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Actually.... 4 1/2 stars, but I can't choose that...........2004-06-18
This is the first Outland collection, and Berkeley Breathed writes in the introduction:
"I'm proud of the 'toons in this book. I had more fun drawing many of these than usual. As in Bloom County usual. Look at the earlier Outlands reproduced here. You can see me playing, experimenting, even doodling, looking for unexplored nooks and creative crannies. But when I look at these myself, I smile because I know that like the wild caribou, I was doomed to return to familiar territory. Outland is, of course, Bloom County without the continuing narrative that a daily appearance allows. But Bloom County was never about children or cats or penguins. It was about a loopy perspective - my dubious legacy to this world, and in plentiful evidence within this volume. Enjoy. I have. But no more than finally getting to compare myself to a wild caribou."
After years of creating the wildly popular and successful 'toon "Bloom County" Berke Breathed scaled back the strip to a Sunday-only offering called "Outland". During the same time he was beginning his work on his wonderfully written and illustrated children's books.
In Bloom County we were offered characters that grew familiar, even in their various deficiencies. The strips were episodic, frequently thoughtful and almost always hilarious. At the same time we came to identify with the various characters: Milo Bloom the precocious pre-teen and his paranoid buddy Binkley. Cutter John, the paraplegic Vietnam veteran who led his buddies on role-playing Star Trek adventures. Steve Dallas, the chain-smoking slime-ball lawyer who got his come-uppance over and over, usually as a result of his insensitivity to women. Oliver Wendell Jones, the young computer hacker who caused panic at the Pentagon, on Wall Street and in his school's science class.
Outland doesn't have the same feel as it's not episodic at all. Each Sunday comic "stands alone" - and each one is full of Breathed's inventive artwork and the same brilliantly conceived satire. I don't feel like the story stands still long enough to identify or care as much about the characters, and for that reason Outland isn't as satisfying to me as Bloom County.
Still, there's good stuff here and in addition to revisiting some old friends Breathed gets pokes in on cosmetic surgery, video dating, male bonding and 1-900 numbers.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger's first love relives their six-year journey during his explosive first years in America. While she watches Arnold surpass his dreams, Barbara learns to transform hers -- from desiring what cannot be to cherishing what is so. As a woman who spends her adult life trying to get out from under Arnold's shadow, Barbara Baker learns about the shifting direction of life's journey. She hopes for normalcy during and after living with her stratospherically successful Austrian Oak bodybuilder. Barbara finds life anything but normal, however. Within Arnold and Me, she strips down this conjoined twosome as they launch their adult lives into polar opposite journeys. After their breakup, Arnold transcends the role of Hercules to become the Governator. He marries once and produces four children; to the contrary, the English Professor says "I do" four times, yet bears no offspring. Along with vintage photos and firsthand dialogue, the book's resolution forces their singular lives to merge at a satisfying junction. Despite their divergent paths, both Arnold and Barbara demonstrate that achieving one's dream demands a relentlessly flexible spirit. Barbara has skillfully rounded Arnold's corners by offering heartfelt nuances about this man who marked her for life. The author's enlightened voice also resonates with those who face relationship challenges over personal identity and fulfillment. She not only lifts herself into higher consciousness, but also the willing reader. Her journey has allowed her to find life's richness through accepting not only Arnold's daunting shadow, but also her own. This woman sings with energy, incrementally illuminating the rich lives of two ex-lovers within a beautifully developed, fast-paced story. Her readers continue to travel in their minds, breathing in the life of Arnold and Barbara long after the last word has been read.
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An Untold Story.......2007-10-02
Barbara Baker has provided an amazing odyssey, not only of a man who came from a humble background to reach wealth and power in the United States, but also of the people whose lives he touched. This was definitely written from the heart and it is clear that the author reached deep within herself to relate all of these experiences. The book is exceptionally well written and thought provoking.
a bit whine fest.......2007-07-12
I purchased this book hoping to learn more about Arnold. I found that this book is about Barbara, not Arnold. Arnold is just one of the main characters. She keeps writing adjectives about Arnold, but never really says why. I learned very little about Arnold that I didn't already know.
What struck me most was that Barbara knew from day 1 that Arnold was wrong for her, but she dove in anyway, and then wondered why life didn't turn out the way she wanted. She wanted to change Arnold into what kind of a man she wanted. That never works, but so many women think they can pull it off.
Later, she wonders where all the good men are. Well here's a newsflash, Barbara: You are not a good woman, how do you expect to get a good man?
She gave up all her morals and then wondered why she wasn't happy.
She also missed out on a wonderful opportunity to learn from a great man. Arnold may be flawed in many ways, but he knew how to be successful. So often during this book I wanted to scream, "HEY, Barbara, can't you see why Arnold is successful and you aren't? Arnold does it right, you don't." Arnold tried to inspire her to greatness, but she just selfishly wanted Arnold all to herself, to the exclusion of even his best friends. That's not love, that's obsession and ownership.
Frankly, I don't know why Arnold even put up with her for so long.
She says that they had good times, but once I finished the book, I wondered why they ever stayed together. It sure seemed to me that the good times were severely few and far between for Barbara.
I would recommend this book to teenage girls, as a don't-let-this-happen-to-you warning.
Well written, it kept my interest, but I am glad I am done with it.
Great Story.......2007-07-04
Very good book about young Arnold and his first girlfriend
....a special gift for Arnold fans.
Not worth the money.......2007-05-27
I was looking for more insight into Arnold's psyche, and I found it - what made Arnold drive to be the best. The rest of this book deals with the author's emotional rollar coaster ride as to her relationship with Arnold and her subsequent relationships with men, and her inability to let Arnold go. The author over-emphasizes a "me-me" attitude that leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Very Well Written Book.......2007-04-22
A very well written and informative book about the early years of Arnold and his first love after arriving in America in the late 60's.
While reading this book one actually feels the emotions of the writer to a certain extent.
If you are interested at all in the story of Schwarzenegger and what he was like before his extreme fame,this is the one book you need to read.
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Outland Volume Two.......2004-06-18
After years of creating the wildly popular and successful 'toon "Bloom County" Berke Breathed scaled back the strip to a Sunday-only offering called "Outland". During the same time he was beginning his work on his wonderfully written and illustrated children's books.
In Bloom County we were offered characters that grew familiar, even in their various deficiencies. The strips were episodic, frequently thoughtful and almost always hilarious. At the same time we came to identify with the various characters: Milo Bloom the precocious pre-teen and his paranoid buddy Binkley. Cutter John, the paraplegic Vietnam veteran who led his buddies on role-playing Star Trek adventures. Steve Dallas, the chain-smoking slime-ball lawyer who got his come-uppance over and over, usually as a result of his insensitivity to women. Oliver Wendell Jones, the young computer hacker who caused panic at the Pentagon, on Wall Street and in his school's science class.
Outland doesn't have the same feel as it's not episodic at all. Each Sunday comic "stands alone" - and each one is full of Breathed's inventive artwork and the same brilliantly conceived satire. I don't feel like the story stands still long enough to identify or care as much about the characters, and for that reason Outland isn't as satisfying to me as Bloom County.
Still - there is some good stuff here and Breathed skewers Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, the health-care industry, political correctness and Macauley Culkin.
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- Original and beautiful in an unusual way.....
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Amazon.com's Best of 2001
You have never seen photographs like these before--black-and-white images of people who seem damaged and defective, yet oddly sympathetic, posed in ways that suggest the pitiless workings of heredity and environment. Using a shallow, stagelike space, Roger Ballen gets in close to his subjects--men, women, and children living in remote parts of South Africa.
A woman in a soiled dress shouts at a man whose back is turned--or at the barking dog rearing over his shoulder. A plump fellow in a security guard's uniform stares, wide-eyed, at the camera while one of his meaty hands pins a tiny puppy against the wall. On a patch of raked dirt, a sleeping baby in underpants lies across the intersection of two mysterious tangled lengths of string.
These photographs pose blacks and whites together in ways that suggest enigmatic playfulness or wordless acceptance. In one image, a white woman, blind in one eye, with a face like a rotten apple, wraps her arms around two pug dogs. Next to her, a black woman in a smock stands patiently. Above them, large portraits of children (where are they now?) hang on the dirty wall. It is a scene of care and neglect, loss and resignation.
Ballen's current work occupies an odd niche between documentary and staged photography. The sitters are real people, seemingly in their own environments, and the photographer dignifies them by using their proper names in the captions. But he poses them with live and inanimate objects--a fish, a hammer, a broken baby carriage--in ways that heighten the tension and ambivalence of their situations. Even electrical wire strung on the wall creates a nervous force field. It's as if Diane Arbus and Robert Frank had joined forces with a master of German expressionist theater. --Cathy Curtis
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Outland is the culmination of almost twenty years of work for artist-photographer Roger Ballen and amounts to one of the most extraordinary photographic documents of the late twentieth century. Beginning with the small 'dorps' or villages of rural South Africa, the subject of Ballen's photography moved on in the late 1980s and early 1990s to concentrate on their inhabitants: isolated rural whites, scarred by history, in the process of losing the privileges of apartheid which had provided them with livelihoods and sustained their identity for a generation. The results were shocking, both powerful social statements and disturbing psychological studies. Through the late 1990s and into 2000, Ballen's work has progressed again. Continuing to portray whites on the fringe of South African society, his subjects begin to act. Where previously his pictures, however troubling, fell firmly into the category of documentary photography, his new work moves into the realms of fiction. Ballen's characters act out dark and discomfiting tableaux, providing images which are exciting and disturbing in equal measure. One is forced to wonder whether they are exploited victims, directly colluding in their own ridicule, or newly empowered and active participants within the drama of their own representation.
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Original and beautiful in an unusual way............2001-04-06
I just picked this book up today and was amazed at its sensitivity and beauty. Not everyone will enjoy it or understand this book but it has a feeling of Diane Arbus and the easiness of early Mary Ellen Mark with a kick of Ralph Eugene Meatyard. The compositions are beautiful and the inclusion of the animals are perfect.
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The extraction of raw turpentine and tar from the southern longleaf pine - along with the manufacture of derivative products such as spirits of turpentine and rosin - constitutes what was once the largest industry in North Carolina and one of the most important in the South: naval stores production. In a pathbreaking study that seamlessly weaves together business, environmental, labor, and social history, Robert B. Outland III offers the first complete account of this sizable though little-understood sector of the southern economy.
An important part of the timber products trade, naval stores were originally used primarily in shipbuilding and maintenance but came to be employed in myriad ways during the nineteenth century. Outland traces the South's naval stores industry from its colonial origins to the mid-twentieth century. He vividly describes the primitive harvest and production methods that eventually destroyed the very trees the trade relied upon, forcing operators to relocated every few years. He introduces the many different people involved in the industry and explores the reliance on forced labor - slavery before the Civil War and afterwards debt peonage and convict leasing. He demonstrates how the isolated forest environment created harsh working and living conditions, making the life of a turpentine hand and his family exceedingly difficult.
A fresh interpretation of the socioeconomic development of the piney woods South, Tapping the Pines is an essential volume for anyone interested in the region.
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Outstanding book and topic!.......2007-02-14
Robert Outland III tackles a subject that until now, had only been covered in "fits and starts." The gum naval stores industry of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal states spanned more than 200 years. Yet today, it is little known by those outside the now fading generation that witnessed its last years of backwoods prominence. Outland does an outstanding job of explaining production methods and uses of naval stores. Also, the many times wretched life of the turpentine worker is discussed at length. Often a stepchild in discussions of the South's great timber industry, naval stores finally get a fair, thorough treatment by a worthy historian.
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An Anthology and Game Accessory All Rolled Into One!.......1999-06-18
This boxed set is designed for the Planescape RPG game. The main highlight of this boxed set is the CD which is a collection of [mostly] short stories. There are also short clips of what life on the planes. The quality of the CD is superb. It was obviously made by professionals who might be familliar with the radio show business. Many of the stories were entertaining and funny. My favorites were the Order of Anarchists (Track 3 on the CD), a hilarious short of some bumbling theives in a town called Automata, and Plague-Mort (look on the CD for the Track number), the story about how a town saved itself from some fiends trying to send it to the Abyss via magic portal. The CD is great for DMs (Dungeon Masters or Game Masters) who love to use music and special effects in their campaigns. The game book was unfortunately a bit too sparse on game information. And there weren't enough maps of the various gate towns found in the Planescape game. The info on the gate towns themselves were too generalized. This is the only part of the boxed set that disappointed me. The only thing that managed to save this set from getting only one star was the CD. And for you Planescape fantics: The CD itself makes an interesting addition to your collection!
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- Honesty is Rarely Popular
- There are better books!
- This book almost sent me running back to heterosexuality.
- Very good book. Recommended.
- Simply: simple
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The Principles: The Gay Man's Guide To Getting (And Keeping) Mr. Right: The Gay Man's Guide to Getting (And Keeping) Mr. Right
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Honesty is Rarely Popular.......2005-01-28
One of the most difficult things to find in the homosexual culture is honesty. How can you blame us? Most of us are forced to lie (to ourselves and others) for the first 17 years of our lives...quite like smoking, it's a difficult habit to drop.
When an author puts out a book about gay life, one thing I pay attention to: Is this author being HONEST about what gay life style is like? I am proud and embarrassed to say that Orland Outland hits a lot of the misconceptions and frustrations of the gay dating game right on the head.
I think everyone has the romantically idealistic friend that needs to be smacked in the face with reality, or perhaps this book. They believe Mr. Right will find them. They believe no matter what they look like, Mr Right will see right through the fat and bad hair. They believe that one day, Juan will come up to them in a coffee house, and sweep them away to a fantastic tropical paradise, where cake has zero calories, sex with out a condom is ok, and love comes with out sacrifice.
I think every one of us WAS that person at one point in time. "The Principles" is written directly for that person.
Most of us reading "The Principles" will be nodding along with Mr Orland Outland's gentle scolding and witty pointers. Most of us will be laughing as Mr Outland discusses those around him and his own personal dating and sexual failures or mishaps. Then there will be a handful of readers who's for-head's will furrow in concentration, as they will be actually learning what it's like to play the game BY not playing any games.
Mr. Outland makes no attempt to hide that fact that this is the gay man's answer to the book for women "The Rules, Time Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr Right". Our author clearly states that these tactics might work for women, but they have no place in the competitive dating arena of men. I couldn't agree with him more.
Dating for the sake of dating. Sex for the sex of sex. Conversation for the sake of conversation. No strings. No tricks. No manipulations. (I promise, it's not complicated.)
I could see how this book would rub some people wrong. It's blunt. It's callous. It paints an ugly picture of gay dating...But what's important to me is that it is HONEST. Our culture and society has it's flaws. We cannot fault Mr. Outland for being honest about them.
Since it was written in 1998, most of the book is still rather relevant. A few bits here and there have already been deemed null and void by the advancement of time and technology. For instance, I've never had anyone online ask me, "Could you send me ur .GIF?" Right, let me get right on that.
Humerous, interesting, and educational, this book is perfect for the guy that needs to get a clue, or the guy that already has one. Either way, it's a solid digest on what dating life was like in the late `90's and what it IS like in the present time period.
There are better books!.......2000-04-15
I read several books on finding a mate, and while this book had a few very useful tips, it's focus seemed to be more on bath-houses and "campy" humor. Save your money, here! 2 books to buy are: Husband Hunting Made Easy (Patrick Price) and Finding True Love in a Man-Eat-Man World (Craig Nelson). The Patrick Price book is #1 if you only want to buy one book. I used the information from these books, and have found my Mr. Right. Good luck!
This book almost sent me running back to heterosexuality........1999-10-23
What an awful book! Yes, it is witty in some places, but this is nothing more than some light weight humor that depicts an awfully bad light on being a gay man. Outland states that sex is a must by the second date and the overlying tone of the whole book is that sex is what it's all about. In a book about finding "Mr. Right," I'd expect something about relationships. Seriously, save your money - the Patrick Price book on relationships/gay marriage is much better, more amusing, and yet full of real world advice that might actually work without the stupd gimmicks and movie-principles Outland talks about.
Very good book. Recommended........1999-04-22
I once read a different book on the same subject, and it gave suggestions and advice based on the way things could be or should be. As a result, the advice and suggestions were mostly useless. By contrast, the basis of this book is the way things really are. This cold, hard reality might be too harsh for some, but the book won't steer you wrong. If you follow all the suggestions, even if you don't get a boyfriend, you'll be a better person.
Simply: simple.......1999-04-16
Yeah: We know the rules, the things we must follow to find the man of our dreams. Do this, do that, don't do it! I told you not to... But, if you're tired of following recipes to bake your man, this is the book to follow! Easy to read, easy to keep in mind and easy to buy. What else can be asked? Maybe you'll find that you have to be a little cinema-fan to understand some of the principles described. But if you are not, then this is the time to find out about the plot of some of those movies you hear now and then at parties. Believe me, this is and absolutely delightful book, even if you are not in search of your knight in shining armor!
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- A perfect lazy day weekend book
- This is a great sunny afternoon iced tea drinking book.
- Outland has a style all his own we should be glad of it
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Death Wore a Fabulous New Fragrance (Doan and Binky Mysteries)
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If Sherlock Holmes wore high heels...If Sam Spade found the right shade...If Miss Marple had a clue about applying makeup... ...They wouldn't be half as divine as Doan McChandler and Binky Van de Kamp, San Francisco's most dazzling detective team! Doan's the slinkiest sleuth to slip into a slip. Binky's his best friend and a trust fund darling, with expensive tastes to match. And now this decadent duo is solving cases with a savvy--and a wardrobe--to kill for!
Second in an already popular mystery series with an outrageously funny hook: a drag queen detective!
The author's wicked wit and warmth appeals to fans of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, as well as the hugely popular films, The Birdcage and To Wong Fu
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A perfect lazy day weekend book.......2001-06-21
It all started when I was persuing books in the airport bookstore when I came across the title, "Death Wore a Fabulous New Fragrance." I pulled it out and did a quick thumb-through when I heard my flight's boarding call. Having found nothing else that even came close to piquing my interest, I paid for the book and ran to catch my flight. For the next two hours, I was grinning, laughing, and having a grand time with two of the most imaginative characters in the most glamourous of situations to the point that *I* was jealous of them. Yeah, yeah, they're fictional characters but the panache they pull off when ordering Bombay Sapphire Gin Martinis....buy this book, make a pitcher of Bombay Sapphire Gin Martinis (or Long Island Iced Teas) and lose yourself in this book. I *dare* you to read between the lines on some of these characters! I know I did and it made it all that much more enjoyable!
This is a great sunny afternoon iced tea drinking book........1999-03-28
I really enjoyed this book for several reasons. First, I had read Mr. Outland's first mystery book and enjoyed it thouroughly. Second, it was fun trying to figure out who the famous people in the book he was talking about were (some I could, some I am STILL trying to figure out). Lastly, I really enjoy Mr. Outland's style of writing. It is very easy to read, and the dialogue is fun, and timely. Thanks, and I can't wait for the next in the series! Jenny
Outland has a style all his own we should be glad of it.......1998-04-25
Socially vacant people would take one look baby Binky van de Kamp and homosexual Doan McChandler and stereotype the pair as a drag queen and a fag. Anyone who gets to know them, quickly realizes that they are just two people who prefer to live the high life to the fullest, but do not have the cash to do so in an orthodox manner. The unusual ideas this pair uses to maintain their current lifestyle is ludicrous. Still they would go the extra mile for a friend in need (hopefully finding cash on the way).
Just a month ago, Doan and Binky risked their lives to successfully rescue a friend from a murder charge. This achievement leads them to open up their own detective agency. Their first client is an acquaintance of Doan, accused of murdering a closeted movie hunk. The duo goes to LA where they quickly find themselves surrounded by human piranhas willing to do anything for a buck.
Orland Outland has created a unique and refreshing new kind of mystery series that is pure fun. The mystery propels the story line forward, but it is the campy characters and their serio-comic scenes that give DEATH WORE A FABULOUS NEW FRAGRANCE its quirky charm (and odor). Though Binky and Doan are not a romantic couple, their constant zings and witty ripostes are priceless. This is the beginning of a warm friendship with a new series clearly on the cutting edge (and sometimes to the outside of that).
Harriet Klausner
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- You know, sometimes I'm just not in the mood for Tolstoy.
- A little too pat for me....
- Silly, Pointless, FABULOUS
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Death Wore a Smart Little Outfit
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You know, sometimes I'm just not in the mood for Tolstoy........2002-04-06
At those moments, I thank heaven and assorted authors and publishers for mind candy like this charming little book. As light and breezy as Doan in a chiffon party dress with matching pumps, "Death Wore a Smart Little Outfit" prompts you to laugh, roll your eyes, and rethink your wardrobe and eating habits, all while enjoying a fictional visit to the quirky, laid-back, sexually diverse wonderland that is San Francisco. I've read all three of the Doan and Binky books, and although they all amuse, this frothy little thing is the best of the lot.
A little too pat for me...........2001-08-30
Okay I adored the first book, adored the second book, and eagerly awaited this one to come into my hands. Now granted, I have to admit that it fit NYC to a T. BUT, the book was just a little too pat. Ya know, one of those button endings where you knew that everything would end happily ever after but jsut didn't know how. I know it's fiction and I know that we're supposed to suspend our belief system a bit but I couldn't go THAT far with this book. Sigh...I hope there is another to make me happy...
Silly, Pointless, FABULOUS.......2000-09-03
Thank Goddess we live in an age when a writer can set out to do nothing but amuse -- and aim for that limited section of the population who see drag queens and vapid socialites as the indispensible archetypes they are. I've seen more complicated stories on "Full House", but it is perfectly excusable when said story is delivered with such sequin-sparkly dialoge and a characterization so sharp it's as if Charles Busch has materialized in your room to play it for you as you read. Thank you, Mr. Outland.
disappointed..........2000-06-21
Though the characters were quirky and amusing,I found the story itself utterly inane and the plotline not too believable. The first outing of Doan and Binky was not what I hoped. I'm going to give 'Death Wore A Fabulous New Fragrance' a shot and hopefully the second installment in the series will be a bit better.
Fabulously Well Written.......2000-01-27
The first book I've read by Outland, Death Wore a Smart Little Outfit provides the style of reading that makes it a must-read page turner . Even when I wasn't reading the book, I was still thinking about the characters. I am intrigued by the character development and enjoy the adventures!
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