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The Twelfth Card (A Lincoln Rhyme Novel)
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Bestselling master of suspense Jeffrey Deaver is back with a brand-new Lincoln Rhyme thriller. To save the life of a young girl who's being stalked by a ruthless hit man. Lincoln and his protege, Amelia Sachs, are called upon to do the impossible: solve a truly "cold case" -- one that's 140 years old.
The Twelfth Card is a two-day cat-and-mouse chase through the streets of uptown Manhattan as quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs try to outguess Thompson Boyd a man whose past has turned him into a killing machine as unfeeling and cunning as a wolf. Boyd is after Geneva Settle, a high school girl from Harlem, and it's up to Lincoln and Amelia to figure out why.
The motive may have to do with a term paper that Geneva is writing about her ancestor, Charles Singleton, a former slave. Charles was active in the early civil rights movement, but was arrested for theft and disgraced. Lincoln and Amelia work frantically to figure out what actually happened on that hot July night in 1868 when Charles was arrested.
Deaver's inimitable plotting keeps this story racing at a lightening-fast clip. With breathtaking twists and multiple surprises, this is Deaver's most compelling Lincoln Rhyme audiobook to date.
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"Bestselling master of suspense Jeffery Deaver is back with a brand-new Lincoln Rhyme thriller. To save the life of a young girl who's being stalked by a ruthless hit man, Lincoln and his protégé, Amelia Sachs, are called upon to do the impossible: solve a truly ""cold case"" -- one that's 140 years old. The Twelfth Card is a two-day cat-and-mouse chase through the streets of uptown Manhattan as quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs try to outguess Thompson Boyd -- by all appearances a nondescript, innocuous man, but one whose past has turned him into a killing machine as unfeeling and cunning as a wolf. Boyd is after Geneva Settle, a high school girl from Harlem, and it's up to Lincoln and Amelia to figure out why. The motive may have to do with a term paper that Geneva is writing about her ancestor, Charles Singleton, a former slave. A teacher and farmer in New York State, Charles was active in the early civil rights movement but was arrested for theft and disgraced. Assisted by their team, Fred Dellray, Mel Cooper and Lon Sellitto (suffering badly from a case of nerves due to a near miss by the killer), Lincoln and Amelia work frantically to figure out where the hired gun will strike next and stop him, all the while trying to determine what actually happened on that hot July night in 1868 when Charles was arrested. What went on at the mysterious meetings he attended in Gallows Heights, a neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that was a tense mix of wealthy financiers, political crooks like Boss Tweed and working-class laborers and thugs? And, most important for Geneva Settle's fate, what was the ""secret"" that tormented Charles's every waking hour? Deaver's inimitable plotting keeps all these stories -- the past and the present -- racing at a lightning-fast clip as we learn stunning revelations that strike at the very heart of the U.S. Constitution and that could have disastrous consequences for today's human and civil rights in America. With breathtaking twists and multiple surprises that will keep readers on tenterhooks until the last page, this is Deaver's most compelling Lincoln Rhyme book to date. "
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Superb!!.......2007-06-12
This was my first Jeffery Deaver and I was mighty impressed. He included little details throughout the book that kept it from having slow points or lulls. Super secondary characters. Well worth reading more than once.
A great book.......2007-06-05
I save five star ratings for the truly exceptional books - the ones that leave me short of breath and unwilling to move onto another printed page lest the magic disappear. This book is a good read, fun, absorbing, well worth the time spent, and a shame to see end. And I highly recommend it to mystery fans, Deaver fans, and Lincoln Rhyme devotees. The typical twists, the typical unexpected clues, and the guaranteed overlooked detail...but not one moment was a waste of my time.
The Twelfth Card.......2007-05-08
Jeffery Deaver has written what could be one of the best movie series of all time. Every book should be a movie. I wouldn't get up to make popcorn. Intense, total concentration so as not to miss his next inuendo, you are transported from all daily life into the maze that is his creations. Never dissappointed. Always a hand-wringing anxiety that something new won't be available for yet another several months. What can I say, I am happily, hopelessly addicted to his craftsmanship. Sheer ADORATION and appreciation for the copper taste of his life blood that goes into everything he writes.
4.5 stars: Another interesting yet different Rhyme novel from Deaver.......2007-04-10
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After getting this far in the Rhyme series and having read other Deaver novels, I was affraid that I would no longer be caught off guard by the surprises in his books. With this book, that couldn't have been further from the truth. Even though I love to be totally surprised when I read thriller/mysteries like the Rhyme series, I can't help but try hard to guess at the unknowns or anticipate the plot twists, even though I secretly hope I'm wrong. With The Twelfth Card, I tried to guess at the surprises that were coming and who wasn't who they said they were and how the loose ends of the story would tie themselves up, but I simply could not, and I bet you won't either.
I really enjoyed this book, not only because it's subject matter is so different from the other Rhyme novels (we know it's Rhyme and Sachs vs. a killer but every book is a different subject), but also because I got hit in the face with surprises I didn't even see coming.
The only problem with this book (and this reason it is not 5 stars ) is that due to the fact that most of it takes place in Harlem, Deaver has some of the characters use Fred Dellray-esque vernacular, but it wasn't convincing to me as authentic at all. I know he wanted to make the characters sound genuine, but when I read it I couldn't help but smirk at the image of Deaver searching Google for "ghetto words" for some of the characters. Aside from that one flaw, it's a great read and Rhyme fans will devour it like all the other ones.
Not one of my favorites.......2007-02-23
I love most Deaver thrillers with their mean twists. I was waiting for one with Twelfth Card but I can only say this one didn't grab me. Looking forward to Cold Moon though
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A nail-biting suspense about why a professional hit-man would target a brilliant high-school girl, who is digging into a 140 year old mystery about her ancestor & his shocking secret.
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Set of 5 Novels By Jeffery Deaver - Praying for Seep, Hell's Kitchen (John Pellam Series, Book 3), Twisted: Collected Stories of Jeffrey Deaver Vol. I, The Vanished Man (Lincoln Rhyme Series, Book 5), The Twelfth Card (Lincoln Rhyme Series, Book 6).
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At first all Conan wanted was the width of a path through the Border Kingdom, that northern land full of bandits and brawling and sorcery. But that was before he encountered Raihna, a swordswoman as beautiful as she was dangerous. She alone is reason enough to pause a while in his journey. But the rebellion against King Eloikas, whom Raihna now serves, tears the land apart, and in the Vale of Pougoi, the dreaded Star Brothers have renewed their ancient, forbidden thaumaturgies--and summoned an insatiable creature from the depths of time.The Star Brothers cannot believe that one man can stand against their power, but they have reckoned without Conan of Cimmeria......
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(the movie got its title from this earlier book)
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In 1979 WSB questions the creation of Nat'l Healthcare.......2003-06-27
Burroughs's Blade Runner, A Movie, though as noted in previous reviews, bears no relation to the P.K. Dick work by the same title, it is nonetheless a far-reaching work of science fiction which explores the potential ramifications of the state of the nation if national health care were to be instituted (the work was penned in 1979). Though many people, when confronting a sci-fi work that has become literal in one sense yet in other aspects have yet to occur, will prey upon the latter while failing to salute the former. However, many times such critics are only exercising half of their literary aestheticism, for these people quickly forget the literal and the metaphorical are, at its best moments, entirely inseparable. With this in mind, yes, part of what Burroughs has written has occurred in regards to the implementation of HMOs yet other aspects have, and will not, but are to be taken metaphorically. Yet, regardless of interpretation, it is a tale told by a master that is easily accessible (even for Burroughs). Blade Runner is entertaining, and as always with WSB, thought provoking.
Nothing New, and No Real Connections to the Film.......2002-01-22
If you're looking for a connection to Ridley Scott's brilliant 1981 film release, you won't have it here. The only real connection is the title itself. It strikes me that someone creative and well-read in the Blade Runner film development came upon a phrase which just wouldn't let go, and that's how we got the term for the film. Burroughs' description here and that in the film are similar in their urban and societal context, but that's about where they end.
Reading this book, it strikes me that the producers of "Escape From New York" read this novel, and took an awful lot of creative vision away from it. This is especially true of the descriptions of a decrepit and decaying New York City, walled, populated by the dead, dying, and murdering, and where entire cultures flourish hundreds of feet above in the dead skyscrapers.
Written in late 70s, published first in 1979. Set in 1999, or maybe 2014, or maybe 1984, or maybe any number of time citations Burroughs coughs up.
Basically it's a futuristic nightmare, a technological hell in which the state has taken over all aspects of life, bureaucracy dictates every waking moment, and the medical institution is the vilest, most corrupt, most bloodthirsty, and most reckless of them all. Underground and legit drugs, as well as designer plagues all vie in the marketplace. Genetics are manipulated and diseases are voluntarily contracted for the material and physiological benefits the accrue.
Inside this hell the blade runner is central. "Essential to underground medicine are the blade runners, who transfer the actual drugs, instruments and equipment from the suppliers to the clients and doctors and underground clinics." The second half of the book, all two-dozen-odd pages of it follows Billy and his mates, blade runners all, as they fight their way through life on the street.
If you're a Burroughs fan, you've seen it all before in Cities of the Red Night and The Place of Dead Roads. Nothing exotic or new or surprising here. This is a good addition to complete your Burroughs library, but not much more.
Off-cuts should not be published........1999-10-27
This very short book will disappoint all but the most blindly fanatical Burroughs fans. A series of sketches inspired by the Nourse novel of the same name, it simply repeats well-worn themes dealt with more effectively elsewhere in his work. It seems to be the collected results of an aborted attempt to write a novel or screenplay, and from these insipid, lifeless scenes it is easy to see why it was aborted. The only question is: why display the lifeless corpse to the reading public? Methinks his manager was behind this unwise decision$$$
For completists only.
The great novel.......1998-04-20
Different from "Blade runner"by Ridley Scott. Rather;more difficult,but bloody fun,wild,cool and rapid. You will not able to deceive yourself any longer after reading this novel,or you yourself must be a blade runner.
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Blade Runner: Based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep: Official Movie Tie-In
Philip K. Dick
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It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill.
Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignmet--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a book that most people think they remember and almost always get more or less wrong. Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner took a lot from it, and threw a lot away. Wonderful in itself, the film is a flash thriller, whereas Dick's novel is a sober meditation. As we all know, bounty hunter Rick Deckard is stalking a group of androids who have returned from space with short life spans and murder on their minds--where Scott's Deckard was Harrison Ford, Dick's is a financially strapped municipal employee with bills to pay and a depressed wife. In a world where most animals have died, and pet keeping is a social duty, he can only afford a robot imitation, unless he gets a big financial break.
The genetically warped "chickenhead" John Isidore has visions of a tomb-world where entropy has finally won. And everyone plugs in to the spiritual agony of Mercer, whose sufferings for the sins of humanity are broadcast several times a day. Prefiguring the religious obsessions of Dick's last novels, this book asks dark questions about identity and altruism. After all, is it right to kill the killers just because Mercer says so? --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk
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It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill.
Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignmet--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!
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Just as fun reading as it is to watch the movie.......2007-06-30
When I saw Blade Runner for the first time I realized that I had just seen something that was original, smart and that related to me in many, many ways.
I found out that it was loosely based on the book, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and decided that if the movie is as good as it is and it's a condensed version of the story in the book, than the book should be just as good, if not better.
I ordered it from Amazon and started reading. I was only a few pages in when I realized just how "loosely" the movie was based on the book. The book was an entirely different experience.
This book is filled with compelling drama, deception, sci-fi, and 1940's crime-noir style storytelling (complete with the classic femme-fatal) and it does not dissapoint.
Sure, you already paid to see the movie, and you might be thinking, "Why would I pay to read the same story?" You aren't. You will be pleased with this book emensely - it's a completely different story.
thought provoking but less than great prose.......2007-06-18
Androids takes place in a not-so-distant future where a world war has spread a cloud of radioactive dust across the globe, many forms of animal species are extinct, many of the survivors have emigrated to colonies on Mars and the remaining humans are encouraged to emigrate, except for those who have been tested and classified as "specials" meaning the ones with diminished mental abilities because they have been affected severely from radiation. Emigrants are given androids, very sophisticated robots, as slaves. As the technology gets better, newly manufactured androids become more and more human-like, both in appearance and behavior, to the point that they are very hard to distinguish. Discontented androids sometimes kill their masters and find ways to smuggle themselves to earth, in hopes for a better life. In the post-world war earth, life is regarded so precious that owning and caring for an animal is both considered a highly moral life and a status symbol. Because real animals are so rare, many people have fake, very sophisticated and real-like electronic animals that they care for and hide from their neighbors the fact that their animal is fake. On the one hand there are bounty hunters who catch and kill androids, human robots which dreamt of a better life, evidently with some feelings. And on the other hand there is the value which people place upon animal robots. On the one hand there are intelligent, sophisticated androids like the one who made a successful carrier on earth as an opera singer; on the other hand there are hunters who emotionlessly kill her without regard to her artistic talent, or there are simple-minded specials. Throughout the plot, readers are given a lot to think about questions like what is life, what is empathy, where do you draw a line between the value of real and artificial life? It is a philosophical novel and the author puts all these questions before us with brilliant comparisons between characters. The only negative feeling that one might get is the unusual, somewhat simple prose style but overall, a very good, thought provoking novel.
Things Pretending to be People.......2007-03-24
This anti-robot novel is oft misunderstood by those who come to it with expectations formed by the pro-robot movie. The novel is essentially a paranoid fantasy about machines which pretend to be people. The pretense is so horrifyingly effective that a bounty hunter engaged in the entirely necessary task of rooting out and destroying these monsters finds that his own humanity has become imperiled.
Originally entitled "DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP," this novel was re-titled "BLADE RUNNER" to tie it to the Ridley Scott film loosely based on it. It remains available under either title (and with separate entries on AMAZON), but it is the same book. The film studio wanted to market a "novelization" of the film, but PKD adamantly refused to authorize this, forcing them to instead market his original novel under the film's title. Good move, Phil!
This decision, however, has led to confusion and/or disappointment when readers approach the novel with expectations formed by the film. Many reviewers here (whether they like the book, the film, or both) have commented on how different they are. Few seem to realize, however, the extent that they are in direct and fundamental conflict. Some praise the book for tearing down the distinction between man and machine or promoting other nihilistic views and pro-robot messages that the author would have found abhorent. Others pan it for lack of focus in failing to promote the film's pro-robot agenda as effectively as the film did.
That conflict may be summarized as follows: The book is anti-robot and pro-human, and seeks to uphold the distinction between robot and human, and between illusion and reality, in the face of a most-insidious challenge. The film was pro-robot and anti-human, promoting the idea that a compelling illusion is equivalent to reality, and that its ruthless robots were, if anything, better than humans.
The book glorifies the common man for his basic decency -- specifically his capacity for basic empathy and compassion -- and deplores the robots for their complete lack of these qualities. In the book, even a "chickenhead" (a mentally retarded human mutant) is infinitely more valuable than the smartest robot. The film on the other hand, glorifies the robot as a sort of superman ("more human than human") -- stronger, faster, more beautiful, more intelligent, -- who seem poised to inherit the future on a dying Earth. The film even seems to admire the robots for their ruthlessness.
The book makes Deckard (the protagonist) human, and loyal to humans. The film has Deckard switch sides and join the robots. Indeed, in the film (not the book) Deckard may himself be a robot (the latter is never made explicit, but director has made clear it is what he intended). This means that, in the FILM, there are virtually no sympathetic human characters -- those characters who suggest that a man is worth more than a computer program are portrayed as bigots.
In PKD's view, the androids are unquestionably monsters who must be destroyed. The irony, and the central problem posed in the novel, is that their ability to SEEM human (which,, in the NOVEL, is never more than meticulously-programmed fakery), means that those who must destroy robots risk damage to their own humanity in the process. Thus, the author approves of Deckard's wife, whose sympathy for the "poor andys" is evidence of her humanity, while still approving of Deckard's assignment.
In the novel, the robots' increased ability to fool the VK test is merely an advance in programmed mimicry of human test responses. The film, on the other hand, treats the improved performance on the VK test as evidence that the robots are truly "human". But the film's robots do not demonstrate compassion in any meaningful way. The agenda of the film is NOT so mcuh to show that robots are as compassionate as humans, but rather to show that humans are as ruthless as robots (as evidenced, mainly, by their willingness to kill robots). This agenda is eerily similar to that of the TV androids near the end of the novel, who set out to expose human empathy as a myth.
In the novel, the title question must be answered in the negative. Androids DON'T care about other creatures. It is humans who have the capacity care about other creatures -- ironically, even about androids -- even electric sheep.
So many, even among the author's admirers, have missed the novel's true focus that it may be best to defend my interpretation with a quote from the author himself, made shortly before his death (quoted in the book "Future Noir"):
"To me, the replicants are deplorable. They are cruel, they are cold,
they are heartless. They have no empathy, which is how the
Voight-Kampff test catches them out, and don't care about what happens
to other creatures. They are essentially less-than-human entities.
"Ridley, on the other hand, said he regarded them as supermen who
couldn't fly. He said they were smarter, stronger, and had faster
reflexes than humans. 'Golly!' That's all I could think of to reply
to that one. I mean, Ridley's attitude was quite a divergence from my
original point of view, since the theme of my book is that Deckard is
dehumanized through tracking down the androids. When I mentioned
this, Ridley said that he considered it an intellectual idea, and that
he was not interested in making an esoteric film."
Read all Dick's writing as a body of work.......2007-03-09
Philip K. Dick's work has to be taken as a body. All of it encompasses what I call his "ironic paranoia." "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" fits right into this.
The problems with Dick's films are two. They are either (1) too philosophical or (2) action films. Or they are both. What they have not been is ironical. And without irony, you haven't got Dick.
"Minority Report," "Blade Runner," and even "Screamers" were enjoyable films. But they all lacked Dick's wit. Only "Total Recall" came close, with its unexpected twists feeding on paranoia, though the overall result was more burlesque than satire.
Stick with "Androids" and the other novels and short stories, especially the earlier ones (through 1965). Taken as a body of work, they are monumental.
Much different than the movie. .......2007-01-05
Phil's story has a very differnt tone, a married cop, machines with slightly different motives, and much more back story on earth and what is motivating folks. I think in making the movie it was best to cut out the marriage as well as the backstory on why people all crave to have their very own animal such as sheep, horse, goats, cats and yes even electric sheep.
Nevertheless I loved this book for all its differences.
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BLADE RUNNER (1982) 1-2 Complete Movie Adaptation
Archie Goodwin
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2-part adaptation of the hit sci-fi movie starring HARRISON FORD !
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Official comics adaptation of the cult movie classic - complete 2-issue series!
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Title: MCCORMICK'S QUICK TAKES: HUMAN TRUTHS STRANGER THAN FICTION.(motion pictures)(Review)
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This issue contains articles about the following movies: Carlo's Wake; Last Night; Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane;The Corruptor; The Deep End of the Ocean; Blade Runner; and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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The Black Dog Tavern on Martha's Vineyard is a cult classic--and anyone who's eaten there will recognize the distinctive black-lab T-shirt that fans of the restaurant all over the world wear. Now, with The Black Dog Summer on the Vineyard Cookbook, by Elaine Sullivan, those same diners can bring the Dog's savory new New England fare back home as well. The best of these 100-some recipes center around the Black Dog's specialty: breakfast. Aficionados will find such familiar favorites as Eggs in the Grass (poached eggs over asparagus with hollandaise sauce), "M" Go Blue (banana and blueberry pancakes; the name recalls a University of Michigan cheer), and Huey, Louie, Andouille (a pepper, onion, and andouille sausage omelet). The book's step-by-step depiction of omelet preparation is particularly useful, even for veterans; the illustrations for this and other cooking technicalities, like clam opening, are precise and educational. Other standout recipes include Quahog Chowder, Crunchy Pecan Chicken with Lemon Sauce, Caramelized Scallops with Smoked Chili Cream, and Seared Tuna on Watercress Salad. Desserts such as Fudge Bottom Pie, Blueberry Pudding with Lemon Sauce, and Black Dog Ginger Cookies evoke the Black Dog's comfy-cosmo flavor, while scattered pictures and vignettes evoke the restaurant's casual vibe. With a pantry listing and useful cooking tips, this exuberantly designed book is a happy, well-produced effort.
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The Black Dog Tavern on Martha's Vineyard is a cult classic--and anyone who's eaten there will recognize the distinctive black-lab T-shirt that fans of the restaurant all over the world wear. Now, with The Black Dog Summer on the Vineyard Cookbook, by Elaine Sullivan, those samediners can bring the Dog's savory new New England fare back home as well. The best of these 100-some recipes center around the Black Dog's specialty: breakfast. Aficionados will find such familiar favorites as Eggs in the Grass (poached eggs over asparagus with hollandaise sauce), "M" Go Blue (banana and blueberry pancakes; the name recalls a University of Michigan cheer), and Huey, Louie, Andouille (a pepper, onion, and andouille sausage omelet). The book's step-by-step depiction of omelet preparation is particularly useful, even for veterans; the illustrations for this and other cooking technicalities, like clam opening, are precise and educational. Other standout recipes include Quahog Chowder, Crunchy Pecan Chicken with Lemon Sauce, Caramelized Scallops with Smoked Chili Cream, and Seared Tuna on Watercress Salad. Desserts such as Fudge Bottom Pie, Blueberry Pudding with Lemon Sauce, and Black Dog Ginger Cookies evoke the Black Dog's comfy-cosmo flavor, while scattered pictures and vignettes evoke the restaurant's casual vibe. With a pantry listing and useful cooking tips, this exuberantly designed book is a happy, well-produced effort.
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One of the best cookbooks ever.......2007-04-29
As a regular buyer and user of cookbooks, this cookbook is one of the easiest to use and has loads of good recepies. Several of the recipes are now part of my daily menu plans. My family especially likes the Pork Cutlets with Madiera Sauce. Plus, finding a Stuffed Quahogs receipe that is so much like my grandmother-in-law's famous Quahogs is a rare find!
I admit it, I'm a cookbook junkie.......2007-02-17
I like cookbooks with lots of beautiful pictures and this one rates five stars for its pictures and interesting stories. I like recipes that use ingredients most of us have in our kitchens although recipes with the more exotic ingredients are welcome, too. Recipes have to be easy to prepare and not too time-consuming. Black Dog scores points here, also. But, the bottom line is, are you happy with the end result of all your labors and would you make the recipe again. So far, Black Dog fulfills this requirement with the recipes I have tried. For instance, the clam chowder recipe is excellent. I highly recommend this cookbook. I think it would make a great gift for the novice as well as "seasoned" cook.
Authentic flavor from the Vineyard.......2006-11-12
This is one of my favorite cookbooks, both to cook from and to simply read and look at. The recipes are easily presented and simple to follow. That comes in handy, since its versatility covers breakfast, lunch, dinner and desserts while combining a true sense of the summer lifestyle on Martha's Vineyard. It's a funny cookbook, beautifully photographed and -- no other word fits -- lovingly presented.
Among my favorite recipes: The simple pasta putanesca and the fish chowder are ones you'll rely upon time and again. The recipes are true restaurant combinations, meaning they're a little more forgiving than recipes developed mostly out of test kitchens or home economics departments. Flavors adapt easily to home cooks' preferences for more or less spice, more or less fuss.
A good thing about this book is that the dishes coordinate well with each other. It's easy to come up with a full dinner menu out of this book. A brunch could easily be built around the breakfast-lunch chapters and impress the most discriminating palates. Same with dinner; present what you see, and you'll wow your family, your guests or simply give yourself a treat.
Really, really good for a 'destination restaurant.'.......2006-01-31
As a self-professed foodie, I am opposed to destination restaurants at any level. However, I happened to glance at this cookbook (mostly to reaffirm my beliefs) and was so surprised I bought it. I have to say, everything I've tried has been a 'do-over' at my house (which is high praise coming from my now spoiled family!) Easy, yet very tasty, makes me (almost) want to stand in line for an hour for breakfast this summer!
Good as being on the island.......2005-09-27
I love this book. It is a perfect gift for anyone that has been to MV or anyone that cooks. The recipies are wonderful and hearty- the photos bring back great memories. A must have for any occasion. Try the Easy Grill Maranade and you will be hooked.
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