On The Edge Books

Oh, I loved this book and suffered for her as I read it..It was
a well written profile and character development of an intelligent
and special woman who may not have fulfilled her potential except
in her support of her friends and in the writing of this book.
I felt the flavor of her childhood and eventual life in NewYorkCity
and elsewhere..I cared about her and for her...It made me think
and wonder what other autobiographies I could read... She was
not a groupie...but a wife and mother who happened to love
musicians and artists and had a gift for working with special
people...She was an artist in her own right who should be
recognized and admired for her flair and design and aesthetics
and love and light...I highly recommend this book...Next I plan
to read Nora, The real Molly Bloom.
By the way, she is an inspiration to my actress daughter for her
new role and I really found Cyrinda Foxe very likeable. Too bad
I did not get to be her friend....except through her book and
her art on ovoworks/smug.mug..

This biography is about a fairly shallow women who refuses to take responsibility for herself, for what happened to her. She went after Steve Tyler with a vengence, knowing that he was a drug addict, a conceited maniac, knowing his past history with women (some not even old enough to truly qualify as "women" yet). And then she stayed with him even though he terrorized her? Doesn't make a lot of sense. She doesn't even mention her own drug addiction. She paints herself as an innocent who found herself helplessly victimized but she was too savvy, too experienced (she was of the Warhol crowd) going into the marriage to fit that role. Basically, I found myself thinking that this was a woman who wasted her time feeling sorry for herself instead of learning how to do something that would get her a job. Ok, being married to Steve Tyler couldn't have provided her with the safe haven she was looking for but a little more insight into herself, a little more honesty would have made this book a whole lot more credible.

For those of you that are "Aerosmith" fans, just go ahead and buy this book. I could not put it down until I completely finished reading it---fun, bold and exciting. You will love it. Whether it is completely true or not, we don't know. But Cyrinda sure makes it sound like it is. She did not have an easy life with Steven and does tend to whine about it at times, but who really believes that living with a rock star is easy!

Im going to make this short & sweet. I found 99% of this book totally unbelievable. I mean, geeze, give Tyler a break, there is no way he could have been that messed up and still front the best rock band in the world. And that stuff about Tyler and Perry, I just dont buy it, nope.

Extremely sensetive and acurate account of a real life experience , living as the wife of one of the most important rock stars in the world. Cyrinda Foxe emerged from a very trendy and creative Warhol crowd and with true intentions of deep love and happines, plunged into a marriage of HELL. Being from Europe, her explanation of the daily life of rock and roll was fascintating for me. I know that people would like to think that stars are perfect but we are all mortal and full of aberations. The most fascinating and touching point was how Cyrinda was able with out any help to extract herself and her daughter Mia from that living inferno. If you are an adult and want the truth beyond the hype and glory of corporate rock and roll, this is the book you have to read. Sorry for my English but I am not from your country.

First, it should be said that if you discovered this jumped-up fan tirade to be linked in any way to REAL books by award winning writer Harlan Ellison you have been led astray. But since the link to Harlan's work and Priest's is probably established by Priest and his associates pressing on this link repeatedly in their free time you will have this.

An unsuspecting reader should also know that when pressing the name Christopher Priest one is presented with links to a number of comic book TPB's by a different Christpher Priest. Here we have an example of a person achieving marginal notice by riding on the coat tails of not one, but TWO different (and far better) writers.

If you enjoy long winded and meanspirited tirades that bleat on for pages about slights and literary misdemeanors that could be covered in a few sentences - this is the screed you've been waiting for. If, on the other hand you'd like to read a good book - fiction or non-fiction - in just about any genre imaginable - try one of the 70 or so books Harlan has published in the last 45 years.

This book is published in the United States by Fantagraphics. This is appropriate as Fantagraphics also publishes the Eros line of XXX rated comics in order to stay afloat these days. Fans of self-abuse will be right at home with this title or any of the other books in the one-fisted Fantagraphics catalog.

Priest's contribution to TLDV was rejected 30 years ago by Harlan Ellison, and this one-sided hatchet job, published by another of Ellison's personal antagonists, Gary Groth, is the result. The fact that these two individuals went so far as to actually refer to themselves as the "Enemies of Ellison" (later "Victims of Ellison" but still something right out of elementary school) speaks volumes about both writer and publisher. It is ad hominem masquerading as journalism, and wasn't worth reading as a free download, let alone paying ... for it.

If you want to be entertained, read the many many volumes of Harlan Ellison's stories and essays. If you want to know more about Ellison himself, there are far better and more objective biographies and critiques of the man and his work.

For those previous reviewers who mentioned Stephen King's "lost story," consider this: It doesn't seem to have bothered King, who has gone on to have some modest success as a writer. Priest, OTOH, has built his entire ... career by attaching himself to Harlan's ankle like an angry Yorkie.

Skip this book...

This is a very specialized non-fiction book (booklet? pamphlet? it is very short) dealing with the sad history of the much awaited but never realized publication of The Last Dangerous Visions anthology by Harlan Ellison. The author, Christopher Priest, did his research, cited all of his sources, and pretty much just relates the facts of what Ellison has said and when he said it verses what he has actually done.

The biggest fact one can add to this book is that it is now 2005, over thirty years after the project began and eight years since Priest wrote his history/analysis of its non-occurence, and LDV _still_ has not come out nor shown any sign of ever coming out. And with each passing year, the stories age even further and, except for the handful of authors who took their stories back and had them published elsewhere, more of the included authors pass on with their stories unseen and unread in their lifetime.

Some of the other reviewers who have castigated Priest apparently didn't bother to do their research. One implies that Priest is being vindictive because his own story was rejected for LDV, which is not true (that was a completely different author, John Shirley). Another reveals his ignorance of Priest's publishing history, accusing him of riding the coattails of an American comic book author of the same name, when in fact the British author Priest has been around longer, pubished more and in fact has the real claim to the name since the comic book author apparently changed his name.

This book is interesting and invaluable if you're at all curious about this much talked-about but never seen anthology. Harlan Ellison is one of the truly great writers of speculative fiction and has earned his place of honor in its history. But even great men have their foibles and failures, and sadly LDV looks to be his.

This is a fascinating piece of detective work - probably not of great interest to the average book reader, but a wonderful revelation to people like myself, who have long wondered what happened to the book we awaited eagerly over 30 years ago.
It was a time when Harlan Ellison seemed to be both a great story writer and a great editor.
Little did we know that his third anthology would sit on the edge of forever.
I have read a number of speculations on the non-appearance of The Last Dangerous Visions, but at last here is one that makes complete sense.
Highly recommended.

Really, I still think that after reading this essay it's a great loss that The Last Dangerous Visions never saw the light of day. Up to now, I mean. I hope it will be put together one day but chances seem small.

Anyway, The Book on the Edge of Forever provides plenty of information, though a sad feeling may overcome you while reading it.

Thank you, Christopher Priest, for this book.

A movie-nerds' ... dream, what they'd all wished had been done with Highlander. A continuation of the movie's story in the style of Dick's book, with multiple scenes which are reporductions or reflections from the original (another Deckard/Batty fight in the rain on decaying city infrastructure). Pretty good for the Geekbook mindcandy category.

Jeter does a so-so job in this book at picking up where the movie left off. However, this book is in no way related to DADoES? (which the book claims to "tie-in" with the movie) except for the character J.R. Isidore. My biggest grudge (which is even MORE apparent in the 3rd book!) is the fact that Jeter basically "re-runs" the movie so many times. IE) Many events in this book already happened in the movie, and are just re-written a little differently. However, the plot is okay and you are left with an unexpected twist at the end, which is good.

I was able to finish this book, but I wish I hadn't. If you love the film, be forewarned: you will never look at it the same way after reading this book. There are too many inconsistencies, particulalry with characters who died in the film, but have been resurrected for this story. I thought the Roy Batty clone template was interesting, but it seems this and other plot points were done simply to have access to popular and recognizable characters from the film. It might have been more affective to just have all new characters. As it is, this sequel just doesn't feel right, and as the successor to a film that evokes such strong emotional appeal from its fans, feeling is important.

Oh, and Pris not a replicant? Yeaaah, right! Removing her hand from boiling water unscathed, performing super-human acrobatic stunts while beating the crap out of Deckard, and taking three point blank gunshots (two in the Dir. Cut) before going down?? I guess her nails were black because she painted them, not because she was expiring like Roy. ;) "Pris hasn't got long to live, I can't accept that." I can't accept that she was a human all along.

Jeter was supposedly an understudy of Dick, but he should have left his mentor's masterpiece alone, not to mention Ridley Scott's beautiful interpretation (which this sequel is actually based on). I think this is a decent sci-fi book, but a horrible BR sequel. Read Dick's original "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and stick with the classic film.

I tend to be open about all forms of literature and most writers, even if there books are simple or immature you usually can get some interesting insights or at least superficial visceral entertainment from most stories. Sadly this writer gave me the first experience with the word HACK that I have ever truly encountered. Never before have I slammed face first into a pile of words that would actually be better described as excrement.

I did not find anything wrong with P.K. Dick's book, loved Ridley Scott's interpretation of the film, Blade Runner. But this was so bad I wondered if it was originally written on toilet paper, lost in the woods, and then found by some Hollywood type who hoped to sell it as a "property" to a B-Movie studio.

I have my own interpretation of the nuances in the original novel and the movie, as most do, but this clown seems to not understand any of the basic story premises as well as having the blackest mental cesspool for a view of the world I have seen since Mein Kampf. Early in the book we find that the basic premise is that, we (All humans) want our slaves to be as human as possible so we can "enjoy" there suffering. If your basic outlook of humanity is this low, I don't understand how he had time to write this book. I would expect Jeter would be in a cave somewhere and living off roots or shackled to a wall with a 200lbs Dom leaving red marks across his ass.

I kept reading this book thinking that all the stupid mistakes and idiotic premises thrown like feces from a monkey cage, would be exposed in the end, and we would return to somewhere near the original Dick/Scott galaxy. He has no additional insight in to any of the caricatures he reused from better writers, and I suspects, he needs to spend more time in the real world getting to know humans that are not drawn on his hand, to gain some wisdom about how real people operate and why.

Do not give this guy even the 1% royalty by purchasing this book anywhere(Sorry Amazon), except to support your local used book store to clear shelf space for ANYTHING else.

Let me begin with the admission that I was unable to finish this book. I made it to about page 90 and just had to put it down. So, my review will be based on that fact. Also, there are probably what would be considered to be some plot spoilers here, so please skip this review if you don't want to know information that might reveal some plot twists too soon.

I am a Bladerunner fan. I love the original, and I love the director's cut. I own them both. I have watched them so many times, I have lost count. I thought it was awesome that somebody wrote a sequel. I was reluctant to buy it, because I am not a fan of Mr. Jeter's other works. However, I finally picked it up one day.

I was determined to finish this book. Even when I saw that J. F. Sebastian, to me a person who was irrefutably killed in the movie, was still alive. And then, Pris is still alive. I thought at first Mr. Jeter did a fair job with the characterization of Deckard, and then that began to disappoint me, too. Then finally, the thing that made me put the book down. Mr. Jeter would have us believe that Pris was not truly a replicant.

I ask any fan of the movie if this is even conceivable? To me it was not, and was the final nail in the coffin for the book for me. I just couldn't go on any further. The book became an insult to it's source material in my opinion. I honestly don't see how any one who is a true fan of the movie could enjoy this novel.

Like many sequels, this one would have been best left unmade. Most sequels are more stillborns than vibrant offsprings. The best sequels are the ones we create in our own minds. I applaud Mr. Jeter for his effort to create a sequel to such a bastion of sci-fi history, but I question his outcome. Like any author, he deserves praise for his talent, and his creation, but it is not for me, and I would imagine, not for many Blade Runner fans as well.

Based on the merit of reading the first 90 pages or so of this book, I do not reccomend it. I'll stick to the movie, but this book is not Blade Runner canon to me.

Freddie Mercury's name is spelled correctly in this title. Just because some people may prefer to spell it with a 'y' does not make it the correct spelling. That is how the man spelled it.

This book is not worth paper it was printed on, pretty muchlike the rest of the books about Freddie Mercury. I guess, it isespecially difficult to write about him, because when he died, he did not leave an autobiography or, at least, some decent interviews. It seems like he rarely answered questions seriously and did not really like talking to the press. Nevertheless, everyone familar with Queen, must know that he was, indeed, "living on the edge" in all respects. So, this book does not say anything new or anything coherent. It lacks purpose, strength, and accuracy that should be present, when writing about such enormous genius like Freddie Mercury. Listening to his music, his own statements (however rare), and his jokes still beats reading lame bios about him.

I didn't buy this book. I wouldn't buy a book about someone where the author couldn't make the effort to spell the subject's name correctly. Makes me wonder how accurate the rest of the book is...

Looking around me I see people living on the edge. But Freddie was to intelligent to understand where his limits were. When he found out that he had HIV he changed, but it was too late, He then realized life was going over the edge and there was nothing he could do to stop it. The Man was always ahead of his time in his thinking and his music. Although Freddie is gone to those who loved him he will always live on. I have bought every book I can find on him, and one of the most personal one about was written by his Lover Jim Hutton, it isnt easy to get your hands on either, i know it upset many people becasue it was more like a kiss and tell, but if you want to know what Freddie's last few years was like even up to the moment he died then find the book and read it.

I found the book hard to read. Too much about Queen in general rather than Freddie. I would like to know about Him- his daily routine, what set him off, what turned Him on,what happened with Mary,any funny stories from fans/groupies that may have had the pleasure of His company-if even for an hour! Things like that! Not concert info and how the band got started-trhings that I already know from books that were meant for that! This is Freddie Mercury Living on the edge!! I was hoping for more excitement!

Destined to be a fixture in many bargain used bookshops or the coffee tables of people who should no better.

Is incredible this book receive a good critique. The text is badly write and the grafic design too bad for a architecture book. The reader who review it as good must be himself Zellner under a faked identity.

Although this book is nearly two years old now, the concepts, pratices and projects presented still indicate that the Pacific is an increasingly important cultural zone. Very few books have attempted to tackle the issue of a non-European architecture and whilst this misses some major practitioners (notably Glen Murcutt and Peter Corrigan in Australia, Tadao Ando in Japan and Frank Gehry in LA) and projects I still give the book two thumbs up!

This book is well-written, well researched, exploring contemporary architecture in the Pacific Rim, complemented by 3 essays which are definitely thought provoking. Sad to say that the rating by the readers is poor because this is one of the best architecture book that I have ever come across & a book that I keep coming back too. If readers are looking for a pictorial architecture book that looks good on your coffee table, probably there's an element of truth that its standard can't surpassed those published by Phaidons, but in terms of being an intelligent book, it delivers, even exceeding my expectation. The author split the book into 5 different types of architecture that are observed in this region. They are the the modernist legacies (international vernacular), edge condition (regional inflection & the architecture of local identity), dense cities (architecture in the expanding new world city), tectonics (building corporeal architecture) & lastly, media-tectonics (generating an ambient architecture). Many examples are provided from LA to NZ. Rather than covering works of superarchitects of our time, the book opted to cover works by established but less well known architects such as Mathias Klotz of Chile, Stephen Yeang of Malaysia, Thom Craig of Christchurch (good on ya!), Ricardo Legoretta (this year's winner of AIA gold medal), etc. Considering that the book is published in 1988, the author definitely does have foresight in his selections of those architecture works. A book not to be missed by architecture enthusiast. Highly recommended & look forward to his next book offering.

zellner's book opens up a whole new view of architecture through an inspired analysis of the architectures of the pacific rim.

One of the most gifted actors around, and always a bit unstable. Covering the gamit from childhood, to his biggest public scandal, everytime we think Eddie is finally "in a really good place" as he was quoted in 1996 by the author, his life seems to shipwreck again. Apparently Eddie still has some "skeletons in the closet." A possible cause for the breakup of his seemingly happy marriage and family life, well after the release of this book. The incident in West Hollywood's redlight district, on the morning of May 2, 1997 just won't go away. And after seeing recent photographs of Eddie with another well known male celebrity, causes one to question whether Eddie actually favors a certain lifestyle. Mr. Sanello's book obviously opened some doors Mr. Murphy certainly would have rather left closed. Hopeully all goes well in Mr. Murphy's life, but with Eddie, one never really knows the true story.

This book was entirely a waste of time. Sanello's account of Murphy was shallow to uninteresting. Sanello even mis-quoted jokes at times. The book was empty, and barely had enough fresh information on Murphy to fill a magazine article.

The author also failed to effectively use metephores to illustrate his point. Rather, his analogies were clumsy and unremarkable.

Save yourself some time and rent Murphy's movie Boomerang instead.

Hi I wrote the answer and the truth about your so called demons "Drag Queen"s didn't search Eddie out for fun it was the other way around Look for In The Closet With Eddie By CANDACE WATKINS

this book was fantastic and very informative,it goes behind the man we all know and into his life and his desire to be financially free and have a family to live with,it has funny moments also and misquoted jokes but all in all are great read.

Cris Mazza skillfully blends her stories with elements of black humor and heart breaking humility. In "Is It Sexual Harassment Yet?" Mazza demonstrates why she is one of America's best female voices in fiction. From "In six short lessons." Where she tells the story of a battered spouse, and how this relates to her as a dog trainer. The story lines cris-cross between humor and sadness, sometimes within the same sentence. Cris breathes life into all her characters, and you can't help but to feel for them. Cris Mazza as a story teller is strangely unique. Her experiments of with point-of-view and layout are simply stunning at times. In the title story, Mazza tells the tale of a rape through the view point of two seemingly un-reliable narrators. Leaving it to the reader to decide who is telling the truth and who is lying. Through out this collection of short fiction Mazza explores the often hidden elements of relationships. We slowly get the sense of who Mazza is as a female writer, and a sense of ourselves in all her characters. Her views, at time feminist, but often even more so, they represent real women. Over all this book is a nice start to further reading.

Cris Mazza skillfully blends her stories with elements of black humor and heart breaking humility. In "Is It Sexual Harassment Yet?" Mazza demonstrates why she is one of America's best female voices in fiction. From "In six short lessons." Where she tells the story of a battered spouse, and how this relates to her as a dog trainer. The story lines cris-cross between humor and sadness, sometimes within the same sentence. Cris breathes life into all her characters, and you can't help but to feel for them. Cris Mazza as a story teller is strangely unique. Her experiments of with point-of-view and layout are simply stunning at times. In the title story, Mazza tells the tale of a rape through the view point of two seemingly un-reliable narrators. Leaving it to the reader to decide who is telling the truth and who is lying. Through out this collection of short fiction Mazza explores the often hidden elements of relationships. We slowly get the sense of who Mazza is as a female writer, and a sense of ourselves in all her characters. Her views, at time feminist, but often even more so, they represent real women. Over all this book is a nice start to further reading.

I loved this book! Mazza uses point of view to create sympathies with characters who are the cause of the conflict. This book looks beyond the political ramifications of sexual harrassment and explores some of the unlikely human reactions to the disfunctional relationships we all end up in at some point.

I was looking for help with a particular situation and thought that since this was just wirtten it would help me deal with my situation. It DID NOT help by giving me any necessary advice.

First of all, I am really appreciated the good job the author has done. This book is very suitable for marketing student like me. It gives me many insights and I have learnt so much from the book. Let discuss them in detail.

1.Well-organized structure
The book is divided into 2 parts: Doers and Thinkers. In the Doers part, the author tells me the action the Doers have done in order to success. In the Thinkers part, the author explained clearly the concepts of each Thinker. Besides, with the heading in each chapter, it is really easy for me to catch the main point.

2.Famous example
The people and the companies involved in the 11 cases are very famous, for example, Nike, Coca-Cola etc. These topics really draw my attention and arise my interest. Moreover, as I am quite familiar with the parties involved, it is much easier for me to understand each case.

3.Future trend of the marketing
The book informs me with the latest theories of Marketing such as CRM, High-Tech Marketing. I think it is very useful for me (marketing student) to understand the future trend of marketing.

However, there is a major drawback of the book, the author didn¡¦t link up each chapter, it would be much better for us to remember if there is connection between each case. For example, the author should tell us the common points of Guru Doers.
Thus, a summary should be provided.

Marcia Layton Turner presents a compelling compilation of ideas from well-known marketing gurus. Some have been the heads or marketing directors of major companies; others are primarily known as consultants, speakers or academics. Even Madonna, successful marketer of herself as a product, is included in the mix, along with Martha Stewart. After a brief introduction of those profiled, Turner focuses on how they succeeded. She offers their main ideas for marketing effectiveness, followed by a summary listing the main marketing principles derived from each profile. The book is clearly organized, so that even those who are already familiar with the individuals profiled will find helpful, interesting highlights. Those who are not familiar with these luminaries will enjoy this excellent introduction. We ... recommend this book not only to executives, managers and company owners, but also to worshippers of Madonna and Martha.

With a book title like Marketing Minds - you would think you would get some keen insight - but that is not what you get from Marcia Layton Turner's brief, unsubstantial book. Surprisingly she does not seek out these marketing minds to speak to them and only offers us a short bio and some quotes from third sources. It really reads like a high school book report and offers zero insight. There is one passage which stands out. She writes, "Remember the Tylenol tampering scare? In contrast to executives in that situation, Nike made all the right moves (with sweat shop negative PR)" - are you kidding me - that is completely backwards. Unbelievable - a published book with this kind of a factual error! Don't waste your time.

I'm interesting this book.

This book promises much, but delivers little. For starters, it has several errors--for example, on page 188, several times it refers to "EJB" as "EBJ". Perhaps that's trivial, but, chapter after chapter, I found faults in the examples that prevented them from running. Worst is the chapter on Entity Beans--it contains a reasonably good expose on the theory and practice of Entity Beans, but the example contains no client code, no instructions on mapping the Entity Bean to an underlying database, and no clue as to the relational tables that the Entity Bean accesses.

In other words, this book lost my trust. If you buy it, read it for the solid explanations of the concepts around jsp's, servlets, tag libraries, and EJB's--but don't expect the examples to work. And have your environment already set up, because this book won't guide you through that.

I liked this book - lots of information; good background details; enough wit to be interesting on a dry subject

This is a high school level paper expanded with large print, wide margins and long citations of an encyclopedia. Why it was ever published I have no idea.