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Claudius the God: And His Wife Messalina
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Arguably the greatest fictional biography ever written........2006-12-05
In I, Claudius, Robert Graves creates the first person narrative of Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus, known in Roman history as Claudius, and widely regarded as an idiot. Telling the story of his family's rule from the beginning of the Christian era until his death fifty years later, Claudius relates stories of his grandmother Livia, one of the most treacherous women in history, a woman who manipulated the imperial succession through poisonings, assassinations, marriages, and secret alliances. The reign of her son Tiberius is bloody, murderous, and corrupt. Tiberius's succession by Caligula, his insane grandson and the protégé of Livia, takes Rome into even more terrifying debauchery. Claudius's ultimate succession to the throne is widely regarded as a joke.
In Claudius, the God, Graves continues the story of Claudius, who is hugely popular when he first becomes Emperor, refusing many of the numerous titles claimed by his predecessors because he believes he has not yet earned them. Gradually, we observe the truism that "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." His invasion of Britain, his relationship with his wife Messalina, and his attempts to control the succession to the throne show his attempts to manipulate Roman history and his own legacy. The reader develops enormous sympathy for this man who began his reign with pure motives but who was ultimately powerless to control his own destiny and that of Rome.
Characters are complex, fully developed humans, instead of cardboard, costumed ancients, and their machinations, though extremely bloody, show the conflicts that occur when absolute rule and republican sentiments contend for dominance, a conflict in which Graves says he saw parallels to World War I and its aftermath.
Taken together, these two novels of Claudius constitute what is arguably the greatest fictional biography ever written. Precise historical detail creates a rich tapestry of life in the period, while, at the same time, Graves's keen awareness of psychology leads to vibrant and believable characters behaving badly. The values (and lack of them) in the period are presented in dramatic scenes of violence and excess, and the fickleness of the masses (whom Claudius calls "the frog pool") is both realistic and sadly universal. A masterful characterization of a lesser known Caesar. n Mary Whipple
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Robert Graves continues Claudius' story with the epic adulteries of Messalina, King Herod Agrippa's betrayal of his old friend, and the final arrival of that bloodthirsty teenager, Nero.
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2 Book Set By Robert Graves; I, Claudius; Claudius the God.
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I, CLAUDIUS - and - CLAUDIUS THE GOD
Robert Graves
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An older more mature Doc........1999-11-19
This tale takes place near the end of Doc Savage's amazing career. The tone of the story and the characterization of the characters are consistent with the later work of Lester Dent. In some of the super-sagas of the late 1940s, Doc indeed was trying to control his trilling affectation. In the story, "The Red Spider", Doc becomes involved in cold war intrigue behind the iron curtain. Doc was introduced in 1933. By 1948, the World had been entirely transformed. In the 30s, Doc was protecting the World against madmen with weapons of mass destruction. In the post- war world, this was no longer a fanciful notion; it was a reality. Dent changed Doc to keep up with the times. In "The Frightened Fish", working from story notes by Lester Dent, Will Murray does a masterful job of keeping consistent with Mr. Dent's new direction for the series. Murray presents us with an older, more world-weary Doc. He is still a hero, but his inner life had been brought forth. In the fifteen year span of Doc's career, he grew as an individual. Everyone changes and grows over time and so did Doc Savage. A large portion of the plot takes place in occupied Japan. It is clear that Will Murray did a lot of research on what Japan was like during that period. I have never really come across much information on occupied Japan and it proved to be facinating reading. This book is a welcomed addition to the Doc Savage canon. The plot in "The Frightened Fish" deals with no less that the possible start of World War III! An amazing villain returns to again warp the course of history! Doc and his amazing crew meet up with old friends! Doc pulls the Helldiver out of mothballs for a trip across the Pacific to occupied Japan! What more could you ask for?
This is a weak offering for the series.......1997-04-08
Will Murray, the latest of the authors that have used the pen name of Kenneth Robeson to write the Doc Savage series, appears to not have read the books that have been written and released since the early thirties. The book has gaffes that a regular reader of Doc Savage would immediately spot. Most notably, constant references to Clark Savage, Jr.'s emotions and facial expressions. Historically, Doc Savage had been trained since birth to be emotionless; in this book, it is obvious that he is even in love! The book, set in 1949, makes many references to the takeover of worldwide Communism, and this makes the "feel" of the book and it's plot seem totally different than the 100 or so earlier volumes. Another disappointment regards Doc's weird "trilling" noise that he makes....in this version, he is attempting to break that habit. Previously, he did this sound unawares when he was puzzling something out; now, its just a habit that he is trying to break. Although Mr. Murray says that he used original Lester Dent notes to write this, the changes of tone and action are significant enough that I feel sure that this has to be a change from Mr. Dent's intentions.
The best part of this book is the afterword. Mr. Murray recounts how Doc Savage was first written, with the main writer being Lester Dent. It details how Mr Dent hired ghostwriters to help him write for the original magazine when he tired of the chore, and which author wrote, or in some cases, co-wrote which book. There is also a fine list of all of the original magazine stories with the date of release, followed by a list of the books released (and notates when the name of a story is changed from the magazine to the book series. This alone made this purchase worthwhile. If you are trying to rebuild a lost collection as I am, then this is a worthwhile investment of your money; otherwise, skip this one!
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In May 2001, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) will break a major pizza story on the ABC television program 20/20 and once again capture front-page headlines, just as it did when it released studies on movie popcorn and take-out Chinese food. Published to coincide with this story is Restaurant Confidential, in which Dr. Michael F. Jacobson and his CSPI team do for sit-down meals what their Fast-Food Guide--with 247,000 copies in print--does for fast food.Belgian Waffle or Rib-Eye Steak? Bloomin' Onion or Mrs. Fields's Double-Fudge Brownie? Americans are now eating almost one-third of their meals outside the home, spending $222 billion annually doing so-and watching their waistlines balloon. What's in this food? To answer, CSPI performs across-the-board restaurant profiles that give straight-shooting scientific data on the fat, sodium, and calorie content of the most popular dishes. The information is organized by type of cuisine--Chinese, Mexican, steak house, and more--and covers all the major chains, such as The Olive Garden, Applebee's, and Outback. The book provides specific eating strategies for every kind of restaurant, as well as shocking facts: Did you know that a typical order of stuffed potato skins packs a whopping 1,260 calories and 48 grams--two days' worth--of saturated fat? A 10-point plan for ordering wisely, plus dozens of tips throughout, takes the information one step further by showing how to eat happily and healthfully. It's the nutrition book that reads like a thriller. Take the steak and brownies; a whole fried onion with dipping sauce has a blooming 163 grams of fat, and the seemingly innocent Belgian waffle with whipped topping and fruit has even more fat and calories than two sirloin steaks.
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claggy dirty diabetes-inducing good for nothing restaurant food arrrgh.......2006-12-22
no cheese
no burgers
NO fettucini alfredo
no kung pao chicken
If you want to be as beautiful as a Nubian, you should only eat an unsalted, unsweeted porridge of oatmeal and teff along with ten servings of veggies and fruits.
This book was easy to read. However, I don't think it will convert the unconverted. The lists of the worst offenders (of sodium, cholesterol, fat) are drool-inducing. I'm capable of resisting the horrible chain restaurants but I do want to cook many of these dishes at home. We're all doomed unless restaurants decide to take the risk and serve the healthy alternatives with tiny samples of the bad things as garnishes/amuse bouche e.g. coin sized pieces of fatty salty breakfast sausage and waffle with dairy foam in lieu of whipped cream beside an egg white omelet. I really understand why Americans sacrifice their health and pay a dollar more to get a $2.99 breakfast of two eggs, sausages, hash browns and pancakes with toast and sugary fruit juice and black coffee. The customers feel they are treating themselves AND saving money even if it is poisoning them. They want to taste that zesty sausage.
A Must Read For the Overly Nervous........2006-06-30
Written in a breezy, easily digestible style, CSPI's literature does provide useful information on topics such as the nutritional profiles of various vegetables, the availability of "light" menu items, and the dubious advantages of bottled water. More important, CSPI models a way of life that sets its followers apart from their less health-conscious, less eco-aware neighbors. "Instead of the conspicuous consumption that [economist Thorstein] Veblen talked about," the restaurant critic Robert Shoffner observed in a 1994 interview with the Washingtonian, CSPI pushes "conspicuous self-denial....They want us in a state of perpetual Lent." Like religious dietary laws, the rules laid down by CSPI create distinctions, provide structure, and invest everyday decisions with meaning. Underlying this system is an ethic that seems to value discipline and sacrifice for their own sake.
From Reason Magazine, 7/2003.
Like the useful idiot in "Super-Size Me", the folks at CSPI have made a career out of scaring people who should know better. Does anyone really believe that if you eat nothing but baked potatoes and sour cream, cheese fries, buffalo wings, movie popcorn, candy bars and ice cream that they will be in ultimate health? Does anyone sit down to a Whopper at Burger King and think, "this'll do the body good"? Of course not. But the would-be philosopher-kings at CSPI KNOW what's in your best interest. They're willing to tell you over and over again, in the most lurid and frightening detail. They will exaggerate potential risks, turning every forkful of cheesecake into cardiac arrest. Forget moderation; forget the occasional guilty pleasure....these folks are better than you because they practice a monastic self-denial. Imagine yourself at a dining table at an exquisite French restaurant with a group of these folks, what a nightmare that would be, and then decide whether you want to read this book.
After reading this and other CSPI literature, I'm convinced that the only truth in the name "Center for Science in the Public Interest", is the word "Center".
Eye Opener to eating out all the "good food".......2005-10-28
Cheese fries and ranch dressing 3,010 calories. The recommended caloric intake for a person is 2,000 to 2,500 calories per day. Loved this book and how it helped me get down to the FACTS about eating out with strategies on what is best to eat. Found interesting facts about different ethic food and it looks like Greek is a good way to go.
Great Book.......2005-07-20
Great tool for eating out - gives you the big picture and helps you make better eating out choices!
Restaurant Confidential--did you know you were eating that?.......2003-03-28
Okay, so I've been subscribing to Nutrition Action newsletter for several years, and this is a compilation of all those "Food Police" alerts I've already seen and agreed with. If you haven't seen this info before, you really, really should. Restaurants today can take a veggie that's nothing but good for you, deep-fry it, pour cheese on it, serve it with ranch dressing on the side, and basically introduce you to the world of cardio-care and expensive pharmaceuticals. WAKE UP! If you've read "Fat Land," by Greg Critser (or "Fast Food Nation" or "Mad Cowboy"), you already know that this isn't being done for your benefit; it's happening because there's so much beef and dairy being produced in this country that new ways have to be found every day to get you to eat it, seemingly at bargain prices. Middle age spread and weight-creep are not normal parts of getting older; it's your diet catching up with you as you slow down. This book shows you the nutritional breakdown of all those tempting dishes and gives you the numbers you need to make sane, reasonable choices when your stomach growls and you grab the car keys. Buy the book--it's cheaper than upsizing your wardrobe!
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Most diners believe that their sublime sliver of seared foie gras, topped with an ethereal buckwheat blini and a drizzle of piquant huckleberry sauce, was created by a culinary artist of the highest order, a sensitive, highly refined executive chef. The truth is more brutal. More likely, writes Anthony Bourdain in Kitchen Confidential, that elegant three-star concoction is the collaborative effort of a team of "wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts, and psychopaths," in all likelihood pierced or tattooed and incapable of uttering a sentence without an expletive or a foreign phrase. Such is the muscular view of the culinary trenches from one who's been groveling in them, with obvious sadomasochistic pleasure, for more than 20 years. CIA-trained Bourdain, currently the executive chef of the celebrated Les Halles, wrote two culinary mysteries before his first (and infamous) New Yorker essay launched this frank confessional about the lusty and larcenous real lives of cooks and restaurateurs. He is obscenely eloquent, unapologetically opinionated, and a damn fine storyteller--a Jack Kerouac of the kitchen. Those without the stomach for this kind of joyride should note his opening caveat: "There will be horror stories. Heavy drinking, drugs, screwing in the dry-goods area, unappetizing industry-wide practices. Talking about why you probably shouldn't order fish on a Monday, why those who favor well-done get the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel, and why seafood frittata is not a wise brunch selection.... But I'm simply not going to deceive anybody about the life as I've seen it." --Sumi Hahn
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When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In
Kitchen Confidential, he expanded the appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet that lays out his twenty-five years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine.
From his first oyster in Gironda to the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center, from the restaurants of Tokyo to the drug dealers of the East Village, from the mobsters to the rats, Bourdain's brilliantly written and wonderfully read, wild-but-true tales make the belly ache with laughter.
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sex and drugs in the kitchen.......2007-10-06
I thought I was going to read some "kitchen secrets" rather than "secrets" that occurred in the kitchen.If I wanted to read about how a drug addict became famous, there are a lot more autobiographies I'd rather read about. Bourdain's arrogant behaviour and kitchen antics didn't impress me. The message I got was in order to be a successful chef, you have to use obscene language, have loose morals and do drugs. I'm a chef instructor in a culinary arts school in Europe.....is this what I'm supposed to be like to inspire my students????
FUNNY.......2007-10-02
I would have never thought to pick up this book... I actually would have never thought he took writing serious enough to write a book! On TV, I love his style... his crass personality... and how his humility shines through when you least expect it! This book is the exact same way! My co worker let me read it and I have not been able to put it down. Classically written ... personal and professional about the business without being all over the place... 5 STARS!
Did I Need to Know?.......2007-10-01
Now that Bourdain is featured on TV, this book will probably get a new life. A mind-blowing look at life in the restaurant kitchen - crazier than we could have ever imagined. Lots of really good insight. Anybody thinking of following the culinary profession must read it.
Kitchen Confidential audio book.......2007-09-27
Loved this raunchy rip of a tour through the world of (upscale) restaurant meal creation. And what a view it is of the unique characters who wield chef's knives! Bourdain is a great writer as well as obviously a superior/successful chef, and to top it off, his baritone voice is perfect for the audio format....great inflection, drama, humor.
The Birth of Classic Bourdain.......2007-09-15
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain is funny, irreverent, acerbic & just mildly obscene. It's classic Bourdain. Tony's first non-fiction work, orignally published in 2000, explodes to life as read by the author himself. This really launched his media career, and is far more engrossing that the rather tame Fox TV series based on this memoir.
If you have a fascination with fine food, contemporary restaurants, smart-a** sarcasm, or really conscise descriptions of acid, heroin or cocaine abuse-- you really need to read or listen to this terrific book.
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From the supplier: Hotel and restaurant managers may be exposing themselves to expensive defamation lawsuits when giving negative references about their former employees. Owing to threats of defamation suits, some managers have refused to provide substantive information about former workers, thus defeating the purpose of reference checks. The situation is not helped by the fact that some courts and legislatures offer little or no immunity from defamation threats for privileged communications such as reference checks. The best defense against defamation charges is to provide objective information and to label opinion as such.
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Title: The defamation trap in employee references.
Author: Joan M. Clay
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Title: Missing numbers: is that a snack ... or a splurge?(Restaurant Confidential)(caloric content)(Buyers guide)
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Title: X-treme eating: increasingly indulgent menus entice diners to pig out.(RESTAURANT CONFIDENTIAL)
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Who knew that a Belgian waffle is the dietary equivalent of two sirloin steaks? Or that a serving of fettuccine Alfredo contains as much artery-clogging saturated fat as two and a half pints of butter pecan ice cream? From the team that made the fast-food industry accountable with the bestselling Fast-Food Guide, and warned us about Kung Pao chicken and movie popcorn, here are crystal-clear nutrition facts concerning restaurant food -- the calorie, fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium content of hundreds of the most commonly ordered dishes from our favorite restaurants and chains. And, on the bright side, strategies for ordering wisely by cuisine and tips to make dining well synonymous with eating healthfully.
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