Cover of Night: A Novel

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For breathless action, gripping suspense, and intense romance, bestselling author Linda Howard never misses a beat–and her thrilling new novel will have your heart racing.

In the charming rural town of Trail Stop, Idaho, accessible to the outside world by only a single road, young widow Cate Nightingale lives peacefully with her four-year-old twin boys, running a bed-and-breakfast. Though the overnight guests are few and far between–occasional hunters and lake fishermen–Cate always manages to make ends meet with the help of the local jack-of-all-trades, Calvin Harris, who can handle everything from carpentry to plumbing. But Calvin is not what he seems, and Cate’s luck is about to run out.

One morning, the B&B’s only guest inexplicably vanishes, leaving behind his personal effects. A few days later Cate is shocked when armed men storm the house, demanding the mystery man’s belongings. Fearing for her children’s lives, Cate agrees to cooperate–until Calvin saves the day, forcing the intruders to scatter into the surrounding woods.

The nightmare, however, is just beginning. Cate, Calvin, and their entire community find themselves cut off and alone with no means to call for help as the threat gathers intensity and first blood is drawn.

With their fellow residents trapped and the entire town held hostage, Cate and Calvin have no choice but to take the fight to their enemies under the cover of night. While reticent Cal becomes a fearless protector, Cate makes the most daring move of her life . . . into the very heart of danger.

From the Hardcover edition.

Customer Reviews:

Slow and Boring .......2007-09-03

I'm usually never disappointed with a Linda Howard's books. I usually love both the female and male characters, but the heroin in this book is so annoying, she keeps going on and on about her late husband enough already we get it you miss him. No matter how much I read on I just never liked her.

On the other hand the hero of this novel was wondeful strong silent type quick witted, smart, brave and down to earth I like that. when I finished it I felt sorry for him he was stuck with her.

Ahhh my hero! fun read!.......2007-08-08

We don¡¦t think anybody needs to be encouraged to read Linda Howard, but just in case you¡¦re a newbie, she is soooo worth it! This is a terrific story about a shy, mumbling handyman, Calvin Harris, who falls for hard-working Trail Stop B&B owner, widowed mother Cate Nightingale. When one of Cate¡¦s customers leaves ¡V through an upstairs window without paying his bill or taking his clothes ¡V Cate reports it. But no crime¡¦s been committed, no accident¡¦s been reported, so the police don¡¦t do anything. Then ¡V shockingly ¡V armed men storm Cate¡¦s place, looking for something the man left behind. Oh, goody. You know what¡¦s coming next, don¡¦t you? Drool... Cal morphs into a quiet but deadly alpha the nano-second his woman is threatened, mowing through the baddies with his lethal bare hands ¡V oh, and a gun ¡V to get to her. Who knew? We did! º Not that Cate knew she was ¡¥his woman¡¦ until then, but whoa¡K she sure did after that. The action doesn¡¦t stop there; that¡¦s the prelude before the hailstorm of bullets, bombs and shootings hit Trail Stop. It¡¦s the modern-day equivalent of a Medieval siege, and no-one knows exactly what the villains want. Here¡¦s the thing. Quiet, unassuming Cal has a few secrets up his sleeve ¡V along with lots of hunky he-man muscles, stealth, and brilliant tactical know-how for war games. Settle in and watch the villains get theirs, and Cal get Cate.

A great read.......2007-07-19

A well plotted book with a small town full of memorable characters. Cate Nightingale, a widow with young twin sons, is trying to make a living as a bed and breakfast owner in a remote corner of Idaho. Cal, the local handyman, has been in love with Cate for 3 years but only conditions created by inept villains staging a terrorist attack on the area shock Cate into noticing Cal as a man. Was their romance created by extreme conditions, or would it have happened anyway? (Note Cate starting to notice Cal's strong hands in the beginning of the book, and her repeated attempts to make conversation with him.) The villains' reasoning which led to their attack on the area was so ludicrous, I wouldn't be surprised it it were based on a real news event. A great book- I would love a sequel.

Cover of Night by Linda Howard.......2007-07-10

Widow Cate Nightingale runs a bed and breakfast in Trail Stop Idaho, an isolated community boxed by mountains and a dangerous river. Cate's guests are sparse, consisting of rock climbers, hunters and fishermen, and Cate struggles to make ends meet. If it weren't for shy handyman Cal Harris, the B&B would fall apart and Cate would be bankrupt. But Cate is determined to raise her four-year-old twin boys in a safe environment and this charming town seems the perfect place.

Cate's nightmare begins when one of her guests climbs out of a window and disappears, leaving behind his personal effects. A few days later, two men show up and demand she turn over the man's belongings. Held at gunpoint, Cate fears for her life until Cal intrudes and forces the men to leave. Cate hopes that's the end of it, but soon she and the entire town find themselves held hostage by these two men, with the aid of four others. And there's no way to escape; the road leading into town has been blocked and the bridge over the river has been blown up. Cate and Cal team up to try to save their community. Their forced camaraderie leads them into not only danger but reveals the two share a hidden passion for one another.

Linda Howard is tops at romantic suspense. Although holding an entire town hostage seems implausible, she manages to make it real and provides a good read along the way. The chemistry between Cate and Cal is fun as it unfolds over the course of the book. With plenty of suspense, great characters, and a fast pace, Cover of Night will provide plenty of entertainment.

So very, very bad..........2007-06-29

Linda Howard, what happened????

I've noticed a strange trend in the last few years, where romance plots are getting heavier on thriller/mystery content and the romance part is becoming an afterthought. I wish authors would remember that if we didn't want 300+ pages of a love story, we wouldn't be shopping in the romance section to begin with.

This book was horrible. I guess it would have been okay if I had never heard of Linda Howard and didn't know what compelling love stories she could write. And if I had picked this up in a bargain bin somewhere, I guess...

I'm taking Linda off my "buy as soon as it hits the shelves" list, although I still highly recommend Drop Dead Gorgeous and To Die For. The fact that those are the two most recent LH books after this one make the mediocrity of this last effort even more perplexing.

Night of the Living Rerun (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Book 4)

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Kind of disjointed
Don't Even Bother With This Volume
It sounded so good on the back cover...
Rather Cliche
4 Stars

Night of the Living Rerun (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Book 4)
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Manufacturer: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
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A History Lesson?

As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. one girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers.

As if real life wasn't already overflowing with vampire-staking, now Buffy has begun to dream about slaying! Night after night, it's the same thing. She's back with the Puritans, a Slayer on the trail of a witch. What can it mean?

Buffy gets a clue when Xander and Giles start acting like they have ancient alter egos. Now the stage is set for a symbolic replay of the night the Master was accidentally trapped in the other dimension.

Only this time, the Master wants a happy ending -- for himself. Buffy and her friends must pervent the Master from rewriting the script and escaping his supernatural prison before Sunnydale becomes history!

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Kind of disjointed.......2007-08-06

I am a huge Buffy fan I have read many of the books. I really did not enjoy this novel. It was boring, disjointed, and confusing. The characters never developed and the plot jumped back and forth too much. I would not recommend it since there are so many novels that are better in the Buffy series. Only for the true fan that wants to read every book.

Don't Even Bother With This Volume.......2005-07-03

This book was terrible!!! I don't just mean terrible compared to any other Buffy books, but terrible compared to literature in general.

The writing, the style, the flow of this book is extremely bad and the first thing I thought as I read it was "hello fan fiction!" That's pretty much what this whole book is- someone's weird fanfiction that got published in a freak accident. I know that Buffy is supposed to be all edgy and not exactly read like fine American literature, but there is a difference between writing with humor and writing without any professionalism or sense what-so-ever. The most awkward parts are when the author tries to juggle between the dream Buffy is having and real life- it's just...awful. The characters aren't even themselves- they all make stupid quips that are very OOC or just not worth reading. Was this book even edited?

Usually when it comes to bad stories, I stick it out through the end just to see the plot resolve itself, but I didn't feel compelled for one second to finish this book, and neither should you. It's an original story, so you won't miss anything should you continue to read the other Buffy books out there or watch the television show.

If you like below mediocore writing and dialogue, then this book is for you. However, I would recommend getting it at a library or from a friend so you don't waste your precious $4.50 U.S./$5.99 CAN.

It sounded so good on the back cover..........2004-10-21

I first read this book over three years ago and didn't like it. But then, a few weeks ago, I decided to see how much my taste in books had matured and gave it another chance. Big mistake! I hate this book! They took a wonderful concept and blew it to smithereens by ruining Giles and Xander. I would have felt better if they'd somehow discovered that the real Giles and Xander had been locked in a warehouse for the duration of this novel and had been replaced by cyborgs because only that could explain why the heck they were saying such stupid stuff!
Not only were they horrible, but the supposed climax of the novel - the zombie diner fight scene - was over waaay too fast and easily. It completely and irreparably damaged my spirit. The books only saving grace was some fun quips from the Buffster and a sweet (albeit, paranormal) kiss between Willow and Xander at the very end. I would recommend Coyote Moon and Halloween Rain in a heartbeat over this book.

Rather Cliche.......2004-05-11

The Salem Witch trials for this genre are cliche. While the plot was more complex than the previous 3 books, I think Giles and Xander, especially were written too out of character to maintain my suspension of disbelief. I kept stopping to think to myself: that's not how so and so would act!

4 Stars.......2003-07-06

Night of the living rerun is a book based on the tv series buffy the vampire slayer. the book is very well written and portrays the charcters of the show well. the best part about the book is that it deals with the gang (minus willow) all of dreams that they are people from the past. the book is great but probably better for the buffy fans who have been there from the start as its based around series 1-2 time.

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Under Cover of Night
Jasmine Craig
Manufacturer: Jove Pubns
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Last Night (Restoration Series #1)
Terri Blackstock
Manufacturer: Zondervan
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Binding: Hardcover
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In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to the age before electricity, Deni Brannings career ambitions have vanished. Shes not about to let her dream of marriage go as well. But keeping it alive will require extraordinary measures. Yesterdays world is gone. All Deni and her family have left is each other and their neighbors. Their little community will either stand or fall together. But theyre only beginning to realize thatand trust doesnt come easily, particularly when one of them is a killer. Best-selling suspense author Terri Blackstock weaves a masterful what-if novel in which global catastrophe reveals the darkness in human heartsand lights the way to restoration for a self-centered world.Today, the world as you know it will end. No need to turn off the lights. Your car suddenly stalls and wont restart. You cant call for help because your cell phone is dead. Everyone around you is having the same problem . . . and its just the tip of the iceberg. Your city is in a blackout. Communication is cut off. Hospital equipment wont operate, and airplanes are falling from the sky. Is it a terrorist attack . . . or something far worse?In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to the age before electricity, your family faces a choice. Will you hoard your possessions to surviveor trust God to provide as you offer your resources and your hearts to others? Yesterdays world is gone. Now all youve got is your family and community. You stand or fall together. Like never before, you must rely on each other. But one of you is a killer. Number 1 bestselling suspense author Terri Blackstock weaves a masterful what-if novel in which global catastrophe reveals the darkness in human heartsand lights the way to restoration for a self-centered world. Last Light is the first book in an exciting new series.

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I Love to read Devoto!
Another wonderful read by Pat Cunningham Devoto
Why Wasn't This Book A National Best Sellor?
This book should win prizes.
Out of the Night that Covers Me

Out of the Night That Covers Me
Pat Cunningham Devoto
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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A suspiciously large number of black families have done just that, defaulting on debts and fleeing Alabama's cotton fields for the factories of Chicago. But who provides the money and means for their flight? As John learns more about the financial and political intrigues of Lower Peach Tree, he dreams of making his own escape from his abusive new family. The events that follow forge an unlikely alliance between the silent, wounded black man and the equally wounded orphan--and test their courage in unexpected ways.

As skillfully as Devoto evokes time and place, her novel is not without flaws. John's voice, for example, tends toward the irritatingly precious, and the writing sometimes falls flat. Yet the author movingly portrays the ways poverty can both pinch lives into meanness (witness the case of John's alcoholic Uncle Luther) and challenge people to face their problems together, as in the all-black community known as the Bend. If this juxtaposition of violence and cooperation seems a little, well, black and white, that's part of the book's charm; its moral sureties belong to a time when good and evil were as easy to distinguish in life as they are in fiction. --Chloe Byrne

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Out of the Night That Covers Me takes place a decade before the civil rights movement, but the spirit of the coming upheaval hangs over its pages as heavily as the humidity of an Alabama summer. Pat Cunningham Devoto's second novel revolves around two characters: John McMillan, a precocious, sheltered 8-year-old sent to live with poor relations after his mother's death, and Tuway, an African American with a foot in both the black and white worlds. Their stories intersect when the powerful Judge Vance takes an interest in John. He brings the boy to work at the Planters and Merchants Bank of Lower Peach Tree, where the mysteriously disfigured Tuway acts as his assistant. The judge, we soon learn, is no judge at all. Instead, his title is an allusion to his economic omnipotence: "He the one says if you get a crop loan or not. Round here, if you gets a crop loan, you can make it, and if you don't, you might just as well go on off down the road."A suspiciously large number of black families have done just that, defaulting on debts and fleeing Alabama's cotton fields for the factories of Chicago. But who provides the money and means for their flight? As John learns more about the financial and political intrigues of Lower Peach Tree, he dreams of making his own escape from his abusive new family. The events that follow forge an unlikely alliance between the silent, wounded black man and the equally wounded orphan--and test their courage in unexpected ways. As skillfully as Devoto evokes time and place, her novel is not without flaws. John's voice, for example, tends toward the irritatingly precious, and the writing sometimes falls flat. Yet the author movingly portrays the ways poverty can both pinch lives into meanness (witness the case of John's alcoholic Uncle Luther) and challenge people to face their problems together, as in the all-black community known as the Bend. If this juxtaposition of violence and cooperation seems a little, well, black and white, that's part of the book's charm; its moral sureties belong to a time when good and evil were as easy to distinguish in life as they are in fiction. --Chloe Byrne

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In Bainbridge, Alabama, eight-year-old John Gallatin McMillan III has been the center of his mother's world, cloistered and pampered, until she unexpectedly dies. Taken away by his one remaining relative, his mother's sister, John soon learns that the new home awaiting him in Lower Peach Tree is a run-down tenant farm in the heart of the Alabama Black Belt. There he is thrust into a life alien to anything he has ever known, working long hours in the fields for his violent, alcoholic uncle. As John fights for his survival, he comes to identify with the struggles of the poor blacks he encounters and imagines that his salvation lies in escape to Chicago, just as they feel that their own survival depends on going north to a new life. Instead, a twist of fate brings him to the Bend, a black settlement that has become a refuge for outcasts. Here John meets Mama Tuway, a powerful black healer; Ella, a young mother damaged by the ravages of abuse; and Tuway, a man straddling the black and white cultures and leading a dangerous double life. But none of them--or anyone in Lower Peach Tree--will be ready for the brutal confrontation between blacks and whites, and how it will foreshadow the historic struggle about to sweep across the country. A powerful drama of prejudice and lost innocence, indomitable courage, and the secret corners of a child's heart, OUT OF THE NIGHT THAT COVERS ME is a testament to Pat Cunningham Devoto's extraordinary talent. Here is a writer who can make us smile and ache within the same sentence, and in a way no writer has ever done before.

Customer Reviews:

I Love to read Devoto!.......2004-09-23

After being captivated by My Last Days As Roy Rogers and passing it along to a chain of avid readers hungry for good fiction, I was thrilled to see another offering by Pat Cunningham Devoto. When I find an author who knows how to weave narrative and dialogue expertly so that I am swept into the story, I clamor for more. I devoured this book within 2 days and sent it on it's way down the reader chain of freinds.
Treat yourself and escape into Out of the Night That Covers Me.

Another wonderful read by Pat Cunningham Devoto.......2004-08-05

I rarely write a review, though I read many. The review that takes the book almost page by page is not a helpful review to me. I would rather see that the reader was totally captivated by the book, the words, the story. "Out of the Night That Covers Me" is such a book. Ms Devoto's first book "My Last Days as Roy Rogers" was the same. A delicious read.

The name put me off and I still do not understand the title in relationship to the book and titles are important. But when I saw it was the same author I knew I wanted it.

Stories of the south are interesting because of the different lifestyles that southern's seem to have had (or so it seems to me) It is a thought provoker. I personally like a book that has substance that stays with me, one that makes me think not only of the past but of the future.

When I have a book that I don't want to end, I know I have read a book that I would recommend. This one is that and then some!

Why Wasn't This Book A National Best Sellor?.......2002-04-24

I have read many best selling and award winning novels and found them wanting. One wonders sometimes - "Why did this book get an award." My question about OUT OF THE NIGHT.... is "Why didn't it get an award?" As a student of the South, this book gives an interesting look at the South of the 1950's and the changing social norms. Change is a major theme in the book and it would be interesting to discuss with a book club or with students the examples of change. The characters are well developed, although I thought some of the black characters were not as well developed. It would be interesting to do a comparison of Aunt Nelda and Mrs. Vance. Although they appear much different, they have much in common. And likewise between John and Little Luther. The book is magical and a wonderful read and would be excellent for a book club. It could give rise to great discussions and the edition I have has questions included. Don't start it unless you have time to read the whole thing. For those who liked TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD it's a must read.

This book should win prizes........2002-02-18

Out of the Night That Covers Me is a wonderful, magical book. Ms. DeVoto's lyrical style has captured the essence of the time in a way that draws you right into the story and never lets you go. The characters--whom I loved--are so real, I'd know them if I met them on the street. This book should win prizes.

Out of the Night that Covers Me.......2001-11-28

Upon seeing the title, I was not sure what the book would be about. It is the story about John who is sent to the South to live with his aunt's family once his mother passed away. John, always being one with his nose in a book, is thrown out into the sun to grow cotton. Eventually John decides to go to Chicago but never makes it, and lives in the Swamps.
This is a very good story with great descriptions of scenery and plot.

Kolchak Night Stalker: Lambs To The Slaughter

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100% pure Kolchak!

Kolchak Night Stalker: Lambs To The Slaughter
Joe Gentile , Trevor Von Eeden , and Cover: Doug Klauba
Manufacturer: Moonstone
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Kolchak the Night Stalker: Lambs to the Slaughter: Kolchak investigates a spree of "typical" missing persons cases in Hollywood. Tinsel Town dreams led the poor kids astray, right? It's an old story told here, but exactly how old is sure to come to a shock to Carl. Like a run away train going downhill towards a field of scared bunny rabbits, Kolchak plows his way through (and over) the truth. How about genetic experiments covered up by unknown forces? How about Kolchak unwittingly trying to smooth talk his way into signing his own death warrant? How about Kolchak having a single iota of luck, just this one time? Please? And hey, Carl, how about getting your own cup of coffee and leaving Ron's alone for once?

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100% pure Kolchak!.......2004-02-15

When Kolchak gets a missing teens story it leads him down a dark and terrifying path. Being another entry in the new Kolchak: The Night Stalker graphic novel series, should readers be surprised? No, but they will be delighted, especially if they have watched the old series as repeatedly as I have. Yet again Moonstone has captured the magic - Lambs to the Slaughter is a nifty and, for once, well thought out mystery filled with all the suspense, humor, and banter of the television series. It also expands nicely on the characters of Tony and Carl, revealing further depth to their personalities and their relationship with each other. Even better is how Kolchak's noble streak really shows itself in this outing. As Darren McGavin once said, he is a true American hero. Highly recommended.

Kolchak: Tales of the Night Stalker - Black & White & Read ALL Over (Comic Book, Cover B)

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Kolchak: Tales of the Night Stalker - Black & White & Read ALL Over (Comic Book, Cover B)
DAVE ULANSKI
Manufacturer: MOONSTONE
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ASIN: B000NAH0Y6

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Good, But It Is Flawed.
Maybe Shakespeare's Best Comedy
True scapegoat which we should pay attention to
Good formula comedy, but not hilarious. Rich characters and plot.
"That you do think you are not what you are."

Twelfth Night (Charnwood Soft Cover)
William Shakespeare
Manufacturer: Ulverscroft Large Print
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Good, But It Is Flawed........2006-07-17

Many of you probably recall this as the play Shakespeare began to write at the end of "Shakespeare In Love." As far as the movie goes, Shakespeare was to write something where love triumphed after it failed in "Romeo and Juliet." This comedy is often hailed as one of Shakespeare's best comedies. But there are reasons I can not quite place it on the same level as "Comedy of Errors," "Taming of the Shrew," "Midsummer Night's Dream," or "As You Like It." We meet Orsino the duke who is love with Olivia. But Olivia chooses to avoid men. (She never quite got over the death of her brother and father.) We also meet Viola. She has survived a shipwreck but fears her brother Sebastian did not. Fearful of possibly being raped, she disguises herself as a man and enters Orsino's servant under the alias name Cesario. Shakespeare then introduces us to the characters of a subplot. (Maria, Toby, and Andrew.) They will plan a practical joke on Malvolio. Moving on, Orsino hires Viola/Cesario and asks him to woo Olivia on his behalf. And here we have irony both tragic and funny. Viola loves Orsino but must woo another woman on his behalf. And if as this was not difficult enough, Olivia falls in love with her! Later, we see that Viola's brother Sebastian has survived, and we meet Antonio. Antonio is wanted in the area for theft, but his touching loyalty will not allow him to dessert Sebastian. There is a comical scene where Orsino has a man to man talk with Viola/Cesario. Now we come to one problem I have with the play. Maria, Andrew, and Toby plan an over the top practical joke on Malvolio. Malvolio represents the Puritans. Shakespeare did not like Puritans because they opposed his theatre. But there is no denying that practical jokes and ridicule are lower forms of comedy than human misunderstandings such as in "Comedy of Errors." In "Taming of the Shrew," Katherine certainly draws some comments, BUT, if we understand her character, we can see that she really deserves our sympathy. Well, the conspiracy (with the help of a fake letter from Maria) makes Malvolio plan to woo Olivia in an absurd looking outfit. Olivia will think him mad, and he will be thrown in a dungeon to recover his mental health. Moving on, Andrew becomes jealous and wants to fight Viola. (Because Olivia likes her.) In a comical scene, Toby pretends to want peace, but forces the hands of both Andrew and Viola/Cesario. Now here is another major problem I have with the play. Antonio mistakes Viola for Sebastian and saves her. But he is wanted in the area, and the duke's officers arest him. Viola knows she has been mistaken for Sebastian and is happy her brother is alive. Now if she had any element of human decency, she would have indicated herself as a servant of the duke and protested Antonio's arrest. Or if this failed, any decent person would have followed Antonio to the Duke and tried to get Antonio released. Toby, Fabian, and Andrew all have a point when they rebuke her. I am not saying a hero or heroine can't have faults, but this extreme fault was sickening. Moving on, we have some "Comedy of Errors" nostalgia. Olivia mistakes Sebastian for Cesario, and of course there is no problem with this love. In the end scene, Viola and the Duke run into the captured Antonio. To be sure, Viola confesses he rescued her, BUT SHE STILL DOES NOT EVEN ASK THE DUKE TO RELEASE HIM. CERTAINLY, THE DUKE WOULD HAVE GRANTED THIS MERCY TO A MAN WHO HAD RESCUED SUCH A USEFUL SERVANT! The errors of the day are sorted out when Sebastian comes on the screen married to Olivia, and Viola is able to confess her love to Orsino who reciprocates. Shakespeare allows us to infer that Antonio will not be severely punished, and of course Malvolio comes in threatening to get revenge. Overall, it is a good play with intertwined plots, comedy, and enough tragic elemenets to make it plausible, but there are some flaws that prevent me from considering it one of Shakespeare's greatest comedies.

Maybe Shakespeare's Best Comedy.......2005-12-31

Last semester, I took a course on comedic drama in which the class read numerous classics of the genre. Twelfth Night was, in my opinion, pretty easily the best work that we read. While it's not necessarily Shakespeare's own best work, it is one of the true masterpieces of comedic literature, a work of surprising humor and depth.

The romantic plot is absurd, though of course, satisfying. In true comedic fashion, the play takes place is something of a fantasy world, with the laws of the world suspended. There is a chance for something divine to happen here, a chance for human masks to be torn away and for authentic connection to be made. Of course, something like that is what happens. Comedy (particularly that produced by the fool) pierces through the false barriers the people have build and allows for them to create for themselves a new life.

I think that's why I like the play so much. The farcical plot and the clever wordplay are delightful, but it's really that there is a subtle wisdom in this play that draws me irresistibly toward it. I think that you can read and reread Twelfth Night and always come away with a sense of something genuine.

True scapegoat which we should pay attention to.......2005-12-16

This comedy written by William Shakespeare has a connotation which has a wide range of meaning. Who is sacrificed through out the play misunderstood as a person who has a hypocrite personalities and unacceptable disposition among the characters of Twelfth Night. In superficial level, we as a reader easy to reach the conclusion that he is a man who should be penalized, and not only characters within the Twelfth Night mocking at him but also the readers show sardonic response behaviors toward this eccentric behaviors after reading the Olivia's letter which is counterfeit. Thus, we consider the punishment that Malvolio received was something justified and axiomatically accepted one. However, that sort of view is not rightful judgement. We should aware that people who planned this clandestine of fake letter to make fun of Malvolio are truly an undiscovered villain. There's a lesson implied on the play that we as a human being should always pay attention to minors who overwhelmed by an unjust and huge mainstream.

Good formula comedy, but not hilarious. Rich characters and plot........2005-12-06

The ending of the play is a foregone conclusion from the beginning, and there is never a question of where it's going, but then that is the aim of the New Comedy/Romantic Comedy genre. What makes the ending interesting is how the couples fall in love. Shakespeare's comedies are like a radio song, with formulaic verses, choruses and no real surprises. We don't come back for the last chord of a catchy song, but for the chorus and verses that makes us sing out loud. Shakespeare uses mistaken identity and disguise to mix up the characters, and the exposure at the end unties the knots in a believable manner. He unties the mess and then unites the characters again. The stress builds quickly as the twin siblings Sebastian and Viola cross paths, with each one foiling the other. Shakespeare manages to create New Comedy endings better than anyone else, but even so, the ending leaves the audience without any deep or self-reflective feelings about the characters.

"That you do think you are not what you are.".......2005-08-02

TWELFTH NIGHT is probably one of the most unthreatening and reader/audience-friendly Shakespearean plays in its accessibility. The plot of intrigue in the play, which amazingly affords a marked absence of powerful authority figures, draws on the conventions of popular inveighing comedy. In this whimsical plot, the calculating Sir Toby, who assumes a father figure to his cousin Lady Olivia, aims to dupe the foolish Sir Andrew out of his money. When the lady's steward Malvolio rebukes Sir Toby's rowdy drinking debauchery, his accomplice and eventual wife, Maria, takes over and makes the steward object of her gulling ingenuity. This neatly, dazzling interlocking of plot also contributes to the relaxing atmosphere on top of the usual Elizabethan theatrical embodiment of gender misconception and identity.

TWELFTH NIGHT on top of the festive spirit and dramatic forgery and facetious gulling is a search of human identity in all its strangeness and paradoxicality. It has gone beyond mistaken identity as traditionally understood in comedy to include disguise and gender misrecognition, a definitive phenomenon in which boy actors play women's parts. It addresses a subtler and yet precarious issue in the situation of identical twins teetering on the risk of being mistaken. Identical twins are automatically ripped off their uniqueness, the unmistakable self. The broad appeal of TWELFTH NIGHT as a good-humored play is sharpened by its comedy of mistaken identity between the long-lost twins Sabestian and Viola. Although they are of different sexes, other characters in the play cannot distinguish them from one another when Viola disguises as a young man. This is a significant message from the play: in addition to the concomitant non-recognition and loss of identity, a conditional identity exists only under particular conditions of place, time, and context. The peculiarity of such a disguise and the duration of which is an interesting paradox that concerns what Viola has to lose rather than to gain by ceasing to be the young man.

Folly permeates the language of TWELFTH NIGHT. The device used against Malvolio is nothing but one aspect of the play's satirical character. Folly reigns in the seat of wisdom (and maybe even the truth) in order to expose the foolishness of those who count themselves wise. And when the confusions of the masquerade bring home to all the truth, in sober daily life, we know neither our own identities nor the identities of our peers. The play sustains the idea that if the fool will become wise at the expense of persistent folly. The salient outcome is a play that is richly composed of deceptions: self-deception, delusion of love, alienation. And yet through all these confusions and carnival-like disguise clarification and self-knowledge are reached, just as a masquerade releases people from their everyday inhibitions and enable them to discover themselves.

TWELFTH NIGHT is not faultless despite its immediate accessibility and broad appeal. The unresolved tension that concerns the steward and numerous loose ends in the play constitute to the slight imperfections that are difficult to overlook.

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It couldn't happen here...could it?
The Truth is out there...

Kolchak Night Stalker
Jeff Rice , Gordon Purcell , and Terry Pallott; Color: Ken Wolak; Cover: Ken Meyer Jr
Manufacturer: Moonstone
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0971012938

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Kolchak the Night Stalker: He's BACK! This is the on that started it all! The inspiration behind the "X-Files"! TV's first paranormal investigator, reporter Carl Kolchak, is drawn into a series of unusual murders in Las Vegas, where all the victims suffer from "severe blood loss". What is really prowling the streets of this gambling mecca? It's Kolchak versus the rest of the world, as he fights for the truth, while battling corruption, ignorance, terror, and ultimately, himself. This first book is an adaptation of the novel, on which one of the most watched TV movies of all time is based. Kolchak's creator, Jeff Rice himself, scripts the story!

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It couldn't happen here...could it?.......2004-02-05

Even thirty years later Jeff Rice's concept of a seasoned newspaper reporter facing down a real honest to goodness vampire has lost none of its freshness, and down on his luck reporter Carl Kolchak remains an inspired creation. This adaptation of the novel reads like a cliff notes version of the tv movie also based on the novel (albeit with some spicier subject matter) and I found myself wishing that more time had been spent developing the characters...would a two-parter adaptation been asking too much? That quibble aside (and yes, the binding on the book could have been much, much better) this is an essential addition to every Kolchak fan's collection. Kolchak lives!

The Truth is out there..........2003-11-13

but only Kolchak, known as the Night Stalker because this reporter does his best work at night, wants the public to know it. The cops, the FBI, the city government wants him to drop the idea that a killer, who also seems to drain the bodies of blood, is a vampire. Yet in the end Kolchak will not only prove homself right, but he'll be the person to save Las Vegas! With the help of his girlfriend and her co-workers.
Great artwork and its wonderful to see a whole comic book in full color. Just splashes of color all over the pages! While the book looks very slim it holds one full story and has lots of background, details and characters.
The only problem I had with this book is the way the binding used up part of the page to attach the pages together. In other words, some sentences and part of the artwork was trapped in the fold and can't be seen. Bummer.

4 Beatles on Cover in Color, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner TV Weekly Oct. 22-28, 1967 ( October Herald Examiner ) Beatles in Hard Days Night, Includes Short Article Taking Dead Aim at Youth By Bob Hull About the Movie Which Was Originally Realeased In19

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4 Beatles on Cover in Color, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner TV Weekly Oct. 22-28, 1967 ( October Herald Examiner ) Beatles in Hard Days Night, Includes Short Article Taking Dead Aim at Youth By Bob Hull About the Movie Which Was Originally Realeased In19
Art Director Gene Cannoy Editor Bob Hull
Manufacturer: Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000JD7IEY

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