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Armageddonby Robert RankinISBN 0440503477 (0-440-50347-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Armageddon'Book summary:[via]It is the year 2050 and the soap opera "The Earthers" is making big video bucks in the intergalactic ratings race. Alien TV executives know exactly what the old earth drama needs to make the off-world audience sit up and starea spectacular Armageddon-type finale.-
Bertie Wooster Sees It Throughby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0743203615 (0-7432-0361-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bertie Wooster Sees It Through'Book summary:A Bertie and Jeeves classic, featuring novelist Florence Craye, a pearl necklace, and The Mystery of the Pink Crayfish.
Bertie is in a genuine fix. Not only does Jeeves disapprove most strongly of Bertie's new mustache, but also, and more disturbingly, "Stilton" Cheesewright is in a jealous rage and threatens to tear him limb from limb. In Bertie Wooster Sees It Through, more than ever, Bertie needs the wisdom of the peerless Jeeves to extricate him from this perilous situation. Will Jeeves rally to the cause and rescue his employer once again? [via]
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The Book of Bunny Suicidesby Andy RileyISBN 0452285186 (0-452-28518-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Bunny Suicides'Book summary:[via]Rabbits. We'll never quite know why, but sometimes they decide they've just had enough of this world- and that's when they start getting inventive. The Book of Bunny Suicides follows over one hundred bunnies as they find ever more outlandish ways to do themselves in. From an encounter with the business end of Darth Vader's lightsaber, to supergluing themselves to a diving submarine, to hanging around underneath a loose stalactite, these bunnies are serious about suicide.
Illustrated in a stark and simple style, The Book of Bunny Suicides is a collection of hilarious and outrageous cartoons that will appeal to anyone in touch with their evil side.
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Breakfast of Championsby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0440131480 (0-440-13148-0)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breakfast of Champions'Book summary:"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt who's really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health versus sickness, humanity versus inhumanity--both sets of ideas bounce through this challenging and funny book. As with the rest of Vonnegut's pure fantasy, it lacks the shimmering, fact-fueled rage that illuminates Slaughterhouse-Five. At the same time, that makes this book perhaps more enjoyable to read.
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through (sick? inhumane?) America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles, Breakfast of Champions coolly shows the effects his dementia has on the web of characters surrounding him. It's not much of a plot, but it's enough for Vonnegut to air unique opinions on America, sex, war, love, and all of his other pet topics--you know, the only ones that really count. [via]
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Brentford Chainstore Massacreby Robert RankinISBN 055214357X (0-552-14357-X)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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Brentford Triangleby Robert RankinISBN 0552138428 (0-552-13842-8)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brentford Triangle'Book summary:[via]A sequel to The Antipope, this is the second novel in "The Brentford Trilogy." All over Brentford electrical appliances were beginning to failcould it be that it had been chosen as the first base in an alien onslaught on planet Earth?More editions of Brentford Triangle:
Cloudsby AristophanesISBN 0451622316 (0-451-62231-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Comedy Bible: From Stand-Up to Sitcom The Comedy Writer's Ultimate How-To-Guideby Judy CarterISBN 0743201256 (0-7432-0125-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Comedy Bible: From Stand-Up to Sitcom The Comedy Writer's Ultimate How-To-Guide'Book summary:Do you think you're funny?
Do you want to turn your sense of humor into a career?
If the answer is yes, then Judy Carter's The Comedy Bible is for you. The guru to aspiring stand-up comics provides the complete scoop on being -- and writing -- funny for money.
If you've got a sense of humor, you can learn to make a career out of comedy, says Judy Carter. Whether it's creating a killer stand-up act, writing a spec sitcom, or providing jokes for radio or one-liners for greeting cards, Carter provides step-by-step instructions in The Comedy Bible. She helps readers first determine which genre of comedy writing or performing suits them best and then directs them in developing, refining, and selling their work.
Using the hands-on workbook format that was so effective in her bestselling first book, Stand-Up Comedy: The Book, Carter offers a series of day-by-day exercises that draw on her many years as a successful stand-up comic and the head of a nationally known comedy school. Also included are practical tips and advice from today's top comedy professionals -- from Bernie Brillstein to Christopher Titus to Richard Lewis. She presents the pros and cons of the various comedy fields -- stand-up, script, speech and joke writing, one-person shows, humor essays -- and shows how to tailor your material for each. She teaches how to find your "authentic" voice -- the true source of comedy. And, perhaps most important, Carter explains how to take a finished product to the next level -- making money -- by pitching it to a buyer and negotiating a contract.
Written in Carter's unique, take-no-prisoners voice, The Comedy Bible is practical, inspirational, and funny. [via]
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Confessions of a Shopaholicby Sophie KinsellaISBN 0440241413 (0-440-24141-3)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down!by Dave BarryISBN 0609600672 (0-609-60067-2)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down!'Book summary:Dave is back -- and he's not taking this sitting down!
What's been getting Dave Barry all worked up lately? What can possibly induce him to rise up -- yes, actually out of his chair -- in indignation? Well, lots of things. For instance:
The plague of low-flow toilets (very important!)
The monumental parent-misery quotient of school science fairs
How the U.S. Army "lost" a one-million-dollar missile launcher
The hidden dangers of wasabi
"Specialty" coffees
Celebrity low-fat, low-carbohydrate, low-everything diets
Disasters at the FearPlex movie theaters
His dangerous voyage through a cruise ship buffet
Yes, all that, plus the real skinny on the IRS, airlines, Donald Trump, and so much more. It's all here in this new collection of columns from the writer we know as "the funniest man in America."
From the Introduction
People often ask me: "Dave, what is the best thing about being a professional humor columnist?"
I always answer: "The best thing is that I can help others and make the world a better place."
Then everyone has a hearty laugh, because, of course, I am lying. In fact, that's one of the great things about being a humor columnist: You can lie! You get PAID to lie! What other profession can say that?
I have a wonderful job.
By any objective standard of measurement, there is no better profession than humor columnist. That is why so many people want my job. It looks so easy! In fact, as you read the columns in this book, you may find yourself thinking: "Hey, I could do this. Any random person could do this!"
That is where you are wrong, my friend. It takes a very special kind of random person to be a humor columnist. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people try their hand at this demanding profession. After a few months, almost all of them have given up and gone back to the ninth grade. [via]More editions of Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down!:
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The Discworld Companionby Terry Pratchett, Stephen BriggsISBN 0575060026 (0-575-06002-6)
Softcover, Victor Gollancz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Discworld Companion'Book summary:Who taught witchcraft to Granny Weatherwax? What does Death keep on his desk? This is an A-Z guide to the characters, places, flora and fauna of Terry Pratchett's fantasy planet, Discworld, with sketches and maps of the key locations. [via]
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Discworld Mapby Terry PratchettISBN 0552143243 (0-552-14324-3)
Softcover, Corgi
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Gridlockby Ben EltonISBN 0751510114 (0-7515-1011-4)
Softcover, Warner Futura
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The Gun Sellerby Hugh LaurieISBN 067102082X (0-671-02082-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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High Societyby Ben EltonISBN 0552999954 (0-552-99995-4)
Softcover, Black Swan
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The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypseby Robert RankinISBN 0575074019 (0-575-07401-9)
Softcover, Victor Gollancz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse'Book summary:In Robert Rankin's latest warped fantasy, a serial killer is murdering notable nursery-rhyme characters and leaving very special sweeties as calling cards at the scene of each crime: The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse.
Humpty Dumpty is the first of Toy City's upper crust to sleep with the fishes. Boiled alive in his own swimming pool. A nasty fate, but maybe not as nasty as Little Boy Blue's, with his own shepherd's crook thrust a long way into a place where the sun does not shine.
Bill Winkie the P.I. has gone missing, and his hard-drinking teddybear sidekick Eddie takes up the case. Down these mean streets a bear must go. He needs a hand, though--two hands, owing to a lack of opposable thumbs--and reluctantly teams up with "gormster" country boy Jack, who foolishly thinks he can make his fortune in Toy City.
Of course the police, jolly bouncy rubber policemen who are sadistic at heart, object to interfering freelances. So does the mystery assassin, who seems to be a curvaceous woman in a kinky rubber outfit--death on high heels. Even kindly old Mother Goose, madame of the Toy City brothel, gets her neck wrung before she can talk, and Eddie is in serious danger of losing his very stuffing.
Fast, demented, fairytale-noir action, filled with gruesomely silly deaths, self-referential thriller gags, and the true meanings of those nursery rhymes whose royalties made Humpty and the rest so rich.
Robert Rankin is fond of introducing peculiar, repeated figures of speech, and this book's is the Maddeningly Incomplete Simile. Like this: Hollow Chocolate Bunnies is as good as. It's as weird as. It's as deeply bonkers as. In short, it's as Rankin as.--David Langford [via]
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I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influenceby Amy SedarisISBN 0446578843 (0-446-57884-3)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence'Book summary:Are you lacking direction in how to whip up a swanky soiree for lumberjacks? A dinner party for white-collar workers? A festive gathering for the grieving? Don't despair. Take a cue from entertaining expert Amy Sedaris and host an unforgettable fete that will have your guests raving. No matter the style or size of the gathering-from the straightforward to the bizarre-I LIKE YOU provides jackpot recipes and solid advice laced with Amy's blisteringly funny take on entertaining, plus four-color photos and enlightening sidebars on everything it takes to pull off a party with extraordinary flair. You don't even need to be a host or hostess to benefit-Amy offers tips for guests, too! (Number one: don't be fifteen minutes early.) Readers will discover unique dishes to serve alcoholics (Broiled Frozen Chicken Wings with Applesauce), the secret to a successful children's party (a half-hour time limit, games included), plus a whole appendix chock-full of arts and crafts ideas (from a mini-pantyhose plant-hanger to a do-it-yourself calf stretcher), and much, much more! [via]
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Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0517118297 (0-517-11829-7)
Hardcover, Grammercy
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Austen'Book summary:Collected together in one volume, The Complete Novels show the development of Austen as a writer and social commentator. From the early optimism and youthful energy of Northanger Abbey to the quiet and subtle art of Persuasion, this collection reveals the breadth of one of the best loved novelists of all time. [via]
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Jane Austen's Northanger Abbeyby Jane AustenISBN 0573018499 (0-573-01849-9)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays
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Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandyby Wolfgang IserISBN 0521328071 (0-521-32807-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemanby Laurence SterneISBN 048645648X (0-486-45648-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Softcover, Tuttle Pub - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: ISBN 0760763054 (0-7607-6305-4)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble Books - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: ISBN 0395051452 (0-395-05145-2)
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The Meaning of Liffby Douglas Adams, John LloydISBN 0517553473 (0-517-55347-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Meaning of Liff'Book summary:In life and, indeed, in liff, there are many hundreds of common experiences, feelings, situations and even objects which we all know and recognize, but for which no words exist. This text uses place names to describe some of these meanings. [via]
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More Goon Show Scriptsby Spike MilliganISBN 0713000880 (0-7130-0088-0)
Hardcover, Woburn Press
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My Point - And I Do Have Oneby Ellen DegeneresISBN 0553384228 (0-553-38422-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Point...and I Do Have One'Book summary:In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ellen DeGeneres shares her hilarious take on everything from our most baffling human foiblesincluding how we behave in elevators, airplanes, and restrooms, and why were so scared of the boogeymanto fashion trends, celebrity, and her secret recipe for Ellens Real Frenchy French Toast. Most of all, this witty, engaging book offers insights into the mind of one of Americas most beloved comics.&
Dear Reader,
I was awfully excited when I was asked to write a book. I was however, nervous. I was afraid I didnt have anything important to say. But when I began writing, I realized that although I dont know a lot about any one thing, I know a little about a whole bunch of things: baking a pie; dancing; curing the common cold; running the Iditarodits all in the book. And I realized I notice things that maybe some people dont notice (or they dont notice that they dont notice). Thats all in the book, too.
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Myth-Nomers and Impervectionsby Robert AsprinISBN 0441014615 (0-441-01461-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Myth-Nomers and Im-Pervections'Book summary:How could a thick-headed demon be so thin-skinned? But Ahaz, Skeeve's friend and mentor, has taken exception to something his partner has said and walked out. Now Skeeve must apologize for this thoughtless behavior and convince his scaly cohort to rejoin the firm--and finds himself trapped in the most demonic dimension of them all!. [via]
Nanny Ogg's Cookbook: Including Recipes, Items of Antiquarian Lore, Improving Observations of Life, Good Advice for Young People on the Threshold of the Adventure That Isby Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs, Paul Kidby, Tina HannanISBN 0552146730 (0-552-14673-0)
Softcover, Corgi
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Northanger Abbeyby Jane Austen, Margaret DrabbleISBN 0451526368 (0-451-52636-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey'Book summary:Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the novelistic excesses of her day made popular in such 18th-century Gothic potboilers as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly satirical twist. Consider Austen's introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland's father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings--and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does not die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes.
Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style. --Alix Wilber [via]
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- Northanger Abbey: ISBN 0460018930 (0-460-01893-0)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Northanger Abbey: ISBN 0486414124 (0-486-41412-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Northanger Abbey: ISBN 0553211978 (0-553-21197-8)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Northanger Abbey: ISBN 0755331443 (0-7553-3144-3)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square - Northanger Abbey: ISBN 067941715X (0-679-41715-X)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc - Northanger Abbey: ISBN 0708988768 (0-7089-8876-8)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books - Northanger Abbey: ISBN 0451523725 (0-451-52372-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Northanger Abbey: ISBN 0460874349 (0-460-87434-9)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Northanger Abbey: ISBN 0679601929 (0-679-60192-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Northanger Abbey: ISBN 0701112344 (0-7011-1234-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Northanger Abbey: ISBN 0451526368 (0-451-52636-8)
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- Northanger Abbey: ISBN 0460018930 (0-460-01893-0)
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Northanger Abbeyby Barbara M. Benedict, Deirdre Le FayeISBN 0521824192 (0-521-82419-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey'Book summary:Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the novelistic excesses of her day made popular in such 18th-century Gothic potboilers as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly satirical twist. Consider Austen's introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland's father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings--and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does not die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes.
Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Our Dumb CenturyISBN 0762418664 (0-7624-1866-4)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
Find This BookBook summary:Every Wednesday, work at Amazon.com--along with just about every other company connected to the fantastical "information superhighway" invented by Vice President Al Gore and actress Hedy Lamarr--grinds to a halt as employees hasten to read the latest issue of The Onion, America's most popular newspaper based in Madison, Wisconsin. But most of the paper's fans have started reading it only within the last few years, and are sadly unaware of The Onion's mighty journalistic legacy. To combat this cultural illiteracy, Editor in Chief Scott Dikkers and his writing staff have assembled this collection of great front pages from the last hundred years. Here is just a sampling of the headlines:
A New Century Dawns! McKinley Ushers in Bold New "Coal Age"
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Boasts: "No Man Can Stop Me"
AWESOME! Nation Wowed by Tremendous Hindenburg Explosion
Martin Luther King: "I Had a Really Weird Dream Last Night"
Clinton Denies Lewinsky Allegations: "We Did Not Have Sex, We Made Love," He Says
And those are just the headlines; the stories themselves are all masterpieces of the journalist's trade. Of course, readers with delicate sensibilities may find some of these accounts a bit too risqué, and perhaps even tasteless. (Among the potential offenders: Rosa Parks's decision to "screw this bus shit" and take a cab.) But if you're looking for an antidote to all the 20th-century hoopla promulgated by stuffed shirts like Peter Jennings and Harold Evans--not to mention the best history book since 1066 and All That--then Our Dumb Century is the one for you. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headdlines from America's Finest News Sourceby Scott DikkersISBN 0609804618 (0-609-80461-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headdlines from America's Finest News Source'Book summary:Every Wednesday, work at Amazon.com--along with just about every other company connected to the fantastical "information superhighway" invented by Vice President Al Gore and actress Hedy Lamarr--grinds to a halt as employees hasten to read the latest issue of The Onion, America's most popular newspaper based in Madison, Wisconsin. But most of the paper's fans have started reading it only within the last few years, and are sadly unaware of The Onion's mighty journalistic legacy. To combat this cultural illiteracy, Editor in Chief Scott Dikkers and his writing staff have assembled this collection of great front pages from the last hundred years. Here is just a sampling of the headlines:
A New Century Dawns! McKinley Ushers in Bold New "Coal Age"
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Boasts: "No Man Can Stop Me"
AWESOME! Nation Wowed by Tremendous Hindenburg Explosion
Martin Luther King: "I Had a Really Weird Dream Last Night"
Clinton Denies Lewinsky Allegations: "We Did Not Have Sex, We Made Love," He Says
And those are just the headlines; the stories themselves are all masterpieces of the journalist's trade. Of course, readers with delicate sensibilities may find some of these accounts a bit too risqué, and perhaps even tasteless. (Among the potential offenders: Rosa Parks's decision to "screw this bus shit" and take a cab.) But if you're looking for an antidote to all the 20th-century hoopla promulgated by stuffed shirts like Peter Jennings and Harold Evans--not to mention the best history book since 1066 and All That--then Our Dumb Century is the one for you. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Phule's Paradiseby Robert AsprinISBN 0441662536 (0-441-66253-6)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Phule's Paradise'Book summary:Be all that you can be: clumsy, inane, sloppy, reckless, idiotic. Phule's Company is the laughingstock of the military. Their latest mission: to guard an intergalactic casino from an unlikely criminal takeover... The odds are against the oddballs.[via]More editions of Phule's Paradise:
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Pygmalionby George Bernard ShawISBN 0486282228 (0-486-28222-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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- Pygmalion: ISBN 0613998650 (0-613-99865-0)
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Hardcover, Modern Pub - Pygmalion: ISBN 0613638646 (0-613-63864-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Pygmalion: ISBN 0671643525 (0-671-64352-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Pygmalion: ISBN 0486282228 (0-486-28222-8)
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Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Actsby George Bernard Shaw, Harry ShefterISBN 0671704966 (0-671-70496-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts'Book summary:When George Bernard Shaw wrote Pygmalion more than a half century ago, no one could have predicted his play would eventually be converted into one of the great musicals of our time -- My Fair Lady -- and an Academy Award³-winning motion picture. Generations of readers and theatergoers have found relevance in Shaw's story of speech therapist Henry Higgins, who successfully transforms Liza Doolittle, a "draggle-tailed guttersnipe," into a darling of high society who momentarily upsets his hard-edged reserve. The extraordinary wit of this master dramatist of the twentieth century cuts away at the artificiality of class distinctions to reveal that human clay can be molded into wondrous shapes.
Washington Square Press' Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enhanced for the contemporary reader. This edition of Pygmalion includes the analysis of Eric Bentley from his book Bernard Shaw. Essential biographical and historical background is provided, together with notes, critical excerpts, and suggestions for further reading. A unique visual essay of period illustrations and photographs helps bring the play to life. [via]
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Sense And Sensibilityby Jane AustenISBN 0451525892 (0-451-52589-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sense And Sensibility'Book summary:Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Sense And Sensibility:
- Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0460010212 (0-460-01021-2)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0486290492 (0-486-29049-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0553213342 (0-553-21334-2)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0618084835 (0-618-08483-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0743487761 (0-7434-8776-1)
Softcover, Pocket Classics - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0755331451 (0-7553-3145-1)
Softcover, Headline Book Pub Ltd - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0521824362 (0-521-82436-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Sense and Sensibility: ISBN 0679409874 (0-679-40987-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0679601953 (0-679-60195-3)
Hardcover, Modern Library - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0708982468 (0-7089-8246-8)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0451187903 (0-451-18790-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0451524195 (0-451-52419-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0460879146 (0-460-87914-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0760700451 (0-7607-0045-1)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0676508081 (0-676-50808-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0701112379 (0-7011-1237-9)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0760700435 (0-7607-0043-5)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 076240566X (0-7624-0566-X)
Hardcover, Courage Books - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0451525892 (0-451-52589-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
- Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0460010212 (0-460-01021-2)
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Sense And Sensibilityby Cherry Gilchrist, Jane AustenISBN 0582416892 (0-582-41689-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sense And Sensibility'Book summary:Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Sense And Sensibility:
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Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusadeby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0440180295 (0-440-18029-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade'Book summary:Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden.
Don't let the ease of reading fool you--Vonnegut's isn't a conventional, or simple, novel. He writes, "There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick, and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters..." Slaughterhouse-Five (taken from the name of the building where the POWs were held) is not only Vonnegut's most powerful book, it is as important as any written since 1945. Like Catch- 22, it fashions the author's experiences in the Second World War into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority. Slaughterhouse-Five boasts the same imagination, humanity, and gleeful appreciation of the absurd found in Vonnegut's other works, but the book's basis in rock-hard, tragic fact gives it a unique poignancy--and humor. [via]
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Starkby Ben EltonISBN 0751501999 (0-7515-0199-9)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Stiff Upper Lip, Jeevesby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0743203607 (0-7432-0360-7)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves'Book summary:Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse wrote more than a hundred books and at least twenty film scripts, and he collaborated on more than thirty plays and musical comedies with the likes of George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Irving Berlin. Best known as the creator of Jeeves -- the impossibly wise, supremely well-mannered gentleman's gentleman -- and Wooster -- his unflaggingly affable but bumbling employer -- Wodehouse invokes the very British spirit of a bygone era in a gentle satire that, as Evelyn Waugh puts it, "satisfies the most sophisticated taste and the simplest."
In "Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves," fate conspires to draw Bertie Wooster back to Totleigh Towers, the site of an earlier ordeal that nearly landed our hero in prison and, worse still, in continuing danger of marriage to Madeline Bassett, the svelte and sadly syrupy daughter of the house. Only one thing stands between Bertie and the dreaded state of matrimony, and that is his good friend Gussie Fink-Nottle, lover of newts and Madeline Bassett. So long as Gussie and Madeline continue to profess their undying love for each other, Bertie is safe...but disaster looms when Gussie rebels at Madeline's attempt to turn him into a vegetarian. Throw in the intrigues of Miss Stiffy Byng and her dog Bartholomew to gain the Reverend Stinker Pinker a vicarage, the renewed rivalry of art collectors Sir Watkyn Bassett and Bertie's Uncle Tom, and the irresistible cooking skills of American Emerald Stoker (who happens to be the younger sister of Bertie's old friend Pauline, whom he also narrowly avoided marrying), and you have trouble of the sort that only Jeeves can mend.
In other words, here is a classic version of one of the greatplots of the English language from the Master himself. [via]
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This Other Edenby Ben EltonISBN 0671897020 (0-671-89702-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Other Eden'Book summary:Anticipating an oncoming Armageddon, Nathan Hoddy constructs hermetically sealed geodesic domes that will enable enclosed humans to ride out the storm but is unable to get commercial support because the domes represent negative thinking. Reprint. [via]
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The Thurber Carnivalby James ThurberISBN 0679600892 (0-679-60089-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thurber Carnival'Book summary:After the chuckles and amidst the chortles, the first-time reader of The Thurber Carnival is bound to utter a discreetly voiced "Huh?" Like Cracker Jacks, there are surprises inside James Thurber's delicious 1945 smorgasbord of essays, stories, and sketches. This festival is, surprises and all, a collection of earlier collections (mostly), including, among others, gems from My World--and Welcome to It, Let Your Mind Alone!, and The Middle Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze. Needless to say, there are also numerous cartoons that, by themselves, are worth the price of admission. While redoubling Thurber's deserved reputation as a laugh-out-loud humorist and teller-of-gentle-tales, it reintroduces him as a thinker-of-thoughts. To wit: his 1933 "Preface to a Life," in which he observes himself while discussing "writers of light pieces running from a thousand to two thousand words":
To call such persons "humorists," a loose-fitting and ugly word, is to miss the nature of their dilemma and the dilemma of their nature. The little wheels of their invention are set in motion by the damp hand of melancholy.
Enjoy the surprises, certainly, but revel in the candy-coated popcorn and peanuts. As in "More Alarms at Night," in which a teenaged Thurber intrudes upon his sleeping father, a skittish man named Charles, because he can't recall the name Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Coincidentally, his father has just been frightened half to death by Thurber's brother, who had earlier stalked into his room saying coldly, "Buck, your time has come.""Listen," I said. "Name some towns in New Jersey quick!" It must have been around three in the morning. Father got up, keeping the bed between him and me, and started to pull his trousers on. "Don't bother about dressing," I said. "Just name some towns in New Jersey." While he hastily pulled on his clothes--I remember he left his socks off and put his shoes on his bare feet--father began to name, in a shaky voice, various New Jersey cities. I can still see him reaching for his coat without taking his eyes off me. "Newark," he said, "Jersey City, Atlantic City, Elizabeth, Paterson, Passaic, Trenton, Jersey City, Trenton, Paterson--" "It has two names," I snapped. "Elizabeth and Paterson," he said.
Of course, things turn out fine, as well they should. And why not? The best of Thurber, which The Thurber Carnival arguably is, is sublime; surprising insight and wry observations tossed lightly and served constantly with effortless good humor and an obvious love for all things gently eccentric. --Michael Hudson [via]More editions of The Thurber Carnival:
Tristram Shandyby Laurence SterneISBN 0460016172 (0-460-01617-2)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tristram Shandy'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
Introduction by Peter Conrad [via]More editions of Tristram Shandy:
- Tristam Shandy: ISBN 0460006177 (0-460-00617-7)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Tristram Shandy: ISBN 0679405607 (0-679-40560-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Tristram Shandy: ISBN 0452009456 (0-452-00945-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Tristram Shandy: ISBN 0460871307 (0-460-87130-7)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Tristram Shandy and a Sentimental Journey: ISBN 0679600914 (0-679-60091-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Tristram Shandy: ISBN 0460016172 (0-460-01617-2)
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- Tristam Shandy: ISBN 0460006177 (0-460-00617-7)
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The Truth with Jokesby Al FrankenISBN 0452287677 (0-452-28767-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Truth with Jokes'Book summary:Nearly a year after the presidential election of 2004, Al Franken is still checking facts, exposing lies, and trying to clear the record as he sees it. Sneering at President Bush's declaration of a mandate after a two-and-a-half percent victory, he deconstructs Bush's 2004 platform of "fear, smear, and queers," and explains how the president has done some flip-flopping of his own. He offers comment on well-known stories, including the Terri Shiavo case, and some more obscure, such as reports of forced prostitution, indentured servitude, and squalid conditions at clothing factories in Saipan (which is part of the American Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands). Franken focuses on Tom DeLay's connection to the territory and his efforts to prevent bills from being passed that would have required Saipan to follow U.S. labor laws. Iraq, too, is discussed, from its planning stages to the huge sum of money currently unaccounted for, including $8.8 billion missing from the Coalition Provisional Authority's coffers.
On the home front, Franken covers President Bush's attempt at Social Security reform, explaining how they came up with the projected shortfall figure of $11 trillion. For one thing, they adjusted life expectancy to 150 years, while leaving the retirement age at 67: "That's an eighty-three-year retirement. They're never gonna get to that without stem cell research." He also takes some wickedly funny swipes at Karl Rove, lobbyist Jack Abramoff, pundits and hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, Tim Russert, and Sean Hannity, and, of course, President Bush. The Truth succeeds in providing ammunition to liberals and others dissatisfied with the current power base in Washington, D.C.--only this time (with jokes). --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Undead and Unwedby Maryjanice DavidsonISBN 042519485X (0-425-19485-X)
Softcover, Berkley Sensation
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Undead and Unwed'Book summary:First Betsy Taylor loses her job, then she's killed in a car accident. But what really bites is that she can't seem to stay dead. And now her new friends have the ridiculous idea that Betsy is the prophesied vampire queen, and they want her help in overthrowing the most obnoxious power-hungry vampire in five centuries. [via]
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The Witches of Chiswickby Robert RankinISBN 0575075457 (0-575-07545-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Witches of Chiswick'Book summary:Robert Rankin's fondness for demented conspiracy theories is complicated by time travel in The Witches of Chiswick--which demonstrates again that everything you know is wrong, that Brentford is the true centre of the multiverse, and that nobody is quite as weird as Robert Rankin.
Will Starling lives in a dystopian 23rd century where Brentford Utility Conurbation is crammed with 303-storey tower blocks and synthetic food has made everyone vastly obese. Except for Will, who's mocked for morbid slimness and eccentric tastes--art, for example. When he notices the digital watch in a well-known Victorian painting, a murderous cover-up begins. The sinister Witches of Chiswick are determined to erase all traces of the other past.
Time-travelling Terminator-style automata keep arriving, not from the future but from that lost Victorian age of Babbage supercomputers, flying cabs running on beamed power from Tesla transmitters and the imminent launch of Her Majesty's Moonship Victoria. Thanks to the convenient time machine of a Mr Wells, Will finds himself in that other 19th century, complicating the stories of his own ancestors.
There he's tutored by the flamboyant guru or conman Hugo Rune. He stands in for Sherlock Holmes--called away to a Dartmoor case--and investigates the Jack-the-Ripper murders. As tends to happen in the Rankin universe, he acquires a Holy Guardian Sprout called Barry. Will even meets himself, another Will from a very different future. Even aided by his best friend Tim, by the Brentford Snail Boy (raised like Tarzan by wild animals, not apes but snails), and by the deadly martial art Dimac, can Will hope to foil a witchy plan to reprogram time and send high-tech Britain back to gaslight as midnight strikes on December 31, 1899?
Other walk-ons include Queen Victoria, the Elephant Man, William McGonagall (Poet Laureate), Doctor Watson, the Invisible Man, Oscar Wilde (a notorious womaniser), Wells' Martians, and--in unfamiliar guise--Satan. It's all suitably dotty, larded with running gags and bursts of disarming frankness:
... Perhaps both futures always existed. I don't know. This is very complicated, Tim, and I don't understand it. I'm just making it up as I go along. Like the author," said Tim.
But rather than wrap-up this novel with any of a dozen deus ex machina possibilities, Rankin leaves his hero with a very tough decision indeed. The insane, goonish humour made more effective by a touch of grimness. --David Langford [via]
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The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbookby David Borgenicht, Joshua Piven, Mel DeweeseISBN 0756757614 (0-7567-5761-4)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook'Book summary:How to Wrestle Free from an Alligator: 4. If its jaws are closed on something you want to remove (for example, a limb), tap or punch it on the snout.
Though it's being marketed as a humorous title--after all, it's unlikely you'll be called upon to land a plane, jump from a motorcycle to a moving car, or win a swordfight--the information contained in The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook is all quite sound. Authors Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht consulted numerous experts in their fields (they're cited at the end of the book) to discover how to survive various and sundry awful events. Parachute doesn't open? Your best bet for survival is to hook your arms through the straps of a fellow jumper's chute--and even then you're likely to dislocate both shoulders and break both legs. Car sinking in water? Open the window immediately to equalize pressure, then open the car door and swim to the surface. Buried in an avalanche? Spit on the snow--it will tell you which direction is really up. Then dig as fast as you can.
Each survival skill is explained in simple steps with helpful illustrations. Most stress the need to be prepared--both mentally and physically. For example, to escape from quicksand, you will need to lay a pole on the surface of the quicksand, flop on your back atop the pole, and pull your legs out one by one. No pole? No luck. "When walking in quicksand country, carry a stout pole--it will help you get out should you need to."
Hopefully you'll never need to know how to build a fire without matches, perform a tracheotomy, or treat a bullet wound. But in the words of survival evasion resistance escape instructor "Mountain" Mel Deweese, "You never know." --Sunny Delaney [via]
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