Book Description
Learn How To Soup Up and Customize Your PC and Really Make It Your Own
Unimpressed by how the commonplace beige or gray computer looks and performs? Want to apply a personal touch to your PC so it reflects your own sense of style? You can make it glow, fill it with water, paint your favorite emblem on the case, or ultimately transform it into a completely unique work of art. There are myriad ways you can make your PC distinct.
In PC Chop Shop, best-selling author and expert "Modder" David Groth empowers you to create original PC modifications by teaching you the essential modding skills and inspiring you with a showcase of the most imaginative ideas. Through clear, step-by-step instruction, you'll learn a variety of basic-to-advanced modifications, including how to:
- Install lights--from neon to cold cathode to UV
- Make and apply custom decals
- Integrate windows and fan grilles in your case
- Add LED's and lights to your drives
- Modify the cooling systems for your case, memory, hard drive, and CPU
- Experiment with water cooling, Peltier cooling, and phase change cooling
- Enhance performance with CPU and memory overclocking
- Deaden Sound
- Personalize your keyboard, mouse, speakers, and monitor
- Paint creative designs on metal and plastic
- And much, much more!
Customer Reviews:
Very good, but not fantastic.......2005-10-26
There is a lot of great information in this book. I learned loads in the section of lighting, from how to solder LEDs to installing those cool plasma balls and/or plates. The stealthing section was also cool.
My only gripe is the photos. Most are black and white, and don't always clearly illustrate the point, especially when he is talking about the different colors of wire coming from a PSU. Many photos are on different pages than the text describing them, making one flip a page over to see what the author is talking about, and then flip back and try to find your spot. Minor, but annoying.
Besides the issue over photos, I learned loads, and will definatly apply some of the techniques to the project I bought the book for.
Very helpful.......2004-12-24
A great book for the workbench. Photo tutorials are very clear and easy to follow. The Author also restores Classic cars so the chapter on "case painting" is worth the price alone. The book covers all skill levels. Its a great reference guide when you find yourself in garge or workshop w/o internet access.
Modders, buy this book!
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- Amazing, like a good film
- The Indie Film as Graphic Novel
- Very good, but . . .
- Tricked is not better than Box Office Poison...
- Alex, of BOP fame, does it again.
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Tricked
Alex Robinson
Manufacturer: Top Shelf Productions
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ASIN: 1891830732 |
Book Description
Alex's new graphic novel follows the lives of six people - a reclusive rock legend, a heartbroken waitress, a counterfeiter, an obsessive crank, a lost daughter, and a backstabbing lover - whose lives are unconnected until an act of violence affects them all in different ways.
Customer Reviews:
Amazing, like a good film.......2007-04-03
This is a tremendous graphic novel. I am new to the form, and came across the author quite surrendipitously, but it unfolds like a luminous feature film, and the story has several arcs that are compelling throughout. Rarely a mistep; at worst, a passager or two of wooden dialogue. The linear narrative unfolds like one of the ensemble films of Robert Altman ("Short Cuts," "Dr. T and the Women," "Nashville") or Paul Thomas Anderson ("Boogie Nights," "Magnolia"), with intersecting stories with thematic similarities. Here, we have stories from the world of popular music, a large company's disgruntled IT technician, a big city diner, and the double-life or a family man/sports memorabilia forgerer.
The difference is it is sometimes hard to absolutely love a character in a vignette in one of those films. Here, though, we feel and inhabit the characters completely (in particular the flawed heroine "Capris"). The artwork is tremendous.
On a par with the work of Mazzachelli on Paul Auster's "City of Glass." I highly recommend this book.
The Indie Film as Graphic Novel.......2007-03-11
I'd never checked out anything by Robinson before, but the opening pages intrigued me enough to take it home for the weekend. And at the end, the overall effect was kind of like reading the graphic novel equivalent of a reasonably decent indie film. The obvious comparison is to ones like Short Cuts or Amores Perros, since the book alternates between the stories of six unrelated characters whose lives intersect over the course of the book until they come together at the climax. The six characters are: Ray Beam (a reclusive rock star mired in several years of writer's block), Steve (an obsessive and possibly schizophrenic fan of Ray's), Lily (a young Latina woman who becomes Ray's assistant), Nick (a struggling father and husband who forges sports star autographs for a living), Phoebe (a small-town teenager coming to the big city to find the father she never met), and Caprice (a waitress at a kitschy diner run by a gay couple).
The book is divided into fifty sections, each of which focuses on one of the six protagonists. This gives us plenty of time to get to know them, which is both a good and a bad thing. Ray is basically a total cliche of an ex-rock star: fancy home, lots of drugs, elaborate sex with hookers, total self-centeredness and inability to relate to the outside world. His writer's block isn't particularly interesting, and his portrayal is so over the top and implausible that it's hard take his focal position seriously. Similarly, Lily's role as the naive young woman who drifts into his life and falls in love with him is a thankless one, as she's basically reduced to playing a supporting love interest role. Ray's obsessed fan is marginally more interesting, but more for his venom and bile than as a nuanced characters. He's an IT support guy with some kind of mental illness (schizophrenia maybe?), and has stopped taking his meds. This makes him increasingly rude, erratic, and ultimately dangerous, which, again, is familiar turf. (There is a nice bit though where he goes to see his grandmother and you get a glimpse of his humanity trying to break through.)
The forger is a rather more interesting cat -- a husband and father who lies to his family about his job, and gets more and more involved in his crooked Russian boss's schemes. The teenager comes from New Mexico to find her father and eventually winds up at the diner where the waitress works. She's kind of a nonentity in the story, and her arc isn't particularly interesting. Finally, waitress Caprice is the most compelling character and clearly the heart and soul of the book. Her name is perhaps a little too coy, but otherwise, her parts are the most engaging and real. It's a bit disappointing then, that her self-sabotaging nature is exaggerated to the point that she shuts out on the guy she's in love with to hang out with the increasingly aggressive and annoying Nick.
In any event, the various storylines all dovetail in a violent climax at the diner that is reasonably predictable and reasonably satisfying. Again, like many decent indie films, it's enjoyable and maintains one's interest, with some typical characers and a few nice moments, but doesn't leave much of an impact or lasting impression.
Very good, but . . . .......2006-04-05
Okay, I liked this book a lot, but the other reviews here are like the kind of rabid fan reviews you get on Fruits Basket and Salior Moon manga.
A review on the back of the book says it is like an Altman movie. A review on this site says that the book is full of wonderful three dimensional characters. I disagree on both counts.
The plot comes to too much of an overbaked climax. It is still good and entertaining, but Altman has stood for less easy, less obviously indebted to the medium of film resolutions. Say Robinson's film touchstone here is Curtis Hanson or Guy Ritchie -- effective and complex, but too prone to letting the pulp of their plots overwhelm the character arcs.
The characters are mostly, if not flat like the sports card shop guy or Phoebe's Dad, at least they change in yawn-inducingly familiar ways on the whole. Our nutty fan, Beam himself and Beam's new personal assistant . . . I've seen them before. Maybe I haven't seen them as nuanced as I have here in a long time, but there are too many places where there is nothing new and I knew exactly what was going to happen.
Not coincidentally, the places where the characters fall flat are exactly those places where the overly contrived Beam "trick" lies.
The places where this work is genius are in those places that surround the beautifully realized character of plus-sized waitress Caprice. The way Robinson works on issues of romance, hurt, body image, friendship and the way we become the things we hate and that hated us, at least for a while, are sublime. As a character, she makes Phoebe and our sports card forger come alive and come out of the stereotypes they revert to in other potions of the book.
In terms of the art and layout this book is also great, but with moments that prevent it from reaching the fifth star. As a small example, there is a tremendous splash page of Ray Beam's face vivisected into panels. Only in one small panel his sunglasses are missing and we see a small portion of his eye, his humanity. Excellent! Then, toward the end of the book, we get a splash of Steve, our nutcase, splintered into panel shards of insanity. Okay. Nice, but just like the bit where he yanks out his tooth with pliers, I've already had that idea digested for me multiple times in American pop culture.
Robinson wants the end of the book, with its "exciting" ending and its tripped out but mostly indulgent art flourishes, to have great impact. Maybe. He's obviously working really hard here. But maybe that's the problem. Too much work. It feels a bit like he's gripping real hard.
To sum up, the book is tremendously entertaining, it's just that some of the entertainments are better than others. Unlike the reviewer here who argued that this is the type of graphic novel work that is allowing comics to hit a stride, I'd disagree. There are depressing indications that the field of "indie" comics is stuck somewhere between the ambition, scope and character of Los Bros Hernandez, the slice of life verisimilitude of Abel, Pekar and Satrapi, and the PoMo irony of Clowes, Ware and Moore. And like the late 90s "indie" film scene, this book is yet more evidence that maybe we're not really sure how to effectively and artistically navigate through those waters.
Tricked is not better than Box Office Poison..........2005-12-29
It's just as GREAT! How could Alex Robinson have done any better than his 5 star worthy BOP? Does Amazon have six Stars? No, so Tricked isn't better, it's just as GREAT! Alex Robinson can do no wrong! Robinson needs to work hard and spend less time chatting online and get a new book out every year or so! My favorite part of the book was the shout outs that only his friends would get... Alex, I don't like to be called "Jeffy".
Alex, of BOP fame, does it again........2005-11-21
Thanks to the work of gifted authors and artists the likes of Alex Robinson, the genre known as graphic novel is finally hitting its stride. Each three-dimentional character is brought to life by striking black and white images that accentuate the stark reality of each characters life. You may find yourself looking into this art as you would a mirror, learning from the lessons of its grossly human leads.
Following the lives of six people, Alex Robinson shows what lies at the depths of a reclusive and unproductive former rock legend, a forlorn server (aren't they all?), counterfeit artist, an obsessive crank, an adolescent daughter, and a backstabbing lover. Whose adventures he skips among in chapters presented in a countdown, 49 to 1, that reinforces the story's innate anticipation. They unknowingly stride towards the pulse-pounding climax, spiraling into each other in what can only be described as real life.
If you liked works such as "Blankets" or "Epileptic", you will find this nothing short of remarkable.
Book Description
Full-color photos. In the title story Thomas teases the proudest engine of all and learns to think twice before blowing off steam. Also included are "Come Out, Henry!", "Henry to the Rescue," and "A Big Day for Thomas."
Customer Reviews:
A Must Have for Fans of the Television Show.......2006-09-01
My daughter is a huge Thomas fan, and she loves all of the Read To Me paperbacks. Because the books tell stories from the television series, we read these books at times when my daughter is asking to watch Thomas, but he isn't on. My daughter loves how the illustrations are actual still photographs from the television series. However, sometimes the photos shown don't really depict what is going on in the story. There are a lot of words in these books, with small print. These are definitely books little kids would not be able to read on their own, but they can enjoy the pictures on their own. It is wonderful how each book is comprised of 3 or 4 short stories that toddlers have no problem holding their attention through.
Thomas Gets Tricked and Other Stories.......2005-08-08
It's good for children under 3 or 4 years.
Beware.......2004-08-01
I don't like that amazon has pop up of Please Read To Me series in with Pictureback Readers and other formats. They are all very different. See Cranky Day review.
Just like the videos!.......2000-09-07
My three-year old son is an avid Thomas fan and this book so closely mimics the videos that sometimes I can hardly tear him away from the book! It is a great "learn to read" book for preschoolers. Even my 16-month old daughter easily recognizes the characters in the books from those that are in the videos. My son also likes the fact that there are several short stories in this book (great for bedtime! ) For any die-hard Thomas fan this book is a keeper!
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- Wonderful book
- A Note from the Author
- tale within a tale
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How the Fisherman Tricked the Genie
Christopher Sunami
Manufacturer: Atheneum
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ASIN: 0689833997 |
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When a poor fisherman casts his net out into the Arabian Sea -- and pulls in a genie in a bottle -- he expects three wishes....
But this genie isn't like other genies....
Three interwoven stories-within-a-story illustrate that good deeds should never be rewarded with evil, a lesson the genie will not soon forget.
Customer Reviews:
Wonderful book.......2004-02-21
This is a beautifully illustrated edition of the classic tale from the Arabian nights. Kitoba Sunami's writing is dramatic and evocative. The pastel illustrations are a terrific complement to the text. My four kids all love the book.
A Note from the Author.......2004-01-06
Hi, just wanted everyone to know that "Fisherman" was selected for the International Reading Association's (very prestigious) "Children's Book Award : Notable Books of 2003" list!
P>Thanks to all "Fisherman" readers!
KS
tale within a tale.......2003-06-18
This is a beautifully illustrated fairy tale with a moral: He who returns evil for good will be punished. A poor fisherman casts his net and frees an evil genie, who threatens to kill him for his trouble. The fisherman tells a story within a story to try and convince the genie that murder would be a mistake. This is a classic Arabian Nights approach, very satisfying. The story within a story within a story structure may be somewhat complex for children reading to themselves, but the use of different type faces for each story makes them easier to track. The illustrations are dramatic and colorful. Several deaths occur in the course of this tale (and not only bad guys die), so it may be too scary or upsetting for bedtime reading for the youngest listeners.
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TRICKED
Diane Bridenbaker
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
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ASIN: 1420858491 |
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Emma Rogers has a nice life. She has a wonderful family, the two best friends in the world, a champion Newfoundland named Cole who is her constant companion and loyal ally, a successful business, and a lovely home. What more could she want? Her well-meaning friends think she needs a man in her life and are determined to find her one. Just as the quest is about to begin, one falls right into their laps. How could it not have been meant to be? The friends have no doubts; Emma isn't so sure. It's soon apparent however, that Emma has more to worry about than whether or not she has a man. Some unknown person or persons are watching her and disturbing her well-ordered life in subtle ways. Emma and her cohorts are at a loss as to why. The implied threat that the "watchers" evoke is not only making itself known in her home territory but follows Emma and Cole to the dog shows they are attending. While enjoying great success in the show ring, Emma and her Newfie discover in short order that danger seems to be lurking even there. Before long, matters escalate and Emma and Cole find themselves in real jeopardy. No one is aware of the depth of the malevolence and obsession that fuels the harassment tactics and nobody could have anticipated what would happen when the pressure is turned up. The resulting turn of events is shattering. While help is received from all quarters, including Emma's friends and family, customers from her shop, dog show enthusiasts, and law enforcement, it is the devotion and unbreakable bond that exists between Cole and Emma that proves to be the deciding factor in restoring harmony once again into their lives.
Customer Reviews:
van.......2007-04-06
I found this book to be very enjoyable. I am also a dog owner and lover and found the entire story irresistible. It was written in such a manner that you felt you were there participating in the antics of the Emma and Joanie and loving every minute of it. Keeping in mind that this is a fictional work intended for entertainment and not a textbook, it was written as the characters could actually have been speaking. Everyone on my staff has read this book and its sequel. We all enjoyed it immensely. As a Senior Administrative Executive, it is my opinion that for a first time author, this book was well done and met the objective it was intended for - entertainment. Keep up the good work and we are all looking forward to the Cole's next adventure.
Furthermore, I have to disagree with 'newf-lover' whose review, in my opinion, was as poorly written as she/he claimed the book was as well as an apparant personal attack on the author.
Tricked into Buying this Book.......2007-01-29
I have to agree with the prior 1-star reviewer. I'm a big lover of dog related mysteries and Newfies are one of my favorite breeds. The publisher of this book is Authorhouse - a place for writers to self publish. Clearly this publisher does not offer editing services or, if they do, they are shoddy ones or this author didn't take advantage of them. Sadly this book does not live up to its lovely cover either in plot or writing style.
Tricked.......2007-01-21
I have shown Newfoundland dogs for over 30 years, including at sites mentioned in this book. I will buy any book that is about Newfoundland dogs, or references dog shows, especially in the mystery genre! That said, this is the most poorly written book I have ever purchased. The grammar was atrocious to the point of distraction and the plot was no less than trite. Sadly neither references to my beloved Newfoundland breed, nor the world of dog shows could hold my interest because the book was so poorly written with an overabundance of superfluous descriptive words. (Was there no editor associated with this book?) Sorry to say that in my opinion, the only part of this book worth purchasing is the lovely head study of the Newfoundland dog, painted by Laura Schwartz, which graces the cover. This book was not worth the purchase price. It presented an arduous task to read due to the frustratingly poor use of the English language throughout the book. Unfortunately the thin story line did nothing to redeem the book as it was trite and unimaginative. Perhaps if the book was totally rewritten, the story line could be salvaged, but not as it presently reads. My recommendation is to enjoy the cover, and to leave the pages unturned.
Tricked.......2006-03-13
If you enjoy dog shows or are a Newfie fancier, I would highly recommend this book. A fun look at dog shows and the friendships formed by those with a shared interest, seen through the eyes of the average owner-handler. The plot of the book was a little forced, but the details made up for it. A fun read on a rainy day or while killing time at the show grounds.
Very entertaining!.......2006-02-01
I am a dog show person and have been entered in the shows held at these sites mentioned in this book. I loved the mystery involved and the comraderie of the 3 middle-aged women and their dogs. I also live in the area that this book was written and that too contributed to my enjoyment! Well written and very enjoyable.
Book Description
The Parabola Storytime series is a collection of stories and myths by the leading storytellers of Native American tribes. Originally produced by Parabola magazine in audio format, many of these stories appear here in written form for the first time, with the permission of tribal elders, and are enhanced by artwork authentic to the tradition. These stories evoke the beauty, wisdom, and living spirit of surviving oral traditions.
This collection of 15 Cherokee tales introduces the trickster-hero Rabbit, the most important character portrayed in the animal stories of the Cherokee culture. The surefooted messenger who carries important news to his animal friends near and far, Rabbit is charming and mischievous—he tricks others and is often tricked himself. Sometimes he wins and sometimes he loses; sometimes he is lazy and mean, sometimes kind and caring—but somehow Rabbit always survives. This replaces 0060212853.
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Ka'ulu, the young troublemaker, was in big trouble. His uncle, the King of Maui, banished him to the island of Lana'i. This was almost certainly a death sentence. Lana'i was a dreaded island, inhabited by man-eating ghosts and a feared sorceress. All Hawaiians feared Lana'i. They feared the place so much that no one lived there for over 500 years. Ka'ulu was only a young boy. Could he manage to survive? ould he trick the ghosts? This is the tlae of Ka'ulu,a real-life Hawaiian hero.
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The Boy Who Tricked the Moon
Rita Grauer
Manufacturer: Anchorage Pr
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ASIN: 0876023499 |
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A subtle participatory play, ideal for grades K-3, adapted from Pacific Northwest folklore by the co-author of the celebrated and award- winning NIGHTINGALE and FOOL OF THE WORLD. Designed for open space and simple sets. A flexible cast of five male, two female roles, several of which are gender neutral.
When Clan Chief's son is spirited away by the Moon, in this mystical adventure incorporating masks and creative movement, it is lowly Orphan Boy who must save him. With much help from Sky Grandmother, Little Sky Sister and the audience - - the two boys escape from Sky Country in a triumph of friendship and Ingenuity.
Customer Reviews:
A Play for Young People.......2005-10-06
This play for a cast of 5 M and 3 F has several audience participatory moments which are directed by the lead character Orphan Boy. The play tells the story of poor Orphan Boy who rescues the Clan Chief's son from the clutches of the Moon. It was adapted from a Pacific Northwest Indian tale. The book includes notes on costuming that requires masks and set construction.
Book Description
Brash, outrageously funny, incorrect political and social commentary by a Washington reporter fed up with practically everything
Customer Reviews:
Somewhere between Dave Barry and Hunter S. Thompson.......2006-01-14
Fred Reed is a skilled and vastly entertaining writer. You'll find a clever turn of phrase or two on virtually every page in this book. But Fred is more than just a witty guy; he's a witty guy with some important points to make. He is deeply concerned with a number of trends in his beloved United States - notably an increased feminization and dumbing-down of society. He is greatly perturbed by what he calls a "war on boys" in our culture, and the ascendance of grim nannyish harpies who aspire to smother boyish behavior wherever it occurs.
Among the best pieces in this book are Fred's descriptions of what it's like inside a tank and a submarine, along with a hilarious account of his year or two at "Soldier of Fortune" magazine. If you enjoy good writing and keen observation of society's foibles, you shouldn't miss "Nekkid in Austin." (The title essay, by the way, describes an evening at a topless bar featuring an over-the-hill stripper.)
Speaks His Mind...And Then Some.......2005-10-04
I had been reading Fred's columns online since I stumbled across his courageously accurate views on the April 2001 riots that occurred in Cincinnati, Ohio, and one day impulsively bought this book I saw advertised on his website. The pieces Fred writes with such erudition might well offend many people, although I suspect most of those ostensibly offended will be outraged on someone else's behalf, rather than for any affront to their own interests. ("This stupid redneck can't say that about THEM!!! What's he think he is?!!") Fred is that most dangerous of all creatures in this daunted age: a free thinker. There was a time when Americans championed that old adage, "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend your right to say it." That age has passed. I doubt I'd like Fred in person or that Fred would like me very much, but I read him virtually every week and more often than not I agree with his written views, or at the very least I come away feeling glad someone actually took on the issues he covers. This book takes many of Fred Reed's early online columns and puts them in print form. To those who might be put off of Nekkid in Austin because of things they've heard, I'll point out two things: 1) don't believe everything you hear, read the source for yourself, and 2) a differing viewpoint is not necessarily a bad thing. Has Fred ever ticked me off? Of course he has! He flirts with misogyny and his opinions on women come off as something from the pre-stone age. But when it comes to race, our failing national vigor, and the extinction of our great American libertarian principles in the face of an overbearing government, the man not only has the foresight to identify the roots of many of the pressing problems, he actually has the courage to take a rare public stand and exercise that most cherished of American ideals: speaking one's mind. Fred is a refreshingly dangerous philosopher and he gives free speech an intelligent, welcome workout. This book is good and many valid points are made within it. While one hears a lot of criticism of Fred Reed, one hears few cogent rebuttals. Nekkid in Austin is well worth the price.
A few more thoughts.......2005-06-27
Well, I've already written one fervently pro-Fred review on this site, but I'd still feel remiss if I didn't add some more of my thoughts to the pile, both to amplify what the guy below me wrote and to further refute what that one idiot wrote about Fred being a "racist" (do we even have a definition for that word now? It seems to mean about as much as the "alternative rock" label means in music by now). Anyway, much as some people might try to label him, Fred is a truly independent thinker, someone who's not bound by the conventions of any ready-made ideology. He's experienced a lot more of the world and its people than most of us could ever dream, and he's come away a refreshing perspective that doesn't smack of liberalism, conservatism, libertarianism, or really anything ending in "-ism." To steal one of his own phrases from a recent column, Fred knows the people of other countries, and knows that they are people, a fact that often seems lost on his fellow Americans. Perhaps more to the point, Fred has enough experience with politics and the way the world works to see through the sloganeering, name-calling, and prejudice that so often substitute for debate in America (and probably everywhere else as well). In a world where people are constantly trying to give us easy answers, Fred is constantly questioning the conventional "wisdom" and trying to tease the truth out from the endless piles of rhetoric and deceit. Don't belive me? Here are just a few of the little bits of wisdom from his site (which I think are in this book, although I'm not sure how many of his columns made it in here):
On the 9/11 attacks: "Our politicians and talking heads speak of 'a cowardly act of terrorism.' It was neither cowardly nor, I think terrorism. Hijacking an aircraft and driving it into a building isn't cowardly. Would you do it? It requires great courage and dedication--which our enemies have, and we do not."
On patriotism: "To doubt the wisdom or necessity of a war, any war, is treason; any inclination to think for oneself is evidence of being in the enemy's camp. This is everywhere the rule."
On the so-called drug problem: "We're in Colombia and Mexico and Peru and God knows where because these folk work in the drug trade, and we have A Drug Problem. We have a drug problem because Americans want drugs. It's not Colombia's problem. It's our problem. Why don't we leave Colombia the hell alone?"
On sex: "A man genuinely doesn't understand why he can't say to the young lady in the next cubicle, 'Hey, Jane, what say we go to my place at lunch for a roll in the hay?' He may like Jane, think she's bright and fun, have no slight desire to exploit, use or degrade her. They may have been friends for years. But if he made what would seem to him a perfectly reasonable suggestion, she would explode and file at least a dozen lawsuits."
There are tons more such penetrating insights on Fred's site (updated with new column every ten days or so), from which this book and his other one are drawn. In a generally irrational world, Fred is a rare voice of reason (and a funny one at that), which explains why the mainstream media won't touch him with a twenty-foot pole. Honest discussion of taboo subjects is rare these days, which is all the more reason Fred deserves some of your time.
[Sigh].......2005-05-28
Though I am typically loathe to do this sorta thing, especially since the person I'm debating will doubtless never read my review, but I can't help but respond to the moronic review written before me. The data noting the 15 point difference in IQ between blacks and whites (In America) is found in 'The Bell Curve' a massively famous book on intelligence. Furthermore, any sociology or psychology textbook is virtually guaranteed to discuss this disparity in some fashion. The statistical difference is, in fact, massively documented, as Reed states, and is common knowledge, thus defying the need for any specific references. And, for future reference, I just want everyone to know that your ignorance doesn't make other people into racists, nor does it disprove their facts. It just makes you ignorant, naturally.
As far as Reed being a racist, well, I'll give him this: He doesn't presuppose that all statistical differences between races are the result of oppression or unfortunate circumstances, which is tantamount to racism in our digustingly false, PC age, nor is he embarassed or apologetic that he's white. This is not to say that Reed demands that the differences are purely or even largely genetic. When you actually read his articles, you get the impression that he primarily believes the problems of minorities to be cultural ones, meaning that they are told NOT to work or to succeed, that you are not responsible for yourself or anyone, and to defy society and demand that everyone else support you. This is not to say that he thinks that all races are identical save from visual aspects. He doesn't. But this isn't the central issue.
Reading his articles, you'll also notice that he is highly concerned with the massive amount of immigration between. Thus, you'll imagine he doesn't like hispanics, but, wouldn't ya know it, he now lives in Mexico. (And travels extensively throughout the third world, where whites are relatively rare, naturally) So maybe he just loves non-Whites, but I don't think that's the difference. The difference, of course, is that although there are a great many Mexicans in Mexico, there is far less American liberal bullcrap, government imposition, and ludicrous propaganda, and when those things do exist they can be ignored far more easily. Those are the things he hates. Minorities are primarily a problem because they are prominent members, tools, and clubs of those who wish to impose on him and everyone else for the sake of the downtrodden, those who generally end up both exacerbating the problem they are supposedly trying to solve, and infringing upon everyone's rights while they're at it . Though Fruity.... is right about one thing: White people are certainly more likely to be interested Reed's writing than most, as they are the ones who most often have to pay the literal financial price for the programs he opposes, while not reaping any of the benefits, or perceived benefits, anyway. That, and though White's are criticized for being white or for being conservative, it's nothing compared to the sort of scorn a conservative black or hispanic is likely to receive from the liberal estabishment. (Reed, however, isn't a Republican, by any stretch of the imagination. He opposes the war in Iraq, and clearly dislikes Bush as much as your average Democrat)
Anyway, I don't actually own this book, but I've read pretty much all of his articles from his website, from which this book is culled, I believe, so I can assure you that it's good stuff. His writing style sometimes gets a bit repetitious, overusing his exaggerated southern hillbilly persona, but he's funny and insightful and cuts to the heart of political nonsense with common sense rather than elaborate wordgames. And, perhaps most importantly, he never sugarcoats anything, to the point which much of his writing is verging on apoclyptic, in spite off it's humor.
Anyway, this definitely must read material for people who think that maybe they should be in charge of their own lives, and that, hell, maybe everyone else can be free too.
Fred the Racist.......2005-03-17
On his internet website (in the column titled "Wussyism At Harvard") Fred says black people end up in prison "Largely because of an almost infinitely documented fifteen-point deficit in intelligence, however measured, between blacks and whites." But Fred conveniently neglects to mention what sources he's referring to. Maybe the sources in his dreams.
Look at the other reviewer talking about his Anglo brothers in the UK, Australia, and where ever else white people live. If that doesn't give you an indication of the type of people this book will attract, then I don't know what will. Disgruntled white males need only apply.
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