It's fantastic that we finally here the dialog of the monster that was cut out of the picture. Bela Lugosi played the monster in the film. Why was it cut out? The explanation makes no sense since Bela voiced the monster in the final scenes of the previous film. It worked then so why not with this film? The hacking of this script ruined this film. It would have been a much better movie if they left the dialog in. It explains so much.
This a great book for those who are fans of the movie and the Universal monsters. In fact, it's a must!

Another in the great series of Universal Filmscripts. The pictures alone are worth the price of the book. The background also tells about Lugosi's dialogue being cut out and what some of it was. It also explains the ending and the escape of Massey, Knowles, and Ouspenskaya (which is not shown in the film). It is a shame that production of these filmscripts didn't cover ALL of the Universal Horror Movies because of the detailed background of each.

The front cover says 'Beyond Sensuous' and that is a true
description of Indigo After Dark: II. This volume is written
as two separate books and each book shares about 10 short
sexual exploits.

'Brown Sugar Diaries' by Dolores Bundy is a sensual view
through the eyes of raw, uninhibited and sexually free women.
The escapades are a potpourri of explicit, vividly portrayed
erocticism that take you on an exotic journey with characters
that go beyond..., to unbridled pleasure.

'The Forbidden Art of Desire' by Cole Riley shows that sensual
view through a man's eyes. Riley offers a variety of
circumstances, that are so intensely arousing that you are
not able to determine if it's lust or love. The one thing in
all of these exploits is that 'desire' is the key ingredient
for a simmering, sensual hot bed of fulfillment.

I advise you to heed the caution in the front:
"Reading this book causes extreme stimulation, lust
and exquisite languor", and then read at your own risk.

Reviewed by aNN

"Brown Sugar Diaries" by Dolores Bundy. These ten short and some short-short stories are cleverly designed so that the reader can feel the emotions (and vividly so) of the lead protagonists. Each entertaining story has a different level of sensuality and sexuality as the erotica crosses much of the spectrum.

"The Forbidden Art of Desire" by Cole Riley. This nine set also consists of short and short-short stories that aptly hook the heart, soul, and other bodily parts of the reader who tastes the desires of the lead characters. Each tickling tale provides temptation.

The entire anthology is well written with a warning label about not having handy someone the reader "wouldn't want to love". Keep in mind the collection is African equatorial hot so make sure your significant other comes up to the task at hand.

Harriet Klausner

Terrence Riley's introduction to the museum of modern art show's "The Unprivate House" sets up a great framework for categorizing the architectural intent of the 26 examples of residential design represented in this show. Riley reminds us that historically privacy was not always associated with dwellings. Just when we may have become committed to private dwellings, this book challenges that notion and asks us to consider the reality of our revolution in communication and media, complex multi-generational housing needs, and the fact that many homes actually house only a single person. This book provokes the question; what is the character of the housing that will best suit our changing times? Each of the examples challenges our thinking in some way concerning the design of residences today; e.g. should a mixed-use work/home space be clearly divided into distinct sections-even in distinct architectural materials or forms- or should these functions merge together, as is the case in the house designed for wall street currency traders (they even have a video monitor above their jacuzzi). Privacy is challenged to the greatest degree in the structure that closes itself off from the street with a literal "curtain wall." A perceived building line is virtually non- existent when the curtains are open.

An amazing book of an equally amazing exhibition. The book continues where the exhibition left off, questioning what is private and what is not in each of the houses. More than that, the reader should look at each house and the "architectural letter" that it claims to write. Koolhaas' house is a Corbusian critique with a Miesian base. Xavier's house si definately Corbu, the slow house is a slug....and more. Each is an individual criticism on modern architecture and/or on the state of architecture today.

A note:
This is the most comprehensive list of architects that we should look out for....and are the worlds' best. Also if anyone can understand each of these projects, he has understood 80% of architecture today....(but that is if he "reads" each of the houses :-) Each house is prototypical of the architect's interests and what drives him.....see the house and you will understand all his other projects.

BTW get that Menil house out of there. There is no letter he is writing.....

Hemingway fans will adore this book, but for anyone interested in literary and artistic Paris, this exceptional guidebook will also lead you to the haunts of such luminaries as James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, e. e. cummings, Sylvia Beach, Gertrude Stein and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Author Fitch includes a helpful introduction to Paris, followed by an insightful introduction to Hemingway's Paris. Seven self-guided tours contain detailed commentaries for each stop along the route. The best of the itineraries take you along the Seine, through the Latin Quarter and around the Luxemburg gardens, which are the most pleasant places to walk in Paris anyway. Even though it's easy to get lost in the maze of short and angled streets of Paris, clear, good-sized maps throughout the book keep you oriented. Nearly fifty black-and-white photographs, many of them historic, evoke the ambience of Paris in the 1920s. Photos include Sylvia Beach in her Shakespeare and Company bookstore; Scott, Zelda and Scottie Fitzgerald celebrating Christmas in their apartment on rue de Tilsitt; a wicked cartoon of James Joyce drawn by Fitzgerald in 1928; and, of course, Hemingway. A detailed index helps you find information about places and people.

After loosely following Tour Two through the Saint Germain neighborhood, my daughter Anne and I had morning coffee and pastries at the Cafe de Flore, Anne scribbling away in her journal. When I teasingly asked the waiter how Hemingway, and later the Existentialist writers who haunted the Cafe de Flore in the 40s and 50s, managed to get any writing done on the tiny, round tables barely large enough to hold a plate, he teased me back by pushing two of the tables together so I had plenty of room to pen my immortal postcards. But unless money is no object, it's too expensive to order much more than coffee at the famous Left Bank hangouts of Hemingway and his expatriate cohorts. On Rue de Buci and Rue de Abbaye in the Saint Germain neighborhood, close to Hemingway's Cafe de Flore and Les Deux Magots, you'll find less expensive, less pretentious cafes where you can order a great bowl of French onion soup.

After two important introductory chapters, the seven walks take the reader or tourist to every Hemingway (and Fitzgerald) site in Paris. These walks were tried/previewed by many classes of students at the American University of Paris. Although a few details date the book, it holds up today! The walks, by the way, include wonderful quotations from many of Hemingway's novels, short stories, and his memoir of Paris. Buy the book and come to Paris!!

Though only twenty-eight years old, Stephanie Sergant has been a widow for over five years due to her beloved spouse being killed during Desert Storm. When she inherits, along with her sister, their great Aunt Magnolia's Natchez mansion, Stephanie returns to her hometown to live in the old house. However, instead of having restful evenings, Stephanie is the only person who seems to be haunted by a gaggle of ghosts that include her aunt and the Goddard brood. Stephanie promises to fix everything when she travels back in time.

When Stephanie next wakes up, she is sharing the house with widow Andre Goddard, his five little children, and their housekeeper. The year is 1878. Stephanie feels that she was returned in time to help the shy housekeeper and the handsome widower fall in love and live happily ever after. However, Cupid's arrow strikes Stephanie who falls in love with Andre and his children. The Goddard family reciprocate the emotion. Though love is shared, Stephanie fears that she is not long for the nineteenth century and, therefore, cannot commit to anything resembling a lifetime.

WALTZ IN TIME is a fun to read time travel romance due to the relationship between the female protagonist and the entire Goddard clan, including the housekeeper. Readers will empathize with all the characters (except for one particularly nasty mother) and dance to a well written story line. Eugenia Riley makes traveling in time pure ecstasy.

Harriet Klausner

I am not about to write a summary of this book - you have already got that in the synopsis. All I want to say is that this book will make simply forget everything around you, it will keep you turning pages and fall in love with the main characters. A must-read.

With all due respect to Peter Caldwell, I think this book has a lot of value for all Americans, including Vietnam veterans. There are some photos which are propaganda, but they are labelled as such and as the author explains they are part of a larger story. All wars come with propaganda, even our own present war in Afghanistan (remember the US Special Forces soldiers riding horses with the Northern Alliance guys?) The other photos in this handsome book are stunning, especially a very wide panorama of a terribly defoliated Ho Chi Minh Trail. Very touching portraits elsewhere as well as dramatic battle scenes, in addition to the brief histories of the Vietnamese war photographers (in their own words) make this a very valuable and important book. There is something inside for everyone, just dig a little deeper past your first reaction...

This is a tough book to sum up in a few words, since many people will use their background to judge it. If you felt we should have won the war, you will hate it. I was forced to serve in VietNam and I found the pictures very interesting. More than just the US era in VietNam, the photos go back to WWII. There are pictures of the Ho Chi Mih trail which vividly show the difficulty in shutting off that supply line. There are pictures of what the US now calls 'collateral damage' from the bombing in the North. There are some propaganga photos, but they are so stated. But far and away there are photos showing the everyday life of those involved in combat, and for that it is a very valuable book. It is a documentation from the other side. Considering how our drill instructors were wont to describe the other side as a bunch of pj'ed peasants, the quality of the photos is first rate. I can not begin to imagine the conditions under which many of the photos were taken, let alone survived to be developed. If you have an open mind about the war, you will enjoy the book. If you already have decided about the war and felt we were suppsoed to have won 'if only....', then I am sure there are lots of gung ho war movies and books for sale on Amazon.com that will better suit your mindset.

As a former Marine Corps combat photographer and recipient of the Purple Heart and Bronze Star with Combat "V," (I Corps, Khe Sahn, Con Thein, Dong Ha, Vietnam), Peter Caldwell missed the point about the book. The book was not produced to glorify the NVA or the politics (which enough has been written), but simply to add another piece to a broad visual mozaic. Dr. Caldwell would certainly be hard pressed to attend the International Assn of Combat Photographers. Its membership include former Nazi photographers. In our world as combat photographers, then as now, our role was to document war, to present images however controversal or appealing, to the public. Sometimes these images can be bitter medicine for both sides...just like the images of My Lai.

Tim Page did an excellent job compiling a visual treasure of the North Vietnamese photographers. And as a former combat photographer, I was stunned to view their work. Other distinguished photographers and correspondents like Larry Burrows, Bernard Falls, Henry Huet, Sean Flynn, Dana Stone -- to name a few who I had the pleasure to meet and work with and all were killed in Southeast Asia, they would hold this book in high regard. After all, as combat correspondents we did not judge but observed. And that's what this book is all about.

SSgt. F. Lee
Combat Photographer ('66-67)

I'm halfway through, and wondering how long it will take to finish. I have never before felt this way about a book by Judith. I ADORE "A Vision of Light," et al. But this one is slow, the characters are shallow, and it's laughably silly in parts with the heroine hardly reacting to ghosts and a "terrible" demon head who whines like a child and tosses out lame jokes. (Then there's the fallen angel of history and the sparkly "things" swirling around him--seriously, it's described that way.) If the characters have no fear of these "evil" beings, why should the reader? At times, I felt I was reading a children's book or a comic book. The witch in Snow White is scarier. There was no sense of suspense or danger because of this.

And no, the heroine deson't have to be perfect--but she should be interesting and sympathetic.

If you haven't read JKR's other books, please don't start with this one. Find a copy of "A Vision of Light"--one of the most memorable, touching, moving, and humorous historicals I've ever read.

In 1556, King Henri grants his favors to his mistress Diane de Poitiers at the expense of his wife, Queen Catherine de Medici. The great prophet Nostradamus foresees his liege Queen Catherine plans to use the evil Undying Head of Menander the Magus to rid her of her rival to the King. Nostradamus worries about Catherine using the destructive Menander because the "MASTER OF ALL DESIRES grants the exact wish to his user, but the cost is death.

Nostradamus hurries to Paris to try to stop Catherine from releasing the malevolent essence. On the way, Nostradamus learns that a struggling poet, Sibille Artaud de la Roques possesses the head. Sibille plans to make a wish to obtain her deepest wants. Predicting France ill become prey to a deadly civil war, Nostradamus tries to save two women from their own doings.

Judith Merkle Riley always provides fans of historical fiction with a winning novel. Her latest tale, THE MASTER OF ALL DESIRES, will enhance her reputation for the best. The story line includes a who's who from sixteenth century Europe, but it is the supernatural elements that add a intriguing twist to the plot. Ms. Riley makes the otherworldly powers seem genuine, making this intelligent and humorous book a must read for sub-genre fans or anyone who enjoys top entertainment in their literature.

In 1556, King Henri grants his favors to his mistress Diane de Poitiers at the expense of his wife, Queen Catherine de Medici. The great prophet Nostradamus foresees his liege Queen Catherine plans to use the evil Undying Head of Menander the Magus to rid her of her rival to the King. Nostradamus worries about Catherine using the destructive Menander because the "MASTER OF ALL DESIRES grants the exact wish to his user, but the cost is death.

Nostradamus hurries to Paris to try to stop Catherine from releasing the malevolent essence. On the way, Nostradamus learns that a struggling poet, Sibille Artaud de la Roques possesses the head. Sibille plans to make a wish to obtain her deepest wants. Predicting France ill become prey to a deadly civil war, Nostradamus tries to save two women from their own doings.

Judith Merkle Riley always provides fans of historical fiction with a winning novel. Her latest tale, THE MASTER OF ALL DESIRES, will enhance her reputation for the best. The story line includes a who's who from sixteenth century Europe, but it is the supernatural elements that add a intriguing twist to the plot. Ms. Riley makes the otherworldly powers seem genuine, making this intelligent and humorous book a must read for sub-genre fans or anyone who enjoys top entertainment in their literature.

Harriet Klausner

Interesting and thought provoking. You will learn in-depth information about recruiting and why athletes may look at certain colleges. There is a lot of sleaze in college recruiting and this exposes quite a bit.

The book eventually became repetitive as he continued to build his case against the shoe companies. Yes, there is a problem but no alternative solution was really suggested. I'm glad I read it and would encourage college basketball fans to read.

A friend of mine played D1 basketball and pro overseas. He toured America including Hawaii before he was 16 even though he came from the worst ghetto in Memphis where he say 6 people killed and was robbed twice himself. Although he started as a Prop 48, he eventually received his degree. While I don't like the influence of shoe companies, he is an example of a productive man that the shoe companies may have helped. It's not an issue with easy answers.

However not always balanced, SOLE is a page turner for sports fans that enjoy the stories off the playing arena.

Wetzel and Yaeger provide interesting cases and a great work of journalism, however the line between reporting and storytelling is often blurred.

The best way to enjoy this book is to come away entertained, informed, but not disillusioned.

As a pretty dedicated fan of college basketball, I had heard coaches rail on about summer recruiting, AAU middle men and shoe companies. Now I know why. I encourage anyone who cares about the game to read this. It details not only how things have gotten corrupt, but why. Instead of using broad strokes to declare summer recruiting as a bad development, Sole Influence shows why in detail. Myron Piggie stuff alone is worth the read. The solutions are complex, but given the amount athletic directors and college coaches are working on it, something is inevitable. After reading this, fans will know why the sooner the better. The best basketball book I've read in years. Authors make a complicated story very readable and easy to follow.

In "The Serpent Garden," Judith Merkle Riley features another strong woman moving outside the constraints of her society; this one, a "paintrix" forced to support herself. The supporting characters are almost more interesting than Susanna and Ashton. I especially liked the portrayal of Bishop (later Cardinal) Wolsey before he fell from favor, and Marguerite, later to be Queen of Navarre. The descriptions of day-to-day life are interesting and well-written, and the story flows smoothly.

However. This book suffers from what I call the "third act flaw." This storyline is almost identical to "The Oracle Glass" in that it follows the same pattern. Plucky young woman is in a difficult situation. Plucky young woman discovers she has unique and marketable abilities to resolve difficult situation. As she grows in prominence, plucky young woman finds herself accumulating enemies... and so on. (Come to think of it, this plot also is similar to that of "A Vision of Light.") Also, although Hadriel, the cherubs and the demons were amusing, the supernatural elements in "The Oracle Glass" and the Margaret of Ashbury books were both more subtle and more crucial to the plot. A nice read, with a nice ending, but not as good as her earlier works.

I've been a fan of Judith Merkle Riley's books for a couple of years, and this book is really great. Susanna is a strong female character, and it is easy to get involved in her story; also, to see a woman in such an unusual position, where she is supporting herself, in the early sixteenth century was refreshing. However, The Serpent Garden doesn't quite measure up with another of Riley's books, The Oracle Glass, which I count among my favorite books. Susanna, though adventurous, is also sometimes overly modest and goes on and on about women's traditional roles, being a good wife, etc. However, if you like historical fiction, and if you enjoy Riley's books, I really recommend this one. Despite its shortcomings, it really is an enjoyable read and I'm happy to have it in my library.

This book was amazing. As a lover of historical fiction set in France and England, this book has the best of both worlds. Susannah, the main character, is a paintrix who paints under the names of two different dead painters, both men, one her husband. She was an intriguing character, human and flawed, beautiful and talented. Bishop Wolsey was another great character. His manipulations of Susannah kept the plot going. Robert Ashton, the love interest, was at first frustrating because of his stubborness and changeability, but his depth of emotions makes one really want him and Susannah to be together. I have read two other Riley books and this was my favorite. I strongly recommend her books, especially this one, and I plan to read the rest of her books.

Personally, I am confused about some of the previous reviews from people who couldn't appreciate Mr. Riley's talent. I loved the book! I read an average of 3-4 books a week and Harlem is hands down one of the best books I have ever had the pleasure of reading. His character development was excellent, his descriptions of Harlem were outstanding and the storyline was superb. This book was in a word, the BOMB!

I read this book in two days. This is an excellent read. The story line was incredible. I'm am looking forward to Mr. Riley's next book. You must get this book. You will love. It will not disappoint you.

This was an excellent book. It's indescribable. That's all I can say. One would have to read it to enjoy the flow of this really good story. I can't wait for Len Riley's next novel.