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Deer Park (Buddha, Vol. 5)
Osamu Tezuka
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ASIN: 1932234470
Release Date: 2005-02-01 |
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Comics godfather Osamu Texuka tells the story of Buddha's life like it's never been told before.
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A Good Book for Young People.......2007-03-31
This is a good book for young people that would like to understand more about Buddhism. This is in a comic book format, so kids will really like it. The drawing style is animee. It reads like a comic book. If you are a parent, you should know that there are a few curse words that some parents may find innappropriate and that there is blood in some of the pictures. But it is no different than any other comic book that way. This is a very good book and I recomend it! In this particular book, Buddha gets older and starts to be in the part of his life when he dictates his teachings to deer. This is important because he considers all being deserve compassion, not just humans. If this is your first time with this series, definitely start w/ book #1 first. The series starts when he is a baby and continues throug his enlightenment. So you should read them in order. It is very good for kids to know different religions just so they know about them.
Some adults I know really like this book too. I loaned it to one of my teachers.
This is a very good book!.......2006-11-08
I wanted to give this book 4 and 1/2 stars, but I liked it a little more so I chose 5. The reason I chose 5 is because it has lots of action and it is very exciting.
Manga At Its Best.......2005-08-28
Another excellent book in the series. Neither I or my high school sons could put it down. Highly recommended!
Best so far.......2005-02-27
I thought this volume starts to bring focus to the characters more. I'm starting to see how things are working out, as opposed to just being introduced to characters and situations.
To be honest though, I have found myself a little hesitent over the potrayal of The Buddha. I know that it is my own idea of what he must have been like. Once I open to it, the idea of a more human Buddha than I imagine, is refreshing.
This series continues to hold my interest over the past few years as it has been released and I'm a little sad that there will have to be an end to it someday. Oh well, that's impermanence for ya.
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In the fifth installment of manga-godfather Osamu Tezuka's Buddha, engagement with death imparts the lesson of life's sancity. In a Machiavellian rise to power, Devadatta, a rogue aristrocrat, incites war between two kingdoms that will leave thousands dead. King Bimisara of Magadha, fearing death his son's own hand, withdraws fatherly love. The true measure of the Buddha's divinity will turn out to be a test of diplomacy - the power of words.
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- An exciting survey of how these great beasts once lived
- History and paleontology of Alberta badlands
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Dinosaur Country: Unearthing the Alberta Badlands
Renie Gross
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One of the world's great dinosaur burial grounds is found in the badlands of the Red Deer River valley in southern Alberta. The skeletons of these fascinating beasts have travelled far from this remote spot to take up residence in reknowned collections: American Museum of Natural History, New York; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago; Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa are among these. Housed on the banks of the Red Deer River at Drumheller, the Royal Tyrrell Museum joined these august ranks in 1985. Here, the valley's dinosaurs are on exhibition near where they lived and died to acquaint visitors with the roles they played in the story of evolution.
Dinosaur Country describes the geological events that created the lush coastal plains of the Late Cretaceous and details the fascinating array of dinosaurs that populated them 75 million years ago. Meltwaters at the end of the Ice Age carved out the badlands to expose the fossils. Excavations began in the early 1900s with the Great Canadian Dinosaur Rush. Teams fielded by the American Museum of Natural History and the Geological Survey of Canada were the main players in the race to unearth the biggest and best specimens. Today, scientists at the Royal Tyrrell Museum carry on where the early bone hunters left off.
Dinosaur Country outlines current debates -- about how these giant beasts lived, about the mass extinction that brought the Age of Dinosaurs to a close, and about the growing belief that the dinosaurs escaped extinction by evolving into birds.
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An exciting survey of how these great beasts once lived.......2003-10-13
Now in an updated and expanded second edition Dinosaur Country: Unearthing The Alberta Badlands by ReinieGross tells the fascinating geological and paleontological story of the badlands of the Red Deer River valley in southern Alberta, the resting place for bones of great dinosaurs who populated the land 75 million years ago. An exciting survey of how these great beasts once lived and died in the mass extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs, as well as the growing belief that a few dinosaurs survived by evolving into birds, enhanced with black-and-white photographs and sketches. Dinosaur Country is enthusiastically recommended reading and a welcome contribution to academic Paleontology reference collections and reading lists.
History and paleontology of Alberta badlands.......1999-05-19
Excellent discussion in counterpoint of the natural history, human history and prehistory/paleontology of the Alberta badlands. Strongly recommended for those who are interested in the history of paleontology as a discipline as it was advanced by amateurs and professionals alike in a specific geographic region. Also entertaining for the general reader planning a visit to the area.
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Hidden Salt Lake City and Beyond specializes in the traveler with a thirst for a variety of travel experiences. 52 hiking trails, 27 boating lakes, and 55 fishing holes are among the many outdoor activities profiled. Extensive information on the 2002 Winter Olympic Games is also included along with extensive information on over 20 downhill ski resorts and more than two dozen cross-country ski trails. A great source of information for visitors to discover the area's unique character, this guidebook shows that the "To Do" list for Salt Lake City is never-ending.
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- Setting Good, Story Not So Good
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The Deer Park
Norman Mailer
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ASIN: 0375700404
Release Date: 1997-09-30 |
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Setting Good, Story Not So Good.......2007-08-13
It's interesting to see Mailer's take on the Hollywood witchhunts, directors testifying before Congress and forced to name names, and the goings-on of the Hollywood rich and famous. But the first-person framing device is tiresome and cliched, and Mailer has done much much better. Read this if you are a big Mailer fan or love Hollywood in the 50s, otherwise I'd take a pass and move on to greener pastures.
STILL IN SEARCH OF THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL.......2007-08-12
At one time, as with Ernest Hemingway, I tried to get my hands on everything that Norman Mailer wrote. In his prime he held out promise to match Hemingway as the pre-eminent male American prose writer. Mailer certainly had the ambition, ego and skill to do so. In his inevitable search to write the great American novel, at least for his generation, I do not believe, that he was successful. The Deer Park is an early attempt to tackle that goal and while there are flashes of brilliance there is far too much self-consciousness on making a great American novel. That most dramatically got reflected in the tinniness of his characters, male and female, and reduced the book to a fairly ordinary look at a slice of the American pie.
Certainly the subject matter of the novel is an almost surefire way to get attention. Put Hollywood-types in 'exile' in the desert, add wayward movie stars, starlets and wannabes, and a male lead character who is not sure what he wants to be but is sure that the stars shine for him somewhere and you have the makings of a great American novel. Throw in, almost obligatory for a `fifties' novel and for a self-described leftist like Mailer , the tensions surrounding the `red scare', Hollywood- style, and the cultural clamp down that imposed on American society and one should be onto something. But, strangely, Mailer gets bogged down in the sexual escapades of the main characters and never gets to the heart of the real question that the novel poses- How the hell does one safeguard his or her creative expression without selling out to every conceivable pressure that comes along? It did not work, but nice try Norman.
Mailer is a bag of wind.......2007-01-23
I agree with the reviewer who said that this novel is lacking any form of life. It is boring and trite and I couldn't finish it either. I usually always finish a book even if I'm not particularly enjoying it but this was beyond endurance. This is the only one of Mailer's novels I have attempted to read. I had seen Mailer interviewed a few times and this book confirmed my suspicion that he is a bag of wind. Mailer is an overblown, immature, egotistical narcissist.
ABSOLUTE BOREDOM.......2005-12-01
This unfortunate book suffers from an acute case of aphoristic intoxication, evidenced in such pithy morsels as: "like most cynics he was profoundly sentimetal about sex" and "our marriage was the meeting of zero and zero."
Although such modestly entertaining observations kept me plodding along, the book is a lame attempt at armchair beat philosophizing, ensnarled in a wholly unengaging plot and unbelievably boring characters. I first read about this greatest of books in Joe Ezterhas's biography, and it makes sense that he would consider its shallow machisimo the stuff of masterpieces.
Avoid this. Reread Day of the Locust. Recommended for only the most die-hard of Hollywood historians or cultural completists.
Mailer's best.......2005-09-05
This is by far the best Mailer novel I have read. I appreciate that it is not for everyone - the characters are not particularly likeable and the plot rambles forwards without any real structure. But this is a work of verisimilitude and the writing is superb.
I have read several Mailer novels now and I consider him to be one of the most talented American writers of the twentieth century even if he did not quite live up to his potential. This book is probably his masterpiece and I believe he considered it himself to be his best work for many years.
I encourage anyone interested in Mailer or American literature to have another, closer look at this one.
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Booklet, 8.5" x 8.5" , with 19 calligraphies by His Holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje. Proceedings of this booklet go to the new building project of Karma Triyana Dharmachakra.
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Deer Park a Play
Norman Mailer
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The Adventures of Joseph Squirrel and Dean Raccoon
Duane Lawrence
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Release Date: 2006-07-06 |
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When best friends Joseph Squirrel and Dean Raccoon decide to explore the world beyond their home of Stanley Park, an adventure is what they are after and it is certainly what they get. They embark on a journey which takes them farther than they ever could have imagined, introducing them to new and exciting friends and testing their courage and ingenuity every step of the way.
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4 Titles By Norman Mailer : The Naked and the Dead Barbary Shore The Deer Park An American Dream. four mmpb.
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Alberta, the badlands
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Long out of print, The Chronicles of Cheysuli is the fantasy epic that launched Jennifer Roberson's best-selling career. A sprawling saga of the exiles-and return-of a warrior race of shapechangers, the magical odyssey begins in these two novels, together for the first time in one volume.
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ok reading.......2007-10-03
I was kind of excited to read something different. The first book I loved. Shapechanging heroine. Couldn't have expected more. Second book, skipped forward five years and went to a different character, ok, can handle that. The remainder of the books in the series jump 20-25 years, and change to the children of the characters in the prior books. All are about serving the prophecy. I normally finish any series I start. I couldn't finish the Cheysuli series. By the end of the sixth book, it was pretty rote on how the entire book went. Meet 20 year old child of former book, he/they have some trouble, tried to be turned to evil, triumph over evil, marry next part of the prophecy, have a child. Rinse and repeat. I couldn't even finish book 7, let alone read book 8, because it was so repetative. In the introduction to Shapechanger's Song, the author admits that the series was origionally unpublishable, and had to change many features of the book to get it publishable on someone being nice. I think some of the features of the book show this, and was kind of disappointed to read this after enjoying the Tiger and Del novels. Over all, first two books in the series (both in the Shapechanger's Song Omnibus), I think are well worth reading. Books 3-8 you can live without, unless you want to rinse and repeat all of the story. Maybe book 8 is different, I don't know. I just couldn't handle any more of the same story line for so many generations. I get the point. Good wins, evil awaits another day.
Rape is okay!.......2006-06-11
Or at least that's what I got from this novel. But only as long as you can change into a pretty animal. And have long flowing hair. Oh, and hard manly man muscles are a must.
The main character, Alix, in typical fantasy heroin fashion, discovers she is Super Special and is part of an Important Prophecy involving a Magical Race that is superior to humans in every way but Tragically Misunderstood yadda yadda rinse and repeat.
And you know what? That's alright. We have these clichés and archetypes because they work. They mean something. Just put a different spin on it and make it fresh and I'm fine.
Making an openly sexist novel that basically gives a big "okay" to rape and I'm not feeling too cool about it anymore.
So one day Alix is kidnapped by one of these fantastical shapeshifters, Finn, who immediately proceeds to try and rape her, but is thankfully stopped by his animal familiar (but don't be fooled and think these special animals are any better. You'll hear more about them later). Alix meets his older brother, Duncan, who explains that their race is being killed off so they have to rape innocent women. For the good of the whole, you see. And plus little bro is just impetuous and oh so headstrong. Just give him a chance!
Then some more stuff happens and Duncan tells Alix they're fated to get married. Then he forcibly kisses her against her will.
So of course she falls in love with him.
Then they do the deed in hopes that she'll get pregnant so his clan will have to let them get married. But horrors of horrors, when they get back Duncan finds out that an old flame is pregnant and it might be his! And whoops, a long time ago he promised the girl he'd marry her, so sorry Alix, even if you are pregnant I have to marry this other woman. You can still be my little woman I keep on the side though!
Alix says absolutely not, and wants nothing to do with anyone else in the clan, either. She also finds out she's not pregnant. So the clan decides she will by forcibly married to, you guessed it, Duncan's little brother Finn. Alix says no. Many times. But in this world "no" means "yes" and "I'd rather die" means "God yes take me now."
And all the while Duncan can stop it with a few words, but because Alix won't be his lover he tells her she has to be raped by his brother nightly so she'll be a good little baby factory.
But then there is a ray of hope! It turns out Duncan is not the father of the old flame's baby and he really can marry Alix! No need for raping after all! Hoorah! She takes him back and all is well! What a romantic story!
And then the magical animals tell us that a woman's only purpose in the whole wide world is to have children. What other use are we?
And that's when I finally stopped reading this utter garbage.
No Potential.......2005-05-04
I disagree with some of the reviewers that have said that this book shows alot of potential for whatever reason. Just from reading chapter one I could tell that this series was going to be just filled with cheesy clitches that make her Swordborn series look good. I meen serriously why is this author so strongly thrusting her view points down the readers throats?
Think about it for a minute:
1. Strong female character (A commoner) Alix talks down to royalty (a prince). How is it that they even met?! I just don't understand this one, it's not like a prince has all the time in the world to gallop away and meet up with a crofters daughter! He wouldn't even be allowed outside of the palace.
2. I couldn't stand the world that she was trying to create. It seemed that she wanted to create a world that would reflect her world views and politics about what was right and wrong. Come on folks what's up with this here! People complain constantly about other authors doing the same but they seem to love these authors that do the very same.
3. I will say it once and say it again, this author is extremely sexist. It's diffinately layered throughout all of her writing. Just read the book and you'll see exactly what I'm saying here. Nor wonder why Malonie Rawn and Robison got together to write "The Golden Key." They share the almost exact same view points!
Very Interesting.......2005-04-08
Ms. Roberson's ability to create a world and delve into it's history, interactions with the people, and the impending sense of fulfillment are tremendous. She has taken bits and pieces of familiar cultures, inter-twined them and has given them a wonderful twist to create a fantasy enjoyable to readers ages 12 and up. I have enjoyed reading and re-reading this series. Pure enjoyment!
Lots of potential.......2004-08-02
First of all, I'd like to say that I hate when reviewers tell others to ignore those reviews that disagree with them, as if only their own opinion is valid. I hope any who reads these reviews in order to decide whether it is a book they want to read will look at them all with an open mind. That said...
I loved the intricacy of the world, and became infatuated with the Cheysuli as a race. I had a bit of a love/hate relationship with the characters, however. The only characters I consistently liked were the Lir. Reasons: I got really tired of Alix's hypocrisy very quickly. Her cries against racial prejudice while possessing the same got old fast. I was relieved when she finally seemed to get over it, but I would have appreciated it never having been there to begin with, since it was an inconsistency in her character.
I also had a few problems with the Cheysuli. Their attitude toward women rather surprised me coming from a female author. They seem to place a woman's value ENTIRELY on her ability to bring children into the world. As if that isn't enough, Finn (who for some reason some reviewers are in love with) admits that he's willing to commit rape in order to try to replenish their dwindling numbers. I see no shame from him about this fact, and it wouldn't bother me if he was a villain. But Finn is a character I am expected to like. I am expected to like an unrepentant would-be rapist.
The author has an unhealthy love of adverbs as well. Candles should flicker, not glow flickeringly. People frown at other people. Don't stare frowningly, that sounds ridiculous. Her editor should be slapped for allowing such abuse of grammar. It comes across as incredibly unprofessional.
I will continue reading this series because the world has a lot of promise, and I'm going to hold onto some hope that these problems might be worked out and it might be improved upon. I'll cross my fingers.
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4 Novels By Jennifer Roberson: Cheysuli Omnibus Set Volumes 1-4. Shapechangers Song, Legacy of the Wolf, Children of the Lion, The Lion Throne.
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Chronicles of the Cheysuli Series Volume 1-4 by Jennifer Roberson.
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