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Here, for the first time, John Parker cuts through the rumor, gossip and hype, and with the help of school friends, teachers, and work colleagues, provides a revealing new insight into the real Bruce Willis. ... Read more

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Very Poorly Researched & Written
I was very eager to read this book, "Bruce Willis: The Unauthorized Biography" by John Parker as I am a big Bruce Willis fan and wish to learn all I can about this fascinating and talented actor. However this book did not tell me anything that I did not already know. Instead, it just rehashed the plots of his movies and TV appearances and included slapjack commentary by the author.

The book is a total of 250 pages long and was published in 1997 (the actual "story" only goes up to the summer of '96 though) and this was published in the UK by Virgin Books. There aren't any in-depth or exclusive interviews nor did the author do any prior research.

The only thing I like about the book is the cover, a nice pic of Bruce.

I get the feeling that Mr. Parker relied mostly on "news reports" (i.e. 20 year-old magazine articles) to piece this book together which just came off as sloppy and shoddy because there were numerous inaccuracies and grammatical errors. And he even got the plots of some of Bruce's most well-known movies wrong which makes me question Mr. Parker's motives in writing this foolishness.

The book also takes a ton of dips and discuses the movie plots of Demi Moore as well as the movies and careers of several other Hollywood actors (past, present and current). What does this have to do with Bruce Willis's biography? Not a thing!!! It should not have found a home in Bruce's book, yet I suppose journalistic integrity has very little to do with making a quick buck.

The author also writes about Bruce Willis's hometown in NJ as if it were some flyover Midwestern state that no one has ever heard of. Again, no references to back up these claims were provided because not a lick of research was conducted.

The pictures provided (a few black and white ones) go perfectly with the text: boring, old, low-quality and incredibly unoriginal. There are even pictures of Demi Moore (again, what does this have to do with Bruce Willis's biography??) thrown in, no doubt for pointless filler.

The sad thing is, "Bruce Willis: The Unauthorized Biography" is the only Bruce Willis biography to date. Perhaps the author knew this and simply did not wish to put any extra effort into this project. Shame on him for such a lazy and lackluster job. Bruce deserves better. One day I hope there will be a comprehensive book about him (he sure deserves it), but in the meantime stay away from this one as it's was a huge waste.

Bruce Willis
It was an excellent book. I love it. (My Mom tells me i read it too much.) He is the best actor. I have been dieing to meet him though I doubt I ever will. I think it you have ever meet Bruce Willis you are a very lucky person. I would die to meet him. He is a great actor. Everytime someone asks me what a good movie is, I just tell them get a movie with Bruce Willis in it and your set. I g2g byebye.
LONG LIVE WILLIS!

Lovely Boys
You know it is funny but i think this book is just a front to pump bruce to his man but is it working for real???

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Bruce Willis
Oh God, I just love Bruce Willis, he is the best actor I have ever seen.Since I`m from Brazil and I have no way to meet him sometimes I fell very sad, but I try to watch one of his movies every week. kisses karen ... Read more

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With the hilarious “instant cult classic” Seagalogy:A Study of the Ass-Kicking Films of Steven Seagal, Vern wrote a book that shook thevery foundations of film criticism, broke their wrists, and then threw them througha window. Now he’s back, and this time he’s got all of ‘the films of badass cinema’in his sights...

From Die Hard to The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Transformers to Mary Poppins, Vern has an opinion on everything, and he’s not shy about sharingthem... ... Read more

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Vern is a Genius
Seagalogy was wonderful and so is this. Vern's unique perspective gives me the sense that just by reading his reviews I am participating in a special world where action is king and the hero always kicks ass.

Vern's own declaration of badass intent is inscribed right there on page one:

"WHO'S SEEN DIE HARD?

anybody? --vern"

And, just like that, he roundhoused his way into film-writing history.

Funny, irreverent, and sometimes surprisingly thoughtful movie reviews
Yippee Ki-Yay Moviegoer isn't so much a book about Bruce Willis as it is a collection of Vern's reviews from years past, but aside from the slightly misleading title (it does say "And Other Important Topics"), I really enjoyed the heck out of this book. Vern's reviews and rants are funny, irreverent at times, reverent at other times (or at the same time), and are often surprisingly insightful.

I love pop culture. Back in the ivory tower of academia, I tried my hardest to work in pop culture whenever I could, and I was lucky enough to have a department that was very openminded about that sort of thing. My film studies professor would grumble about my choices of films in his classes, but by god, I wanted to talk about Serenity and Sleepy Hollow and the first two X-Men movies.

So I read Vern's reviews with that unfortunately tendency of recent grad students to pick them apart. To my surprise, the vast majority of them passed my film geek litmus test. His rant about Michael Bay's Transformers was not only hilarious in its righteous indignation but also very, very true. Vern makes solid arguments about why Bay's quick-cut-can't-tell-what-you're-looking-at directing style is crap and why Hollywood shouldn't go down that path when it comes to action. I'll admit that I often enjoy movies that don't require any kind of brain-engagement, but Vern makes a damn good point. Summer blockbuster does not equal stupid movie with explosions, and it's time for moviegoers to stop buying into that idea. Let's get back to smart action films like Die Hard and Aliens.

If you're a stickler for proper grammar and spelling, you might need to take a valium before reading this book. Vern's writing style is not terribly polished, and he often misspells characters' names (reading Hans Solo made something inside of me shrivel up and die), but at the same time, that style is part of his charm. He doesn't give a crap if his reviews pass muster with a picky writer like me. He just wants to talk about movies, dang it.

And talk he does. One of my favorite reviews is for They Live, a movie I've never actually seen but have heard of. Specifically, I've watched the five minute long fight scene in the alley, the whole purpose of which was for our mulleted hero to get his buddy to put on a pair of glasses so he could see the aliens. My friends and I watched that scene and laughed at it. But Vern's review made me actually want to watch the whole thing to see if his point about the movie's representation of the Reagan-era US is right. Whether it is or not, it's definitely a thoughtful review of a movie most people wouldn't even bother watching.

I think that's the thing I appreciate most about this book. The majority of the movies he reviews are ones that people don't take seriously. They're action films and horror films and what have you, and many people think those aren't worth talking about. I'm of a mind, though, that pretty much everything our culture produces is worth looking at and talking about (which is probably why I liked grad school so much, hehe), and so it was really great to be both enlightened and entertained by Vern's reviews. Good stuff.

A missed opportunity.
A step down from the Authors freshman book, Seagalogy.This book is sorta all over the place.Only the last small section is about Bruce Willis.The rest is full of rambling reviews of a mish-mash of different films.Some action, some not.I expected to read a book like Seagalogy but about Bruce Willis.

You get the sense that the book is a printout of a bunch of his movie reviews from aintitcool.com that were bound into a book and titled with a hip cover.

Sadly, as an action film fan.This book is a missed opportunity.

Yippee Ki-Yay indeed.

Vern is one of the few writers out there who approaches popular movies with the same kind of enthusiasm and attention that highbrow critics lavish on "important" films. He makes reading about action films almost as much fun as watching them. I'm only halfway through Yippee Ki-Yay Moviegoer, and I can't wait to get down to my local (independently owned) video store so that I can catch up on some classics.

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Not Free SF Reader
A reasonable collection of fantasy, with a 3.55 average.The best stories being Garth Nix's very funny and clever giant monster short, and Laird Barron's horror piece.

There is a quite brief piece by the editors about the state and source of stories in general, and each individual tale is prefaced with further info.

A solid 4, this book

Year's Best Fantasy 6 : Eating Hearts - Yoon Ha Lee
Year's Best Fantasy 6 : The Denial - Bruce Sterling
Year's Best Fantasy 6 : The Fraud - Esther Friesner
Year's Best Fantasy 6 : Sunbird - Neil Gaiman
Year's Best Fantasy 6 : Shard of Glass - Alaya Dawn Johnson
Year's Best Fantasy 6 : The Farmer's Cat - Jeff Vandermeer
Year's Best Fantasy 6 : Crab Apple - Patrick Samphire
Year's Best Fantasy 6 : The Comber - Gene Wolfe
Year's Best Fantasy 6 : Walpurgis Afternoon - Deliah Sherman
Year's Best Fantasy 6 : Monster - Kelly Link
Year's Best Fantasy 6 : Robots and Falling Hearts - Tim Pratt and Greg van Eekhout
Year's Best Fantasy 6 : Still Life with B00bs - Ann Harris
Year's Best Fantasy 6 : Heads Up Thumbs Down - Gavin J. Grant
Year's Best Fantasy 6 : Newbie Wrangler - Timothy J. Anderson
Year's Best Fantasy 6 : Being Here - Claude Lalumière
Year's Best Fantasy 6 : Mom and Mother Theresa - Candas Jane Dorsey
Year's Best Fantasy 6 : The Imago Sequence - Laird Barron
Year's Best Fantasy 6 : Magic in a Certain Slant of Light - Deborah Coates
Year's Best Fantasy 6 : Single White Farmhouse - Heather Shaw
Year's Best Fantasy 6 : Read It in the Headlines! - Garth Nix
Year's Best Fantasy 6 : Niels Bohr and the Sleeping Dane - Jonathon Sullivan
Year's Best Fantasy 6 : Mortegarde - Liz Williams
Year's Best Fantasy 6 : Inside Job - Connie Willis


Perfect magician, belt up and bonk.

3 out of 5


We're dead, stupid.

3.5 out of 5


Pregnant unicorn variation end.

4 out of 5


"I have a presentiment of doom upon me," ..."And I fear it shall come to us with barbecue sauce."

4 out of 5


Racist memory power runaway.

4 out of 5


Moggie ursa major makes troll mob minor.

3.5 out of 5


Dryad heart dump.

3 out of 5


Swiftly tilting city.

4 out of 5


Witchiness good for gardens.

3.5 out of 5


Hey, Bungalow Jim
I Might Eat Him

3.5 out of 5


Reality altering with replicating rodent robots. With a bit of mechanical criticism of the critical literary abilities of people.

3.5 out of 5


Mendicant mammaries.

4 out of 5


Sound of music is Matchless.

3 out of 5


Gud is bloody lazy, Zep Boy.

3.5 out of 5


Can't see this one, maybe that's us.

2.5 out of 5


No Aunt, just gimme shelter.

3 out of 5


Awful art lust trephination escape cave meld.

4 out of 5


Predicting dirigible desperation.

4 out of 5


Architectural pr0n, same?

3.5 out of 5


Very large Daikaiju font.

4.5 out of 5


Statue sword-slinger saves scientist.

4 out of 5


World Tree gatespeaking wyvern blood lecture dissection decision.

3.5 out of 5


Making monkeys of mediums.

4 out of 5



4 out of 5

Bizarre and beautiful
YEAR'S BEST FANTASY 6, edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, is an engaging anthology of the absurd, the fantastic, the beautiful, and the horrifying, comprising twenty-three stories written by some of the best in the industry. The tales range from light and whimsical, as in "Still Life with Boobs" by Anne Harris, to dark and chilling, as in Laird Barron's much-acclaimed novella, "The Imago Sequence," which has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award in the long fiction category for 2005.

The book comes in with a tiger in Yoon Ha Lee's elegant parable "Eating Hearts," and goes out with a tiger, in Connie Willis's smartly crafted homage to H. L. Mencken entitled "Inside Job." Kelly Link's outstanding "Monster" is a tongue-in-cheek modern-day version of Beowulf in a boys' summer camp; and Bruce Sterling's satirical "The Denial" brings to mind the genius of Isaac B. Singer. Authors include Esther M. Friesner, Neil Gaiman, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Jeff VanderMeer, Patrick Samphire, Gene Wolfe, Delia Sherman, Tim Pratt and Greg van Eekhout, Gavin J. Grant (husband to Kelly Link), Candas Jane Dorsey, Timothy J. Anderson, Claude Lalumière, Deborah Coates, Heather Shaw, Garth Nix, Jonathon Sullivan, and Liz Williams.

Award recipient David G. Hartwell is the senior editor at Tor/Forge Books, the publisher of THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION, and the author of AGE OF WONDERS.

World Fantasy Award winner Kathryn Cramer is an editor at THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION. She has also co-edited the outstanding anthologies, THE ASCENT OF WONDER, THE HARD SF RENAISSANCE, and the YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION series.

YEAR'S BEST FANTASY 6 is highly recommended reading for anyone who enjoys variety in the fantastic.
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Legends of Health & Fitness are non-fictionalized storiesthat present the lives of contemporary, health and fitness role modelsfor young adults. These are the stories of real men and women who,despite busy lives, find time each day to ensure their health. Eachbook in the series begins with a chapter that gives a history andbackground of the sport or career and ties the sport to health andfitness.

Legends of Health & Fitness are apropriate for all middleschool and high school students who want to lead a healthy and fitlifestyle.

The book, Male Fitness Stars of TV and the Movies profilesSylvester Stalone, John Travolta, Bruce Willis, and WesleySnipes. Fitness is paramount to the careers of these four superstars. ... Read more

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Aesthetics of Equilibrium is the first book-length comparative analysis of the theoretical prose by two major Latin American vanguardist contemporaries, Mário de Andrade (Brazil, 1893-1945) and Vicente Huidobro (Chile, 1893-1948). Willis offers a comparative study of two allegorical texts, Huidobro's "Non serviam" and Mário's "Parábola d’A escrava que não é Isaura." ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Adinkra is the name given the colorful, hand-painted and hand- embroided cloth used for mourning by the Akan people of Ghana and Cote D Ivore. Stylistic symbols called adinkra symbols are printed on these cloths. The cloth and symbols express the wearer s feeling and sentiment about the deceased. The symbols convey a parting message to that individual. When a person wears this type of clothing, one knows that the person is in mourning. ... Read more

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African Design Book
This is a wonderful book for anyone who is into design.I use the design aspects in clothing embellishment and in art quilts.The book is simple but contains lots of information.I would recommend it to anyone in the design field.

Valuable Reference
This book arrived in great condition.It is going to be a graduation gift, so I'm very happy for the excellent condition.I own a copy of the book.It's a well-written reference for one of the most poetic and insightful elements of Ghanaian society.Volumes of wisdom can be learned from this one book!

A must have
Very well put together. Easily understood content. A must have for those interested in West African culture.

A resource for ALL
Contrary to the review of Oct. 16th, 2001, Adinkra is NOT a language of a secret society known by only a "select few." If it were, this dictionary should never have been published. I find this book to be a terrific resource (with a few minor errors that have been corrected by an addendum), full of meaning for everybody. I have owned a copy for a few years and highly recommend it.

Very Good Resource Book
This is an excellant resource book for graphic artists, designers, textile designers, illustrators, - anyone in the arts field. But the extra kick with this book is that it gives you
information on the background and history of the Adinkra symbology and even shows you how to make stamps so you can make and design your own fabric! ... Read more

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• 2 full-length practice tests (one for each exam) with detailed answer explanations
• Diagnostic tests to target areas for score improvement
• Detailed answer explanations, including sample answers for free-response questions
• Proven, test-specific score-raising strategies
• Key terminology defined in context
• Concise review of all relevant material -- not a rehash of a physics textbook, but an efficient focus on the material that frequently appears on the AP Physics B & C Exams
• Glossary of key terms
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Low Quality and Outdated
I am an AP Physics teacher and the majority of my students earn a 4 or 5 on the exam.I have examined all of the major test prep guides, and Kaplan's offering is the lowest quality by far.The review material is not organized efficiently by any stretch of the imagination.They pack in a lot of extra information which is simply not necessary to passing the test and the presentation is overwhleming to your typical student.A review guide is supposed to be just that; review.You do not need complicated derivations in a book like this, that is what textbooks are for.

The worst critque I have, though, is that it is simply out of date.I thought that at the least I could use the example free response problems in the back of the book.A few of them were good, but the majority were poorly written and did not accurately reflect the style of questions as written by the College Board.Even worse, there was a free response question in the book covered material which was removed from the test in 2002.I don't understand how a book that claims to be the 2009 edition can have material that is seven years out of date, but there you have it.

My advice is to buy the 5 steps to a 5 Physics book; it is the strongest of the guides I have reviewed and the one I require my students to use.Even the other guides out there are also much better than Kaplan, though.The best advice I have for any student taking the exam is to go to the College Board website and download the free response questions from the past ten years along with their answers- that is the best possible practice you can get for the actual exam! ... Read more

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Monthly celebrity and political magazine started by John F. Kennedy, Jr. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Winnipeg Free Press, published by Thomson Gale on June 27, 2007. The length of the article is 536 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Ol' Bruce Willis can still blow things up real good.(Movies - Reviews)(Movie review)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Winnipeg Free Press (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 27, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
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Chapters: Bruce Willis, David Mixner, John Forsythe, Goose Goslin, Everett Shinn, Benjamin H. Brewster, Joshua Huddy, Harlan Page Davidson, Don Bragg, Jack Collins, Lydell Mitchell, John Rock, Ritch Shydner, A. B. Brown, Clement Hall Sinnickson, Chris Widger, Kevin Jackson, Nathan T. Stratton, George Hires, Isaiah D. Clawson, Henry T. Ellett, Thomas J. Yorke, Jacob Hufty, Isaac Ambrose Barber, King Brady, Elizabeth Lippincott Mcqueen, Hedge Thompson, Daniel Garrison, Hilly Flitcraft, Joseph Kille. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 127. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955), better known as Bruce Willis, is an American actor and producer. His career began in television in the 1980s and has continued both in television and film since, including comedic, dramatic, and action roles. He is well known for the role of John McClane in the Die Hard series, which were mostly critical and uniformly financial successes. He has also appeared in over sixty films, including box office successes like Pulp Fiction, Sin City, 12 Monkeys, The Fifth Element, Armageddon, and The Sixth Sense. Motion pictures featuring Willis have grossed US$ 2.55 to 3.05 billion at North American box offices, making him the seventh highest-grossing actor in a leading role, and ninth highest including supporting roles. Willis was married to actress Demi Moore and they had three daughters before their divorce in 2000 after thirteen years of marriage. He is a two-time Emmy Award-winning, Golden Globe Award-winning, and four-time Saturn Award-nominated actor. Willis was born in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany, the son of a Kassel-born German, Marlene, who worked in a bank, and David Willis, an American soldier. Willis is the eldest of four children: he has a sister, Florence, and a brother, D...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=64673 ... Read more

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Chapters: Bruce Willis, Rudolf Caracciola, Nicholas of Kues, Albert Kahn, Timo Scheider, Frédéric Prinz Von Anhalt, Walther Dahl, Mary Roos, Hanya Holm, Kurt Beck, Michael Hahn, Fritz Beckhardt, Franz Josef Jung, Lucas Luhr, Marco Reich, Mario Basler, Friedrich Minoux, Julia Neigel, Michael Thonet, Friedrich Christian Laukhard, Andrea Nahles, Wolfgang Unzicker, Udo Bölts, Thomas Kling, Uwe Alzen, Wilhelm Heinrich Erb, Phil Jutzi, Gerhard Von Malberg, Philipp Franz Von Walther, Hans Boner, Philip Embury, Barbara Heck, Nick Harmer, Siegmund Mayer, Jan Van Eijden, Johann Peter Frank, Vendelin Jurion, Otto Bollinger, Gregor Braun, Nikolaus Rüdinger, Abraham Kuhn, Dominik Meffert, Anton Raaff, Andreas Cellarius, Michael Felke, Johannes Orth, Jakob Merten, Johannes Fröhlinger, Henri Tudor, Counts of Falkenstein, Johann Samuel Eduard D'alton, Philipp Wilhelm Wirtgen, Willie Blade, Holger Klose, Jean Antoine Zinnen, Lorielle London, Henry Ii, Count of Sayn, Karl Ludwig Frommel, Johann Hoffmann, Joelle Franzmann, Christian Möller. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 228. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Otto Wilhelm Rudolf Caracciola (January 30, 1901 September 28, 1959), more commonly Rudolf Caracciola (pronounced ), was a racing driver from Remagen, Germany. He won the European Drivers' Championship, the pre-1950 equivalent of the modern Formula One World Championship, an unsurpassed three times. He also won the European Hillclimbing Championship three times: twice in sports cars, and once in Grand Prix cars. Caracciola raced for Mercedes-Benz during their original dominating Silver Arrows period, named after the silver colour of the cars, and set speed records for the firm. He was affectionately dubbed Caratsch by the German public, and was known by the title of Regenmeister, or "Rainmaster...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=643758 ... Read more