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- Careful, this con-mans firm was shut down by the SEC
- Morty's stock advice is like Tiger Woods'golf advice...
- Hard Knocks to Hot Stocks
- This book's a winner- it will make you a winner too!
- Brilliant formulas on getting rich in the stock market
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From Hard Knocks to Hot Stocks: How I Made a Fortune Through Smart Investing and How You Can Too
J. Morton Davis
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Morty Davis is a winner at picking winners, a champion at spotting champions, and a genius at discovering genius. Daviss ability to recognize great ideas, top-flight management, and promising companies is legendary, and it has made his firm, D.H. Blair, a premier underwriter of new stock issues. Under his leadership, in good times and bad, Blair has consistently outperformed its competitors in the market for small cap initial public offerings.
From Hard Knocks to Hot Stocks combines Daviss colorful personal historyincluding the remarkable story of how, despite humble origins and a less-than-impressive academic record, he discovered investing and built a career and a fortunewith provocative ideas and investing tips. Davis tells his story with humor, anecdotes, frank opinions, and unstuffy revelations. And he shows how to apply his own proven investing strategies with straightforward, easy-to-understand advice, such as how one should invest in small companies, what the dangers of more traditional forms of investing are, and why one should be a contrarian investor. Above all, Daviss advice provides readersfrom first-time investors to seasoned professionalswith real insight into how to successfully navigate their way through Wall Streets myriad opportunities and pitfalls.
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Careful, this con-mans firm was shut down by the SEC.......2004-06-21
According to published articles, D. H. Blair & Co. was a training ground for the "pump and dump.
In this strategy, prices for an IPO are artificially "pumped" by a group of brokers who control the shares by creating demand selling to each others' customers in a closed artificial market. Once the price increased, the insiders dump while the unsuspecting retail clients are aggressively encouraged to hold their shares and not sell. After the insiders have dumped their shares, the cold calling stops and because there is no longer support for the price, the shares free-fall as the brokers move onto the next issue.
On March 7, 2002, in an action before the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York, Blair pled guilty and was convicted of three counts of violating the Martin Act-the New York state securities law
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Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau announced today the stock fraud indictment of securities firm D.H. BLAIR & CO., INC., and fifteen of its officers and employees for enterprise corruption. Included among those indicted are KENTON WOOD, the Chairman of the firm; ALAN STAHLER and KALMAN RENOV, the firm's Vice Chairmen; VITO CAPOTORTO, the head trader of the firm; ALFRED PALAGONIA, the top-producing broker for the firm; and ten other Blair brokers. In addition, three other former D.H. Blair brokers have pleaded guilty to felony charges arising from this investigation.
The sixteen defendants have all been indicted for Enterprise Corruption, Scheme to Defraud in the First Degree, and securities fraud in violation of the New York State General Business Law. The Grand Jury alleged additional pattern acts, including perjury and violation of New York's antitrust law. Various defendants were also indicted for Grand Larceny in the Third Degree and Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree. The Enterprise Corruption charge, which is punishable by up to twenty-five years' imprisonment, alleges that managers and stockbrokers at D.H. Blair ran the business as a criminal enterprise.
The 173-count indictment charges that the defendants participated in the "D.H. Blair Criminal Enterprise" from 1989 through 1998, and that the members of the scheme defrauded numerous people - including their own customers, other investors, other brokerage firms, and securities regulators - in order to realize massive illicit profits. Members of the D.H. Blair Criminal Enterprise conspired to commit, and did commit, a variety of crimes to advance their common criminal purpose. They manipulated stock prices -- including securities being offered in initial public offerings ("IPOs") -- for the benefit of the firm, certain favored customers, stockbrokers, and other people associated with D.H. Blair. They engaged in a wide range of illegal and high-pressure sales practices to generate excessive commissions and to facilitate the manipulation of stock prices. In addition, they illegally colluded with other securities firms to manipulate stock prices. They fraudulently increased commissions by selling securities to customers at far more than prevailing market prices. They increased the size of the firm's customer base by trafficking in client information stolen from other firms and by opening accounts for customers whom they knew were not suitable for the kind of high-risk securities marketed by D.H. Blair.
More than 50,000 customers invested with D.H. Blair & Co., Inc. during the period of the existence of the D.H. Blair Criminal Enterprise. Many suffered severe economic losses as a result of the criminal conduct of the enterprise. For example, a 56 year-old disabled man from Colorado lost approximately $150,000 from a disability settlement upon which he relied to pay for medicine and other living expenses; he was given false price predictions and so-called "inside" information which did not pan out. Another investor, a 63 year-old disabled racetrack worker living on a fixed income in Manhattan, lost $35,000 of a $38,000 IRA due to unauthorized purchases in her account and refusals to sell. A tugboat pilot from Brooklyn lost the $45,000 she had saved to buy a house; while she was at sea, unauthorized trades were made in her account and when she complained she was falsely assured that she would be the recipient of windfall future profits. Another Blair customer, a 70 year-old Florida resident who had retired as a trumpet player for the New York Philharmonic, lost approximately $250,000 from his IRA and trust accounts due to false price guarantees and high pressure tactics designed to prevent him from selling.
D.H. Blair made large profits by fraudulently distributing and manipulating the securities of companies that had been brought public by its associated investment banking firm. In 1996, for example, the brokerage firm made gross profits of over $85 million from such over-the-counter securities trading. The indictment charges that among the IPOs that the D.H. Blair Criminal Enterprise fraudulently sold and manipulated were Amerigon, Inc., Telepad Corp., Premier Laser Systems, Inc., Interactive Flight Technologies, Inc., Sepregen Corp., Food Court Entertainment Network, Inc., Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Digital Video Systems, Inc., Conversion Technologies International, Inc., and Advanced Aerodynamics and Structures, Inc.
In order to commit these crimes and evade detection, members of the D.H. Blair Criminal Enterprise falsified business records, suppressed customer complaints, hid illegal practices, gave false and evasive testimony, and otherwise misled regulators charged with enforcing the laws and rules governing the securities industry, including the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and the National Association of Securities Dealers ("NASD").
Morty's stock advice is like Tiger Woods'golf advice..........2000-07-23
I know the author personally,he gave me my "shot" on Wall St.when I was 18 years old.There are a lot of "empty suits" that have written books on investing,I promise you Morty is not one of them. If you love facts as I do regarding investments...buy this book it will be of value to you.
Hard Knocks to Hot Stocks.......1999-12-23
In reading the book I found the first half some what hard to get through. I was looking towards getting the info he was to give on investing. The second half of the book was what I was looking for. If you use his discipline in trading you could make alot of money in the market. I would recommended it just to have a base to use in your stock trading methods.
This book's a winner- it will make you a winner too!.......1998-02-25
Larry King's review (on the back cover) said it best, "this is the best book I've ever read on making it big. You're in the hands of a master. Enjoy!"
Brilliant formulas on getting rich in the stock market.......1998-01-20
Morty Davis shares his inspiring rags-to-riches story while outlining an insightful path toward stock market wealth. The book is packed with real-life anecdotes that teach tremendous lessons on business and true success. I devoured the book and loved every minute of it. I can't wait to call my broker and start using the techniques on a portion of my portfolio. The humor and simple strategies make this a book that all will enjoy. I will be sure to include it as a gift idea for many of my friends.
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- Partnering and being a change agent in the new corp.
- Practical advice from the guy who invented partnering
- Take it from the "old soap salesman"
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Stop Paddling & Start Rocking the Boat: Business Lessons from the School of Hard Knocks
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Four Decades of Hard-Won Wisdom from an "Old Soap Salesman"
Lou Pritchett, former Vice President of Sales for Procter & Gamble and the architect of the historic partnering agreement between P&G and Wal-Mart, has accumulated nearly four decades of in-the-trenches business experience. He shares that wealth of knowledge in a lively and anecdotal new book,
Stop Paddling & Start Rocking the Boat: Business Lessons from the School of Hard Knocks, that ranges from partnering and customer relations to sales, management, and cultivating common sense.
Pritchett is best-known for his famous canoe trip with Wal-Mart Chairman Sam Walton, in which he proposed a radical new way for the two companies to do business. In a process called partnering, the two companies learned to trust one another and share vital information, both reducing costs and providing more efficient service to the consumer. For Pritchett, it was the natural extension of a career in sales, a career in which he always placed strong emphasis on customers and consumers.
Pritchett's long and successful career at P&G is the source of a wealth of insights and hard-won lessons about sales, management, and leadership. Drawing on his own experiences-both his successes and his failures-Pritchett offers an engaging, accessible, and astute primer in sales and management, informed by common sense and spiced with wit. Pritchett's vivid anecdotes of his own experiences, especially his remarkable turn-around of P&G's floundering Philippine operation as that subsidiary's President during the Marcos era, offer inspiring and practical illustrations of his insights and ideas at work.
Through his "school of hard knocks" lessons and his own remarkable capacity to absorb and apply the information around him, this self-described "old soap salesman" maintained a remarkable career at the world's leading consumer products company and gathered a wealth of knowledge about the state of business today. He generously shares this working wisdom in
Stop Paddling & Start Rocking the Boat.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Lou Pritchett, after an exemplary career of 36 years at Procter & Gamble, is currently delighting corporate audiences worldwide as a top-rated motivational speaker. Before he pioneered the partnership between P&G and Wal-Mart, he blazed trails in the Philippines during the Marcos regime, as President and General Manager of P&G's subsidiary in Manila. A lifelong Boy Scout and President of Pritchett Enterprises, Lou currently resides with his wife, Barbara, in Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Customer Reviews:
Partnering and being a change agent in the new corp........2004-05-22
How do you criticize someone who developed partnering between two large corporations. Lou developed a good relationship between Proctor and Gamble and Wal Mart. He made a stormy relationship into one which benefited both these large corporations. Lou also managed in an economy dominated by dictator Marcos in the Philippines. Both of these relationships helped develop Lou into a successful manager. These stories and Lou's early business life selling soap constitute much of the book.
I think this book has some common sense ideas on how to approach customers. Some of those listed include treating everybody fairly and equally, developing partnerships, treating employees as you would want to be treated and being a change agent. For the last item, this will involve rocking the boat, and might get people upset with you. But being a change agent is never easy.
This is an easy book to read. There are no radical solutions here, just a common sense approach to business. This is why I rated it only as an average read.
Practical advice from the guy who invented partnering.......2001-03-19
Today, everyone in business throws around the term "partnering" when discussing business relationships. Lou Pritchett was one of the first to break the traditional, often adversarial approach of selling to the customer...This book is filled with insight and anecdotes that will help any business person seeking to drive costs out of the business and work more closely with customers and suppliers. Any student of modern supply chain management knows that building trust between all parties in the chain is the key element to success and the one that many companies find the most difficult implement. Lou will tell you that this is not rocket science. However it does take courage and hard work to keep rocking the boat and change the old way of doing business.
Take it from the "old soap salesman".......2000-11-15
Lou offers great insight and wisdom in the art of "human engineering" - training managers to become true leaders. Being part of the greatest generation, Lou captures a slice of American salesmanship that makes this country great today. While some of the stories may seem dated, anyone that has customers or business associates can learn from the pages of this book regardless of industry, timeframe or position. I have ordered copies of this book for employees from entry-level to CEO. All have come back to say thanks and have forwarded it on for someone else to read!
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In a fascinating, behind-the-scenes, no-holds-barred autobiography, college football sensation Keyshawn Johnson, presumed savior of the New York Jets, offers a candid look at his life on the field and his rookie season in the NFL.Wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson was a high school and college football superstar in California and an All-American who led the USC Trojans to a Rose Bowl win. He was the first player chosen in the 1996 NFL Draft, and Adidas has crowned him their new national spokesperson, complete with a specially designed signature shoe. He is being heralded by the New York Jets as the savior who will lead them from the cellar to the Super Bowl. In this autobiography, Johnson gives readers a look at his first season in professional football -- the exhilaration of winning, the despair of losing, the fickle fans, the relentless New York media, the money, and the extraordinary pressure placed on you when you're 23 and expected to perform miracles on the gridiron.
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Not for the faint of heart........2006-01-21
Great guy! Mr. Johnson is gutsy. He's not afraid to take on the sacred cows of the NFL. His numbers would tell you that he is an above-average receiver, while Keyshawon will tell you that he's the best receiver of all time. Who's right? I'm not sure, but reading this book will have you laughing in recognition. What a ride! His infectious smile will melt your heart and his double-talk unedited stream of consciousness logic will confound you. I only hope that Mr. Johnson will finish his career in Canada or possibly NFL Europe, which appears where he's headed. By 2007. my guess. Thank you Key! Stay hot and don't let bad stats get you down. You're a winner in my book. Which, I'm thinking of titling "Keyshawon Johnson: Genius and Scholar."
Keyshawn just trips me out.......2004-03-18
First of all let me start off by saying that i'm not the biggest fan of Keyshawn, as a matter of fact he is probably my least favorite NFL player, I always found him to be arrogant, and this book just proved my point even more. The whole book he complains that he is not being paid enough, he hates on his coaches. When he gets the ball, I have yet soon him to put up the numbers he claims he can get. I always wondered why Shawn King was benched, even though he led tampa bay pretty far the season he started, I was not surprised to hear rumors that keyshawn had something to do with it. He proved in this book that its all about the money for him, not the love of the game. If I was a coach I would not want him on my team. The only thing I liked what Mr. Johnson had to say, especially with the new ruled that was pass allowing guys to enter the draft to play football without playing college football, is that there is nothing like playing college football. Again, this is just my opinion of Mr.JOhnson, I could be totally wrong, he could be the most humble player in the NFL.
understated, bold, brilliant.......2003-09-11
Keyshawn Johnson's memoir, Just Give me the Damn Ball, is a chronicle of one man's journey to understand himself. The "Ball" as every reader of Johnson's prose understands, is not an actual leather ball, but a metaphor for the unnameable phatom that evades all of us, and the thing that can give us, if we could just get our hands on it, a true spiritual balance that could once and for all stop the longing we all feel and that some people attribute to our being made in the image of a creator to satisfy this creater's longing. Using a musical and lyrical style, he paints a portrait of the difficulties and obstacles faced by many of our young men in this country today. And he pulls no punches; make no mistake, Keyshawn writes like he plays: often dropping the "ball", but rarely failing to dwell in those small moments of triumph. While the narrative is first person, the voice Johnson achieves can give an impression of almost total detachment. He describes his battles as uphill conquests, relaying little detail other than those of his own ability to catch the "ball", though we all know no one can hold on to the ball forever. Johnson understands this, though he never comes to the point where he feels comfortable saying it. The idea that one thing, the ball in this case, can satisfy a being, one made of skin and nerves and thick red blood, is nothing new, but Johnson is able to breath life into it by creating a world where we, while, at our core, understanding that the grasp of one object could never satisfy our depths, the pursuit of this object could give a life purpose and, ultimately, could satisfy the pointed ends of the "ball" which would only leave the middle, and though the middle could never be satisfied, the pursuit of it all, the endless journey we put ourselves in, is one that will one day be rewarded. But when will we know for sure?
A must.......2000-10-08
while i'm a big time Bills Fan i give Keyshawn Johnson madd Props for this Very Honest&Open Book.it details a Season&the Politics involved in the NFL.I'M Pulling for The Bills Vs Tampa Bay in The Superbowl.THe JEts were Dumb for Letting KeyShawn go.after what he had to deal with Growing up, The NFL is like Sesame Street by Comparison.
Big Ups to Keyshawn.......2000-04-12
Keyshawn brings the funk in this astonishing literary triumph. I laughed; I cried -- it was better than "Cats." It's clear Keyshawn is misunderstood -- he has the eye of the tiger and heart of a champion, and he can't be faded. If you are seeking the 4-1-1 on the real, G, this is the book for you. Mad props to Keyshawn and a shout out to all the J-e-t-s Jets Jets Jets.
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- Life is "going up" to Eternity, not growing up!
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The University of Hard Knocks
Ralph Parlette
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It broke your heart. You have had your heart broken. I have had my heart broken more times than I care to talk about now. Your home was darkened, your plans were wrecked, you thought you had nothing more to live for.
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The "Hard Knocks" Ralph Parlette talks about are also termed "bumps" in this collection of lessons life presents us. He says that when life bumps up against us and we learn the lesson, we do not have to endure it again. We move past it and use the experience as our teacher from which we expand our conscious appraisal of the situations we encounter. Because we are independent negotiators of the events that occur, we are often tempted by other attractive paths that lead us into ease and pleasure. If we move upwardly in our way of thinking about the future and do not succumb to instant gratification, we can change unhappiness to happiness, weakness to strength, anxiety to moral conviction, and ignorance to awareness. As we begin to understand things by our own sacrifice and travail, we discover immeasurable distances above us that we can include in our journey. We are able to rise over any obstacle or setback because we learn to truly see and hear. Parlette reminds us that it is not possible to purchase education or security. We cannot buy a prodigious intelligence. Our mind is only able to become great when it is a subordinate to more important issues in our life. As we develop more helpful attributes, our worries grow smaller. We have stationed ourselves to see from a different, more encompassing perspective. And even though we continue to do our best, out of nowhere a calamity descends upon us and breaks our heart. Our plans and schemes are ruined, and there is nothing to live for. But after this personal demolition and the psychological trash is swept away, honorable purposes are suddenly visible, and we are capable of more instruction and schooling in The University of Hard Knocks, the only college worth this excellent endorsement.
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Life is "going up" to Eternity, not growing up!.......1999-10-27
I first read this wonderful book at age 21. Now at age 51 I truly understand it's deep meaning. A Bibilcal scripture that explains University is 2 Corinthians 1:3-7. It is what happens to us in life that truly makes us. A bump here and a knock there will serve as the shaping tool of our life.
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Common Sense Purchasing is a no holds barred practical guide to purchasing and negotiations success. If you don't like consultants, buzzwords and theory this book is for you. Straight forward and to the point you will not be able to put it down until you have finished the purchasing journey.
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Common Sense Purchasing: Hard Knock Lessons Learned From a Purchasing Pro .......2007-09-16
I perform the purchasing function for a small business. I thought this book would be helpful as an instruction manual for improving how our company makes purchases. It was not. The book was geared toward large companies with large purchasing departments. There was little to no instruction on how to actually improve how you make purchases, mostly how to tell staff how to follow company wide purchasing guidelines. I would not recommend this book for small business owners or those without large purchasing departments.
'Must Read' Supply Chain Book!.......2007-02-25
Dr. Tom has written a classic for anyone who wants to establish relationships along the entire supply chain. His straight-forward manner and stories are outstanding! I particularly enjoyed all the parts about building supplier relationships and tales of purchasing department bureaucratic culture. An excellent reference book for all levels of professionals. If I could give it six stars, I would!
OUTSTANDING READ... Dr. Tom is a real pro!.......2007-02-21
Dr. Tom has written a brilliant supply chain book on relationship building. His writing style makes the concepts clear to novices and experts alike. His practical advice is both enjoyable and pertinent. It is a very easy read and I could not put the book down until I was finished. This is a must read for any supply chain, purchasing or contracting professional. I rate it 5 stars. Dr. Tom's background is as equally impressive as his scholarship.
An Outstanding Supply Chain Book-Must Read.......2005-04-28
Just an outstanding purchasing field manual! Most consultants and academic folks will hate this book! They can't stand low cost common sense techniques. The book has many simple common sense approaches to purchasing. Unfortunately common sense is all too rare in purchasing. At our company we don't even want to hire purchasing folks who are certified. We have to spend too much time deprogramming them! The style is eclectic because the author wanted to emulate the chaos of a typical purchasing day. Many bureaucrats can't get this book and just mindlessly pan it. The key point is that relationship building with suppliers is essential. There is no roadmap for this effort other than hard work and getting folks to trust each other.
I personally experienced Dr. Tom's one day workshop on Reengineering Purchasing which was the best experience of my purchasing career bar none. Most of the high priced junk that consultants sell today is smoke and mirrors like spend analysis, reverse on line auctions, portals etc. Bottom line Dr. Tom hits it on the head, "It's about getting world class suppliers and building strong relationships." This is where the quantum leaps are. Many companies are enamored with technology and lose sight of the strategy. Any purchasing dummy can learn tactics and be a fire fighter. The strategists are rare but their gains can be enormous. Dr. Tom is a true and dynamic strategic thinker whose ideas are timeless and right on. Buy this book and use it. Make everyone in your department read it and discuss it.
What this book is REALLY about!.......2005-01-20
I bought this book, in no small part, because of the rave reviews that it's gotten on this site. Now that I've spent half of my day thoroughly reading this 76 page gem, I'm kind of astounded by what's been written about it. In spite of my rating, I don't consider it to be a bad book. If you're the manager of a purchasing department within a large manufacturing firm looking to reengineer your operations, I recommend that you read it. However, if you're looking for sound advice on general purchasing practices, look elsewhere.
This book seems to have been thrown together fairly quickly. It contains numerous typos, and poorly drawn cartoons that add little to it. Nonetheless, the author does dispense some practical advice on modernizing a purchasing organization, and how to sell the plan to affected individuals. He principally focuses on computer automation, developing procurement card programs, and developing "strategic relationships" with suppliers. This last notion refers to his belief that strong business relationships should be forged with important suppliers to get them more fully involved in meeting the company's needs (automatic inventory replenishment and the like). On the whole, the book seems to be more about modern (late 90's theory) operations management than about purchasing, but at least the points that the author does make seem sound. Unfortunately, the book is too short to be of much use as anything but a checklist for people trying to reengineer organizations. At least it's good for that.
As far as the personal stories gleaned from years of purchasing experience are concerned, I could only find two, which collectively took up a whopping half a page. I'm not suggesting that the author didn't rely on his extensive experience to write the book, but he principally just states the "facts" as he sees them, and provides precious few examples to illustrate his points. More vexing still, is that the man probably could have taught his readers a great deal about purchasing, but chose to write about other things instead. I've little doubt that there are people out there who can greatly benefit from this book, but they probably number in the thousands, which is probably why it's called "Common Sense Purchasing" and not "Common Sense Modernization of a Purchasing Organization".
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- Bruce Jones Mails It In
- Is that all there is?
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Incredible Hulk & The Thing: Hard Knocks (Fantastic Four)
Bruce Jones , and
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Think you know everything about the unique relationship between Marvel's two most powerful sluggers? Guess again. Bruce Jones and superstar artist Jae Lee bring you the ultimate Hulk/Thing battle! Collects a reprint of Marvel's Giant-Size Superstars #1.
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Bruce Jones Mails It In.......2007-05-11
The writing is the main disappointment in Hulk v. Thing Hard Knocks. There's not much excitement or tension and hardly any plot. Jae Lee's art differs from his usual atmospheric Milleresque-Sienkiwicz renderings.
The art is the high point and saving grace of this work and justifies its purchase. Pretty pictures, petty plot.
Is that all there is?.......2004-12-11
With longtime Hulk scribe Bruce Jones' conspiracy arc pretty much over, the title was put on hiatus for four months to make way for this four issue mini-series. Marvel's two biggest and baddest bruisers face off for the first time in a long time in Hard Knocks, as the Hulk and the Thing of the Fantastic Four have a knock down drag out brawl in the desert. During the fights, both recall their first meeting and the sordid history between the two. Jones is an excellent writer who nearly took the Incredible Hulk to the Peter David-level greatness that it had lacked for years, but his story and script are average at best here. Nothing really compelling, just two monstrous beheamoths beating the tar out of each other. And while that's all well and good, the Jones twist that long time readers expect just never comes, and Hard Knocks ends up being pretty run of the mill. What saves the book however is the art by Jae Lee (Inhumans, The Sentry), who gives both the Hulk and the Thing incredibly grotesque looks, yet leaves them all the more iconic. As a bonus, a copy of Marvel's Giant-Size Superstars #1 is included as well, as new readers can see a classic showdown between the two. All in all, fans of Jones' run on the Hulk will want to check this out, but you're better off waiting for the title to come back from hiatus.
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Part scrapbook, part memory album, part down-and-dirty slam book, The Stewie Griffin School of Hard Knocks Grad Pad is a place to record the most memorable events of one's school career.
Tucked in between photos of the Griffin clan's own most embarrassing, degrading, and undignified moments (as captured and supplied by Stewie Griffin, along with Stewie's classic witticisms and trademark zingers) is room for you and your peeps to add your own photos, musings, memories, and pithy one-liners. Even the most tight-lipped among you will find this maniacal one-year-old baby genius's probing, downright voyeuristic questions and prompts irresistible.
So go on—engage in childish prattle, infantile impulses, and adolescent outbursts while you still can. Today you're young, but tomorrow you're just another college grad slinging lattes in the real world!
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Damn you vile book!.......2007-04-10
I feel that the book title was misleading and should have never been put under the catagory " Books". It should have been catagorizied under organizers or stationary. I was expecting a themed humor book , instead I received an organizer. Also the product took several weeks longer to recieve than the other products I ordered on the same purchase.
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A great ride.......2006-02-24
Sharp really knows how to write an engrossing, action-packed story. I've read the first two in the series and love Charlie. She is a wonderful protagonist; smart, tough, skilled yet has her vulnerabilities. The plot is tight and fast moving with very good action scenes. The tension and suspense really keep you going. I've the next two books on my shelf and look forward to more exciting times with Charlie.
great read, good lead character.......2005-03-22
main characters are good, and the lead female, is strong and takes care of herself, she is not wimpy! she infiltrates a supposed german personal bodyguard training school to find out why a friend was murdered....its very interesting and a fast read. Good action and adventure. Even my husband liked it.
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