This is a collection of stips from the heyday of Beetle Bailey that is sure to please any fan.

This book is sure to delight any Beetle Bailey afficionados. The world's most lovable, lazy soldier is giving the finer points of work dodging, Sarge baiting, Cookie crumbling and general gold bricking.

Mort Walker is truly a comic genius. This comic has raised the bar on comic strip humor and his delightful passel of characters are sure to evoke rich laughter. At ease, Private and enjoy this book! I laughed so hard it hurt!

This is such a treat. It is good, clean, army themed humor. I love it!

This book will make you laugh UNTIL IT HURTS! "Beetle Bailey" is a SCREAM! Mort Walker has certainly raised the bar and set new standards in comic excellence, satire and hilarious characters. Everybody's favorite work dodging private is sure to delight, along with the irate Sarge, his look-alike bull dog, Otto and the rest of the Camp Swampy bunch. The stories are sure to entertain and leave many faces smiling.

What a treat!

An important novel about post-WWII America, especially California. Vivid characters, deeply involving plot and a marvelous sense of place and time. A real time capsule. Also, the best book yet with a site-specific San Diego setting.

This is Hall's breakrough novel, and there are few stronger. After a few years of writing excellent thrillers under the names of Jason Manor and O.M.Hall,he wrote a masterpiece. Corpus Of Joe Bailey is a key novel for all who were young during the pre & post WW11 years, for those whose parents were there, for all those who love good uncompromising fiction. The book is a haunting marvel. He went on to write the classic Warlock, but Bailey resonates more and more as the years go by.

CORPUS OF JOE BAILEY has been called many things--The Great San Diego Novel--The Great California Novel--then there are those of us who believe it is a very strong candidate for The Great American Novel. Anybody who has ever felt insecure (e.g., everybody) can relate to its hero, Joe Bailey. I'm not going to give a plot synopsis--go to a second-hand bookstore and READ it. Nobody's ever been able to put it down once they begin with book one chapter one page one: "JOE". Joe's struggles with his insecurities are played out against the background of the booming twenties, the depression, the war, postwar America--it's a huge chunk of life. I am honored to own a 1955 paperback of this novel. I had the privilege, in the fall of 1998, at a PEN banquette in Los Angeles, of having that copy signed by the author, Oakley Hall, just before he was given a lifetime achievement award. Then Oakley was gracious enough to give me a blurb for my own first novel, just published, ONE OF THE GUYS. But my book cannot hope to compare to the panoramic CORPUS. Why isn't this novel being taught in the schools? There's an effort underway to get U. of Cal. Press to reprint it. And then there is the constant gossip and speculation: Who WAS Con Robinson? Did she really die in an auto accident? Did her sister really kill herself on the train from Los Angeles? What was it about these women that drove men of Oakley Hall's generation out of their minds with passion? The diehard fans continue to tour San Diego in their Joe Bailey van, drinking champagne as they go from site to site of the famous novel. I myself had the privilege, circa 1985, of looking up from my barstool in the Lamplighter on University in San Diego--one of the bars in the book--and recognizing a jukebox which Oakley had described in JB. It was one of the most glorious moments of my six-year drinking career. Will future generations be denied experiences like these as city planners haphazardly tear down Joe Bailey landmarks, and as publishers refuse to reprint the novel? No, not as long as we true believers carry this great novel in our hearts everywhere. Thank you, Oakley. Thank you, Joe. And thank YOU, Con, you hot dead babe, wherever you are. The back of the 1955 paperback says it all, a motto for almost every relationship I've ever had: "They cannot love each other fully, yet neither can they leave each other alone." Try to top THAT, you mediocre postmodern writers, most of whom probably don't even know what a "corpus" IS! Fans out there? Write to me!

I have been a professional car salesman for 15 years. I have always had an above average "Close-Ratio" but I always felt that I was letting too many customers "walk" because my close was not strong enough. I was self-taught in the sales industry and the rest I picked-up from fellow sales persons. I selected this book because it had a different approach then I was used to. The techniques involved were mostly basic "college course" or proven marketing techniques that I have over looked in the past. With this different approach to sales, I've seen an improvement in my close-ratio by 10-20%, which is quite good. I feel that I have an ability to close a sale now; that in the past, I would have given up on before.

My Opinion

M. Cove

THIS BOOK HAS TURNED MY SALES PERFORMANCE AROUND. THIS IS THE BEST SOURCE OF AUTO SALES TRAINING THAT I CAN USE ON A DAILY BASIS AND IT HAS PUT A LOT OF MONEY IN MY POCKET BY FOLLOWING THE BASIC AND ADVANCED SELLING SKILLS IN THIS BOOK. IT IS WRITTEN BY ONE OF THE GREAT SALES TRAINERS IN THE COUNTRY.

When I started in the Auto business I knew nothing. I brought the Encyclopedia of Auto Sales and with-in a month I was salesman of the month not just once but atleast 3 time with-in 6 months. on an average I made $5,000 per month. I have this book to thank for that. This book really works! The book contains the following: how to sell, close, Delivery and follow up, Leasing, Organization, Prospecting and much more... this book is loaded with all the information a salesman or sales manager needs to be Successful in the Auto business. I am now a sales manager and use this book in all my training classes.

Having just read "Into Thin Air" I was looking for another gripping true story. This book seemed to promise that, but sadly, it didn't deliver. While what the Baileys did was enormous and awe-inspiring, the story is really quite tepid. LOTS of pictures and drawings to flesh out the skimpy 192 pages. Redundant - day after day the same thing, sometimes told once by Maurice and a second time by Maralyn. I know it was a harrowing experience, I just wish I could have FELT it more

I've read this book a couple of times. An amazing tale of not only how they servived physically but mentally.

I read this book in one sitting; it's quite a gripping experience to re-live the experience as the Bailey's hold out for an unparalleled 118 days in a rubber dinghy and raft in the middle of the Pacific. Will few supplies and slowly failing equipment, they keep improvising and somehow mentally hold it together long enough for the 8th (!) passing ship to finally spot them after almost 4 months adrift.

The only criticisms I have of this book are that they leave a few questions unanswered. Such as, did they not have a radio?! (Perhaps not standard in 1973?)

Bailey and Kennedy's documents collection is now a standard in secondary schools and some colleges, and with good reason. The book is well-organized, contains excerpts short enough that students can read them as complements to a narrative text (or even in class), and the authors generally include multiple perspectives on controversial issues. The section on the Spanish/American/Cuban/Filipino war, for example, provides at least one document from each "side," making this a useful resource for those of us who teach.

Readers should beware, however, that subsequent revisions of the original edition have not kept pace with developments in historical inquiry. The book is very lean on social history, and there are almost no documents on cultural history. Furthermore, the collection is very idiosyncratic in its inclusion of African-Americans and women. For example, the text does not include an excerpt of the Brown v. Board decision of 1954 and omits any mention of second-wave feminism in its collection of documents on "the stormy sixties."

Perhaps the 10th edition will be more inclusive, but for now I'd suggest students -- and teachers -- of American history seeking for a supplementary documents collection keep looking.

As a secondary school social studies teacher I found this book very helpful. There are numerous sources, and each has an informative and interesting introduction. A broad range of sources include everyday people and politicians, cartoons, letters, and speeches. A must have for the social studies classroom!

I thought this was a wonderful collection of primary sources that really encouraged the further learning of History. Bailey does such a nice job with this book.

I enjoyed the story of Djuna, Brynn and Vera, and I appreciated the fact that all three sides of the story were told. It's especially useful to present the poetry and novel of a character who can't speak for herself; this is very clever. Unfortunately, I didn't enjoy the novel-within-the-novel, which was called Splinters. The second half of the book is really where it all comes together, and it was only then that I really came to care about the characters. Wolverton is clearly a talented and gifted writer, but I couldn't fathom a whole lot of sympathy for Brynn, the woman in a coma whom everyone is rallying around.

The best book I've ever read and believe me, I've read many. I can't help but am immensely impressed by the unusual writing style employed by the writer, Terry Wolverton. In fact, once you started reading the book, there's no turning back. The book is extremely well written with the emotions of each and every characters that follow after Bryn's (also known as Brenda) car accident, carefully and beautifully displayed. There are other characters like Bryn's mother, Vera, her lover, Djuna and her students and friends revolving around in the story. The most amazing thing about the story, which is not just like any of those involving a lover's and many loved ones' exaggerated display of emotional feelings and memories that always seem to follow after an accident and with a very predictable ending, is the way how the writer makes it a point to suck the readers' mind and soul into it. As you read page by page, you actually feel that at one moment, you're Bryn, and the next moment, you're either the hilarious but faithful friend, Emily or the distraught mother, and worst of all, the dishearten girlfriend, whom had been mercilessly 'erased' from Bryn's memory after she regained her consciousness... You feel the pain, the struggling of each characters' emotions of having been brought together once again because of the accident and makes you realised how in real life, we have missed so many chances of treasuring our loved ones until we start to lose them, or the chances of finally being able to realise how we have mistreated or have taken advantages of some people, how we can actually know a person more deeply if given the right chance to try...it can be between a mother and a daughter as in this case, or just anybody, like you and I, in many of our lives' circumstances and how we wished if it have been the other way, things might have been much better... After reading the book, I suddenly have this huge urge to cry over these missed chances and to start reading Anderson's fairy tale, 'The Snow Queen'. I did.

This book is fascinating exercise for the mind, as Terry Wolverton artfully explores the ways we build the stories of our lives and of those we love. The author invites us to construct our own view of her central character, Bryn, based on the tales and memories of those who gather around her in a crisis and, perhaps most remarkably, through Bryn's own novel. Wolverton raises stimulating questions that will stick with you after you finish reading, like the memory of a particularly engaging and satisfying conversation. Fans of Jeanette Winterson will likely be thrilled with Bailey's Beads!

It was a pretty good book. the only thing i can find wrong with it is that since its kinda old, it only goes up to the middle of the 4th season, right when they find out charlie has cancer. It has a lot of stuff like what bailey is thinking that i wouldnt have never guessed from the show. I'm glad i got it. I wouldnt have know what they were talking about though if i hadnt seen the actual episodes that the stuff was taked from. overall, it was a good book. i read it in one night, i couldnt put it down. it has some nice pics in it too.

It's a great book. Great detail about his feelings/emotions that you don't see Bailey express on the show about certain topics. (ex: intervention, Owen's birthday party, car crash) If you don't watch Party of Five, don't buy the book. You'll be lost from the very first page! It doesn't describe the relationship between characters at all! Oh well, great book otherwise!

I have always loved Scott Wolf. He has been my favorite actor for 3 years. I guess you could kind of say that he is my inspiration. His acting gets me through a day. I love Scott Wolf.

Beetle Bailey as a strip has shown a hardening of the arteries over the years, as evidenced by this selection of strips from the 1980s. It is not nearly as consistently funny as classic Beetle fron the 60s and 70s, which were the strip's best decades. Still, there are sill enough good strips to make it worth owning for the ardent fan.

The cast of characters at Camp Swampy are just as funny as ever. They have not lost their "core" characters that their creator, Mort Walker assigned to them. They remain true to their characters and remain funny to this day.

Beetle Bailey has certainly raised the bar in comic excellence; nobody could EVER forget that lazy, lovable and TOTALLY funny work dodging private! I think Beetle Bailey should be promoted to Private First Class and Sarge to Sgt. Major. Poor Sarge has had all he could do trying to rein in his wayward men. This is truly an excellent collection.

Hey yeah, secret beatnik Beetle Bailey, we got real reason ta celebrate him! That man worm his way into da heart o' darkness army and show them da ways o' true anarchist work ethic! From da deep gritty inside to da sheer gritty outside, da Beetle Dude weave his magic subverso laziness and take down da military industrial complex slow but sure. When it all come to a grindin' halt, we have da Beetle Dude ta thank. Sarges everywhere are shakin' in der boots. Rock on and Hail Bailey! 5 badass black stars!

I was expecting a chapter or two on Damon's high school career, but half of the book was a description of all his high school games. It was too much information on his high school games and teammates. I was hoping for more details regarding his time spent at Indiana, game experiences, and his college teammates. A good read but not as interesting as Alford's book about his IU basketball experience.

This book chronicles Indiana basketball legend Damon Bailey's career until 1995. For any true Damon Bailey fan it is a MUST read. I really wish they'd do a follow up on him until the present time. Damon's basketball career didn't just abruptly end in 1995.

I followed Damon's career from the time he started in high school and the book is just like a diary of all the happenings. I am sure that there are lots of incidents that he did not think of when writing the book. I was there for most of his games all through high school and just totally enjoyed the book. Wendell Trogden has a very good way with words. After reading some of his other books, I could not resist buying the book he wrote with Damon. If you enjoy Indiana basketball, I am sure you will enjoy this book!!!

I think that it is a good book because it is funny and because it is short and fun. You can laugh while you read it. The stories all have Monsters in them. I love Monsters. I like the book because it is a mystery.

Liza is taking figure skating lessons. But there is hockey going on. Melody, Eddie, and Howie are signing up. But the coach is strange. Is he Frankenstein? What's up with those potions? Does he slam hockey pucks? Will he turn everyone to minature Frankensteins? Find out in this book!

This was a really good book. If you like Bailey books you should definitely read this one.