Being a female, I wasn't really into stuff like that. Until I was sent a free copy featuring the two infamous wide-eyed, gun-totin' chicks barely dressed in metallic bikini suits and high-heeled boots that the whole galaxy loves so much! Boy, was I really enthralled by Adam Warren's very skillful artwork depicting a very detailed, multi-layered futuristic world where the two girls live as well as a craftly spun-out science fiction tale with a MUCH DEEPER DEPTH than a comic book would ever dare go! Here in this story, our lovable heroines go on a talk show, become honor guests for their fan convention, go dancing, get attacked by Yuri's "bad girl" clone, chased by a gun-waving mechanical monster, and get lynched by their very own adoring fans! Such gorgeous pictures quite graced by luscious shots of the sexy, scantily clad young cuties as well as such eye-poppingly graphic violence and yes, lots of gore, mass destruction, and countless deaths. But you'd enjoy it all nevertheless!

Truly one of the most wonderfully psychotic science-fiction stories ever written, "Fatal But Not Serious" is widely regarded by Dirty Pairverts as the best of the eight(to date) "Dirty Pair" stories Adam Warren has published. Hysterically funny and bitingly saitirical, with loads of gratuitous cheesecake piled on for good measure. Not to mention that Kei and Yuri(and Yuri) cause more destruction in this story than in all of their other Warren-created adventures put together. The action builds and builds, and just when you think that the explosions couldn't get any bigger, and the carnage couldn't become any more chaotic, it does. Plus, in the tradition of Masamune Shirow, Adam Warren makes excellent use of eugenics and cybertechnology concepts.

Highly recommended to "Dirty Pair" fans, manga fans, anime fans, comic book fans, or just you cerebral hard-core science fiction types, like myself(it may be cheesecake, but it is incredibly well written cheesecake). I guarantee that the twist ending will have your jaw hanging, and you mumbling pitifully, "w-w-wha-WHAAAAAAT! "

This comic's real cool with Kei & Yuri(my fav character),the 2 cool and cute babes,and there's a lot of action and awesome weapons in it.Just don't call them the Dirty Pair,call'em Lovely Angels.

As a certified victim's advocate, I have worked with numerous ritual abuse survivors. There is little information available and even less training on this subject. Drawn swords has given me an understanding of the dynamics of this abuse and insight into the psychological trauma of these victims. This author also has a resource manual for agencies, but Drawn Swords adds a personal touch and a bit of inspiration to a horrific and almost unbelieveable crime.

I couldn't put this book down! This story of the author's childhood horror gives insight to real abuse and control some children face; a truth that many choose not to believe. It is educational and inspirational. Not only does it take the reader through a journey of real life terror and trauma, it also brings the reader hope, encouragement, spiritual enlightenment, and healing, despite the world of darkness.

Very informative and helpful. Jeanne candidly describes, in detail, her recovery and healing process from the incest and ritual abuse incurred as a child. It provides inspiration, hope and courage to those working through their own healing from similar abuse.

Loved it. Wished I read it before I saw the movie, that way I would have had a purer vision of the play.

This is a great modern play. I loved all the references and word games

I'm directing the play in The Netherlands. Never had to dig so deep as in this play. Did the play before, and now I did some completely new discoveries. What about this: I think Nick is the only true victim. May change that opinion the next rehearsel: 'Woolf' never stops amazing!

Adams' poetry rocks! Anyone who can appreciate traditional forms and witty allusions but who also wants poetry to be to voice of the cultural moment will want to get Adams' first collection.

In "For Pandemonium," for example, Adams juxtaposes, or, perhaps more appropriately, appropriates, the primal post-lapserian (Miltonic?) city with/for both an urban (industrial?) love gone wrong and the limits of poetry itself.

Adams' poetry is smart and touching, often funny but always witty. I really enjoyed reading it. It is diffcult today to find a modern poet that writes both meaningful and fun poetry.

I recommend this one highly! It's formal without being snobbish (in fact, sometimes the form sneaks right past you, a subtlety which more poets should only be able to manage), but it has free verse too, for those of you who are fleeing in terror from any of the sneers which occasionally characterize the New Formalism. There are no sneers here. The book contains a number of love poems (not sentimental even at their most painful, though), and a number of "epistles" from the incarnate ET's of the Heaven's Gate cult (both poignant and funny), and a number of--I guess they'd be called "other poems." On a purely mundane level, this is certainly the book I'd reach for after a betrayal in love, but it's much more than that too.

My personal favorites are among the "others", with my all-time favorite being "Cerberus at the SPCA." I can't think of another poet who could combine the three-headed dog guarding the way to hell with the concrete and urine of the animal shelter, and it's an incredible combination; an appropriate treatment for people who abandon or negelct their pets might be to be tied up, preferably in the animal shelter, and have this poem read to them until they understand what they've done...Cerberus surveys the ranks of the damned in hell in just the way that visitors to the shelter look upon the caged animals, before he's caged there himself; that it's in Dante-esque terza rima only adds to the power of the poem. Cerberus says "I recognize that terror and that trust." So do readers of Adams' poems.

"Epistles from the Planet Photosynthesis" is masterful in its use of traditional and free verse forms. From Sapphic stanzas to sestinas, from sonnets of extraordinary beauty to a canzone whose repetitions reunite a splintered family, Mary Adams' poems demonstrate the ideal marriage of form and content. Confident and versatile, the poet is capable of heart-wrenching intensity ("What I Should Have Told You"), rare compassion, and genuine wit (see especially "Cerberus at the SPCA," a poem of humor, grace, and metrical virtuosity). Perhaps my favorite poem is one of the best villanelles of recent memory, "Queen of Grieve," in which form, image, and sound combine with unforgettable results: "She ruled a ruin, did the Queen of Grieve..." In all, a first book of singular vision and most impressive skill.

I am a HUGE fan of Ewan McGregor, and this book really gives u the lowdown on this star. This book, although lacking in pictures compared to "ewan mcgregor-from junkie to jedi" makes up in it's writing. It is really written to keep u interested and puts the good and the bad in, which is important. Excellent book!

This is a great book for anybody serious about undertsanding mcgregor. It's really well reserached and has plenty of funny stories about his life. A cracking read.

I have not read the book but I am guessing it's a good book. Hey! after all it is Ewan Mc Gregor.

Final exam is a hazy book . What the eyes of Andres Favas shows us is not only a foggy Buenos Aires but a journey into the labyrinths of the late 50's intelectuality. Where does it take him? nowhere of course... inertia is the result of extenuating thinking , so Andre and his friends talk , read , define and redifine life but go nowhere while a surreal city burns.

Cortazar always enjoyed playing with words ( much like Borges) but mostly he played with time. The book has brilliant words but also silence and a stream of consciousness flows through the entire book and through an impossible Buenos Aires , a constelation of metaphores and specially a fast and corrosive intelectually challenging book.

Final Exam is a darkly funny novel set in a surreal Buenos Aires. Juan and Clara, two students at a Faculty called "The House" meet up with their friends Andres and Stella, as well as a journalist friend called "the chronicler". Juan and Clara are getting ready to take their final exam, but instead of preparing, they wander the city with their friends, encountering strange happenings in the squares and pondering life in cafes. All the while they are being trailed by the mysterious Abel, apparently a former lover of Clara's. Final Exam features stream-of-consciousness narrative techniques and is one of Julio Cortazar's best works. Ably translated from Spanish by Alfred MacAdam, Final Exam will serve to introduce English readers to a major literary talent.

Reminding one of what would later develop into the style usedby Cortazar in "Hopscotch" and "62: A Model Kit,""Final Exam" is a nightmarish journey through Buenos Aires. As with 62, many of the most disparaging questions are left unanswered, and the reader is left wondering why this decaying reality seems so familiar. Another great novel from the Master!

Not only is this book a great one - full of information, but the author was the "guest expert" on Montel Williams on November 17, 2000. She certainly practices what she preaches - first impressions are made within seven seconds, and hers was a great one.

Even though this book was written for women,I found it extremely helpful. No-nonsense, easy to read, great tips. I purchased another one for my daughter who is in college - she loved it. "Dad, I didn't know the answers to some questions I had about fashion, but I found it in this book. Thanks for sending it to me!" Thanks, Joni, for a great book!

This is a common sense book! Some of the tips were review, as I'd forgotten them, and some were brand new - "I didn't know that!" Easy to read, easy to find information. Everyone needs this book. Joni Craighead gives the information we all want to know about.

You've seen those wonderful grained picture frames or pieces offurniture in the shops for thousands, but never went to a classbecause it was too expensive or none was offered in your area. This book is the answer to your prayers! It is filled with loads of photos of antiques and furniture, etc. that have been decorated with vinegar glazes or with handsome primative-style murals. It is also one of the few books that even reveals how to do smoke graining...the whispy finish on many an old rocking horse or on furniture and smalls. Just add this to your shelf which should also include THE ART OF FAUX by Finkelstein, PROFESSIONAL PAINTED FINISHES by Marx, and DECORATIVE FURNITURE FINISHES WITH VINEGAR PAINT by Russell. All are well worth the investment. Happy Painting!

These authors are among the best at recreating the look of old painted furniture/folk art. Very clear pictures are helpful. Also, they use an easy recipe (basically, vinegar, honey and pigment) which is easy to concoct for new users, unlike mesy oil based potions or those horribly complex formulae or lousy British-based ingredients which noone has ever heard of or found. For as cloise to instant gratification as you can get, this is the book to order for all beginners and intermediate grainers. (Advanced finishers can write heir own book.....) Enjoy!!

This book does the best job I know of showing wood graining, vinegar paint finishes, and Rufus Porter style landscape painting that I know of, and is also very sound on marbleizing. The illustrations and photo gallery are the best I have seen in any book anywhere. It has a narrow focus on doing Early American style furniture, but if you have any interest in this area you need to have this book. 7 stars!