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Review Date: 1/1/2024
The description of this book is all true. There is even much general material that would apply to playing back-up using any instrument in any genre. Since it is about playing back-up, there are no lyrics. What it doesn't mention is that the entire book is for G tuning. All the chord symbols and transcriptions assume G tuning. These details might not be important to you, but if, like me, you have small hands, or just prefer C tuning, or some other, just be aware.
Review Date: 5/21/2024
More privateers than pirates, these 20 vignettes, from a couple to a dozen pages each, all have a connection to Connecticut through the career of some person or vessel, or a specific locale or event. Popular legends about treasures are related without credulity. One of the longer pieces is a very nice summary of the complex history of Captain William Kidd. Another summarizes the log of a four-month voyage of the Stonington privateer Dolphin, 1762-63. Many of the shorter pieces are rather repetitious laundry lists of long series of brief encounters of different privateer cruises, but collectively they provide a complete overview of the privateer tradition everywhere during the Age of Sail. The author uses the jargon of that culture correctly but, except for a few photos, without explanations or definitions. You might want to consult a nautical glossary. The book is well written as a whole, despite several incorrect word choices, as âtrepidationsâ for âdepredationsâ (twice). You might want to consult a dictionary.The index will help the reader cross-reference the various articles, as the careers of both captains and ships often overlap in various ways.
Review Date: 10/23/2020
This is the original First Edition, a classic in its field, still in print.
The Forgotten Heroes: The Heroic Story of the United States Merchant Marine
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Review Date: 5/2/2018
The bulk of this book concerns WWII. The rest of the history of the US Merchant Marine is covered briefly in 2 appendices.
Review Date: 4/18/2009
In 1944 Germany required a "People's Fighter", easily built of non-strategic materials and easy to fly. The winning design was this fuselage-mounted jet, made partially of wood. Only 120 were produced, in underground facilities, before the war ended. Profusely illustrated with photos and scale drawings.
Review Date: 7/11/2006
An abridgment by the author of a classic biography.
Review Date: 1/2/2024
The description of this book is all true. There is even much general material that would apply to playing back-up using any instrument in any genre. Since it is about playing back-up, there are no lyrics. What it doesn't mention is that the entire book is for G tuning. All the chord symbols and transcriptions assume G tuning. These details might not be important to you, but if, like you have small hands, or just prefer C tuning, or some other, just be aware.
Review Date: 9/4/2007
Helpful Score: 1
PUBLISHER COMMENTS
Darkly funny and gleefully mean-spirited, "Sellevision" explores greed, obsession and third tier celebrity, in the world of a fictional home shopping network.
Welcome to the troubled world of Sellevision, America's premier retail broadcasting network. When Max Andrews, the much-loved and handsome (lonely and gay) host of "Slumber Sunday Sundown" accidentally exposes himself in front of twenty million kids and their parents during a "Toys for Tots" segment, Sellevision faces its first big scandal. As Max fails to find a job in television, another host, the popular and perky Peggy Jean Smythe is receiving sinister emails about her appearance from a stalker. Popping pills and drinking heavily, she fails to notice that her husband is spending a lot of time with the very young babysitter who lives next door. Then there's Leigh, whose affair with Sellevision boss Howard Toast is going nowhere, until she exposes him on air; and Bebe, Sellevision's star host, who finds Mr. Right through the Internet if she can just stop her shopping addiction from taking over.
REVIEWS
"An absolute howl, about on-camera personalities who sell things on those home-shopper channels. This one has its characters fall apart very publicly: One is axed after he accidentally exposes himself on air. Another is the target of a surprising stalker.
And so on."
-- New York Daily News
"This kaleidoscope of gleefully salacious intrigue aims to titillate and amuse in a purposefully over-the-top way."
-- Publishers Weekly
"First-time novelist Burroughs writes fluidly and shows a flair for fun, campy material....As a bubbly soap opera, 'Sellevision'
is good company for the beach or the plane. Its literary value may be low, but the material sparkles, just like the Diamonelle earrings on the shopping channels."
-- Booklist
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Augusten Burroughs is the author of "Running with Scissors" and "Sellevision." He lives in New York City.
Darkly funny and gleefully mean-spirited, "Sellevision" explores greed, obsession and third tier celebrity, in the world of a fictional home shopping network.
Welcome to the troubled world of Sellevision, America's premier retail broadcasting network. When Max Andrews, the much-loved and handsome (lonely and gay) host of "Slumber Sunday Sundown" accidentally exposes himself in front of twenty million kids and their parents during a "Toys for Tots" segment, Sellevision faces its first big scandal. As Max fails to find a job in television, another host, the popular and perky Peggy Jean Smythe is receiving sinister emails about her appearance from a stalker. Popping pills and drinking heavily, she fails to notice that her husband is spending a lot of time with the very young babysitter who lives next door. Then there's Leigh, whose affair with Sellevision boss Howard Toast is going nowhere, until she exposes him on air; and Bebe, Sellevision's star host, who finds Mr. Right through the Internet if she can just stop her shopping addiction from taking over.
REVIEWS
"An absolute howl, about on-camera personalities who sell things on those home-shopper channels. This one has its characters fall apart very publicly: One is axed after he accidentally exposes himself on air. Another is the target of a surprising stalker.
And so on."
-- New York Daily News
"This kaleidoscope of gleefully salacious intrigue aims to titillate and amuse in a purposefully over-the-top way."
-- Publishers Weekly
"First-time novelist Burroughs writes fluidly and shows a flair for fun, campy material....As a bubbly soap opera, 'Sellevision'
is good company for the beach or the plane. Its literary value may be low, but the material sparkles, just like the Diamonelle earrings on the shopping channels."
-- Booklist
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Augusten Burroughs is the author of "Running with Scissors" and "Sellevision." He lives in New York City.
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