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In hardcover for the first time, here is the novel that started it all-the first book in J. D. Robb's number-one New York Times-bestselling In Death series, featuring New York City homicide detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Roarke.
It is the year 2058, and technology now completely rules the world. But New York City Detective Eve Dallas knows that the irresistible impulses of the human heart are still ruled by just one thing-passion.
When a senator's daughter is killed, the secret life of prostitution she'd been leading is revealed. The high-profile case takes Lieutenant Eve Dallas into the rarefied circles of Washing-ton politics and society. Further complicating matters is Eve's growing attraction to Roarke, who is one of the wealthiest and most influential men on the planet, devilishly handsome . . . and the leading suspect in the investigation.
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"In a world of danger and deception, she walks the line--between seductive passion and scandalous murder... Eve Dallas is a New York police lieutenant hunting for a ruthless killer. In over ten years on the force, she's seen it all--and knows her survival depends on her instincts. And she's going against every warning telling her not to get involved with Roarke, an Irish billionaire--and a suspect in Eve's murder investigation. But passion and seduction have rules of their own, and it's up to Eve to take a chance in the arms of a man she knows nothing about--except the addictive hunger of needing his touch."
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First three chapters were awful, but it gets better.......2007-08-20
This is my first Nora Roberts novel and, after reading the first three chapters, I went online to cancel my order for the next four novels--it was that bad. Fortunately, it gets better. It's partly because she drowns the reader in sci-fi descriptions right at the beginning to update them about what it's like to live in 2058 and partly because the protagonist Eve Dallas starts out as not a very likeable character. I would also have to say that Roberts begins the novel with way too many adjectives that just made it irritating to read. After about the sixth chapter, it definitely got better and I'm hoping the sequels will also be better.
Some things were predictable, many things didn't quite fit, but the romance between Roarke and Dallas is a nice sideline and they do seem perfect for each other. Since 26 novels in this series seem to have already been written in just 12 years, I'm hoping the writing gets better and that she isn't just churning out novels every month (she has other series as well). I would definitely have to say that I like other authors' writing style much better, but quite frankly I'm running out of authors to read. When I read a book, I prefer to have it read like the person is speaking to me, not like I'm reading an encyclopedia with a plot included. The first part of the novel reads more like the latter, while the last part reads more like the former. That being said, I did enjoy it enough to finish the novel in a day (but it was a weekend and I read a lot) and I did place a subsequent order for the sequel. I think if you like Preston and Child or Koontz, you will like this one. The ideas of what the future would be like are sometimes progressive and imaginative (licensed prostitutes and lasers instead of messy handguns), while at other times downright frightening (unlimited Congressional terms and only the rich can afford real coffee).
I've heard many reviewers bash sex scenes by various authors. The sex scenes in this novel fit, but weren't particularly well-written. I had to read two at least twice to understand what the author was eluding to and one, I'm afraid, I still don't quite get. I guess maybe because I've been married for almost two decades. I think if the reader doesn't get it (and I'm pretty enlightened), then maybe it's just poorly written. There were a couple of other parts in the book that I didn't get either that had nothing to do with sex scenes. Sometimes you just need to say what you want to say and not use so many colorful adjectives and metaphors to describe it.
My last comment has to do with the length of the novel. It's considerably shorter than Dean Koontz paperbacks or Preston and Child paperbacks. I think it took me four hours to read and it usually takes me six hours to read Koontz or Preston and Child. Personally, I liked the shorter length and I didn't feel cheated at all. The plot was well-developed by the end and I thoroughly enjoyed the way Roberts tied up all the loose ends--it fit and wasn't just hastily finished. So I enjoy the shorter length. I wish other authors could complete an entire novel in that amount of space. (I sometimes feel that Koontz rushes to find an ending in the last two chapters and am left somewhat frustrated with the ending.)
I sometimes wish Amazon allowed ten star ratings instead of only five. I would give the plot a 10 and the writing a 5 or 6.
Good romantic suspense. .......2007-08-13
Having read about a half dozen Roberts books of very mixed quality, this is definately my favorite so far. It starts out with the murder of a prostitute, who also happens to be the granddaughter of a conservative senator. The killer has left a note, "One of Six", suggesting a serial killer. Eve Dallas is on the case, and more bodies pop up. While investigating the case, Dallas falls in love with a mysterious businessman known only as Roarke.
This time, Roberts doesn't waste any time on irrelevant subplots. The story starts from page one and keeps its pace throughout. The romance does not feel gratuitous as in some romantic suspense novels; it's well connected to the main plot. "Naked in Death" is a quick, entertaining read for romance and (non-romance) mystery readers alike.
Well worth the price, better than CD.......2007-08-09
30+ dollars for a set of CD's that my wife would have to swap and keep track of......no way.
This title was on ONE (1) MP3 Cd, and was easily copied (no copy protection) to my wife's MP3 player and she was listeing to the entire book at night as she worked. No swapping discs, and the original disc stayed in the dvd-like case SAFE. It is the EXACT same version as found on the audio CD.
I will definately be buying Books on MP3 if I have a choice in the matter. The convenience AND price makes this a no brainer.
The shipping and price was very fair and best of all, IT WAS IN STOCK. AMAZON is fast becoming my first chioce for many things.
A real page turner.......2007-08-04
This one gave me the background on Roarke and Eve Dallas. Great summer read.
Once you read this one you will be HOOKED!.......2007-08-03
It all starts right here with Eve, Roarke, Mavis and the rest of the "In Death" family. The cases are serious and this one leads her right to a love she would have never imagined could belong to her. Roarke is absolutely to die for. And, I don't know of anyone out there who doesn't want a gourmet cup of coffee after this book either.
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"If it bleeds, it leads" -- the cynical battle cry of today's tabloids -- might easily have been the motto of Arthur Fellig, the freelance photojournalist better known as Weegee, who cruised the streets of 1940s New York in the wee hours of the morning in search of the sensational. His pictures of children sleeping on fire escapes, blood-splattered corpses on sidewalks and amorous couples on the beach -- as seen in this reprint of his first book -- reveal that Weegee, unlike his latter day counterparts, had heart and soul. He also had a cockeyed sense of humor, as evidenced by his captions and camera tips.
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For Naked City, his first collection, Weegee cruised the streets of 1940s New York in the wee hours in search of the sensational. Lewd, louche, licentious but always brimming with life (except when brimming with death), Weegee's photographs have endured decades of modern art criticism and are again enjoying a much-deserved cult revival.
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Big Apple's snapper.......2003-08-12
Weegee knew what kind of photos the editors of the New York daily tabloids wanted, in-your-face gutsy black and whites to capture the reader's imagination over the breakfast table. He always delivered too. This reprint of his 1945 book captures the energy of the Big Apple and yet there are no shots of skyscrapers. Instead the (mostly) ordinary folk of the city are shown getting on with their lives and deaths.
Many of the photos are taken at night, a Weegee trademark. Inside buildings he used infrared film so he could shoot in near blackness and capture his subjects displaying emotions they would hide, had they known a camera was about. Out on the street he captured the latest human tragedy in stark close-up with a blinding flash of his Speed Graphic camera.
The contents of this book are an amazing selection of photos but I was very disappointed by the reproduction, so only three stars. As far as I can tell, the photos have been scanned from the 1945 book rather than from original prints. The paper is coarse which doesn't help the reproduction either. This looks not much better than a book of photocopies. Far better I think to go for Miles Barth's 'Weegee's World' (ISBN 0821226495). Although it does not have every photo from 'Naked City', the 250 included are printed as duotones on glossy paper, I particularly like this book because it shows many photos as original un-cropped prints. For instance, in his famous photo, 'The Critic' the three bystanders to the left of the two socialites are usually cropped out but here you can see how great the original was. This book also has three excellent essays about Weegee and his influence on other photographers in the Forties.
How they lived...and died.......2000-02-05
A fine selection of Weegee's unposed, spontaneous vignettes of life in the city, at least, as it was in the 30's and 40's, equivalent of today's TV "fuzz and the wuzz". His accompanying commentary, unghosted and punchy, mirrors the b/w images; snappy, to the point. The paper stock used here is cheap, but then, these photos usually appeared in the morning paper...in a time when there were newspapers.
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- For NYC natives and those who wish they were
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For NYC natives and those who wish they were.......2003-08-22
This is a superb collection of one of the best photographers that New York has seen. Brutally honest, remarkably talented, this is a great collection of his work.
weegee.......2000-10-16
truly outstanding...words cannot describe, just buy it...
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In this unique and startling collection of photographic diptychs, we see average New Yorkers first clothed, then completely naked. Only their ages and professions are given as captions. Here we see all types of people, men and women of all shapes, ages, colors, and classes: investment banker, junkie, bookseller, closet queen, unemployed pregnant woman, actor, cashier, Harvard grad student, retired salesman, nanny, and security guard, among them. As diverse and unique as these individuals are, one can't help but be struck by the realization that the banker and the junkie are not all that different after all. On a basic level, we're all the same, human and vulnerable. Unlike traditional nude photography, these lack any overtly erotic or sexual quality; they are simply real people who reveal both their public (clothed) selves and their private (naked) selves. Friedler's approach is akin to the anthropologist. His work as a documentary photographer is an investigation into humanity, a survey and study of people. If clothing is a voluntary choice, unclothed we see people in an involuntary state--we see their bodies as we see their faces, unmasked. At once deeply intimate and surprisingly matter of fact, these images reveal more of our commonality than our differences.
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Surprisingly simple and interesting.......2005-08-06
I've ended up buying all the books in this series, and it's resulted in some interesting reccomendations popping up sometimes for me.... But this isn't a "nudie" book in my eyes. The books are all interesting conversation pieces amoung good friends, everyone finds them interesting. It's such a simple concept that we all wonder about!
Dull and Repetitious........2004-12-21
I was looking for Spencer Tunick's work, and somehow this book came up in the search instead. I wasn't careful enough looking at the description, comments, etc. So, I ended up buying it.
Aside from the disappointment of not getting what I was hoping for, I find this book rather boring and monotonous. Of course, this could have been author's intention to put all the subjects into a similar setting and underline the idea that these are ordinary people from the streets, however this doesn't make these images any more compelling or interesting for myself. I still find the book dull and repetitious. And it was twice the disappointment for myself.
Not Just Your Usual Norton Anthology.......2004-02-16
Greg Friedler succeeded in getting over 70 ordinary New Yorkers to pose for him, both clothed and naked, in this strange but intriguing book. The subjects are all photographed in the same fashion. They apparently showed up for the shoots wearing street clothes, were photographed in them and then photographed "naked." Friedler explains the difference between the words "nude" and "naked", and I think he is correct here. "As I see it, photographing someone naked is about trying to get at some kind of truth, whereas photographing someone nude is linked more to sexual gratification, eroticism, or our conventions of beauty." The subjects to a person all stand looking straight-on and unsmiling into the camera. They are all shot against an ugly brick wall and lit with unflattering, shadowless flat light. Ranging in age from 19 to 75, they are for the most part white with some black models and and a couple of what job applications might label "other." There is a pregnant woman, a grossly overwight woman, skinny folks, a breast implant or two, tall, short, et al. As the photographer says in his definition of "naked", there's not much pretty here. And being "naked" certainly is a great equalizer. A walk through a steam room or communal shower proves Mr. Friedler's theory of equality. All we know about the models is their occupations and ages. While there are a couple of upper income types here-- a pediatrician and an attorney, for instance, most of them are at the other end of the pay scale-- school bus driver and cashier-- to name two. Perhaps they had less to lose by baring their all. There are some occupations on the edge here, transexual karate instructor, porno star, prostitute, dream interpreter, closet queen-- whatever that means--junkie-- I thought that was a condition rather than an occupation--piercer's apprentice, erotic masseur. Then there is a limo dispatcher aka New York's most tattooed man.
While these photographs show the influence of both Richard Avedon and Diane Arbus, the differences are obvious. Avedon for the most part shot unsmiling celebrities looking straight into his camera against a white background. Friedler obviously goes one step further or several feet downward for the full monty here. Arbus apparently did some of her work without the cooperation or knowledge of her subjects, something she should have been ashamed of. Friedler, on the other hand, had the full cooperation of everybody concerned.
This book generates a lot of questions. How did Friedler select his subjects or weed out the bad apples, to mix a metaphor? (How could there be any bad apples in this 20th Century Eden shoot?) Age, sex, occupation and race must have entered into his decision but he doesn't tell us that. Could this project have been so successful in a much smaller, city or town, say Columbus, Georgia or Dayton, Ohio? Did the subjects tell their friends and family about their afternoon of exposure or wait to be discovered at the bookstore? Why did the models do this? Two or three models say why on the back cover of the book, and the photographer has some ideas on the subject as well. I suspect there may be as many different answers as there are people here.
What impressed me most about this book is that the Norton Company, that staid keeper of truth when it comes to college literature, is the publisher. That says volumes-- speaking of which, Mr. Friedler has done a similar work for LA and London. Lady Thatcher naked? Wouldn't it be great if Friedler could do a series like this for U. S. Senators or big city mayors or CEO's of big corporations? Imagine the books he would sell.
NAKED IS NATURAL.......2003-01-09
Friedler shows to fine effect in this book the contrasts between our public and private selves. I really appreciated what the 30ish woman (a brunette social worker) had to say about her reasons for posing. Kudos to her! Granted this book speaks to the voyeur in each of us. But it also shows how liberating it is to be naked and proud.
Very interesting.......2002-04-13
A lot of people would think this is quite a boring book, but I found it fascinating to see how much clothing changes someone's appearance. It just reinforces the idea that we're all naked under our clothes.
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A tragic loss.......2007-06-01
This is a fascinating account of the life, and untimely death, of Ana Mendieta. Once begun its difficult put the book down. The writer, Robert Katz says, I have "sought to narrate these events as they were revealed to me, certainly not chronologically or in any other 'logical' way." With meticulous detail it answers many questions about Carl Andre and Ana Mendieta. Anyone interested in criminal justice, the dynamics between men and women, or the New York art world in the late 20th century must read this book. Ana Mendieta was lovely, spirited, vibrant, and a rising star in the art world. Her tragic death is a great, and enduring loss. Carl Andre is depicted as a complicated individual with fatal flaws. He was an iconic figure defended to the end by his powerful friends, but did he get away with murder? Read the book, and decide for yourself.
Classic clash of 2 powers.......2007-04-04
this is an amazing book about our art world. Two big personalities clashing, outspoken women going down, an important voice lost.
the art worlds's "OJ Trial".......2005-09-26
Ana Mendieta was a Cuban-born girl who moved to Iowa in the early 1960's as part of "Operation Peter Pan", a relocation program for Cuban children. First she was placed with her sister in an orphanage in Dubuque, before finally reuniting with her family in Cedar Rapids.
The Cuban girl Mendieta grew into a beautiful woman who began expressing herself in performance art and sculpture with themes relating to the practice of Santeria, blood, earth, birth and death within the contexts of primitive Hispanic symbolism. In short, she was brilliant. However, she had a predisposition to form relationships with her artistic mentors. One of these was Carl Andre, an established minimalist sculptor that Mendieta married, using him as a bridge to join the New York art establishment. Mendieta eventually became disenchanted with the bearded Andre, a rather odd and stilted personality, perpetually clad in Grant Wood-style overalls. She made plans for a divorce, but tragically died in a fall from the thirty-fourth floor New York apartment of Andre.
A trial ensued, in which most of the New York art establishment remained in solidarity with Andre, even though the alibi that he offered--that Mendieta committed suicide in a fit of jealousy--lacked plausibility. There simply was not enough evidence for the judge (Andre opted to forego a jury trial) to convict, and so justice was denied for yet another woman who lacked the power given her male counterpart.
This is a fascinating story that could have been told in a better form--this book has a fractured format which hacks up Mendieta's life and death instead of presenting it logically. But, as the best book available on the subject, it deserves your attention.
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- Five Plus Stars for Eating Chinese Food Nude, I mean Naked
- Tasty
- Stunning debut
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Eating Chinese Food Naked: A Novel
Mei Ng
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"When Ruby was a kid, around the time when other little girls were being dandled on their daddy's knee... and thinking about marrying him when they grew up, she was dreaming about marrying her mother and taking her away."
Right off the bat Mei Ng's novel promises to be different from the run-of-the-mill mother-daughter saga so beloved of young, female first novelists of every ethnic persuasion. Ruby Lee, the heroine of Eating Chinese Food Naked, has just graduated from college and come back home to live with her parents over the family's laundry business. Her parents, Bell and Franklin, are hardly a match made in heaven, and for all of her life Ruby has been her mother's defender--a role she can't give up even as she longs to be free of it. During the course of her summer at home, Ruby must navigate the choppy waters of familial relations--her mother and father's estrangement, her irresponsible older brother's volatile relationship with everyone, her sister's recent marriage to a non-Chinese--as well as sort out her own feelings about Nick, a young man whom she loves but cannot seem to remain faithful to. Ng's melancholy novel perfectly captures her heroine's dislocation both within her family and within herself, at the same time offering readers a glimpse of the urban Chinese American experience across two generations. --Margaret Prior
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This piquant, irresistible first novel explores the complex relationship between a mother and a daughter, a daughter's reluctant homecoming to a family she couldn't wait to leave...and her own sexual awakening....
Eating Chinese Food Naked
Surprisingly world-weary for twenty-two, Ruby Lee is stunned to find herself back home at Lee's Hand Laundry in Queens after graduating from Columbia University. Restless and searching, she's suddenly forced to confront the family and emotions she tried to escape, especially her deep and protective love for her mother, a gentle, resilient woman who is emotionally estranged from Ruby's bossy, cigar-smoking father.
The laundry parcels crowding the family living room, the distraction of her mother's Chinese cooking, and the sexual fantasies that envelop her combine to overwhelm Ruby. Sometimes the need for comfort returns her to the bed of her on-again, off-again boyfriend; at other times she finds herself wandering from café to Manhattan café, seeking the one affair that might relieve her anxiety. As she struggles to make a coherent picture of the clashing pieces of her life, Ruby at last begins to face reality as it is -- and not what she wishes it could be.
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Five Plus Stars for Eating Chinese Food Nude, I mean Naked.......2007-08-24
Eating Chinese Food Naked deserves 5+ stars. It compares to no other novel nor writer I've read except maybe Albert Camus. Read it without expectations of where you expect it to go, and appreciate Mei Ng's use of language and selective poor English to speak in the voice of immigrants speaking English as a second language. When she speaks as Ruby virtually every paragraph or chapter ends with such punctuation and clarity it's like a punch in the gut and a light bulb going on type revelation of a world you knew nothing about, nor were perceptive enough to realize you were in the dark about until now.
If you like predictable stories with nicely tied up story lines and happy endings, you'll be frustrated the characters and plot don't go where you want. Where it goes is real. The characters have their own experiences and logical truths. They are sympathetic and brilliantly written. Read it for what it is and where it goes, and be enlightened.
Writers like this do not disappear after one book, nor do they publish tripe yearly. I eagerly await Mei Ng's next book. Actually... I can't wait, I think I'll read this one again.
Matt - San Francisco 94124
Tasty.......2007-05-25
As someone who has taught this novel in several of my classes, I would like to say that Mei Ng writes with intelligence and wit and pathos. I would rate this up with Fae Ng's BONE as one of the best portrayals of Chinatown life from a young female perspective. Yet whereas BONE achieves its effects through absence and silence, EATING CHINESE FOOD NAKED is full of flesh and longing...Ng writes with passion and daring and a full command of her material. If she manages to stay above the fray of Asian American literary politics and simply keeps writing, I am sure she will go far.
Stunning debut.......2006-11-01
I don't usually spend my time writing reviews on Amazon (in fact this is my first) but I just happened to be looking at the comments about this book and was shocked. People talking about grammatical errors and places in Queens where the names have been changed! Amazing. First off, a writer writes in a voice, not in perfectly grammatical sentences. That is what structures writing in high school, not in literary work. Second, in fiction, you don't have to use the real names of places, that would be why it's called fiction. Anyway, it's a shame that a quiet subtle book, one where the landscape is emotional and not existing streets of plot-driven excitement and adventure goes so underappreciated. This book got rave reviews and they were well-deserved. Ng writes about the interior life of a family that communicates less through words than through gestures, like many families. She portrays this with remarkable acuity and grace. It may just frankly be a book that goes above the heads of some readers. Once I was steeped in her world, I didn't want to leave. Can't wait for her second book.
A chore to read.......2004-08-31
I'm not particularly picky when it comes to books. I'll excuse flaws after flaws if something about the book catches me. This book, however, was such a chore to read. Ng's grammatical errors were obvious and frustrating. Sentence structures were poor, unimaginative and many times defensive even at times when it need not be.
But her biggest flaw were her storytelling paths. They were unfocused, many times uninteresting, lacking grasp and shaky. I found myself trying to help her re-write her book. It simply became tiring.
While I'm not against the use of profanity, I felt Ng's excessive use of it left me with the impression that the author was a poseur trying too hard to reiterate Ruby's angst.
all over the place.......2004-07-08
Mei Ng tries too many things in this book. While I give her credit for trying, I feel that there were just too many flaws in this book for me to give it a higher recommendation. First, on a technical level, I don't know why she decided to use third-person multiple points of view. This is one of the trickiest kinds of narrative to do successfully because it often feels choppy and unfocussed. Such was the case here. In many chapters, Ng changes point of view in every single paragraph -- sometimes mid-paragraph. She could just as easily (and more effectively, I think) have done longer sections in a single character's point of view, switching only between these longer sections (or, simply done the whole thing in Ruby's POV). Also there were chapters where she started in present tense, for no particular reason, and then switched back to past tense. This can be done effectively, but I felt like here it was simply a mistake; it came across as sloppy rather than stylistic.
OK, enough of my boring discussion of technical stuff. As far as the storytelling, here too the novel comes across as unfocussed. Ng can't seem to fix on one aspect of the story long enough to do it justice. We get a few fascinating insights into the lives of Franklin and Bell, but then we'll veer into yet another long, boring section about how aimless Ruby feels and how she just can't bring herself to go into the city. Ng teases us here and there with hints of Ruby's bisexuality, but never goes anywhere with this either (the scene near the ending at the party is a particular letdown, almost as though Ng and not Ruby is the one who "chickens out").
Moreover, Ruby comes across as grotesquely shallow at times in ways that I'm not entirely sure were intentional (the way she weighs the "pros" and "cons" of her boyfriend, for example) because they made me completely lose sympathy for or interest in her. Some of the side characters, particularly Ruby's brother and sister, remain so underdeveloped (though with plenty of potential that could have been developed) that I wonder if Ng didn't put them in there to pad the story a bit, lest the reader get tired of Ruby's uneventful life.
Overall, disappointing -- and in a large part because it does have good potential, with some solid characterizations, details and scenes. I had a hard time getting through it and didn't come away with much of anything once I did get through it.
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Naked in Sodom (Impact Library)
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Naked New York
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