This movie can relate to the different tastes of people. For example one person might hate it, but then another person might love it. Movie about Larry Flint's (founder of Hustler magazine) life where he gets in and out of trouble. This movie shows that you can do something if you struggle and don't give up. Rated R: for graphic language, nudity and sexuality.

Love him or hate him (and does anyone really love him?), Larry Flynt has been a lightning rod for 1st amendment issues over the past few decades. This brilliant script looks at the complexities of a man who chose willingly to go into pornographic magazines, and who almost fell into being a free speech advocate. Certainly a difficult man to like or even respect, but certainly worth throwing some gratitude for doing that which other couldn't or wouldn't.

I loved the movie so I just had to read the book. It mostly consists of the screenplay for the film but also includes sections that were deleted from the final film. Even someone who has not seen the movie will be able to follow the story easily and for those who know the movie the extras are an interesting addition. Also included are some great stills frrom the movie and an introduction from the authors explaining their motivations behind writing the screen play. I'm sure anyone who liked the movie or has an interest in Ed Wood will enjoy this book.

Sir Walter Scott was once considered the equal of Shakespeare by some. His influence on 19th century literature was immense. What's more, he still offers good reading. You might not know it from the typical undergraduate British literature survey text, though, where he is likely to be neglected in favor of writers more fashionable today.

I had to read Scott on my own -- fired by the enthusiasm of C. S. Lewis, whose essay on Scott in SELECTED LITERARY ESSAYS is warmly recommended. The first one I read, Kenilworth, wasn't all that good. Better were The Antiquary, Redgauntlet, Rob Roy, The Heart of Midlothian, and Waverley. This novel, The Bride of Lammermoor, is a good one to start with -- being not as long as many of his masterpieces. I suggest the first-time reader skip to the second chapter and start there. Be independent! Find out for yourself why your great-great-great grandparents loved this guy. If you like a warm-hearted storyteller, you should look into Sir Walter.

A rather weird novel that does not lack local flavour and even comical characters is the result of Scott's excursion into gothic style of writing. The atmosphere of the novel is perfectly eerie. Falling down residences, a mad old woman, the shadow of death on Lammermoor from the beginning. A feud between to families in which the Ashtons, have taken over all the possessions of the Ravenswoods, forces Edgar, the only offspring of that ill-fated house, to live in the decaying Wolf's Crag. A grim prophecy foretells his end, if he ever should ride to Ravenswood (now inhabited by the Ashton's, among others the gentle Lucy). And, last but not least, he himself senses that he will never by happy. It is no surprise that the dreamer Lucy falls in love with this dark hero after he has saved her and her father from an angry bull. It is clear from the very beginning that this love can only end in despair, madness and death. Which is, in my opinion, not a flaw of the book, but one of the things that make it special. - Even Lucy and Edgar must know that their love will never come to a good end, but yet they follow the path of their destiny; they can not help themselves. It is that sense of doom that makes the instants at the fountain so precious and moving, or the moment where the lightening illuminates the profiles of the lovers in Edgar's derelict castle. The characters try to act, but in one way or the other are manipulated by Lady Ashton. She IS fate, or much more nemesis. Her "victims" don't have a chance. But the book has more to offer than just a tale of stark tragedy. Scott draws vivid pictures of his characters, for example Caleb (Edgar's faithful old servant) - and plays with the his rough humour against the sombre background. Or the strange people of the village and the weird women in the graveyard who must have been characteristic for rural Scotland in Scott's day. All in all it is a capturing book one is not likely to forget so soon.

Scott's venture into the gothic genre is problematic, but Bride of Lammermoor is strikingly effective in creating suspense and unease within the framework of a crucial period in Scottish history. The Edinburgh edition's return of the novel to its original pre-Union setting casts fascinating new light on Scott's intentions.

Anicka Rodman's "Worse Than He Says He Is" is subtitled "White Girls Don't Bounce". Who is she kidding??? Her sordid story reads just the opposite. This attractive, white girl with a model's credentials inexplicably submitted to Dennis Rodman's drubbings ( or should I say "dribblings" ). An attractive white girl who he bounced all over the place: off the bathroom wall, down the apartment steps. An abusive and unfaithful excuse for a man with severe mental shortcomings, is loved and regulafrly forgiven by the woman who bears his child, suffers four abortions, has her face smashed with his backhand so badly that she suffers TMJ and needs to where a jaw brace, suffers through bouts of clamydia that he brought home to her from his various wanton interludes with strippers and assorted low-lifes , along with Herpes I and Herpes II, a permanent reminder of his infidelities. Shades of antoother blond, former model, Catholic, white girl named Nicole Brown who also suffered abuse at the hands of a black athlete, and continued to come back for more, bouncing all the way. Only the endings are different. What I missed in Anicka's tale is a "moral to the story". Why does she reject the nice guys that pursue her? Why does she not only submit to this treatment, but continually comes back for more? Why did she reject her Catholic upbringing and values and submit to abortions and how can she now raise her daughter as a Catholic? She mentions that she is now in therapy but gives no hint as to what she moght have learned avbout herself, about her attaction for "bad boys", about the possible root causes for this type of behavior. Can this type of behavior be avioded? Are there just certain females that need the "juice" of this type of roller coaster relationship that the "bad boy" provides?Is this an addition? For all the parents, brothers and sisters out there who see loved ones following a similar route of attraction to the "rascal", some advice would have helped. Alas, Anicka gives n

Okay so Annie has lived a life that no one would like to pursue. Well I guess you can learn a lot from her book, but it's probably also good to know Dennis' side also. Annis does a wonderful job in this book telling it how it is and never leaves out the juicy details.

As an introductory book its fine but as a 'Most Complete' you want it to expand beyond basic examples into e.g. interaction between the cartridge types, practical implementation advice etc.

I'd have used the money back guarantee if there was one as I expected a bit more from it.

Does a reasonable job of covering Oracle Web Application Server 3.0, but the Oracle Press book is better.

This book does a good job of providing an overview of the architecture surrounding OAS 3.0, but certainly does not hold to its claim as "The Most Complete Reference." Its biggest shortfall is its lack of detail concerning Inter-Cartridge Exchange (ICX). It mentions this topic at least a few times, and explains the premise behind ICX, but doesn't provide any examples of how ICX is accomplished from a PL/SQL cartridge to a C cartridge, for example. A good book for people who are just learning about OAS and want an introduction and then some.

Being a fan of Scott and his writings, I expected much more from this book than it was able to offer. Although the actual writing of the book is excellent, conveying wonderfully the flavor and character of the times as well as the vanity of the monarchs and suitors, the plot ends abruptly with a tragic ending. Aside from altogether disliking tragedies, I found this ending a surprising disappointment because the book gave very little indication of the horrific climax which was to come. After finishing the last page, I almost felt as though I had finished reading two separate books - a romance and a tragedy

I like Sir Walter Scott. I like his heroic characters, his idealistic heroes and his romantic (in the 19th century sense)ideals. "Ivanhoe" is one of my all time favorites (moviegoers, don't get the Robert Taylor verson, hold out for the one with Anthony Andrews!) Scott was to the romantic novel what Errol Flynn was to the 1930's swashbuckler: he defined it! Waverley is one of his real "Scottish" novels, and I liked that a lot. But I have always had a hard time with "Kenilworth." It drags on too long, the plot moves at snail's pace, and darn it, there ain't no action! Maybe I wasn't in the mood for it, but I have to say, I expected more. I don't know why this book has had such notoriety, and I hate to say this about a "classic," but I'm sorry, this book was really a disappointment. But I will say this: the Penguin (or what I like to call "Harlequin for Nerds") edition was very attractively packaged. But alas, I have to admit, I still judge a book by its cover!

As a ardent reader of medieval England stories, this is one book which I found as entertaining and romantic as any other book I have read. It has everything from castles and Knights in horses to damsels in distress. Scott is magnificent in the portrayal of Amy as well as Sir Walter Raleigh and Elizabeth is the crown of his characterisation. A book worth reading..

The story is very basic and dumb... A boy visits an island full of dinosaurs that he's scared of, yet mystified about... when a bunch of teenagers land on the islandto film a movie. The boy sgoes to "rescue" them under false pretensis, only to be enraged by there stupidty.
I highly erge you not to read this book. It was a waste of my hour (seeing as it's only shy of 100 pages...)

Thirteen-year-old Eric Kirby survived alone for eight weeks in Jurassic Park and became an instant celebrity, writing a book, appearing on TV, even testifying before the United Nations. Now, several months later, he's returning to Isla Sorna, which now hosts a protected, fortified research complex. Eric is disappointed to learn that he'll be spending his visit in the complex, just sitting around doing nothing. When five people parachute from their plane onto the island for an unknown reason, Eric fears they will be abandoned, as he himself was for so long. He sneaks out of the complex and sets out to rescue the parachutists, only to discover they are five reckless teenage filmmakers who intended to land on Isla Sorna all along. Can Eric convince them of their foolishness, or has he risked his life for nothing? I highly recommend this book to readers who enjoyed the first book in the Jurassic Park Adventures series.

This book is too expensive for the contents. The book covers why women strip in clubs, then it goes on through many chapters of explanations, but in the end it tells us that it's because they make good money and fast. The book goes on to explain a strippers percetion of her job, then it goes on to tell us that strippers go through greatlengths to justify what they do and how they blame society, x-relationships, family and others, but never themselves. The book goes through many interviews, all of which are very much common and related. A good girl strips to finance her education, to support her children after her man leaves her or to support a drug habit. Or the most common, but not admitted, just for the money. This good is well written, but the story about all these stippers are all the same in this book and on every television review or movie. I wish this book would have covered something new, useful or insightful.

The interviews were a little interesting, the book was well written and structured, however it does not discuss the relationship of prostitution to stripping, pervasive influence of government and/or organized crime nor the long term effects such exploitive use of a strippers beauty may have had on their relationships since. The concept seems to need a little more in-depth exploration. I also felt that the critical, feministic theory is limited to only a few paragraphs and it should have been covered more thoroughly. I don't think this book does much to challenge a persons preconceptions or prejudices.

Pornography and adult entertainment has truely grown within the last few years. Everything is pretty much accepted, so it's no surprise that more and more books are being written on topics such as these. My problem with this boko and many like it, is that they're all written along the same lines. There are hundreds of strip-clubs throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada. This book covers interviews with strippers to find out why they strip and how they feel about it. All the answers are the same, too bad. It should cover interviews on the men that visit these clubs. Why do they visit these clubs, what do they think about the strippers, how much are they willing to spend, etc. Since all these stripper books are the same, I was hoping someone would cover interviews with the patrons instead of the stripers. Overall, this book was not worth reading.