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It’s a week in “Pair-o-Dice!”
Junie B. and her family are going on a vacation to Hawaii! And ha! Mr. Scary is giving Junie a real, actual camera to keep a photo journal of her trip! But taking good vacation pictures is not always easy. ’Cause what if your airplane is full of grouchy ladies? And what if there is an unfortunate inner tube incident at the swimming pool? (And, oh my! Let’s not even mention what happens if a tropical bird gets tangled in your hair!) Will Junie B.’s vacation end up picture perfect? Or will her trip to Hawaii be aloha-horrible?
Customer Reviews:
Classic Junie B.......2007-09-21
This is another great Junie B. adventure. My first grade class loves to hear me read aloud. They listen and laugh and lose there fear of chapter books that seem so big to them. By the end of the year most students are reading Junie B by themselves. Enjoy it you won't be dissapointed.
hilarious as usual.......2007-08-30
This is such a funny book. Barbara Parks has truly out done herself.I REALLY ENJOYED THIS BOOK!
Junie B.......2007-06-15
My Granddaughter loves it Thank you for your great service.
Aloha Junie B........2007-02-24
Barbara Park has another winner! Junie B. in Hawaii? What an adventure! (I lived there for 4 years!) As always, Park had me laughing & giggling - even my 16 year old daughter thought it was funny (the part I read out loud to her!)Keep it up! We want MORE Junie B. We love her! She is a malihini wahine (female newcomer)!
Aloha & Mahalo!
Junie B., First Grader : Aloha-ha-ha!.......2007-02-05
As I read this book, I couldn't help but laugh out loud at the pictures and events that happen to Junie B. as she joins her mom and dad on a paradise vacation to Hawaii. Mr. Scary makes Junie B. the first official photo journalist from Room One before leaving on her vacation. With that title, Mr. Scary included direction to take pictures and write captions along the trip to put in her journal. Two events I especially enjoyed reading about and imagining from the story occurs when Junie B. becomes friends with two different kinds of birds. The text in this story is well written and gives many detailed events to help paint a picture as you read. I was a little disappointed in the ending. The story begins in Room One but ends on the last day of the vacation. You never know what really happens when Junie B. returns to Room One and shares her journal with her peers. You will laugh out loud too as you read this story. It might even make you or your child want to become a photo journalist on your next vacation.
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The first complete English translation of the Hebrew classic Sefer Ha-Aggadah brings to the English-speaking world the greatest and best-loved anthology of classical Rabbinic literature ever compiled. First published in Odessa in 1908-11, it was recognized immediately as a masterwork in its own right, and reprinted numerous times in Israel.
The Hebrew poet Hayim Nahman Bialik and the renowned editor Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky, the architects of this masterful compendium, selected hundreds of texts from the Talmud and midrashic literature and arranged them thematically, in order to provide their contemporaries with easy access to the national literary heritage of the Jewish people -- the texts of Rabbinic Judaism that remain at the heart of Jewish literacy today.
Bialik and Ravnitzky chose Aggadah -- the non-legal portions of the Talmud and Midrash -- for their anthology. Loosely translated as "legends", Aggadah includes the genres of biblical exegesis, stories about biblical characters, the lives of the Talmudic era sages and their contemporary history, parables, proverbs, and folklore. A captivating melange of wisdom and piety, fantasy and satire, Aggadah is the expressive medium of the Jewish creative genius.
The arrangement of this compendium reflects the theological concerns of the Rabbinic sages: the role of Israel and the nations; God, good and evil; human relations; the world of nature; and the art of healing. Here, the reader who wants to explore traditional Jewish views on a particular subject is treated to a selection of relevant texts at his fingertips but will soon become immersed in a way of thinking, exploring, and questioning that is the hallmark of Jewish inquiry.
"Whatever the imagination can invent is found in the Aggadah," wrote the historian Leopold Zunz, "its purpose always being to teach man the ways of God." The Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-Aggadah, now available in william Braude's superbly annotated translation, enables modern Jews to experience firsthand the richness and excitement of their cultural inheritance.
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Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-aggada: Legends from the Talmud and Midrash.......2007-08-24
This is a beautiful work of scholarship and literature. It is for those with spiritual/religious interests, especially Jewish, but not only Jewish. It presents the colorful and evocative stories of these ancient writings, without the theology or the commandments. Anyone who cares about myth and legend would find it deeply rewarding, I think. It is a touching and triumphant labor of love by the scholar who translated it into English.
Awesome.......2006-11-10
This book is great. For anyone curious about Judaism, It is informative and easy to navigate.
Ancient writings give modern insight.......2006-07-28
The written records of spoken traditions of the Jewish past gives enlightenment to present understanding of the wisdom of those who have gone before. The book is not a factual account of history but that of the thoughts of the past and some beliefs that have developed into what we believe today.
Truly Great.......2005-11-05
This is a truly great event, not just a book. Now, anyone can get in touch with their ancestors. Curious kinds of people will be fascinated by this publication. The main themes of philosophy are all inside this book that is a legend in its own write. But - more than philosophy - there is so much heart in here it is hard to imagine.
outzens zen.
The story- thought of the Gemara .......2005-02-09
Bialik and Ravnitsky monumental editing work selected the aggadic or story portion of the Gemara, and organized them in accordance with themes. They succeed in making the Gemara come alive for many who would otherwise not know it. Their work came at a transition time when many Jews were leaving Traditional learning. Essentially Bialik had a program for educating Jews in the sources, in the Tradition so that they would be fully part of despite there not having learned in the Yeshiva world.
This English translation should widen the circle of those who study and learn this work. I would add that there is another English translation of parts of this work. It is done by my late teacher and friend Rabbi Chaim Pearl whose retelling of legends of the sages is unmatched in its clarity and insight.
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- Ask and It Is Given
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Ask and It Is Given presents the teachings of the nonphysical entity
Abraham. It will help you learn how to manifest your desires so that you’re living the joyous and fulfilling life you deserve.
As you read, you’ll come to understand how your relationships, health issues, finances, career concerns, and more are influenced by the Universal laws that govern your time/space reality—and you’ll discover powerful processes that will help you go with the positive flow of life.
It’s your birthright to live a life filled with everything that is good—and this book will show you how to make it so in every way!
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Bad translation.......2007-03-23
I would not recommend this book in Spanish. I loved the original version, I have almost studied it by heart! But the copy in Spanish I bought for a friend, is so bad... that it can hardly be understood.
Made up words... wrong verb tenses... and lots of grammar mistakes , make the book confusing and in ocasions even ridiculous. I dont understand how Hay House has this marvelous books translated so badly, sometimes it even seems as if it is one of those softwares doing the job. This works should be supervised by a team of expert translators in both languages and experts in the specific matter itself.
Ask and It Is Given.......2006-07-28
Some points make a lot of sense but others don't yeah we are the makers of our paths most of the time, and we can improve our lives with knowledge and spirituality. But this is not for "all" of us like this book is trying to tell you, there are so many people in our country and other countries that don't have food to eat, or are victims of so many crimes, you can't tell them "you can do it" you can have anything your heart desire. Realistic? I don't think so, give us the whole truth, not half of the truth. For some of us who know what Mediums can do in "real life" I think this is just one of those "rich getting richer from people who really need to believe in something to go on" Real life has all diferent colors, ups and downs, not just peaches and roses.
Un libro excelente.......2006-02-23
Uno de los libros mas impactantes que he leido en mi vida. Las ensenanzas de Abraham a traves de Esther, me han hecho recordar lo que siempre supe. Un libro que cambiara su vida, la sencilles de las palabras y la simpleza con la que es descrito hacen que este sea un libro facil de entender, y de practicar. Recomiendo este libro a todos los que quieran ser creadores de su propia realidad.
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As a piece of software, Adobe Photoshop is rare - perhaps alone - in evoking genuine passion from its users. As it evolves, it finds its way into the lives of more and more professional creators, tempting them away from their traditional materials, and expanding their horizons. Yes, it can alter photographs. It can also alter careers.
New Masters of Photoshop is a showcase of Masters who use Photoshop, and Masters of Photoshop use. The photographers, animators, artists, and designers assembled here have a myriad of different skills: some manipulate, some animate, some create from scratch. All of them produce remarkable, beautiful things.
In these pages, the authors will demonstrate examples of their print work, web work, public work, and private work, explaining the techniques they use to achieve their results. More than that, though, they'll tell you how they think: who their influences are, where their ideas come from, and how they find inspiration when the well has run dry.
friends of ED has scoured the world for the leading exponents of Photoshop technique. This book is a gallery of Photoshop practice and theory, backed with essays on the influences and inspirations that lie behind the sharpest digital art in today's media-saturated world. The book deconstructs sophisticated, complex, and astonishing Photoshop graphics, providing motivation, skills and inspiration in equal parts.
Support for this book is available on the friends of ED web site (friendsofed.com).
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great.......2003-03-28
this book is great for inspiration and to find out "how they did that"!!!
Get It.......2003-02-28
There is really not much to add to the positive comments already posted. This book really is extremely useful. Whatever level you are you can find some inspiration here. There is an assumption you have an intermediate-level knowledge of the app, but that's ok, cos even if you dont you can just pick up your manual/power PS up and work it out. The key to this book is its insight into the processes of seasoned, acclaimed, professionals. If you aint any of those right now, or even if you are, you will benefit from this book.
NB - I'd drop it a half-point as the CD is pretty useless. But that would be unfair - think of the CD as a candy accompanyment. The book is worth its weight alone.
Overall good book for advancing techniques........2002-12-04
This book is very helpful to people who know something about Photoshop already. What makes it different is that you are designing through the eyes of a usually good designer and learning step by step how to acheive interesting results by recreating their own works. Each designer is different so you learn to attack the same type of problems from different angles. Some of the designers ramble on in their introductions, but once you get past that it's smooth sailing. This is not your usual tutorial book so try to do 2 to 3 exercises per week. I leaned alot about Photoshop from this book and I use it as a reference for techniques quite often.
BS.......2002-11-26
I could write a book on how bad this book is. It REALLY is not worth it. It would be a better deal to buy your neighbours garbage.
Basically, many of the images seem like they were pulled off the web and are therefore BAD (duh.) The text is poorly formatted and written. The designers mumble to an excrutiating level (like a bad high school essay.) Oh and the cd that accompanies it, why is it sooooooo useless?
I need to go find maalox.
A must have !.......2002-11-11
This is one of the best books available for PhotoShop users. Not only is it full of inspiration, you can actually read it ! I hope this style is a beginning and I can't wait for the next volume ! I have a collection of Photoshop, design and photography books, I have to say this is one of the few I keep on my desk.
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Beginning Hawai'ian.......2007-08-11
This book requires a workbook that is unavailable. It is not a good tool for learning Hawai'ian without a teacher.
Except for Lesson One, it's a wonderful book.......2004-10-07
I found 4 great tools for learning Hawaiian, at Amazon. Your success in learning will depend on using them in the right order. They're all great.
Beginner level
1. "Learn Hawaiian at Home", by Kahikahealani Wight
If you're new to the language, this book will walk you patiently through all the basics. Slow? Yes, but it was just what I needed. There are two cassette tapes included, with all the vocabulary, dialogs, reading material and even songs! I found the package reasonably priced.
Beginner to intermediate
2. "Ka Lei Ha'aheao--Beginning Hawaiian", by Alberta Pualani Hopkins
For continuing what you learned in "Learn Hawaiian at Home", this is an excellent book. It will take you all the way through all the Hawaiian grammar, and there are lots and lots of dialogs, giving variations on what you learn.
The downside? Cassette tapes are available, and I know my progress would be much faster if I had the big bucks to buy them. I don't.
Intermediate to advanced
3. Instant Immersion CD
Good points: Very natural-sounding Hawaiian, and lots of it
Downside: If you're a beginner, this will knock the wind out of your sails. The lessons have reading passages, some with very difficult grammar.
No printed matter comes with the CDs. You have to download it from the internet.
Some vocabulary from the lessons are NOT explained. You'll need a big Pukui-Elbert Hawaiian Dictionary to find out the meanings. Not exactly user-friendly!
Still, if you love hearing the lilt of Hawaiian spoken as much as I do, you may opt to get this.
Intermediate to advanced
4. "Let's Speak Hawaiian" by Dorothy M. Kahananui & Alberta P. Anthony
Too difficult for beginners, as it was for me! Explanations are minimal. An exorbitantly-priced tape set is available, but I couldn't afford it.
I was always frustrated with myself for not being able to understand this book. However, after doing a fair amount of learning through the first two books given above, I found that "Let's Speak Hawaiian" is a wonderful extension to what I know. Get this one last!
The seminal textbook of modern Hawaiian.......2004-08-31
Hawaiian is not a language that someone who has no experience with can simply pick up: the nuances and pronunciations alone are enough to scare off the uninitiated and the differences between Hawaiian and Western (and Eastern for that matter) cultures create difficulties that are not easily overcome by obstinate minds. Mrs. Hopkins' book was intended primarily as a textbook to be used as the text for a Hawaiian class and in a classroom environment. Having grown up in Hawaii, the pronunciations were not difficult for me and the exercises were both useful and amusing. While the grammar section in the back is by no mean comprehensive, it should be remembered that this was not meant to be a dictionary.
This is an excellent text for someone who has access to a native speaker with whom he or she can practice with and the standard by which Hawaiian textbooks should be measured.
If you don't agree with me, you are welcome to challenge my opinion in a duel--smallswords or epees--and seek a gentleman's satisfaction.
Poor book for self instruction.......2004-01-12
I bought this book to learn the Hawaiian language on my own. This book was written for people who have access to someone who speaks the Hawaiian language. In the first chapter, it just brushes over pronunciation. The book then then gives an excercise in the end of the that chapter to review street names with someone who speaks the language. I was extremely disappointed with the grammatics and vocabulary offered and the excercises in the end of each chapter were too advanced. It seemed that the information provided in each chapter was not adequate to perform the excerises in the end of the chapters.
Best foreign-language text I've ever used.......2003-06-26
If you thought lanugage-learning was boring, think again! Ka Lei Ha'aheo is a horse of a different color. No more memorization of useless phrases like "the pen of my aunt is on the table." No more obtuse grammar lessons. Full of concise explanations of grammar, carefully selected useful vocabulary, all cemented into place with interesting dialogs and stories, "Ka Lei Ha'aheo" makes language learning a breeze.
Better still, "Ka Lei Ha'aheo" gives the student a taste of Hawaiian history and culture, and an insight into how the language might influence its speakers to view the world differently from English speakers.
Having studied seven other languages using dozens of text books, Ka Lei Ha'aheo is by far the best language text-book I have ever used.
Mahalo nui i ka mea ka:kau.
Seth Watkins
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Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03
One of the fabulous things about the Top 10 series is the incredible amount of detail that Gene Ha put into the backgrounds. There are all sorts of cool things you can find there, while browsing.
Zatanna and Black Canary pulling in fish nets, for one.
Then as far as the main story goes, Ultra-Mice Crisis is just hilarious.
A sort of "missing link" between traditional superhero comics and more artful fare.......2007-07-24
Not much to add to the other reviews here, but just wanted to throw my own vote of confidence onto the pile. "Top Ten" is wonderfully inventive, updating both superhero stories and "NYPD Blue"-style cop shows with its central conceit of a city where everyone has a super power or ability, including the cops.
Book One of "Top Ten" collects the first seven issues of the original comic book series, and each story is a winner. I especially liked the one where the cops go to a bar freqented by immortal Norse Gods (featuring Alan Moore's versions of Marvel's Thor, Odin, Loki, etc.) and have to solve an apparent murder before the squabbling gods lose their tempers and decide to bring on Ragnarok, the end of the world. It's funny, funny stuff.
But there are also action scenes, and tight fixes, and exciting cliffhangers, too, demonstrating that one doesn't have to totally abandon those still enjoyable aspects of comic books even if the creative talent is leagues beyond that level of storytelling.
This is a fun book. Pick it up.
A wonderful followup to the first set........2007-01-12
Connecting more on the human level than any other comic series I have seen, Moore's Top 10 book two shows that even though the future may create new groups of people to stereotype, the stereotypes are no truer in the future than they have been in the past.
review of top 10 book 1..........2006-12-28
i was pretty disappointed with top ten book 1. it didn't do it for me at all. the characters were too shallow and formulaic. the story was unengaging. reading it felt like a big waste of time, and i love the author. this might be overly critical sounding, but its alan moore we are talking about. for a truly great recent moore work, try the league of extraordinary gentlemen instead.
i was really impressed with top ten book 2 however. maybe the series just needed some time to get going.
The single best comic story I've ever read is in this volume........2006-06-06
I'd read an article in Wizard, the comics magazine, about Top 10 #8 (the first issue in this trade paperback). It said that this issue was one of the best single stories in comic book history. Well, I've read thousands of comics and I couldn't agree more. I thoroughly enjoyed the first Top 10 TPB, which I bought thinking it contained issue #8; I don't regret that purchase at all, by the way, as it made me laugh out loud several times. Anyway, the first story in the second TPB tells of a trio of space-jumping characters who are fused together in a horrible accident and die by the end of the issue. Strange as it sounds, these 25 pages present a deep, moving account of how easily life can end and what living really means. Alan Moore is a genius and any true fiction fan should own this book.
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foundational text .......2007-07-12
No need for superlatives here- Minh-Ha's work speaks for itself. Beautifully written in her unique style, this particular text will change the way you think about history, memory, women's work, postcolonialism and diaspora. Does not read like a 'theory' book but is absolutely foundational.
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- Hopscotch,Hangman, Hot Potato& Ha Ha Ha : A Rulebook of Children's Games
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PLAYING RULES FOR MORE THAN 250 GAMES AND SPORTS FOR CHILDREN OF EVERY AGE, INCLUDING INDOOR, OUTDOOR, PARTY, TRAVEL, WATER, MEMORY, AND CARD GAMES
Games galore! From Capture the Flag to Stickball and Volleyball, from Jacks and Old Maid to Word Lightning, here are easy-to-use instructions, recommendations, and scoring for more than 250 popular games and sports for children. Presented in quick-access format, this unique guide is ideal for parents, teachers, adult referees, grandparents, babysitters, and camp counselors. Featuring:
* Games to play on grass, on pavement, on steps and stoops, inside houses for rainy days and parties, and while traveling
* Step-by-step instructions and rules for each game, complete with clear diagrams and line drawings
* Games for children of all ages and playing abilities
* Multiple lists that make it easy for you to find the perfect game for a specific situation (by number of players, etc.)
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HAVE FUN!
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Hopscotch,Hangman, Hot Potato& Ha Ha Ha : A Rulebook of Children's Games.......2007-01-14
What a great book, I teach P.E. and do afterscool care, I use this book all the time. It has great games for indoor and outdoors. Get it you won't regret it.
Best Children's Game Book Ever.......2006-04-20
I LOVE this book and I'm not a teacher NOR do I have children (just lots of nieces and nephews)! I've always been a board game fan and this book brings back memories of all the fun we used to have as kids. This is a great book for parents to get kids away from video games and get outside and have fun while being active. It covers almost any children's game you can think of in a manner that touches on all the detail I've forgotten over time. It's divided into chapters such as: Indoor Games; Games to Play on Grass and Playgrounds; Games to play on Pavement, Steps and Stoops; Games in Water; Party Games and Travel Games.
There are games I played that I didn't remember the names or the rules...they're all here. Card games like Old Maid, Fish and Hearts; Paper games like Hangman, Boxes (where you make the dots and connect the lines to form boxes) and String games like Cat's Cradle. There was even the game that you folded the paper and wrote stuff on the inside and you sliped the paper box thing over your fingers to answer the other person's questions. Here it's called Cootie Catcher but I can guarantee we didn't call it that! LOL
Writing this review makes me want to go play some hopscotch! See ya' later.
Great!.......2002-10-01
The best one book for playing games with elementary students. New games, old games, cooperative games, competitive games, variations on games- it's all here. The best money I've spent on a game book- and I've bought four!
If you have children or work with kids, it's a MUST!!!.......2001-08-08
I couldn't put this book down -- it's like reading a best seller! It brought back wonderful memories of my childhood. Games I always wanted to share with my kids, but couldn't remember exactly how to play them are not a problem now. I'm also a new Girl Scout leader (starting my 2nd year) and I know, already, this book will provide hours of fun. **One of the best reference books for entertaining children (and adults) I've come across.
Comprehensive Game BOOK!.......1999-05-16
I love this book! I have used it so much I had to order a second copy. As a teacher, I have used many of these games to play with my class during recess, on school trips, and after a lesson is finished. The book is easy to use for any age or interest level. These are the games I remember playing as a kid. I highly recommend you buy it!
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Set during the Tiananmen Square uprising of 1989, The Crazed, a novel from Ha Jin, the award-winning author of the bestseller Waiting, unites a prominent Chinese university professor who suffers a brain injury and Jien Wen, a favorite student and future son-in-law who becomes his caretaker. As Professor Yang rants about his earlier life, his bizarre outbursts begin to strike Jien as containing some truth and, considering the uncertain times, he puzzles over their meaning. When Jien realizes that his additional responsibilities make sitting for his Ph.D. exams impossible, Meimei, his fiancée, promptly discards him, branding him as unloving, since passing the exams would have ensured they would both have attended graduate school in Beijing. Unmoored from the university, and unconnected to anything else, Jien joins the student movement and as a result becomes a police suspect.
Problematic to the plot is that Meimei is hardly warm to Jien; their relationship never appears to be anything but doomed. The professor's hallucinatory diatribes comprise the bulk of the novel, and initially it seems unlikely that a story will ever evolve from these ramblings. But with Yang indisposed, minor characters from the university conspire to devise means to further their personal agendas. A mystery results, as university and literature department personnel plot to have someone other than Jien marry Meimei. Jin's prose is succinct, but the most interesting parts of Jien's life occur, unfortunately, at the end of the book, leaving readers who fell for Waiting wanting more. --Michael Ferch
Book Description
Since the appearance of his first book of stories in English, Ha Jin has won the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and garnered comparisons to Dickens, Balzac, and Isaac Babel. “Like Babel,” wrote Francine Prose in The New York Times Book Review, “Ha Jin observes everything . . . yet he tells the reader only—and precisely—as much as is needed to make his deceptively simple fiction resonate on many levels.”
In his luminous new novel, the author of Waiting deepens his portrait of contemporary Chinese society while exploring the perennial conflicts between convention and individualism, integrity and pragmatism, loyalty and betrayal. Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature at a provincial university, has had a stroke, and his student Jian Wan—who is also engaged to Yang’s daughter—has been assigned to care for him. What at first seems a simple if burdensome duty becomes treacherous when the professor begins to rave: pleading with invisible tormentors, denouncing his family, his colleagues, and a system in which a scholar is “just a piece of meat on a cutting board.”
Are these just manifestations of illness, or is Yang spewing up the truth? And can the dutiful Jian avoid being irretrievably compromised? For in a China convulsed by the Tiananmen uprising, those who hear the truth are as much at risk as those who speak it. At once nuanced and fierce, earthy and humane, The Crazed is further evidence of Ha Jin’s prodigious narrative gifts.
Customer Reviews:
Subtle and Excellent.......2007-06-21
This is the first novel of Jin's that I've read. I was not disappointed and give this book a loud, standing ovation.
After his academic advisor and prospective father-in-law collapses from a stroke, Jian, a graduate student studying poetics, is assigned to care for the professor. As Professor Yang grows increasingly more neurotic with each passing day, Jian faces a devastating personal crisis within himself while pondering the mysteries and paradoxes pointed parroting from his old mentor uncorks.
This book is subtle and slow-moving, the words culled to bare essentials. The plot progression relies heavily upon psychological deconstruction of its characters, but unlike in Russian literature, it deconstructs characters through the seive of Jian, a fallible tool for such a job, and the reader is left knowing more of Jian from this perspective and less of of the peripheral minor characters shuffling forward to the bubbling finale of The Crazed.
I enjoyed reading Jin's use of the English language, as it is fresh and interesting, unfettered by certain colloquial ruts a native American English speaker tends to use. Whenever possible within the English language rules of word order he seems to place the verb as his core and bends his sentences and extremities around those verbs. The result is a certain fluidity that unlike some (say me, for example) doesn't get hung up on phonemes and fluff.
This book was excellent and masterful, like the stiff, bitter, and neutral taste of vodka. I'll be reading more of Ha Jin, you can be sure of it.
interesting, but..........2007-01-10
...as far as a good read goes, not great. Characters are not interesting, the ending does not work, the storyline is b-movie material.
You're crazed if you read it too.......2006-09-25
I picked up the book for ten dollars HK (that's 1.25 USD) at a charity book sale - I think I bought 17 books there, still have to get another bookshelf for all the extra books I have lying around now.
I've read Ha Jin's first novel, "In the Pond", and it was a quick and interesting read. In 1999 Jin won both the National Book Award and the PEN / Hemingway Award for his second novel "Waiting", which I've yet to read, but that was enough for me to remember the name and snap up "The Crazed" when I saw it for 10 dollars.
I was a bit leery of "The Crazed" - "In the Pond" didn't really have the ending I had hoped for, I felt that the main character settled for a compromise at the end when he had been spending the whole book fighting for justice. And probably two-thirds of the way through "The Crazed", I wasn't enjoying it. But stubbornness, or boredom, or who knows what, kept me going. And I was pleasantly surprised by the final plot twist at the end of the book. Not pleasant enough to recommend that anyone read it, unless they like the idea of slogging through two hundred pages of slow plot revolving around a character who is progressively less and less likable.
See, the plot revolves around the crumbling life of Jian, a PhD candidate. His professor, mentor, and future father-in-law, Mr. Yang, has suffered a debilitating stroke. As Yang's mind unravels on his death bed, his ramblings and despair at a wasted life in academia convince Jian that he should skip the upcoming PhD test and set out on a different career path. (That's basically a summary of the first two hundred pages; like I said, not very exciting.) As Jian begins to make irrevocable decisions, like removing himself from PhD candidacy and dumping his fiancée (Mr Yang's daughter Meimei), it's clear that Ha Jin has titled the book "The Crazed", in the plural, to refer to both Yang and Jian. No one intervenes to keep Jian from throwing his life away, and it's not a very uplifting book to read.
But the redeemable part I found in the novel comes in the twist that Ha Jin adds in the final fifty pages. The story is set in the spring & summer of 1989, during which student protests in Tiananmen Square overshadowed Gorbachev's historic visit to Beijing, culminating in the bloody June 4th Tiananmen Square crackdown. As it's clear to Jian that he has thrown away all his opportunities, in a moment of assumed confidence and bravado he joins a roommate and a group of undergraduate students and travels to Beijing to take part in the student protests. They arrive on June 3, just in time for Jian to witness an army officer walk up to a student leader and blast his brains into the crowd with a pistol. Having survived the long night of carnage, Jian is tipped off by a friend that his name has been put on the list of wanted protestors. He packs his bag with two days' worth of clothes, burns his identity card, pawns off his bicycle, and gets on an overnight train for Guangzhou, hoping to sneak across the border to Hong Kong and safety. Thus ends the novel.
A quote that stuck in my mind:
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This realization made me see how essential personal motives were in political activities. Just as I rushed to Beijing to demonstrate my bravado to Meimei, in the name of revolution people acted on the basis of all kinds of personal interests and reasons. But our history books on the Communist revolution have always left out individuals' motives. I remembered that when talking about why they joined the Red Army or the Communist party, older revolutionaries had often said it was because they had wanted to escape an arranged marriage or to avoid debts or just to have enough food and clothes. It's personal interests that motivate the individual and therefore generate the dynamics of history.
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What remained in my head after I finished the novel was the connection between this passage and the title of the novel, "The Crazed". By developing a character who is self-admittedly losing control of his life, and having that character join the "noble" cause of the Tiananmen Square protests, Jin is making a very thought-provoking connection. Were there many other students like Jian, heading to Tiananmen not to fight for democracy, but simply to escape a crumbling life, with no opportunities and no escape? When the history books write about the Tiananmen Square protests, they will surely say that the evil Communist government massacred hundreds of innocent youth, martyrs for the cause of progress. But what was really going on? Can their protest truly be called noble?
I think Jin is trying to point to a fundamental tension in the discipline of history. The tension between the need to simplify and explain large watershed moments and the need to recognize that history is made up of individual actors with selfish reasons. A tension at the heart of the study of history. A tension that really has no resolution, a tension that makes history a fascinating area of study.
A book I find much more interesting, which illustrates the same tension in history, is "Underground" by Haruki Murakami. The book is simply a collection of interviews with survivors and perpetrators of the 1994 Sarin Gas Attacks in the Tokyo Subway, by the Aum Shinrikyo cult. Whereas Jin created a fictional story to illustrate this tension, Murakami went out and preserved in this book the actual words and motives and emotions that people experienced amidst a catastrophe. It's not an easy book to read as some of the narratives are confusing, but it's authentic. Snd Murakami's concluding essay in the book is focused and spot-on.
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Speaking frankly, if I were you, I wouldn't read "The Crazed" unless you're utterly fascinated by every single word I wrote about it. Two stars because Jin is a pretty darn good writer. But hey, I've got high standards. Not many books deserve five stars - Watership Down, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, or Dickens / Twain / Tolkien, authors like that. Maybe "Waiting" will be better. I'm going to stay skeptical. You save your money.
A fascinating commentary on the ills of Chinese society.......2006-05-19
This book is many things, but deep down, it is a commentary on the corruption endemic in Chinese society and how people use their positions of power to gain benefit for themselves and their family members.
Set in the spring of 1989 as China is in the chaos of a student revolution, Jien Wan's professor becomes hospitalized due to a stroke. Despite the fact that Wen is preparing for PhD entrance exams, the department assigns him to watch over his professor and father-in-law to be.
Over the course of his caring for Professor Yang, he witnesses rantings that he tries to piece together over the course of weeks. He thinks he has the rantings pretty much figured out by the time Yang's wife returns and arranges for care.
In the meantime, Wan, who is wrangling over his future, is sent to a far off county in order to secure a reference for a prospective party member. He comes to a harsh realization on his trip, that is how hard life is for the ordinary Chinese. He returns to Shanning with a new mission; to enter the policy department to try to right the wrongs of society.
However, he will find that events are out of his hands and that there is a grand conspiracy involving him, though far different from what he suspects from his interpretations of Professor Yang's rantings. The ultimate figuring this out and a ill conceived trip to Beijing changes his life forever.
The story is slow in developing, in typical Chinese style. The plot thickens with each ranting my Professor Yang, and all of the pieces are put in place with amazing skill and at just the right time. That makes the crushing end all the more difficult to take because one can't help but become extremely sympathetic with Jien. This is a great read that I very nearly gave a five.
Disjointed, uninteresting characters.......2006-04-25
As someone who was absolutely blown away by 'Waiting' I anticipated loving this as well. I did read a pre-publication proof that I found used in a local bookstore, so maybe there were some big changes between the proof and the finished product, but I was very disappointed in this story. As a few other reviewers have pointed out, the characters are totally one-dimensional, and Jian, the narrator, is relatively uninteresting and one doesn't really care what becomes of him. Plus, while what happened to Professor Yang after the Revolution was horrible, i'm sure it happpened to many, many intellectuals, so it wasn't that out of the ordinary. Finally, and I don't know if this was in the final novel or not, there is a note from the author at the end thanking someone for 'seeing the potential for this when she first read it in 1988.' So, my fear is that this is one of those first novels that was rejected, and suddenly, when a writer has success (as with 'Waiting') their earlier work magically is worthy of publication.
Overall, not a great novel, but an interesting view of pre-Tiannammen Square China, and Ha Jin is a good writer, and 'Waiting' was SO good that this wouldn't stop me from reading something else by him, but i'd pass on this one if I were you...
Customer Reviews:
Beautifully Composed.......2006-11-06
This Siddur is the one I use daily. I have the artscroll Siddur and it is a good choice also - but the Birnbaum speaks to my heart. The language is clearer and more accessible to me as someone not coming from a Jewish upbringing.
It is a source of comfort in times of trouble and a connection with Adonai.
A siddur I love .......2004-11-25
Once the Birnbaum siddur was the standard siddur for most Orthodox congregations. I remember it well from my childhood. I have a great affection for its ' clean and clear' look. There is a beauty in just seeing the Hebrew letters. I on occasion still davven with the Birnbaum synagogue. I have never thought of it this way but I suppose it adds a dimension in feeling , a kind of memory of past prayers, the worlds of my childhood.
It is simply a siddur I love.
Pocket edition of Ha-Siddur Ha-Shalem.......1999-09-01
Ha-Siddur ha-Shalem is a very good basic siddur. It has some good and not so good features I would like to share with others who are considering this siddur.
I like the completeness of this siddur. It takes me through the prayers of the day, week, month, and season with relative ease. Intertwined with the basic structure are the wonderful pieces of timeless teachings by the Sages and Rabbis, songs, and other writings that have helped steer the Jewish community over centuries. It has the following basic structure: Morning, afternoon and evening services; Welcoming of Sabbath; Evening, morning and afternoon services for Sabbaths; Ethics of the Fathers; Conclusion of Sabbath; Monthly rites; Yearly festival and memorial rites; Lifetime rites (death, birth, marriage); Blessings; Night Prayer.
I do not like the typesetting in this suddur. The Hebrew and Aramaic are of the classic Squares which are very hard on the eyes. No prayer stands out from any other prayer since the type used are all the same size with no shading of any text. Though this makes all prayers in this siddur stand in equal value of importance, the loss of distinction of the weekly, monthly, and seasonal prayer additions from the basic daily prayer can happen rather easily. However, the siddur has footnotes that give insight on how the prayers were constructed. I have found them to be very helpful and insightful. It is very refreshing to have an Orthodox siddur that is not polarised to extremists' opinions.
An excellant "heart" book.......1999-03-28
I first discovered this book sitting in a dusty corner of my parents book shelf and fell in love immediately. the way this siddur is worded reaches the spirit and draws the mental out of evey day affairs. It does not distinguish prayers in bold or italics because "no one prayer is any more important than the next prayer. An most wonderful, fulfilling siddur I've seen.
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