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For the Love of Old: Living with Chipped, Frayed, Tarnished, Faded, Tattered, Worn and Weathered Things that Bring Comfort, Character and Joy to the Places We Call Home
Mary Randolph Carter
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This stunning volume focuses on the qualities of the old things in our homes (the patina of an old table, pewter dulled by age, old floorboards that creak) and how to live with and incorporate them into our personal aesthetic. Divided into chapters by the qualities of oldâpeeling, dried, tarnished, faded, chipped, frayed, rusty, and mossyâthis unique book not only pays tribute to furniture, textiles, china, silver and other accessories with these qualities but also shows us how best to preserve, adapt, and arrange them. Lavishly illustrated with beautiful photographs that highlight the warm colors and rich textures of wood and paint, cloth and leather, For the Love of Old also includes ideas and recipes for saving old items from the junk pile, preserving and caring for the old things you have, giving newer things a lived-in feel, and bringing an enduring personality to every home.
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Beautiful book.......2007-09-03
This book is beautiful. It is a coffe table copy. One you want to use for display. I was drawn with interest to someone who sees beauty in such old things. The book is very unique. I'm glad I have a copy.
Great Book!.......2007-02-07
I loved Mary Randolph Carter's book American Family Style so much and this book seemed to me like a part two of that original book. Although this book wasn't filled with pictures of her family it was filled with the same warmth and comfort as the original. Even though it may not be filled with exactly the things I might put in my own home it is something I enjoy reading. You can tell the author truly LOVES these lost, rusty, beautiful things. I truly can appreciate that.
Love It or Hate It - I Loved It.......2007-02-01
Many, indeed virtually all, of the books we see on interior decorating show rooms set with furnishings that are either brand new or antiques that are pristine and beautiful. They are a very, very long way from those long ago college days when glasses came from empty jelly jars and none of the plates or silverware matched.
Ms. Carter's book is a celebration of the old, the frayed, etc. The individual table settings don't have to be all alike. They just need to be interesting, attractive, have a story to tell. I particularly liked her comments regarding silver, probably because I've gotten a lot of it from my mother and grandmother.
Ms. Carter has an artistic eye that sees art where other people see junk. She matches her eye with her photographic skills that enable her to show exactly what she means. It's a book to be celebrated by those of us who like garage sales, thrift shops and making that special find.
FOR THE LOVE OF OLD: LIVING WITH CHIPPED, FRAYED, TARNISHED, FADED, TATTERED, WORN , AND WEATHERED THINGS THAT BRING COMFORT..........2007-01-10
AN AWESOME, INSPIRING, AND COMFORTING BOOK FOR THOSE WHO LOVE THE OLD AND ECLECTIC LIFESTYLE. SIMPLY WRITTEN AND BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOS FIT FOR FRAMING. A GREAT RAINY DAY READ AND SUITABLE FOR THE COFFEE TABLE.
Not her best..........2007-01-09
I love her other books, I was so looking forward to reading this one over a long afternoon. I fell hook, line and sinker for her romance with flea markets and flea market treasures. This one looks like she took the leavings off the cutting room floor from her other books, packaged it nicely and called it good. Except it is not, good that is. Sorry but this stuff just looks like junk that I would not give a second glance to at a yard sale or flea market. And the price is so high!! Mutton done up as lamb.
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Why hide fabric edges on the inside of your quilts when you can showcase them on the outside? These easy techniques for frayed-edge patchwork and appliqué make it a cinch to stitch quilts that become softer and cozier with every wash.
• Ten "have-to-touch!" projects show you how to give your quilts incredible texture and dimension.
• Stitch up fuzzy blocks and fluffy trims, or add appliqués to a whole cloth background--a quick machine wash and dry is all it takes to make them fray!
• From a snuggly baby quilt to a masculine throw, you'll find a project you can't wait to make.
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Great book.......2007-01-03
I love this book and the designs presented. The author writes very clearly and is easy to follow her directions. A must have for rag quilters. She has some great designs and color combinations!
Sloppy?.......2003-09-16
Is that her real name?
I found some important information in this book about quilting with flannel. I did not care for the "projects" however. Book is overpriced for the content.
A Must Have..........2003-03-04
I just took a class with Evelyn - and this book is definitely a must have! With this book, you can use Evelyn's technique to create wonderful, unique quilts that everyone will love to snuggle up to. I definitely recommend "Frayed Edge Fun" to anyone looking for a new, easy way to make quilts!
She's done it again!.......2002-08-25
I know I'm repeating myself...but I really mean it!! I want to make every quilt in this book!!! Having taken 2 frayed-edge classes from Evelyn, this book is a MUST have. Evelyn's excellent teaching style and warm personality flow through her books. These quilts are a pleasure to make! Trust me...you won't be disappointed!!
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Metallica, the frayed ends of sanity.Heavy Metal's most influential voice.With their cross-bred cacophony of punk's jagged anger and rock and roll's monolithic muscle, they've blown apart the temple doors of the once-sacred Top Ten. Their hurricane mosaic of guitar riffs and feverish lyrics has left America gasping for more from these titans of thrash.They've done it all on their own terms, crowning themselves true monsters of rock without compromise. Lars, James, Kirk, and Jason gave imploded any existing ideas about metal and replaced the entire genre with a raw, new staple of rock and roll.
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Can you say cliche?.......2007-07-06
If you remove all of the insipid cliches from this book you would be left with about 2 pages of text. Yes, this book "crashed into" cliche stupidity.
Do Your Research.......2004-12-05
Where to begin? This book is so poorly researched that it's embarrassing. There's basically a factual error every other page that I can spot without having to look it up, that it makes me question just how much else the author got wrong.
One excellent (and totally inexplicable) example of his sloppiness is in his descriptions of the No Life to Leather versions of Jump in the Fire and The Four Horsemen (which wasn't called that on the demo in the first place) using the lyrics from the Kill'em All album! Even when the book was written, it wasn't hard to track down copies of the songs from NLTL and if you're going to write a book about something the band has released, at least make an effort to listen to the material available - especially something as pivotal as this was for the band.
This error is further compounded in a later chapter when he mentions Dave Mustaine forming Megadeth and releasing a version of The Mechanix on their first album Killing is My Business, a song he claims Metallica only played briefly. Funny, The Mechanix was the early version of The Four Horsemen on NLTL. Metallica has played this song many times. Judging from the author's description of The Mechanix in the book (describing it as having a classical piano and bass intro), he confused it with Last Rites/Loved to Death. How anyone could get this confused and have it published absolutely baffles me. The writer is a moron. And there's a lot more where this came from.
The quotes are probably the only reliable items in the whole book, but it seems that they mostly come from a couple of articles published previously in magazines (a lot from the Guitar Player Apr 89 issue in the first half of the book). It's probably not the author's fault that he couldn't interview the band directly, but in tandem with the poor fact checking, this comes across as pretty weak.
If you want to read up on Metallica's early years, KJ Doughton's Metallica Unbound is superior in every way to this piece of crap. Nicer book, better pictures and at least he knew the band personally.
The only positive note I can leave with is that at least Crocker didn't fall for the bogus tale that Metallica got their name by combining their two favourite things - metal and vodka. I can't believe that anyone seriously believed that one, even though it was printed in a few magazines in the early '90s.
Your background will determine what you get from this book.......2004-09-02
This book will be received differently depending on what you are looking for. If you are a hardcore Metallica fan who has followed them in magazines from near the beginning, this book will not uncover new information for you. Chris Crocker gives thanks to "that guy at Revolver Records who unsealed all those magazines for me" in his Acknowledgments section(ix). Throughout the book he cites numerous magazines and newspapers, by bringing up the name of the publication such as "Faces",(21) not going to the effort of giving a true academic citation someone can look up to verify. It is not true that this book is just the project of summarizing magazine and newspaper articles about Metallica throughout the years. He has interviewed people such as Brian Slagel, who started Metal Blade Records which produced the Metal Massacre compilation where Metallica's first poorly recorded "Hit the Lights" first appeared(25-26), Jon and Marsha Zazula who used to promote Metallica, also inteviewed was Michael Alago who signed Metallica to Elektra. The only people interviewed are people next to the band, not any former bandmates like Mustaine or other band members themselves. The only way to really determine these people next to the band were interviewed is by seeing their words in quotes and their names mentioned without a magazine name being brought up, along with their being thanked in the Acknowledgments section. The book's speculation on whether the song "Fade to Black" was written about suicide or the band's experience in having their equipment stolen could have been superceded by a more definitive answer if Crocker actually interviewed the band.(63) A further downfall to this work is the annoying habit of inventing phrases such as: Metallicans(45), Kiss-er to refer to Gene Simmons(13), Metallisound(29), Metallicatz(174), and Metallitunes(73). Despite the book's downfalls, there are redeeming qualities; the descriptions of how songs sound and the look of their music videos, something not rendered well with words, were above par. Only in 1999 did I start to become a Metallica fan. The copyright of this book is from 1993, which leaves off later developments, something I can overlook to a great extent because while I do not hate Load or Reload, I definitely do not respect those albums as much as earlier ones and St. Anger, I just hate it. Where else would someone who has not been following Metallica for long have learned that Metallica did one of their earliest gigs at the Showplace in Dover, New Jersey, a small town that is my home, if not from a book, even one not based on interviews of the primary interlocutors playing in the band?(52) *[Note]*: Numbers and Roman numerals in parenthesis refer to pages in the book I cited.
A must read.......2003-05-20
This book is a detailed story of the members of Metallica. It starts out when they were no more that a garage band & takes you through thier first to their & more. Along the way telling stories of the new & old such as the real stories of the death of Cliff Burton.
Great book!!.......2002-07-27
I am a huge fan of Metallica and I always like to find out more about them. I thought this book gives a lot of good information about the band and their beginnings. I thought it was well written. I recommend this book to any fan of Metallica. I promise you that you won't be disappointed.
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Quilters could only have dreamed of making a Dresden Plate minus fussy needle-turn appliqué, stitching a Lone Star free from fretting over perfect points on countless diamonds, or creating an Orange Peel without matching a curve.
This dream is a reality with Jodie Davis' new book, presenting the raw edge technique she debuted a decade ago. Readers will be able to eliminate hours of pinning and matching with this fun, fast technique using a straight machine stitch. The raw edges are left exposed to become slightly frayed as the quilt is loved, washed, and dried—and then loved some more.
Simple enough for a beginner, yet exciting for a long-time quilter, this book makes both traditionally pieced and appliquéd quilts a breeze.
• 10 quilting projects, including Baskets Full of Kitties, Dressed to Bark, and Climbing Rose Log Cabin
• Features easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, detailed illustrations, and gorgeous photographs of the finished quilts
• Appropriate for quilters of all skill levels
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BEWARE! Inaccurate information in directions!.......2003-07-03
For the Dresden Plate quilt on the cover of the book, the yardage stated for the batting, backing, and background fabrics is wrong! The amount given is only enough for the blocks. The borders are supposed to be cut from the same fabrics. Also, the size and number for the border edge squares is incorrect. I could have saved my money and made up my own pattern considering how much time I have wasted figuring out where this pattern went wrong! I also noticed the Basket of Kitties quilt applique for the flowers says to cut out 6 each and it should be 12.....
This book has nice pictures and good ideas, but apparently, nobody checked the accuracy of the patterns. Making the Dresden Plate quilt should have been fast and easy, but has caused nothing but headaches! Don't waste your time or money on this book!
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Frayed (Doctor Who Novellas)
Tara Samms
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"You can grow new lips later, when we're away from here.".......2007-07-26
In the interest of full disclosure, let me quickly mention that this is only the second of the Telos Novellas that I've read. The first was Kim Newman's exceptional TIME AND RELATIVE. I hear it's a great, mature line of books and I'm eagerly looking forward to the rest.
This entry, though, didn't quite live up to expectations.
Before we get to anything else, let's cover the book's most obvious failing. Author Stephen Cole (under the pen-name Samms) sets his novella not long before the start of the tv series and, for some some reason, takes it upon himself to reveal the origins of the Doctor's title and Susan's name. Now, before you get all excited and prepared for a mind-blowing origin story, let me just say that both come in such a casual, off-hand way that I was left scratching my head and wondering, "That's it?" It does bring a certain real-world irony to the situation, but I'd rather have a better writer explore the origins in a way that twists into continuity and makes me re-evalute everything that came before. And he does have the chance. A perfect opportunity to do just that. I'll tell you what it is below.
On to the story.
The Doctor and Susan find themselve separated on a planet called Iwa, where a refuge/school has been set up to teach undesireables. You see, in the future, a new form of eugenics has arisen. Children can now be screened in the womb to see if they feature any traits indicative of future criminal behavior. Those who can't be cured with potentially-mutating hormone therapy are sent to this school to see they are raised in a positive way. Unfortunately, most of the adults are the cruelest, coldest batch of "Brick in the Wall"-type teachers who probably do more to drive kids toward a deviant life than away.
Classes are no longer in session, though, since the refuge has found itself under attack by an indiginous species of "fox" -- huge tooth-and-claw creatures that form without warning from stray strips of fabric and flesh which drift along the desert air. Since the school has also been denied supplies, the children have all been "plugged in".
Plugged into what? There exists, in this future, a dream chamber into which surgical patients can be placed while undergoing a long series of computer driven operations. The system is now being used to hold all non-essential personel in a type of virtual hybernation. This, of course, brings about another problem in the form of a child who has telepathically linked the dream chambers into her own terrifying nightmare world. A world in which both the Doctor and Susan soon find themselves.
The major strengths of Cole are his human characters and simple, poetic prose. Half the story takes place in a learning center protected by nurses, teachers, and cooks who find themselves forced to take up arms. Their skirmishes with the foxes are brutal and often lethal, splashing the anti-septic white walls with crisply described gore. That story alternates with an exploration of the nightmare world where an army of rats swarm through a pyramid with floors of cheese, a beautiful baby produces a maggot from her nose, and everyone's mouths rapidly rot away, forcing them to speak with a hidden, inner voice. There are some truly disturbing images painted for us, and much of it involves Susan, which could potentially upset unprepared readers. It's beautifully handled, though, and makes for an intriguingly unconventional Who adventure.
And it is a good story, but a glaring problem is that Cole doesn't know how best to incorporate our two main characters. Susan disappears for most of the first half and, when we eventually find her, acts as nothing much more than a spring-board to the telepathic child's exposition. And the Doctor? He just pops in, acts all cantankerous and secretive, and quickly solves everyones' problems. They never explain why the people are so willing to buy his weak cover story and welcome him into the group. And with such a prominent rank! Though I do like the way he solves things only insofar as it'll bring Susan back. Other than her involvement, he could care less about the refuge's predicament, a trait quite faithful to early Hartnell stories.
In the end, the Doctor and Susan are superficially crammed into a story that would have worked far better on its own as a separate, original piece. But I do applaud Cole for trying to write Who in a bleaker, more nightmarish style. Better luck next time.
Oh, what about that perfect opportunity I mentioned above? The way in which the book COULD have offered a more significant twist to the series? Well, I think a better (though more controversial) take would have been to make the telepathic child be our very own Susan! Thus the story becomes the tale of how she and her future "grandfather" first meet.
Would Cole have been able to pull it off? I don't know. But I'd still read it.
And, if we're going to talk change, the story passed on exploring another potential opportunity. Cole sets up a refuge full of future criminals but, other than the telepathic girl, doesn't let us get to know any of them. Heck, for the entire piece, they're sealed away in the dream chambers. An interesting revision would be to have the Doctor and Susan come across the school and find that all the teachers have been killed and these potential delinquents are left fending for themselves against the horrific foxes.
In the end, despite it's story faults, the beautifully disturbing prose itself is more than enough to earn my recommendation.
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Forgive me if I'm frayed around the edges
Carolyn Nystrom
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William Paden's classic exploration in religious studies, with a new introduction In the current climate, Interpreting the Sacred provides a fresh, thorough way to consider and compare various religious belief systems. Paden puts forth the idea that our understanding of religion influences our understanding of ourselves and our world. Updated with a new introduction, this book is for anyone who wants to consider and discuss religious beliefs.
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terrible, terrible, for students or scholars.......2006-05-27
I'm sorry to give such a negative review, but I cannot emphasize strongly enough that this is a terrible book for a student, especially a beginning one.
You are probably looking for an introduction to the academic study of religion, and you are looking in the wrong place.
First of all the writing is atrocious: it's so bad, I think the author worked hard to make it this bad. He makes extremely controversial statements flippantly, as though his authority would overwhelm the reader, rendering explanation superfluous; but in other places he argues tirelessly and pedantically for points no one would disagree with, just as though he were at work on a project of staggering profundity.
The book begins with a controversial philosophy of science, stated as if it were a straightforward fact; then a controversial philosophy of language, with the same nonchalance. As if all students will immediately agree that scientific interpretations of the world are a priori on equal footing with every other interpretation! As if philosophers or linguists, not to mention the rest of us, all agree that, "Language names what the world is, and the world complies" (7). You might expect some explanation at least, if not an argument for these somewhat startling, counter-intuitive claims. But you won't find any.
In the second chapter, he introduces rationalism. Hume gets a paragraph; in another (7 sentences) he covers Darwin, Tylor and Frazer. Feuerbach gets a paragraph, Marx three, and Freud gets two whole pages. That wouldn't be so bad if he introduced their thoughts. The sentence on Tylor says nothing about survivals; in the two pages on Freud, nothing about "Moses and Monotheism."
He goes on to "cover" basic approaches to the study of religion. Chapter 3 is sociology. The sociology chapter deals with Durkheim, managing not to mention "the sacred" or "the profane." I actually will not complain about the way he dealt with Weber's thought, though.
Chapter 4 covers Jungian psychology, evidently as if that were the whole of the psychology of religion after Freud. Don't imagine that other folks following Jung are introduced or even mentioned.
Chapter 5 deals with comparative religion, which means (to Paden) Eliade--although he covers this subject without mentioning the central elements of Eliade's thought: sacred space and sacred time.
Chapter 6 is about "Religious interpretations of Religion." This basically means a few glances at some Christian thought, a glance or two at some Jewish thought, and a couple at some Buddhist thought.
The last two chapters introduce (without naming it) elementary post-modern thought on plurality. Of course it goes without saying that the rest of the book was merely a long and, unfortunately for Paden, necessary preface to these two chapters, in which he reveals that what you see when you look at religion depends on the lense you use.
So use multiple lenses, he urges, and accept the diversity of interpretations.
Read that last sentence several times, and then you can skip this book without missing anything.
So if you are looking for an introduction to the study of religion, this book is, in one word, useless. Nothing is covered adequately, not even the most basic issues in the study of religion. Magic and shamanism are mentioned once. Functionalism? Structuralism? Taboo? Initiation? Witchcraft? Nope, not even a mention in passing.
Instead, I recommend Daniel Pals' "Seven Theories of Religion," by far the best book I've read on basic academic study of religion. Then you'll be ready for books by Wiebe, McCutcheon, Asad, Masuzawa and similar heavy-hitters in contemporary religious studies, not to mention classics by Durkheim, Eliade, Evans-Pritchard, Mary Douglas and so on.
A Rich Summary.......2003-03-04
This introduction to the study of religion (and to thinking about what the very term "religion" itself can mean as a tool for thought) is a superbly written and organized little book, a model of summary without loss of richness. I am especially impressed with his chapters on the social/anthropological frame of interpretation (Durkheim, et al.) and his chapter on the psychological frame of interpretation (Jung,et al.). The bibliography is a treasure trove of key works for preparatory and advanced study. Prof. Paden gives a lucid account of interpretative frames imposed on the phenomena of religion from the "outside" (etic frames) as well as those emerging from within religion itself (emic frames). His aim is neither to debunk nor to syncretize in any facile way but rather to achieve an overall and systemic understanding. This compact volume will no doubt be difficult for even a passionately interested undergraduate to work through, demanding from him serious note-taking, thinking, and discussion, but the intellectual "pay-off" down the road will be worth it. The book is the perfect platform from which to jump into further study.
Good Subject Matter, Poorly Written.......2000-09-05
I was assigned this book for a Religious Studies Class, and while I found the subject matter insightful and well presented, the author got caught up in trying too hard to appear smart in his writing. I found myself trying to interpret too much of the writing (big words and rhetoric), instead of enjoying the book.
A Perspective on Perspectives.......1999-03-07
William Paden presents, in Interpreting the Sacred, an enlightening overview of the ways in which scholarly disciplines have made sense of religious belief and practice. After elaborating in the initial chapters the notion of perspective as a way of creating and ordering experience, the author focuses particularly on the perspectives offered by sociology, psychology, theology, and the religions themselves. Paden's "meta-cognitive" approach thus succinctly traces the genesis of particular scholarly traditions and exemplifies the manner in which cognitive hierarchies and valuations can produce their subject matter while also explicating it. Written as it is in a lucid, non-jargonic style, I would recommend requiring this book for undergraduate introductions to religious studies, and I believe that more advanced scholars could benefit from the book's postmodern but pragmatic approach to the study of religion.
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