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He was the enfant terrible of graphic design in the nineties. His tortured typography prompted a vocal camp of critics to accuse him of being flippant and of destroying the communicative basis of design. But now the techniques of David Carson (and those of his countless imitators) dominate advertising, design, the Web, and even motion pictures. With 35,000 copies of the original sold, this revised edition of The End of Print includes a striking new cover and first chapter that puts Carson's work in context. The rest is vintage Carson—cutting edge and explosive. The End of Print tracks his career from skateboard and surf magazines, to the landmark Beach Culture magazine and his groundbreaking grid-breaking work for Ray Gun, and finally to handling major corporate identity accounts. The End of Print marks a turning point in design that ushered in the look of today.
Customer Reviews:
Great Book - Not for Beginners.......2007-05-12
This is a great book that shows the examples of one of the most influential designers today. David Carson's design show how he breaks the rules of typography and design using his deconstructive design. Because he break the rules I would not recommend this book to a beginner. It is more geared towards some one who has already learned the basics of design and looking for inpsiration. I found that out the hardway.
DO NOT MISTAKE ILLEGIBILITY FOR COMMUNICATION!.......2006-07-03
I just loved this book, it's a different kind of graphic design, but yet original and something i had never seen before,
end of print.......2005-09-25
All I can say is that this book is timeless.. I have bought it twice, once, when it first came out and second, when I emigrated to another country as I couldn't find another resource as stimulating....it is still is as 'fres'h as when I first viewed it..'Trek' is another good recommendation...pushing the boundaries but relating them to fundamental basic graphic design principles..the computer is only a tool ..remember that!
Forget about the Bauhaus.......2004-11-25
David Carson is the only original designer since the Bauhaus. His work breaks the mold of the ever increasingly boring grids. Enough can't be said for his contributions to print, type, and web design. He is in a class by himself. Yes, there alot of wannabes now. But it all started with Carson. It is seldom that there is a true original, especially in the tight laced world of graphics. He is the singular, groundbreaking designer that changed the face of things.
not worth it !!.......2002-07-06
As a graphic designer I think this book doesn't add anything in this field. I read lots of reviews about this book and they all said that it is magnificent that's why I bought it, but it is really a waste of money and time. The book and the images in the book will just tell you that David Carson is different and he has an odd taste in the typography nothing more or less.
I didn't get any inspiration or any benefits form the ideas in this book. My honest advice to you, if you are thinking of buying "End of Print" don't do it, instead buy anthoner typography or graphic art books which is going to be much more useful than this one
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This compact large print Bible is a giant value in a small package - large print for ease of reading and
Customer Reviews:
This one's print is not large...........2007-04-09
The print is not large at all. I'd go a little bigger if you need truely large print. I do like it though, and luckily my eyes are still good enough to read it.
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"Once again, Grimes hooks her readers with the engaging Jury and friends and with skillful tucking of hints into unexpected corners."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
When three women die of "natural causes" in London and the West Country, there appears to be no connection--or reason to suspect foul play. But Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury has other ideas, and before long he's following his keen police instincts all the way to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
There, in the company of a brooding thirteen-year-old girl and her pet coyote, he mingles with an odd assortment of characters and tangles with a twisted plot that stretches from England to the American Southwest. And while his good friend Melrose Plant pursues inquiries in London, Jury delves deeper into the more baffling elements of the case, discovering firsthand what the guide books don't tell you: that the Land of Enchantment is also a landscape ripe with tragedy, treachery, and murder.
"RAINBOW'S END is itself a literary rainbow. It's the skillful blend of mystery and comedy and pathos, a Martha Grimes trademark, that makes this visit with Richard Jury and company so memorable and satisfying."
--Mostly Murder
From the Paperback edition.
Customer Reviews:
One Star for the Cripse Kiddies........2006-01-12
They were the only interesting characters in this entire mess, and the only reasons I even bothered with this book were because I liked the audio narrator, Donada Peters, and to find out what happened to Mary Dark Hope's sister Angela after reading Biting the Moon--a much better and surprisingly loathed book than this one--first. This boring, outdated British storyline only goes to show that you can't judge an author solely on one project. I loved its aforementioned successor and totally despised this boring slop. Oh, well, at least the Cripse kiddies made me laugh.
Really poor, and symptomatic of the whole series........2005-09-10
Having read several of the Richard Jury novels years ago, I remembered why I stopped reading them when I started this one - chosen solely because I'm an English reader travelling to Santa Fe for the first time soon.
The chronological background of the book is ridiculous. It was written in the 1990's and is meant to be a contemporary setting, yet doesn't even remotely resemble the England I've lived in for the past 50 years. For example, there haven't been sweet shops such as the one she describes since the 1930's.
Richard Jury was supposedly a schoolboy during World War II, a fact made much of during the story. Even in the mid-1990's he'd be knocking on towards 60. The English part of the story is people with aristos and the gentility who mock the `ways' of the common folk, views which the reader seems to be expected to share. If it's meant as parody, it singularly fails to convince. If the book had been set in the 1920's the attitudes towards class of its characters might be more believable. Indeed, many of the 'characters' are merely ludicrous caricatures - e.g. the 'loveable'(read *very* sub-Dickensian, & wouldn't be out of place in a poor Dicken's knock-off 150 years ago) cockney-rogue family with a baby named Robespierre are deeply irritating, and their antics farcical. Perhaps the book - and this is true of the other Grimes crime I have read - is aiming for the surreal, but all it arouses in this reader is perplexity and irritation. Frankly, to portray England as like this in the 1990's is insulting. I don't read mysteries for the realism or the social analysis, I read to escape, but if the writer wants me to suspend disbelief she had better make a *bit* more of an effort not to get her setting so wildly incorrect.
The book also features two child-characters, one carried over from a previous book, both annoying rather than endearing or intriguing, which was apparently the intention.
I couldn't wait to finish it, and I mean that in the worst possible way.
Oh - the plot. The solution to the crime was obvious well before the end - and well before Richard Jury eventually tumbled to it - and it wasn't very original or clever, either, despite all the attempts at befuzzlement and mystification.
This book and series, though purportedly set in the UK, is certainly not meant for anyone who knows anything about us!
not her best.......2004-10-13
I discovered Martha Grimes and her Richard Jury series about three years ago and have been slowly working my way through. Generally speaking, they are terrific, interesting reads, with a lovable, eccentric cast of recurring characters that makes you look forward to picking up the next one in the series. But this one is a disappointment, the first time in the series I've felt that. Jury heads off to New Mexico, of all places, to solve a trio of tenuously related murders. Usually when you finish a well-written mystery, you can look back and see how all the disparate elements fit together to solve the murder, but in this one, you get done, and you think back to this scene or that scene and you think, "Huh?? What was that doing in there?" And worst of all, I figured out who the murderer was about halfway through without even really trying-- which makes you think that Grimes wasn't really trying. :-)
If you're new to Martha Grimes definitely don't start with this one. In fact, I might even recommend that you skip it. She seems bored with her formula in this one. She should have taken a break and written a novel about New Mexico that had nothing to do with Jury instead of this lame effort. I still have half a dozen or so to read to catch up with the ones that she's publishing now, I sincerely hope this isn't a trend.
13th Grimes mystery read with panache by Curry.......2004-07-27
This is the 13th Jury and Plant mystery penned by the brilliant Grimes. Once again read by the amazing Tim Curry, Rainbow's End takes up just a "few weeks" after The Horse You Came In On ended. The newest case for Scotland Yard Chief superintendent Richard Jury, sees Jury again on the wrong side of the Pond. He is there to dismiss or confirm similarities among three mysterious deaths, two are British women - one dies in Exeter Catherdral and the second in the Tate Gallery. The Third was an American, one Angela Hope, a Santa Fe silversmith, while visiting the ancient hill fortress Old Sarum. He is not able to dismiss the threads that tie the three deaths together, but becomes convinced, since all three had recently been in New Mexico, USA, they are be connected. While Jury does the foot work in the US, he has set Melrose Plant to tracking down Lady Jenny Kennington. She vanished -literally - while at Straford-on-Avon.
Once again Grimes gives you a bang-on murder mystery with sleuth Jury hot on the trail of clues, and Melrose showing, as an amateur, his is a nifty investigator, too. Grimes humor shines, and is brought to life by Curry's wonderful reading. Sheer perfection from start to finish.
Travelogue or Mystery?.......2001-10-23
This is the second Grimes book I've read (both Richard Jury mysteries). I found the plots, with various twists and turns, to be believable and entertaining. The characters are well defined and easy to relate to, and there is good humor interspersed.
However, what I didn't like at all were the interminable descriptions of landscapes, scenes, even a cat! I also find Ms. Grimes' use of obscure/big words mildly irritating.
If all the excess verbage could be eliminated, I'd say these would be page turners. As they are, it's almost a chore to pick them up.
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In a sleepy resort town, Maud Chadwick waits tables at the Rainbow Cafe. Her confidant is Sheriff Sam DeGheyn and what they have in common is obsession. Maude doesn't want her son to leave home, and Sam cannot let go of the unsolved murders of three local women -- or his intuition that the killer is still out there. How these lives intertwine reveals a rich and startling story of parents and children and the pain they cause one another.
"Gripping."
CHICAGO SUN TIMES
Customer Reviews:
A different voice........2005-05-07
This quirky mystery, full of interesting character studies lacks just about everything one has come to love and enjoy about the Inspector Jury series. What is amazing about it is that Ms. Grimes who finds a completely new and different voice and manner and style of writing. If you didn't know this was her book, she'd be the last author you'd guess - but those wonderful verbs are still there!
Dysfunctional.......2005-02-04
This was the first book (may well be the last) that I have read by Ms. Grimes and the title of my review pretty well sums up the entire book--dysfunctional. The book gets off to an extremely slow start and the slow beginning sets the plodding pace of the entire book. Within this book, there does not appear to be a single, solitary character that is not psychotic in one aspect or another; every individual seems to be suffering a mental imbalance in one way or another. Also, she really doesn't 'flesh out' her characters in any other way except for their aberrations and as societal misfits. The entire book seemed to be disjointed. It was as if every time Ms. Grimes was interrupted while writing, she would lose her train of thought and have to start off from a new line of thought when she could begin again. As for her chosen killer psychopath, very little was written to develop the killer's character; and there was a failure to demonstrate the motivation of the killer. Although the killer was depicted as being in more or less of a mesmerized state during the killing process, at least one murder was out of character as it definitely required forethought and planning ahead for the provision of an alibi during the time of the killing. Another failure in this book was the sporadic insertion of expletives and obscenities throughout the book for no apparent reason other than a lack of the english language to be able to adequately express herself. It seemed as if not one character in her book was able to speak without using an obscenity or two. This is not so in actual life.
This is one book that, even though I bought it at a greatly reduced price, I rue having purchased it at all. About the only thing that this book is fit for is to be shredded and used as mulch in my flower garden; but I am not even certain it will be any good for that. If I may suggest, if you have money to spend on a book, make another choice other than this book or just save your money and your time.
Extremely disappointing.......2003-06-20
My first Martha Grimes mystery, and I expected much more from what others told me about this author. The plot was confusing, there were too many people with names like Bubba drinking too many Buds. Unless this is very different from her usual style, I wouldn't read her again.
A pleasant non-masterpiece.......2001-07-28
This is a standard mystery/suspense novel with one or two diverting ideas. Maude, the heroine, has some quirky thoughts which she tries to share with sheriff Sam. But Sam is a standard linear-thinking male who finds Maude's ideas perplexing. Their conversations toward the begininning of the book were for me the most interesting part of the novel. Unfortunately, once the action starts, Grimes pretty much drops the conversational sparring between Maude and Sam. This is just one example if the disjointedness mentioned by a previous reviewer. Many pages of the novel seem mostly unrelated to the mystery itself. So it is not a well-constructed mystery, but it is pleasant enough, with no obvious giveaway of the ultimate solution. It ends with one of those annoying long speeches by the guilty party, explaining to the intended final victim just how all the previous murders had been committed, and speaking just long enough for the cavalry to arrive. But this one has a slightly different twist to it. If you're a Grimes fan or just looking for a lazy way to pass some time, this is worth reading.
A disjointed effort.......2000-01-24
I liked the earlier Hotel Paradise, apart from the deliberately obscure ending. This novel, featuring the same locale and at least one character, was disappointing in a different way. It reads like a first draft, and although the ending is understandable, there are a lot of unanswered questions left pending, particularly about the motivations of the various characters.
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The Celebrated poet and author of Can Poetry Matter?offers another bold, insightful collection of essays on literature's changing place in contemporary culture
Poetry is an art that preceded writing, and it will survive television and video games . . . The problem won't be finding an audience. The challenge will be writing well enough to deserve one.
In Disappearing Ink, Dana Gioia stakes the claim for poetry's place amid American popular culture, where poetry in its latest oral forms -rap, slam, performance-is transforming the traditional literary culture of the printed page. But, as the seminal title essay asks, "What is a conscientious critic supposed to do with an Eminem or Jay-Z?" In a brilliant array of essays that test the pulse of traditional and contemporary poetry, Gioia ponders the future of the written word and how it might find its most relevant incarnation.
With the clarity, wit, and feisty intelligence that made Can Poetry Matter? one of the most important and controversial books about literature and contemporary American society, Gioia again demonstrates his unique abilities of observation and uncanny prognostication to examine our complicated everyday relationship to art.
Customer Reviews:
We're lucky to have this guy as the head of the National Endowment for the Arts.......2007-05-07
I bought this book after attending a lecture by Mr. Gioia at the University of Texas. He impressed me with his courage in pointing out that Academic Intellectualism is killing poetry in America. He is a man with the courage of his convictions, a sensitive artist who hasn't lost his masculinity. We need more men like him. The book is a good reflection of the man. I think you'll like it... and him.
Poetry in Public.......2005-10-12
With his second collection of essays, Gioia continues to write criticism which is accessible to the common reader. My only major disagreements occur in the first essay, in which he argues that print has declined amid competition from other media, and that in reaction there has arisen a new popular poetry (rap, cowboy poetry, poetry slams, and performance poetry). Although it is true that print has more competitors, more books are being written than ever before, including in the small field of poetry.
Moreover, while I can appreciate the desire to bring poetry to a wider audience, popularization can easily lead to watering down, then to meaninglessness. I too am disappointed by the retreat of poetry to the academic world and the preoccupation with critical theory and radical ideology. But the new popular poetry is to traditional literary poetry as fast food is to gourmet cuisine. There is something absurd about Gioia's attempt to apply literary analysis to rap. By focusing excessively on form, he fails to notice that rap has little intellectual content and expresses only two emotions, anger and lust.
Perhaps his well-intentioned defense is not so unusual given his background. Rather than rely on academia, government, or the kindness of strangers, he made his own way by working in the business world for twenty years. The essays in this collection were written after he left that world. They tend to reflect his consciousness of being an outsider. He notes the decline of San Francisco as a literary center but still hopes for a new Bohemia. He is drawn to poets like William Jay Smith, an Army brat, and Weldon Kees, whose reputation was sustained by a small following. More often than not, he tries to make room for poets like himself who sidestepped the usual avenues to success.
Reputation is never far from his mind. The essay on Longfellow is a fascinating look at how a previously revered poet can almost disappear from anthologies. By contrast, the essay on Bishop, his former teacher, follows her slow ascent to canonization. In the essay on Frost he analyzes how biography can inflate or diminish a poet's reputation.
Gioia's concern with public life neatly foreshadows his role as director of the NEA, where he has become a kind of ambassador for poetry. In the interest of being inclusive, he runs the risk of undermining the definition of poetry and his own reputation as a serious critic. But his criticism is balanced and instructive, with an enthusiasm that is difficult to ignore.
Intelligent, provocative, and well-reasoned........2005-05-14
Ever since the publication of "Can Poetry Matter?" the essayist and Formalist poet Dana Gioia has been one of the most polarizing figures in the current literary world. The controversy around Gioia redoubled when he accepted President Bush's invitation to become chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, causing more left-leaning poets to accuse him of "selling out." While I don't agree with everything Gioia says, and I'm certainly further to the left than he is, I think his opinions on the current state of poetry are never less than interesting and usually salutary. For instance, I couldn't agree more that poetry and music go well together on the same program, or that poets should mix their own work in public readings with favorite poems by others. Above all, Gioia has been a forceful advocate for poets in general and for the traditional craft of poetry in particular, and my hat is off to him for that. In "Disappearing Ink," his latest collection of essays, Gioia once again waves a red cape in the face of the academic establishment, banderilla at the ready. (Example: in the title essay, Gioia notes, "Attend an academic literary conference these days and you are more likely to hear, as I recently did, papers on the design of the Los Angeles freeway system as an expression of phallocentric power or gender-coding in breakfast cereal advertising than you are to find examinations of contemporary poetry.") The title essay, which discusses how the poetry scene is changing as the printed word gives way to the information highway, is a provocative yet common-sense examination of rap, cowboy poetry, performance poetry and other avenues poetry is taking toward survival in the 21st century. Gioia provides much reading pleasure in his discussion of various subjects, from the decline of San Francisco as an active literary center to the history of Italian-American poetry. He is at his most enjoyable when he comes to the defense of poets he admires, from misjudged classic poets (Longfellow, Frost) to underappreciated contemporary poets (John Haines, Samuel Menashe, Kay Ryan). He champions some poets you wouldn't expect him to defend, such as the late Jack Spicer, an openly gay San Francisco Bohemian who would be anathema to many in the Bush administration. His observations are nearly always astute, such as when he delineates the reasons why Elizabeth Bishop--whom he clearly reveres, but who doesn't really fit current poetic fashion--is a poetic god today: "During the bitterly divisive culture wars of the past quarter-century, Bishop could simultaneously appear on both sides of nearly every issue--the ally of both reformer and traditionalist, patron saint to both radical and reactionary--not to mention those beleaguered pilgrims traveling steadfastly in the middle of the road." Basically, Gioia just calls them the way he sees them, which is what a literary critic is supposed to do--except that too many have pulled their punches recently, to try and fit in with the tide of current opinion. Above all, Gioia believes in the art of poetry, and has faith that it will survive--in his words, "(m)ostly by being itself--concise, immediate, emotive, memorable, and musical, the qualities most prized in the new oral culture, which are also the virtues traditionally associated with the art." I wish I'd said that.
Book Description
2ndsight is the sequel to The End of Print, the first monograph on David Carson's work. Rather than simply being a collection of the work produced since the first book was published, however, 2ndsight is a sequel in the true sense of the word. While The End of Print showed the world Carson's radical new approach, his rejection of the traditional 'rules' of communication, 2ndsight examines the creative process behind the work, and considers the broader implications of his intuitive approach to graphic design. Intuition is central to the book's thesis, and its meaning and influence is explored both in Lewis Blackwell's writing and in the evocative texts by leading designers and thinkers interspersed throughout the book.
As well as presenting Carson's commercial work-- his latest ideas in advertising, magazine and book design, web sites, film and video-- 2ndsight examines work inspired by exhibitions, talks, and workshops. The student workshops Carson conducts in design colleges around the world throw particular light on his creative process. The workings of these sessions are examined: their chief aim being not to teach computer skills or encourage participants to mimic the master, but to help them find their own voice. Collages put together by Carson of selected work pay tribute to the thousands of designers who have taken part.
Finally, a conversation between Blackwell and Carson probes Carson's working methods-- his collage technique of using two or more files at once on screen; of working in black and white; of moving to and from the computer, printing out each stage of a design before developing it further; his experimentation with the balance of type and image. Above all, his respect for intuition and his conviction that it is the key to truly individual graphic expression.
Customer Reviews:
Intuition.......2005-11-13
This is up to date brain food. One of the few books that gets graphic design as it is today. Yes, you have to have the intuition to understand the book, here he instructs you on how to use it. Wish there were more books like this.
Ephemereal.......2005-08-30
If you like David Carson's design aesthetic, you'll like this book. The book doesn't have much written content on graphic design technique and skill. According to Carson, it's just about intuition -- you either have it or you don't.
inspiration.......2003-02-23
This book is artistic inspiration in every sense of the word. The graphical lay out of the book is exceptional and was the basses of multiple pieces of coursework for myself. I love his use of quotations and expression through graphical design. He is a true legend and I will continue to buy his books for may years to come.
Very cool.......1999-08-13
If you liked his first book you are sure to love this one. Carson clearly maintains his position as the most cutting-edge designer today.
If you liked his first book, you'll love this!!.......1999-08-12
His unique attack at graphic design is displayed again in awsome splender
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, September 1996: The horror of losing a child is somehow made worse when the case goes unsolved for nearly a decade, reports Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel columnist Jacquelyn Mitchard in this searing first novel. In it, 3-year-old Ben Cappadora is kidnapped from a hotel lobby where his mother is checking into her 15th high school reunion. His disappearance tears the family apart and invokes separate experiences of anguish, denial, and self-blame. Marital problems and delinquency in Ben's older brother (in charge of him the day of his kidnapping) ensue. Mitchard depicts the family's friction and torment--along with many gritty realities of family life--with the candor of a journalist and compassion of someone who has seemingly been there. International publishing and movie rights sold fast on this one: It's a blockbuster.
Book Description
A #1 New York Times bestseller, Mitchard's suspenseful and moving novel is now available in trade paperback
Few first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim showered on this powerful story--a nationwide bestseller, a critical success, and the first title chosen for Oprah's Book Club. Both highly suspenseful and deeply moving, The Deep End of the Ocean imagines every mother's worst nightmare--the disappearance of a child--as it explores a family's struggle to endure, even against extraordinary odds. Filled with compassion, humor, and brilliant observations about the texture of real life, here is a story of rare power, one that will touch readers' hearts and make them celebrate the emotions that make us all one.
"Riveting . . . twists that will spin you around." --Newsweek
"A drama with the tension of a thriller that moves deeply into the emotional territory of family ties." --People
"Take a deep breath. . . . This riveting story won't let you come up for air." --US magazine
Customer Reviews:
An entertaining book, but it loses momentum halfway through.......2007-07-11
In "The Deep End of the Ocean," the Cappadora family experiences an unspeakable tragedy when three-year-old Ben is kidnapped in the hotel lobby where his mother's high school reunion is being held. This book examines the effects of the kidnapping on Ben's parents, siblings, extended family, and friends. Years after the kidnapping, when the remaining family members finally begin to experience some sense of normalcy in their lives again, the unspeakable happens when the details of Ben's kidnapping finally emerge.
I really enjoyed this book, but I thought it dragged a bit in the second half. The plot twist involving Ben's actual whereabouts is fascinating and heartbreaking all at the same time. I enjoyed the way the book shifted back and forth from the points of view of Ben's mother, Beth, and his older brother, Vincent. However, I think the story would have been even more powerful if the reader got a glimpse of the situation from Sam's perspective, and also from that of Ben's father, Pat. Additionally, it was so hard for me to sympathize with Beth's character. Obviously, I felt for her when she lost her son. However, Beth's personality was so cold and selfish before the kidnapping ever took place, so it was difficult to make excuses for her in the latter half of the book and assume she was just acting out due to her overwhelming grief. Finally, I thought the last few pages of the book were a bit unrealistic. Yes, this whole story is pretty far out there (although crazy things like this do happen once in a while), but after everything Sam went through, I couldn't believe that he would up and change his mind again at the very end. What was up with that?
Despite its flaws, "The Deep End of the Ocean" captured my attention from beginning to end. Reading the book had the same effect on me as following one of those bizarre sensationalized crime stories in the news: the details are horrid and painful, but I just couldn't pull myself away. If you tend to gravitate toward that kind of media coverage, have a soft spot for those god-awful TV movies of the week that are based on true stories, or are just looking for something entertaining to read, this is definitely the book for you.
Not a good choice.......2007-05-26
The deep end of the ocean is where I wanted to chuck this book when I was done with it. It's unbelievably melodramatic and morose in the extreme. The main character (the mother who loses her child) is so unlikable that I was actually hoping the kid could stay with the family that abducted him. Oprah has chosen yet another stinker; have you read "The Road" yet? Oy! You'd think I'd wise up and start avoiding anything with her name on it. She has horrific taste.
Couldn't put it down.......2007-04-30
Mitchard brings every mother's nightmare to life. I read the book straight through without putting it down. A gripping story.
Worst book I have ever read.......2007-03-15
A girlfriend suggested I read this book, which I did from start to finish, and I found it to be very depressing. Other reviewers have given a synopsis of the story, so I'll not duplicate their efforts. While I understand the main characters are processing an event I pray no one in this world should have to deal with, I found no hope in the book at all. Even though it has a what most would consider a positive outcome, I sense the characters would not have survived much beyond the window of their lives that we saw.
I did not feel my life was any the better for reading it and suggest you search elsewhere for a good story to read.
The deep end of the ocean.......2007-02-22
A very well written book. A heart breaking, tragic tale, as you witness a seemingly strong and happy family crumble from within. Well worth reading.
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On his deathbed, faced with creditors and unpaid bills, Oscar Wilde said despairingly, "I am dying beyond my means!" If only the poor, beleaguered genius had read this book! None of us gets out of here alive, but reading this book will lessen your fear of the ultimate end and give you some guidance about enjoying your life to the fullest right up until your final moment. Do people really enjoy life in the face of death? People do. The stories of individuals in Dr. Byock's book will move and inspire you to change your feelings about the end of your life, and also your feelings about your life in the present.
Book Description
NonfictionLarge Print EditionOffers realistic yet compassionate answers to the hard questions asked by dying patients, their families, and a society unwilling to accept that all life eventually comes to an end. starred, Library JournalNobody should have to die in pain. Nobody should have to die alone. This is Ira Byocks dream and he is dedicating his life to making it come true. The director of a hospice and a prominent spokesperson for the hospice movement, Dr. Byock shows us that much important emotional work can be accomplished in the final months, weeks, and even days of life. Dying Well brings us into the homes of terminal patients, providing a blueprint that shows us how to deal with doctors, talk to friends and relatives and most importantly, how to make the end of life as meaningful and precious as the beginning.
Customer Reviews:
An Exquisite Discussion of End of Life Issues.......2007-09-27
This is an immensely valuable book for anyone with a friend or family member (or one's own self)dealing with end of life issues. With deeply moving personal stories of patients treated by a hospice physician, the book often reads like a novel. But integrated into these stories is a very important message about the value of the dying process, both to the dying person and his or her loved ones. While not an overtly religious book, the author makes a strong case for hospice care for the dying, including effective pain management and maintaining dignity for the dying person. This becomes a strong refutation of the euthanasia movement.
Many of these stories will create a strong emotional response in the reader, but there is never a maudlin or overly sentimental tone to any of the stories. An incredible amount of wisdom is imparted by the author, and will provide much that can help families working through life and death issues. Particularly valuable are insights on the appropriateness of forgoing treatment, including feeding tubes, the effects of the dying process on the body (including the transition to "other-worldliness" that is often seen in the dying who let go of their attachments to the things of this life), and the reminder that the dying are, in fact, still living. Dealing with physicians, who are trained to "cure disease" versus provide "dying care," is, in itself, reason to read this book.
This is a "must-read" for those who are interested in hospice care issues, who want to be able to have an intelligent conversation about end of life issues in a personal or academic setting, or those who just want to know what it means to die well. The fact that the poignant stories remain in the reader's mind well after they have been read put a human face (so to speak) on the issue. If it can be said (and, many would argue, aptly so) that Americans have an ingrained avoidance of thinking about dying (except to fear it or deny it), a widespread reading of this work will help us to deal with the inevitably of our death more wisely.
A Sincere Thank You.......2007-03-31
I wanted to take a few minutes and thank you for the inspiration, hope, and peacefulness that I got out of reading your book, "Dying Well". My Mom, who was 84 last December, had been ill with cancer for about 2 years, and these last few months had been really rough with her oncologist chasing tumor after tumor. Just about a month ago, I purchased your book, and read it, and it gave me great hope in the process. Also that there is a real opportunity with patients who have a terminal disease, to let them know how much they mean to each other, and an opportunity to give them as much love, and show as much compassion as possible. Finally, I'd like to thank you again, for helping me understand the process of Dying Well, and for the knowledge of making the end of life meaningful by showing love and compassion to our beloved Mom, and for the inspiration of your personal stories, and the stories of your other patients who were in similar circumstances as my family. And thank you for Hospice, a great and compassionate service for which our family is grateful.
MUST READ.......2007-02-02
This book is about all the lessons he learned during his fathers death and how they transformed his life and practice.
The Question & Answer section at the end is worth the price of the book.......2007-01-24
I was overwhelmed with the task of helping my dear friend in the last 11 months of her life. She was diagnosed with terminal cancer and asked me for help to die "a good death." I had no experience in end-of-life issues but wanted to help her in any way I could. I was frequently overwhelmed by it all. Most of the books I found on the topic were too long or too difficult to read during this emotional time. When I found Dr. Ira Byock's book, Dying Well, I finally felt like I had a friend to support me. Each of his stories helped me in a different way. Having this book in my library has served as a valuable resource many times. If you can read only one book on the topic, I recommend this one.
Nicely written stories .......2006-02-16
I have been a certified hospice nurse for many years and have experienced many of the same situations. It is nice to read a well written book that validates the multitude of feelings one experiences in this profession and as a family member of one who is dying. Very enriching reading.
Book Description
A distinctive collection of essays exploring an important era in printmaking in North America, this volume displays the range and significance of printmaking and enriches our knowledge of these critical decades.
In this collection of essays, eight contemporary scholars examine the rich diversity in the subject, style, and geography of printmaking from 1913-1947, a singular period of artistic creation. Also, three distinguished printmakers, who were active during the 1930s and 1940s, share their recollections of those decades, offering rare, first hand accounts of the political, social,and cultural elements that influenced the artists and their work.
Tatham has chosen two watershed events, the Armory Show of 1913 and the important Brooklyn Museum exhibition of 1947, as the temporal bookends for this collection. Recognizing this era as wholly distinct from what had gone before and what was to come after it in graphic arts, the volume's contributors illuminate the period's spirited and vital debate about style, content, and the role of prints in society.
Offering fresh assessments and newly understood historical contexts, the essays bring well-deserved attention to artists whose work has often been neglected, while it reexamines the works of well-known artists. This volume represents an important contribution to the study of printmaking by illustrating the way in which historical and contemporary graphic arts occupy a vital and central presence in the culture of our times.
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- The Glass Castle: A Memoir
- The Human Figure in Motion
- The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (Oprah's Book Club)
- The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (Oprah's Book Club)
- The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (Oprah's Book Club)
- The Mermaid Chair
- The Safari Companion: A Guide to Watching African Mammals Including Hoofed Mammals, Carnivores, and Primates
- The Sketchbook: 80 Unique Designs by the World's Finest Tattoo Artists
- Thinking and Writing about Literature: A Text and Anthology
- Too Far From Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space
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