Mad Girls In Love

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Mad Girls In Love

Love this series!!!

Not as good as Crazy Ladies

Why did it have to end?

Great Read!

Mad Girls In Love
Michael Lee West
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
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ASIN: 006018406X
Release Date: 2005-07-05

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In her colorful first novel, Crazy Ladies, Michael Lee West brought to life three generations of unforgettable G.R.I.T.S. (Girls Raised In The South), creating a world the Washington Post Book World called ""sharp, wry, and utterly convincing."" In Mad Girls in Love she's brought some of the Ladies back and also added a whole new wacky and lovable cast. You'll want to join them for a glass of sweet tea or punch spiked with pure grain alcohol and get the real gossip.

At the center of the group is Bitsy, who, when the novel opens in 1972, is a self-proclaimed girlie-girl who ""couldn't name the presidents in order, but ... knew the name and manufacturer of every lipstick and eye shadow in Rexall Drugs."" Mad Girls in Love follows Bitsy from our first glimpse of her as an eighteen-year-old wife and mother on the lam with her baby daughter through two decades as she develops into a worldly blond beauty. Every milestone in Bitsy's life seems to be marked with something shattering: Starting with her teenaged husband's nose, the damage includes Fostoria goblets, a baby blue Mustang, a crystal cocktail pitcher, a champagne bottle, fingernails, perfume flasks, Spode teacups, and, of course, hearts.

Bad luck with men is a birthright -- maybe it's because eccentricity runs in her family. Bitsy's mother, Dorothy, spent years in the local mental hospital and still writes to First -- and occasionally Second -- Ladies. Her aunt Clancy Jane was, for a long time, the town's only hippie and eventually became the local Crazy Cat Lady.

Michael Lee West writes about these women of Crystal Falls, Tennessee, and their men with the expertise of a down-home cook who knows just how much hot sauce to add so the cornbread isn't too sweet. Reading Mad Girls in Love is like settling into a chair on a porch or at the Utopian Beauty Salon -- only much better.

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Mad Girls In Love.......2007-06-14

I travel for work sometimes and I often will purchase audio books to kill the time in the car. I found this and decided it was perfect for the time I had to travel. I absolutely loved this book, and finished it off while running errands. Sometimes I would sit in the parking lot at the store until the next part, just because I couldn't get out of my car without hearing what happened next. I read and listen to books often, and this is one that I will always recommend. I plan on purchasing the first one, Crazy Ladies, just because this one was so good.

Love this series!!!.......2007-05-12

Upon reading her first novel, crazy ladies I was hooked. It is a good sign when you are sad to see a series end.

Not as good as Crazy Ladies.......2007-01-05

"Mad Girls in Love" is not as good as "Crazy Ladies". It was mostly about Bitsy and her life. I didn't like how the chapters about the other characters weren't written in first person like in "Crazy Ladies". Only Bitsy got the first person treatment.
I was rushing near the end of this book just to get finished.

Why did it have to end?.......2006-09-11

This book ended way too soon for me! I didn't want it to end. The characters were brilliant and I couldn't help but love every single one of them!

It has been a few days since I finished it so I apologize, but this author has gotten my attention. Where they really crazy or was it the circumstances?

Read this book, then pick up all the others. I also didn't read the first one, but will get it now. Can't wait for more by this great author!

Great Read!.......2006-06-04

I loved this one as much as Crazy Ladies. It picked up right where the last book left off. The characters are well developed and very amusing.....you often find yourself comparing them to memebers in your own family. I can't wait to read more!

The Batman Adventures: Mad Love (64 Page Special)

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The Batman Adventures: Mad Love (64 Page Special)

Manufacturer: DC Comics
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Binding: Comic

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ASIN: B000EVF36Q

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The Batman Adventures: Mad Love. February, 1994. $3.95 original cover price comic book. 64 page special.

In Mad Love and War (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

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Poetry "with a revolutionary fire"
Truthful and technically excellent
Harjo's "language of lizards and stones."
Emotionally Insightful and Engaging

In Mad Love and War (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Joy Harjo
Manufacturer: Wesleyan
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Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 0819521809

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Joy Harjo is a powerful voice for her Creek (Muscogee) tribe ("a stolen people in a stolen land"), for other oppressed people, and for herself. Her poems, both sacred ad secular, are written with the passions of anger, grief, and love, at once tender and furious. They are rooted in the land; they are one with the deer and the fox, the hawk and the eagle, the sun, moon, and wind, and the seasons - "spring/ was lean and hungry with he hope of children and corn." There are enemies here, also lovers; there are ghost dancers, ancestors old and new, who rise again "to walk in shoes of fire."

Indeed, fire and its aftermath is a constant image in the burning book. Skies are "incendiary"; the "smoke of dawn" turns enemies into ashes: "I am fire eaten by wind." "Your fire scorched/ my lips." "I am lighting the fire that crawls from my spine/ to the gods with a coal from my sister's flame."

But the spirit of this book is not consumed. It is not limited by mad love or war, and "there is something larger than the memory/ of a dispossessed people." That something larger is, for example, revolution, freedom, birth.

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Poetry "with a revolutionary fire".......2002-02-20

"In Mad Love and War" is a collection of poetry by Joy Harjo. According to the author bio at the end of the book, Harjo is a member of the Creek (Muscogee) Native American nation, and grew up in Oklahoma and New Mexico. Much of this book reflects this heritage: "We were a stolen people in a stolen land" (from "Autobiography").

"In Mad Love" contains many cultural and historical allusions embedded in a complex web of surreal imagery and autobiographical-sounding fragments. Harjo seems to be trying to transcend both linguistic and cultural barriers; she notes that "All poets / understand the final uselessness of words" ("Bird"). She does not only focus on the Native American experience; she also has a number of African-American cultural references. She takes us, among other places, to a prison riot in West Virginia and a political discussion in Nicaragua.

Although I found some of the book opaque when I first read it, I found "In Mad Love" to be very rewarding on second and third readings. Harjo's language is often quite startling, and achingly beautiful. Much of the book seeks to find a link between the contemporary urban experience and the world of myth and nature. Throughout the book are many references to animals: the trickster Rabbit, "iridescent dragonflies," "a / turtle's nose above water," etc.

Harjo writes of flooding the city "with a revolutionary fire" ("City of Fire"), and indeed the book does have a strong political flavor. Her melding of political commitment, intimate passion, myth, and multicultural awareness makes "In Mad Love and War" a demanding and intriguing read.

Truthful and technically excellent.......2000-10-30

Harjo is an excellent poet - her poetry is always truthful even if the truth is one that we prefer not to face. This book contains a number of prose poems as well as modern verse; it is clear that Harjo writes what is true and allows it to take the form in which it presents itself.

This collection includes poems that explore human relationships, music, death ... universal concerns written about in a way that recognizes and uses the universality while selecting the images from her Cree background. We are privileged to glimpse another way of relating to the world while being presented with the difficulties of growing up in a minority culture. "At five I was designated to string beads in kindergarten. At seven I skew how to play chicken and win. And at fourteen I was drinking."

But her command of the language amkes even the starkest reality beautiful: "I am fragile, a piece of pottery smoked from fire / made of dung, /the design drawn from nightmares. I am an arrow, painted / with lighning ...

Harjo is one of the best contemporary poets. Try any of her books and you'll see a poet, a musician, a painter all sharing their vision with you.

Harjo's "language of lizards and stones.".......2000-08-29

Joy Harjo is reason enough to read poetry. Although IN MAD LOVE AND WAR is not one of my favorite Harjo collections, it is worth reading. In "For Anna Mae Pictor Aquash," Harjo writes, "Beneath a sky blurred with mist and wind,/ I am amazed as I watch the violet/ heads of crocuses erupt from the stiff earth/ after dying for a season,/ as I have watched my own dark head/ appear each morning after entering/ the next world/ to come back to this one,/amazed" (p. 17). In this book, Harjo writes poetry in "a language of lizards and stones" (p. 9), which is not always easy to understand. In fact, for me, many of the 44 poems here are impenetrable. Still, there are plenty of rewarding moments along the way, e.g., finding grace "with coffee and pancakes in a truck stop along Highway 80" (I), "hearing songs in pine trees" (p. 5), and "looking at the stars in this strange city, frozen in the back of the sky, the only promises that ever make sense" (p. 5), making this a book of poetry worth
exploring.

G. Merritt

Emotionally Insightful and Engaging.......1998-10-11

Although many of the poems in this book are difficult and dense, the writing and ideas are so engaging that the reading is worth the effort. Native American themes run throughout the book, as well as how language prohibits/encourages communication. The book is separated into two parts, "The Wars" and "Mad Love." The poems of "The Wars" are at times very depressing, especially "Strange Fruit," Harjo's version of a Lewis Allan song, and "For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash...", but as such are valuable insights into cultural and personal conflicts. In "Mad Love," the poems are much less concrete, and sometimes difficult to understand. The reward comes in the discovery of personal meaning. Personal favorites include "Fury of Rain," "Unmailed Letter," and "Blue Elliptic." I loved this poetry book, and continue to go back to it time and time again for beautiful quotes and inspiration.

In a World Gone Mad: A Heroic Story of Love, Faith, and Survival

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In a World Gone Mad: A Heroic Story of Love, Faith, and Survival
Amy Hill Hearth , Norman Salsitz , and Amalie Petranker Salsitz
Manufacturer: Abingdon Press
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Mates, Dates, and Mad Mistakes (Mates, Dates...)

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pretty darn good
Great stuff for girl teens
really good series!!
Good but not the best
Fun, but it seems a little bit desperate

Mates, Dates, and Mad Mistakes (Mates, Dates...)
Cathy Hopkins
Manufacturer: Simon Pulse
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As soon as Mum dropped me off, I made a dive for the ladies room, where I trashed the sandwich she'd made me and reapplied my makeup. Mum really didn't understand. I couldn't possibly get up on stage in front of everyone looking like I was dressed for afternoon tea with my grandma.

Izzie is restless, and eager to be treated like an adult. So she decides it's time to make some changes. But the new Izzie comes with new problems. First there is Josh Harper, an older, cute-but-wild boy. Then there is her mother, who is opposed to every part of the "new Izzie."

How can Izzie learn about herself and what it means to be grown up -- without upsetting everyone along the way?

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pretty darn good.......2006-06-22

i think that it was a good story but could have used a little more unexpected surprises. overall the talking about teenage subjects was effective although it was slightly sugarcoated.

~Maddie W

Great stuff for girl teens .......2006-05-11

As i bookseller with specialty in kids and teens, I must really give this series the "thumbs up"!

They are great "light reading", but with substantial contents for their target group. A series with all the right messages - trust in yourself, value your good friendships, be your own person, don't succumb to group pressure etc. BUT they are not annoyingly politically correct, and they are written in a way that will appeal to most age 11-14 girls.
They deal with friendships, first loves, puberty, parents, siblings, school and issues like 'what am I good at' and 'what do I want to be professionally' etc.
The first 6 books are narrated by 4 different girls (who are all friends), which gives a good insight to how different girls in a group see, react towards and percieve the various situations and issues.

Reading "guidelines":
The first five books are good from age 11 and up, from book six the girls mature somewhat and, depending on the individual of course, readers should be a year or two older.

really good series!!.......2005-06-14

This is the sixth book in this series and it is about Izzie. In this book, she meets a boy in the park, Josh, and he is a bad influence, he does drugs, smokes and drinks. Izzie thinks nothing of it and does it too, even though she doesnt like the feeling of any of it. She starts getting into fights with her mom because of it and gets into lots of trouble and her friends start worring about her. Read this series, its really good!!!

Good but not the best .......2005-05-13

I enjoyed this novel for the most part but I've got to admit that it wasn't my favorite of Cathy Hopkins's books. It had an interesting premise and moved at a good pace but it just felt a little lackluster for some reason. (I definitely can relate to Izzie though.) In the end, there was too much preaching and philosphizing. Authors need to learn that sending a message about drugs, alcohol and sex to teenagers is best done sublty. Over all the book was pretty good.

Fun, but it seems a little bit desperate.......2005-02-05

I love the books in the Mates, Dates, and...series, but the last two have seemed a little bit desperate. Cathy Hopkins is a good author, but it seems like this series is about to end. MATES, DATES, AND MAD MISTAKES is cute, but nothing special.

Izzie feels a little different from the rest of her friends - she wants to try more wild and crazy things (like drinking and getting her belly-button pierced without parental consent), but she's still the same fun character. When Izzie starts testing her limits, though, she starts to get into trouble. She's met this guy, Josh, and he's encouraging her to do a ton of things she wouldn't normally do. Her friends (and parents) recognize that she's fallen into a downward spiral, but they can't do anything to change her mind.

MATES, DATES, AND MAD MISTAKES is one of the more serious books, with Izzie getting into drinking, smoking, drugs, and lying to her mom and stepdad. I wouldn't say the book is bad, but for all the problems that Izzie faces, the ending was too sugarcoated. Also, I miss the Izzie from the older books - the one that was into all the astrology, tarot cards, etc. In MATES, DATES, AND MAD MISTAKES, Izzie barely even mentions any of the things she loved in the first books.

I'd recommend getting it from the library, but I wouldn't buy it.

Overall grade - C

Captured Hearts, Five Favorite Love Stories: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know/ The Antagonists/ Buried Treasure/ Fathers and Daughters/ Precious Rogue

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Unexpectedly enjoyable
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Captured Hearts, Five Favorite Love Stories: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know/ The Antagonists/ Buried Treasure/ Fathers and Daughters/ Precious Rogue
Mary Jo Putney , Mary Balogh , Joan Wolf , Edith Layton , and Patricia Rice
Manufacturer: Topaz
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Unexpectedly enjoyable.......2001-11-16

Anyone who's seen reviews I've written of other anthologies might be expecting a poor review here. But actually, not in this case. For once, I seem to have stumbled across an anthology in which the individual novellas are all very readable, enjoyable, and which suit the format of a shorter length. This is particularly surprising in the case of this anthology, in which all stories are about 70 pages long.

Three of my favourite writers are in this five-author anthology, which might have contributed to my enjoyment - but then Putney and Layton's novellas are not set in eighteenth- or nineteenth-century England, which is the setting I'm used to from them.

There is something of a theme to the collection, in that four out of five stories concern men who are or who appear to be rogues, and who reform right under the heroine's nose. MJP's contribution, set in Texas a hundred or so years ago, sees a condemned man being taken to hang for murder. Along the way, a young woman - who, it turns out, might have good reason to hate him - takes pity on him and they spend one unforgettable night together. But he's condemned to die, so how can they have a future?

Joan Wolf, an author I've never encountered before, sets her story, The Antagonists, in Regency England; the hero and heroine are cousins who grew up together. I would normally have wanted much more to this story, but Wolf uses an interesting technique. The story is told in first person, from the heroine's POV. And since Dinah starts off by telling us how spoilt and nasty her cousin Thorn (the Earl of Thornton) is, we're led off on quite a misleading track. (Although Dinah does reveal that she has a tendency to exaggerate!)

Layton's contribution, Buried Treasure, was the disappointment in this collection for me. A pirate narrowly survives a murder attempt and recovers in the house of a beautiful young woman whose seduction he plots. Unfortunately, for reasons related to both his behaviour towards her and to his fellow pirates, I couldn't come to like Dancer at all, and wouldn't want to re-read this novella.

Next was Patricia Rice, also new to me; her tale, Fathers and Daughters, covers the well-worn subject-matter of an impoverished suitor who was turned away by the heroine's father. Carolyn also believes that Jack accepted money from her father to walk away from her. Now that he's back, can he possibly convince her that he wasn't only interested in her money, and that he wasn't paid to reject her?

Finally, Mary Balogh's Precious Rogue. This is a lovely story, told with Balogh's great skill; Patricia, the poor relation who is effectively her aunt's slave, has no great opinion of her cousin's suitor, Mr Bancroft. After all, the man is an unprincipled rake, and - although no-one else seems to notice - during Patricia's aunt's house party Bancroft conducts clandestine affairs with at least three women. But what Patricia can't ignore is the fact that he is *nice* to her. And she enjoys their verbal fencing... too much for her own good. After all, he's going to marry her cousin...

This one is certainly worth a look.

Repeats.......1999-08-13

The stories are good, but have all been published before. According to the Copyright page "The Antagonist" by Joan Wolf and "Fathers and Daughters" by Patricia Rice first appeared in A Regency Valentine; "Buried Treasure" by Edith Layton and "Precious Rogue" by Mary Balogh in Dashing & Dangerous; and "Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know" by Mary Jo Putney in Rakes and Rogues. I had already read Putney's story (very good, but then everything she writes is) but was glad to get Wolf's (although I think a longer format suits her better) and I really liked Balogh's (very satisfying - nice ending)

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MadLibs of Hilarious Entertainment!

Mad Libs in Love (Mad Libs)
Roger Price , and Leonard Stern
Manufacturer: Price Stern Sloan
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Binding: Paperback

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On Valentine's Day or any day, everybody adores MAD LIBS(r)-where you fill in the fun! Now our insanely popular, outrageously funny, bestselling series is spreading the love. With twenty-one fresh new features serving up a special blend of mixed-up MAD LIBS(r) amour!

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MadLibs of Hilarious Entertainment!.......2007-09-08

MadLibs have always been a favorite of mine, from roadtrips to random entertainment, and "ready for landing" checks. I bought a bunch of these for a recent roadtrip and we laughed a lot at the different things we came up with. My suggestions i always to ahve one person come up with the random words, or just trading off throughout a carload or ...friendload... of people. Everyone with their own intentions tend to wildly adjust how the story plays out!

A classic, for ages to come, enjoy!

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pretty genius
Monotonous and Banal Work
Tough one
A Convulsive-Beauty Masterpiece

Mad Love (French Modernist Library)
Andre Breton
Manufacturer: Bison Books
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ASIN: 0803260725

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Mad Love has been acknowledged an undisputed classic of the surrealist movement since its first publication in France in 1937. Its adulation of love as both mystery and revelation places it in the most abiding of literary traditions, but its stormy history and technical difficulty have prevented it from being translated into English until now.

"There has never been any forbidden fruit. Only temptation is divine," writes André Breton, leader of the surrealists in Paris in the 1920s and '30s. Mad Love is dedicated to defying "the widespread opinion that love wears out, like the diamond, in its own dust." Celebrating breton's own love and lover, the book unveils the marvelous in everyday encounters and the hidden depths of ordinary things.

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pretty genius.......2005-02-10

I found it fairly difficult to make it through most of this book. I should add, difficult yet rewarding. The first few sections reminded me of "Nadja" with their seemingly meaningless description of mundane activities. As I went through the book I realized, as I did with "Nadja," that these opening chapters are essential to establishing both the attitude and ideas of the story. As I got further and further into it I found that the concepts where easier to grasp and the text easier to read and I must admit that I was frustrated with the fist part of the book and certain other parts that I felt were irrelevant to the subject or just plain annoying. But as I finished the last chapter it all came together for me and I felt the entire concept and reasoning of the book was elucidated in the end. A book I probably would have given 3 stars to for the first half surprised me with its beauty and genius in the end.

This book is essentially essays and ideas elucidating Breton's concept of "Mad Love." It was written for his love interest at the time and some parts of the book include her or speak of and to her but a lot of it is directed to the reader. His beautiful imagery and abstract description drag the reader through his bizarre ideas. As the "story" (there really is no narrative in this book) builds on itself and the essence of the blossoms in your mind, you just might find yourself with a new idea of love. In the end I felt very rewarded with this new idea of love and almost felt like a better person for it.

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the Surrealists or Andre Breton. I do not recommend this for people looking for an easy read or people who haven't read any other Breton.

Monotonous and Banal Work.......2005-01-22

Breton, the overrated, dull and inept absolutist leader of the "so-called iconoclastic" surrealists was not as bombastic as people who worship him would have you believe. This 'work', merely an arranged compendium of useless episodes and scenes, is completey boring and without any enrichment, all it does is tire the reader. The style is marginally academic, that is to say, it is written in long, flaccid sentences with too much self-exaltation included. I was bored by the entire book, Breton imagines that it was revolutionary to write about fractured and obtuse occurrences which have nothing to do with anything except his own idea of importance. He meanders through pretentious descriptions which are trite. Don't be fooled by his sycophantic adherents who believe that he actually "invented" surrealism and art. I'd rather read the true ramblings of a madman than this ordure.

Tough one.......2004-09-15

I suppose that this book is going to be read by the ones who are familiar with work of Breton. Let us just say, for the sake of beeng, that I do not encourage others to read it. You will soon lose yourself in endless circles that great nadrealist has woven into his text.
Very complicated to understand this book presents authors view on love - or as he says it - "only possible love is mad love". Now, this statemnt can be observed as a kind of tautological experiment, but it can also be observed as poetic value in itslef.
In the beeginig very fluent in his narrative, Breton, almost instantly loses himself in some sort of weird hermetism, in which there are motives and object that are totaly undechiperable, at least to no one but himself.
Read this only if you are just studying french modernism or something, otherwise skip it...

A Convulsive-Beauty Masterpiece.......2001-08-08

Andre Breton's Mad Love is truly a work of art.Written in a surrealist manner it celebrates love and lovers. It finds beauty in such ordinary things such as iron masks, spoons, and trees. Never has there been another book that promotes romanticism such as this. Bravo Breton! You have made me proud to be a person in a monogomous relationship. It is a true celebration of the heart and of the soul.

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Spotlight on Harley by her creators
One of the best Batman stories EVER
One of the Best Comics You'll Ever Read
Remarkable
Joker's "main squeeze" gets to tell her story!

Batman Adventures: Mad Love
Paul Dini , and Bruce Timm
Manufacturer: DC Comics
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The trend in superheroes of the late 1980s was dark, grim, gritty, and not very kid friendly. Then along came the animated Batman series. The visual style was totally unique: clean, sharp, and bold. Batman Adventures: Mad Love is an original comics story drawn in the style of the popular animated series. It's even put together by Paul Dini, a major force behind the animated show. This particular story involves Batman's old foe, the Joker, and Joker's cute but deadly sidekick, Harley Quinn. Actor Mark Hamill of Star Wars fame, who plays the voice of the Joker in the animated series, claims that this is one of his all-time favorite comics, calling it "bold, lusty, gleefully demented."

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Created by the producers of TVs animated Batman series, this is the story of how the Joker manipulated his psychiatrist into becoming Harley Quinn, his cunningly twisted sidekick. Created by the Emmy-Award winning producers of Batman: The Animated Series.

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Spotlight on Harley by her creators.......2007-08-31

This is the first version of Harley's origin story that was ever written. It did not make it on the air of the original Batman animated series and was instead written and illustrated as a one shot by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm, producers for the show.

When Batman went back into production on the WB as the New Adventures, Mad Love finally got the animated treatment it deserved. Looking back at this now it's clear they used this to storyboard the episode which work perfectly. Of course there were scenes that had to be cut for the show whether it was length or content. Read the novel to find out how Harley really made it through college and got her degree. But all in all, the episode is a pretty solid adaptation of this fantastic story and Harley remains one of the best additions to Batman in the show and in comics.

One of the best Batman stories EVER.......2006-12-18

Wow. This book is stunning. Let's see... Great Story, Good humor/tragedy, No bad language/unneccessary gorey violence, and it showed you can have mature themes/plots while still being kid-safe! TAKE THAT, DC! I have a good idea... instead of releasing garbage like Bruce Wayne: Murderer?, how about making Batman Adventures into an ongoing series?
Forever to Bruce Timm and Paul Dini!

One of the Best Comics You'll Ever Read.......2005-07-30

This is the original origin story of Harley Quinn, written years before she made the transition from cartoon character to mainstream DC comic book character. The Batman: Gotham Knights episode "Mad Love" was based on this graphic novel, and they are almost identical in both design and dialogue. There are a few key differences and additions to the story which were not shown in the animated episode however. For example, the ending is basically the same, but worded differently. (Personally, I prefer the wording in the cartoon, but no matter.)

Despite all the character changes, interpretations, and adaptations that have been made from Paul Dini/Bruce Timm's original vision of Harley, accept no substitutes. The original IS the best. This is Harley as she was meant to be characterized. And you will be hard-pressed to find a comic book written and drawn as vividly and engaging as this one; I own hundreds of comic books, and this is one of my very top favorites. Definitely one of Paul Dini/Bruce Timm's best works, and a testiment to why Harley Quinn became the character so intriguing that she did the impossible and made the crossover to mainstream DC continuity.

Remarkable.......2005-03-16

Timm and Dini are the masters and this book further proves it!

Sometines scary, sometimes racy but just plain fun.

Joker's "main squeeze" gets to tell her story!.......2003-11-26

Based on one of the best of the animated Batman episodes, "Mad Love" tells how Harley Quinn, chief henchwoman and paramour of the Joker, got her warped start. Once, a respected psychiatrist at infamous Arkham Asylum, Dr. Quinn becomes infatuated with her "patient", The Joker", turns her life topsy-turvy, and allies herself with "the clown prince of crime".

After falling from The Joker's favor, Quinn plots to capture Batman, the one that she blames for her "rift" with The Joker. Her "solution" to a backfired Joker prank is priceless.

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