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An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months, society has crumbled: There is no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. Rick Grimes finds himself one of the few survivors in this terrifying future. A couple months ago he was a small town cop who had never fired a shot and only ever saw one dead body. Separated from his family, he must now sort through all the death and confusion to try and find his wife and son. In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally begin living.
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Amazing zombie comic!.......2007-09-05
This is the first volume in the Walking Dead series. Its centers around Rick Grimes, a former officer of the law, who wakes from a coma to see the world flooded with zombies. This first volume chronicles his journey to find his wife and kid and his getting to know fellow survivors.
The book seems familiar but manages to keep from clises and stay fresh. Every character is deep and multi demensional and there is no one you can just flat out hate.
If you are a fan of sophisticated horror comics then this is the best there is. Excellent story with absolutely beautiful black and white art (which I think works even better than if it was in color).
Just buy it and you will not be dissapointed.
*****
Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03
Kirkman has come up with a winner here. A thoughtful zombie story that isn't so much about massacring zombies. Much the same as in the movie 28 days later, a man wakes up and finds the place deserted and has no idea what the hell is going on. In this case, however, the wakee is a cop, so is a little better prepared psychologically to deal with some serious problems, so he sets out to find his family.
ready for more.......2007-07-26
This is a very good horror comic series. It's not going to change your life or anything. Both the story and artistry are good, not outstanding. If you like zombie stuff, you should get this. You'd like it a lot.
I titled my review ready for more because while I'm not blown away, I certainly would like to keep reading this series. Fortunately, I've got a brother in a comic shop, so I don't have to pay retail!!
Nice!.......2007-07-21
Not having much exposure to graphic novels or comics, I was impressed at how enjoyable this story was to read. A good zombie fix that's blessedly free of plot holes and other flaws that tend to trouble this genre.
It's over way to fast, but it's good.
Let your imagination take over and be horrified for days after........2007-07-17
First off, let me say I'm not a fan of horror movies and books, which is why I only rate it at 4 stars, But it's because of movies and books like this that I'm not a fan. They are just so well written in the sense of what really happens to us when the very world and society we've grown up in is completely taken from us. Second, the graphics are amazingly realistic. I've seen some "Horror" comics but they didn't insight any type of visual fear because there was no real detail in the graphics. Now, I'm not an expert of horror books and movies but I can say that this scared me stiff, pun...kind of intended. To be fair Zombies are something I've always had a childish fear of and I"m very frightened of especially since the recent zombie boom in the media so for them to be the topic was off the bat a scary topic for me. I've got a huge imagination that brings these types of comics, Zombies/Vampires/aliens, alive in the sense, I'll want to look around me while reading or days after I've read them to feel safe, since it sticks with me. So, if your an avid reader and viewer of horror then my review isn't really for you, but if your someone who is interested by horror but don't like being absolutely horrified. Then this will surly do it's job to scary you out of your wits but give you the chance to just stop and close the book if it's too much.
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Miami Beach Memories: A Nostalgic Chronicle of Days Gone By is an oral history of the people and events that shaped this tropical island from the 1920s through the 1960s. To create this engaging and accessible volume, Biondi interviewed 101 residents, from maids and taxi drivers to burlesque strippers, convicted criminals, and famous actors and comedians. Their memories form a vivid portrait of life in the island's "Golden Era," one marked by incredible cultural and social changes. In addition, hundreds of black-and-white archival photos, some by famous celebrity photographer Ray Fisher, bring these voices and Miami Beach's history to life.
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Casual days are more than confusing for Dilbert and office workers in the '90s. "Studies have shown that Fridays are the only safe day to dress casually," Dogbert declares. "Any other day would cause a stock plunge." Casual Day Has Gone Too Far captures the issues that confront cubicle dwellers everywhere and is sure to continue the Dilbert-mania of worker bees and managers alike.
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Typical Dilbert.......2004-09-17
If you like Dilbert, you'll like the book. Beyond that, I don't know what else to say...
A classic Dilbert book!.......2004-09-08
This is a classic Dilbert book - it is hilarious and very funny.
It will always be on my bookshelf to grab whenever I need it - this is a definite 'must-have' for anyone who works in a cubicle-type of job, or who does work in general for that matter. I am a student and Dilbert has always appealed to me - and this book is no exception!
Twice as true and half as funny..........2003-07-23
When I worked at my old college, our dean decided one day that the modern corporate culture idea of having a casual Friday would be a good innovation. A few months later, he looked about in consternation, and remarked that he thought casual day had gone too far (I have my own opinions on this, considering most people had not in fact become very casual at all, and charity requires me to refrain from commenting upon what I think was really at issue). Shortly after this exchange, one of my book clubs offered 'Casual Day Has Gone Too Far', a collection of Dilbert cartoons, which had become the object of break-room bulletin boards and interoffice memo attachments around the country.
The book has a brief introduction (Scott Adams recounts in it that he felt cheated once upon buying a buying guide which had no introduction, hence, he felt required to include one), which includes email instructions for subscribing to the online Dilbert newsletter, which is published 'whenever I feel like it', according to Adams.
Then, of course, we jump immediately into 'the good stuff', the columns.
The sociology, psychology, and even the sex appeal of Dilbert -- all of these have been variously explained and lauded or decried in other places, so I shall not go into detail here, save to say that there is something very true about the representations found in this small column that resonates with anyone in any way familiar with corporate America. Of one political satire in Britain, a columnist once commented that with regard to its reflection of reality, that 'reality is twice as true but half as funny' -- this dictum can likewise be applied to Dilbert.
The first column starts out with Dogbert explaining leadership.
(Fair warning -- how does one adequately describe a cartoon column in words, without pictures? Forgive me if this analysis becomes something less than the actual columns.)
Dogbert explains that leaders start their careers as morons, drawn to meetings like moths to porchlights, with a high bladder-to-brain ratio (which makes enduring meetings easier on both counts), and they succeed because, being untempted by logic or coffee, they continue along the path of promotion until the reach their true skill level (often, that of recognising others, underlings all, with true ability) -- and Dogbert's conclusion is that leadership is the way of removing morons from the productive flow.
Adams' wit is scathing, unmerciful, and has no 'sacred cows'. He parodies all levels of the production chain, from the lowest to the highest, often showing the inverse relation of skill to responsibility, authority to intelligence, productivity to reward. He demonstrates the imperviousness of all levels of the corporation to logic. He likes to invent corporate-based 'lingo' which, if it appeared in an actual memo (and some of this actually does appear in the real world) it would most likely be taken seriously.
With regard to casual days, this has been seen as the evil plot of HR Director Catbert. Alice determines that 'it's just another sadistic human resources plot to make people quit.' Others decided that they loved casual Friday, because 'it combines unattractive with unprofessional while diminishing neither.'
Finally, Dilbert shows the golden road to visibility in the large anonymous corporate structure.
Dilbert: I significantly increased my visibility at work today, Dogbert. Yesterday I was invisible to my management. But today I am known by all.
Dogbert: You screwed up, huh?
Dilbert: Ooh yeah. Big time.
And so it goes. Perhaps it is not only casual day that has gone too far.
Marvelous Catbert Intro.......2001-09-19
In this book, Catbert makes his first appearance as HR director of Dilbert's company. His casual day policy is insane, and so, casual day will always be a strange day. Dilbert knows the feeling of going to work on a casual day, and wondering "Has it gone too far?" Besides the histerical Catbert jokes, there's jokes on company takeovers, futile projects, team building excersises, and much more! So join corporate America's truly relatable office crew in these insane misadventures of white collar workplace life.
Another Dilbert classic!.......1998-03-23
Another great book in the Dilbert lineup. Although I had already seen all of the cartoons, either in my calendar or the paper, they make me laugh everytime I read them! I think Scott Adams is a spy at my company and everyone else's!!
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This is a well written,witty and insightful book........1999-03-18
Gone for the Day, as it is titled, would lead one to believe that it is simply a book about day trips. Naturally, I made the same assumption, purchased the book, and found a wonderfully written,humerous,folk tale of central Texas. This is a book that should be bought for the read, and not the road.
Humorous and readable descriptions of 18 destinations.......1997-10-20
Take this enjoyable book along while exploring some of Texas' most outstanding yet least known family fun spots. Full of humorous history and highlights about small towns, state parks, trail rides, boat excursions and swimming holes. Includes Enchanted Rock, Bandera, Lost Maples, Westcave Preserve, Fredericksburg and much more!
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The voices of fifty-seven young American Indians emerge in a powerful collection of original writing coedited by the anthologist of YOU HEAR ME? and THINGS I HAVE TO TELL YOU.
When the night isgone and the day isstill coming,we will be taken awayfrom this earth.We will be rising asthe next generationis coming.- from "Next Generations" by Marcia Blacksmith, age thirteen, Crow, LakotaOpen this revelatory anthology of poetry, prose, and memoir and listen to the voices of today’s young American Indians, ages eleven to twenty-two, from many nations across the country: A young man pines for his "fry bread queen" in a comically honest take on unrequited love. Another teen tells of a "carbonation dance," his summer ritual of crushing returnable Coke cans with his grandfather. Some express typical teenage angst. Others share glimpses of their culture’s unique traditions and beliefs. And many speak of culture clash - such as the homesick "rez girl" riding the New York subway like a "Cochiti carrot in the huge ethnic salad." The chorus assembled between the covers of this essential book sings a song that transcends all borders, seen and unseen.
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EXCELLENT.......2004-01-12
The collection of stories and poems by All Nation youth is inspiring and relevant. Here are true voices of Indian youth speaking out unhindered. A great read for teens and adults alike!
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Highway 202 veers west from Anniston,
Alabama, population 24,000, as if it suddenly
just decided to get the hell out of town. . . .
Powerful and important, My City Was Gone is the cautionary tale of how a hardworking small town was destroyed by the very forces that created it. Anniston, Alabama, was once a thriving industrial hub, home to a Monsanto chemical plant as well as a federal depot for chemical weapons. Now its notoriety comes from its exceptionally high cancer rate—some 25 percent above the state norm—and the town's determined citizens, who joined together and struck back at the corporation that employed them—and poisoned them.
Dennis Love's bold, gripping narrative unfolds through the stories of three Annistonians: David Baker, the black community activist and environmental folk hero who would lead the charge against the polluters; Chip Howell, the white mayor who defended and provided political cover for the army; and the author himself, a native son who shares his memories and offers compelling insight as the events unfold. Throughout, Love introduces a diverse collection of citizens—heroes and villains, bystanders and victims—whose experiences put a human face on this modern tragedy.
"Anniston—," Love writes, "created from whole cloth to serve exclusively at the pleasure of commerce, a Reconstruction-era `model city' envisioned by its profiteering yet starry-eyed founders as a Utopian centerpiece of the Industrial Age—became the victim of a staggering, even historic, environmental double-whammy, brought on by the harsh, consumptive legacy of its longstanding paternal influences, the twin gods of Industry and National Defense."
As provocative and timely as Erin Brokovich or A Civil Action, My City Was Gone is a magnificently told true story of ordinary citizens in a small Southern town who led a legendary fight against corporate pollution and wrongdoing.
Customer Reviews:
Dennis Love Pens A Superb Book.......2006-08-28
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A chronicle of small-town lifeand what almost destroyed it
By Robert Braile, Globe Correspondent | August 28, 2006
My City Was Gone: One American Town's Toxic Secret, Its Angry Band of Locals, and a $700 Million Day in Court
By Dennis Love
Morrow, 344 pp., $25.95
In ``My City Was Gone," Dennis Love's superb book on Anniston, Ala., the journalist at one point meets his old Anniston Star editor for a drink. Love had left his job and hometown years earlier, restless for change. He ended up in California, adrift at 40.
``Then he swung back around on me," Love writes about the editor. `` `Listen,' he said, and I could see him taking me in with a long hard look. `Don't lose track of who you are. Don't distance yourself from the people and places that make you distinctive.' He drained his glass and looked at me again. `Don't get too far from home.' "
Love returned home by writing ``My City Was Gone." It displays his talents as a reporter and memoirist in exploring one of America's darkest environmental nightmares, that of the Monsanto Corp oration 's chemical pollution of Anniston and the military's storage and incineration there of a massive stockpile of Cold War chemical weapons.
But this book is more than eco-drama, a trend that surged in 1995 with Jonathan Harr's ``A Civil Action" and has thrived since. Love suggests a deeper theme -- that he and Anniston were fated long ago to become who and what they are, and that no one can get too far from home.
In a poignant, punchy, New Southern voice, Love probes his life, those of activist David Baker and Mayor Chip Howell, and the late-19th-century ``manufactured" creation of Anniston itself, to make the Faulknerian point that we are our pasts, destined for better or worse to reflect our origins, no matter how far we stray.
Anniston's historic patriotism, industrialism, utopianism, and isolationism made it ripe for abuse by Monsanto and the military. Yet its decency, among other traits, helped it prevail over that abuse, evident in a landmark $700 million payout in 2003 by Monsanto and a subsidiary to settle lawsuits against the companies. As for Love, he suggests his place in life turned out to be the very one he had sought to flee, Anniston.
``But Anniston did change," Love writes at the end, gazing at his high school football field. ``I turned my back for only a moment -- or maybe it was twenty years -- and a great reckoning came to pass. People like Chip Howell and David Baker left town and went to college or the big city and came home to lead armies and make decisions and write history, so that childhoods like theirs and mine could be replicated on floodlit football fields and all the other places where young people grow up and learn about life and the living of it. Maybe they even did it so that knights-errant like me could wander to the ends of the earth and then return, if only to make sure that the old home place still stands in the mist, like Tara. And Anniston persists, by God, having nearly died and the stronger for it, different and the same, a place where an old ghost can sit on a hill on a timeless night and gaze down on what is gone forever and still there."
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Great comfort.......2007-06-06
I recieved this book after my daughter was stillborn. It was a gift from my sister-in-law who had lost a baby in a car accident. I now share this book with anyone who tragically needs the comforts that this book brought to me. It taught me first and foremost that my husband and I grieve very different. It also reminded me that my Heavenly Father loves me and my baby and even though my daughter never took a breath she has a place in my family and in heaven. There is so little written in scripture about loosing a baby and this book brings out many words from modern day prophets that answer all those questions I couldn't seem to find answers for. I am very grateful for the comfort this book brought me.
Most helpful!.......2007-02-15
I received this book from a close family friend after the death of my infant son. It helped me understand the feelings I was having and some of what my husband was going thorugh as well. Great LDS perspective of what happens to a child after this life! I always have an extra copy on hand to pass to other parents who have suffered the loss of a child. Highly recommend this book!
very helpful.......2003-09-23
I read this after a miscarraige and a friend read it after her baby died of SIDS. While nothing can ease the pain of these events, this book helps you to know you are not alone.
An insightful balm to an aching, wondering heart........1997-12-07
I have treasured this wonderfully frank and insightful book. How tragic its concept, yet how much comfort and support it has given me and several of my dear friends who have also experienced the death of a child. As we journey over the often-times, bumpy trail that is life, we may feel alone in our circumstances and this book enables us to feel a closeness and a shared strength with those who are also travelling along this path.
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"I Never Knew the Knife Man's Name" is a selection of memories from the author's one-woman show of the same name. The show, which is performed for groups throughout the country appeals to men and women from Baby Boomers to Golden Agers. The chapters of the book deal wistfully and humorously about the way life used to be from ice cream parlors with swivel seats and 10 cent cones to home deliveries, having a "colored" cleaning woman, simple food simple times, and simple pleasures. You'11 laugh, you'11 cry, you'11 nod in agreement, you'11 reminisce. Most of all, you'11 enjoy.
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Where Have All the Prophets Gone? Revelation and Rebellion in the Old Testament and the Christian World
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Scholars and believers alike often ask difficult questions regarding Gods formal dealings with mankind: Why did God work through prophets anciently, through Christ Himself when He was on the earth, and through His apostles after His death but then suddenly end the prophetic voice? How can God be the same yesterday, today, and forever if He so radically changed His approach to guiding His children? What happened to the original, clear message delivered from God to Adam after the Fall regarding the principles, practices, and rites required of His children? If Gods complete, error-free plan still exists, how would we know, and how is it possible for humanity to decipher such a plan, given the numerous avenues available to worship our Creator? Where Have All the Prophets Gone? explores these issues by looking at the core practices and texts that reveal both the origins and the path traveled by early Christianity. With a critical but refreshingly open eye, the author identifies the current state of the kingdom and opens the window on a unique hope that God is indeed constant in both His love and His methods. Scott Petersen joins a growing list of Christian writers who are looking carefully at the enormous treasure of early Christian writings now available in English. However, few of these writers have scoured this collection as thoroughly and carefully as he has. Noel B. Reynolds, Ph.D., Executive Director, Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts Scott Petersens Where Have All the Prophets Gone? is the result of painstaking and careful research from many original and secondary sources. Petersen has done an important work by opening the history of Christianity for our understanding and showing the implications of that history for us today. James Faulconer, Professor of Philosophy, Brigham Young University Scott Petersen has approached an old topic with new eyes, adding wonderful insights into Judeo-Christian religious history from Old Testament through modern times, written from a faith-based perspective. John A. Tvedtnes, Senior Resident Scholar, Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts
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A needed book for the Christian World.......2006-05-21
Religion often raises so many opinions that few people are willing to discuss the subject -even objectively. Scott Petersen, fundamentally a businessman, has plowed in where many have feared to tread. He has done his homework by doing extensive research in a serious attempt to truly understand what happened in the early Christian Church and more specifically where that leaves believers in Christ today. I applaud his noble effort and believe he has lifted the cloak of mysticism that has covered reality for too long. Outstanding reading for anyone interested in the truth.
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