Lord of the Rings Instrumental Solos: Flute (Book & CD) (The Lord of the Rings; the Motion Picture Trilogy) Review

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(More customer reviews)I was completely impressed with the Lord of the Rings Instrumental Solos for flute.
I have been playing flute for about two years now after taking music classes both inside school and outside for additional advice. I was able to master this beautiful instrument in no time. And I hope to keep up my talent for it.
Now, the features you will expect of this book are:
- 12 featured pieces from each of the three films. These are "The Prophecy", "in Dreams", "Concerning Hobbits", "Many Meetings", "The Black Rider", "Gollum's Song", "Rohan", "Even Star", "Forth Eorlingas", "Into the West", "Steward of Gondor", and the great "Minas Tirith".
- Each piece ranges from at least one page to two; however repeats, rests, and Codas may make the piece longer.
- The book contains full sized pictures of screenshots from the movie.
- A level of playing that is challenging enough for a person of nearly any level.
- Well organized pieces that are easy to understand and read.
- A flute fingering chart at the back to make sure you are able to look up every note.
- A wonderful CD to listen to with full orchestral backup or to play along with. In my case, the demos on my CD feature a professional flutist who plays each piece. When you wish to know the tempo and speed of each piece, this really improves the experience. In fact, the CD is amazing enough to be sold as a sound track for the films by itself.
- This book is available for Flute, Clarinet, Alto Sax, Tenor Sax, Trumpet, Horn in F, and Trombone. This means that if any concert bands are interested in playing familiar Lord of the Rings music, the pieces will always be in key for each instrument.
In my opinion, this amazing book has completely brought me on to a new level of playing. If any of you are musicians, reading this, you know the feeling you get when you create such a soul-full, emotional piece of music that your mind and audience is touched by every note that weave themselves through each melody? This is what I felt during getting to know each piece in this book.
Howard Shore, this music is brilliant! Thank you to you and your full orchestra and team to putting this together to give musicians wonderful music to play from an inspiring trilogy of films!
:.Midnight's Mist

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Music from all three films arranged for wind instruments. Desirable and collectible, these instrumental folios are loaded with full-color photos of scenes from all three films. They are printed on top-quality antique paper stock, and the covers showcase the new "trilogy" artwork. The wind instrument books are completely compatible with each other and can be played together or as solos. Each book contains a carefully edited part that is appropriate for the Level 2-3 player and a fully orchestrated accompaniment CD. Each theme on the CD is presented as a "demo" track (which features that particular instrument) and as a "play-along" track without the solo instrument. New icons are used in the books to guide the players through the accompaniment options. A separate piano accompaniment book with CD is available for the wind series. The instrumental solo part, in concert pitch, is added above the piano part. The CD features live demonstration performances of various instrument tracks from the series. Titles are the twelve major themes from the blockbuster trilogy: from The Fellowship of the Ring: The Prophecy * In Dreams * Concerning Hobbits * Many Meetings * The Black Rider; from The Two Towers: Gollum's Song * Rohan * Evenstar * Forth Eorlingas; from The Return of the King: Into the West * The Steward of Gondor * Minas Tirith.

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Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less Review

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(More customer reviews)The only value in this work is the titles of the classical works of Literature. It's always nice to see them.
The comments are meant to be clever and amusing. I found them to be neither. I did however find them to be vulgar, stupid and degrading.
There is no effort on the part of the twitterers to catch in any way the style and tone, the feeling of any of these classic works.
The concept 'rip-off' comes to mind.

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His Dark Materials Trade Paper Boxed Set (Golden Compass, Subtle Knife, Amber Spyglass) Review

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(More customer reviews)Philip Pullman's dark fantasy trilogy, His Dark Materials, ostensibly written for children, is actually literature of a much higher order. The title of the trilogy comes from a particularly powerful passage of Milton's Paradise Lost, the great religious epic poem whose central story is the thematic basis for this trilogy. Another important influence on these three novels is the Christian Parsifal or Sir Percival story, which dates back to the early middle-ages as part of both the King Arthur and the Holy Grail cycle of tales. From its very first page, Pullman's crisp, evocative writing creates a world not quite like ours but just similar enough to be uncomfortable and strangely familiar. As readers of the trilogy know, most of the events in these books do not occur on our world or even in our universe. Of course, because this is post Tolkien fantasy, Mr. Pullman has absorbed all of the usual fantasy tropes and has no desire to repeat them. So what he writes is new, deeper, with fully rounded characters that come alive on the page. His courageous young heroine, Lyra Belacqua with her daemon familiar, Pantalaimon, always by her side, is one of the great creations in "children's literature". Lyra and Pan make an especially entertaining, often very amusing, pair. Her fearsome Uncle, Lord Asriel, is one of those rich, ambiguous creations that keep you guessing as to their motives, reminiscent of Professor Snape in J. K. Rowling's Potter novels. Pullman's writing is lean and well crafted and exciting to read. Once started, it is very difficult to set aside.
This three volume boxed set contains the books in hardcover with their original dustcovers. Their artwork is lovely. It also contains a map: a necessity in today's complex world of fantasy. The first volume, The Golden Compass, has been filmed and was recently released on DVD. The two succeeding books, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass, will presumably follow thereafter. This set makes a lovely gift for an older and mature reading child or an adult who still retains memories of childhood and all of its dark mysteries. Strongly recommended.
Mike Birman

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Published in 40 countries, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy – The GoldenCompass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass – has graced the New York Times,Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Book Sense, and Publishers Weekly bestsellerlists. The Golden Compass forms the first part of a story in three volumes. The first volume is set in a world like ours, but different in many ways. The second volume is set partly in the world we know. The third moves between many worlds. In The Golden Compass, readers meet 11-year-old Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Jordan College in Oxford, England. It quickly becomes clear that Lyra's Oxford is not precisely like our own—nor is her world. In Lyra's world, everyone has a personal dæmon, a lifelong animal familiar. This is a world in which science, theology and magic are closely intertwined. The Subtle Knife is the second part of the trilogy that began with The Golden Compass.That first book was set in a world like ours, but different. This book begins inour own world. In The Subtle Knife, readers are introduced to Will Parry, a young boy living in modern-day Oxford, England. Will is only twelve years old, but he bears the responsibilities of an adult. Following the disappearance of his explorer-father, John Parry, during an expedition in the North, Will became parent, provider and protector to his frail, confused mother. And it's in protecting her that he becomes a murderer, too: he accidentally kills a man who breaks into their home to steal valuable letters written by John Parry. After placing his mother in the care of a kind friend, Will takes those letters and sets off to discover the truth about his father. The AmberSpyglass brings the intrigue of The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife to a heartstopping close, marking the third and final volume as the most powerful of the trilogy. Along with the return of Lyra, Will, Mrs. Coulter, Lord Asriel, Dr. Mary Malone, and Iorek Byrnison the armored bear, The Amber Spyglass introduces a host of new characters: the Mulefa, mysterious wheeled creatures with the power to see Dust; Gallivespian Lord Roke, a hand-high spy-master to Lord Asriel; and Metatron, a fierce and mighty angel. And this final volume brings startling revelations, too: the painful price Lyra must pay to walk through the land of the dead, the haunting power of Dr. Malone's amber spyglass, and the names of who will live—and who will die—for love. And all the while, war rages with the Kingdom of Heaven, a brutal battle that—in its shocking outcome—will reveal the secret of Dust.

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FoxTrotius Maximus: A FoxTrot Treasury Review

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(More customer reviews)It's ironic that people who are buying books aren't reading carefully. The complaint of other readers here is that Amend has republished older strips...Well, that's always been the case with the bigger "treasury" books- all the smaller ones get published into a bigger anthology. If you don't have the previous three books, then get this anthology.
Fox Trot is my favorite comic strip- Amend has a creative sense of humor and a great memory of what it was like to be a kid.

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Jason Fox rules . . . his computer code, at calc and trig, and in whatever fantasy he happens to be headlining at the moment. Just because the rest of the Fox family-from older brother Peter and sister Paige to parents Roger and Andy-haven't quite accepted his Dominion Over All isn't cause for concern. Math geeks, Jason is convinced, will govern the earth, and he will lead the way. FoxTrotius Maximus: A FoxTrot Treasury, picks up on Jason's megalomania and runs with it . . . and it doesn't stop until readers are out of breath from laughing so hard.FoxTrotius Maximus combines the works Your Momma Thinks Square Roots Are Vegetables, Who's Up for Some Bonding, and Am I a Mutant or What? That means longtime FoxTrot readers and new fans alike are treated to Jason and his friend Marcus's never-ending antics, Andy's ongoing allergy fun, Peter's latest hot haircut, and a host of pop-culture trends and topics including music piracy, video games, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Timely, topical, and terribly funny!This latest FoxTrot treasury represents the ninth anthology of Amend's wildly successful comic strip, based upon the cartoonist's 17 previous books and his daily and Sunday syndicated appearances in more than 1,000 newspapers worldwide. FoxTrot truly is one of America's all-time favorite comics, and combined sales of nearly three million copies show that Amend knows how to capture and keep his audience's humor-loving attention. All hail, FoxTrotius Maximus!

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Shepperton Studios Collectors Limited Edition Review

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(More customer reviews)This visual celebration of the great British Shepperton movie studio, contains some wonderful stills, posters and "behind the scenes" photos of it's celluliod history -but little else! Some studio history is mentioned, but despite its 384 pages it all looks like it has been put together in a condensed easy-to-read presskit style. Now that the once independent studio is part of the Pinewood Studios group, its easy to see why. You can just picture new producers and tenants to the lot, being given a copy along with their rental contract and assigned parking spaces.
Selecting the great films of any studio is largely subjective, but in Shepperton's case the choice should have been expanded to cover the great production sets that highlight the studio itself. THE GUNS OF NAVARONE with its mighty cave set housing the huge guns themselves. OLIVER's numerous interior and exterior sets of old London, RAGTIMES New York street set and so on. Where are the photos of the soundstages and backlot? Shepperton richly deserves to be seen in a better light.

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Shepperton has been the home of maverick and independent film production for nearly 75 years. Owned by a succession of famous brothers-the Kordas, the Boultings, the Lees, and the Scotts-some of the most successful films ever produced have been made here. Billy Liar, Dr. Strangelove, Oliver!, Alien, A Passage to India, the Pink Panther films, The Omen, The Wicker Man, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Gandhi, Evita, The Crying Game, Troy, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Bend It Like Beckham are but a small selection of the classic films featured in this first comprehensive, fully authorized history. With exclusive contributions from directors, actors, and producers; 300 images, many never-before seen; and a DVD featuring trailers from a dozen major films made at the studios, this is an essential work for all fans and students of the cinema. This collector's edition is presented in a unique box with a cushion cover.

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Telling Lies About the Wolves Review

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(More customer reviews)Telling Lies about the Wolves, the new book of Mason Powell's "literary tales," is a great treat and a pleasure to read. These fourteen stories, written between 1978 and 1984, represent a startling variety of styles, and each one is an understated gem by the renowned Berkeley writer.
Many of the stories concern homosexuality, directly or peripherally, and Powell paints magnificent pictures of the LA. theater scene, San Francisco's South of Market hustling world, high school jock culture, and more,in colorful studies of intimate relationships undergoing powerful change
The first two stories in the book, one funny and one almost painfully tender, touch on the author's high school experiences with girls, the movies, male friendship under fire, and teenage sexual identity. "Bruce Hagarty: All-American" also explores the fine line between roles that gay men must play. In this case, a professional sports hero's personal fantasy life is revealed to a perfectly--drawn stereotypical gay couple, with unexpected and humorous results.
"At a Party in Pasadena", one of the two "supernatural" stories in this collection, plays with spirit possession or channeling, as it meets knee-jerk Kinsey-scale self-definition. The main character falls in love with a sexual spirit briefly inhabiting the body of his male heartthrob, but, as it happens, the next time the spirit appears it is in another body....a woman's!
The other story dealing with the supernatural is "Chisolm Legacy", a hard-core western ghost story. Powell creates a frightening, atypical haunted--goldmine--inherited--from--crazy--uncle yarn of terror, torture, and the salvation of love
"Coming Out" is a charming and very funny coming--out--to--parents story with a twist. "Trash Body" could be subtitled, "Three drag queens exchange marvelous, weird, and bizarre pickup stories while looting a dumpster".
And the title story, "Telling Lies about the Wolves", describes the unlikely events leading to the author's journeying to Alaska with a crew filming a B--movie sequel about wolves. The deliciously detailed, eventful movie-making process is disastrously interrupted by a theatrical accident, when a "controlled" explosion starts an avalanche, and a war of personalities becomes a battle for survival.
Powell's published novels range from the excellent cop mystery "For the Love of a Green-eyed Piano player" to the heavily erotic S&M classic "The Brig." His short stories have been published all over, and are fairly hard to find, so this collection will please Powell's longtime fans and engender new ones.

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The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love Review

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(More customer reviews)"The Will to Change" by bell hooks is one of the best books I have ever read. bell hooks gets to the heart of the ways in which most of us (men and women, people of all classes and races) are harmed by patriarchy, as well as exposing the ways in which we unconsciously replicate it in our personal lives. Her ideas are big enough to include all people who are struggling with division, oppression, and/or general un-wholeness and unhappiness, not just women. She suggests that the way to freedom is for us to love each other and support each other on our journies to wholeness. She clearly and consistently frames the struggle as one of hurting people yearning to be whole and free. This is a theory that is accessible to everyone - anyone who searches their heart, or just observes the society around them, can see that what she says is true. As a feminist who is married and loves men, I found her advice to be full of wisdom, with a refreshing lack of intellectual elitism.
After reading this wonderful work, I am more convinced than ever that heart and soul are the primary components of our future evolutionary path. Hats off to you, ms. hooks!

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Review

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(More customer reviews)Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an unabridged audiobook production of Lewis Carroll's classic children's storybook of a young girl lost in a magical land of fantasy. Read aloud by Grammy and Audie Award-winning performer Jim Dale, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a delightful performance that adroitly captures this whimsical spirit of the story. Highly recommended as a giftbook to listeners of all ages, as well as for public library audiobook collections. 3 CDs, 2 hours 57 minutes.

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Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the river bank, and of having nothing to do...when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran by her. Alice did not think it so very strange to hear the Rabbit say to itself, "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!" But when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat pocket and then hurried on, she started to wonder! Running after the strange fellow, she was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole. Down jumped Alice after it (never considering how in the world she was to get out again) and she tumbled into a curious world inhabited by the Mad Hatter, the Ugly Duchess, the Mock Turtle, the Cheshire Cat, and more…With his marvelous sense of the absurd, Lewis Carroll's whimsical, fantastical tale delighted children and adults when it was first published in 1865 and has since become a treasured classic of literature.

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ADVENTURES OF WILLY THE WIZARD: LIVID LAND NO. 1 Review

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(More customer reviews)Haven't read the whole book, and at $95 am unlikely to, but I have read all the online excerpts and the full text of the Harry Potter lawsuit. I see no resemblance other than a character solves a puzzle in the bathtub. Archimedes, anyone?
I'm betting all the alleged plagiarisms turn out to be common story elements. There certainly isn't any comparison in the plots or characters.
Just for fun I did a web search on underwater rescues and found a 1960 Tom Swift book in which Tom invents artificial gills and competes against the Bungarians. Harry, of course, gets artificial gills and competes against a Bulgarian.


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Unwritten Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity Review

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(More customer reviews)Mike Carey is one of the many British comic writers to make his name at DC's Vertigo imprint. Carey began his North American writing career with his famous "Lucifer" series (a spinoff of Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman"), as well as a run on the longrunning "John Constantine, Hellblazer". Subsequently he's spent some time at Marvel Comics, most prominently with a lengthy period on "X-Men", which has met with quite a bit of fan acclaim. Now he returns to Vertigo with his next big indie project, "The Unwritten", which revisits a passel of familiar Vertigo themes and should prove very popular among literary enthusiasts. This trade paperback collections issue 1-5 of the series. Some spoilers follow.
Our protagonist is Tom Taylor, the now-adult son of the famous author Wilson Taylor; much like A. A. Milne and his son Christopher Robin, Wilson integrated his son into his writing, making him the hero of a thirteen-volume fantasy series that (the series helpfully tells us) is popular enough to make Harry Potter look like, ah, I guess the hero of "Eragon" by comparison. The now-adult Tom makes a living at fan conventions and the like, while his father vanished without a trace years before. At least, that's what Tom believes. But after an encounter with a mysterious woman inquiring into his past, the question of exactly what Tom is comes to the fore. This kicks off a strange and as-yet-largely-unexplained journey into conspiracy and metafiction.
In comparison to past Vertigo series, one can very easily see many similarities with "The Sandman", which was also very much concerned with the nature of story and the interactions between fiction and reality. Carey's writing demonstrates quite a wide range of literary influences, with the core of the series being quite obviously based on Harry Potter, the defining literary product of the first decade of the 21st century. But perhaps the most impressive work comes in issue five, a standalone story focused on Rudyard Kipling, the great imperial poet, where Carey manages to reinterpret Kipling's entire literary output and personal life in the context of the series' ongoing plot. It's quite a bravura piece of writing. Peter Gross, the artist, does a terrific job rendering the world of Tom Taylor, and he doesn't miss a beat in the skips between different storytelling styles.
An interesting, if still somewhat inscrutable, start to a new property at Vertigo.

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The Hidden Stairs and the Magic Carpet (Secrets of Droon #1) Review

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(More customer reviews)I can't recommend this series enough. As my son's attention span increased (as he was nearing his fourth birthday), I turned to chapter books to offer him some variety (and reduce my boredom). Having experimented with dozens of alternatives, Tony Abbott's Droon series is my son's (and, let's be honest here, my) unequivocal favorite. I'm still astounded by my son's fascination with the magical world of Droon, a parallel universe where good versus evil wage an intricate, ever-evolving struggle against a rich, fantasy-laden backdrop. I genuinely enjoy reading these books aloud. We've read all of books in this series, and we've read most repeatedly as we await the next installment. Each story builds upon its predecessor, so The Hidden Stairs and the Magic Carpet is definitely the place to start. The books offer characters for every child to identify with; boys may prefer the bespeckled Eric or the more rambunctious Neal, girls may favor the quick-thinking Julie or Princess Keeah, the junior wizard -- all four (plus the adorable spider-troll Max) contribute mightily to the team's effort. Tony Abbott packs these books with vivid descriptions and non-stop action without frightening young readers (or listeners). Open the basement door and visit Droon - you won't be sorry.

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A Hidden Door. A Magical Staricase. Discover the World of Droon! Eric, Julie, and Neal have just found something magic in Eric's basement. They have discovered a staircase to another world! The world of Droon is amazing - full of magic, flying lizards, and fun, furry creatures. But how will Eric, Julie, and Neal find their way home? Maybe their new friend, Princess Keeah, can help?

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The Hollywood Culture War: What You Don't Know CAN Hurt You Review

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(More customer reviews)The Hollywood Culture War is an extraordinarily expansive revelation into the increasingly explosive Culture War between "Middle-America" and the aggressively radical "Left-Coast" juggernaut of the all-consuming entertainment industry. Hollywood producers, directors, celebrities, politicians, professors, evengelists and a literal cast of thousands are introduced as warriors, willing or not, in a forty-year battle to define the boudaries in the global quest for the garden of good and evil.
The author, Michael Boyer, is a twenty-year veteran of the movie industry as a Location Coordinator and Film Commissioner. He manages to crunch the data in the entertainment industry to unravel "a long dark thread" that runs through Hollywood and is embraced by an industry that is not only out of touch, it is openly hostile to the ticket-buyers who ultimately, as the author describes, "pays for the multi-million dollar Malibu mansion, four-car garage, swimming pool, drug habits and ultimately repeat rehab bills."
As George Clonney boasted at the Academy Awards, "I'm proud to be out of touch." Among the thousands of revealing quotes extracted from the industry insiders, Boyer manages to find a "parallel universe" of filmmakers that occasionally realize, reluctantly, there is life outside of Hollywood, as Roy Bruer of Sony Pictures testifies, "We have to be very cognizant that we live in L.A. and that you have to reach out to find things that entertain the entire country."
Boyer also explores the collusion between Hollywood and presidential politics that has resulted in "deals with the devil" as the author reveals the secret pacts between Tinseltown filmmamkers and the Democratic candidate Barack Obama. As the author explains, "There was much more to David Geffen's Hollywood fundraiser for Barack Obama than 400 celebrities who paid $2300 each to 'meet the candidate' in a 'private secured ballroom' at the Beverly Hilton. Boyer presents examples of the "Geffen Agenda" that began showing up in Obama's campaign speeches shortly after the February 19, 2007 event.
Certainly the most controversial chapter, as far as Hollywood is concerned, is Boyer's proposal and detailed recommendations for mandatory random drug-testing in the motion picture industry not too dissimilar from protocols already in line for Olympic, profeesional, collegiate and amateur sports. Knowing the byzantine layers of the entertainment industry, Boyer provides a convincing proposition that many will find long overdue in an industry now known more for its celebrity train-wrecks than its movies and collective entertainment output. Boyer testifies to the destruction of drug abuse on countless celebrities and witnessed the slow-motion deaths of a dozen entertainers.
In Chapter 22, "Riding With The Devil," the author exposes Hollywood's twenty-year strategy to literally oblterate Christians and Jews through a well-orchestrated three-pronged strategy. This is the most disturbing insight into Hollywood's persecution and religious bigotry to date from someone who worked alongside "the most atrocious, hate-filled producers, directors and actors in the industry."
This massive tome concludes with a series of victories from "fly-over country" against the onslaught of the Hollywood worldview including the story of one man who took on every movie studio in Hollywood and won a major victory in order to sell a unique invention of simple proprietary
electronics that "put a clamp" on Hollywood's vulgarity. It literally took an act of the President of the United States to save this ingeneous entrepeneur from Hollywood executives who, as the author explains, "would prefer to molest your children in the privacy of their office, but will opt to assault them over the airwaves and at the multiplex instead."
Other sacred cows exploded by by Boyer is Hollywood's New Age gods and members of their "congregation," the coming death of hip-hop, and the bursting of the "Oprah Bubble." The Hollywood Culture War is an intelligent, engaging, humorous and far more revealing Hollywood Babylon for the 21st Century.

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2008 marks the 40th anniversary of Hollywood's Culture War assault on American values through movies, television, DVDs, video games, the internet and music. It wasn't always this way. This book explains how the Culture War started and how Americans are fighting back for control of the cohesive and entertaining values that bind together a strong nation.

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Translation Of Children's Literature (Topics in Translation) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a wonderful collection of articles on the subject of the translation of children's literature, and I found it extremely helpful in doing my own research on the subject.

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Research across a number of disciplines has in recent years contributed to a rapidly developing knowledge and understanding of the cross-cultural transformation and reception of children's literature. It is the purpose of this Reader to gather together, for the first time, essays published during the last thirty years on the history, challenges and difference of translating for the young reader.

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Kiddie Lit: The Cultural Construction of Children's Literature in America Review

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(More customer reviews)Clark's text is scholarly without alienating the non-scholar. Using familiar authors and texts from the 19th and 20th Centuries, and a super-abundance of critical and popular responses to those texts, she illustrates the rise, fall, and reascension of children's literature as a respected pursuit. Her list of sources is unfathomable; my only occasional complaint was a feeling of, "all right, already, I was sold several quotes ago."

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Charlie Bone and the Time Twister (The Children of the Red King, Book 2) Review

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(More customer reviews)Hello everyone, i am a book fanatic. I read the first book in the red king series, Midnight for Charlie Bone, in June 2003. And even though 3 months isn't as long a time as i will be waiting for the next abarat book and the next unicorn chronicles, it was hard to wait. As soon i heard it was out i went to the store and bought it. It took me a few more days to read this one than the first, but i blame that on lack of time. It is great, thanks Jenny.i finished this on sept. 2nd, but i have been so busy with school i just wrote the review now.
There is a lot more dealing with Gabriel, Tancred, and Lysander (who you have to love). As well as Benjamin, Paton,Charlie, Olivia, Emma, and Fidelio. They are great characters.
THis book is number 1. you have to read it. I can't wait for Charlie bone adn the invisible boy to come out.
Thanks, Jenny! Can't wait for charlie's new adventure!
It's GREEEEAAAAT!!!!!

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Braveheart and Broomsticks: Essays on Movies, Myths, and Magic Review

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(More customer reviews)Absolutely amazing! I never knew Braveheart was based on a poem and I was captivated by the description of all the different versions of the legend. I totally disagree with the other review, the Labyrinth chapter was fantastic! Who knew there was this weird internet culture obsessing over a kid flick? The Harry Potter debate gave a really good overview of the controversy surrounding the books and I really liked the quotes from people around the world debating it. The chapter on Wicca was phenomenal and I have a whole new view of witches. Even the chapter on Willa Cather fit in really nicely. Never a big fan of Cather, but I think that the author's approach to the novels was really radical and I think English teachers around the world should take note. I learned so much reading this book! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

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Braveheart and Broomsticks is a collection of scholarly essays on movies, myths, and magic. It covers a wide variety of topics including: movie ad campaigns, the evolution of the Braveheart legend, Scottish poetry, Jim Henson's movie Labyrinth, internet fan sites, Wicca and the witchcraft movement, the great Harry Potter debate, fairy tales, and the novels of Willa Cather.

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Daniel Radcliffe (Blue Banner Biographies) Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this book thinking something that when I got it the book wasn't what I thought and I sent it back. It is not an official Biography about his life from birth to now. It had nothing that I didn't know already. One picture of a man and woman was presented as his parents. They are not his parents. The woman is his publisist not his mum.

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All Harry Potter knew was a miserable life with theDursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their hateful son,Dudley. His room was a tiny closet at the foot of the stairs. Hehadn't had a birthday party in eleven years. All that changed inHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.Daniel Radcliffe, on the other hand, the young actor who was chosen toplay Harry Potter, led a comfortable life in London, England. Hisbiggest obstacle was convincing his parents that he was up to thechallenge of playing the role of Harry Potter. Here is the story ofthe young teen and his role of a lifetime.

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