Dr. Crosby manages to translate from one language to another while maintain CB's original rhythm and rhyme scheme. The dark musk of CB's words are undiminished.

I was at a rummage sale last year and noticed someone was selling a bunch of guide books. I saw Fodor's Paris 99 and could not believe they were practically giving it away. I could not stop looking at it when I came home. It is such a complete book on Paris. The beginning covers all your basic info on how to get there and what to take. The rest is filled with good maps. It considers people of all budgets with it's hotel and restaurant listings going from low to expensive. It even has some helpful phrases in the back. I will definitely use it on my trip to Paris.

Fodor's Paris 2000 Gold Travel Guide is in good, like-new condition. It has minimal highlighting in the travel section. If you're not familiar with the Fodor's guides, they're a must for any traveller! This Paris guide includes sections on "Exploring Paris", "Dining", "Lodging", "Nightlife and the Arts", "Outdoor Activities and Sports", "Shopping", "Side Trips from Paris", and "Background and Essentials". Each section of Paris is broken down into managable, easy to understand neighborhoods with suggested routing and stops along the way making it easy for readers to know at a glance just where they are--and where they want to go. A 5 day itinerary section is also included, as well as a section on traveling Paris with kids. As with all Fodor's guides, the section on "Smart Travel Tips" is a must! It includes extensive, practical information about getting into and out of Paris, banking and postal services, safety, transportation, and more.

This is a brilliant large-format book. It charts the Jewish/
Austrian film director's traumatic flight from Nazi Berlin in 1933 to Paris, then to permanent exile in Hollywood. We witness
his struggles with moguls, producers, actors and crew who were
unable to cope with his innate perfectionism. His life and his
films are inextricably entwined. The detailed text is backed
by relevant documents: unstamped passports, love-letters to and from Marlene Dietrich, scrawled film notes, reports of witch-
hunts, and stunning photographs of Lang at work on his many
films. The book is a fitting tribute to our Last Dinosaur. I
highly recommend it to everyone who loves films.

Any mention of ex-patriate American writers in France evokes the images of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fritzgerald, John Steinbback and other white literary luminaries. Seldom are African-American names mentioned or acknowledged in terms of their presence as well as literary output from France. Michael Fabre, author of "The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright", who was a Black expatriate from the United States, provides us with a history of Black writers who from 1840 to 1980 came to France as expatriates. Most people are unaware that Blacks from Louisiana were the first handful from the States to come to France for education, freedom and to write. From this small group the tradition continued with Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Du Bois and other great Black intellectuals.

Why did they come? France's tradition of liberty, equality and brotherhood was an attraction. Throughout the early 20th century, Blacks came to escape the racism of America and have the opportunity to work in their craft which was denied them in Europe. France's "lack" of racism was a breath of fresh air to African Americans under the mantle of segregation. France enabled them as writers to be artistically free. Each generation of Black writers who came to France were inspired by its so called liberalism. Yet even in its liberalism Black writers in the 60's began to scrutinize the racism of France that was articulated in its treatment of those colonials from Algeria and Senegal.

Fabre critiques each individual writer who came and gives us a historical context in which we can understand the unique spell that France had over attracting Black writers. The text concentrates on Black males since few Black female writers stayed over for any length of time. Those that did are given an even treatment. From Harlem to Paris gives one an appreciation for the contributions of Black writers in France. It is a book to have in one's library for literary studies of African Americans and expatriate writers.

I took a group to Paris and used this book as my bible. All the books have the basic facts, but this one takes you down the side streets the other books pass by. I also like to tell all the tales of the city from the factual to the gruesome. This book helped me do that. If you're looking to explore Paris beyond just the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre you'll adore this book!

If you take one book with you to Paris, this is the one to take. Absolutely great book. explains how Paris is laid out. Recommends hotels in various price ranges weather you are looking for a youth hostel to crash in by yourself, or a hotel for the family with amenities to keep the kids entertained.
This book includes current attraction listing along with current times and prices. It will guide you to great restaurants, night life, or attractions by arrondisement. It also includes a Metro Map and a Map of the City and smaller maps of each of the major neighborhoods in Paris. I have been to Paris 4 or 5 times in the past two years and this book has never steered me wrong. It does a great job of ensuring your trip to Paris is everything you hope for.

This book was recommended by a friend who had just been to Paris. It has all the information you need, from how to get from the airport to your hotel (shuttle is best), to hotels (listed by location and price), to restaurants(by area, specialties and price). It explains the cuisine of the different regions of France and which restaurants to find them in. It also notes the ambience of many restaurants, ie French attitude, or catering to non-French speaking patrons. It explains the best ways of getting around Paris, the top ten sights, off the beaten path sights, shopping guides for everything from jewelry, to wine, to porcelain, to food etc. It has guides and maps for wonderful walking tours of the different arrondisements (areas/distrcits) that take you past historically,literary and architecturally significant places. It tells you about the tourist sights (Moulin Rouge) where Parisians rarely frequent, as well as the places Parisians love to go. It also has information on organized tours, tips on Museum passes and Metro passes and a decent regular sized folding map of Paris is included in the back. Additionaly, there is wonderful information on trips outside of Paris, such as Versailles and Chartre. This makes planning your trip fun and enjoyable. This book is well worth owning if you are going to Paris soon, and if not buy it anyway, planning ahead is always a good idea!

On reading the first chapter of the 450 page novel, "$ Fundamentalist Terror Revolts" by Mary Braveheart, I at first found it difficult getting into the unique style. I haven't come across anything quite like it. I normally read Douglas Adams, "Hitch Hikers Guide to Galaxy" and "Lord of the Rings" type books. I picked it up and found it immediately readable. I still couldn't put it down despite all the distractions, till I had finished it. I was really surprised that I got into the story, the style and the theme so easily. The style is very descriptive and interesting. There is much carefully engineered satire and intense metaphor hidden within the easily read plot.
I loved the premise of the story and the main character and heroine Rosie McDonald, code named 121. She's descended from the Celtic and Cherokee chieftains and goes to the Middle East to stop the terrorists getting control of the oil and nuclear weapons.
The book is so full of details about the Middle East that it has to be based on the author's experiences there. I noted that it was inspired by the murders of Princess Diana and an Australian nurse in Saudi, by the Middle East Crisis, the Gulf war, the Al Khobar bombing and other similar terrorist atrocities. The plot revolves around international terrorism, action, sex, murder, royalty, religion, deceit and the fight for the control of oil and nuclear weapons. The heroine's struggle is a crusade of good over evil, of woman over man, of Christianity over Islam, paganism against eco-terrorism.
For me the book ranks with George Orwell's "Animal Farm" or Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." The poetry quotations are like a potted history of English literature and fit in well with the story line. The heroine's emblem and that of the Virgin Mary and of New York City is the rose. The path of its cultivation is followed in poetic and prophetic fashion. The story is permeated with the branches, twigs and thorns of the flower traced through early human history growing into today's civilisation. The book made me think about our own values, our own ideas, our own liberty and freedom of expression and where we're actually coming from and whether liberal values can be applied to the world of international terrorism.
It's realistically scary and after all that's happened recently it is "of the moment" type of book - a real eye opener and should be read by all those women thinking of converting to Islam and those affected by terrorism in all its guises.
The book has deep underlying issues that are carefully concealed in a well-written interesting story line and plot. It leaves a lasting optimistic impression and is easily read.
I was touched that the book was dedicated to the victims and families of terrorist atrocities and to the disinherited native peoples of the world, and to some extent foretells what the terrorist mind- set is capable of.
I'm still left wondering who the author really is and would love to meet her.
I'm now reading it again just in case I missed anything. I came to realise only at the end what the significance of the $ sign was and what the curse of the desert rose really is. I'll leave other readers to make their own discoveries, to walk their own path, to begin their own adventure. A novel not to be overlooked by those with rose coloured spectacles or to put it another way a rose by any other name still smells sweet.

Gertrude Stein called them the "Lost Generation," this motley amalgamation of talented and not-so-talented would-be (in the early 1920s) writers and expatriates. Stein was one, Natalie Clifford Barney, Sylvia Beach were others - all profiled in GENIUSES TOGETHER.

The main narrative takes place between 1921 and 1928, the dates chosen because they encompass the years Hemingway and his associates invaded Montparnasse and created what Noel Coward called "a marvelous party."

It's quite a story, this picture of the romantic years (did they really look that way at the time?) of to-be literary giants: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Joyce, Pound. They shared money, books, lovers, living quarters. They careened from love to scandal and back again. They were individualists, scoundrels, idealists, one and all.

Christmas 1931: Sylvia Beach (of the Shakespeare and Company bookstore on the Left Bank) noticed a young man, whom she described as "a tall, dark young fellow with a small mustache" glancing through the magazines. She began to talk to him, discovered that he had no money for a lender's card, so she offered him a card, saying he could pay the deposit when he liked.

"It was only now that she discovered that he had a letter of introduction to her from Sherwood Anderson, who was back in Chicago. He had been to shy to present it. 'I am writing this,' said the letter,' to make you acquainted with my friend Ernest Hemingway...an American writer instinctively in touch with everything worthwhile going on here and I know you will find both Mr. and Mrs. Hemingway delightful people to know.'"

Author Humphrey Carter is a British writer who has written biographies of W.H. Auden, J.R.R. Tolkien, and C.S. Lewis. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and recipient of the E.M. Forster Award.

I loved this book. I'll read it again soon. It's intelligent, sympathetic, scholarly and imminently readable. It's a thoroughly engaging examination of a time, a community and a world that had tremendous impact on literary fashion. I give it the highest recommendation - it's delightful.