Morrison Books

This might have been a pretty good article, but there is just not enough interesting material for a book on the subject. Most of these guys were working class amateurs who made a couple of records. I have listened to a number of compilations that include many of the people that the author mentions. Believe me, there are no lost "masters" among them. The author cannot even really define "rockabilly" in any coherent fashion, and many of his judgments appear quite arbitrary. A short-lived, transitional phenomenon. Not worth the price unless you are a fanatic fan of the music.

This is an interesting dip into the world of rock n' roll and rockabilly. It would have been more interesting had the copy that I purchased, not gone inexplicably from page 76 to 19!! Thus I shall never know the finer points about Carl Perkins that I was about to read!
Certainly though this book is worth getting...although a properly ordered copy might be an advantage! Deserves to be on every rocker's bookshelf!

This book is without any doubt the best out there. Besides good biographical stories about bands and artists, you get to know a whole lot about the MUSIC rockabilly. This book also covers the cultural and sociological aspects of rockabilly. I've just finnished my major essay at the University in Trondheim (Norway) - studying music - and Morrison's book has helped me a lot. From the 50s, to the revival, and up to the present. Morrison's book covers it all!!!

I am researching about rock'n'roll, rockabilly and other rhythms of the '50s and '60s. I am enjoying this book very much and it has been very helpful to me, not only because of the loads of info about history, bands, etc. that it contains but also for the suggested reading & listening lists it gives. I strongly recommend it.

Morrison's book is one of the best overviews of Rockabilly History that I've read. There is nothing too indepth here, but this book is not meant to do that. Instead you get the why's and hows of early Rock and Roll, the definition of what makes Rockabilly, rockabilly. You get bio's of the major, and many minor, movers and shakers of the rock and roll movement of the 50's. This book gets your foot in the door and past Elvis into the coloured and varied history of the scene. From here you can search out bio's and records on Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran and The Rock and Roll Trio. A nice appendix included here is a listing of important Rockabilly albums and compilations that one can still find on the shelves. Now that you know the history you know what records to buy to experiance that history.

I loved this book! I enjoy stories with small town and home town values. It held my interest from the 1st page to the last page and I hated to see it end. The characters were real and believable. I especially wanted to read this book as I heard the author is also from Wisconsin. Knowing this is Tess's 1st book I look forward to reading what she has coming out soon. Keep them coming.......I loved it!

I purchased this book because it was written by an author from my hometown. I hoped to see the influence of Northern Wisconsin portrayed in a positive way...instead I found characters who made me cringe at the thought that this is how people will view folks from Northern Wisconsin. The story was typical romance, guy and girl hate each other, end up falling in love and living happily ever after. If you like Harlequin romances, this book is for you. If not, stay away.

It is refreshing to read a romance novel filled with honest characters who can be anyone in your normal, day-to-day life. The verbal exchange between Lucy and Ian was sharp and witty, and parts of the story made me laugh while others brought tears to my eyes. Most of all, I appreciate Tess' creativity in bringing to life the peacefulness and vibrant beauty of lake country in the Midwest.

Tess Morrison's real talent is for the everyday, mundane detail of life, into which her excellent prose inserts new vigor. Get ready for an unexpected emotional wallop. She takes a simple love story of a man too busy for a life and a young woman who badly needs someone in her life and adds a few twists that will keep you up way past your bedtime.

Lucy Mitchell dislikes Ian Flynn the first time she sees him. The feeling is mutual, but Ian is willing to overlook his instinctive uneasiness around Lucy for a brief glimpse of her well-turned ankle. Granted, she's not beautiful, but something draws him toward her, no matter how hard he fights the pull.

He's a developer who wants to yank Moonlight Bay's camp for kids right out from under Lucy. He thinks the site will make a prime real estate development with condos for rich people who can afford to live in the natural beauty of the small Wisconsin town of Butternut Creek.

Lucy can't bear losing the only haven she and her sister had as kids. She doesn't want to lose that refuge for the children who need it now and in the future.

Then a personal tragedy strikes Ian. His father's illness shouldn't cause him a moment of concern, but it does. And what do you do with a mouthy 10-year-old boy named Jonah who needs a safe haven more than most?

Lucy's sister is trying to hold together a shaky marriage. The woman Lucy looks to as a substitute mother has just announced she has Parkinson's.

Will these problems drive Lucy and Ian further apart or bring them close?

I enjoyed this book so much I wanted to share my experience with other readers. Tess Morrison is amazingly talented. Her description of the beautiful Moonlight Bay and her unlikely hero and heroine captured my heart. Want a great weekend read? Try MOONLIGHT BAY.

Jade Taylor
SuperRomance Author

Single and saucy, red-headed teacher Lucy Mitchell loves kids and has dedicated her life to working with them. During the summer Lucy works at the Moonlight Bay Camp for Kids, and this is her passion. Lucy fiercely protects the camp and the right for kids to have a place to go during the summer that is fun and safe.

Now a good-looking, smooth-talking, big city investor plans to tear down the camp and build condos for the rich. Not if Lucy has anything to say about it-Ian Flynn won't even know what hit him. When Ian Flynn meets Lucy for the first time, it isn't just her temper he notices; Lucy is a beautiful woman. But Ian has his own agenda and it doesn't include old women, dogs, or children. Who will win this confrontation, and when they win, will they really have what they want most in this world?

I enjoyed Moonlight Bay. At the beginning of the story, I didn't think I would like Ian but as the author fills in his background and why he thinks the way he does, I changed my mind. Lucy, I loved from the first time she told Ian just where he could go with his big city money and ideas! Also several memorable secondary characters add to the humor and drama aspects in the story. While Lucy and Ian are getting to know one another and beginning to think there may be a relationship here, Lucy's sister is going through the breakdown of her marriage.

So again the author has set up a situation that seems so totally opposite that there can't be common ground, or can there? I think the whole point of the story, besides the romance, is that even when you are diametrically opposed to another person's point of view, with a little communication and an open mind to what you really want in life, you may find you have a lot more in common than you believe.

Armchair Interviews says: If you enjoy a romance with fiery clashes of will, physical chemistry, and a shot at true love, then you'll like Moonlight Bay.

Beautiful mystical and absolutely perfect.

Artistcally, Camara's novel displays many of the weaknesses of a young novelist's first work: too often lush images do not equate character development, enthralling scenes seem to be written for themselves without significantly contributing to the novel's overall construction or character development, and the conclusion seems to surrender to his inability to have a clear (moral or ideological) intention behind the very problematic quest of the hero Clarence. In significant ways, I doubt that Camara had a clearly articulated or organic vision for the novel or the main characters: one increasingly recognizes the colonizer's satiric portrait, but the depictions of the major African figures seem even more dismissively caricatured. Ultimately, this novel sits uncomfortably between a colonized and a nationalist mentality, between the coopted view of a Sekyi and the mature nationalism of Soyinka's great novel "The Interpreters." Granted, from an African point of view, Camara is seeking to explore the very unsavory history of a people's colonization, if not their romance with the colonizer's image, but Achebe does it much more astutely in "Arrow of God," but both pale in comparison to Cheney-Coker's stunning epic "The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar."

This book is a wild trip. The main character is a white French man, living in an unidentified African setting (although the author must have been inspired by his Guinean background), who is totally broke. We don't know anything about his backgrounds, his reasons for being in Africa, or his prior professional occupations. Rejected by the French community, he is bummed. To get out of his misery, he wants to meet a mysterious African king, and apply for a position as advisor at the court. In his quest to find the king, the white man gives up his 'white' identity, and gets in touch with a variety of weird and fascinating characters: an old griot, two annoying boys, a mad village priest. During his journey, 'regular' situations rapidly degenerate into eery hallucinations.

One of the things I especially liked in this breathtaking literary masterpiece was that Camara Laye didn't emphasize human weaknesses of a white oppressor (like Oyono enjoys doing, although I like Oyono a lot); Laye didn't try to denounce Colonialism as a system either, like Cheikh Hamidou Kane or Pramoudya Ananta Toer have done (quite well, of course) - I think that a novel is not the most suited platform to do that: characters quickly tend to become boring academic abstractions rather than interesting people and the literary power of the work suffers. Instead, Laye gradually "forgets" the whiteness of his main character, emphasizing the humanity of all players.

Anyway, Camara Laye's "The radiance of the king" (I read the original French "Le regard du roi" - I can only hope the translation is just as good) is a truly unique book in style and content. Definitely a must-read!

Clarence is a European with a gambling debt, who has been austracized by his countrymen in an ambiguous place in colonial Africa and without anything more than the clothes on his back. He is determined to meet the king, thinking that the monarch will certainly take him in as a "worldly" advisor. When initial attempts to catch the king's attention fail, Clarence is lead south by an old beggar and two young boys to await the king, who will be touring this area of his dominion. Time passes as Clarence waits, and as this happens our young and arrogant hero becomes a more humbled through a series of events deep in the forested South.

This story was intriguing to me, and it reminded me very much of Alejo Carpentier's "The Lost Steps" with the theme of a man arrogantly thinking he is capable of anything, but whose ignorance is exposed once he is taken out of the culture and environment he is accustomed to.

There is a twist in the plot of the story which surprised me, but I think some readers would see it coming a lot earlier than I did. There is a lot of symbolism that I completely missed until I read Toni Morrison's introduction after finishing the book. I wish I had read this for a book group because it would spark a great discussion!

Although Toni Morrison's introduction to this book raves about its unique character and its genius, to me the introduction is more about the deeply thoughtful mind of Toni Morrison and not about this book. I found the main character, Clarence, to be rather shallow and naive and uninteresting, which is why my interest was not able to be sustained throughout its narrative. I understand this work was published in 1954, which makes its author a revolutionary in even conceiving of it, but for me it is allegorical and is teaching an object lesson to white civilization about African civilization. And that lesson is hammered home on every page until finally there is an understanding reached. I think I get it.
Perhaps it's me, but I just can't read novels that are constructed in this way. They are too didactic, too unliterary. I'm sorry Mr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., but I am a lover of literature and I did not admire or enjoy this book. But I do appreciate its historical and sociological importance, and for that alone I gave it 3 stars.

An insightful look into the Concentration camp specificly established for women by the nazi state. Gives full depth and description of this camp, the women who served as aufseherins such as Dorothea Binz who was executed after the war, the various women among the inmate population, as well as the camp itself. Section by section. Aspect by aspect, including the treatment of lesbians by the nazi state and this camp.

A must read for anyone interested in this camp in peticular or this period and nazi germany in general.

As a former student of Dr. Morrison's, I was especially happy to read about his top-notch research in a published format. Dr. Morrison informatively and lucidly illustrates the complex dynamic of women's history, Nazi Germany, and the horror of the Holocaust while at the same time bringing a human face to the tragedy which befell so many people from various backgrounds during the Second World War. I was lucky enough to hear Dr. Morrison speak about this engrossing topic on several occasions, but for those who have not, this book provides an excellent format for exploring Dr. Morrison's meticulous work. I recommend this book to anyone with an interest in general history as well as the Holocaust. Bravo, Dr. Morrison!

When it comes to holocaust histories, quantity seems to be the ideal and not quality. Like so many books about the holocaust, Ravensbruck just does not have the evidence to support the claims made by the author. In one section he talks about homicidal gas chambers and admits that there is not sufficient evidence to support that there even were any at Ravensbruck, yet he insist they "had" to be there. He even goes as far as adding a gas chamber in his drawing of the layout for the camp, placing the gas chamber when he does not even have proof that there were gas chambers there in the first place. Next, he manipulates workers for this gas chamber. Of course there is no evidence of workers either, so he says that most likely they would have been male prisoners from a near by men's camp. Of course, none have survived and lo and behold the author has an explanation for this too. They must have been killed. Of course any reasonable reader would realize that this is all speculation. Ravensbruck was in Germany and it has long been admitted, even by Elie Wiesel, that there were no homicidal gas chambers on German soil. I guess Mr. Morrison was just not privy to this public information and knowledge.

As for the women prisoners starving, the first half of the book shows pictures, drawn by a female inmate, and they all show sick, starving women. Towards the end of the book, however, the author shows real pictures and the women look healthy and well fed. Why do these photos give a completely different version from the drawings? Obviously, given the subjective nature of the drawings, it is easy to discern where the truth lies in this matter.

You don't have to be a German history professor or a Holocaust expert to enjoy Jack Morrison's fascinating and informative "Ravensbruck: Everyday Life in a Women's Concentration Camp 1939-45." Though Morrison is clearly well-versed, widely-read and highly knowledgeable about his subject, he has the unique ability to translate his vast amounts of knowledge into words which will capture the attention and imagination of everyday folks like myself, while still fully serving his academic research mission.

Highly interesting, extremely well-researched, and rich in illustrations, Morrison's book is perfect for anyone wanting more information about the experience of women in the Holocaust, especially in Ravensbruck, a concentration camp reserved especially for them. Using what was in many cases newly-discovered information, his book details every aspect of concentration camp life as it happened to the very real women victims of Ravensbruck.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the Holocaust, and especially those with an interest in the camps or in women's unique perspective on their "everyday lives."

Ravensbruck was the only Nazi concentration camp that was built and operated exclusively for women prisoners. It was a labor camp located within Germany, not far from Berlin. Originally designed for indoctrination and industrial production (and mainly administered by the inmates), by war's end it had degenerated into just another overcrowded death camp with an agenda of mass extermination and the gas chamber (More than 140,000 Ravensbruck inmates did not survive the war). Jack Morrison's Ravensbruck: Everyday Life In A Women's Concentration Camp is an informative case study of how women of different nationalities and social backgrounds coped for years with a chronic lack of food and basic sanitation, illnesses, prejudices, and death. It was through asserting courage, love, and carving out their own cultural life under the harshest of conditions that the survivors overcame fear, hunger and hate. Ravensbruck is an impressive, much appreciated, highly recommended addition to Holocaust studies reading lists and library reference collections.

The book's table of contents serves as the index: all 125 waterfalls are listed. At $9.95 this book is an exceptional value (8 cents per waterfall).

This book does a great job of giving detailed maps and directions to some waterfalls that are very remote and obscure (as well as some that aren't). The author, a former surveyor, is very precise with his descriptions with milages accurate to .05 miles. The chief drawbacks are a lack of commentary and information on the fauna and flora of the region and a complex identification system that becomes rather cumbersome. Overall, an excellent catelog of some of the prettiest waterfalls in the region.

The title might make this seem like a fairly comprehensive waterfall guide for three states. It does cover waterfalls of Georgia better than any other book I know of. It's section for Alabama is relatively short. I'm less familiar with Alabama and don't know whether that means the book's coverage is sparser there, or whether there are far fewer waterfalls (or at least far fewer public-viewable ones) in Alabama. But as for Tennessee, the book's title is a bit mislesding to the extent that it would seem to claim general coverage for waterfalls in that state. There are whole good-sized waterfall-rich portions of Tennessee that are completely left out. The north part of the Cumberland Plateau is one part left out and the other is the northern district of Cherokee National Forest. Those areas are more or less as waterfall-rich as their more southerly counterparts that are covered in the book. Also omitted from this book is the Tennessee portion of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, but another book by the same author does cover waterfalls of that park. Another drawback of this book is that it has no index. But the upside is that, in the areas it does cover this book provides good directions to the waterfalls in question and maps in most cases. The maps show contour lines, which makes the trails easier to follow for those who know something about reading topographig maps. For the falls it does cover, it is therefore a good guide. It also has in the middle a section of beautiful photographs, most of them in color. Possibly it is the most comprehensive waterfall guide for Georgia, and I wouldn't konw about Alabama. But as for Tennnessee, there is a much more complete waterfall guide that covers all parts of that state that have waterfalls, and that is WATERFALLS OF TENNESSEE by Gregory Plumb.

My family has been drug up to North Georgia to hike on every Waterfall in this book. We love Blood Mountain falls and Wildcat Creek falls, because you can slide down them. Barnes Creek in the Cohutta Wilderness is another great place to play, right when the trail starts at the bottom, and all the way up to all the multiple falls. There is a big grass camping field on top of the mountain for a wonderful all downhill hike on Barnes Creek too. The falls in the Tallulah Basin and over by the Chattooga River are so exciting to find and explore. The scary cliff clinging hike in the Three Forks is as good as it gets. Mark even mentions Rock Town, an area of house size boulders you have to climb on , around, and under. You could spend all day there and still not see everything. It's amazing how many waterfalls the great state of Georgia has. Get this book and start enjoying some of the best weekends in some of the best wilderness area's in all of the Eastern U.S. There are so many more waterfalls past Anna Ruby and Amicalola. Please pack out though, and be safe. Another great waterfall book is Waterfalls of the Southern Appalachians, which covers waterfalls in North and South Carolina. Go Mark Go.

The title might make this seem like a fairly comprehensive waterfall guide for three states. It does cover waterfalls of Georgia better than any other book I know of. It's section for Alabama is relatively short. I'm less familiar with Alabama and don't know whether that means the book's coverage is sparser there, or whether there are far fewer waterfalls (or at least far fewer public-viewable ones) in Alabama. But as for Tennessee, the book's title is a bit mislesding to the extent that it would seem to claim general coverage for waterfalls in that state. There are whole good-sized waterfall-rich portions of Tennessee that are completely left out. The north part of the Cumberland Plateau is one part left out and the other is the northern district of Cherokee National Forest. Those areas are more or less as waterfall-rich as their more southerly counterparts that are covered in the book. Also omitted from this book is the Tennessee portion of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, but another book by the same author does cover waterfalls of that park. Another drawback of this book is that it has no index. But the upside is that, in the areas it does cover this book provides good directions to the waterfalls in question and maps in most cases. The maps show contour lines, which makes the trails easier to follow for those who know something about reading topographig maps. For the falls it does cover, it is therefore a good guide. It also has in the middle a section of beautiful photographs, most of them in color. Possibly it is the most comprehensive waterfall guide for Georgia, and I wouldn't konw about Alabama. But as for Tennnessee, there is a much more complete waterfall guide that covers all parts of that state that have waterfalls, and that is WATERFALLS OF TENNESSEE by Gregory Plumb.

What this book brings out is the enormous technical skill employed by Greeks in the construction of their naval fleets. Must come as quite a
surprise to the modern reader the skills necessary in building these ships. Enjoyable addition to any historian's library. Can't say I ever
saw a ship of this type: possibly the closest ever was the British
Royal Naval frigate H.M.S Manchester fitted out at a review with her
waterline illuminated by flood lights.

In its own era, the trireme was undoubtedly the pinnacle of technical complexity and achievement, at least the equivalent of a modern jet fighter or nuclear submarine. In the approximately 2500 years since that time, however, almost all detailed information as to how these warships were actually designed and used. "The Athenium Trireme" is a in-depth study of the reconstruction of such a vessel based upon what scraps of information survived (chiefly snippets of dialogue in plays, a few brief passages in ancient histories, and a handful of vase paintings and the like), illuminated by modern understanding of ship design and fluid mechanics. Based upon the research presented in this book, in the 1980's a full-sized trireme was built and, over several years, tested by the most fundamental and meaningful method -- rowing the vessel, constantly studying and modifying techniques and, where possible, physical design details. As a result of this project, our understanding of this crucial element of Greek history is far better than ever before and we can more intelligently read the ancient sources describing the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars. Make no mistake about it -- this is a scholarly book, but it describes a rare meeting of academia and the practical world which leaves us richer for the experience.

I approached this book as an introduction to the subject of triremes. It was interesting to read how the authors came together to reconstruct one of the most investigated and yet elusive styles of ship building in ancient Greek history (since there is only artistic and literary evidence of a trireme, due to its construction, leaving no material remains). It gives a thorough insight into the study and developement of the trireme and the practical problems that arose in building it. It also gives information on the trial runs of the Olympias, their reconstruction of a trireme, and the amount of skill that was absolutley essential to rowing and maneuvering these ships in naval battles. I thought it was a good read and is a great place to start when entering the subject of triremes and ancient Greek naval warfare.

I purchased this book on the basis of the review listed here and was very disappointed when it arrived. The book is a cursory review of what we know about triremes from ancient sources and devotes a few pages to the most important battles. I learned FAR more from other books (some with contributions by the same author). The book has one short chapter on the reconstruction of the Olympias, the trireme currently operated by the Greek navy, and most of this was devoted to technical information of the most basic sort. I was hoping to read an account of how the project came together and what it was like for the people who participated. The title seemed to promise this. Nope. If the book were moderately priced I still couldn't recommend it. Hope the authors write a more personal account one day.

I bought a 7130e and stumbled around for a few days trying to tweak it as a Palm replacement. Morrison's book is clear, informative and not superficial. It accelerated my productivity on the Blackberry immensely.

It is a basic book though, so it doesn't go beyond what a solid manual would have covered. So there are still a few areas that I don't understand well. Also, while there are some tips on workflow, more would be welcome. When Morrison talks about more than just the function of the controls, but rather how to put customizations into workflow, the book becomes more valuable.

How can you tune your new Blackberry wireless to get advanced jobs completed, such as synchronizing data with your PC, managing appointments and tasks, and turning on the firewall? It helps to have Blackberry In A Snap, which covers the BlackBerry 7100 series and offers a teach-yourself workbook format lending to tweaking and do-it-yourself programming. From downloading ring tones to using Bluetooth, Blackberry In A Snap makes BlackBerry a snap to program and integrate with existing systems.

The book was specific to one particular model of BlackBerry. They should have that in the title. It was of no use to me. After five minutes, I set it aside to gather dust.

I'm the author of the book, and I want to point out that you can discuss the book and obtain support directly from my Web site (www.michaelmorrison.com). If you have questions or suggestions about the book you can share them and get feedback directly from me and other readers.

When I started this novel I loved it- I loved the author's writing style. It flowed. Sometimes it felt almost like poetry. But I felt hugely let down by her about a quarter of the way through. Why? Well...

This novel contains 3 sex scenes, none of which make easy reading and one of which is the rape of an 11 yr old girl; it has one scene of a boy breaking a cat's back on purpose, and another of a girl poisoning a dog (followed by description of how the dog staggers about and dies a painful death).
In a novel of only around 160 pages long, I thought this cheap. It was voyeuristic. I'm not surprised that it was ignored for about 25 years. it is only in the new climate of political correctness that it has become esteemed.

One reviewer told me that this was the point, that Morrison shows us the gritty, nasty, unfairness of the world.
Well if you want to know how awful the world is, read a newspaper. This was cheap shock tactics. I only finished the novel because it was a set text on my course.

The MAX NOTES were a godsend, as they helped so much that I could write a successful essay without having to plough through this novel a second time.

Don't buy the book unless you want nightmares or like feeling sick.

I love this book. The book explains the truth about how many little girls feel about their looks and about themselves, in general. This book can make you laugh and cry. This book can also, make you very confused, but at the end there is no confusing the books point about life and how a few people can ruin someone's life by selfishness or lack of compassion. I had to give it a five.

The book is called "The Perfume" by Patrick Süskind. it's about a man in France in the 18th century. He is born without a bodysmell and with the best smellingsence in the world. After a childhood with problems he becoms a man who makes perfums. And his project becoms to extract the smell of human beings from young girls.

This was the most depressing book I ever read. I kept waiting for something good to happen, just one small thing that shows that there was some joy in the characters life.

I was so frustrated and disappointed at the end of the book, I vowed not to read another book from Oprah's book list.

Good book, but goes way too deep in theory
for me. I just wanted a basic general book
to learn how to grow crystals.

This might very well be a good book about crystal growing (although techniques like vapor/liquid diffusion ae missing), but there are about 13 pages missing. They have not been printed. I have sent the book back to Amazon and am awaiting my refund.

I first used this book in 1963 as a tutorial on crystal growing
methods. Not only did it provide step-by-step instructions that
actually worked, but it explained the physics of crystals and the process of crystallization in language that a high school student could easily understand. I used various salts to grow exquisite
crystals of different colors, obtaining most of my materials from local sources and my chemistry teacher. My experiments were performed in a depression under our house ... with a dirt floor. this was my "chemistry laboratory." The evaporation method produced cloudy crystals, so I reverted to the supersaturated technique to produce perfect specimens. My heating mantle consisted of a coffee can with a hole cut in it to insert a light bulb. This worked very well. Over the years I have frequently referred to this book and recommended it to others. I still do so. It is worth its weight in gold.

I've had this book for well over 20 years, and every couple of years I get it back out, re-read it and try a few new experiments. This book would be good for a child (with supervision) who is interested in cause-and-effects relations of science. Some simple crystal experiments may be carried out in hours, some take longer.

Even an old engineer still enjoys this book!

I love Grant Morrison Doom Patrol soo much, but this one is not as good as Tha Painting that Ate Paris is. Buy that one first, then this one if you can.

The little bit at the beggining with them at group therapy is one of my favorites though. Danny the Street is cool, but maybe a bit too random w/o purpose, and the alien designs and overall story from Persephone onwards is really creative and cool, but lacks luster as far as the detials go.

I would recommend it though.

you can see morrison is still perfecting his craft at this early stage of his writing career.... not quite as good as the first two books....

Nestled between the Cult of the Unwritten Book storyline and the Flex Mentallo/Pentagon epic, the storylines of "Down Paradise Way" offer a brief side-track. The Doom Patrol encounters alien civilizations locked in an endless war as they attempt to rescue Rhea (Lodestone), a former team member altered by the Gene Bomb (from DC's "Invasion" crossover). But what Rhea has become will shock you - and rock the Doom Patrol to their very core.

While not quite up to the impossibly high standards of the volume before and after it, "Down Paradise Way" still surpasses most of the comic-book fare out there, now or at the time it was published. Well worth the purchase price.

This story line is not my favorite from Grant Morrison's Doom Partol run, but it's still very good.

I gave up on comics around the time Grant quit Doom Patrol, Shade the Changing Man made it to issue 50 and The Sandman plodded to it's long winded end. While Preacher and the Invisibles were excellent series', nothing compares to Grant's Doom Patrol.

Fans of the strange should do themselves a favor and grab this book. Although I believe that The Painting That Ate Paris trade paperback is a superior collection.

Hopefully DC will continue to pound out these Doom Patrol collections.