The Big Fat Kill (Sin City, Book 3: Second Edition)
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The Big Fat Kill (Sin City, Book 3: Second Edition)
Frank Miller
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With The Big Fat Kill Frank Miller is at it again with another comics packed with guns, lovers, losers, and surprises. In Sin City's Old Town, the prostitutes run the show. "The cops stay out. That leaves the girls free to keep the pimps and the mob out." Sounds like an OK place, right? It is until a pushy, loud-mouthed guy who has had one too many drinks comes into Old Town and gets himself killed by the ladies. When they find out who he is, they realize that "it'll be war. The streets will run red with blood. Women's blood."

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Criminals have always called the shots in Sin City, whether bootleggers, gamblers, or politicians. But ever since the first dame set up shop in Old Town, those side-streets have been run by the women who walk the night. It's been a delicate truce, but now there's a messy body and the mob's looking to reclaim those licentious streets. They're going to have to put down a tight band of dangerous women and a guy named Dwight to do it. Now Dwight, he knows something that the mob's gotta learn the hard way: sometimes standing up for your friends means killing a whole lot of people...

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4 out of 5 stars Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03

Take Dwight, the man who gets involved with the wrong women. Throw in a cop, seeing one his old girlfriends.

Add a weekend at Bernie's routine, a small female ninja sword wielding killer, some tar pits, and a lot of whores with guns desperate to maintain the status quo after some cops die on their turf.

At the end, it is a Big Fat Kill.


3 out of 5 stars Not Bad, but Certainly Not the Best.......2007-07-23

After the strong start of the Sin City series of THE HARD GOODBYE and A DAME TO KILL FOR, the books take a bit of a dip with this third volume, THE BIG FAT KILL. It is not bad, but it lacks that stick-to-the-ribs impact of the first two, mostly due to characters that are not as interesting as others we have seen.

Dwight McCarthy is simply not as intriguing a character as Marv from Volume 1 (nor as interesting as John Hartigan in the volume that follows this). This was not a major liability in the second volume, A DAME TO KILL FOR, for the simple reason that Dwight was overshadowed by one of the most captivating characters in the series, the ultimate femme fatale of Ava Lord. But here, Dwight has to stand more on his own and, although certainly not a bad character, he also certainly is not strong enough to really hold the audience as much as we would like.

Yes, there are the girls of Old Town. But their appeal is diluted as no one character stands out. Miho is quite something, but the fact that she does not talk limits her development. And personally, I always thought Gail was just not up to snuff for the Sin City series.

The book is saved by the action. Miho taking care of business the hard way, the Irish mercenaries, the high body count, make THE BIG FAT KILL worthwhile. The weaker characters are a detriment but, fortunately, not a deal breaker.

5 out of 5 stars A violent joy........2007-07-19

Frank Miller's Sin City is still the greatest series of graphic novels out there. Book 3 of 7, The Big Fat Kill is a tale about Dwight McCarthy and how he tries to save the girls of Old Town from war with the mob and the police. Featuring stylized bloody violence, and Miller's gritty off-the-street dialogue, The Big Fat Kill is a great book and should be read again and again. Be sure to check out the movie. I hope you enjoy this awesome graphic novel!

5 out of 5 stars "You didn't flush...".......2007-04-11

With The Big Fat Kill, the third story in Frank Miller's noir-ish Sin City saga, he once again strikes gold. Dwight McCarthy, the one time shady photographer from A Dame to Kill For, is in over his head again. This time around, he interferes when his new squeeze Shellie gets roughed up by Jackie Boy, only to follow him to Old Town where he meets a bloody demise at the hands of Miho. Soon enough however, after they learn who Jackie Boy really was, the shaky truce between the girls of Old Town and the cops is going to come to a violent end, unless Dwight can save the day. Things that were hinted at in A Dame to Kill For, such as the relationship between Dwight and Gail, get more fleshed out here; while Miller ups the ante in terms of the stylistic violence he's made so popular, including a blood curdling action sequence involving Miho. If you've seen Robert Rodriguez' masterwork of an adaptation, you no doubt know that this story was included in the film, and if you've already read this, then you also no doubt know how spectacular this installment in the series is. All in all, The Big Fat Kill is one of the best chapters in the Sin City library, and if you've never given it a look, you've been missing out.

5 out of 5 stars Miller takes no prisoners........2006-06-18

A direct follow-up from what happened in "A Dame to Kill For," Dwight, with his new face, is now dating Shellie, one of the waitresses at Kadie's, the strip club, coming in between Shellie and her ex boyfriend Jackie Boy. When Jackie Boy and his gang roughs Shellie up at her apartment and heads into Old Town afterwards, Dwight trails Jackie Boy down, altering Gail and Miho of the approaching danger. Things get out of hand, and Miho slices everyone up. The big twist is when Dwight searches through Jackie Boy's wallet that he discovers he was a police officer, thus destroying the little "truce" the Old Town prostitutes have with the police force...unless Dwight can dispose of the body first, and then rescue Gail, who has been kidnapped by an angry, revenge-seeking Manute...

They often say three time's the charm, and that's the blunt truth with Frank Miller and his third installment in most likely the most artistically unique comic book series of all time, "The Big, Fat Kill." That spectacular style of exaggerated artwork and descriptive storytelling Miller is known for is still here, and it's never been better. Dwight McCarthy is back and Miller shows that he is still capable of what he can do, despite what Ava Lord did to him in "A Dame to Kill For." His relationship with Gail is also more focused on. Manute and, of course, Miho are back. Manute is even more sadistic and evil here, and Miho, as she did before, shows the killer born underneath her otherwise cute appearance. Speaking of which, I really like Miho. She just rocks. I've said before, I'll say it again: Miller is a genius. Strongly recommended, in addition to "The Hard Goodbye" and "A Dame to Kill For."
Sin City 2 of 5: The Big Fat Kill
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    Sin City 2 of 5: The Big Fat Kill
    Frank Miller
    Manufacturer: Legend and Dark Horse
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Comic

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    Sin City by Frank Miller, the big fat kill.
    Big Fat Kill
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      Big Fat Kill
      Frank Miller
      Manufacturer: Dark Horse Comics
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Paperback
      ASIN: B000KGAFKY
      The Big Fat Kill: Sin City : Graphic Novel : Slip Cased (Sin City)
      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
      • Dwight has to help out the ladies of Old Town with a problem
      The Big Fat Kill: Sin City : Graphic Novel : Slip Cased (Sin City)

      Manufacturer: Dark Horse Comics
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      ASIN: 1569711267

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      4 out of 5 stars Dwight has to help out the ladies of Old Town with a problem.......2005-05-19

      "The Big Fat Kill," Book 3 of Frank Miller's "Sin City" graphic novels once again focuses on the character of Dwight, who got himself a new face and a new attitude in the previous story, "A Dame to Kill For." The latter was the more important part, because Dwight did not come across as being anyway as interesting as Marv, the hero of the first "Sin City" story who is back to lend Dwight a helping hand in the second. Dwight is not exactly alone this time either, but he is certainly more capable of holding his own than previously.

      Dwight is spending some time with Shellie the waitress when Jackie Boy shows up with a mean drunk and four of his friends. The old Dwight would have had some problems with that situation, but our hero has definitely grown up. Getting Jackie Boy to leave Shellie alone should be the end of it, but Dwight is convinced that the night will not end until Jackie Boy hurts somebody and Dwight takes the responsibility for making sure that does not happen. But when Jackie Boy ends up to Old Town where the ladies ply their trade of prostitution and are the law, "beautiful and merciless," it looks like Dwight's help is not need at all. This, however, turns out to be the biggest mistake of the night and suddenly Dwight's services are most decidedly needed.

      It will seem strange to pick out this particular "Sin City" story and say it is a bit over the top, since obviously all of them are. The ending is certainly brutally efficient but at the cost of any notion of elegance, which is usually preferred in a comic noir story such as this. Miller is certainly not experimenting as much in terms of his artwork as he was in the first novel in the series, but the rough way in which Dwight and Jackie Boy's faces are drawn is not to my liking. The full-page panels in this one have Miller's best artwork. This includes Dwight introducing Jackie Boy to the toilet, Dwight jumping into his car, and some of the ladies of Old Town. Still, all things considered, this ends up being a second tier Miller story and Dwight is still a second tier hero, still well worth the reading but not as good as it gets in "Sin City."

      This slip cased graphic novel brings together the five issues of the original Dark Horse comic series, along with their covers (which actually introduce some color to Miller's artwork). In the back of the book you will find a Gallery of "Sin City" art contributed by the likes of Arthur Adams, Sergio Aragones, Joe Kumbert, Mike Mignola, John Romita, Walter Simonson, and some other artists who present their interpretations of Nancy Callahan, the ladies of Old Town, and other "Sin City" characters.
      Sin City: La gran masacre/ Sin City: The Big Fat Kill (Sin City)/ Spanish Edition
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        Sin City: La gran masacre/ Sin City: The Big Fat Kill (Sin City)/ Spanish Edition
        Frank Miller
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        ASIN: 1594970181

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        The Big Fat Kill (la gran masacre) is one of the three Sin City graphic novels upon which the Sin City film is based (release date 4/1/05), which the author co-wrote and co-directed with Robert Rodriguez (Once Upon a Time in Mexico). In Sin City's Old Town, the prostitutes run the show. The cops stay out, leaving the girls free to keep the pimps and the mob out. That is until a boorish stranger comes to town and gets himself killed by the ladies. When they find out who he is, they realize that It'll be war. The streets will run red with blood. Women's blood. Won a 1996 Eisner Award for Best Limited Series.
        Sin City 3 La Gran Masacre / the Big Fat Kill (Sin City)
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          Sin City 3 La Gran Masacre / the Big Fat Kill (Sin City)
          Frank Miller
          Manufacturer: Norma Editorial Sa
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          Big Fat Kill :Sin City 3 2ND Edition
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            Big Fat Kill :Sin City 3 2ND Edition
            Frank Miller
            Manufacturer: DIAMOND BOOK @ DISTRIBUTORS
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            MANHUNT - Volume 3, number 11 - November Nov 1955: The Man Between; Vanishing Act; Time to Kill; I'll Do Anything; Fat Boy; Woman Hater; Big Frank; The Trap; Low Tide
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              MANHUNT - Volume 3, number 11 - November Nov 1955: The Man Between; Vanishing Act; Time to Kill; I'll Do Anything; Fat Boy; Woman Hater; Big Frank; The Trap; Low Tide
              John (editor) (Jonathan Craig; W. R. Burnett; Richard Marsten; Charles Beaumont; Hal Ellson; Sam Merwin; Bryce Walton; Robert Turner; Cole Price) McCloud
              Manufacturer: Flying Eagle Publications
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              ASIN: B000LVXSP2
              Sin City, Vol. 3: The Big Fat Kill
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                Manufacturer: Tandem Library
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                Binding: Unknown Binding
                ASIN: 1417672633

                Phallos: Sacred Image of the Masculine (Studies in Jungian Psychology By Jungian Analysis, No 27)
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                • Follies Phallic
                • an uncommon view lucidly expressed
                • A readable intro into the "archetypal masculine."
                • First things first
                • What a silly book.
                Phallos: Sacred Image of the Masculine (Studies in Jungian Psychology By Jungian Analysis, No 27)
                Eugene Monick
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                4 out of 5 stars Follies Phallic.......2004-09-29

                It was a bit tough ploughing through this book ten or so years ago as it seems a little ponderous and self conscious but I'm glad I did. In retrospect I can't think of another book that raised my consciousness quite the way this one did. As a female victim of childhood molestation, I have tried to understand sexuality from the male perspective and it was helpful to read a frank but intelligent and spiritual book by a man about men without intercession and without courtship to the feminine in the audience. I often recommend this book to women who are genuinely interested in a better understanding of men and not just interested in getting them to put the toilet seat down. If you're one of these more enlightened sister types, give the book a try. It's one of a kind in my experience. I also appreciate the Jungian approach to all matters in life and this book is part of a series of books, most of which I have read with interest and appreciation.

                5 out of 5 stars an uncommon view lucidly expressed.......2000-09-13

                This is a great book for one's 'men's issues' or Jungian bookshelf. Of particular interest to me was the author's elucidation of the archetypal unconscious having 'phallos' qualities intrinsically. Both Freud and Jung articulated the feminine quality of the unconscious, with heroic ego differentiation representing a masculine step (initially)away from it. Yet, metaphorically, why would the unconscious be exclusively feminine? Why would the heroic ideal be exclusively masculine? As our culture's gender roles become more flexible Monick's interpretations will become increasingly useful to analysts and other therapists. This book also contains great photos of depictions of the phallos in art.

                4 out of 5 stars A readable intro into the "archetypal masculine.".......1999-10-14

                A useful addition to your "men's issues" bookshelf. Especially good for readers not familiar with the new movement to affirm the sacredness of masculinity. -- Craig Chalquist, M.S., creator of the Thineownself self-exploration site.

                5 out of 5 stars First things first.......1999-06-27

                First Mother then Phallos then the union of the two, all performed WITHIN, has nothing to do with human beings, which is to say LOVE is not human = EROS.

                1 out of 5 stars What a silly book........1999-05-06

                It's like a lot of Jungiana, a lot of assertions and vapid conclusions. What makes this one worse than most is the pretentiousness of its language and tone. I do not have the impression that the author really has enough depth in comparative religions, anthropology, or even psychology to pull this off, and too bad, because the subject has potential.
                Phallos
                Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
                • bumptious divertissement
                • Phabulous Phun
                Phallos
                Samuel R. Delany
                Manufacturer: Bamberger Books
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                Phallos is the tale of a tale. Neoptolomus pursues mystic knowledge through the Mediterranean world in the time of Emperor Hadrian. From Egypt to Syracuse, from Athens to Byzantium and further, filled with wit and eruditon--and deeply homoerotic--this is a Lacanian riddle to delight and intrigue fans of Delany's more recent fiction, The Mad Man, and his Return to Neveryon series.

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                2 out of 5 stars bumptious divertissement.......2006-01-31

                (I am not a native speaker, please overlook my style)

                Mr Delany enjoys a widespread acclaim by critics and common readers: with good cause, his mastery of the language is outstanding and he knows perfectly how to develop a good story.

                Both qualities are to be found and appreciated in phallos too but an author so esteemed must perforce keep his standards extremely high.
                In this work he choses a literary topos: he feigns he has found an older work by an unknown author, a pornographical novel set in the late Roman empire and he engages the reader in a witty, cultured commentary on this novel, inserting erotic excerpts from the same.

                Problem is, his "commentary" is not witty enough to stand on its own feet, and the excerpts, though teasing enough, are not outright erotic so as to give satisfaction at least in that way.

                To read this work is just like reading an interesting literary essay (with some useless shows of erudition where the language is convoluted) about a work which does not exist

                5 out of 5 stars Phabulous Phun.......2004-12-23

                What a shame there's no image of the cover of this
                book--it's quite handsome. Left of center is Delany's
                mythical beast (which first appeared in 'The Mad Man') with a bull's head, a man's body, wings, and talons.

                Visuals aside, I picked up this book
                with a misgiving or two (after all, I'm a heterosexual male), but I must admit, I was delightfully surprised. Reminiscent of Borges, Delany opens with a missing text "rumored to have been in the possession of German classical antiquarian Johann Joachim Winckelman in 1768--an item that the 19-year-old murderer Arcangeli presumably made off with, along with the golden medals, after garroting the 51-year-old scholar in a pensione just outside Trieste."

                From this point--the second paragraph--on, I was
                hooked. A clever writer as intellectually
                deft as Umberto Eco, Delany is a better wordsmith than Eco (judging from what reaches us in translation).

                In addition to the multi-layered plot involving
                a quest for the jewel-encrusted member of
                an ancient deity (for which the book is named) this book is just a great deal of
                postmodern fun involving two modern critics, the
                internet, a young reader of homoerotic
                fiction, and two male lovers navigating the
                Mediterranean world during the reign of the Emperor
                Hadrian. The back cover summary calls this book a
                "Lacanian riddle to delight" and indeed it does. It
                is one mirror reflected into another reflected into
                another. One simple example: the search, in modern times, for an extant copy of the novel mirrors the search of Neoptolomus and his paramour, Nevik, for the fabled Phallos. But this is
                not dry, academic, rarefied entertainment--far from
                it. There are plenty of adventures, mishaps, escapes
                and eventful twists.

                Highly recommended reading for anyone who would like to see the convolute plots of Eco alloyed with the erudition and linguistic
                splendor of Borges.

                Don't miss it!
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                  Phallos
                  Thorkil Vanggaard
                  Manufacturer: Jonathan Cape
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                  PHALLOS A Symbol and its History in the Male World
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                    PHALLOS A Symbol and its History in the Male World

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                    ASIN: B000H5BUQ6
                    Phallos Dionysus
                    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                    • The fictional topicality of Phallos Dionysus
                    • The fictional topicality of Phallos Dionysus
                    • The fictional topicality of Phallos Dionysus
                    • The fictional topicality of Phallos Dionysus
                    • Dionysus in the aspect of Priapus enters the modern world
                    Phallos Dionysus
                    Frank Palescandolo
                    Manufacturer: Writer's Showcase Press
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                    A novel about the reappearance of the Greek god Dionysus in the modern world in the aspect and form of Priapus. Imagine the combined Wellesley and Smith College Field Hockey teams as his Baccantes. The novel, in sequences, is indebted to the play, The Baccae, by Euripides.

                    Laetitia Lowell, a philologist at Wellesley College, on a solo field trip to the ruins of Pompei and Herculaneum, on the slopes of Vesuvius, lost, she falls in with a procession of dreamy-eyed women dancing to the music of tambourines, flutes, drums and cithars, in barbaric dress of blue chitons, bare legged, bare breasted, and holding what appears to be a thyrsus. Bacchantes! After two thousand years! She follows what she believes to be masquerades, hoping to find her way back to Pompeii. Suddenly, she is hemmed in by the hennaed and kohl eyed women, to witness what appeared to be a rite. When the troop stops before a grotto, a venerable man who appeared to be a high priest, summons a young man from the grotto who is attired in a golden robe. His hair is Doric blonde. A magnificent Greek kouros. The young man sits on a plinth at the entrance of the grotto. The women chant choral dithyrambs out of the Bacchae of Euripides.

                    He opens his robe to disclose a huge flaccid male member that gradually becomes erect with the intensity of the dancing and singing -- then with a moan he ejaculates, spurting semen in a fountain spray in which the women dip kerchiefs and phallic ornaments to empower the objects as symbols of fertility.

                    The young man is imprisoned in the grotto. Later, she escapes with the young man, Demetrius Angeli, who is worshipped by this recondite and remote sect in time, as Dionysus in the aspect of Priapus.

                    For his sanity and safety, she brings him to the USA. He and his Wellesley and Smith College new world bacchantes (field hockey players) are then persecuted as a dangerous cult by a lady Attorney General. What ensues is the eternal confrontation and dynamism of Dionysan and Appollonian opposites.

                    * * *

                    Myths have no life of themselves. They wait for us to give them body. Let but one person in the world respond to their call, they offer us their vitality unimpaired.

                    From Albert Camus, 1946.

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                    5 out of 5 stars The fictional topicality of Phallos Dionysus.......2000-11-30

                    While intending to write an appreciation of Phallos Dionysus,a novel with a serious mixture of an ethos of an ancient classical Greek culture,and wildly funny parallelisms to the modern day,I came across a quote from Tom Wolfe,the novelist that would seem to give Phallos Dionysus some topicality,albeit fictional. I quote:"Instead of striding out with a Dionysian yea-saying,as Neitzche would have put it,into the raw raucous,lust-soaked rout that throbs with amped-up octophonic tympanum all around them,our old lions had withdrawn,retreated,shielding their eyes against the light,and turned inward to such subject matter as their own little crevicei.e."the literary world" .The modern novel is dying not of obsolescence but of anoxeria.It needs food!It needs novelists with the energy and the verve to approach America like moviemakers do,with a ravenous curiosity and to go out among 270 million souls and look them in the eye"

                    5 out of 5 stars The fictional topicality of Phallos Dionysus.......2000-11-30

                    While intending to write an appreciation of Phallos Dionysus,a novel with a serious mixture of an ethos of an ancient classical Greek culture,and wildly funny parallelisms to the modern day,I came across a quote from Tom Wolfe,the novelist that would seem to give Phallos Dionysus some topicality,albeit fictional. I quote:"Instead of striding out with a Dionysian yea-saying,as Neitzche would have put it,into the raw raucous,lust-soaked rout that throbs with amped-up octophonic tympanum all around them,our old lions had withdrawn,retreated,shielding their eyes against the light,and turned inward to such subject matter as their own little crevicei.e."the literary world" .The modern novel is dying not of obsolescence but of anoxeria.It needs food!It needs novelists with the energy and the verve to approach America like moviemakers do,with a ravenous curiosity and to go out among 270 million souls and look them in the eye"

                    5 out of 5 stars The fictional topicality of Phallos Dionysus.......2000-11-30

                    While intending to write an appreciation of Phallos Dionysus,a novel with a serious mixture of an ethos of an ancient classical Greek culture,and wildly funny parallelisms to the modern day,I came across a quote from Tom Wolfe,the novelist that would seem to give Phallos Dionysus some topicality,albeit fictional. I quote:"Instead of striding out with a Dionysian yea-saying,as Neitzche would have put it,into the raw raucous,lust-soaked rout that throbs with amped-up octophonic tympanum all around them,our old lions had withdrawn,retreated,shielding their eyes against the light,and turned inward to such subject matter as their own little crevicei.e."the literary world" .The modern novel is dying not of obsolescence but of anoxeria.It needs food!It needs novelists with the energy and the verve to approach America like moviemakers do,with a ravenous curiosity and to go out among 270 million souls and look them in the eye"

                    5 out of 5 stars The fictional topicality of Phallos Dionysus.......2000-11-30

                    While intending to write an appreciation of Phallos Dionysus,a novel with a serious mixture of an ethos of an ancient classical Greek culture,and wildly funny parallelisms to the modern day,I came across a quote from Tom Wolfe,the novelist that would seem to give Phallos Dionysus some topicality,albeit fictional. I quote:"Instead of striding out with a Dionysian yea-saying,as Neitzche would have put it,into the raw raucous,lust-soaked rout that throbs with amped-up octophonic tympanum all around them,our old lions had withdrawn,retreated,shielding their eyes against the light,and turned inward to such subject matter as their own little crevicei.e."the literary world" .The modern novel is dying not of obsolescence but of anoxeria.It needs food!It needs novelists with the energy and the verve to approach America like moviemakers do,with a ravenous curiosity and to go out among 270 million souls and look them in the eye"

                    5 out of 5 stars Dionysus in the aspect of Priapus enters the modern world.......2000-11-12

                    This is a fascinating novel for lovers of mythology and fantasy,an unsusual and effective combination of ancient ambiance and the modern day, both joined in Bacchic joy and bacchanal in a surprise to the reader at the end when Demetrius-Dionysus returns and leaves a gift on the beach at the island of Corfu.The novel holds your attention consistently. Plot and theme are daringly original in a daring novel, strongly dramatized by remarkable characters,the eternal Greek God Dionysus in the form of Priapus,and the twentytwo Wellesley and Smith college field hockey teams who become devotees,as well as a lady Attorney General who cancels a cult prosecution as a believer,--all modern bacchantes brandishing hockey sticks as thyruses to protect Demetrius-Dionysus and dancing to the ecstatic beat of dithyrambic music wearing hockey cleats.The novel itself has a strong voice,musical and rhythmic,in a lyrical mode.Evoi' Life'
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                      Thorkil Vanggaard
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                      Phallos: A symbol and its history in the male world
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                        Phallos: A symbol and its history in the male world
                        Thorkil Vanggaard
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                        Phallos: Fruchtbarkeitssymbol oder Abwehrzauber? : ein ethnologischer Beitrag zu humanethologischen Uberlegungen der apotropaischen Bedeutung phallischer und ithyphallischer Darstellungen
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                          Phallos: Fruchtbarkeitssymbol oder Abwehrzauber? : ein ethnologischer Beitrag zu humanethologischen Uberlegungen der apotropaischen Bedeutung phallischer und ithyphallischer Darstellungen
                          Jutta Gassner
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                          Phallos;: Symbol und Kult in Europa
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                            Phallos;: Symbol und Kult in Europa
                            Thorkil Vanggaard
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                            Ho archaios phallos: Okto mikres histories kai mia nouvela (Hellenike logotechnia)
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                              Ho archaios phallos: Okto mikres histories kai mia nouvela (Hellenike logotechnia)
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