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- Topical, intelligent and good reading
- Yet another solild entry in the Rhyme saga.
- An endless series of turns of events
- My first Rhyme novel
- Reasonably good entry in L. Rhyme series, with good NY Chinatown info!
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The Stone Monkey (A Lincoln Rhyme Novel)
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Release Date: 2002-03-12 |
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When a vicious smuggler known as the Ghost scuttles a ship filled with undocumented Chinese immigrants less than a mile from New York harbor, only a handful of survivors--and the Ghost himself--manage to escape the burning vessel. Lincoln Rhyme, the quadriplegic NYPD forensic detective first introduced in 1997's The Bone Collector, and Amelia Sachs, his partner and lover, must stop the Ghost before he murders the two families who made it to shore. The families have gone to ground in the all but impenetrable world of Manhattan's Chinatown, a fact that makes the pair's two allies--Sonny Li, a Chinese cop, and Dr. John Sung-- invaluable partners.
The group's race against time showcases Jeffery Deaver's many talents, particularly intricate plotting, plenty of surprising twists, and breakneck pacing. This is a real standout from a writer whose previous thrillers have earned him a solid following among mystery fans. --Jane Adams
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LINCOLN RHYME RETURNS! First introduced in the spine-chilling novel The Bone Collector, Lincoln Rhyme dazzled readers with unparalleled forensic sleuthing -- all done from the confines of a wheelchair. A famed criminologist, paralyzed from the neck down, Rhyme compensates for his physical disability with his brains -- and the arms and legs of his brilliant and beautiful protégée, Amelia Sachs. It is Amelia who "walks the grid" for Rhyme, acting as his eyes and ears for the famously dangerous and difficult cases chronicled in Jeffery Deaver's bestselling novels The Bone Collector, The Coffin Dancer, and The Empty Chair.
Now the awe-inspiring duo returns in The Stone Monkey. Recruited to help the FBI and the Immigration and Naturalization Service perform the nearly impossible, Lincoln and Amelia manage to track down a cargo ship headed for New York City and carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer known as "the Ghost." But when the Ghost's capture goes disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia find themselves in a race against time: to stop the Ghost before he can track down and murder the two surviving families who have escaped from the ship and vanished deep into the labyrinthine world of New York City's Chinatown.
Over the next harrowing forty-eight hours, the Ghost brilliantly and ruthlessly hunts for the families, while Rhyme, aided by a quirky policeman from mainland China, struggles to find them before they die, and Amelia Sachs pursues a very different kind of police work -- forming a connection with one of the immigrants that may have consequences going to the core of her relationship with her partner and lover, Lincoln Rhyme.
The Stone Monkey abounds with Deaver's famous trademarks: wholly unexpected plot twists, breakneck pacing, and characters who are heartbreakingly real, reminding us once again why People hailed him as "the master of ticking-bomb suspense" and Publishers Weekly called him the "most clever plotter on the planet."
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Lincoln Rhyme returns! First introduced in the spine-chilling novel The Bone Collector, Lincoln Rhyme dazzled readers with unparalleled forensic sleuthing -- all done from the confines of a wheelchair. A famed criminologist, paralyzed from the neck down, Rhyme compensates for his physical disability with his brains -- and the arms and legs of his brilliant and beautiful protégée, Amelia Sachs. It is Amelia who "walks the grid" for Rhyme, acting as his eyes and ears for the famously dangerous and difficult cases chronicled in Jeffery Deaver's bestselling novels The Bone Collector, The Coffin Dancer, and The Empty Chair.
Now the awe-inspiring duo returns in The Stone Monkey. Recruited to help the FBI and the Immigration and Naturalization Service perform the nearly impossible, Lincoln and Amelia manage to track down a cargo ship headed for New York City and carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer known as "the Ghost." But when the Ghost's capture goes disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia find themselves in a race against time: to stop the Ghost before he can track down and murder the two surviving families who have escaped from the ship and vanished deep into the labyrinthine world of New York City's Chinatown.
Over the next harrowing forty-eight hours, the Ghost brilliantly and ruthlessly hunts for the families, while Rhyme, aided by a quirky policeman from mainland China, struggles to find them before they die, and Amelia Sachs pursues a very different kind of police work -- forming a connection with one of the immigrants that may have consequences going to the core of her relationship with her partner and lover, Lincoln Rhyme.
The Stone Monkey abounds with Deaver's famous trademarks: wholly unexpected plot twists, breakneck pacing, and characters who are heartbreakingly real, reminding us once again why People hailed him as "the master of ticking-bomb suspense" and Publishers Weekly called him the "most clever plotter on the planet."
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Topical, intelligent and good reading.......2007-06-01
Jeffery Deaver's popular duo of Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are back again, as they did in The Bone Collector, The Empty Chair, The Coffin Dancer, and (after The Stone Monkey) The Vanished Man - which for me is just, just the best of the bunch. They are all good, and Deaver has created an enigmatic character in the immobile Lincoln Rhyme who, grumpy though he is, always displays such a lucidity of mind and exceptional talent for forensics that all other characters in the book pale into insignificance. He's human though, he has failings, but we always forgive him because we know that despite his intense frustrations (brought about by his almost absolute physical disability) he is a man of integrity and sound judgement. In The Stone Monkey he is on the trail of a 'Snakehead', a Chinese man who exploits the desperations of those in his home country and who seek a better life in The Beautiful Country (is New York beautiful?). The Snakehead, aka Ghost, is a pretty nasty piece of work and his identity is cleverly hidden throught most of this story although I have to confess that, for once, I got it right and quite early on. It didn't spoil a thing though, the book gave me new insights into the pain and politics behind human trafficking, and once again I can give a Deaver novel the thumbs-up and a strong recommendation. By the way, there's more to Deaver than the Rhyme/Sachs series - try Twisted (a series of short stories) and The Blue Nowhere for starters.
Yet another solild entry in the Rhyme saga........2007-03-30
No spoilers
The Stone Monkey is yet another blazing and captivating read by Deaver staring Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs that has plot twists throughout it that I promise you won't see coming. I won't summarize the plot, but I will say that seeing as how this is the fourth book in the Rhyme series, I doubt anyone reading this is new to Rhyme, so having said that, if you've read the previous three books and liked them, read this now. While I wouldn't say this is the best book out of the first four (it lacked the "wow" surprise factor that the others had throughout the book), it's still a great and fun book. If you haven't read Deaver before, stop reading this review and go look up and buy The Bone Collector, the first book of this series
Bottom line: another fun and informative read that a Deaver fan will demolish is minimal sittings.
An endless series of turns of events .......2007-01-05
Another riveting thriller featuring forensic expert Lincoln Rhyme and partner and lover Amelia Sachs, with the latter showing a hint of interest for a soothing-voiced chinese doctor who is not who he pretends he is...
My first Rhyme novel.......2005-07-29
This is the first book I read by Jeffery Deaver. It was hard at first to visualize the condition Lincoln is in pertaining to the wheel chair and his disability. After a while I did not think about his disability, but how his mind worked to solve the crime. He works well with Amelia and the story intrigued me until the end. I have since read five more of Deaver's books.
Reasonably good entry in L. Rhyme series, with good NY Chinatown info!.......2005-07-05
"Stone Monkey" (named after a good luck amulet worn by the story's Chinese doctor) is Deaver's fourth in the NYPD Forensic Expert (and quadriplegic) Lincoln Rhyme series. In this one, he and "leg-man" Amelia Sachs are trying to locate a "Snakehead", a Chinese illegal immigrant smuggler, named the Ghost who has sunk the boat before the Coast Guard can get to it, and now needs to find and eliminate the two families and a couple of single people (a doctor and an undercover detective) who made it to the Long Island shore and survived. The Chinese people are temporarily hiding out in New York's huge Chinatown, but the brutal Ghost seems to have unlimited connections in his quest to find them and eliminate any witnesses to the incident. The detective, a fun character named Sammy Li, hooks up with Rhyme's team and nearly steals several scenes with both his insights and his humorous commentary on various turns in the investigation.
Like Deaver's "Vanished Man" that combines a forensic police procedural with considerable information about the practice of magic and illusion, this novel equally informs us readers about Chinese culture and the hopes and aspirations of those seeking a better life in the "Beautiful Country" (as they call America). While the indifference of the villain to human life gets a little hard to take, in the end he gets what he deserves, mostly through the hard work of Rhyme and Sachs. At the end, a twist we never expected helped explain some otherwise puzzling developments during the case. Just one caveat - it appears to us from the lack of much background on our leading man and lady that it might help to read this series in order - Deaver's technique of unfolding the bare minimum of character development in each successive story may detract from these otherwise interesting and suspenseful tales.
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- Five young, orphaned monks specializes in a different style of kung-fu reflecting his personality
- Monkey ( 5 Ancestors)
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- My son LOVED this book!!
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Five Ancestors #2: Monkey (5 Ancestors)
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ASIN: 037583074X
Release Date: 2006-09-12 |
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At 11-years-old, Malao is the youngest of the Five Ancestors. Master of the monkey fighting style, he’s curious and quick, fast and fun-loving. But now, with the destruction of the temple and the deaths of his older brothers and Grandmaster, Malao the fun-loving monkey is forced to face things he’d rather not. As he grapples with these new and unwelcome feelings, Malao has an encounter with a dangerous band of bandits, is adopted by a troop of monkeys commanded by a one-eyed albino, and hears tantalizing rumors of a mysterious recluse called the Monkey King, who is said to act, and look, a lot like him. . . .
From the Hardcover edition.
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Five young, orphaned monks specializes in a different style of kung-fu reflecting his personality.......2006-03-13
Book 2 of Jeff Stone's 'Five Ancestors' series, Monkey really deserves a reading of Book 1 for a smooth transition - and be aware, this is a projected seven-book series - but the action- packed martial-arts story set in 17th century China will win fans wherever they begin. Five young, orphaned monks specializes in a different style of kung-fu reflecting his personality: here Malao faces his temple's destruction and an encounter with a band of wood monkeys who save him and introduce him to a wilder side of his soul.
Monkey ( 5 Ancestors).......2006-03-12
I think the book was better than hope for. You need to read the frist book first than you will get the story.
Monkey.......2006-03-01
The Five Ancestors series by Jeff Stone is an exciting series about five young monks from an ancient Chinese temple called Canghzen, or, literally, Hidden Temple. The books are the same story, but from different views, because they split up. I think these books are a great adventure, and I also liked Tiger.
My son LOVED this book!!.......2006-02-28
My son received this book and Tiger (5 Ancestors) for Christmas. Both he and I read them and loved them! My son is so hard to please when it comes to reading books. And besides the Harry Potter books he doesn't find a whole lot of other books he really likes. He liked these so much that we are anxiously awaiting the release of Snake (5 Ancestors), to be released in March.
Five Ancestors Monkey .......2006-02-25
Monkey is a book for the wittiest minds.
This book is the second book in the mind racing series called the Five Ancestors. To read these books, you have to think about every little thing. It makes the book the hardest to put down. This book is going to become super popular. You better read this awesome brain thriller.
This story is about five monks and their temple that gets destroyed by a so called traitor monk. The young monks fled the temple and went their different ways. But four of them meet up again to fight the so called evil one. In the book the monks are also looking for a relative because they're orphans. This book is filled with action, mystery and more. At the start you might think it's only action but if you do, you are wrong.
This series is written by Jeff Stone a good writer. One thing that is different about his series is that in each book, the same thing happens but in a different character's mind but still different. Another thing is in each book it switches from the main character to the so called traitor and his men. It makes you think even more.
I hope your brain is up for the challenge to read this book and series. By the way, the first book is called Tiger.
Happy Reading!
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It's pooey on B-A-B-I-E-S until Junie B. finds out that her new dumb old baby brother is a big fat deal. Her two bestest friends are giving her everything they own just to see him. And guess what else? Maybe she can bring him to school on Pet Day.
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GREAT!.......2007-07-30
This book was so much fun for both me and my six year old granddaughter!
The CD amused her many times when we were riding in the car. I thought it would be good for one car ride, but she kept wanting to hear it over and over.
Don't buy this book.......2007-07-26
I'm not sure which annoys me more--the mean-spirited dialogue or the consistently poor grammar that I'm guessing is supposed to be funny but isn't. If you want your child to be a nasty smart-aleck, this is the book for you!
Nice Book.......2007-03-16
I bought this book by mistake, I meant to get the English Version; however, my 9 year old got a total kick out of it being in Spanish. I than bought the same book in English and she thought that was the greatest thing, to have both. She was comparing words and seeing if she could speak a little Spanish.
We can offer better material than this!.......2006-11-29
Why would we want to teach our children how to use poor english, disrespect their elders and call each other potty-mouthed names? With all the quality options for children's books out there, don't bother with this series. While the United States educational system struggles to teach children to read and write correctly, our schools offer them things like this. If you want to teach bad grammar and manners, go right ahead. It's such a shame. These funny stories could have been told just as well, without any schlock included. Thanks, but no thanks.
Junie B. Jones Little Monkey Business .......2006-10-24
Junie B. Jones Little Monkey Business by Barbara Park is a great book. This book was funny.
When Junie B's mother was pregnant Junie B. started to get jealous. Her parents started painting the new baby's room and put more attention to that than Junie B.
She started to call her baby brother a monkey.
Another great part was when her best friends started to give her every single thing they owned so they would able to see her little brother.
Junie B. started to think it was a really big deal because her friends were acting so crazy. Junie B. started calling her baby brother a monkey in her class when it was going to be a pet day. She wanted to bring her little brother in for pet day.
I highly recommend this book it was really funny. I think you will like it too!!!
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The Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie off to the mountains of Africa. There they run into a huge mountain gorilla! At first they don’t know whether they should shake hands or turn tail. But the ominous-looking creature turns out to be surprisingly gentle. Not only that, the gorilla may be able to help them learn their next bit of magic, which Morgan has challenged them to do.
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MY BOY LOVES READING IT.......2007-01-07
My 1st grader hates to put it down, he would rather read Magic Tree House books, than play video games. He even reads them to his class and explains the story for show and tell. In his kindergarten class the teacher would also let him read the Magic Tree House books out loud, not to give her a break, but to promote reading out loud. Great books!
Good Mornig Gorillas.......2006-12-15
Good Morning gorillas
Good Morning Gorillas is by Mary Pope Osborne. In this magic tree house book, the main Characters are Jack and Annie is in the rain forest. This book is about jack and Annie meeting a little gorilla who leads them to his family and becoming close friends. What I think the author is saying is you can become friends with animals. I can't tell my favorite part because it's the end and I don't want to give away the ending. But even though it was sad I loved it. I think it would be a good book for people who love animals.
-Michelle, 9
My son has enjoyed all 26 of this series so far!.......2006-12-03
I am not sure what else my 6 yrs old son has stayed with for so long! We read a chapter every night at bedtime. He looks forward to it every night. He has enjoyed very book and he gets excited for the next one. We are up to #26 now and he shows no sign of losing interest!
He has learned about earthquakes, Roman empire, Shakespeare, Indians, American Revolutionary war, etc.
Excellent series...entertaining and educational.
Wonder-full!.......2006-11-10
This whole series is absolutely "the best" ! In our family, children under eight have loved listening to each of them as read-alouds, and as they get older, they've devoured them again while reading on their own. Each one is a guaranteed hit as a birthday or holiday gift too.
Good Morning Gorillas.......2006-02-28
Gorillas in the Mountains of Africa!
Good Morning Gorillas by Mary Pope Osborne is an adventurous animal fiction story. The two main characters are Jack who takes notes wherever he goes and Annie who is very adventurous in finding new friends and clues. Jack and Annie travel in the magic tree house to go to the jungle in the mountains of Africa. They are going to Africa to save gorillas from extinction. I liked this book because it is an exciting story about Jack and Annie's encounter with huge gorillas. It is a very brave and nice thing to save the gorillas because they are an endangered species. I recommend this book for all children ages nine and up. You can learn about gorillas and their suprising gentle nature. I give this book a rating of 4 out of 5.
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Capital Mysteries #8: Mystery at the Washington Monument (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))
Ron Roy
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Late at night KC and Marshall are sleeping out on the White House lawn when they see suspicious lights flickering at the top of the Washington Monument. If that's not strange enough, the next day a monkey is found inside the building! KC and Marshall set off on a wild adventure to solve a 100-year-old mystery that involves a jewel thief, long-lost diamonds, and one of Washington's most famous and historic landmarks.
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Great series for kids.......2007-05-23
My son loves these books. They combine history, geography, and mystery. What's not to love! I hope Ron Roy keeps writing this series.
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The temple has been burned.
Grandmaster is dead.
The only five survivors have scattered like the wind.
Alone. For the first time. No brothers, no mentors, no teachers–just eleven-year-old Malao, the “monkey,” all by himself in the woods. Malao loves to make jokes and fool around, but now the only home he has ever known is burning and his four surviving temple brothers have disappeared. Suddenly nothing seems as funny as it used to.
Grandmaster told Malao to discover the secrets of his past, but for a monkey nothing is ever simple. He hasn’t traveled far when he stumbles into a battle between a group of bandits and an army of monkeys. One of the bandits looks strangely familiar, and the monkeys are led by a large, white, one-eyed male, who seems to know Malao.
In this second volume of the Five Ancestors series, Jeff Stone continues the exciting story of five youngsters destined for greatness–if they can only survive!
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- It's Time To Do Away With All The Monkey Business About Science
- A fascinating alternative view of western science
- Holbrook's premises collapse on bad physics
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The Stone Monkey: An Alternative, Chinese-Scientific, Reality
Bruce Holbrook
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Co
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It's Time To Do Away With All The Monkey Business About Science.......2006-02-05
Every worldview is based on certain assumptions about reality, and the Western scientific paradigm is no exception. That paradigm is one of isolation--the belief that reality can only be grasped by isolating the parts from the whole. Those isolated fragments can then be understood by analyzing, breaking down, and testing the severed limbs of the tree of reality under a variety of conditions--then serving up the results in peer-reveiwed media as exhibits in a carnival show. As if to say, "Look at me! Look at how I amputated a living limb off of the Body of Nature, I beat it to death by a thousand scientific tests, and here is the gangrened, rigor-mortified, mummified results--aren't I a great man of science?"
The Chinese science worldview sees all of reality as a whole. True, the Chinese embrace the concept of two aspects of reality--called "Yin" and "Yang"--but they are not part of a process of fragmenting nature into two parts. "Yin/Yang" refers to how the different aspects of how our universe works come together into one great whole--so recognizing "Yin/Yang" is a repudiation of how Western science rips reality to rags instead of a support to it.
Bruce Holbrook offers us in the West a lifeline--to rescue us from how the fragmentary dynamics of Western Medicine is tearing us apart--from how Western science results in environment-destroying technology and industrial practices, to "wonder drugs" that have side effects that are worse than the original condition the drug was developed to relieve, to the way we as humans are becoming more and more alienated from nature (continued urbanization and infrequent contact with the outdoors), our fellow humans (compared to the close feeling of community our grandparents shared with their next-door neighbors and fellow townspeople), and our own inner selves (demonstrated by our retreat into drugs, alcohol, and escaping from ourselves into the virtual reality of video games, titillating media, and other distractions).
In Chinese science lies the Road Map to Sanity--the Sanity of bringing ourselves--like Humpty Dumpty--back together again.
"The Stone Monkey" will bring to life the stone-dead heart in our work in science--to give us a science with a living, beating heart--a science that contributes to the healing of nature and no longer contributes to the ripping apart of nature.
Thank you, Mr. Holbrook.
A fascinating alternative view of western science.......2002-12-28
If you suspect that the results of modern science, technology, and medicine are in the long run harmful to the health of individuals and societies, this book is a glimpse into an alternative way of thinking which was tossed aside during the rush of scientific discovery and scholarship suffered over the last few centuries.
Reviews of a book so revolutionary will tend to be either dismissive, or a bit passionate; written by those who either aren't capable of stepping aside mentally as the book requires, or who are angry at the damage done.
I suspect that the author wrote under a pseudonym, and is actually a well-known figure, an expert in the field of human psychology and eastern teaching. I strongly recommend this book for readers conversant with the sciences, but dissatisfied with the uses and manners of modern science.
Holbrook's premises collapse on bad physics.......1999-07-20
Holbrook devotes a large portion of his book to debunking the effectiveness and logical basis of Western science. Unfortunately, he is incapable of distinguishing between neurobiology and atomic physics when discussing matters of color, and when discussing blackbody radiation he cannot perceive the value of idealized models. I found it difficult to extract useful information from his writing when his arguments were based on false premises.
Overall, a very disappointing book, though it might be useful for training physics students in detecting logical fallacies.
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Snow Monkeys (Monkey Discovery Library)
Lynn M. Stone
Manufacturer: Rourke Pub Group
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snow monkeys.......2005-02-23
good book but one typing error. on page 5. money kingdom should be monkey kingdom.
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A rambling, colorful picture book story.......2004-05-19
Written and illustrated by Dan Graves, The Search For The Giant Stone Monkey Head, Truth, Friends, And Strange Food is a rambling, colorful picture book story about Pparcel Perkins, a young girl who visited by a Giant Stone Monkey Head. Pparcel follows it through Ecuadorian jungles, encountering peculiar insects, tropical foods, and a bevy of curious characters such as a Moaning Mountain, an Angry Aaroot, and a Menacing Nut-Watcher. A timeless and enchanting adventure The Search For The Giant Stone Monkey Head, Truth, Friends, And Strange Food is especially recommended for intermediate-level readers ages 6 to 12.
My class and children love this book!.......2004-03-15
As an elementary grade teacher, I am always on the lookout for interesting books to share with my class. This book is one I've shared with my second and third graders over and over again. It is delightful to read aloud and my class loved the wonderfully intricate drawings. Pparcel has made the search for giant stone heads an adventure for us all. We found one during our study of Mexico and that prompted another Pparcel reading! This book captivates the imagination of all ages. I recommend this book for toddlers to grandparents.
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- The Year of Fog
- Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (Sexual Cultures)
- To Play the Fool
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