have been friends since they were very young. They grew up together in the same little town. Byron says there like brothers. Byron is big, tall, and strong. Mark is short and strong. They like to get in fights a lot. Mark hot wires cars to get around town. He has done that since he was twelve.
But they also have a problem. As they grow up they are growing apart from each other. Bryon starts going out with Cathy. Mark starts to get jealous of Cathy because Bryon is spending more time with Cathy. Then Mark starts acting a little weird and Byron notices it. He starts to look a little different. Then his attitude was changing about everything. He starts to talk back to Bryon and he has never done that before. Then Byron figures out why he is acting strange. Mark has a big secret. But you have to read the book to find out what it is.
If you like books about love, growing up, and a little action then this book is for you. This book is very interesting. I think it was very interesting when they protect their friend M&M from the guys who jumped him. I think the author wrote this book so kids won't get in gangs. They won't get a bad life or future. If you read the back it makes you want to read it. I wanted to know what kept them apart so I read the book at home for an hour each day until I got to the end. I was amazed by the ending. The book has 159 pages in all. Its reading level is 4.6.

...If you have one good friend you're luckier."

I loved most of this book. There are a lot of quotes i can relate to and a lot of the emotions the characters go through i have gone through myself. SE Hinton is my absolute favorite young adult writer of all time. Its not quite as good as The Outsiders but i don't think any book could have topped that. I enjoyed reading the book and it gives you a new perspective on things.

My only problem with it (the reason i didn't give it 5 stars) was i didn't understand the ending. I have a vague idea but i don't know why Bryan did what he did.

I think it's a good short read obviously for young adults, but really for anyone who likes a good story.

The main character in my story is a 16 year old boy named Bryon. The other main character in the story is 15 year old boy named Mark but there are other character such as M&M and Cathy. The setting takes place in the 70's. Mark's parents are dead they killed each other. Bryon dad left him and only his mom takes care of him and Mark. Bryon's mom has a thing for taking in strays but she dose not mind. The problem later on in the story is that Cathy's brother goes missing and their best friend gets shot and to top it off Byron mom dose not have enough money to pay her hospital medical bill. Later on Byron gets a job at the grocer y store to help and Mark dose something but he brings home to much money for one night. Later on they found M&M and he took a drug that mad him crazy. Towards the end of the story Byron found out that Mark was selling the same kind of drug that M&M took, and he called the police they took away Mark and the last words he uttered to Mark was `why you doing this to me buddy'.

This book was very good. We enjoyed reading about the fights, drugs, and real life situations. We could not predict what was going to happen next. It related to some people's everyday normal life. The characters were simlar to some of the kids who attend our school. Mark and Bryon go through several changes throughout the book, both in their relationship together as well as their individual personal lives. For example, Bryon gets a job while Mark pushes drugs. They begin to grow apart when Bryon starts dating Cathy. The climax is the ending when Mark tells Bryon that he hates him while Bryon is visiting him in prison. If we could rewrite the last couple of chapters, we would have Bryon talk to Mark and stop him from selling drugs, instead of him being a snitch. Bryon and Cathy would stay together and Mark would not go to jail. M & M would overdose but be okay afterwards. The sequel would have Mark get out of jail and Bryon and Cathy get back together. M & M would go to rehab. Overall, we really enjoyed this book and recommend it to all students.

i loved this book it so really amazing! if you are a fan of S.E. hinton's books, you will not be disapointed this book deserves 5 stars!!!!

Slag Like Me is the fifth Alien Nation novel, and Barry Longyear handles it pretty well.

The two cops get involved when an undercover reporter disappears after writing a bunch of hardhitting columns exposing the poor treatment of the Tenctonese immigrants. In other words, looking at something this particular milieu does quite well.

Written by the author of The Change, even brining back Newcomer FBI Agent Paul Iniko, this book is a great addition to the Alien Nation universe. Leaps and bounds better than The Change, Slag Like Me takes a tough look at racism in the post Civil Rights era, showing how behaviors and practices once carried out in public are run underground and the personal nature of this more passive agrresive oppression.

This novel is less about seeing Matt Sikes going undercover as a Newcomer and more about the demons that live in us all. It was a very enjoyable read that had some substance to it.

Maybe its just his writing that bothers me, but I just cannot imagine the characters acting the way they do in this book.

Meaning they are qualified stars. I like the premise of Alien Nation, usually better than I like the actuality, but that's common on series sf TV... The Alien Nation books tend to be better than what we saw on TVs. Besides this one I like, _Body & Soul_ and _Passing Fancy_. All are about what is to be Tenctonese and human, that's an interesting concept to me.

The reporter in this one is a not very veiled Harlan Ellison, IMO, and I found that amusing. I also found a copy of _Black Like Me_ at a used bookstore after reading this. Telling _Black Like Me_ in a sf mode is interesting, well done, worth reading if you don't end up paying too much for it.

This was never an episode of the TV series but it deserved to be. The writing by Barry B. Longyear is excellent, he drifts between characters and time periods with ease. The idea of the newspaper colume appears over and over never letting us forget the focus of Matt and George's case even if they wander themselves. I loved the tv series and I love this book.

Okay well cashing in on the collectable card game craze Phil Foglio and Cheapass Games creator James Earnest got together and created a collectable card game.

There's no rarities everythigns equally rare but that doesn't mean everythings equally powerful. There are a variety of strategies available from playing to win to playing to get your opponants naked depending how you set your deck.

The game looks good and is fun to lay but suffers 2 main drawbacks
1) It works best in a group and preferably a broadminded group
2) It can get pretty complex okay not that complex compared with Magic or Vampire CCGs but after a fe wdrinks it's all a bit vague

If you can find a copy it's fun and even if you can only find booster packs Phils XXXenophile site will send you the rules so you can still play.

These twelve stories (six of which previously appeared in various literary publications) are unlikely to be featured in any tourism brochures for Yorkshire -- especially Bradford. They are universally infused with a cynical worldview, a slightly surreal bent, and repetitive series of chronically dissociated loners. Much of it feels like aimless riffing, as if you could skip a page of a story and not miss a thing, however, there are a few nuggets of gold to be found.

Most of the stories are set amidst the dreary council estates of Bradford and the lost souls who live there. The title story is one of these, and contains a number of nice moments coalescing into a satisfyingly surreal ending. (If you're curious about the book, this story is available online at The Barcelona Review). Brimming with descriptive detail, "Coddock" is a too-short four pages about the rise and fall of a rejuvenated fish-and-chip shop and plays nicely as a succinct metaphor for urban improvement. "Tony Harrison" is another good but short (eleven pages) work, this time about the rise and fall of a junkie who moves in next door to a book-reading, classical music-listening narrator. However, the seven pages of "The Hands Reveal", flash through a teenage junkie girl's existence without making a mark. "Bouncing Back" is a broad satire of attempts by the Bradford City Council to improve the city's image by engaging in a little street marketing. I didn't find it nearly as hilarious or skewering as other reviewers did though.

One of the best stories is "The Kingfishers...The Distances", a heartbreaker in which another loner in a bar meets and talks to a woman who haunts his memory and changes his life -- the ending is a killer. The other excellent story is "The Tale of the Golden Bath Taps", a angsty tale of the strange relationship between a musician and a bartender/stripper with severe psychological problems. There are also a several set-pieces, which aren't particularly good, such as "Songs That Won the War", a fairly disposable twelve pages about the narrator's father dying of cancer. Another is "Mr. Personality in the Field of Poses", in which a woman ruminates on her boyfriend. Then there is "Short Cut to the Sun" which recounts an evening in a jazz club with Sun Ra, and is unlikely to appeal anyone except Sun Ra fans. Then, there's the opening story, "Wrestling Jacob" takes the rural stereotype of man/sheep love and twists it into a fable about a man who wrestles with a ram and beds a series of disposable women. Of course, in the end, he loves the sheep and couldn't care less for the women.

As is often the case with short story collections, this is a pretty mixed bag. The writing is rather too self-conscious for my taste, as Broady appears intent on cramming in as many references as possible: the Bible, Shakespeare, various poets, classic music, Elvis, and on and on and on. It doesn't help that he occasionally will repeat things from his bag of tricks, such as descriptions involving Hitler's mustache twice, and twice referring to Shakespeare's "Exit Left - Pursued by Bears" line. The collection would have been greatly strengthened by having one or two common narrators to tie it all together a bit. Because whether architect, writer, social worker, or musician, the narrators all sound and act pretty much exactly the same. It also suffers from a kind of strange quasi-elitist, "this is my little grimy part of the world, don't you dare try and make it better" attitude. On the whole, I'd be very hesitant to recommend this to anyone who doesn't have some kind of specific interest in Bradford.