Customer Reviews:
A Classic Work!.......2007-10-10
A Review by Seth Kerin, author of The Elder Worlds: Book One
The Hitchhiker's Guide series, in a stunningly bound leather binding, sits on my bookshelf in a place of honor between The Complete Works of Shakespeare, and The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe. Truly Adams was a literary genius.
If you have not read the Guide, "Don't Panic." Just pick up this lovely edition and enjoy the entire series - you will have trouble putting it down. Seriously, it's not only tremendously funny, but also remarkably deep and inspirational. Fellow readers will recognize the multitude of ways one can read into the final thoughts of the bowl of petunias...
This is an absolute must read for any fan of sci-fi/fantasy or general humor. This entire series is the comedic answer to Lord of the Rings, and certainly if they had been contemporaries, Adams and Tolkein would have likely been best of friends.
Buy it. Read it. And don't forget your towel!
Not quite "leather" bound -- but a great collection!.......2007-10-09
This is a nicely bound, leatherette covered book. Great to have the series together for easy access. Unlike another reviewer, I really liked the little ribbon marker! Beware though -- it looks a little like a Bible when you carry it around -- ! But I got a kick out of that. I felt the typesetting could have been a little nicer than what looked like just a photocopy of the pages of the original printing. All in all though, I am very happy with the purchase. A really great value.
For those who love hardbacks.......2007-08-31
Most of us who have read and enjoyed the Hitchhikers books (I won't say trilogy) have reached a point in life where getting by on 30 Altarian dollars a day and reading paperbacks has lost some of its charm. I'm in the process of cleaning up my bookshelves by replacing all the battered paperbacks of my youth with real books. I saw this omnibus edition and thought it was the perfect thing. One book with a pleasant appearance to displace a large number of ratty paperbacks. I almost didn't buy it because the price seemed to low. I thought it would sit pleasantly on my bookshelf until I was in the right mood, but I found myself diving right in and enjoying things I remembered and remembering things I forgot. The quality is much higher than I expected. The binding is very solid and the pages supple. I consider this one of my best book purchases of the year.
Great Quality Book.......2007-08-08
For the price, this book is incredible. It's a nice leatherbound copy, and shipping and everything was extremely quick. Couldn't be happier.
Incoherent is the best!.......2007-07-31
This book was introduced to me by one of the craziest persons I will ever meet in my life: My good canadian friend Amber. Once I read the first page, I was hooked. It's so incoherent, it makes you see your life in another perspective, plus the new vocabulary it uses makes you want to review your dictionary! If you have an open mind, read this whole book. Only one isn't enough (this book has 4 stories and one novel). Amazing, just amazing
Book Description
At last in paperback in one complete volume, here are the five classic novels from Douglas Adams’s beloved Hitchiker series.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Seconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised Guide. Together they stick out their thumbs to the stars and begin a wild journey through time and space.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Facing annihilation at the hands of warmongers is a curious time to crave tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his comrades as they hurtle across the galaxy in a desperate search for a place to eat.
Life, the Universe and Everything
The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky– so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals can avert Armageddon: mild-mannered Arthur Dent and his stalwart crew.
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Back on Earth, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription conspires to thrust him back to reality. So to speak.
Mostly Harmless
Just when Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life, all hell breaks loose. Can he save the Earth from total obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter from herself?
Customer Reviews:
Now this is a deal you CANT afford to miss!.......2007-07-07
Cynical, utterly hilarious, and full of funny, unique, and loveable characters, this is a series you won't want to skip out on, even if your like me and you don't like sci-fi.
That was the thing that kept me from allowing myself to experience the wonders of the first book when I first picked it up. I kept telling myself, this is a sci-fi book, its going to bore me. But it is much more than just a sci-fi book. It is THE most hilarious series I have ever read. Douglas Adams' sense of droll wit and cynicism are astounding, and have allowed me to experience many merry evenings sitting and laughing at these books. (You might also want to check out his excellent Dirk Gently Novels).
The story line may seem simply and boring-which it is definetly not-, but its the happenings, the wonderful narration, and the characters that truly bring this book to life and beyond being just a sci-fi book.
Also included in this selection are some hilarious introductions by the author, and a little biography about him from Neil Gaman, who cowrote Good Omens with one of my other favorite authors Terry Pratchett and wrote American Gods. And while they're probably not totally exclusive to this collection, they are well worth the read, especially the introduction by Douglas Adams.
My favorite summer read of all time.......2007-06-17
One august weekend I hit the back yard armed with this book and a gin and tonic. Over the next few weekends I finished the book, several of the drinks and my neighbors probably came to think I was insane. I've never laughed that loud or that much at any other book. And no I would not chalk it up to the G and T's (I only had a few over the duration of the book) I still think back on that summer with great fondness. Adams is painfully funny, insanely original, and one heck of a fine writer. It's Monty Python meets Doctor Who. Yes there are plenty of people who hate this book or just don't get it. But for those of us who do get it, it's the sort of book that takes on a highly loved place of honor in our library. I would strongly suggest you give it a shot. Grab your towel, a tasty and AGE APPROPRIATE beverage, and head for the back yard or the beach. I guarentee you'll either become one of us, or someone who's deeply confused by one of us.
Summer reading.......2007-06-12
If you are looking for a summer reading book that will not challenge you too much but give you some mindless fun, this is for you. Definitely not highbrow literature, but a fun literary dessert. This includes all 5 books of the "trilogy", so you can keep going for a long time. Recommended for the beach, airport, airplane, train, car.... Witty and fun.
Love or Hate!.......2007-03-13
This is the sort of book you will either love or hate.
I believe there are three sorts of people who could love this book: the cynical, the skeptic, or the novelist.
This book is cynical about absolutely everything from tea to immortality. The way it gripes about everything on such a completely down-to-earth common place level understanding, it is rather uplift.
The skeptic is all through the book, if you can't have you religion mocked a little bit, don't buy it.
There are a mind-numbing number of jokes on actually writing mechanics in this book. You probably won't even notice that they are jokes unless you have actually spent a lot of time trying to write particularly novels.
If you're in these categories you will love this book.
If you aren't, you're probably going to hate it.
That's I warned you.
Thanks For The Fish.......2007-02-14
The HitchHiker is 20th century satire, probably at its best, which is an implicit condemnation of all other competitors to that title. Adams has a few quotes in these books that rank right up there with the best of them. I particularly liked his description of humankind as - ape descended life forms (who) are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. We humans are prone to be so distracted by novel and neat ideas that we never quite get around to assigning them a value that really reflects their place in the wider scheme of things. This is Adams at his best.
The problem with the Hitchiker is that its message is delivered through farce and farce wears extremely thin after about an hour. After two hours all hope of entertainment is lost and all that remains is gold-mining, sifting through endless grains of sand, in the hopes of finding another nugget that makes the whole enterprise worth while.
Adam's primary message is that the universe is absurd, having no sense or purpose to it at all. He cannot quite break away from his humanist roots and there is within his writing, a certain nostalgic longing for the days when truth and virtue actually meant something to people. But Adams is way too far gone to ever grant his characters any real contact with virtue and truth. The one character who comes closest is probably Trillian, the woman who left earth before it was destroyed in search of ... something. Even here, we see Adams lampooning the idea of virtue as a guide to wisdom. Virtue is too easily mislead to be a strength. It's not a bad point. But it is tiresome to have it endlessly repeated through pie-in-the-face slapstick, even if it is imaginatively done.
There is power in the argument that the world is absurd. But it is the power that lives in the world of impressions, not the world of realism. A fellow called "The Preacher" wrote about that 3500 years ago in a book called Ecclesiastes. He makes the same point a lot more clearly and, quite frankly, with far more zeal.
Live life, enjoy what you get out of it, take pleasure in doing the work God has given you to do and contentment is possible.
But thanks for all the fish anyway
Average customer rating:
- Great collection...
- So long Douglas, and thanks for the all the laughs
- Imaginative, brilliant, uneven
- Oh, the irony
- Ultimate Entertainment
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It's safe to say that The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of the funniest science fiction novels ever written. Adams spoofs many core science fiction tropes: space travel, aliens, interstellar war--stripping away all sense of wonder and repainting them as commonplace, even silly.
This omnibus edition begins with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which Arthur Dent is introduced to the galaxy at large when he is rescued by an alien friend seconds before Earth's destruction. Then in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Arthur and his new friends travel to the end of time and discover the true reason for Earth's existence. In Life, the Universe, and Everything, the gang goes on a mission to save the entire universe. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish recounts how Arthur finds true love and "God's Final Message to His Creation." Finally, Mostly Harmless is the story of Arthur's continuing search for home, in which he instead encounters his estranged daughter, who is on her own quest. There's also a bonus short story, "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe," more of a vignette than a full story, which wraps up this completist's package of the Don't Panic chronicles. As the series progresses, its wackier elements diminish, but the satire of human life and foibles is ever present. --Brooks Peck
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This outrageous volume contains six zany, out-of-this-world adventure stories by this incomparable novelist. From the very first to the very latest—all best sellers—includes
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long and Thanks for all the Fish; Young Zaphod Plays it Safe; and
Mostly Harmless. 768 pages.
Customer Reviews:
Great collection..........2007-08-23
Great read, I didn't even know about the Zaphod short story (my own words) that was included in this book. Happy to have all of the stories all in one book and makes it easy for me to go back and reference parts from the earlier stories, especially since I enjoy noting the really good lines.
So long Douglas, and thanks for the all the laughs.......2007-08-20
I've lost track of the number of times I've read the Guide novels over the years. This compilation of a 'trilogy in 5 parts' makes it nice and easy to read them all as one continuous story. I don't really need to elaborate on how good these stories are as those who have read them will already know. But to the uninitiated I strongly urge you to purchase a copy, prop yourself up against your towel, and eat plenty of peanuts. And most importantly, Don't Panic!
Imaginative, brilliant, uneven.......2007-07-28
If finding out your house is about to be bulldozed to make way for a highway bypass is unnerving and life changing, imagine finding out the same is about to happen to your planet. Thus begin the adventures of human Arthur Dent in The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams.
Of course Adams is not the first writer to use science fiction to satirize the foibles of the human race and its institutions and culture (including science fiction), but he does does so with a rare combination of sophistication, style, and humor. His description of why the bypass is being built and why Arthur doesn't know about it alone starts the series off on a scathing note. In the universe of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the book within a book), people sometimes survive government and corporate bureaucracy and personal greed and thoughtlessness, but more often destruction and waste seem to result.
Throughout his post-Earth adventures with Ford Prefect, the two-headed Zaphod Beeblebrox, fellow human Trillian (Tricia McMillan), and Marvin the perpetually downcast robot who takes lows to new highs, Arthur is the proverbial Everyman, whose struggles to make tea (and thus achieve some sense of ordinariness) in his new life result in near-destruction. At one point, he happily serves as "Sandwich Maker" on a pre-technological world that views this skill with awe.
Adams is perhaps strongest in his numerous asides in which he talks about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the publication for which Ford Prefect researches and writes, and the Encyclopedia Galactica; the nature of improbability; the humorously and seemingly invariable and inevitable tragic histories of various planets and races; and various theories surrounding such things as time, space, and infinity, almost always with a slyly serious wink about the absurdity of it all. These digressions allow his imagination and his intellect to soar and in many cases are more interesting than the story itself. This may go back to how The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy begins--that people want to move between Points A and B very fast, and that people at Point C in between (Everyman Arthur Dent) "often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be." There seem to be no Points A and B in Arthur's new universe; there are infinite points and lines and continuums, most of them absurd in one way or another.
With the exception of Trillian, Arthur's fellow travelers are well drawn. The most amusing is, sadly, Marvin, whose programmed depression is annoying and whose perception is accurate.
There are ingenious ideas scattered throughout the six stories, including the irony of a lorry driver who hates the perpetual rain that follows him no matter where he goes because, unbeknownst to him, he is a Rain God.
The problem is that many of these ideas, like life events, crop up randomly, play themselves out, and then seem to fall flat in the end. Undoubtedly, this is part of the universe as Adams sees it; it is made up of absurdity upon absurdity, which may not have neat Point A to Point B progressions. Some of this lack of cohesion also may be the result of transforming material written for episodic radio into book form; a certain sense and continuity may have been lost as the author diverts his tale to Points E, M, and T.
The first two books, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, are the best in the series. Life, the Universe and Everything is, almost as the title promises, too contorted and meandering. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, which takes place on Earth, lacks an engaging focal point, which makes it seem long and tedious at times. "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe" appears to be a throwaway story reflecting the author's views. Mostly Harmless, written at what Adams admitted was a bad time in his life, lacks the élan of the earliest books; it is more downbeat in attitude than its predecessors and borders on determined and grim. Marvin is long gone as comic relief; the weakest character, Tricia/Trillian, now moves to the forefront but without further development; and even Ford Prefect has sobered up, quite out of character. It as though Adams wanted his characters, most notably Random, to reflect his anger and depression and his universe to end without possibility of resurrection--in the same way that Arthur Conan Doyle tried to kill off Sherlock Holmes.
Underneath the satire, the humor, and the bitterness, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide is imaginative and thought provoking, revealing a rare story-telling and writing gift that is brilliant both on the surface and in the depths.
Oh, the irony.......2007-05-12
As usual the movie can't live up to the book. This is a must-read -- one of those points of cultural brilliance that will still be read three hundred years from now. Be prepared for very dry humor, British-style...
Ultimate Entertainment.......2007-01-31
Man, this compilation of the five hitchhiker books is awsome. These books are so entertaining I could puke. In fact I did puke, I was sick at one point while reading these. Seriously though, this is quality quality reading material that will take you away from it all and place you in a land of good times. Looking for a hardy chuckle then here it is. This is original stuff and is deserving of your entertainment concentration.
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Enter the world of the Las Vegas Crime Scene Investigation team in this definitive guide to the groundbreaking television series CSI. This guide includes character profiles, case studies, and focuses on character's forensic specialties. The close-up photography provides an in-depth look into the forensic work of the CSI team. This new title from DK was created in full collaboration with CBS.
Customer Reviews:
CSI: The Coffee Table Book.......2007-08-29
Good for reading once, then just takes up space. Pretty pictures of the cast, talks about the characters as though they were real people.
Nice pictures - little content.......2007-01-18
I thought the book was nice - great graphics, extras, etc. However, the book is small for the price.
Excellent Read.......2007-01-15
If you love CSI, this is the book for you. Loads of full color pictures and glossery terms explaining what all the terms those CSIs throw around really mean. Individually write ups on all the characters and just a really fun read. I highly recommend.
Ultimate CSI---The original title says it all........2007-01-11
This is a must have for fans of the CSI series. Has a nice layout and the pictures alone are worth the price of the book.
Great book.......2007-01-10
I loved this book, it covers all six seasons and then some. Gives some very good insight into the show and the forensics as well as the characters. I am so glad I bought it. I recommend it.
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- UPDATED THROUGH 2005!
- Everything you wanted to know about Superman, but were afraid to ask!
- Review From a Future Critic
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From the doomed planet Krypton to Smallville, Kansas, to the great (but often troubled) city of Metropolis, a powerful superhero has fought for truth, justice, and the American way for over 70 years. In this breathtaking tribute to the man of steel himself, all the nitty-gritty, fascinating details of Superman's life and career are investigated, analyzed, and celebrated. Discover just what happened back on Krypton to propel infant "Kal-El" to Earth as the one Kryptonian hope for rebirth of their civilization. Learn how a loving farm family named Kent adopted the baby, renamed him Clark, and instilled him with solid American values. And meet the many, many friends and enemies of our hero, including, fiercely independent but lovable Lois Lane, the nasty Joker, and Doomsday, the unstoppable creature that killed Superman.
Allowed unlimited access to the archives of DC Comics, author Scott Beatty delved deep, coming up with the kind of details fans will fall all over themselves to peruse, including each featured character's vital statistics and year of appearance on the Superman scene. The large book format, compelling, readable text, and many crystal-clear illustrations in The Ultimate Guide are in keeping with Dorling Kindersley's signature style. A true treasure for superhero buffs! (All ages) --Emilie Coulter
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Perfect for both die-hard fans and casual readers, this fully updated edition of DK's classic guide tells you everything you need to know about Superman's 60+ year fight for truth, justice, and the American way.
Customer Reviews:
UPDATED THROUGH 2005!.......2006-07-26
Superman: The Ultimate Guide to the Man of Steel has been out for a few years now, but with the latest Superman film, "Superman Returns" just hitting theaters, DK has revised their fantastic guide to the first and greatest superhero of all! This 144 page, oversized hardcover book contains just about everything you ever wanted to know about Superman. Written by comic industry pro Scott Beatty this is a fun and informative walk through Superman's long history as we meet friend and foe alike.
The book begins with a long look at the history of Superman's home world of Krypton and its long history which incorporates many of the modern concepts devised by both John Byrne and Dan Jurgens during their runs as the writer of Superman's adventures. This includes a large map of Krypton, one of several two page maps in the book. From there the book moves to Superman's early life in Smallville after being taken in as an infant by the Kents. Included here is a complete rundown of all of Superman's powers from his laser vision to his super hearing. There is another great two page map of Metropolis with important buildings such as the Daily Planet, Lexcorp Towers, and S.T.A.R. Labs noted for the reader.
Next up we have lengthy chapters that highlight Superman's major foes such as Lex Luthor, Doomsday, Brainiac, Metallo, Darkseid, Mongul, Imperiex, The Cyborg, and many more. These give a brief history of the villain along with their powers and some of their previous plots. The issue with their first appearance is also noted. Next we get the same for Superman's friends and allies like Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Supergirl, Steel, and the Eradicator.
The last chapter is actually my favorite and takes a look at Superman's career from the Golden Age right up through the present. This chapter shows how the character has evolved over his nearly 70 years of existence. Complementing this chapter is 16 page timeline spanning his first appearance in Action comics #1 in 1938, right up through the end of 2005. This year-by-year rundown notes important events and issues in Superman's career and is invaluable for both fans and comic book collectors.
As with all DK's Ultimate Guides, the Superman book is a visual treat with stunning art and an eye for detail. A welcome addition to the library of any Superman fan!
Reviewed by Tim Janson
Everything you wanted to know about Superman, but were afraid to ask!.......2005-09-24
I grew up as a fan of Superman, but I never really read the comics. Recently I have gottn back into following the exploits of the Man of Steel, but there was so much I missed. This book has helped explain a lot without me having to go back and buy all the back issues of the comics. The layout is wonderful, and the information is top notch. If you're a Superman fan, I think this would make a worthy addition to your collection.
Review From a Future Critic.......2005-06-15
In "Superman- the Animated Series" Brianiac is a computer from Krypton. I would've gone on assuming that was true in the real Superman comic if it wasn't for this book. It was definately wonderful and nesscessary for me to buy this book.
Superman.......2004-11-03
This book deals with the new Superman of post-1986, the hack reworking of the character by that hack John Byrne. I would have loved a complete guide to the man of steel that was truly complete. I don't like most of the art in this book, which has been done by someone lacking any real knowledge of anatomy (and who seems to love musclebound pinhead bodybuilders). But for all its faults (and the thinness of the book is another big one), for those of us who don't know a lot about the new Superman, it is informative. As with all DK books it is very heavy on illustration, short on text. I could have used a bit more detail.
I guess it's okay--if you like the newer Superman........2004-09-27
I should have read some of the earlier reviews on this Website. This book may serve fans of the newer Superman, but it does little for the fans of the older Superman.
Superman comics lost my readership in 1970, when everything turned bigger and shinier. Except for the first 7 pages of the chronology in the back, this book deals exclusively with the additions to the Superman legend which have taken place then. The illustrations and the text are supposed to impress the reader with how great Metropolis is, what a giant corporation LexCorp is, and how terrifying the villains are.
I would gladly trade in all this hyperbole for the writing style of the earlier writers.
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CultTVman's Ultimate Modeling Guide to Classic Science Fiction Movies features 152 pages of material covering all your classic science fiction subjects: Forbidden Planet, War of the Worlds, 2001, A Space Odyssey and more!
Contents includes: A Trip to the Moon - the first sci-fi movie spaceship; Flash Gordon's Rocketship; Destination Moon's Luna; Rocketship X-M; Gort from The Day The Earth Stood Still; The War of the Worlds Martian War; The Nautilus from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; The C-57D from Forbidden Planet; Robby the Robot; The Time Machine; The Proteus from Fantastic Voyage; The Planet of the Apes spaceship; The Discovery from 2001 and 2010; The Orion from 2001; The Enterprise from Star Trek the Motion Picture. The introduction is by Star Trek's Rick Sternbach
Among the model building information and techniques are painting your ships; diorama creation; metalic paint finishes; lighting; resin building; casting parts; resin figure building; styrene kit construction; creative model displays; aftermarket parts. Articles about the Discovery and Enterprise studio models.
Contributors include: John Lester from Starship Modeler, Jim Piszar, Dave Bengel of Skyhook Models, Bill Bryan, Ron Gross, Jim James, Marc King, S.M. Clark, Joel Tavera, Shane Johnson, Greg Harmon, Mike Evans from Lunar Models, Michael Alvarez, Jay Chladek, Don Matthys, and Kyu Woong-Lee.
Customer Reviews:
Covers some unsual model kit builds..........2007-08-31
Everything from a Disney Nautilus to George Pal's Time Machine. Tons of tips and how to do casting, making molds, tricks for better details on models. If you like to scratchbuild, this books is chocked full of good information.
Belongs in every Sci Fi Model Library.......2002-07-16
Few books devoted to science fiction modelmaking have punctuated the monotonous and predictable landscape of model building related books, and this one is a stand-out! "The Ultimate Modeling Guide..." covers a broad range of science fiction hardware and model making techniques. Excellent photography supports detailed and authoritative text. I've found it to be instructional and inspirational. This book is for anyone interested in modelmaking. And for the sci-fi specific modelmaker, you library is sorely incomplete until you get this book. I highly recommend it!
At last, a book for sci fi modelers!.......2002-07-13
Reference books and how-to books for modelers are a small niche in the market, and they've been almost entirely oriented toward the military modeler. Now at last is an in-depth how-to book for the science fiction kit builder. We're not out in the cold any more! Steve Iverson has gathered a gaggle of the best sci fi modelers from around the CultTVMan internet community, and they've given us step-by-step articles on building and improving such kits as Polar Lights' Robbie the Robot and C-57D spaceship, Lunar Models' Proteus and Discovey, and many other mainstream and garage industry models. The book is capped off with a fascinating history of the filming model of the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek: The Motion Picture through its retirement, with some wonderful reference photos of the ship - worth the price of admission alone!
Classic kits, Classic reviews.......2002-07-13
I picked up Cult's book at WonderFest with egar anticipation. What was contained in the book did not dissapoint. It was filled with great kits I never knew existed (& now want) as well as great ideas & tips on building them. I can't say enough about this book & how it will help me build a better kit.
Kalmbach Publishing should be taking notes..........2002-07-13
This is a very slickly produced book, with lots of great, clear photography. This book covers a wide range of classic scifi modeling subjects, with tons of advice and pointers on many different facets of scale modeling. It completely blows away the Trek and Wars books published by Kalmbach, in terms of relevancy to modelers and quality of the publication - not to mention the great looking models produced by the authors of the chapters. If you enjoy science fiction modeling, and are looking to improve your skills and learn new techniques, this book will be a huge asset to your reference material. And keep checking out the CultTVMan web site...
Book Description
The Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter: Books 1-4 shows would-be sleuths how to hunt for JK Rowling's clues in a fun-to-read manner. With this Guide in one hand and the Harry Potter books in the other, you'll read the series in a whole new light as you:
• uncover the detail with which Rowling has crafted her story and her world • delve below the surface to ferret out Rowling's sly clues
Not only will you be amazed at how deceptively Rowling's hidden those clues, you'll learn how to discover new ones on your own! There are questions in Books 1-4 Rowling still hasn't answered, even after Book 6! Do you know what they are?
The Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter is for you if:
• You're new to the series and want a leg up or • You've read all the books, but it's been a while.
Pull out your memories for another look and tighten your skills!
Do you know how to solve Snape's poison bottle puzzle in the room "through the trapdoor?" Did you know there are actually 2 solutions to that puzzle?
Do you know what Rowling told us in the first four books about the secrets Neville and Professor Snape hold? Do you understand exactly how Dumbledore's "Mirror of Erised" worked? (Rowling's said we'll see it again!) Are you aware that what Harry saw in the Mirror was not accurate?
Here's what the Guide says about spotting a clue: "In chapter 16 of Book 1, J.K. Rowling writes that Harry 'watched an owl flutter toward the school across the bright blue sky, a note clamped in its mouth.' Even after reading the book several times, it still catches readers by surprise when they realize that this note was the message used to trick Headmaster Dumbledore into leaving the school for a trip to London. That clue doesn't help us solve the plot of the book and it was never explained or mentioned again, but when we then see a similar clue in Book 4, we need to pay much closer attention! Look for yourself - it's awesome!"
The Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter is best read alongside JK Rowling's books—not as a replacement! It does not give the plot away in advance, but there IS a spoiler warning because it discusses the endings of each of the books in chronological order.
No Harry Potter collection is complete without the Guide. Written by fans for fans, it is the perfect holiday gift for the Potter fan in your life—or yourself!
Customer Reviews:
Oh, the joys of analyzing!.......2007-01-10
Here's a great little book that carefully and fanatically considers every scrap of information in the first four Harry Potter books. It is made for the hard-core, obsessive fan, and I'm sure that they will love it. It's charmingly written as it analyzes information in a delightfully hard-core way. I originally purchased it back in the day, and even now I have a great time going back through it. Some of the ideas are admittedly funky, but the whole book opens us a fun new approach to the wild world of Potterholic fandom.
Very Interesting read.......2006-08-26
I enjoyed this book very much. It gave great insight as to the meanings behind the writings of JK Rowling, and much to think about as far as the books go. Anybody who loves the Harry Potter books will enjoy reading this guide. Great entertainment while you wait for Book 7.
Harry Potter 1-4 Notes.......2006-08-21
I thought that I had read books 1-4 thoroughly at least twice each, but after reading this hint book I need to go back and read them again. A lot of work went into this analysis. Harry Potter fans will find this an excellent book to accompany the series.
Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter (Analysis of Books 1-4).......2006-07-10
I really liked it, it gave a lot of insight on what things may unfold in the books to come. I enjoyed the set up, everything was neatly organized, the Chapter-by-chapter analysis was pretty good, I would recommend this book to everyone, even though two more books have been released, it still is a great read.
A Must Read.......2006-04-08
Although some of the "detectors" of mysteries were silly this book gives a lot of insight into the unknown relms of Harry Potter. It makes connections I wouldn't have noticed as many times as I have read the books. It's a great book to read!
Average customer rating:
- Good book, but not in good condition.
- more than a rehash
- This is a great book
- A Great Book!
- Great!
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Customer Reviews:
Good book, but not in good condition........2006-09-16
Very good book. However, when I recived my copy, the spine was pulling way from the outside spine. Other than that, good read.
more than a rehash.......2005-10-16
This is an excellent supplement to those Mud People who are fascinated by the Faery folk. Unlike a lot of tie in books, this is not written by publisher's staffers to squeeze a few more shekels from the consumer.
This is a stand alone work of which provides history of into magick society and insight into the Fowl characters.
Definitely worth reading.
This is a great book.......2005-10-11
Iam in fifth gread and I gave this book a five star books because it was a wonderful book.I think you should read this book I think you would love this book. If you don't like this book... you should read it and you will fall in love with it. I did and so will you. If you realy should realy is a good book. You would realy like thik you should like this book. If you don't like the ARTEMIS FOWL YOU SHOULD RETHINK AGAIN.
A Great Book!.......2005-10-06
What if failure was not an option? Giving up on something never happened, or failure was not just a crutch to fall onto. This lifestyle would be perfect for Holly Short from the story The Artemis Fowl Files. She never takes no for an answer, never settling for second best. This is her style and she gets through life with amazing success because of her mentality. I think that this is a good life theme. It would be useful for everyday work.
Holly is a police officer for the LEP, a fairy organization that protects the underground cities. She is happy with her job but feels like something is missing, she wants to become an elite fairy and work in recon. The only thing is that there has never been a female fairy to make it into recon and it is a hard job. This does not scare her; she is a good police officer. She is not going to lose sight of her dream when she has worked so hard to get this far. This shows her mentality is to never give up and always follow her dreams.
I thought this was a well written book that was a good read. It was even fun because of all the things that are in the middle of the book to do while reading the book. I liked the first story in the book more than the other one because oh how strong Holly's character is.
Great!.......2005-08-04
There are fascinating interviews with the major characters from the Artemis Fowl series, and a dictionary..etc. The two short stories are still interesting and funny as any other book Mr. Colfer wrote. Definetly Read this wonderful book!
Book Description
HP Sleuths are clever fans who know how to ferret out the clues J.K. Rowling has hidden in her septology, fans who revel in the quest of divining what is yet to come from those concealed mysteries.
HP Sleuths aren't quite ready to be told answers to the mysteries in J.K.R.'s fifth installment of the Harry Potter series -- but they do want to know if they are on the right track. This unusual book provides the hints and clues readers need to unravel these complex mysteries themselves. New Clues to Harry Potter: Book 5 is a "hints only" guide and is in a different format from our Ultimate Unofficial Guide. It includes lots of FAQs to explain some of the more complex events that occurred in Book 5. It also points HP Sleuths to the right sections so you know precisely where to look for all the mega clues we have spotted, and has a lot of big hints and tools that you need so you can start solving the mysteries. The HP Hintoscope, WWP Sleuthoscope and Rememberit Quill will all help too! But we won't be openly exposing all of the answers in this "New Clues" Guide. Includes:
• Special tools to investigate the mysteries in Book 5 • New Guide of Clues to Harry Potter • Cool reference materials to keep key clues fresh
HP Sleuths who are ready for the answers can find them in the new Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter (Analysis of Book 5), the full analysis released by Wizarding World Press before the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, in July of 2005. Get ready to pull out your memories and take a look—you'll be amazed at what there is to see!
Customer Reviews:
Lots of obsessed-fan fun.......2007-01-10
What makes this book sparkle is its flavorful tackle of Book #5. I originally bought this back in the day, when it was first published, and was pleasantly surprised; even now I still examine it every now and then for future ideas that might occur in the series' final installment. This book was written for those kinds of people, the crazy fans that want to over-analyze every little detail. It's great fun, folks.
The book is written in a close, personal, and gritty manner with the foremost objective of tackling information and secrets, and it does so most impressively. Someone was thinking when this was written, and it shows! Theories are discussed thoroughly, and impressively backed up with book/interview information.
While a lot of ideas presented should probably be taken with a grain of salt, it is this over-extention that makes this piece so awesome. This is a great little source for those just beginning the series, or those that just want to look back to re-analyze things. Heck, it's just fun.
New Clues to Harry Potter Book 5.......2005-10-20
This one is a little harder to follow, but it is definately making me gop back and re-read book 5, there is so much that I missed the first 6 or so times!!
If I were an English lit scholar...........2005-09-04
I might have enjoyed this book. As it was, the hints were too vague and arch (as in mischievous, saucy) for the non- philologists. I have gotten clearer explanations of esoteric references in HP out of reading the boards on the various web sites. Speaking of the boards, here's a link that will take you to a discussion of Galadriel and WWF on The Sugar Quill.
Galadiel Waters and her team have spent a great deal of time on this quest, but IMHO, the WWF books are for the Hermoines of the world who solve every problem by going to the library.
not so good.......2005-07-23
really, if I had the time to research all the references and books the author mentions, I would write my own guide!! Not worth the effort unless you aspire to PhD in Philology...
Holy Sleuthing, Batman, it's Harry Potter!!!!.......2005-07-15
A thoroughly enjoyable HP sleuth effort. I read the entire extant HP corpus 5 times last year (I AM NOT obsessed!) But this little gem made want to read OotP again. I missed many clues, apparently! This one goes into my permanent library for re-reading after the new HP 6 is read! WWP SCORES A PERFECT 10!
Customer Reviews:
no title.......2005-12-30
Whew! What a tome! Oversized paperback of over 600 pages and thin paper at that. Filled with any and everything about bicycles you could possible imagine. Lots of terrific illustrations and pictures, many from very early times. Much so darned technical, about all the zillion parts of a bike, that I must admit I skimmed over. Pages and pages of footnotes, a glossary and a huge, huge bibliography containing even videos and artwork and music about bikes. This book just leaves no stone unturned in discussing its subject. It's more than you want to know. Even recipes, which of course I made, two of which were horrible; the pasta carbonera and fruit punch delicious. Perry is to be commended for the extraordinary amount of work done to write this treatise.
"Cult?"--Seems Normal To Me!.......2004-01-31
What a great book! At time of its release in 1995, "Bike Cult" was the first attempt at an encyclopaedia of cycling. This fat book (570 rather dense pages) covers the history of the bicycle its high-performance engine (that is, the human body), the bicycle as transportation and, lastly, the culture of the bicycle and the effect it has had on the human spirit.
There have been some changes in bicycle technology since 1995, and of course the tables of race winners is out of date, but "Bike Cult" remains a fascinating look into the origins and use of "the perfect machine." I enjoyed the lovingly described history, which not only went over the bicycle as a whole but devotes sections to individual parts of the bike, such as handlebars and seats, and the whole question of how a bicycle is steered. It is a mad compendium of information: there is a list of international names for bicycles and related items on page 99, and we learn that the Hawaiian word for bicycle is ka'a paikikala, while in Uruguay it is known as a chiba.
The benefits of cycling are described in detail but there is no attempt to shield us from descriptions of bicycle ailments discovered in the heyday of cycling in the 1890s. However, in these times of great concern about the rise of obesity in America and Europe it is clear that the bicycle offers a solution, particularly when we read that Tour de France riders burn 6,000-9,000 calories per day!
But where are we to ride, given the modern, car-centric world we live in? The section of the book entitled "Bikeable Planet" is beguiling. For a brief and glorious moment, bicycles were actually seen as the best transportation alternative for the West and in some countries they still are. Too often derided as a child's toy and treated by motorists as a menace, the bicycle can, with proper planning, be integrated into an urban transportation network. Low-cost in terms of acquisition, space requirements and maintenance, the bicycle in operation does not pollute, create noise or horrific traffic congestion. In the United States alone each year more than 40,000 people are killed in traffic accidents. Nonetheless, those who would propose bicycle-inclusive transportation systems are often derided as dreamers or utopian socialists or worse. This section of "Bike Cult" is provocative but perhaps only because our society has gone in an illogical direction.
Author David Perry, who operates a bicycle shop in New York City, then takes us on a tour of cycling as a sport, including not only the expected pro racing/Tour de France information, but also strange sports such as Indoor Cycling and Bicycle Polo. Then our long journey takes us into art and bicycles and fashion and bicycles and even sex and bicycles.
"Whoever invented the bicycle deserves the thanks of humanity," said Lord Charles Beresford. And we should thank David Perry for this enchanting and entertaining look at the bicycle in all its forms and seasons. This is the kind of book that gives pleasure every time one opens it, reading at random. Addictive!
For All Bike Lovers.......2003-12-23
This book definitely caters to bicyclists of all types, with an exhaustive array of passages concerning all aspects of the bicycle. Dave Perry covers pretty much covers all the bases with his highly enjoyable writing style, and scattered illustrations on almost every page. I particularly enjoyed the role of the bicycle as personal transportation AND as a working tool, not only in the States, but all over the world. The book makes the simple bike a cult symbol to the reader, and sets itself apart from all those other books out there by leaving out the "what gear do I need?" sections and fix-it-yourself stuff, and keeping the love for the bike foremost in your mind.
Fun, somewhat useful and hopelessly stuck in the 1960s.......1999-05-14
This is certainly an enjoyable book to dip into and read, so long as you don't take all of what you read as gospel. It's very much a political tract of the "appropriate-technology" school which likes to paint a picture of a utopian society that has all the benifits of industrialization without industrialization per se, and the benifits of large-scale economies while pushing small planned economies.
Not to say that there aren't a lot of desirable notions they push. What bicyclist wouldn't like to live in a car-free village where you could actually do your shopping safely on a bike? Who wouldn't like a car-free inter-city bicycle highway? Of course, such bike roadways rapidly become pedestrian/roller blade/dog walking routes with 12 mph speed limits, and the car-free city is great until you need a refrigerator delivered or have to move, or perhaps need an ambulence.
But it's still a fun read.
Enjoyable, with a lot of Gee, I didn't know that........1998-12-04
An informative, entertaining great for rainy/snowy days book loaded with history,information, evolution of cycling and human powered vehicles. Not a repair manual, but some tips are given. Lot's of information on health and safety.
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