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How the Other Half Lives (Penguin Classics)
Jacob A. Riis
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THERE is another line not always so readily drawn in the tenements, yet the real boundary line of the Other Half: the one that defines the "flat." The law does not draw it at all, accounting all flats tenements without distinction. The health officer draws it from observation, lumping all those which in his judgment have nothing, or not enough, to give them claim upon the name, with the common herd.
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THERE is another line not always so readily drawn in the tenements, yet the real boundary line of the Other Half: the one that defines the "flat." The law does not draw it at all, accounting all flats tenements without distinction. The health officer draws it from observation, lumping all those which in his judgment have nothing, or not enough, to give them claim upon the name, with the common herd.
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Toughest Time.......2007-09-24
Source book for Luc Sante's research into his book- Low Life:The Lures and Snares of Old New York. Current Affairs journalism in it's infancy. Tenement laws and building codes in New York were first manifested as a result of this book's original publication. Riis ruled.
Poor Quality - don't waste your money.......2007-06-11
This publication from a university in Michigan is just terrible! The cover is very rough and cheap but the worst part is that you cannot even see the illustrations because they look like they were done on a copy machine and are so dark all you see is a black blob of ink. I've never seen such a horrible product actually being sold as new. I immediately returned it for a full refund and bought a paperback version at Barnes & Noble.
New York from the bottom.......2007-04-28
This is a relatively short book, giving a comtemporary account of the grinding poverty and harsh working conditions experienced by many of New York's poor in the late nineteenth century. Riis was a journalist, and the narrative reads like a long piece of investigative journalism, albeit laced with real-life anecdotes.
The main issue in Riis's lifetime was the effect the book had on public policy, which seems from the introduction to this edition to have been significant. The open question now is whether Riis was describing a transitional phase of capitalism, or a permanent feature of it. Or, indeed a permanent feature of the human condition seeing as Communism did little to alleviate poverty. One could postulate that much of what Riis describes is nowadays more characteristic of the Third World, and that although poverty exists in the West, it is relative rather than absolute poverty. It's a difficult subject to disentangle, but one that's nonetheless interesting to think about.
This edition is amply illustrated with Riis's photos. What can let it down is Riis's attitudes, which at times grate - that's to say, he is at once surprisingly advanced in his views of black people and women, yet is quick to dismiss whole races like the Chinese in a sweeping racial stereotype. Also, he advocates a good dose of Christianity for the "heathen" races as a panecea - hmmm......
Despite these drawbacks, this is at once an interesting period piece and a book which can prompt thought on the nature of poverty. It also destroys the quaint nostalgia for "the good old days" of the past.
G Rodgers
How the Other Half Lives.......2007-03-19
I was very disappointed in this reproduction. So much so that I went to the trouble of returning it. The quality of the reprints was terrible. For $40 I expect a better produce.
excellent account of tenement life in NYC in the 19th century.......2007-03-11
a real eye-opener. I read about this in a book on NY, and it lived up to its billing.
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The Virtues of the Vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane and the Spectacle of the Slum
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In this compelling work, Keith Gandal reveals how the slum in nineteenth-century America, long a topic for sober moral analysis, became in the 1890s an unprecedented source of spectacle, captured in novels, newspapers, documentary accounts, and photographs. Reflecting a change in the middle-class vision of the poor, the slum no longer drew attention simply as a problem of social conditions and vice but emerged as a subject for aesthetic, ethnographic, and psychological description. From this period dates the fascination with the "colorful" alternative customs and ethics of slum residents, and an emphasis on nurturing their self-esteem. Middle-class portrayals of slum life as "strange and dangerous" formed part of a broad turn-of-the-century quest for masculinity, Gandal argues, a response to a sentimental Victorian respectability perceived as stifling. These changes in middle-class styles for representing the urban poor signalled a transformation in middle- class ethics and a reconception of subjectivity. Developing a broad cultural context for the 1890s interest in the poor, Gandal also offers close, groundbreaking analysis of two of the period's crucial texts. Looking at Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives (1890), Gandal documents how Riis's use of ethnographic and psychological details challenged traditional moralist accounts and helped to invent a spectacular style of documentation that still frames our approach as well as our solutions to urban problems. Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) pushed ethnographic and psychological analysis even farther, representing a human interiority centered around self-image as opposed to character and exploring not only different customs but a radically different ethics in New York's Bowery--what we would call today a "culture of poverty." Gandal meanwhile demonstrates how both Riis's innovative "touristic" approach and Crane's "bohemianism" bespeak a romanticization of slum life and an emerging middle-class unease with its own values and virility. With framing discussion that relates slum representations of the 1890s to those of today, and featuring a new account of the Progressive Era response to slum life, The Virtues of the Vicious makes fresh, provocative reading for Americanists and those interested in the 1890s, issues of urban representation and reform, and the history of New York City.
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How the Other Half Lives
James Lovegrove
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Four millennia have passed since the gods came to Myrillia, creating the nine lands of peace as a haven from the nightmarish, accursed Hinterlands. In all this time nothing has disturbed the harmony of the nine lands.
But now the goddess of the Summering Isles has been murdered. The only witness is Tylar de Noche, a crippled and disgraced former Shadowknight. As he holds the dying goddess, her last breath bestows a powerful blessing on him-a mark that heals his broken body. A mark that many see as proof that he killed a god. A mark that unleashes a powerful force of darkness within him.
Chased across Myrillia by enemies both human and ethereal, Tylar must uncover and face down a being powerful enough to kill an immortal-the true godslayer. For if he fails, all of Myrillia will fall into shadow.
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Good Fantasy.......2007-07-30
I don't read many fantasy novels but this is an enjoyable read. The characters are well developed and there are numerous monsters and creatures throughout the story. The plot gets a little tough to follow but it is at its core a good vs. evil story. The action sequences throughout the book are very well written and suspensful. Clemens is a great writer with a vivid imagination. I am looking forward to the second book in the Godslayer chronicles.
Getting Better.......2007-02-15
I read Mr. Clemon's first series "The Banned and the Banished", otherwise known as the Wit'ch books. I enjoyed the 5 book series, but the accent in just about every name was a bit annoying, and it often fell into a generic fantasy mode. The unusual group of adventuring characters that come together for a grand quest, the child with extraordinary powers, etc. But the strength of his writing brought me to his second series. The writing is even better on this one, and I must say that he is so much more original with this one. His take on gods and magic is very unique. I feel that the end of this book suffers a little from the generic fantasy grouping of odd characters and the powerful child, but it is only a little slip. For the most part, this is a very strong novel. If Clemons continues to improve in the fantasy genre, he will quickly become one of my favorite authors.
Better than Wi'tch?.......2007-02-07
I really enjoyed Clemens first series, The Banned and Banished, and I didn't think he would be able to do it again but I really enjoyed Shadowfall. Maybe even more so than Wi'tch??? We'll see.
Clemens is definitly the master of multiple POVs. Once again he has brought together a group of people to save the world. It's just the getting there that Clemens has made so interesting.
Best new epic fantasy in years.......2006-12-20
After the Sundering, gods fell to the barbaric world of man. Chaos and war reigned for centuries until the gods bonded themselves to the different lands. Then, with their powerful Graces, they bring the world back from the brink, and help mankind to build great cities. Now civilization spreads to all but the Hinterlands, where the crazed, rogue gods rule. But through the years a darkness starts to grow, stirring the winds of war. All-out conflict between the gods means a bloody anarchy for man that will be worse then ever before. All hope falls to the Shadowknights; the blessed, elite warriors of the world, but who can the Shadowknights save? They may have been infiltrated so deeply by the same evil that threatens all, that their very core may be rotted.
Epic fantasy is my favorite genre, but in the last few years I'd all but given it up. Seems like most everything out there now-a-days, is predictable, too whimsical, low on action and description, and/or magic is as commonplace as a cell-phone. The few good fantasy books that I've come across, the writer runs the story into the ground or they make you wait so long between books that your interest fades
Not so with Clemens. His writing moves quickly. The story and setting is unique, the characterization is superb, the action is two-fisted, and, intrigue abounds. While most epics have the formula climatic battle at the end, Clemens sticks a major part or two, right smack in the middle. You'll find yourself surprised when you still have half-book left. Be careful of which character you get attached to. They could get knocked-off so suddenly, you'll find yourself re-reading your last completed sentence; just to be sure you got it right. Also judging by Clemens's other series, he seems to put them out regularly, so you won't die of old-age waiting on the next book.
I've already finished the next "Godslayer's Chronicles" book, "Hinterland" and I'm now hunting down his other fantasy series, "The Banned and the Banished." Give "Shadowfell" a go, you'll probably find yourself hooked too.
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From national bestselling author James Clemens, whose Wit'Ch novels have been compared to the fantasies of Guy Gavriel Kay and George R. R. Martin, comes the first novel in a new series-about a world where mysterious gods hold powerful secrets, knights walk in the shadows, and demons claw up from the darkness, as one man struggles to prove he didn't kill a god.
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Heroic fantasy burger-and-fries (godly humors on the side).......2007-02-27
Over 4,000 years ago, the gods of the Nine Lands suffered a cataclysm that divided them into three aspects. One aspect of each god, neither celestial nor infernal, materialized in the Nine Lands, and in time, 100 such gods assumed dominion over the people and forged an era of peace and prosperity, the latter largely due to the magical properties (graces) inherent in each god's bodily fluids (humors).
One night in the seedy town of Punt, Tylar de Noche, a defrocked and crippled Shadowknight, witnesses a previously unthinkable event: the murder of a goddess. Before she dies, the goddess gives Tylar divine powers and a one-word clue that serves as the first stepping-stone in his quest to prove his innocence in her murder, regain his honor, and otherwise save the world from an erupting, god-led war.
If your eyes haven't yet rolled or glazed over, Shadowfall, the first part of James Clemens's Godslayer Chronicles, may be a worthwhile escape. Clemens, with the concept of grace-filled humors, has created an innovative magic-system (albeit one whose nuances aren't well-defined) that also allows for science-fantasy touches in the forms of air- and sea-craft powered by gods' blood. Clemens writes decently, and using a multi-character point-of-view, he sets a torrid plot-pace for Tylar and his future allies (including his ex-fiancée Kathryn, who conveniently happens to become the Shadowknights' second-in-command, and Dart, a girl with a mysterious past and equally mysterious, almost-imaginary friend).
Make no mistake--this is not fantasy filet mignon, but it's tasty fast food. (I'll save my list of weaknesses for the end.) I devoured it and its successor, Hinterland, quickly ... and forgot them quickly. The closest comparison to Shadowfall may be Heir of Autumn (Giles Carwyn), another sweeping, plot-driven, heroic fantasy; but both lack polish and resonance in comparison with the best work of George R.R. Martin (A Game of Thrones) and Greg Keyes (The Briar King). Recommended as a used purchase or library loan. Three-and-a-half stars.
The novel's weaknesses (minor spoilers)
* Characterization: most of the characters are so cookie-cutter that you'd almost expect to find crumbs in the pages. Tylar, in particular, is a bland and faceless protagonist. If well-realized characters resemble actors, these are high-quality puppets: they look fine, but you can often see the plot-strings tugging them to and fro.
* Limited character diversity: the main characters all occupy high stations in the world. (Kathryn becomes second-in-command of the Shadowknights. Dart becomes a god's Hand/humor-handler. Tylar is a former knight who gains godly powers.) Consequently, there is little ability for the reader to experience the world from the ground-up; and I can only wonder if the lands and their humor-driven economy would really hold up under closer examination.
* Limited sense of wonder: an extension of the first two weaknesses. For the most part, due to the characters' powers/stations and the rapid pacing, the variety of "fantastic" locales do little to invoke awe or wonder--to say nothing of the gods. Imagine a scene where a mortal sits beside a god in a candlelit library and asks why mankind was created. Now go and write the scene, as it isn't in this book.
* Shadowknights: their purpose and powers are initially vaguely defined, giving the impression they exist only because their name sounds cool. (E.g., their blessed cloaks can draw power from shadows ... but wouldn't it have been more practical to draw power from light? Of course not, because "Lightknights" sounds silly.)
* Linguistics: everyone apparently speaks the same language, regardless of their homeland.
* Humors galore: a word of caution to anyone squeamish about bodily functions--you might wrinkle your nose more than once, especially at repeated mentions of "black bile."
Grace of the Gods.......2007-01-19
This is the second series of James Clemes that i have had the pleasure to read (first was the Banned and the Banished which i throughly enjoyed).
In this novel Clemens brings us into a world ruled by 100 Gods who shared their 'Grace' (magic/powers) with the mortals. Our Hero in this story, Tylar, was once a Shadowknight but was disgraced and crippled.
Cleme's writing style, though a little fustrating is put together very thoughtfuly and i can see that lots of planning went into the plot development, (i was only interested in parts concerning Tylar, but admitedly Dart was an interesting character by herself). I have to admit that i did not like all the characters that were brought forth, like Kathryn, another Shadowknight and Tayler's ex-fiance (we could probably guess why the 'ex-' is present) Although i did not like all the main characters i have to admit that they brought a variety to the story and made it much more interesting.
The 'mystery' behind the death of one of the Hundred (the Gods that ruled this world) resulting in Tyler's imprisonment and later his escape had made me curious and more determined to find the 'killer' if only to find some proof that my favorite character was not the killer...
All in all a wonderful read, another great job for Clemens! (a cookie to Clemens for an exciting read)
good book, relatively speaking.......2007-01-19
I throughly enjoyed Clemens's Witch War books so I looked forward to this book very eagerly. I'm very well-read in fantasy, so I can say that Clemens's plot is unique. A dishonored knight is accused of killing a god. All evidence conclusively points to his being the murderer, including from the now-deceased god herself.
Clemens focuses so much on bodily fluids that I found it somewhat offputting. Nevertheless, I gave the second book, Hinterlands a chance and enjoyed that as well.
Great book!.......2007-01-03
I read the book a year ago, and have been waiting for the second one to come out. It was a really good book. James Clemens cretes an entire new world, an entirely new universe and makes it seem believable with his great story telling. Every detail, every little story in the book ties back to the main theme.
What I like most about it is that the reader solves the great mystery right along side the main character.
Outstanding writing, character development and plot........2006-12-06
I thought that I had already read all the worthwhile fantasy authors, but somehow I missed James Clemens. Shadowfall immediately grabs your interest and quickly develops your sympathy for the main characters. After reading two chapters, I ordered his other books.
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Survive or perish in the dark heart of tomorrow.
HELL ROAD
In the ruins of a nuke-shattered America, every man, woman and child of the apocalyptic frontier makes a perilous journey to the future. But there is a fork that divides the path toward humanity reborn . . . and the road deep into the hell that is Deathlands. Ryan Cawdor made his choice long ago, in this barbaric new world that conspires against hope . . .
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Eerie remnants of pre-Dark times linger a century after the nuclear blowout. But a traveling road show gives new meaning to the word chilling. Ryan and his warrior group have witnessed this carny's handiwork in the ruins and victims of unsuspecting villes. Even facing tremendous odds does nothing to deter the companions from challenging this wandering death merchant and an army of circus freaks. And no one is aware that a steel-eyed monster from the past is preparing a private act that would give Ryan star billing . . .
In the Deathlands, all you get is a one-way ticket.
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What the &^$%?.......2005-12-30
If you like Deathlands, don't read this book. If you like understandable plots that are interesting, don't read this book. If you don't do drugs, don't read this book. Basically? Don't read this book.
AXLER INFO.......2004-10-02
I HAVE NOTICED THAT NO ONE HERE REALIZES THAT AXLER HASN'T WRITTEN A DEATHLANDS BOOK SINCE #15. GOLDEN EAGLE HAS SEVERAL DIFFERENT WRITERS THAT THEY USE UNDER HIS PSEUDONYM BECAUSE HE OWNS THE BY-LINE FOR THE BOOK. IF YOU CAN GET YOUR HANDS ON ANY OF THE FIRST 15 BOOKS IN THE SERIES, YOU WILL NOTICE A VERY DRASTIC DIFFERENCE IN THE WRITING STYLE AND GENERAL ATMOSPHERE THAT THE AUTHOR CREATES....THIS MAY EXPLAIN SOME THINGS TO THE READERS.....
Axler writes a nail biter.......2004-05-17
I don't know what kind of spores the other reviewers have been breathing but I had a lot of fun with this one. I loved the the traveling road show idea and I loved the mountian lion. I would like to see more of him. The magus was way cool. If I had a bitch it would be that it was too short. This was another good one in a great series.
I like the way that Axler builds up to confrontations. It seems to take a long time and every page is a nail biter. The more wacked out the Deathlands get the better the read.
It's OK to skip this one...........2004-02-06
This book can be documented as a lazy effort. True Deathlands content, connective flow was replaced by the use (or mention) of past characters. Trader? Come on. WHen /if he is brought back, do it in style, the real JA style. The Carny theme was OK but end it there. Why start a completely whole new and possibly exciting encounter like the fungus, just to have one member of the team turn a valve and save everyone. Had I not finished the book it would have been better. Time is limited at my household so I try to choose wisely what I read. This time I choose poorly. Will I read the next one? Of course, doubt it can get any worse.
But this one deserves a 1.0. JA, hope your're reading this...
What the ****?.......2004-01-11
This story makes absolutly no sense. The author is trying for science fiction instead of just action but ends up with a horrible mess. The total insanity includes
1. A giant mutant mountain lion who can communicate telopathicely with a member of the party, tortures his victims so that he can prove he is alive, and has either lived through everthing that is happening or a precog.
2. A prenuclear war experiment that involves hallucinagenic snow, mind controlling fish(or a lake it is never really explained) and a symbiotic fungi.
3. Very limited action, one running gun battle and a fight between Doc Tanner(the most infirm of the group) and the secondary bad guy.
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A Shadowfall Redemption
Nicole A. Haswell
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A Shadowfall Redemption visits the feelings of love in its glory, the heartbreak of loss and wanting, the melancholy of realizing one must move on even in the presence of darkness, and the final redemption in finding happiness within the heart and soul. Through poetry, these emotions can be confronted and freed in order to find what it is that brings serenity. Whether it be love that runs through the veins of life or something other, the offer of these simple words is peace.
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Shadowfall: Reflections On Nurturing Family Values
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