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- Tokyo craziness through the eyes of a gaijin
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Hokkaido Popsicle
Isaac Adamson
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After an altercation with the director of Wildman for Geisha! -- a movie based on ace reporter Billy Chaka's life -- Chaka finds himself in Hokkaido on mandatory vacation. Trouble starts when the elderly porter of the Hotel Kitty stumbles into Billy's room and dies. That same night, the lead singer of Japan's most popular rock band turns up dead in a sleazy love hotel in Tokyo.
Billy Chaka goes to Tokyo to cover the story for Youth in Asia magazine and soon finds out there's more to the rocker's apparent drug overdose than meets the eye. A Beatles-obsessed record executive, a mute DJ, two giant kickboxing twins with an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music, a Swedish stripper working at the Purloined Kitten Club -- each play a part in the hard-boiled hilarity that ensues as Billy Chaka discovers that the rock star and the elderly hotel porter just might share a very strange link.
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Tokyo craziness through the eyes of a gaijin.......2007-08-14
'Hokkaido Popsicle' is a like one never ending inside joke on how a American expat in Japan views the ultra modern and totally wild popular culture of Tokyo. I was such an expat in Tokyo several years ago and the author's observations are extremely keen, and are expressed with tongue-in-cheek humor. He also provides loads of humorous tidbits that only someone who has lived in Japan would appreciate, ... it's like on big inside joke.
Now as for the story, it works ... mostly. We have our young American journalist in Japan investigating the murder of a Japanese pop icon. He runs into all sorts of improbably situations and totally wacked-out characters. The story is completely unbelievable. Fortunately the author's deftness at writing readable prose and embellishing some of the more interesting characters make up for all the overly contrived bits.
Bottom line: more of a back door satire on modern Japanese culture than a memorable mystery novel. Recommended.
bleh.......2007-01-14
after barely getting thru tokyo sucker punch, i was leery of even picking up another one, but, since I'd already bought them on the cheap... yea I didn't get thru the first chapter. Again, if I was about 13 I probably would have enjoyed this better but as an adult... bleh.
Super Cool Noir In Japan.......2005-09-03
This series by Isaac Adamson is brilliant -- hip, fast-paced, hilarious.
Interesting but forgettable.......2004-03-07
It has been about eight months since I read Hokkaido Popsicle. I bought it on a cheap rack at the campus bookstore thinking it may satiate my interest and experience in Japan and be a nice way to kill a few days with plot and little substance. I read it, I guess I enjoyed it, but I have to admit I do not remember much from the plot. But that is just the plot. I do remember the basics of the story. The narrator of the story is a rather smug and confident American with a penchant for Japan. He makes no bones about it and sports his life by writing about Japan's pop culture for some teen magazine. Not something he is too proud of, so he tries to make himself more important. Which is not too hard. This is after all a whodunit thriller book so the main character is bound to be sent on crazy adventures that no person who makes a living writing for a teen magazine could ever dream of.
And as a thriller, I guess this book does work. Plot heavy and perhaps a little too esoteric to the extreme. I spent the better part of two years recently in Tokyo and so many of the references to places and words clicked with me, but I wonder if it would loose people who have little to no knowledge of Tokyo locality. The main character is smug to the point of me rolling my eyes. A James Bond of the teen foreign pop culture lot who talks a lot of hot stuff but seems to always leave the steamy stuff on a missing page.
Even though it immerses itself in the comings and goings of the Tokyo underworld and pop culture the book neither purports to be an accurate or reliable guide to such. (Thank goodness!) Instead I would have to say it tries capturing the zeitgeist of that world. Whether it does is iffy.
As a thriller with a tongue-in-cheek edge that is a quick read, Hokkaido Popsicle does its job. Good for a plane ride or two, or to kill some other time between importtant things. That is why I give it three stars plus. But as an accurate or even respectful view of Japan and the life that one can live in it, the book is a joke. (Minor case in point: colloquialisms. The conversations play in the book way too well in colloquial English for them to have been originally in Japanese as the story would have it.) Abounding with cultural fetishes, as another review has said, may just be the right way to explain it. But as I said earlier I am trying to overlook that. It could make me upset, but not everything we read has to be Lafcadio Hearn now does it? But it should be kept in mind.
It may be Japan, but it's the Japan of western dreamers.......2004-01-03
Isaac Adamson's dead Japanese rock god is so obviously and poorly based on hide it's shameful even to fanfiction. His crazed Tokyo mystery are the cliches of an orientalized Japan. Someone else was very right: it's a lot like the hyperfetishized worlds of James Bond, but precisely because neither is real.
I really understand that many readers aren't going to care if this is the authentic Tokyo or that Adamson's flat characters and lifeless dead rockstar cult trash is based on beautiful and much better 3-dimensional characters. If all you are looking for is a standardly western contrived mystery with a different setting from what you normally read, I have no doubt you will find an interesting book.
However, if you're an ex-pat or have any knowledge of Japan I think you'll be dissapointed, as I really was.
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Duke: A Love Story.......2004-05-16
DUKE: A LOVE STORY is a stunning, deeply moving book: the warm, funny, tender, and finally, tragic story of the last years of one of America's most beloved men -- by the woman he loved.
John Wayne and Pat Stacy were together for seven years. For all those years she was his secretary and companion; for the last five the woman he loved, openly and with pride, and who loved him back. They shared everything together, alone and with his family and friends, and the Wayne she gives us is very different from the Wayne of legend.
This is "Duke" the man, tender, loving, stubborn, generous, cantankerous, impulsive, humorous, and, finally, full of rage at the cancer he had to battle for the second time in his life; the cancer that, as Stacy cared for him day after day and shared his agony, cut away at the man who had been so vital and strong -- but to which he refused to succumb.
DUKE: A LOVE STORY is a revelation, a book full of joy and sorrow and courage -- the real John Wayne brought to vivid, loving life.
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GILDED PRISM had its genesis in a series of articles that appeared in the last issue of Atlantis Magazine: In the Courts of Memory, which was dedicated to the remarkable Konstantinovichi Family and their legacy. Here, thanks to the guidance and assistance of publisher Arturo Beéche, we present a re-working of some of this content, with a number of very significant additions.When the former Soviet Union crumbled in 1991, a wave of nostalgia for the glittering world of the Romanovs swept through Russian imaginations. Names and places long forgotten took on a new vibrancy, and faded photographs and flickering newsreels vividly brought to life a vanished epoch. With the revival of interest in the last Imperial Family came discovery of their multitude of relatives, the Grand Dukes and Duchesses, Princes and Princesses who had enchanted and scandalized their contemporaries.The accomplishments of the Konstantinovichi Family, in particular, found resonance in this revived interest. No other single branch of the Romanov Dynasty had reached such heights, nor left such lasting legacies; even sailors in the Soviet Navy, walking down Leningrad's wide avenues in the last years of Communist rule, still sported the characteristic striped shirts introduced by Konstantin Nikolaievich in the 19th Century.GILDED PRISM is sure to become the gold-standard for research and knowledge on this previously little-known, yet immensely important branch of the Russian Imperial Family.Greg King is the author of seven internationally published works, including the United Kingdom bestseller The Duchess of Windsor (1999), and The Fate of the Romanovs (2003). His latest book is The Court of the Last Tsar.Penny Wilson, Russian historian and Romanov scholar, is the author of the critically acclaimed The Fate of the Romanovs (2003).
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The most interesting Romanov book I've read yet.......2007-07-03
This is the first book from the eurohistory publishing company that I've purchased, and I have to say I was impressed. The Gilded Prism chronicles the lives of Konstantin Nikolaievich and his descendants through the last century of Romanov rule. The book starts with Konstantin Nikolaievich the family's patriarch who was the brother of Alexander II. He played a huge part in the reforms of his brother's reign and was a talented musician although his later years were frought with tragedy. Next is his wife Alexandra Iosifovna who came from Germany a young and somewhat frivolous princess to become a highly respected and imperious Grand Duchess although very conceited and self absorbed. The book then follows the lives of their children. The oldest, Nicholas, brought scandal and embarrassment to the family while the two daughters Olga and Vera became popular and beloved women in their adopted homelands. Konstantin Konstantinovich proved one of the most dutiful and charitable members of the Romanovs, but also led a secret homosexual life. Dimitri was just as dutiful as his brother and was a talened military commander and horse breeder. The youngest, Vyacheslav, who is often times forgotten because he died young, was said to be intelligent and doted on by his father. The book also chronicles the descendants of Nicholas and Konstantin Konstantinovich who led equally interesting lives themselves. I give the book five stars because it gives much detail and information on this branch of the Roamnov family. The Konstantinovichi were an artistically talented, highly intelligent, dutiful, and charitable family at a time when most Romanovs were known for being callously decadent and lacking in intelligence as well as concern for the common people. It is refreshing to read a novel that isn't completely devoted to the overdone subject of Nicholas II and Alexandra. The one sore point I found with this book is that there isn't as much info on Olga and Vera like there was on their brothers, but the title does say The Konstantinovichi Grand Dukes & the Last Years of the Romanov Dyansty and not the Grand Duchesses so I guess it's to be expected. The most interesting part of the book was the story of how Nicholas and his American mistress Fanny Lear (just one of her names I might add), got embroiled in a scandal that led to his exile and being nearly forgotten by the rest of the family. The book also analyzes the nature of Konstantin Konstantinovich's homosexuality. It also contains three sections of photos, many I've never seen before, several family trees, and even features some of Konstantin Konstantinovich's poems, which are full of emotional and artistic depth. The book is relatively short but the wealth of information and photos proves the age old saying it's quality over quantity. I was thoroughly impressed and will definitely purchase more books from eurohistory in the future.
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Charles the Bold (1467-1477) was the last of the great Dukes of Burgundy. This historical and biographical work assesses his personality and his role as a ruler, and discusses his relationship with his subjects and his neighbours. It describes and analyses his policies, giving particular attention to his imperial plans and projects and his clash with the Swiss. The armies, the court and Burgundian clients and partisans are given separate treatment.
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Fantastic Work available again at last! My fav in the series.......2002-12-17
Vaughan's series of books on Valois Burgundy have long been a staple for anyone interested Burgundian history and culture. After a long stretch of being out of print, and very difficult to find, these new editions are sure to be welcomed by many historians. Added to Vaughan's work is a fantastic new introduction written for the 2002 edition by Malcolm Vale (another historian I would readily recommend).
While these works may be older, and more recent work has been done on Burgundy, Vaughan's scholarship is still first-rate. A must for the bookshelf of anyone interested in Valois Burgundy, or Northern Europe in the late 14th and 15th centuries.
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- One of my favorite Kane books!
- Refreshing read
- Sorry to say I was disappointed...
- A terrific book with memorable characters.
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The Last Duke
Andrea Kane
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Bestselling author Andrea Kane deftly interweaves her sensual love stories with breathtaking intrigue -- a touch of danger amid glorious romance. Affaire de Coeur says, "Andrea Kane's talent knows no bounds," and now she brings readers an enchanting tale of a rogue with a heart of gold and a desire for one very precious jewel of a woman.
Lady Daphne Wyndham is the only child of the brutal Marquis of Tragmore. Risking a beating each time she sneaks away to help the local vicar, Daphne fantasizes about the legendary Tin Cup Bandit, who robs the rich to aid the poor. His scandalous exploits inflame her rebellious spirit and fire her romantic imagination. And when he appears in her bedroom, she suspects all her wild dreams may come true....
Pierce Thornton grew up in a British workhouse, and now thirsts for vengeance against the nobility -- and the Marquis of Tragmore. As he plots to ruin Tragmore, a twist of fate opens an unexpected door, allowing him to fulfill his life-long crusade: bringing the fashionable world to its knees. But in the process he encounters a far greater peril...losing his heart to Daphne Wyndham.
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One of my favorite Kane books! .......2006-12-01
This has to be one of my all-time favorite Kane books. I loved how Pierce rescued Daphne from her abusive father, and then she returned the favor by healing him with her love. It was fantastic! I have read this book at least 20 times, and it still gets better every time!
Refreshing read.......2006-08-09
Daphne and Pierce's story is different from most romances because there wasn't the usual misunderstandings and cat and mouse game. In this book the obstacle wasn't these two falling in love, but with Pierce's past and his present. Although the book was a tad bit predictable in certain areas I thought it was refreshing to read a story where the whole novel wasn't about the "chase."
Sorry to say I was disappointed..........2000-12-27
There isn't anything worse than a bad book. I had a hard time even getting half way thru this book! I never finished it. I really did not like it. I thought the characters where boring, the romance was tacky. I hate bad reviews because that means I just read a lame book. Sorry :(
A terrific book with memorable characters........1996-08-15
Andrea Kane has a wonderful wonderful way of revealingeveryone's secrets, combining emotion and laughter in justthe right proportions. _The Last Duke_, though I think Kane has written better books, is no exception. Pierce Thornton is a compassionate man and finds the perfect match in Daphne Wyndham. A wonderful read.
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Michael and Natasha is both an astonishing love story and an illuminating look at the last glorious days of the Romanovs and the brutal revolution that ended their reign. Based on private diaries, letters, and documents long hidden in the Soviet archives, it sheds light on an extraordinary tale of enduring love and ultimate tragedy that, until now, has never been told.
He was the Grand Duke Michael Aleksandrovich, the tall, dashing brother of Tsar Nicholas II. She was Nathalie Wulfert, a beautiful, elegant, intelligent, divorced commoner, and the wife of a Guards officer under Michael's command. Everything was wrong...yet for Grand Duke Michael, it was love at first sight-an obsession that would lead to disgrace, humiliation, and exile.
Much of Michael and Natasha's story is told in their own words, through hundreds of hitherto unpublished letters. Here they reveal their passion, their joy, and their despair as they are banished from their own country, bathed in scandal in the courts of Europe, and forced to suffer cruel separation. But more than a love story, Michael and Natasha is a historical drama played out against the elegant background of a bygone age and a world at war. It is a spell-binding account of Michael's return to Russia, his reputation as a war hero, the downfall of Nicholas II, the strange and short reign of Grand Duke Michael, and the cruel and tragic end of one of the most colorful eras in world history.
MICHAEL AND NATASHA is both an astonishing love story and an illuminating look at the last glorious days of the Romanovs and the brutal revolution that ended their reign.Based on private diaries, letters, and documents long hidden in the Soviet archives, it sheds light on an extraordinary tale of enduring love and ultimate tragedy that, until now, has never been told.He was the Grand Duke Michael Aleksandrovich, the tall, dashing brother of Tsar Nicholas II. She was Nathalie Wulfert, a beautiful, elegant, intelligent, divorced commoner, and the wife of a Guards officer under Michael's command. Everything was wrong...yet for Grand Duke Michael, it was love at first sight-an obsession that would lead to disgrace, humiliation, and exile.Much of Michael and Natasha's story is told in their own words, through hundreds of hitherto unpublished letters. Here they reveal their passion, their joy, and their despair as they are banished from their own country, bathed in scandal in the courts of Europe, and forced to suffer cruel separation. But more than a love story, MICHAEL AND NATASHA is a historical drama played out against the elegant background of a bygone age and a world at war. It is a spell-binding account of Michael's return to Russia, his reputation as a war hero, the downfall of Nicholas II, the strange and short reign of Grand Duke Michael, and the cruel and tragic end of one of the most colorful eras in world history.
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Enjoyable and very readable biography.......2006-07-07
This book is chock full of previously undisclosed details about the life of Michael, brother of Nicholas II, and his extended family -- which is something I appreciate very much. I enjoyed learning about Michael's upbringing; his life as a spoiled young officer, and his loves before he met Natasha, who he clung to as tenaciously as Edward VIII clung to Wallis Simpson...with somewhat the same results!
Everything the reviewer, John Cofield, said is true: Michael and Natasha were probably very selfish, somewhat shallow people, and yet, there is something touching about their story, I think because they did love each other (even if that love went through some weird phases, given Natasha's need to flirt and be the apple of men's eyes). Their endings were tragic. Michael's assassination was vicious and was a real tragedy for Natasha, who ended up penniless and alone. However, in one respect, I have to fault Mr. Cofield: Michael was unable by temperament (alternatively spoiled; weak, pleasure-loving and prone to sudden falling in and out of love --not completely unlike his dead cousin, the Duke of Clarence) to ever provide consistent help to Nicholas II. Nor was he given the training or education to overcome these character flaws, which may have helped him improve himself. For that, the fault must lie with his indulgent parents, Alexander III and particularly Marie Fedorovna, who seems to have been a hopeless sort of mother...Anyway, as much as Nicholas could have used help with his burdens, his jealous and possessive wife Alexandra, would probably have prevented a closer relationship between the brothers even if there hadn't been the seductive Natasha to come between them. Nicholas was pretty much a damned figure from the word go, in any case. The more you read about the last Romanovs, the more you see that nothing went right for this man! He came to the throne too soon; he married the wrong woman, and he was stubbornly unable to change his view that autocracy was the only way for Russia.
As for the quality of the writing in this book, I liked it very much, it really moves along and you get a real flavor for Imperial Russia and the characters of the Imperial Family. A very enjoyable reading experience, and recommended to all who like Russian Imperial history.
A thumping good read!.......2005-09-03
I have read several books on the Romanovs. This is one of the best so far. The story is heartbreaking. When the man you love is born with a job and expectations he's not allowed to have choice or freedom. What is worse is the rotten treatment and rejection he received from those who are supposed to love him. I would recommend this book highly.
Star Crossed Lovers - A Wonderful Biography!.......2004-08-03
I have read many books about the Romanov family over the years. Rosemary and Donald Crawford's "Michael and Natasha : The Life And Love Of Michael II, The Last Of The Romanov Tsars" is one of the best - certainly the most riveting. Although very well researched, documented and indexed, the book reads like a wonderful novel. It is an extraordinarily moving love story and gives the reader a bird's eye view into the lives of the Romanovs and the fall of their dynasty.
Grand Duke Michael, was the dashing youngest brother of the last Tsar of Russia. The book chronicles Michael's early life, giving a detailed account of his relationship with his family. He became involved with Natalia, (or Natasha) Cheremetevskaya, a commoner, while he was serving in the imperial army. She was 26, quite beautiful, and captured Michael's heart during their first dance. Natasha was twice divorced and was widely dismissed as a scheming social climber. Michael's romantic courtship of Natasha, their extremely close relationship, morganatic marriage and banishment from Russia is all documented here, along with observations by friends, family and actual letters. There are also never-before-seen photographs. Apparently Grand Duchess Olga, Michael's sister, not only knew Natasha, but evidently was a friend. Some of the unusual photographs in the book document this friendship. After the couple married, Olga turned her back on them. When Tsar Nicholas II abdicated, and abdicated for his young son, Michael was offered the throne, but he refused the opportunity to rule Russia because society and the Russian people would never have accepted his wife. There exists the possibility that if Michael had accepted the crown, there may have never been a Bolshevik Revolution.
One of the most fascinating books on the period that I have read. It is a powerful and tragic story and I highly recommend it.
JANA
Deserves more recognition.......2003-07-18
I absolutely loved this book. Although the story is terribly tragic and sad in the end, this is the best love story I have ever read. Bravo to the Crawfords for writing this book because it's a story that needed and deserved to be written about. I too fell in love with Misha and Nastaha while reading the book and I cried at what happened to them in the end. They were doomed right from the start but it was all worth it, in my opinion. Even though this book has been out for almost seven years now, it amazes, and kind of saddens me that there is still little recognition and knowledge about these two extraodinary people. There definitely should be more. Nevermind the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Michael and Natasha were the real-life Romeo and Juliet and they paid a greater price for their love, and lives, then the Windsors did. It's kind of unfair too. Everyone knows about Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, but what about Michael II and Nathalie Brasova? They gave up just as much in order to be together, were also banished and were just as disgraced and humiliated by society, maybe even more. And in my opinion, Michael and Natasha are much more intriguing and fascinating then David and Wallis. It was clear that the Duke of Windsor loved Wallis very much and was deeply in love with her, but her love for him didn't appear to equal to his and her loyalty to him was questionable. In Michael and Natasha's case, they both loved each other wholeheartedly, were madly in love with each other and were both very loyal to each other. They and their story deserves to be more recognized and noted in the world. If only I was a screenwriter, and knew how to go about writing the script for the story, so I could bring this fascinating story to the screen so then the whole world would finally know the love story of G.D Michael Aleksandrovich of Russia and Nathalie Brasova. Or at least know how to get a film company to produce such a film. Maybe it will one day, I hope. The middle part of the book however, when David Crawford took over, did get a bit boring, when the war and revolution started. But through and through, it was a compelling and fascinating story. The tragedy of the story though was that Michael and Natasha were the right people in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Interesting but biased biography of Russia's real last Tzar........2003-07-05
Michael and Natasha is a fascinating but deeply biased account of two nearly unknown members of the Romanov family. Granduke Michael (the actual final Tzar) and his mistress turned morganic bride Natasha. Giving us a glimpse into the life of the well-to-do in Edwardian Russia. The account of Michael's relationship with the Tzar certainly provides interesting insight into just how estranged the Tzar was from the rest of his family.
The book also gives us a glimpse into the life of one of Rasputin's assassins and an intimate of Tzar Nicholas' family the Granduke Dimitry. Dimitry was apparently one of Natasha's admirers and frequently visited her family. In my opinion this book gives a far better account of his life and character along with his motivations to kill then any other I've read. It helps you to understand his relationship with the Tzar. The only other comparable account of his life are in the memoires of his sister Marie (Once a Granduchess, etc.,)
My only annoyance with regard to this book was it's blatantly biased outlook. While well researched and very entertaining you get the feeling after a while that the authors fell almost as much in love with their book's real center piece (Natasha) as her husband Misha did. Anyone who didn't like or agree with Natasha is automatically branded a villain or a dullard.
While certainly beautiful and interesting Natasha was also a combative personality, self-centered, vain, manipulative, a shabby mother. Yet all of these faults are excused by the authors who merely go on to gush about her beauty and charm. How any man alive would have died to have her! It got nauseating at times and kept me from giving the book the five stars it otherwise deserved.
I'm afraid Natasha's charm eluded me in the midst of her many temper tantrums. I could never bring myself to sympathize with Natasha as I did with Michael. Nonetheless she was an interesting woman a deserved to be written about. Her one redeeming feature was her geniune (though not uninterested) love for the Granduke.
The description of the life led by lesser known members of the Romanov family after the Bolshevik coup alone made it worth reading. A must have for all Romanov aficionados!
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Kowloon Tong: The Last Days of Hong Kong
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Duke: A Love Story: An Intimate Memoir of John Wayne's Last Years
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Browning's Duke
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On St. Andrew's Eve in the year 1433 the good people of Dijon were abroad eager to catch what glimpses they might of certain stately functions to be formally celebrated by the Duke of Burgundy. The mere presence of the sovereign in the capital of his duchy was in itself a gala event from its rarity. (Excerpt from Chapter 1)
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