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quiste tirogloso
Great

Through Logan's Eyes
Logan has a choice to babysit or not

Bad Book!
Excellent Guidebook, like all LP guidebooks.

CT and MRI pics are of low quality

"Shoestrings" - excellent read but too much missing!I understand that LP are in the process of producing further separate guides thus breaking down this region again, which will be excellent. The guide itself, however, is a good read though!


Clever, well researched, has movie potentialAndy Logan, the author, only alludes to the dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of scandals whose payoffs made William Mann wealthy enough to afford his house in the country and his incredible, artery clogging meals at Delmonico's. The book's climax is a libel trial with Mann on the side of the plaintiff, and the resulting dirt falls on Mann, not on his victims. This is no spoiler -- the hand of Justice seems foreordained.
The book gets 3 stars because I think an author could have written a more compelling story around this material. Logan was, of course, a first class writer, but she didn't actually develop any characters, even though she provides the profusion of facts from which characters could be built. Aside from Mann himself, she fleshes out the backgrounds of some of his opponents, but never really structures a story around them.
This leads to my conclusion that this would make a good movie. The script could be a wooden-headed Hollywood costume vehicle, of course, or it could highlight the ethical ambiguities attending both the obvious bad guys and the apparent good guys of the Gilded Age, especially in New York. Logan provides a wealth of well-written material to support such a script, though her words don't provide all of the drama or comedy the film would need.


Dense text loses readerWhat this book has in abundance, and it is quite impressive in this respect, is an attempt to transcribe conversations; it shows quite a lot of story-telling in its most intimate manner -- among family members. This repeated story-telling from three different generations reveals how villagers evolve and perpetuate biases or points of view that are then repeated from generation to generation.
But what this book lacks is clarity. I wonder if this was not a problem of translation from the Arabic. The oral stories are told often without a prior reference for the pronouns "her, she, him , or he," making it difficult to understand. Not once, not twice, but many, many times I had to read over and reread again the same story looking for a reference and more often than not ending up, just going on without having a grip on who said what about exactly whom. And it is my belief that, every time a careful reader has to stop and go back to read again and still be left in a state of uncertainty, something is wrong with that text. Because I believe that Ms. Abouzeid is a good writer, I have to blame the translator -- which in this case is unfortunately, Ms. Abouzeid herself. Three stars -- Two taken out for reading difficulty.


It was OK.Recently widowed woman meets the grandson of the toy store santa (an aging ham actor) after Santa promises her young son *everything* on his Christmas list. The young widow is obviously dismayed by this promise, since she's not made of money; the kid is keeping mum about what's on his list!
The grandson (a hunky world-famous journalist, of course) is smitten and tries to help her out. Adorable hilarity ensues. Well, OK, there's not really that much hilarity, and it's not all that adorable, but it's nice enough.


Great book lots of action

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