David's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 07 Aug 2024 15:19:03 -0700 60 David's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Mansfield Park 45032 488 Jane Austen David 1 I do not understand our culture's fixation with Austen beyond being publically accepted Harlequin Romance.]]> 3.86 1814 Mansfield Park
author: Jane Austen
name: David
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1814
rating: 1
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I do not understand our culture's fixation with Austen beyond being publically accepted Harlequin Romance.
]]> <![CDATA[Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind]]> 53336 American Scientist]]> 632 George Lakoff 0226468046 David 0 read-rhetoric 4.12 1987 Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind
author: George Lakoff
name: David
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1987
rating: 0
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date added: 2022/02/09
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]]> Batman: The Killing Joke 23004217 0 Alan Moore 9999390145 David 4 4.22 1988 Batman: The Killing Joke
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1988
rating: 4
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I liked it, but it really pushes at "insanity" in a way that it clinically weird. Commonsense understandings of crazy and insanity don't work for me, I guess, in a fictional setting.
]]> <![CDATA[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Volume One (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, #1)]]> 107013
Allan Quartermain, Captain Nemo, Hawley Griffin, Dr Henry Jekyll, Mr Edward Hyde, and Mina Murray are those champions, and together they comprise the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Recruited by the enigmatic Campion Bond, under orders from the mysterious 'M', these six adventurers are pressed into service by their empire in its time of need. Now they must face the nefarious Doctor and his vile plan for world domination. But things are not entirely as they seem; other factors, cryptic and crepuscular, are also at play. A remarkable drama ensues.]]> 178 Alan Moore 1840233028 David 5 3.93 2000 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Volume One (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, #1)
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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]]> Absolute Batman Hush 107016 372 Jeph Loeb 1401204260 David 1 4.26 2002 Absolute Batman Hush
author: Jeph Loeb
name: David
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2002
rating: 1
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]]> <![CDATA[Selected Writings, Volume 2, Part 1: 1927�1930]]> 52222 Selected Writings is now available in paperback in two parts.

In Part 1, Benjamin is represented by two of his greatest literary essays, "Surrealism" and "On the Image of Proust," as well as by a long article on Goethe and a generous selection of his wide-ranging commentary for Weimar Germany's newspapers.

Part 2 contains, in addition to the important longer essays, "Franz Kafka," "Karl Kraus," and "The Author as Producer," the extended autobiographical meditation "A Berlin Chronicle," and extended discussions of the history of photography and the social situation of the French writer, previously untranslated shorter pieces on such subjects as language and memory, theological criticism and literary history, astrology and the newspaper, and on such influential figures as Paul Valery, Stefan George, Hitler, and Mickey Mouse.]]> 480 Walter Benjamin 0674015886 David 5 4.66 2005 Selected Writings, Volume 2, Part 1: 1927–1930
author: Walter Benjamin
name: David
average rating: 4.66
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1-5)]]> 13
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

Seconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised Guide. Together they stick out their thumbs to the stars and begin a wild journey through time and space.

"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"

Facing annihilation at the hands of warmongers is a curious time to crave tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his comrades as they hurtle across the galaxy in a desperate search for a place to eat.

"Life, the Universe and Everything"

The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky- so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals can avert Armageddon: mild-mannered Arthur Dent and his stalwart crew.

"So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"

Back on Earth, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription conspires to thrust him back to reality. So to speak.

"Mostly Harmless"

Just when Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life, all hell breaks loose. Can he save the Earth from total obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter from herself?

Also includes the short story "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe".]]> 815 Douglas Adams 0345453743 David 5 Essential reading for adolescents with an ironic streak.]]> 4.38 1996 The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1-5)
author: Douglas Adams
name: David
average rating: 4.38
book published: 1996
rating: 5
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Essential reading for adolescents with an ironic streak.
]]> <![CDATA[Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China]]> 1000163 The follow-up graphic novel to the acclaimed Pyongyang: A Journey to North Korea

Shenzhen is entertainingly compact, with Guy Delisle's observations of life in a cold urban city in southern China that is sealed off from the rest of the country by electric fences and armed guards. With a dry wit and a clean line, Delisle makes the most of his time spent in Asia overseeing outsourced production for a French animation company. By translating his fish-out-of-water experiences into accessible graphic novels, Delisle is quick to find the humor and point out the differences between Western and Eastern cultures. Yet he never forgets to relay his compassion for the simple freedoms that escape his colleagues by virtue of living in a Communist state.]]> 148 Guy Delisle 1894937791 David 3 read-graphicnovels A good travelogue, but definitely a shadow of Pyongyang.]]> 3.69 2000 Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China
author: Guy Delisle
name: David
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2000
rating: 3
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A good travelogue, but definitely a shadow of Pyongyang.
]]> Top 10: The Forty-Niners 59706
The Eisner Award-winning TOP 10 team of writer Alan Moore and artist Gene Ha reunites for a graphic novel that delves into the past, revealing the origins of Neopolis and the first officers of Top Ten. Discover the original Top 10 officers who blazed the trail and made Neopolis the city it is today.]]> 112 Alan Moore 1401205739 David 5 to-read, read-graphicnovels Can I guiltily say that it reminds me of police TV shows I loved as a kid?]]> 3.93 2005 Top 10: The Forty-Niners
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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Can I guiltily say that it reminds me of police TV shows I loved as a kid?
]]> <![CDATA[Absolute League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 2]]> 194509 League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 1, and the skies over England are filled with flaming rockets as Mars launches the first salvo of an invasion. Only our stalwart adventurers Allan Quatermain, Mina Harker, Captain Nemo, Hawley Griffin, and Mr. Edward Hyde can save mother England and the very Earth itself. But there are many startling revelations along the way, including the blossoming of love and the uncovering of a traitor in their midst!]]> 448 Alan Moore 1401206115 David 1 read-graphicnovels 3.94 2003 Absolute League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 2
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2003
rating: 1
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A good idea extended into silliness.
]]> <![CDATA[Swamp Thing, Vol. 4: A Murder of Crows]]> 109243
Collects issues #43�#50.]]> 206 Alan Moore 1563897199 David 5 read-graphicnovels The Swamp Thing story is Alan Moore's creative height, especially in terms of emotion in comics.]]> 4.32 1986 Swamp Thing, Vol. 4: A Murder of Crows
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1986
rating: 5
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The Swamp Thing story is Alan Moore's creative height, especially in terms of emotion in comics.
]]> <![CDATA[Swamp Thing, Vol. 5: Earth to Earth]]> 109242
Collects issues #51 - #56]]> 160 Alan Moore 1563898047 David 5 to-read 4.31 1987 Swamp Thing, Vol. 5: Earth to Earth
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 4.31
book published: 1987
rating: 5
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The Swamp Thing story is Alan Moore's creative height, especially in terms of emotion in comics.
]]> <![CDATA[Y: The Last Man, Vol. 7: Paper Dolls]]> 79426
Collects Y: The Last Man issues #37-#42]]> 144 Brian K. Vaughan 1401210090 David 5 read-graphicnovels 4.22 2006 Y: The Last Man, Vol. 7: Paper Dolls
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: David
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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I love this whole series. It gets slow around volume 5-7, as Vaughan struggles for a way to keep the plot interesting, but it is awesome.
]]> <![CDATA[Y: The Last Man, Vol. 8: Kimono Dragons]]> 79422 144 Brian K. Vaughan 1401210104 David 5 read-graphicnovels 4.21 2006 Y: The Last Man, Vol. 8: Kimono Dragons
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: David
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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I love this whole series. It gets slow around volume 5-7, as Vaughan struggles for a way to keep the plot interesting, but it is awesome.
]]> <![CDATA[Y: The Last Man, Vol. 9: Motherland]]> 156532
This volume of the critically acclaimed series features Yorick and Agent 355 preparing for their ultimate quest to reunite the last man with his lost love, while the person, people or thing behind the disaster that wiped out half of humanity is revealed!]]> 144 Brian K. Vaughan 1401213510 David 5 to-read, read-graphicnovels
Volume 9 picks up the momentum and advances character relationships immensely, while playing with the criticisms leveled against the series from proto-feminist types.]]> 4.25 2007 Y: The Last Man, Vol. 9: Motherland
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: David
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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I love this whole series. It gets slow around volume 5-7, as Vaughan struggles for a way to keep the plot interesting, but it is awesome.

Volume 9 picks up the momentum and advances character relationships immensely, while playing with the criticisms leveled against the series from proto-feminist types.
]]> <![CDATA[Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned]]> 156534
But why are he and his faithful companion, the often testy male monkey Ampersand, still alive? He sets out to find the answer (and his girlfriend), while running from angry female Republicans (now running the government), Amazon wannabes that include his own sister (seemingly brainwashed), and other threats.]]> 130 Brian K. Vaughan 1563899809 David 5 read-graphicnovels 4.08 2003 Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: David
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2003
rating: 5
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I love this whole series. It gets slow around volume 5-7, as Vaughan struggles for a way to keep the plot interesting, but it is awesome.
]]> <![CDATA[Y: The Last Man, Vol. 4: Safeword]]> 184040
In the care of a fellow Culper Ring member, Yorick Brown is forced to confront his tremendous feelings of survivor guilt that lead him to constantly put his life in danger. Once on the road again, the group runs up against a literal roadblock in Arizona, where the female remains of the Sons of Arizona militia have cut the interstate to keep out any vestiges of the U.S. government.]]> 141 Brian K. Vaughan 1401202322 David 5 read-graphicnovels 4.25 2004 Y: The Last Man, Vol. 4: Safeword
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: David
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2004
rating: 5
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I love this whole series. It gets slow around volume 5-7, as Vaughan struggles for a way to keep the plot interesting, but it is awesome.
]]> <![CDATA[Y: The Last Man, Vol. 2: Cycles]]> 332631 WINNER OF THREE EISNER AWARDS As Yorick Brown, the last man on Earth, begins to make his way across the country to California, he and his companions are forced to make an unscheduled stop in Marrisville, Ohio—a small town with a big secret.

Collects Y: The Last Man issues #6-10]]> 128 Brian K. Vaughan 1401200761 David 5 read-graphicnovels 4.22 2003 Y: The Last Man, Vol. 2: Cycles
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: David
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2003
rating: 5
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I love this whole series. It gets slow around volume 5-7, as Vaughan struggles for a way to keep the plot interesting, but it is awesome.
]]> <![CDATA[Y: The Last Man, Vol. 3: One Small Step]]> 156530
A Russian Soyuz capsule is coming down from the International Space Station carrying three passengers: one woman and two men. Could this be the end of Yorick's tenure as last living male?]]> 168 Brian K. Vaughan 1401202012 David 5 read-graphicnovels 4.21 2004 Y: The Last Man, Vol. 3: One Small Step
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: David
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2004
rating: 5
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I love this whole series. It gets slow around volume 5-7, as Vaughan struggles for a way to keep the plot interesting, but it is awesome.
]]> <![CDATA[Y: The Last Man, Vol. 5: Ring of Truth]]> 156533 192 Brian K. Vaughan 1401204872 David 5 read-graphicnovels 4.27 2005 Y: The Last Man, Vol. 5: Ring of Truth
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: David
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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I love this whole series. It gets slow around volume 5-7, as Vaughan struggles for a way to keep the plot interesting, but it is awesome.
]]> <![CDATA[Y: The Last Man, Vol. 6: Girl on Girl]]> 156529
Unfortunately, that source is within Ampersand's body, which was last seen disappearing under the arm of a mysterious Japanese mercenary. Now, accompanied by 355 and Dr. Mann, the last man on Earth has embarked on a new and even more hazardous journey - following Ampersand's trail across the Pacific, where danger threatens from below as well as above the waves.

Collects issues 32-36]]> 128 Brian K. Vaughan 1401205011 David 5 read-graphicnovels 4.20 2005 Y: The Last Man, Vol. 6: Girl on Girl
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: David
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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I love this whole series. It gets slow around volume 5-7, as Vaughan struggles for a way to keep the plot interesting, but it is awesome.
]]> Cancer Vixen 349348
That/s the question that sets this powerful, funny, and poignant graphic memoir in motion. In vivid color and with a taboo-breaking sense of humor, Marisa Acocella Marchetto tells the story of her eleven-month, ultimately triumphant bout with breast cancer--from diagnosis to cure, and every challenging step in between.

But Cancer Vixen is about more than surviving an illness. It is a portrait of one woman's supercharged life in Manhattan, and a wonderful love story. Marisa, self-described "terminal bachelorette", meets her Prince Charming in Silvano, owner of the chic downtown restaurant Da Silvano. Three weeks before their wedding, she receives her diagnosis. She wonders: How will he react to this news? How will my world change? Will I even survive? And... what about my hair?

From raucous New Yorker staff lunches and the star-studded crowd at Silvano/s restaurant to the rainbow pumps Marisa wears to chemotherapy, Cancer Vixen is a total original. Marisa's wit and courage are an inspiration--she's a cancer vixen, not its victim.]]> 224 Marisa Acocella Marchetto 0307263576 David 3 read-graphicnovels I've never disliked a cancer survivor as much as I disliked the narrator of this book.

David]]> 3.73 2006 Cancer Vixen
author: Marisa Acocella Marchetto
name: David
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2006
rating: 3
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I've never disliked a cancer survivor as much as I disliked the narrator of this book.

David
]]> <![CDATA[I.A. Richards: selected works, 1919-1938, Volume 7: Philosophy Rhetoric]]> 281760 112 Ivor A. Richards 0415217385 David 5 read-rhetoric The original book was published in 1936 and remains central to rhetoric today. The scholarly apparatus, created by friend John Constable, is invaluable.

]]> 4.20 2001 I.A. Richards: selected works, 1919-1938, Volume 7: Philosophy Rhetoric
author: Ivor A. Richards
name: David
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2001
rating: 5
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The original book was published in 1936 and remains central to rhetoric today. The scholarly apparatus, created by friend John Constable, is invaluable.


]]> <![CDATA[Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China]]> 210946 152 Guy Delisle 0224079913 David 5 read-graphicnovels The narrator is kind of irritating, but the story remains compelling, nonetheless.

]]> 3.76 2000 Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China
author: Guy Delisle
name: David
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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The narrator is kind of irritating, but the story remains compelling, nonetheless.


]]> <![CDATA[The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition]]> 281731
The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition reconsiders the relationship between rhetorical theory, practice, and pedagogy. Continuing the line of questioning begun in the 1980s, contributors examine the duality of a rhetorical canon in determining if past practice can make us more (or less) able to address contemporary concerns. Also examined is the role of tradition as a limiting or inspiring force, rhetoric as a discipline, rhetoric's contribution to interest in civic education and citizenship, and the possibilities digital media offer to scholars of rhetoric.

“The essays are wonderfully brief and well written. They come from some of the smarter and more influential rhetoricians of our time, representing a wide range of institutions and departments.� � Rhetoric Review

"This topic is enormously significant for all rhetoricians. It is an absolutely timely volume, consolidating and significantly advancing many important conversations." � Frederick J. Antczak, editor of Rhetoric and Legacies of Wayne Booth

" The essays collected here offer well-argued and provocative approaches to questioning the rhetorical tradition." � Jeffrey Walker, author of Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity

Contributors include Janet M. Atwill, Leah Ceccarelli, Jeanne Fahnestock, Robert N. Gaines, Richard Graff, Alan G. Gross, S. Michael Halloran, William Hart-Davidson, Susan C. Jarratt, Thomas J. Kinney, Michael Leff, Steven Mailloux, Thomas P. Miller, Arthur E. Walzer, and James P. Zappen.]]> 213 Richard Graff 0791462862 David 3 read-rhetoric The essays are uneven in quality -- some more polemic than scholarly.

But the highlights are amazing.]]> 3.56 2005 The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition
author: Richard Graff
name: David
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2005
rating: 3
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The essays are uneven in quality -- some more polemic than scholarly.

But the highlights are amazing.
]]> <![CDATA[George Campbell: Rhetoric in the Age of Enlightenment (Rhetoric in the Modern Era)]]> 281732 184 Arthur E. Walzer 0791455785 David 5 5.00 2002 George Campbell: Rhetoric in the Age of Enlightenment (Rhetoric in the Modern Era)
author: Arthur E. Walzer
name: David
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2002
rating: 5
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An important book written by an important man.
]]> Mail Order Bride 864065 264 Mark Kalesniko 1560974109 David 5 read-graphicnovels 3.67 2003 Mail Order Bride
author: Mark Kalesniko
name: David
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2003
rating: 5
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Very depressing take on love generally and on intercultural love.
]]> Ode to Kirihito 209571
From pregnant vistas of the Japanese countryside to closed rooms full of sin and redemption, Tezuka astounds for more than eight hundred continuous pages, his art in turn easefully concise and flamboyantly experimental, his inquiry into our most repugnant instincts and prospects for overcoming them unflinchingly serious. Incorporating elements of the often lurid and adult-oriented “gekiga� style for the first time, Tezuka entered into his fruitful late period with this work.

A promising young doctor, Kirihito Osanai visits a remote Japanese mountain village to investigate the source of the latest medical mystery. While he ends up traveling the world to discover what it takes to be cured of such a disease, a conspiracy back home attempts to explain away his absence. Hinging upon his fate are those of his loved an unstable childhood friend and colleague trapped between factions of the medical establishment that nurtured him; a fiancée emotionally transformed by Kirihito’s mysterious disappearance; and a stranger who becomes his guardian angel, a sensual circus-act performer with volatile psychological secrets.

From plutocratic Taipei and racially divided South Africa to backwater Arabia and modern Osaka, ambition and desire beckon “normal men� to behave uglier than any beast. Riveting our attention on deformity and its acceptance like The Elephant Man by David Lynch, Ode to Kirihito examines the true worth of human beings through and beyond appearances.]]> 832 Osamu Tezuka 1932234640 David 4 4.05 1970 Ode to Kirihito
author: Osamu Tezuka
name: David
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1970
rating: 4
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]]> Apollo's Song 534308 Better to have loved and lost...

The gods with their poetic justice, can be unrelenting. Just ask the young cynic Shogo, who sinned against love. Electroshock therapy was only meant to bring him face to face with his own violent misdeeds, but instead landed him in the court of a stern goddess.

If the encounter was a hallucination, then it's a hallucination that starts to encroach on reality in this unforgettable tale penned by manga-god Osamu Tezuka and inspired by Greek myths of divine unforgiving. Sharing with his longer work Phoenix the themes of recurrence and retribution as well as the spirit of high invention, Apollo's Song explores the meaning of love and the consequences of its absence.

Shogo's mother is a bar hostess, his father could be any one of a dozen of her regular patrons. Growing up, he learns nothing of genuine love and tenderness, and when he witnesses his mother in the nearest approximation of which she's capable--lustful embrace--he receives a merciless beating soon afterwards. Shogo comes to hate the very notion of love. But goddesses, who are neither the Buddha nor Christ, do not excuse misfortunes of upbringing.

Apollo's Song reaches Olympian heights of tragedy as the story proceeds from a boxcar bound for a Nazi concentration camp to a dystopian future where human beings are persecuted by an ascendant race of their own clones. Will Shogo ever attain redemption, or, like the human race itself, will he have to relearn the lessons of love forever? Is it better to have loved and lost if the heartbreak must recur eternally?

Love, propagation, nature, war, death--Tezuka holds his trademark cornucopia of concerns together with striking characterizations, an unfailing sense of pacing, and of course, stunning imagery.

Though marked by a salty pessimism, this unique masterpiece from Tezuka's transitional period is also unabashedly romantic--and, at times, profoundly erotic. Combining a classic tale of thwarted love with cognitive ambiguities reminiscent of the work of Philip K. Dick, Apollo's Song is guaranteed to plumb new depths of the human heart with each rereading.]]> 541 Osamu Tezuka 1932234667 David 3 3.77 1970 Apollo's Song
author: Osamu Tezuka
name: David
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1970
rating: 3
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]]> Clubbing (Minx Books) 698142 176 Andi Watson 1401203701 David 5 3.09 2007 Clubbing (Minx Books)
author: Andi Watson
name: David
average rating: 3.09
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Saga of the Bloody Benders (A Treasury of Victorian Murder)]]> 1437906 76 Rick Geary 1561634980 David 5 read-graphicnovels 3.82 2007 The Saga of the Bloody Benders (A Treasury of Victorian Murder)
author: Rick Geary
name: David
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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The mix of creepiness and historical objectivity in Geary's series is tantalizing.
]]> <![CDATA[Jack the Ripper: A Journal of the Whitechapel Murders 1888-1889 (A Treasury of Victorian Murder)]]> 864889 64 Rick Geary 1561633089 David 5 read-graphicnovels The mix of creepiness and historical objectivity in Geary's series is tantalizing.]]> 3.91 1997 Jack the Ripper: A Journal of the Whitechapel Murders 1888-1889 (A Treasury of Victorian Murder)
author: Rick Geary
name: David
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1997
rating: 5
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The mix of creepiness and historical objectivity in Geary's series is tantalizing.
]]> <![CDATA[The Borden Tragedy: A Memoir of the Infamous Double Murder at Fall River, Mass. 1892 (A Treasury of Victorian Murder)]]> 148420
From the introduction: "The account presented in these pages of 19th Century America's most famous murder case is excerpted and adapted from the unpublished memoirs of a (thus far) unknown lady of Fall River, Massachusetts. Since the typewritten, unedited manuscript came to light at a 1990 estate sale, its provenance has been established to a satisfying degree. As part of the contents of an unopened trunk, it resided since the turn of the century in the basement of a private archive in Boston."

In this third volume of Geary's Treasury, the famous Lizzie Borden double murder is explored with as much attention to well -researched detail as in his Jack the Ripper. This is another celebrated murder of last century, the one that lead to the infamous school rhyme.

The parrallel between this old case and OJ Simpson's is striking: both defendants had unblemished reputations; the double murders were gruesome; there were no witnesses and no weapons found; the cases took the media by storm. Both wealthy defendants hired expensive lawyers who convinced the jury of reasonable doubt. Both remain under a cloud of suspicion...]]> 80 Rick Geary 1561631892 David 5 read-graphicnovels The mix of creepiness and historical objectivity in Geary's series is tantalizing.]]> 3.85 1997 The Borden Tragedy: A Memoir of the Infamous Double Murder at Fall River, Mass. 1892 (A Treasury of Victorian Murder)
author: Rick Geary
name: David
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1997
rating: 5
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The mix of creepiness and historical objectivity in Geary's series is tantalizing.
]]> <![CDATA[The Beast of Chicago: An Account of the Life and Crimes of Herman W. Mudgett, Known to the World As H.H. Holmes]]> 720947 80 Rick Geary 1561633623 David 5 read-graphicnovels The mix of creepiness and historical objectivity in Geary's series is tantalizing.]]> 3.83 2003 The Beast of Chicago: An Account of the Life and Crimes of Herman W. Mudgett, Known to the World As H.H. Holmes
author: Rick Geary
name: David
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2003
rating: 5
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The mix of creepiness and historical objectivity in Geary's series is tantalizing.
]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)]]> 136251
In this final, seventh installment of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling unveils in spectacular fashion the answers to the many questions that have been so eagerly awaited.]]> 759 J.K. Rowling David 0 to-read 4.61 2007 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
author: J.K. Rowling
name: David
average rating: 4.61
book published: 2007
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]]> Re-Gifters 925826 174 Mike Carey 140120371X David 4 read-graphicnovels 3.63 2007 Re-Gifters
author: Mike Carey
name: David
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> The Plain Janes (Janes, #1) 313162 172 Cecil Castellucci 1401211151 David 4 read-graphicnovels 3.69 2007 The Plain Janes (Janes, #1)
author: Cecil Castellucci
name: David
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> Batman: War on Crime 107150 64 Alex Ross 1563895765 David 5 4.19 1999 Batman: War on Crime
author: Alex Ross
name: David
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1999
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Batman: Black and White, Volume Two]]> 107097 176 Mark Chiarello 1563899175 David 3 3.87 2007 Batman: Black and White, Volume Two
author: Mark Chiarello
name: David
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2007
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Catwoman, Vol. 1: The Dark End of the Street]]> 106064 arrivée au terme de ses neuf vies ? C'est ce que le détective Slam
Bradley tente de découvrir, mais la pègre de Gotham, ainsi que sa
haute société ne semblent pas enclins à répondre à ces questions. Le
retour de Catwoman ne se fera pas sans peine et la conduira à
affronter un tueur de dames particulièrement étrange. (Contient
Detective Comics # 759-762, et Catwoman # 1-4)]]> 136 Ed Brubaker 1563899086 David 3 4.15 Catwoman, Vol. 1: The Dark End of the Street
author: Ed Brubaker
name: David
average rating: 4.15
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]]> Batman: Child of Dreams 589330 338 Kia Asamiya 1840237171 David 3 3.80 2000 Batman: Child of Dreams
author: Kia Asamiya
name: David
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2000
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Batman: The Dark Knight Archives, Vol. 4]]> 227855 224 Bill Finger 1563899833 David 5 4.15 2003 Batman: The Dark Knight Archives, Vol. 4
author: Bill Finger
name: David
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2003
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Batman: The Dark Knight Archives, Vol. 3]]> 107139 224 Bill Finger 156389615X David 5 4.22 2000 Batman: The Dark Knight Archives, Vol. 3
author: Bill Finger
name: David
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Batman: The Dark Knight Archives, Vol. 1]]> 107119 223 Bill Finger 1401203752 David 5 4.25 1992 Batman: The Dark Knight Archives, Vol. 1
author: Bill Finger
name: David
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1992
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Batman Handbook: The Ultimate Training Manual]]> 107027 - Execute a Backflip
- Survive a Poison Gas Attack
- Throw a Grappling Hook
- plus dozens of other crucial skills With original two-color illustrations by a DC Comics artist, The Batman Handbook has the information you'll need to emerge victorious against any criminal mastermind. And with Batman Begins releasing in June 2005, and the new animated series The Batman! launched in Fall 2004, The Batman Handbook is sure to be a hit.]]> 192 Scott Beatty 1594740232 David 3 4.06 2005 The Batman Handbook: The Ultimate Training Manual
author: Scott Beatty
name: David
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2005
rating: 3
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]]> Batman: No Man's Land, Vol. 1 137894 Keeper and Finder, among others--sharing time with their favorite licensed character in this novelization of DC's complete No Man's Land comic series. (And fans of Rucka--assuming they get around to reading this at all--will still likely hold the opinion that Atticus Kodiak could take Batman in a standup fight any day.)

DC shook up Gotham--literally--in its 1999 Batman plot arc: a 7.6 earthquake rocked Gotham City, wreaking enough destruction to bring the broken, crime-ridden, runt kid-brother of Metropolis and New York to its knees. In the story line's most indulgent liberty, those fat cats in Washington decide to write off Gotham, à la Escape from New York, blowing up the connecting bridges, mining the surrounding waterways, and signing into law the Federal Declaration of No Man's Land, which makes it a crime to even set foot in the city. The usual suspects from Arkham Asylum, Two-Face and the Penguin, the Riddler and Dr. Freeze, Poison Ivy and Mr. Zsasz, file out to begin running the show, strong-arming and manipulating the block-by-block turf battles that envelop the now-ultraviolent city. A conflicted Batman shows up fashionably late, only to find that these lunatics are the least of his worries: Lex Luthor, Superman's archfoe, has nefarious designs on Gotham too. Could this possibly get any better? Sure, No Man's Land is derivative fiction, but the appeal of Rucka--and, of course, Batman--can make this one worth the read. --Paul Hughes

Collecting BATMAN: NO MAN'S LAND #1, BATMAN #563-564, BATMAN: SHADOW OF THE BAT #83-84, DETECTIVE COMICS #730-731 and BATMAN: LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #116.

]]> 198 Bob Gale 1563895641 David 5 4.13 1999 Batman: No Man's Land, Vol. 1
author: Bob Gale
name: David
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1999
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Superman/Batman, Vol. 4: Vengeance]]> 107026 160 Jeph Loeb 1401209211 David 1 3.76 2006 Superman/Batman, Vol. 4: Vengeance
author: Jeph Loeb
name: David
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2006
rating: 1
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]]> <![CDATA[Superman/Batman, Vol. 3: Absolute Power]]> 107024 128 Jeph Loeb 1401207146 David 1 3.88 2004 Superman/Batman, Vol. 3: Absolute Power
author: Jeph Loeb
name: David
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2004
rating: 1
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]]> <![CDATA[Superman/Batman, Vol. 2: Supergirl]]> 107022
Collects Superman/Batman #8-13]]> 168 Jeph Loeb 1401202500 David 3 4.06 2004 Superman/Batman, Vol. 2: Supergirl
author: Jeph Loeb
name: David
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2004
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Superman/Batman, Vol. 1: Public Enemies]]> 57890
Collects Superman/Batman #1-6.]]> 160 Jeph Loeb 1401202209 David 3 4.02 2004 Superman/Batman, Vol. 1: Public Enemies
author: Jeph Loeb
name: David
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2004
rating: 3
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]]> Batman: A Death in the Family 107032 144 Jim Starlin 0930289447 David 3 4.09 1988 Batman: A Death in the Family
author: Jim Starlin
name: David
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1988
rating: 3
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]]> Batman: Hush, Vol. 1 107017 Old friends and enemies find themselves thrown together in a murderous plot hatched by Poison Ivy. What is she plotting? No one quite knows, but by manipulating both Batman and his enemies Killer Croc and Catwoman tensions are high and no one is to be trusted in Gotham City tonight!

Originally published in BATMAN #608-612.]]> 121 Jeph Loeb 1401200605 David 1 4.12 2002 Batman: Hush, Vol. 1
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]]> Batman: Hush, Vol. 2 107021 192 Jeph Loeb 1401200923 David 1 4.28 2003 Batman: Hush, Vol. 2
author: Jeph Loeb
name: David
average rating: 4.28
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]]> <![CDATA[Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again]]> 52367
The Dark Knight returns once again with a vitality unseen since the first years of his war on crime.  Together with his army of Bat-soldiers, including Carrie Kelley—formerly Robin, and now the new Catgirl—the Dark Knight wages a new war on a diseased world that's become completely lost.

The Dark Knight Strikes Again features appearances by such DC icons as Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Arrow, Martian Manhunter, the Atom, the Question and more.  But are they still the World's Greatest Heroes or part of the conspiracy?

This incredible volume, designed by multiple award-winner Chipp Kidd, features a new introduction by Miller commenting on returning to the world he created fifteen years ago.  The book includes the complete 3-part story, plus numerous sketches and other never-before-seen material.]]> 248 Frank Miller 1563899299 David 1 3.19 2001 Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again
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]]> <![CDATA[Batman: The Dark Knight Returns]]> 59960
Crime runs rampant in the streets, and the man who was Batman is still tortured by the memories of his parents' murders. As civil society crumbles around him, Bruce Wayne's long-suppressed vigilante side finally breaks free of its self-imposed shackles.

The Dark Knight returns in a blaze of fury, taking on a whole new generation of criminals and matching their level of violence. He is soon joined by this generation's Robin—a girl named Carrie Kelley, who proves to be just as invaluable as her predecessors.

But can Batman and Robin deal with the threat posed by their deadliest enemies, after years of incarceration have made them into perfect psychopaths? And more important, can anyone survive the coming fallout of an undeclared war between the superpowers—or a clash of what were once the world's greatest superheroes?

Over fifteen years after its debut, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns remains an undisputed classic and one of the most influential stories ever told in the comics medium.

Collecting Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1-4]]> 197 Frank Miller 156389341X David 4 4.26 1986 Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
author: Frank Miller
name: David
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1986
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Kabuki, Vol. 6: Scarab, Lost in Translation]]> 98454 BW    256pp    Trade paperback
In stores the week of December 4th.
The Growing up in the subcultures of urban Japan, a young woman journeys through the underworlds of organized crime, secret societies, government operatives, awkward friendships, and young romance. A Mix of crime fiction and personal duality, elegantly told through the masks and metaphors of Japanese Mythology.
This Scarab  (collects Kabuki Agents 1-8) picks up right where Metamorphosis left off and answers all the mysteries left dangling from that series.  AndScarab is still a self-contained story, so even new readers can start with it.
More than the original issues, this handsome 256 page collection includes a gallery of covers (including the Quesada variant), new pin-ups, sketches and character designs, afterword and story commentary by David Mack, an insightful introduction by Paul Pope, and a brand new cover painting by David Mack.]]> 256 David W. Mack 1582402582 David 0 to-read 4.32 2002 Kabuki, Vol. 6: Scarab, Lost in Translation
author: David W. Mack
name: David
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2002
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]]> Kabuki: Metamorphosis 17192 <br /> 288 David W. Mack 1582401705 David 0 to-read
This guy is very artsy. I think i like it. Want to read to find out.]]> 4.70 2000 Kabuki: Metamorphosis
author: David W. Mack
name: David
average rating: 4.70
book published: 2000
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This guy is very artsy. I think i like it. Want to read to find out.
]]> Kabuki, Vol. 4: Skin Deep 89814 In stores the week of May 1st.
The A woman whose face is horribly scarred finds herself in an institution for "defective" government agents. She (Kabuki) is interrogated to find out if she is hiding something to do with the nature of her scars, or if she is simply crazy. Isolated and psychologically tormented, her only comfort is found in a mystery friend who sends handwritten messages that are folded into origami animals. Or is it just another trick?
This Now back in print! Collecting the entire Skin Deep series (and the Kabuki Fan Edition) in a brand new and improved prestige edition with extra pages! Having sold out of two entire previous print runs, this third printing includes for the first time
*The entire painted story from the sold out Kabuki Fan Edition, *a gallery of the original covers (including the cover art by ALEX ROSS),
*an Introduction by Alex Ross, *a brand new afterword by David Mack,
*re-colored and re-mastered pages, *a brand new front and back cover,
*preliminary sketches with notes on the story & art, *original script pages, *and printed on new and improved, thicker, high grade, archival paper.
Having been out of print for some time, fans are looking for Kabuki Vol 4, and this new printing delivers with loads of extras.
FC, 128pp   ]]> 112 David W. Mack 1582400008 David 0 to-read This guy is very artsy. I think I like it.

David]]> 4.42 1998 Kabuki, Vol. 4: Skin Deep
author: David W. Mack
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average rating: 4.42
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This guy is very artsy. I think I like it.

David
]]> The Complete D.R. & Quinch 161282 96 Alan Moore 1840233451 David 3 3.78 1985 The Complete D.R. & Quinch
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1985
rating: 3
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I've never been fond of the 200ad Alan Moore, any more than the early DC sci fi short stories.
]]> Smax 59707 136 Alan Moore 140120290X David 3 to-read A good story, but not great.


David]]> 3.73 2004 Smax
author: Alan Moore
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average rating: 3.73
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A good story, but not great.


David
]]> <![CDATA[Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?]]> 161275 47 Alan Moore 1563893150 David 3 read-graphicnovels This is the most over-rated Superman story ever. At the same time that it pays homage to the Silver Age, it distorts and devalues that tradition.
]]> 4.14 1985 Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?
author: Alan Moore
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average rating: 4.14
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rating: 3
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This is the most over-rated Superman story ever. At the same time that it pays homage to the Silver Age, it distorts and devalues that tradition.

]]> Promethea, Vol. 4 325752 Entertainment Weekly and Time.com. Don't miss the fourth thrilling volume collecting this trailblazing series!]]> 192 Alan Moore 1401200311 David 0 to-read 4.17 2003 Promethea, Vol. 4
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 4.17
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]]> <![CDATA[Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing]]> 102324
With modern-day issues explored against a backdrop of horror, SWAMP THING's stories became commentaries on environmental, political and social issues, unflinching in their relevance. SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING Book One collects issues #20-27 of this seminal series including the never-before-reprinted SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING #20, where Moore takes over as writer and concludes the previous storyline.

Book One begins with the story "The Anatomy Lesson," a haunting origin story that reshapes SWAMP THING mythology with terrifying revelations that begin a journey of discovery and adventure that will take him across the stars and beyond.]]> 173 Alan Moore 0930289226 David 5 4.23 1983 Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 4.23
book published: 1983
rating: 5
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]]> Supreme: The Return 90795 258 Alan Moore 0971024960 David 5 3.88 Supreme: The Return
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 3.88
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]]> From Hell 197935 From Hell is the story of Jack the Ripper, perhaps the most infamous man in the annals of murder. Detailing the events leading up to the Whitechapel killings and the cover-up that followed, From Hell is a meditation on the mind of a madman whose savagery and violence gave birth to the 20th century. The serialized story, presented in its entirety in this volume, has garnered widespread attention from critics and scholars. Often regarded as one of the most significant graphic novels ever published, From Hell combines meticulous research with educated speculation, resulting in a masterpiece of historical fiction both compelling and terrifying.]]> 576 Alan Moore 0958578346 David 0 to-read 4.19 1999 From Hell
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 4.19
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]]> <![CDATA[Promethea: Book Two of the Groundbreaking New Series (Promethea, #2)]]> 161267
This collection follows Sophie Bangs, the latest in a long line of Prometheas, on a winding journey of discovery as she continues to learn the secrets of the Immateria...and herself. Her transcendental adventure brings young Sophie to realms of magic and wonder that none have experienced before. Collecting PROMETHEA issues #7-12, this book contains such fan-favorite stories as "Rocks and Hard Places," where Sophie learns about the Promethea named Bill, and "Sex, Stars, and Serpents," where Sophie learns some� er� valuable lessons.

Moore � the most lauded writer in the history of comics � and the fan-favorite art team of Williams & Gray combine their talents for a unique vision in comics that Entertainment Weekly has given an "A-" � describing the creative team as "seemingly hell-bent on reinventing the art of comics storytelling."]]> Alan Moore 1840233702 David 5 3.98 2001 Promethea: Book Two of the Groundbreaking New Series (Promethea, #2)
author: Alan Moore
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]]> Promethea, Vol. 2 325753
In the second installment of the series that Entertainment Weekly has given an A-, Sophie continues to learn more about her powers, abilities, and predecessors.

But with many answers still missing, Sophie must fend off an attack by a horde of demons and discover and defeat the secrets behind the sinister cult The Temple if she is ever to live up to the full potential of Promethea.]]> 176 Alan Moore 1563899574 David 5 4.09 2001 Promethea, Vol. 2
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 4.09
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]]> <![CDATA[Swamp Thing, Vol. 3: The Curse]]> 102323
Collects issues #35�#42.]]> 192 Alan Moore 1563896974 David 5 4.36 1985 Swamp Thing, Vol. 3: The Curse
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 4.36
book published: 1985
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Miracleman, Book Two: The Red King Syndrome]]> 198475
Collecting: Miracleman 5-10]]> 224 Alan Moore 1560600365 David 0 4.34 1990 Miracleman, Book Two: The Red King Syndrome
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 4.34
book published: 1990
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Miracleman, Book One: A Dream of Flying]]> 198472 176 Alan Moore 0913035610 David 5 4.27 1990 Miracleman, Book One: A Dream of Flying
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1990
rating: 5
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]]> Tomorrow Stories, Vol. 2 370835 160 Alan Moore 1401201652 David 5 3.63 2004 Tomorrow Stories, Vol. 2
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2004
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]]> <![CDATA[Swamp Thing, Vol. 2: Love and Death]]> 109244 Swamp Thing shouldn't be underestimated in the history of comics and, specifically, the history of horror comics. The modern comics landscape has been changed by the Vertigo line of books--an imprint that traces its roots back to this version of Swamp Thing. By taking a horror character fully entrenched in a superhero world (as silly as that might seem), this creative team put a new face on horror comics and on horror in general. Swamp Thing: Love and Death is the second collection of the team's work on the series, presented here in full color. Don't let the mediocre Swamp Thing movies fool you, this book is filled with sophisticated suspense and terror.

Collects issues #28�34 and Annual #2.]]> 207 Alan Moore 0930289544 David 5 4.39 1985 Swamp Thing, Vol. 2: Love and Death
author: Alan Moore
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average rating: 4.39
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rating: 5
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]]> Top 10, Vol. 2 154929 144 Alan Moore 1563899663 David 5 4.27 2001 Top 10, Vol. 2
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 4.27
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rating: 5
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]]> Promethea, Vol. 5 325751 200 Alan Moore 1401206204 David 0 to-read 4.23 2005 Promethea, Vol. 5
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Across the Universe : The Dc Universe Stories of Alan Moore]]> 161284 208 Alan Moore 1840237317 David 3 3.77 2003 Across the Universe : The Dc Universe Stories of Alan Moore
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2003
rating: 3
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]]> The Ballad of Halo Jones 59710 193 Alan Moore 1401205909 David 3 4.04 1986 The Ballad of Halo Jones
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1986
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Miracleman, Book Three: Olympus]]> 41179
As smoke rises over London, Miracleman must face Kid Miracleman—and realize his destiny. The sick will be healed, military powers will be disarmed, poverty will be abolished. Every day shall be a day of miracles, a new dawn for humankind. The original Miracleman opus comes to its majestic close!

Collecting Eclipse Comics original Miracleman #11-16.]]> 328 Alan Moore 1560600802 David 0 to-read 4.36 1991 Miracleman, Book Three: Olympus
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 4.36
book published: 1991
rating: 0
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]]> Lost Girls 58652 Alan Moore, the visionary behind Watchmen, From Hell, and V for Vendetta!

For more than a century, Alice, Wendy, and Dorothy have been our guides through the Wonderland, Neverland, and Land of Oz of our childhoods. Now, like us, these three lost girls have grown up and are ready to guide us again, this time through the realms of our sexual awakening and fulfillment. Through their familiar fairy tales they share with us their most intimate revelations of desire in its many forms... revelations that shine out radiantly through the dark clouds of war gathering around a luxury Austrian hotel.

Drawing on the rich heritage of erotica, Lost Girls is the rediscovery of the power of ecstatic writing and art in a sublime union that only the medium of comics can achieve. Exquisite, thoughtful, and human, Lost Girls is a work of breathtaking scope that challenges the very notion of art fettered by convention. This is erotic fiction at its finest.

Similar to DC's Absolute editions of Watchmen and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Lost Girls will be published as three, 112-page, super-deluxe, ovesized hardcover volumes, all sealed in a gorgeous slipcase. It will truly be an edition for the ages.]]> 320 Alan Moore 1891830740 David 0 to-read 3.58 2006 Lost Girls
author: Alan Moore
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average rating: 3.58
book published: 2006
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]]> <![CDATA[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Absolute Edition]]> 107006 416 Alan Moore 1401200524 David 5 4.26 2000 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Absolute Edition
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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]]> Batman: The Killing Joke 96358
After shooting and permanently paralyzing his daughter Barbara (a.k.a. Batgirl), the Joker kidnaps the commissioner and attacks his mind in hopes of breaking the man.

But refusing to give up, Gordon maintains his sanity with the help of Batman in an effort to beset the madman.]]> 50 Alan Moore 0930289455 David 3 4.37 1988 Batman: The Killing Joke
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 4.37
book published: 1988
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 2]]> 107007 League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 1, and the skies over England are filled with flaming rockets as Mars launches the first salvo of an invasion. Only our stalwart adventurers Allan Quatermain, Mina Harker, Captain Nemo, Hawley Griffin, and Mr. Edward Hyde can save mother England and the very Earth itself. But there are many startling revelations along the way, including the blossoming of love and the uncovering of a traitor in their midst!]]> 228 Alan Moore 1401201180 David 3 3.93 2003 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 2
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2003
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1]]> 297627
In this amazingly imaginative tale, literary figures from throughout time and various bodies of work are brought together to face any and all threats to Britain. Allan Quatermain, Mina Murray, Captain Nemo, Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde and Hawley Griffin, the Invisible Man, form a remarkable legion of intellectual aptitude and physical prowess: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.]]> 192 Alan Moore 1563898586 David 5 3.95 2000 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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]]> Watchmen 23542 0 Alan Moore 3551744084 David 5 4.26 1987 Watchmen
author: Alan Moore
name: David
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1987
rating: 5
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]]> V for Vendetta 5805 "Remember, remember the fifth of November..."

A frightening and powerful tale of the loss of freedom and identity in a chillingly believable totalitarian world, V for Vendetta stands as one of the highest achievements of the comics medium and a defining work for creators Alan Moore and David Lloyd.

Set in an imagined future England that has given itself over to fascism, this groundbreaking story captures both the suffocating nature of life in an authoritarian police state and the redemptive power of the human spirit which rebels against it. Crafted with sterling clarity and intelligence, V for Vendetta brings an unequaled depth of characterization and verisimilitude to its unflinching account of oppression and resistance.]]> 296 Alan Moore 1401207928 David 5 4.26 1990 V for Vendetta
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]]> Absolute Watchmen 23539 464 Alan Moore 1401207138 David 5 4.57 1987 Absolute Watchmen
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]]> After Theory 16938 231 Terry Eagleton 0465017746 David 3 3.81 2003 After Theory
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]]> <![CDATA[Walter Benjamin or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism]]> 188811 188 Terry Eagleton 0860917339 David 5 Eagleton and Benjamin -- who could ask for more?]]> 3.93 1985 Walter Benjamin or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism
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Eagleton and Benjamin -- who could ask for more?
]]> <![CDATA[Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship]]> 343906


At once prickly and heartbroken, argumentative and loving, Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship is an absorbing memoir with the complication of character and motive of a novel. As Scholem revisits the passionate engagements over Marxism and Kabbala, Europe and Palestine that he shared with Benjamin, it is as if he sought to summon up his lost friend's spirit again, to have the last word in the argument that might have saved his life.]]> 328 Gershom Scholem 1590170326 David 5 3.96 1981 Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship
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]]> <![CDATA[Walter Benjamin's Passages (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)]]> 329701

It was in Paris in 1937 that Georges Bataille introduced Pierre Missac to Walter Benjamin. This meeting launched the young French scholar on a half-century of engagement with Benjamin's work that culminated in the writing of Walter Benjamin's Passages .

Taking a cue from his subject, Missac adopts a form of indirect critique in which independent details examined seemingly in passing emerge over the course of the book as parts of larger patterns of understanding. The interlocked essays move among such topics as reading and writing, collecting, the dialectic, and time and history. Many of the subjects are standard in Benjamin studies, but the freshness and directness of Missac's response to them makes this book compelling.

After the war, Missac took it on himself to make Benjamin's work more widely known in France. He published a series of translations and critical essays and this one book, which appeared just a few months after his death in 1986. Benjamin, who committed suicide at age forty-eight, has no marked grave, and in one sense Walter Benjamin's Passages is a tombeau , a poem honoring a writer's achievement that in calmer times was written for the dedication of a physical monument but now must stand in place of the absent monument. It is a work of sophisticated and imaginative criticism that shows how Benjamin's work anticipated the future and how—as Missac's excursus on the glass atrium in the architecture of the 1980s shows—it can be fruitfully extended.

Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought]]> 256 Pierre Missac 026263175X David 3 3.61 1995 Walter Benjamin's Passages (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
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]]> <![CDATA[Walter Benjamin: An Intellectual Biography (Kritik)]]> 163909
In a very real sense, Benjamin's life and work were one―a chronicle of the modern European intellectual and mirror of an era. Bernd Witte's interpretive biography introduces Benjamin through critical thought and through topics and authors that ignited Benjamin's work. For the first time, English readers have the opportunity to survey the facts surrounding Benjamin's life and assess the interpretations of his texts. Witte's quest for Benjamin's own perspective yields a full chronology and sympathetic mastery of Benjamin's ideas.

The German edition, titled Walter Einfiihrung in Leben und Werk, was published in 1985.]]> 232 Bernd Witte 081432018X David 5 3.58 Walter Benjamin: An Intellectual Biography (Kritik)
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]]> <![CDATA[Selected Writings, Volume 2: 1927�1934]]> 52227
Previously concerned chiefly with literary theory, Benjamin during these Years does pioneering work in new areas, from the stud of popular Culture (a discipline he virtually created) to theories of the media and the visual arts. His writings on the theory of modernity-most of them new to readers of English--develop ideas as important to an understanding of the twentieth century as an contained in his widely anthologiied essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Technological Reproducibility.

This volume brings together previously untranslated writings on major figures such as Brecht, Valery and Gide, and on subjects ranging from film, radio, and the novel to memory, kitsch, and the theory of language. We find the manifoldly inquisitive Benjamin musing on the new modes of perception opened tip by techniques of photographic enlargement and cinematic montage, on the life and work of & Goethe at Weimar, on the fascination of old toys and the mysteries of food, and on the allegorical significance of Mickey Mouse.]]> 880 Walter Benjamin 0674945867 David 5 4.57 1999 Selected Writings, Volume 2: 1927–1934
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]]> <![CDATA[The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, 1932�1940]]> 149387 320 Walter Benjamin 0674174151 David 5 4.59 1989 The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, 1932–1940
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]]> <![CDATA[Selected Writings, Volume 1: 1913�1926]]> 119768 528 Walter Benjamin 0674945859 David 5 4.41 1996 Selected Writings, Volume 1: 1913–1926
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]]> Berlin Childhood around 1900 149366 Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime, one of his "large-scale defeats." Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the basis of the recently discovered "final version" that contains the author's own arrangement of a suite of luminous vignettes, it can be more widely appreciated as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century prose writing.

Not an autobiography in the customary sense, Benjamin's recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin's West End at the turn of the century becomes an occasion for unified "expeditions into the depths of memory." In this diagram of his life, Benjamin focuses not on persons or events but on places and things, all seen from the perspective of a child--a collector, flaneur, and allegorist in one.

This book is also one of Benjamin's great city texts, bringing to life the cocoon of his childhood--the parks, streets, schoolrooms, and interiors of an emerging metropolis. It reads the city as palimpsest and labyrinth, revealing unexpected lyricism in the heart of the familiar.

As an added gem, a preface by Howard Eiland discusses the genesis and structure of the work, which marks the culmination of Benjamin's attempt to do philosophy concretely.]]> 192 Walter Benjamin 067402222X David 5 4.13 1950 Berlin Childhood around 1900
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]]> <![CDATA[The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin (Cambridge Companions to Literature)]]> 52225 268 David S. Ferris 0521797241 David 5 3.82 2004 The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
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]]> The Arcades Project 52223 The Arcades Project (in German, Das Passagen-Werk) is a monumental ruin, meticulously constructed over the course of thirteen years--"the theater," as Benjamin called it, "of all my struggles and all my ideas."

Focusing on the arcades of nineteenth-century Paris-glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources, arranging them in thirty-six categories with descriptive rubrics such as "Fashion," "Boredom," "Dream City," "Photography," "Catacombs," "Advertising," "Prostitution," "Baudelaire," and "Theory of Progress." His central preoccupation is what he calls the commodification of things--a process in which he locates the decisive shift to the modern age.

The Arcades Project is Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique the bourgeois experience of nineteenth-century history, and, in so doing, to liberate the suppressed "true history" that underlay the ideological mask. In the bustling, cluttered arcades, street and interior merge and historical time is broken up into kaleidoscopic distractions and displays of ephemera. Here, at a distance from what is normally meant by "progress," Benjamin finds the lost time(s) embedded in the spaces of things.]]> 1088 Walter Benjamin 0674008022 David 5 4.45 1982 The Arcades Project
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]]> <![CDATA[Selected Writings, Volume 3: 1935�1938]]> 52221
The centerpiece, A Berlin Childhood around 1900 , marks the first appearance in English of one of the greatest German works of the twentieth a profound and beautiful account of the vanished world of Benjamin's privileged boyhood, recollected in exile. No less remarkable are the previously untranslated second version of Benjamin's most famous essay, "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility," with its striking insights into the relations between technology and aesthetics, and German Men and Women , a book in which Benjamin collects twenty-six letters by distinguished Germans from 1783 to 1883 in an effort to preserve what he called the true humanity of German tradition from the debasement of fascism.

Volume 3 also offers extensively annotated translations of essays that are key to Benjamin's rewriting of the story of modernism and modernity--such as "The Storyteller" and "Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century"--as well as a fascinating diary from 1938 and penetrating studies of Bertolt Brecht, Franz Kafka, and Eduard Fuchs. A narrative chronology details Benjamin's life during these four harrowing years of his exile in France and Denmark. This is an essential collection for anyone interested in his work.]]> 480 Walter Benjamin 0674019814 David 5 4.60 2002 Selected Writings, Volume 3: 1935–1938
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]]> <![CDATA[Selected Writings, Volume 2, Part 2: 1931�1934]]> 52219
In Part 1, Benjamin is represented by two of his greatest literary essays, "Surrealism" and "On the Image of Proust," as well as by a long article on Goethe and a generous selection of his wide-ranging commentary for Weimar Germany's newspapers.

Part 2 contains, in addition to the important longer essays, "Franz Kafka," "Karl Kraus," and "The Author as Producer," the extended autobiographical meditation "A Berlin Chronicle," and extended discussions of the history of photography and the social situation of the French writer, previously untranslated shorter pieces on such subjects as language and memory, theological criticism and literary history, astrology and the newspaper, and on such influential figures as Paul Valery, Stefan George, Hitler, and Mickey Mouse.]]> 480 Walter Benjamin 0674017463 David 5 4.58 2005 Selected Writings, Volume 2, Part 2: 1931–1934
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]]> <![CDATA[Selected Writings, Volume 4: 1938�1940]]> 52220
This volume ranges from studies of Baudelaire, Brecht, and the historian Carl Jochmann to appraisals of photography, film, and poetry. At their core is the question of how art can survive and thrive in a tumultuous time. Here we see Benjamin laying out an ethic for the critic and artist--a subdued but resilient heroism. At the same time, he was setting forth a sociohistorical account of how art adapts in an age of violence and repression.

Working at the height of his powers to the very end, Benjamin refined his theory of the mass media that culminated in the final version of his essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility." Also included in this volume is his influential piece "On the Concept of History," completed just before his death. The book is remarkable for its inquiry into the nature of "the modern" (especially as revealed in Baudelaire), for its ideas about the transmogrification of art and the radical discontinuities of history, and for its examples of humane life and thought in the midst of barbarism. The entire collection is eloquent testimony to the indomitable spirit of humanity under siege.]]> 496 Walter Benjamin 0674022297 David 5 4.56 2003 Selected Writings, Volume 4: 1938–1940
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]]> Illuminations 52213 267 Walter Benjamin 0712665757 David 5 4.12 1955 Illuminations
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