The Amityville Horror

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This book scared the hell out of me!.......2007-09-02

Very well written! I love thrillers and this is the best that I've read so far. Anson desribes the accounts so vividly that I was disturbed for days after finishing the book. I would recommend this to anyone who isn't prone to nightmares.

[Un]Truely a Horror Story.......2007-08-22

I have actually only recently finished this book. I have to say that I stayed up until 3am last Snday morning reading it. I couldn't put it down!

Although, as far as I can remember, this story has been disproven, I still found it a scary read and somewhere in the back of my mind there was a part of me that kept telling me it was real.

In part I put that down to the author, who relates the story in such a way that it is completely believable. His prose style is such that it adds a air of "menace" to the story which leaves the reader wanting to know what happened.

If you've seen the film(s) and think you know the story, think again. the films do not do the story justice and there are more scares in the book that in the films.

If you have an interest in the "goings-on" at 112 Ocean Avenue, then buy this book and read. It may not change your mind, but it's an entertaining read, none the less.

AGAIN THE HORROR BOOK OF A LIFETIME!!!.......2007-08-17

If you think you have heard or learned all there is to this neverending true horror, YOU ARE WRONG!! This book will definately still scare the pants off of you and make you really wonder...are there really haunted houses & things that occur we do not understand?? I WOULD SAY YES!! READ..READ...READ!!

Sure it's a work of fiction, but this first visit to Long Island is scary!.......2007-08-16

Other than some of the names and the house, this is one of the best "Hoax's" ever put before the American people. That said it is also one of the scariest ghost stories I have ever read.
The events start small and seem tame and easy to explain but as the days go on it terror and haunting become worse, as a young family moves into a house where a young man killed his whole family. A great novel by Jay Anson and remember, "It's all true"

A Tremendously Scary Read!.......2007-06-27

I first came across this book a LONG time ago when I was about 13 years old. A friend of mine was reading it and passed it along for me to read. Boy, was it SCARY!! Not horror-movie scary, but paranoid scary! Of course, at 13, who wouldn't be? We had a two-foot high ceramic owl statue in my house and I could barely stand to be alone in the same room with it.

I read the book at least 2 more times as an adult in my twenties. It was still as terrifying as it was when I was a kid. I think the author did a great job with the imagery. If someone told me about bleeding walls and levitations, I would just think it was gross or stupid, but this book is believable. Regardless whether or not it's true, it feels real when you're reading it and your imagination will run WILD!

I've been looking to purchase a copy for years and thought it was out of print, so here I am on Amazon placing an order.

Good luck reading this book--oh, and I would read it during the daytime hours!

Investigating Farscape: Uncharted Territories of Sex and Science Fiction (Investigating Cult TV)

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A book that did not need to be written.

Investigating Farscape: Uncharted Territories of Sex and Science Fiction (Investigating Cult TV)
Jes Battis
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ASIN: 184511342X
Release Date: 2007-07-10

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"My name is John Crichton. I'm lost. An astronaut. Shot through a wormhole. In some distant part of the universe. I'm trying to stay alive. Aboard this ship. This living ship. Of escaped prisoners." During its fourth and--for the present--final season, Farscape was the Sci-Fi Channel's highest rated original series. With its dedicated fan-base, Farscape seasons are still top-billing Sci Fi DVDs. This first substantial analysis of the show, written by a scholar-fan, uncovers Farscape's layers and those of the living spaceship Moya. Jes Battis proposes that Farscape is as much about bodies, sex and gender, as it is about wormholes, space ships and interstellar warfare. It is this straddling of genres that makes the show so viewable to such a broad audience, of which almost half are women. He explores Farscape's language and characters, including Moya, its creation of family and home, of masculinity and femininity, and the transformation of an all-American boy

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A book that did not need to be written........2007-08-28

The author is confused from what the show gave us, and searches (using his words) to "queer" the show as much as possible, when there is no need to do so.

He also does not understand some of the European influences and ethos on the show and is caught up in poor arguments.

For example Chiana has a "tralk", which the Farscape community accepts as a meaning "slut", yet there are plenty of people in reality who are very comfortable in their sexuality and are not weak or gender-trapped.

The author is determined to take some of the shows key moments and inject his "queerness" in every moment.

I must stress I am not homophobic in any way but Season 1 - finale with John and D'Argo drifting in Space above the destroyed Gammak Base, he argues poorly to turn that into a sexual argument.

60 Minutes and the Assassination of Werner Erhard: How America's Top Rated Television Show Was Used in an Attempt to Destroy a Man Who Was Making A Difference

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Knowledge with understanding is close to wisdom ***
Get A Clue
So what happened next?
The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth
why try so hard?

60 Minutes and the Assassination of Werner Erhard: How America's Top Rated Television Show Was Used in an Attempt to Destroy a Man Who Was Making A Difference
Jane Self
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ASIN: 0942540239

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Knowledge with understanding is close to wisdom ***.......2004-09-17

This book gets 5 stars for its research effort and zero for wisdom. The author spent a whole day interviewing Werner on Sept. 15, 1991. Too bad this lady author didn't publish her 7-hour taped conversation with Werner. May be her next book?

Interesting that another lady wrote a review on the 3rd anniversary of 911. May be like 911 the lady read the book too quickly and didn't notice that this lady author has already provided the answers to her question in the book.

The first 2 daughters retracted their story while the third one most probably with cohesion with her husband disappeared.

What I find funny is that Werner bothered to take a lie detector test before the March 3, 1991 CBS show. In reality even before the show Werner made preparation to leave the country & EST. The gift of that 60-minutes was to re-enforce the already started process of Werner leaving EST in the hands of the capable hands of his trained coaches that were to form Landmark & Forum.

Just like certain people can see the benefit of Dalai Lama forced to leave Tibet in order to spread the Tibetan version of Buddhism with all its mystical illusions.

As to why his own 3 out of 7 children proclaimed that their natural deserting daddy is a child molester on the 60-min show can be easily explained by Werner's 'own fall from heaven story' which is described in my review of "Werner Erhard Transformation of a man: the founding of EST". That is simple, 44 years later, cause and effect and an example of the pervasiveness of every one's own 'fall from heaven story' in one's own life.

Because of that gift, EST & FORUM can't be said to be cult, since the founder disbanded EST & is now only a researcher that's drawing his revenues from his rigidly crafted & copyrighted course design.

Only a few of the Forum attendees and even coaches bother to read Werner's biography or even heard of his name. By definition a cult must be around a central figure, like Bush's son or Reagan or Hitler, etc, who is supposedly providing central security and correctness for all participants while at the same time at war with all non-participants in the name of future equality and peace. Instead of present equality and peace.

I saw when I met Werner in Japan in 1996, he was being served food while his close attendants were sat with no food in front of them. This is the only thing I didn't like about the hierarchy of coaches vs. attendees or volunteers. There is no equality.

Although I do understand & appreciate that the coaches in 1996, now more to 50 of them according to LandmarkEducation, earned only a paltry $50k annual salary for their original effort and real contribution to humankind. I don't see any reason that they're treated as upper-class, like the apprenticeship for the very hierarchical Japan's Sumo wrestlers or Japan's own very untouchables Buraku sect or any royalty or upper-classmanship. That's feudalism not wisdom.

Werner by choosing Japan, without China. as its audience is making the same mistake as Gandhi. Gandhi chose to use his life energy of non-violence toward the English establishment and could have also chosen for breaking through India's more than 2,000 years tradition of inequality as preserved in the various sects from Brahman to Untouchables. A longer lasting & larger contribution to humankind.

Naturally although "equality" is the cry for emancipation of all revolutions from the Bastille to the US Declaration of Independence to the Communist revolutions the world over. Once the revolutions were over, there was no more mention of "equality"! Why? Is it to preserve the new status quo of a new upper class instead of what the revolution called for EQUALITY?

Get A Clue.......2004-09-17

What nonsense. Don't believe me? See if you can find anything else written by author "Jane Self, PhD" And check out the rest of the catalog from "Breakthru Publishing." If you think Werner Erhard was run out of town by the scientologists, ask him why he "made himself a victim," or "created his own victimization," why don't you? This is just another feeble attempt salvage or rewrite or rearrange the facts of his - Werner Erhard's - sleazy reputation. Est "acolytes" and Landmark "followers" are so desperate to prop up an image of their hero they will believe anything. Even this kind of garbage.

So what happened next?.......2004-07-22

The book is well researched and collects plenty of hard to find information in one place. The narrative connects the dots in a way the leaves Erhard's reputation intact (using Erhard's meaning of reputation, relayed somewhere in the book), even as we watch his media image go from bad to terrible. This is an important contribution to the historical record. No matter how cynical one is about Erhard, he deserves to have a say in how the story of his own life gets told (even as he works to remain above the "soap opera" in his philosophical outlook).

'60 Minutes' got its chance. Now we get a low budget response by a journalist who is up front about her agenda.

I'm writing this in 2004, long after the events in this book transpired. Charlene Afermow, mentioned in the book as a member of the anti-Erhard camp (and one my trainers -- Walter Kaufmann and David Raymond enrolled me at Princeton in the late 1970s), is still with Landmark as I understand it (my friend Sara says she led her advanced course). That's interesting. How did that defamation lawsuit filed by Werner's lawyer in a Chicago court turn out? In the book, it's still pending, as was one of the tax court cases.

Again, regardless of one's opinion of Erhard, whether based on first hand knowledge, or a picture of human nature and gurudom in general, he is/was a pivotal figure in my life time. A lot of energy was expended by a lot of people around the programs and organizations he worked to establish, for better or for worse (my own opinion is for better).

I also wonder if Self (the author) has an overly limited view of the scope of the anti-Erhard camp. Sure, the Scientology organization was out to get him at many levels (not true of all scientologists), but perhaps he was considered a threat by others as well -- a global network, connections in the Soviet bloc, rubbing shoulders with policy makers, and in the 1980s, the overlap with Buckminster Fuller. I could see this making a lot of people uncomfortable, besides Church of Scientology execs.

The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth.......2004-04-17

If ever a truer book was ever written about Werner Erhard and Scientology this is it. The sad thing is Scientology's leadership succeeded in eliminating him as a competitor. The good thing is, he was planning to leave anyway. Jane Self is a writer with the courage to fully investigate a story and to leave no stone unturned. As someone who worked inside Werner Erhard's organization, and was around when the events of this book occurred, I attest to its accuracy and honesty. Why am I writing this anonymously? I don't want them coming after me like they went after Werner Erhard.

why try so hard?.......2003-12-30

It amazes me no end how hard the cultists of cultism work to try to bad-mouth the est Training & Werner Erhard and the new Landmark Education Forum, as in a few reviews below. I did the est Training in 1978 and have been using the technology of transformation in my life every day since, something the cultists cannot fathom. And that is so even when I'm not able to participate in Landmark courses, such as the multi-week seminars. I saw a redneck bigot give up his bigotry in a weekend during the CAP Course, and that was not even a covered topic -- the man moved from racial slurs to asking to hug the 250-pound black man that he had offended the day before.

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Lieutenant Horatio Caine of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab is called in to investigate a mysterious death at an organic eatery. He finds the victim, waiter Phillip Mulrooney, bent over a stainless steel toilet, his clothing shredded. There are burn marks on his face and cell phone fragments scattered around, and his shoes are blown off his feet. Incredible as it seems, the initial evidence points to death by lightning strike.

The staff at The Earthly Garden believe Mulrooney's death is an act of God -- punishment for straying from the Vitality Method, their spiritual philosophy that inner beauty can be revealed by nurturing the physical and spiritual.

The only philosophy Lieutenant Horatio Caine believes in is justice for the victim -- and he'll move heaven and earth to get it.

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"Lieutenant Horatio Caine of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab is called in to investigate a mysterious death at an organic eatery. He finds the victim, waiter Phillip Mulrooney, bent over a stainless steel toilet, his clothing shredded. There are burn marks on his face and cell phone fragments scattered around, and his shoes are blown off his feet. Incredible as it seems, the initial evidence points to death by lightning strike. The staff at The Earthly Garden believe Mulrooney's death is an act of God -- punishment for straying from the Vitality Method, their spiritual philosophy that inner beauty can be revealed by nurturing the physical and spiritual. The only philosophy Lieutenant Horatio Caine believes in is justice for the victim -- and he'll move heaven and earth to get it.

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Great Read!.......2006-11-08

I originally picked this book up as a "cheesy" read for the beach or on an airplane, and I was surprised at how good it was! It really captured the essense of the characters, and while it was technical in places it was very readable and understandable.

Definitely better than the Collins books.......2006-06-28

This book was a lot truer to the television series than the two previous books in the genre. The characters voices were very much in tune with what you see on the screen, and the situation was unique enough to capture your attention, and plausible enough to believe it. The original characters were *people* and not cardboard cutouts. The language flowed smoothly, the settings didn't overpower the story, and the story didn't jerk from place to place to suit the author's timeframe. I for one am eagerly awaiting the next book - something I will NEVER do for Mr. Collins.

Keep 'em coming!.......2006-05-12

This is the first CSI:Miami book I've read; I've watched the TV series often. I was delighted that the author caught the essence of the TV characters. I could hear the voices and phrasing of the actors as I read.
I think the appeal of the CSI series is that we can actually learn something new while we are being entertained. For me, the book version enhances that learning opportunity, without the sometimes gory special effects distractions.
Overall, the book has a lively and interesting plot line, and showed skillful use of technical details. I look forward to more CSI:Miami books by this author.

Jorge and Snoopy don't know what they're talking about........2006-04-06

For a more accurate (and fairer) review,
go to: http://www.the-trades.com/article.php?id=4106

This author is no Max Allan Collins.......2006-03-03

I am a great fan of the CSI: series TV shows and absolutely love the CSI: books written by Max Allan Collins. Eager to read another CSI: Miami book, I decided to give Donn Cortez a try. This author clearly does not have the feel for the characters and smooth storylines of the TV show. The book was filled with too many technicalities on rocket-building, etc., and is just bogged down with excessively detailed explanations. I am an avid reader,and this has to be one of the worst books I have read in a long time. If you want to read a CSI: book, stick to the ones written by Max Allan Collins!

Investigating Alias: Secrets and Spies (Investigating Cult TV)

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Investigating Alias: Secrets and Spies (Investigating Cult TV)

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ASIN: 1845114051
Release Date: 2007-07-10

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First aired in 2001, Alias is a spy drama with a central action heroine, a complex narrative of moral twists, turns, lies and double-crosses, and an imaginative array of gadgets, gizmos and glamorous costumes. It has become a leading cult television series with a loyal fan following. In the wake of 9/11, Alias’ themes of doubles and duplicity have been perfectly placed to comment on global relations and the personal paranoias of post 9/11 citizens. But as much as Alias reflects contemporary global politics, at its core are themes of family and relationships. The series is ending with a bang in 2006 and this is the first book to give a detailed examination of the series in its entirety, with a complete episode guide.

Placing the series within the wider context of American Quality Television and the spy genre, contributors consider the central role of family, race, gender and moral ambiguity in Alias. They also focus on the creator, JJ Abrams, and discuss the development and influence of the fan world beyond the series with in-depth studies of DVD releases, tie-in, fan and slash fiction. Designed for fans, lovers of spies on screen, students and scholars, Investigating Alias uncovers the secrets of a fantastic show

Cult TV: A Viewer's Guide to the Shows America Can't Live Without

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Cult TV: A Viewer's Guide to the Shows America Can't Live Without
John Javna , and Roland Addad
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ASIN: 0312242956

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Television addicts of America unite!

At last! Here's the book you've been waiting for to fill those idle moments while you're waiting for Star Trek ("Beam me up, Scotty"), Monty Python's Flying Circus ("And now for something completely different"), or The Mary Tyler Moore Show ("Hi, guys!") to come on the air.

Cult TV includes the unknown tales of the shows' origins, the truth about how the stars got their roles (and where they are now), important episodes, fan club information, and more trivia than even the most crazed connoisseur of repeat viewing could ever need!

Here, in one volume, is more than you've ever dreamed of knowing about Hymie the Robot, the Batmobile, Barney Fife, the 12th Precinct, the Jupiter II, and the rest of the weird and wonderful features immortalized in over seventy-five cult television programs!

Are M*A*S*H and I Love Lucy over for the day? Don't despair . . . Cult TV will whisk you right back to rerun heaven! Yes, now you can visit forever with Rob and Laura, Batman and Robin, Gomez and Morticia, Rocky and Bullwinkle, and Al and Peg!

Over Seventy-Five Cult Favorites! Including:

The Andy Griffith Show
The Honeymooners
I Love Lucy
Leave It to Beaver
M*A*S*H
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Twilight Zone
Batman
The X-Files
The Prisoner
Dr. Who
The Simpsons
Married . . . with Children
Rocky and Bullwinkle
The Monkees
Fawlty Towers
The Odd Couple
Taxi
Twin Peaks
I Dream of Jeannie
Barney Miller
The Flintstones
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Mission: Impossible
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Saturday Night Live
Dark Shadows
All in the Family
Star Trek: The Next Generation
The Avengers

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An amazing behind-the-scenes glimpse

THE PRISONER -Captured Alive! with the rest of the ITC Gang!

Cult TV: The Golden Age of ITC
Robert Sellers
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The Prisoner: The Original Scripts

ASIN: 0859653889

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The British company ITC created some of the wildest, most inventive television shows ever made, series that remain cult classics on both sides of the Atlantic: The Saint, The Persuaders, The Prisoner, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Space 1999, The Muppet Show, and many others. This entertaining behind-the-scenes history tells the story of these groundbreaking shows through firsthand interviews with nearly 50 actors, directors, and creators and a wealth of anecdotes and illustrations, including many rare and previously unseen photographs from the ITC archives.

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An amazing behind-the-scenes glimpse.......2007-05-08

Film/television writer and journalist Robert Sellers presents Cult TV: The Golden Age of ITC, an examination of the legendary media company responsible for just about every cult/fantasy television show of the 1960s and 70s, from "Thunderbirds" to "The Prisoner" to "The Muppet Show". Vintage black-and-white photographs pepper this exciting behind-the-scenes history, drawn from interviews with more than 50 stars and big names. An amazing behind-the-scenes glimpse into the making of 60's and 70's American popular culture.

THE PRISONER -Captured Alive! with the rest of the ITC Gang!.......2006-12-24

Author Robert Sellars has done a great job of bringing together all the ITC British TV shows in one very detailed and well researched book. From "Robin Hood" to "The Prisoner", "The Saint" to "Thunderbirds", its all here. Complete with the fascinating behind-the-scenes stories, that give the reader even more reason to view the shows again, all these years later. Specially since most of them are readily available on dvd through Amazon.

ITC was -legendary TV and entertainment mogul Lew Grade. Later knighted by the Queeen, for his services to the industry. Grade took on Hollywood at their own game and for the most part won out. A master showman and salesman, he was of another era. A time that saw him green lighting new ITC shows on just a smile and a handshake. A time when personal instinct and loyalty usually paid off. The late 1970's and early 80's,saw ITC moving into the movie market with not always so good results, remember "Raise The Titantic"? But Sir Lew did introduce us to "The Muppets" both on TV and on the big screen. His detractors called him Sir "Low" Grade, but when you consider what he accomplished even before he created ITC. And then to bring us such an iconic British TV output on such tight budgets and schedules and with such diverse talent as Richard Greene, Roger Moore, Patrick McGoohan and alike -well it's all in this book -with plenty of pictures!

You'll hear from the actors, the writers, the producers and directors that worked on the ITC production assembly line. Memories both good and bad and all with that distinct British sense of humour. Notice being British myself and having grown-up with these shows in the old country, I continue to spell certain words differently. But you'll have no trouble understanding the meaning of what these TV imports had on American viewers.

ITC exists today, only through its exstensive and profitable library, which is part of some other multi-national media conglomerate. But the Grade name continues in showbiz, through his nephew Michael who heads up the Pinewood-Shepperton Studio group. However, as the cover of the book shows and the title name "Cult TV" implies, it is Patrick McGoohan's cult 1960's show "The Prisoner", that continues to stand out the most. An ITC failure at the time that went on to become one of life's strange ironies. A personal "inside joke", that would have Sir Lew himself, turning in his grave to light up another of his big trademark cigars for!

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Hedi Slimane: London Birth Of A Cult
Hedi Slimane
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ASIN: 3865211690
Release Date: 2005-09-15

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Over the past year Pete Doherty's life has epitomised the trajectory of a true rock In roll legend. Following a fraught departure from The Libertines, he has been vilified and cast as a scapegoat for conservative political posturing. A feeding frenzy of press coverage was precipitated by his dating Kate Moss, charges of robbery, blackmail, and carrying a knife, jail time, rehab, and admissions that he had been a prostitute and drug dealer. All of this overwhelms the most interesting aspect of the 26 year old musician's life--in a business dominated by manufactured mediocre talents, he is a true original, a charismatic frontman, songwriter, and performer. The past two years of Doherty's life are captured here in photographs taken by Dior Homme fashion designer Hedi Slimane. Doherty's current band, Baby-shambles, will release a new album in Summer 2005.

The Rough Guide to British Cult Comedy 1 (Rough Guide Reference)

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Informative, witty
Get up to speed!

The Rough Guide to British Cult Comedy 1 (Rough Guide Reference)
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ASIN: 1843536188

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he Rough Guide to British Cult Comedy is the ultimate guide to live andtelevision comedy in Britain from the 1960s to the present day. FromSpike Milligan to Victoria Wood, this book profiles fifty of the mostinfluential cult comedy icons and discovers how they became householdnames. Throughout the book there are tips from comedians and industryinsiders, with a mix of amusing anecdotes and practical suggestions forwriting and performing your own live show. The guide reviews the topcult comedy on TV and in the movies, with a detailed focus on whatinspired them and what they in turn inspired. Comedy Storieslooks at the highs and lows of performing live comedy with tales of therowdiest hecklers and strangest audiences. The book comes complete witha round up of the best dvds, books and comic websites available.

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Informative, witty .......2007-04-02

Thorough, well-written and at times a laugh-out-loud read, this book offers a complete crash course for anyone interested in the history of British cult comedy. Ever wanted to learn more about that unique "British sense of humor", well Julian Hall explores and describes this in the perfect amount of detail. Hall writes about fifty iconic British comics, many television shows, and, my own personal favorite chapter, a wonderful look at the birth and growth of American comedy and it's influence on British comedy. The book is an instuctional read for both those knowlegeable about comedy and those new to the subject matter. Hall provides wonderful references for further investigation, as well as a smart and witty style of writing that could earn himself a place in his own book. This is a must read!

Get up to speed!.......2006-12-20

If you want to get up to speed with the UK comedy scene and find out what US comedians and comedy shows influenced British comedy from Eddie Izzard to The Office then this book is the one for you. There's a blog for the book too which is really helpful.

TokyoScope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion

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Macias' Masterpiece
A Genius book which they should make another...
educational even for a Japanese cinemaphile
Disapointing
Fully satisfying!

TokyoScope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion
Patrick Macias , Happy Ujihashi , Kinji Fukasaku , and Takashi Miike
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ASIN: 1569316813

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Patrick Macias' TokyoScope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion. TokyoScope is the first book of its kind: an elegantly designed, engagingly written introduction to the world of Japanese pop films covering Godzilla, karate, gangster, horror, Japan's infamous "pink" movies, and more.

Did you know that Samuel L. Jackson's Biblical speech in Pulp Fiction was borrowed from the brain-damaged Sonny Chiba karate flick The Bodyguard? Or that the design for the Smog Monster in Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster was based on a bathroom sketch of female anatomy? TokyoScope is a densely packed and illustrated volume full of trivia, biographies, poster art, and reviews of some 100 of the top films to see. It provides an attractive and accessible introduction to the world's most notorious movies and is an indispensable reference that belongs in the library of any true cult film fan.

Battle Royale director Kinji Fukasaku, who penned the Foreword to TokyoScope, writes, "In this book you will find as good an analysis of what we were trying to do as I have ever read. Patrick Macias has written very keenly and with much understanding about Japanese films, mine included."

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Macias' Masterpiece.......2007-05-19

Never mind the haters, this book has the goods. An excellent resource and a joy to read, this is the place to start your exploration of some of the most amazing Japanese films you're likely to see in this lifetime. Hip, funny and oh so knowledgable, Macias has written a film companion that you'll be coming back to again and again.

A Genius book which they should make another..........2007-03-17

Tokyoscope:The Japanese Cult film Companion is a great book if you want to know about the 5 [now 4] banned films and disaster films. I was shocked about the Pink and Violent section [Recommned for 18 and up]. I just wish they include the Toho disaster flick Conflagration which was an inspiration to a story I wrote at school. In Conclusion this book was great.

P.S. Pat Macias PLEASE WRITE A BOOK ON JAPANESE DISASTER FILMS SOON!!!!!!!!!

educational even for a Japanese cinemaphile.......2003-08-21

I wouldn't call myself an expert on Japanese movies, but I do get to every movie festival I can that has Asian features (a great one--the Philapdelphia film festival and their Action Asia selections). I regularly scan the gray market and grab at whatever tickles my fancy even remotely. But this book still provided me with an education. I quibble sometimes with the author's taste, but his breadth of knowledge is undebatable. I now keep this book on my computer desk as I scan for more titles to fuel my little obsession.

Disapointing.......2003-04-19

I was looking for more insight into some films that I enjoyed. Instead the author spent more time talking abotu the film process than anything.

I did like the presentation though

Fully satisfying!.......2003-02-07

Feeling like a collection of incredible Japan-centered zines, TokyoScope hosts reviews, interviews, and assorted oddities together for one whiz-bang collection of Japanese film. Omitting overexposed works of anime and chambara, Macias instead focuses on under-appreciated genres like yakuza-eiga and roman porno and stars such as Sonny Chiba and Bunta Sugawara. Additionally, TokyoScope contains interviews with directors Kinji Fukasaku and Takashi Miike.

Boasting scads of reviews for dozens of films I've never had the pleasure of seeing, TokyoScope is a terrific step in the right direction for folks who want to associate themselves with the multifaceted cinema from the Land of the Rising Sun. (ISBN: 1569316813)

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