Timeline of Terror
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The 9/11 Report for Every American
On December 5, 2005, the 9/11 Commission issued its final report card on the government’s fulfillment of the recommendations issued in July 2004: one A, twelve Bs, nine Cs, twelve Ds, three Fs, and four incompletes. Here is stunning evidence that Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón, with more than sixty years of experience in the comic-book industry between them, were right: far, far too few Americans have read, grasped, and demanded action on the Commission’s investigation into the events of that tragic day and the lessons America must learn.
Using every skill and storytelling method Jacobson and Colón have learned over the decades, they have produced the most accessible version of the 9/11 Report. Jacobson’s text frequently follows word for word the original report, faithfully captures its investigative thoroughness, and covers its entire scope, even including the Commission’s final report card. Colón’s stunning artwork powerfully conveys the facts, insights, and urgency of the original. Published on the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States, an event that has left no aspect of American foreign or domestic policy untouched, The 9/11 Report puts at every American’s fingertips the most defining event of the century.
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Surprisingly interesting.......2007-10-10
While I disagree with some of the conclusions in the report, I found most of it very informative. The comic format works well for at least 90% of the pages, the rest just resort to showing logos and text boxes.
I really appreciate the effort to publish this as a graphic novel, which makes it more accessible to a broader audience (including myself) who are not likely to read the lengthy report.
Now, can someone please publish a graphic version of the Bipartisan Iraq Study Group?
9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation.......2007-09-19
Naturally, this graphic adaptation has been getting a lot of flack from different people related to the September 11th attacks, because they still feel that comics are for a child's enjoyment, to entertain and encourage a child's humor, and they don't know that in some ways they can do more than books in both informing through words and explaining through art. Sometimes a lot more can be said through a picture with words.
I have to say though, after sloughing through this graphic adaptation of the 9/11 Report, I will not be reading that long and important source any time soon. The graphic novel is heavy and complicated enough to get through. But if one wishes to get the complete story of not just exactly what happened on September 11th, 2001, but all the events leading up to it with the terrorists and the state of our foreign policy with the Middle East, then pick up this graphic novel and take it all in . . . it's all there.
Apart from the introduction from two of the commissioners of the 9/11 Report, the graphic adaptation begins with a four-way split streamline of the four planes, when they took off and under what circumstances, what happened on the planes with the hijackers, and what the eventual resulting attack was. What makes this quite fascinating is that by charting them all together one can see the initial plan of having all the hijackers carry out their plans at the same time, but due to different circumstances and delays this was not the case.
In the next chapter, the authors go into detail on how the FAA and different government bodies could have and should have done things differently according to all their previous regulations. It does prove that had everyone been doing what they should've, some of those planes may not have hit those targets, or at least something else and less devastating might have happened.
The rest of the book is spent in going into the history of the circumstances that led up to the hijackers boarding the planes. It's heavy reading, but the pictures make it a lot clearer and easier to understand. One gets a full picture on everyone and what they were doing, and how many different people and places were involved. It's actually quite surprising.
The book (as I'm sure the 9/11 Report does also) is clear in pointing out that while the Bush administration was certainly to blame in some cases, the previous Clinton administration was very much also, and even had everything been working smoothly, the attacks may still have not been prevented. One can say they would've never happened had Clinton carried out the assassination of Usama Bin Laden, as he'd planned in the late 90s; but one can also say had Bush focused on terrorism in the Middle East when he came into office, as all his advisors were telling him (specifically Richard Clarke), then again September 11th may never have happened.
While I'm sure the graphic adaptation covers nowhere near the same ground as the actual report, it nevertheless serves its own unique purpose in making everything more succinct and clearer and easier to understand as a whole. It's the perfect book to keep in one's library so that one day in the future one can pick it up again, read it, and understand exactly what happened and more importantly why on September 11th, 2001.
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Lies, lies, lies..........2007-08-19
This book is simply to designed to misinform stupid people about 9/11.
9/11 was an "inside job" that murdered 2700 people.
This is a crime.
amazing read.......2007-06-06
great book. it made the report seem alot more interesting that it probably was. organized, with great drawings and some cool large fold out map type pages.
Explained a lot!.......2007-05-16
I didn't have time to read the 9-11 Commission's report, and its breadth overwhelmed me. This book explained all the main points in the report with easy language, graphics and impartiality. All lengthy, complicated reports should be done in comic-book style like this was-- then people will read them and understand what is really going on in the world. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to know what led up to 9-11.
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Brilliant, as usual.......2007-05-29
The Calvin and Hobbes collection is filled with all the usual inventions and wild imagination as Calvin hurtles through the forest on his cart or sled, torments neighbor Suzie or drives his parents up the wall. The title comes from the hilarious serialised strips where Calvin's snowmen come alive and chase after him. It's absolutely a must-have, must-read!
And I DO believe that Hobbes comes alive when no one else is around.
Depressing..........2006-12-13
An only, lonely child. Bullied at school. Clearly a genius level intellect, he's unchallenged and stifled since nobody, not his parents, and not even his teacher, recognizes this. A father who's always too busy to spend any time with his son. A father who's often seen, get this, reading --*reading* -- rather than paying his only son some attention! A mother, who literally, in strip after strip, throws him out the door. Throws, as in "child flying through the air". A child, and a small child at that, allowed repeatedly to wander alone through the woods! A child denied even a pet. His only friend -- a stuffed tiger.
Makes the "Peanuts" look like "The Family Circus".
fantastic.......2006-11-10
I love readding Calvin and Hobbes. Best cartoon from the newspaper and great books. What a great imagination the writer is.
The Perfect Way To Enjoy Calvin And Hobbes.......2006-10-19
I suppose this could apply to any Calvin and Hobbes collection (not just Attack of the Deranged..., but let me share my favorite way to read Calvin and Hobbes.
If possible, I like to pick a rainy Saturday or Sunday. I'm usually already bored and wandering around the cold house. I catch sight of a Calvin and Hobbes book and read a few pages, but my fingers are cold and I can't concentrate.
So I make a steaming cup of my favorite tea and a piece of toast with lots of butter, wrap up in a blanket on the couch, and sit and read straight through.
It's so comforting to listen to the rain and read Calvin and Hobbes. There's just something about it.
Er, see other reviews for information about this actual book.
Calvin and Hobbes is Entertainment at its Best.......2006-09-18
Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes wreck havoc as usual in this awesome collection of Watterson's timeless comic. Whether Calvin's wild imagination is dreaming of prehistoric dinosaurs or planning a mischevious attack on his arch-rival (fellow classmate Suzie Derkins), you're sure to enjoy the unexplainable antics of this troublesome six year old boy.
This particular collection starts with a series of cartoons depicting Calvin with chicken pox. Wouldn't you know it, as soon as he finds out he's contagious, he invites Suzie over to play. That crazy kid.
Individual comics follow, but then another series emerges - one where Calvin's bike attacks him upon every attempt at riding it, and his parents remain clueless about how his face could EVER get caught in the bike's chain.
In another series, we see Calvin's "Get Rid Of Slimy girlS" club planning a failed water balloon assault on Suzie, resulting in the disappearance of Hobbes. Hobbes does some smooching with the enemy and is labeled as a traitor.
We also see Calvin struggling in math, losing a 25 cent bet to Suzie after failing a quiz. He spends all his test time daydreaming he's interplanetary hero Spaceman Spiff, and is only able to do one lousy problem.
When the Christmas season approaches, poor Calvin has to avoid throwing snowballs at Suzie so he won't lose any of his Christmas loot.
The amusing title series of this collection is definitely one of my favorites. Calvin builds monster snowmen that (in his mind anyway) come to life and threaten his existence, so he freezes the whole front yard with the garden hose to protect himself, much to the dismay of his father.
Last but not least, Calvin builds a human duplicating machine out of a cardboard box, and he makes a special copy of himself that represents everything good in him. His plan is to make his flawless duplicate do all of his homework and chores, while he himself gets all the credit. Everything goes fine for a while, until his duplicate develops a crush on Suzie, making him look bad. Hilarity ensues.
Inbetween each of the series are individual comic strips with recurring themes. Open-minded Calvin bugs his parents with questions like, "Why do I have to play outside?" "Why can't we watch TV during dinner?" "If we were cannibals, what parts of people would we eat?" Calvin also grosses out Suzie at every opportunity whenever it's time for lunch at school.
We see Calvin engaging in some of his less frequent behaviors as well, such as digging for dinosaur bones in the front yard and demanding his parents and teachers address him as "Calvin the Bold."
Great, great collection. I loved it years ago and still love it today. Best comic ever in my opinion.
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The Attack: Novel
Yasmina Khadra
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Dr. Amin Jaafari, an Arab-Israeli citizen, is a surgeon at a hospital in Tel Aviv. Dedicated to his work, respected and admired by his colleagues and community, he represents integration at its most successful. He has learned to live with the violence and chaos that plague his city, and on the night of a deadly bombing in a local restaurant, he works tirelessly to help the shocked and shattered patients brought to the emergency room. But this night of turmoil and death takes a horrifyingly personal turn. His wife’s body is found among the dead, with massive injuries, the police coldly announce, typical of those found on the bodies of fundamentalist suicide bombers. As evidence mounts that his wife, Sihem, was responsible for the catastrophic bombing, Dr. Jaafari is torn between cherished memories of their years together and the inescapable realization that the beautiful, intelligent, thoroughly modern woman he loved had a life far removed from the comfortable, assimilated existence they shared.
From the graphic, beautifully rendered description of the bombing that opens the novel to the searing conclusion, The Attack portrays the reality of terrorism and its incalculable spiritual costs. Intense and humane, devoid of political bias, hatred, and polemics, it probes deep inside the Muslim world and gives readers a profound understanding of what seems impossible to understand.
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Lots to think about in this novel.......2007-08-29
Dr. Amin Jaafari is the poster boy for integration. An Arab-Israeli citizen from a Bedouin family, he is apolitical by Tel-Aviv standards and focuses on saving lives. After a devastating bombing injures many in a local restaurant, Dr. Jaafari tirelessly attends to the injured. He has barely fallen asleep when he is called back to the hospital and learns the shocking truth: his wife's body has been found in the wreckage bearing left by the suicide bombings. Unable to accept the mounting evidence against Sihem, the modern and intelligent woman he married, Dr. Jaafari leaves Tel Aviv to find answers. But in a world where fundamentalists bomb to find solutions, will Dr. Jaafari be able to understand, let alone accept, his wife's actions?
Yasmina Khadra's new novel The Attack, presents a man struggling to understand a life-shattering event. For most of the Western world, terrorism invokes images of collapsing towers. For residents of the Middle East, terrorism is a more immediate reality. Suicide bombers are part of daily life and The Attack provides a window into the belief system which can lead to such violent action.
Author Khadra, the female pseudonym of former soldier Mohammed Moulessehoul, is strongest when writing the poignant passages where Dr. Jaafari wrestles with his memories and beliefs of his wife. Sihem has not only blown up a restaurant, she has shattered Dr. Jaafari's illusions, stripping away his belief in their perfect existence. He is a shadow of his former self, wrestling with personal demons and the overwhelming need to understand how he failed his wife.
Unfortunately, the downfall of The Attack is the failure to present a compelling reason why Sihem would become a suicide bomber. Female bombers are a rare occurrence and Sihem requires strong reasons to be convincing as one. Khadra doesn't provide it and readers are left with the impression of a lost soul, swayed by strong personalities, rather than a committed fanatic prepared to martyr herself.
The Attack is disturbing but has much to teach readers who can see past the violence. If Khadra had presented a stronger heroine, this novel would have been exceptional.
Armchair Interviews says: Unique look at suicide bombings.
The Attack.......2007-08-09
This book was, by far, one of the best books I've read in quite some time. The author captures his readers attention and doesn't let go until the very last word.
Brought to the forefront of the book are the realities of racism, violence, religious discord, deception, as well as, the passion for love of family, loyality to one's religious beliefs and country. It is about a man who is so distraught by the tumultuous circumstances around him that he is tormented to the point of insanity. It is about a man so determined to find out the truth about his wife that he is willing to sacrifice everything.
It will challenge your emotional endurance to the end. A thought-provoking and well-written story! Excellent book!
An exquisite pleasure to savour.......2007-07-31
This is a beautiful piece of work, written in a very nuanced style, with sentences and paragraphs that make you pause and reflect. It has a certain levity to it that makes this rather dark and complex subject matter more accessible. It's a novel that ages well with time, and will certainly have a special place in my collection of books.
There is truth in fiction we cannot hear in nonfiction.......2007-07-23
Enough people have told you this story in this book in their reviews. I hate that.
I can only tell you that since the 1967 war folks have been telling me what is going on in the middle east. Most tales have been so personal and so traumatic that they do not inform me. In the media, on the other hand I hear generalization.
Through a very few novels by talented writers do I gain some understanding of what is happening there. I understand that this is through one character's eyes as related by one author. But that informs me more than the groups that make films or the conglomeration of facts in histories or travel writing.
A compelling read.......2007-05-18
'The Attack' is a compelling read. You'll be hard-pressed to put it down. The story's protagonist - Dr. Amir Jaafari - goes through a terrifying series of traumas. We watch him literally fall apart before our eyes as he tries to maintain a hold on the story's narrative. To say anything more would be to reveal crucial plot details. The most fascinating parts of the story are the vivid, detail-laden accounts of life in locales like Bethlehem and Jenin.
Book Description
"A Thrilling Tale of the Attack That Marked America’s Darkest Day"
---W.E.B. Griffin
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s speech on December 8, 1941, lasted a mere six and half minutes. But his words and tone—in a monologue that would later be named the Infamy Speech—sent ripples into a nation and a world that continue even today. The historical implications that emerged from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor were unprecedented, launching America not only into the depths of a dangerous war, but forever altering the safety and comfort of everyday living. December 8th became a day of speaking out publicly and declaring war; of action, battle, plotting, and victories. This date’s significance is resonant and profound as an indelible moment in American history.
Fresh from their series on the American Civil War, bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen now launch a new epic adventure by applying their imaginations and knowledge to the “Date of Infamy”—the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Pearl Harbor covers the full spectrum of characters and events from that historic moment, from national leaders and admirals to the views of ordinary citizens caught in the chaos of war. From the chambers of the Emperor of Japan to the American White House, from the decks of aircraft carriers to the playing fields of the Japanese Naval Academy, this powerful story stretches from the nightmare slaughter of China in the 1930s to the lonely office of Commander James Watson, an American cryptographer, who suspects the impending catastrophic attack. It is a story of intrigue, double-dealing, the horrific brutality of war, and the desperate efforts of men of reason on both sides to prevent a titanic struggle that becomes inevitable.
Gingrich and Forstchen’s now critically acclaimed approach, which they term “active history,” examines how a change in but one decision might have profoundly altered American history. In Pearl Harbor, they pose the question of how the presence of but one more man within the Japanese attacking force could have transfigured the war. More than a retelling, the book also serves as a potent warning, valid still today as an example of what happens when communications and understanding breaks down, and a nation is ill-prepared for the onslaught that might ensue.
A compelling, meticulously researched saga, Pearl Harbor is also a novel of valor about those who took part in this cataclysmic moment in world history. It inaugurates a dramatic new Pacific War series that begins with the terrifying account of the day that started it all.
Praise for Pearl Harbor:
“A politician and a novelist, each an accomplished historian in his own right, are emerging as master authors of alternative history. In this ‘what if’ treatment of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen combine their talents to make the diplomacy as suspenseful as the combat, even for readers who know what happens next---or think they know. The authors’ mastery of both the broad sweep of events and the details of naval war and military technology give their counterfactual scenarios an unusual degree of plausibility, concluding with a version of the Japanese attack that guarantees a fictional Pacific war even more terrible than the one that began on December 7, 1941.”
-- Dennis Showalter, former president of the Society of Military Historians
“The book is not only a great read, it is a fascinating historical story that applies today in Iraq as it did in the Western Pacific in the late ’30s and ’40s.”
---Captain Alex Fraser (Ret.)
“Gingrich and Forstchen have done it again. Building on their successful collaboration on their Civil War trilogy that so skillfully combined real history with fiction, they have with Pearl Harbor happily inaugurated another new series. You will not want to put it down, but when you finish you will look, as I do, with great anticipation to the next book.”
---Chief of Police William J. Bratton, Los Angeles Police Department
"Masterful storytelling that not only captures the heroic highs and hellish lows of that horrific day which lives on in infamy---it resonates with today’s conflicts and challenges."
---William E. Butterworth IV, New York Times Best-selling Author of The Saboteurs
Customer Reviews:
Outstanding read!!! Hard to put down........2007-10-11
I cannot wait for the next book!!! Newt did a fantastic job intermingling fact with slight fiction that keeps the reader locked in. Cannot wait to see what comes next.
Pearl Harbor.......2007-09-28
This is an entertaining book, one that should be a "must read." I think It's primary direction is the seemingly total immersion of the pre-war Japanese life of their "warriors." It can certainly bring us forward to today's extremist "warriors" of the mid-East. Scary thoughts!
Couldn't they afford a proof-reader?.......2007-09-28
I cannot imagine why, between them, the authors and St. Martin's Press could not manage to proof-read this book! It is, ultimately, a great read. However, I have never seen so many howlingly bad errors! At one point, because of a missed comma, (page 287) the authors describe one of the main characters as stupid, which they certainly do not mean to do. That is only one of literally hundreds of typos and other errors that really are unforgivable. If they are the doing of the publisher, the authors deserve better. If they are the doing of the authors, they need to learn to proof-read. I do not recall anything similar in their surprisingly good Civil War series, though.
I repeat, this is a great read, despite the miserably poor proof-reading, as well as the authors trying (unsuccessfully) to draw analogies between the days leading up to Pearl Harbor, and the War on Terror.
What are they really trying to say?.......2007-09-27
This novel by former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen, Ph.D.,tells the story of the events leading up to the 12/7/41 sneak attack by the Japanese. Most people don't know that speaker Gingrich is an historian of some note and the longest-serving teacher of the joint War Fighting course for major generals.
I believe the author's secondary (perhaps primary) purpose was to show the parallels between our troubled planet's situation in 2007 and in 1941. The main similarity is that both time frames featured a clash between two very dissimilar cultures; the Japanese and American cultures in 1941 on one hand, and the islamofacists and the Americans in 2007 on the other.
In both cases we were forced to fight back after a dastardly sneak attack. In both cases the U.S. was disadvantaged by our respect for the sanctity of human life. The Japanese militarists had little regard for human life, as demonstrated by both "The Rape of Nanking," a story related in the book in gruesome detail, and the similarly unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor. The parallel today is our struggle with the new type of warfare initiated by the Muslim extremists whose primary strategy is terrorism, featuring the random killing of innocents by suicide bombers, September 11th being the most vivid example.
Another parallel is the role of human hubris in the decision to make war. A reader can't help being struck by the utter stupidity of the Japanese Warlords thinking their tiny island, about the size of California, could defeat the U.S. Similar cognitive dissonance is shown by the backward Islamic extremist segment of the world's population thinking they can prevail today.
Pearl Harbor.......2007-09-19
Pearl Harbor Was Very Disappointing. Slow To Develop. A Little One-sided. The New Direct Of History Did Not Take Much Imagination. Definitely Not Up To The Standards Set By The Gettysburg SeriesPearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th
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December 7, 1941:
A morning like any other, but the events of this day would leave no one untouched.
For Adam, living near Honolulu, this Sunday morning is one he has been looking forward to -- fishing with friends, away from the ever-watchful eyes of his father, a navy lieutenant. Then, right before his eyes, Adam watches Japanese planes fly overhead and attack the U.S. Navy. All he can think is that it's just like in the movies. But as he sees his father's ship, the Arizona, sink beneath the water, he realizes this isn't make-believe. It's real.
Over the next few days, Adam searches for answers -- about his friends, the war, and especially, his father. But Adam soon learns sometimes there are no answers.
Customer Reviews:
Interesting.......2007-08-06
The book was pretty good as I recall (it was a while back when I read the book). If I remember right, the book seemed liked it ended TOO abruptly (Mazer left 'ya hanging). But after searching on Amazon I see why: There's a Sequel. It was A good book overall.
P.s. If I recall corectly, There was some mild profanity in it.
A Boy at War.......2007-05-15
A Boy at War was an awesome book because it was full of suspense. The book is about a boy named Adam who moves a lot and is new to Pearl Harbor. One day he goes fishing with his friends and Japanese planes start to bomb Pearl Harbor. As he is running away he sees his father's ship, The Arizona, sink into the water. I think Harry Mazer is a great author and this was a fantastic book. I would recommend this book to all readers from 10-12 who like war stories.
A Review of A Boy at War by Steven.......2007-04-27
This is a great and stunning book! It is about a high school age boy named Adam. Adam's dad is in the Navy in Hawaii. In the beginning of the book Adam doesn't have any friends because his family has to move a lot. Then he becomes friends with two boys, Davi and Martin.
One day when Adam is fishing with Davi and Martin the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and bomb American battleships. After that the Americans think of the Japanese as their enemy. Adam helps the wounded soldiers. He searchs for his father, a lieutenant in the Navy, because he saw the Arizona, his father's battleship, explode.
In this book Adam has to grow up very quickly. During this one horrible day he has to do a lot of adult things including driving a jeep to help find his father. Does Adam's dad survive? Is Adam going to be okay after being injured? Will Adam and his sister Bea ever see their dad again?
a boy at war.......2007-01-31
If you like historical fiction you will like this book. It's about a boy that goes to live to Hawaii in about the 1900s. His name is Adam. In school he finds two friends. Later in the book his friends take him on a fishing trip to Pearl Harbor. Then the Japanese made a surprise attack on the navel base of Pearl Harbor. Then they tried to get to a hospital because a guy hit one of Adam's friend in the face with a gun and he started bleeding a lot. But they crashed. Something happened to Adam's dad during the attack. Read and see what happens next.
There are many good characters in this book. First there is Adam. He is smart and overprotected. Davi is another character. He is also smart but not that caring. Harry Mazer described the characters he used a lot of details. I could really visualize what they were like. I felt so amazed and exited when I read this book. I would recommend this book to readers who like a lot of action.
This book was horrible.......2006-11-02
I thought that this book was a waste of money and trees, because Mazer has no creativeness to him. He was trying too hard to make it like a movie, but the real newsflash is that it was just plain bad.
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- Okay conclusion to the two-parter
- Good but a little predictable
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As winter's hold deepens in the dark days of February, Miami's hotels fill to the bursting point. Cruise ships flock to the busiest port in the world as people desperate for warmer climates board these behemoths of the seas. People with too much time and money fill the clubs. In every other jurisdiction, as its citizens are driven indoors, there is a downturn in crime but not in Miami, as the members of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab can attest.
Stretched to the breaking point, Lieutenant Caine is called to what appears to be a failed international terrorist incident: a botched arms-for-Afghani-heroin exchange. The scene is littered with bodies and blood droplets identified as being from one Abdus Sattar Pathan. Once before, Pathan managed to escape being charged in the murder of a Federal agent. This time Caine has him. Except Pathan has an iron-clad alibi: he was miles away, on stage doing his magic act. Horatio is convinced that Pathan and the international terrorist known as the Hare are one and the same. Can Caine prove it before the Hare puts his deadly plan into motion?
Customer Reviews:
Okay conclusion to the two-parter.......2007-04-03
Cortez's two-part CSI:Miami story, concluding in "Harm for the Holidays: Heart Attack" is very true to the TV series and the characters in it. That is to say, it's an engrossing read, but strays as far from technical reality as does the TV series. If you like "good guys vs terrorists" stories, you should get both books and read them -- you won't be disappointed.
Good but a little predictable.......2007-03-21
This is yet another good CSI:Miami book. It kept my attention from beginning to end, although I figured out the "big twist" well before it was revealed. That didn't ruin the enjoyment of the book, however. It is the second book in a two-book storyline, but I think either one can be read as a stand-alone book (especially this one).
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Get your geek on! Penny Arcade, the comic strip for gamers, by gamers is now available in comic shops and bookstores everywhere. Not familiar with Penny Arcade? What? It's only the most popular comic strip on the web. It's the funniest, most twisted comic that ever lampooned gamer culture, and takes shots at everything from Star Wars to Steve Jobs. Experience the joy of being a hardcore gamer as expressed in vignettes of random vulgarity and mindless violence! Get online and direct your browser to penny-arcade.com, check out the latest strips, then, to read Penny Arcade from the very beginning, get the first collection, Attack of the Bacon Robots, which includes strips, sketches, and creator commentary not available anywhere else!
Customer Reviews:
Successful attack.......2007-06-30
My husband is a fan of Penny Arcade & I purchased this book as a birthday present - he loves it!
From the desk of a Fan.......2007-03-26
I've been an avid PA reader since nigh on 2000 can't recall the actual date I got hooked on it, but I have to say that the way it is written and illustrated had me from the start.
The humor sometimes borders on crude remarks, yet it is direct to the point, which is why I believe it has been so successful.
Their remarks center around video games and the video game industry, but overall, they embark on a flurry of comments that go through the whole spectrum and not just games.
The illustrations have evolved through the ages, and right now you have the chance of reviewing these original drawings, on paper!!
Personally I just had to have this, but others may find that it is simpler to go online and Check the Penny Arcade Archives, having read them for the last 7 years or so, I found that I wanted to be able to review them offline as well, in the comfort of a la-z boy, and without the permanent glow of radiation from my monitor; YMMV.
If you love Penny Arcade, this is like a treasure trove.......2007-03-09
True, Penny Arcade is viewable for free on the internet, but with this book, you get insight into the brilliant mind of Jerry Holkins with each comic. If there was anything you didn't really understand and there is no archived news post available, he will explain it in a helpful and very humorous way. A great purchase, as is "Epic Legends of the Magic Sword Kings" and "The Warsun Prophecies."
Great for Penny Arcade fans; needs more comments.......2007-02-15
I love Penny Arcade and think they are one of the more consistently funny webcomics out there. This book consists of their early work, and to be honest is not as funny as their more recent stuff. I think it's great for fans who want to see how Penny Arcade started, and get some comments from the creators. I also think longer comments would've been great, as I love Jerry Holkins's humor (but why didn't Mike Krahulik say anything?). All in all, I liked it well enough for the sake of learning PA's backstory, but on the early comics are not that impressive on their own.
Great times, fun times but only for gamers.......2007-02-07
This book took me back a few years. All the classic Penny Arcade goodness. Totally worth the price when considering the trouble to wait for it to load. The comics are great, but I would only recommend this to gamers and internet junkies, they would be the only ones to understand the jokes.
Average customer rating:
- A decent read
- suspense novel
- Lest We Forget
- Spectacular work, among MCS's best work
- Not Gorky Park with Sushi!
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December 6: A Novel
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Ever wonder how things might have been different for Rick Blaine, the ostensibly selfish nightclub owner from Casablanca, had he lived in Japan during the 1940s, rather than Morocco? Martin Cruz Smith offers a reasonable scenario in December 6.
This slickly plotted, exotically atmospheric thriller opens in Tokyo just a few days before bombs start raining on Pearl Harbor. There we meet roguish Harry Niles, the culturally conflicted son of religious missionaries and owner of the Happy Paris, a club known for its enigmatic jukebox jockey, Michiko, who also happens to be Harry's mistress. With war rumors rampant, Harry--distrusted by both U.S. and Japanese authorities--"was skipping town. Any sane person would." He has a seat waiting on what may be the final flight out to Hong Kong, and plans to escape from there to the States with a British diplomat's wife. But first, there are business and personal affairs to settle, not the least of which is an oil-tank con he's been running on the Imperial Navy--a desperate strategy to stop his beloved Japan from entering into self-destructive conflict with America. Harry also has to duck a sword-wielding military fanatic, who's seeking revenge for a long-ago incident that cost him honor, and bid sayonara to Michiko, a woman as scary as she is seductive. (Oh, well, at least they'll always have the Happy Paris.)
This book memorably re-creates wartime Tokyo, with its pet beetles and mincing geishas and naive belief that "victory lies in a faith in victory." Yet it's Harry Niles--cynical on top, sentimental beneath--who really carries December 6, a novel as brilliantly convoluted and captivating as any Smith (Gorky Park , Havana Bay ) has yet concocted. --J. Kingston Pierce
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Gorky Park and Havana Bay comes another gripping novel of loyalty, betrayal, and intrigue on the eve of the greatest military conflict in the history of mankind....
DECEMBER 6
Amid the imperialist fervor of late 1941 Tokyo, Harry Niles is a man with a mission -- self-preservation. But Niles was raised by missionary parents and educated in the shadows of Tokyo's underworld -- making his loyalties as dubious as his business dealings.
Now, on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Niles must decide where his true allegiances lie, as he tries to juggle his Japanese mistress and an adulterous affair with the wife of a British diplomat; avoid a modern-day samurai who is honor-bound to kill him; and survive the machinations of the Japanese high command, whose plans for conquest may just dictate his survival.
Set in a maelstrom of personal temptations and mortal enemies, with a remarkable anti-hero caught in a land he can never call his own, DECEMBER 6 is a triumph of imagination, history, and riveting storytelling.
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"From Martin Cruz Smith, author of Gorky Park and Havana Bay, comes another audacious novel of exotic locales, intimate intrigues and the mysteries of the human heart: December 6. Set in the crazed, nationalistic Tokyo of late 1941, December 6 explores the coming world war through the other end of history's prism -- a prism held here by an unforgettable rogue and lover, Harry Niles. In many ways, Niles should be as American as apple pie: raised by missionary parents, taught to respect his elders and be an honorable and upright Christian citizen dreaming of the good life on the sun-blessed shores of California. But Niles is also Japanese: reared in the aesthetics of Shinto and educated in the dance halls and backroom poker gatherings of Tokyo's shady underworld to steal, trick and run for his life. As a gaijin, a foreigner -- especially one with a gift for the artful scam -- he draws suspicion and disfavor from Japanese police. This potent mixture of stiff tradition and intrigue -- not to mention his brazen love affair with a Japanese mistress who would rather kill Harry than lose him -- fills Harry's final days in Tokyo with suspense and fear. Who is he really working for? Is he a spy? For America? For the emperor? Now, on the eve of Pearl Harbor, Harry himself must decide where his true allegiances lie. Suspenseful, exciting and replete with the detailed research Martin Cruz Smith brings to all his novels, December 6 is a triumph of imagination, history and storytelling melded into a magnificent whole. "
Customer Reviews:
A decent read.......2007-06-28
This is the first book of Martin Cruz Smith that I have read and overall I would say that the book was pretty good. The sequences of flashbacks was a little too much for me and at times I almost forgot what time period we were in.
The story was very well done and made you question the main characters character many times over. Even at this point I wonder if he was a good guy or just another thief.
I will read another Smith book again.
suspense novel.......2007-03-17
Terrific characters and plot but the sense of place in pre-wwII Japan is the most outstnding quality of the book. Highly recomended.
Lest We Forget.......2006-11-13
"December 6" (apparently published in Britain under the title "Tokyo Station") is a very good read - well written, well researched, and immensely suspenseful. My only criticism of the book pertains to a few minor proof-reading errors in the edition I bought - several times the word "gallons" was used instead of the intended word "barrels." I almost threw the book aside at that point, but I'm very glad I didn't. The errors turned out to be totally inconsequential, and the book turned out to be totally enjoyable.
In this book Cruz describes a narrow slice of the culture of pre-war Imperial Japan. Even though I lived for a while in Japan many decades later, I can say that Cruz's descriptions immediately transported me back to those narrow streets, wooden buildings, and mostly self-effacing people.
It occured to me as I was reading this book that in recent years our focus has dramatically shifted from East Asia and the "Pacific Rim" - remember that buzz term? - to Europe, the Middle East, and Western Asia. Japan has, to a great extent, been ignored, certainly in the U.S. mass media. While people still read volumes about Hilter, Himmler, the Gestapo, and the Holocaust, we encounter relatively little in the English-speaking media these days about Hirohito, Tojo, the Kempeitai, and mass murder by Japanese militarists. This is truly a shame, for the lessons to be learned from studying oriental culture and the history Japanese militarism are at least as valid as those we learn from the study of other cultures and of western facism. Martin Cruz Smith is to be congratulated for bringing Japan and the Orient back into our field of view.
If you enjoy suspense and have a taste for the foreign, this book is for you.
Spectacular work, among MCS's best work.......2006-09-22
December 6 is a spectacular novel. It is, in fact, Casablanca set in Japan.
Niles is an American who owns a bar in Tokyo. Other Americans in Japan consider him a traitor to the American cause, but they do not understand him. The Japanese consider him a dangerous foreigner. They do not understand him, either.
Not even the reader will understand Niles's motives until the last pages of the book. Perhaps he does not understand himself.
Not understanding Niles is okay, though. He and Japan, retain their sense of mystery.
Martin Cruz Smith is among America's finest popular novelists, and this book shows why. It has mystery, excitement, and lavish characters all portrayed against the rich backdrop of a different land in a different time.
I will confess that December 6 is a bit slow in the beginning, as many, many great books are. It's worth the work. I cannot recommend December 6 highly enough.
Not Gorky Park with Sushi!.......2006-08-10
I guess I was expecting a Japanese, day before Pearl Harbor, Gorky Park. It wasn't. The problem with this book is that it did not hold my attention. I went back and reread more pages than in any book other than Michael Crichton's. In fact when I finished it I really could not tell you what it was about beyond ... the day before Pearl Harbor.
Buy it if you have insomnia.
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