Understanding Chinese Characters by Their Ancestral Forms

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Understanding Chinese characters by their ancestral forms.......2007-05-20

Learning 5000 Chinese characters is a daunting task. It often is a question where and how to start. This book is quite novel in that it presents the most important characters by also showing the original ancient pictoral form. In that way it is easier to remember the modern character. And once one is getting used to the Chinese characters, it then is easier to remember more.

This is the best book to help a student understand Chinese!.......2007-04-17

So many of the books out there are really not user-friendly. In fact, they tend to confuse more than help, but this book is very different. It truly makes understanding Chinese characters very easy and is helping my son to commit what he's learned to memory, the key he was seeking. He won't be taking Chinese officially until next year, but this book has given him a leg up & will definitely be attending college with him next year. We highly recommend "Understanding Chinese Characters by Their Ancestral Forms", by Ping-Gam Go!

The key that unlocks the door!.......2006-10-25

Wow! I wish I had this book before I started studying the Chinese language. Knowing the symbology of the characters makes the language and culture so much more accessible. A "Walk Through Chinatown" will never be the same! I'm giving this book as a Christmas present this year.

It fell apart........2006-08-05

I've been studying with this book and it's very helpful in my work toward learning more chinese characters. I love this book. It contains 288 characters.

The only aspect that I didn't like is the binding on the book which has now officially fallen apart because of so much use.

A fun way to learn characters.......2006-07-07

I have been studying Mandarin for several years, and this was one of the very first books I purchased.

It was difficult for me to begin study of a character-based language because, unlike Spanish or French, Chinese characters lack correlation to the Roman-based alphabet, phonetics, and word construction. This book was wonderful in helping me learn Chinese characters because it made them relevant and interesting. Once I formed a good base, I found it easier and easier to learn more characters.

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone starting out with Chinese.

Read Chinese Today, a Walk Through San Francisco's Chinatown: Understanding Chinese Characters by Their Ancestral Forms With Photographs And Map

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Read Chinese Today: A walk through San Francisco's Chinatown

Read Chinese Today, a Walk Through San Francisco's Chinatown: Understanding Chinese Characters by Their Ancestral Forms With Photographs And Map
Ping-Gam Go
Manufacturer: Simplex Publications
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ASIN: 0962311332
Release Date: 1992-10-30

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The first of the Simplex Series, Read Chinese Today unveils the mystery of Chinese writing by providing and describing the historical pictograph for each character, thus aiding the reader to identify, learn and memorize Chinese characters. This compact book is a perfect introductory book for anyone interested in the Chinese language. It is suitable for young students learning Chinese in school programs as well as seasoned tourists and business travelers. A photographic survey of a walking tour through San Francisco s Chinatown, complete with a street map and full explanations of the signs, makes it easier to learn some of the most common Chinese characters. The heart of the book is the dictionary of 68 characters containing the ancestral pictograph, the traditional Chinese character, the definition with the explanation of the ancestral roots of the character, and cross-references to the Chinatown photo section. Dozens of practice exercises designed to help memorize the meanings of the signs.

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Read Chinese Today: A walk through San Francisco's Chinatown.......2000-08-15

This small book is perfect for studying Chinese characters in their "natural setting." There are 3 sections in the book. The first section describes the common Chinese characters you will encounter on a stroll through San Francisco's Chinatown. The ancestral forms of the characters are discussed, which helps me remember the symbol. The meanings of the individual symbols, as well as the meaning of the characters as used together, is discussed. At the end of this first section is a map of Chinatown, which includes the location of where the photographs were taken. The second section is a b&w photo album showing the Chinese characters and the buildings they are found on. A questionaire is provided for each photo which is designed to be filled in during an actual field excursion. The last section is a dictionary with 68 characters, including the ancestral form, a definition, a brief description of the word's origin, and which photos (in the second section) include the symbol.

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Ping-gam Go creates a complete lesson plan to learn Kanji characters by understanding the hidden art, myth, and culture within the characters of the written Japanese language. Lessons cover over 313 Japanese kanji characters, which is about one third of the required number of characters that an elementary school student in Japan should know. Lessons are divided into easy, not-so-easy, and difficult sections. This compact book is suitable for young students learning Japanese in school programs as well as seasoned tourists and business travelers.

Understanding Chinese characters by means of their ancestral forms

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Understanding Chinese characters by means of their ancestral forms
Gam Go
Manufacturer: Simplex Publications
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Understanding Chinese characters by means of their ancestral forms: With a chapter, A walk through San Franciscos Chinatown with photographs & Chinatown map

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Gam Go
Manufacturer: Simplex Publications
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ASIN: B0006ESUG6

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Creator of the mono-maniacal Wile E. Coyote and his elusive prey, the Road Runner, Chuck Jones has won three Academy Awards and been responsible for many classics of animation featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Elmer Fudd. Who better to do Chuck Jones than Hugh Kenner, master wordsmith and technophile, a man especially qualified to illuminate the form of literacy that Jones so wonderfully executes in the art of character animation?
A Flurry of Drawings reveals in cartoon-like sequences the irrepressible humor and profound reflection that have shaped Chuck Jones's work. Unlike Walt Disney, Jones and his fellow animators at Warner Brothers were not interested in cartoons that mimicked reality. They pursued instead the reality of the imagination, the Toon world where believability is more important than realism and movement is the ultimate aesthetic arbiter. Kenner offers both a fascinating explanation of cartoon culture and a new understanding of art's relationship to technology, criticism, freedom, and imagination.

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Keeping Up With Jones.......2005-03-15

It might seem unusual that the literary critic who earned a reputation revealing the depths of Pound, Eliot, and Joyce would devote a book extolling the virtues of a master of Character Animation.

But the critical impulse is surprisingly effective here. Principles of art are defined so infrequently that few of us know art when we see it; often we are left with the nagging feeling that we want nothing to do with it. One principle, according to Goethe, is that art consists of limitation, not liberation. Jones told a story in 400 seconds with a precision that came down to the blink of an eye. The pressures of work and money enabled rather than hindered Jones and his crew at Warner Brothers to create what are now considered classics of the genre: What's Opera Doc (which introduced millions of children to Wagner's Ring Cycle); One Froggy Evening, (which Spielberg called the Citizen Kane of animation); Duck! Rabbit! Duck! ("Shoot him now!"), and later Jones works which reveal equally memorable moments of imagination and craftsmanship, such as the balancing sled in How the Grinch Stole Christmas and the entry and exits of the mongoose in Rikki Tikki Tavi. Every work of art, wrote Conrad, ought to carry its justification in every line, and this is true of Jones's work as well as Kenner's: There is no wasted space, every item is telling. Just as the short novel fit Conrad, Jones's preferred form was the six-minute short, within which he employed frequent, comic use of fade to black. Make the point and move on.

Conrad wrote that art deals with what is essential and fundamental. Daffy is pure id; Bugs, in typical American fashion, fights back only when provoked. Far from being violent, Jones' works have moral content. Characters get what is coming to them. Fanaticism such as Wile E. Coyote's always fails. Character animation means, in part, that characters reveal themselves in action, a fitting notion for a country short on philosophers but long on inventors. And of course there is the ubiquitous Acme company with its unreliable products. The reality of the essential is different from the near photorealistic "illusion of life" that Disney tried to accomplish. Under the direction of Jones, figures are humanesque: Porky is a man who happens to look like a pig; Bugs is a rabbit who walks upright and speaks with a Brooklyn accent; Sylvester the cat has a nose like a basset hound, while Tweety has baloonlike feet. Yet these figures are more real to us, more believable, than any of Disney's blemish-free princesses or low self-esteem dragons. If anyone is to blame for preparing us for an ideal world that does not exist, it certainly wasn't Jones, whose humanlike creations are painfully recognizable.

Something else art does is endure. Suffice it to say that Jones has entered the American vernacular. Jones's work is enormously popular sixty years after its creation and far ahead of anything being done today with or without the aid of computers.

This is a slim book full of pleasant surprises in which Kenner gives us new eyes with which to appreciate the legacy of Chuck Jones.

A waste of paper.......1999-09-09

This book has absolutely nothing new to say about Chuck Jones. In fact it doesnt say much at all; just endless amounts of prose that add up to nothing. Rather than doing any reserach on his own, Kenner just takes his historical information from already published books on animation or from interviews he has done with Jones.The problems with interviewing Jones, however, is that he can be pretty self serving at times. So dont expect getting any real insight into Mike Maltese and Maurice Noble's contributions to his films, and certainly not any comparision to the work of Bob Clampett, who Chuck Jones hates with his guts. (They had a lifelong feud) For real insight into the work of Chuck Jones, try the articles written by Richard Thompson in Film Comment in the seventies, or Michael Barrier's book Hollywood Cartoons

Marvelous Biography of America's Greatest Animator.......1996-08-28

Professor Kenner turns his pen toward a study of the creator of The Roadunner and the Coyote, and of Bugs Bunny in this wonderful little monograph. Writing with wit and verve he traces Jones' career from the beginning to the present,touching on the high and low but always bringing us the essence of a true comic genius.

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The Comic Book Makers
Joe Simon , and Jim Simon
Manufacturer: Vanguard
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ASIN: 1887591354

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Now that readers have been enchanted with the Golden Age of American comics as presented in Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize- winning best-seller The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, isn't it time for the real stories of the era? Not some academic's dry-and-dull history or a second- or thirdhand account, but the true story as written by an eyewitness and participant of the age? The Comic Book Makers is exactly such a book. Filled with real-life anecdotes and entertaining insights, it tells the compelling, definitive history of the talented creators who gave us Superman, Captain America, Archie, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, and dozens of other comic book favorites . . . as well as the stories of the other people who helped shape comic book history. Meet the crime comics editor who would himself be accused of a gruesome murder; the horror artist who was periodically released from a mental hospital in order to meet his publishing deadlines; the famous Senator Estes Kefauver, whose subcommittee investigated comic books as a cause of juvenile delinquency; and dozens of other fascinating personalities. The Comic Book Makers also tells fascinating stories of the birth of the American comic book industry, deals brokered in publishing offices, epic collaborations-and terrible feuds-among the creators, and the working conditions and industry practices that left the creators of these legendary characters destitute while the publishers made fortunes. Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of examples of these artists' dynamic works, The Comic Book Makers provides an important documentation of a time looked upon with nostalgia and not to be forgotten.

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A very fun and fascinating read.......2006-02-27

I strongly recommend this book to anyone who grew up reading comic books in the 30s, the 40s, the 50s and the 60s. Joe Simon a pioneer in the industry, shows how the fictional world of comic books was a reflection of the real world with its trials and tribulations. The book puts fact and reality to fantasy characters. It is truly and fun and fascinating read. Lots of great memories for pre-baby boomers and baby boomers alike.

super great service, once again!.......2006-02-25

A secure and fast delivery. Great price, too. Thanks, Amazon!

Wonderful Kaleidosccope View of the Culture of Early Comic Books.......2005-01-16

The point of view this book provides is truly one of a kind. It's the most well-written first hand Greatest Generation take on the American comic book. Joe Simon wore every hat during the golden age of comics: artist, writer, editor and publisher. He got around, knew all the big creative names, all the industry power brokers, as well as the mainstays of the business as it used to be, like page erasers and shop gofers. He knows the big stories, the scandals and lawsuits of the period. But the thing I value most about this book may be the small stories. It gives you a real sense of what it was like at the offices of Timely, DC and Harvey back in the day. This well-illustrated volume gives you a real texture and taste of a time that will never be repeated. For that, it's worth many times the price.

Highest recommendation.

The Real history of Comics..........2004-05-17

The top headline of the book says it all.

`The Young men in the golden age of Comic Books were as bizarre as the characters they created.'

Joe Simon was one of those men. He, along with Jack Kirby, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Bob Kane, and a host of others toiled in the early comic book trenches blanketed in anonymity for decades. The major creators were well paid for a time, then their fortunes fell and many died in poverty, obscurity, and bitterness. Fortunately, with the rise of Comic Book Scholars and Historians, and the growing necessity to record the events of the Golden Age of Comics, we have `Comic Book Makers.'

The history of comic books is a twisted story. Fraught with danger, and drama, the publisher vs artist/writer power struggle threatened to destroy the very industry in its' infancy. Publishers like Donenfield, and Martin became wealthy, while those who created their `power', struggled to survive. Joe Simon was there. Bob Kane was there. And today, after decades of denial of many of the creators have finally received their due.

The Comic Book Makers is a powerful, and lively book. Co Written by one of comicdoms greatest talents, it exposes the comic book industry at its' creative and financial peak. Joe Simon was there for many of the quintesessential moments. Co creator of Captain America, friend of Siegel and Shuster, associate of Bob Kane, and long time friend of Stan Lee, he has been privy to many of the critical times in the industry.

Written in an episodal format, in each chapter he discusses the history of comics from various perspectives, and includes fascinating first person stories about the many influential comics professionals. Details of his conversations with Martin Goodman, Will Eisner, Victor Fox, Jacob Kurtzberg (Jack Kifby), Stan Lee (Stanley Lieber), Charles Biro, Creig Flessel, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Jack Liebowitz, Alfred Harvey, Allan Harvey, Harvey Kurtzman, William Gaines, Ham Fisher, Al Capp, add significant value to the book, giving it a `history' feel.

Sections on the Captain America wars with Marvel Comics, the witch hunt of the 1950's that led to the creation of the Comics Code Authority, his untold origin of Spider Man from 1953, Simon and Kirby's creation of the Romance Comic, and his last flings with King Kirby at DC on Sandman add more flavour to this tasty comic book morsel.

Illustrated profusely with both published and unpublished pieces from industry giants, his artwork for Boys Ranch, The Boy Commandos, The Fighting American, and ghost work for Palooka and Capp are represented in loving detail. The life of Joe Simon was NOT one of mediocrity, but one of creative excellence.

The Comic Book Makers is a joy to read, a joy to look at, and a book that I am proud to say that I own. Thanks Mr Simon,.

Comic Book Makers is available from Vanguard Productions, (www.creativemix.com/Vanguard) or your local comic store.

Deserves to be on the Shelf of any Comic Fan.......2004-04-17

There is an old adage that goes something like; 'Don't walk the walk unless you can talk the talk', and I have to say, when it comes to the history of comic books, Joe Simon can walk it and talk it with the best of them-he was there. He created or co-created: Captain America and Bucky, Boy Commandoes, Fighting American, Boys Ranch, The Fly, Manhunter, Sandman, The Newsboy Legion, the entire genre of romance comics and more. He worked on Dick Tracy, Captain Marvel, Joe Palooka, and many others uncredited. He was the first Editor-in-Chief at Marvel Comics, and at various times an editor at DC Comics, Archie, Harvey, and Fox Comics. His work has appeared in the New York Times, used for the Olympics, and he has been inducted into the International Comic Book Hall of Fame. Whew.

With The Comic Book Makers, Mr. Simon, along with his son Jim, have created a memoir regarding the early days of the comic industry, which is impressive in its execution. Do not think that this is some dry history lesson. They make the past come to life with humorous anecdotes and gorgeous full and half page art from some of the biggest names in the field at the time. Artists like Lou Fine, Dick Briefer, Joe Shuster, and Mr. Simon's frequent partner Jack Kirby, in glorious black and white so you can see the pages as they were intended. There is also a beautiful color section highlighting the art of such luminaries Jack Davis, Jack Kirby, as well as Mr. Simon's own work-truly beautiful.

He shares stores with such insight that even I, a long time comic fan and bit of an historian myself, learned something new-and let me tell you, that is no easy feat. The style of storytelling, as his art, is crisp and dynamic, humorous and insightful. You will learn new facts about the sale of Superman to National Periodical Publications, the near sweatshop conditions that artists used to work under, the birth of Captain America and the development of the character for the Saturday morning movie serials. He talks about the lawsuit of Superman vs. Captain Marvel regarding copyright infringement, and the birth of many characters; some faded into the annals of obscurity, while others have become classics like Li'l Abner and The Spirit.

I should also mention the beautiful work done by the publisher Vanguard Productions. I have had the pleasure to review several of their books, and I have to compliment them of the consistent quality and care to details they have shown with each of the releases I have read. This company is striving to honor the forbearers of the industry, and it shows in the work they do-my compliments to them.

The Comic Book Makers by Joe Simon and Jim Simon deserves to be on the shelf of any comic fan; it doesn't matter if they have been reading for decades or just picked up their first issue not too long ago. It is always important to know the roots of anything you love, and this shows them with the love and respect they deserve from a man who was there-and it just don't get no better than that.

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The best

Its just as good as the last two

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The Trap-Door Maker: A Prequel To The Phantom Of The Opera Book 3

Manufacturer: Treehouse Animation Comics
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Into the Light: A Phantom of the Opera Story

ASIN: 0977386627
Release Date: 2006-12-12

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Prior to his infamous life as The Phantom, the disfigured genius named Erik traveled the globe as a magician and sideshow horror. His unique skills eventually earned him a job as architect and political assassin for the Shah of Persia. Book Three contains the stunning conclusion to Erik's Persian adventures. We all know that he survives. But not why he was supposed to die.

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The best.......2007-02-23

This is the best of Pete's books. Read and be amazed. There are many surprises in this book, so if you think you know what's going to happen think again. I hope Pete makes more Phantom of the Opera prequels, or an graphic novel of Leroux's book. I wish him good luck in his future career.

Its just as good as the last two.......2007-01-05

I can say if you loved the other books of the trap-door maker then you will love this. I think that Pete Bregman really out did himself with this one. Again i love the art and the story telling. You could almost believe that this is how phantom came to the opera house.

I did feel that it was a little rushed a little bit, but overall it is still good and the best Prequel I have seen to the Phantom of the Opera. The only thing I dislike about the phantom is how skinny he is drawn , but from that I like it. Its good to have if you own the other two or like the other ones.

I would love to see a animated movie done out of his books by him or see his telling of the Phantom of the opera. I was so sad to see it end. I felt that he could have kept going with that but then that has been done already.

I give it a 5 stars

Graphic Novels In General.......2006-12-19

are not my cup of tea. However, this one is particularly well-done. The pen-and-ink sketches are outstanding, and the artist makes a good case for his concepts of Erik's life before the Opera House. I am eagerly awaiting book 3, as I have books 1 and 2 already.

The Divine Comic: The Cinema of Roberto Benigni

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The Divine Comic: The Cinema of Roberto Benigni
Carlo Celli
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ASIN: 0810840006

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Introduces Benigni's performances in film, stage, and television, little known outside of Italy, with an emphasis on the cultural and intellectual backdrops that characterize his films, including his origins among the Tuscan rhyming poets and his experiences in the Roman avant-garde theater. Benigni's statements about his experiences and apprenticeships with cinema notables like Cesare Zavattini and Federico Fellini reveal a wealth of fresh information and confirm the sense that there is more to this madcap buffoon than meets the eye.

Brooklyn Is Not Expanding: Woody Allen's Comic Universe

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Brooklyn Is Not Expanding: Woody Allen's Comic Universe
Annette Wernblad
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Cartoonists (History Makers)
Bradley Steffens , Robyn M. Weaver , and Robyn Conley-Weaver
Manufacturer: Lucent Books
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The Clock Maker #3 April 2003
Jim Krueger
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Folds out to be a large size comic book.

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The Comic Book Makers
Joe with Jim Simon Simon
Manufacturer: Crestwood/II Publications
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Fairy Tale Comic Book Maker (Kreative Komix)

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Fairy Tale Comic Book Maker (Kreative Komix)
Arnie Uretsky
Manufacturer: Visions Technology in Education
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Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: 1573697591

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A simple to use multimedia writing tool for making Comic books, Single page stories, Animated slide shows with sound, Animated Web Comics and more! CDROM for both Windows & Mac!

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A semi fictional memoir about brothers I highly recommend
A physical and emotional on the road journey of the heart
Great American Novel Still Alive And Kicking

The Far Away
James Simon
Manufacturer: Crestwood/Two Publications
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ASIN: 0962685836

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The brother who wanted to live in the real world could not, the other brother wanted to escape it... A brother has to come to terms with the burden of institutionalizing his older brother in this ruminative account of a young man trying desperately to understand - It´s as if Holden Caulfield´s ("The Catcher in the Rye") brother was Rain Man. The bonds of family, memory, and a redemptive life-lesson of wonder and acceptance illuminate the brothers stuggle to come to terms with the world in which each of us lives.

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A semi fictional memoir about brothers I highly recommend.......2007-09-28

The book bares what is like for someone who has experienced a less than perfect life. The writer speaks for those of us who are in the same family situation which so many of us refuse to talk about. It is our secret, but a secret that is not healthy to keep hidden inside. This writer gets to the heart and soul of the matter. I found the book a freeing experience. If you have a brother, read this!

A physical and emotional on the road journey of the heart.......2002-04-26

In The Far Away, the narrator remembers back to when he was 17 --a time of haunting, even now that he is older. As the narrator remembers those days of traveling from New York City to San Francisco to San Diego to Key West and back home again, we are with him on a contemplative journey that is both physical and emotional. This is a book for young adults and adults who wonder if we ever truly leave the past behind, or if we need to.

Great American Novel Still Alive And Kicking.......2001-05-03

This is truly a wonderous first novel, magical in both style and content. I have read nothing like it since Thomas Wolfe and his 'Look Homeward Angel.' The writing is lyrical, if not spectacular and the subject matter, one brother's attempt to come to grips with his older brother's mental disabilities, truly touches the heart strings. The emotional themes, the feelings, the utter soul searching presented can be compared to the best works of D.H. Lawrence.

'Bravo' to you, James Simon. You have created a small materpiece. I look forward to seeing other books from you in the future.

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