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

Average Reviews:(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...

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

Average Reviews:(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...

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

Average Reviews:(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...

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FoxTrotius Maximus: A FoxTrot Treasury Review

Average Reviews:(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...

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Shepperton Studios Collectors Limited Edition Review

Average Reviews:(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...

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Telling Lies About the Wolves Review

Average Reviews:(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...

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

Average Reviews:(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....

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Review

Average Reviews:(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...

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

Average Reviews:(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...

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

Average Reviews:(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...

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

Average Reviews:(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...

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

Average Reviews:(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,...

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

Average Reviews:(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.Click Here to see more reviews about: Translation Of Children's Literature (Topics in Translation)Research across a number of...

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

Average Reviews:(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...

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

Average Reviews:(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...

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

Average Reviews:(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?...

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Daniel Radcliffe (Blue Banner Biographies) Review

Average Reviews:(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....

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