I gave this book to my brother when he moved to London, and he later said it was addictive to have around and use to visit where the Beatles did what they did. I visited him since then, and used the book myself to visit scenes from the movie HELP and A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, go to Chiswick House to see where The Beatles filmed the "Paperback Writer" and "Rain" videos, and go to many other Beatles London sites. This is a must-have book for anyone who is a Beatles fan and is going to visit London. Or for anyone who wants to be an armchair explorer of their old haunts. It's entertaining reading even if you'll never go to London.

This book made me a Edmond Jabes fan - I doubt that any other of his books would have for this is by far the most accessible. Jabes is an Egyptian Jew in exile in France writing primarily after the Holocaust. His writing style is a series of snippets - fiction, poetry, aphorisms - that explore the limits of language and the role of the blank, the silence, the desert, the unwritten. In The Books of Shares each of these snippets stands on its own - that is not true, for example, of the multi-volume Book of Questions. The result is a truly post-modern reflection on theology and philosophy - and post-modern without pretention.

When I read this book on a silent retreat, I found passage after passage that I wanted to hear, to memorize, to enter into my journal.

An example: "Out of the words of his language, a writer forges new words, not neologisms, but words irrigated with his blood. He founds a second language which, to be sure, is rooted in the first with all its fibers, but which henceforth, being his own - O paradox - is nobody's. Because the writer's language wants to be only of the book, of the instant and duration of a liberated word."

If you enjoy the Books of Shares, there are many wonderful volumes of Jabes to follow. If you do not enjoy this, you may safely assume that Jabes is not your reading choice.

I teach high school English. My students are wild about this book. That's all I have to say, and an astute reader will recognize immediately that nothing more need be said.

All of these recipes are served at Cucina Bella in Chicago. They are universal and are easy to create at home.

The right book for any strong brain who wants to find out more about deconstuction. This book describes so many opinions of philosophers and founders of phenomenology and their ways to the "new wave". It will sure keeps you on the right track while travelling the amazing world of deconstruction.

If you are reading Disfiguring to get a survey of art in the 20th century, you are, for a lack of a better word, misreading Taylor's meditation on the connections between art,architecture and religion. Taylor discusses the development of European artistic modernism and its relation to philosophical and theosophical issues to reveal their interlacing connection with one another. Modernism stems, Taylor argues, from German Idealism and its attempt to totalize the world in a promise of a better life. This, combined with theosophy--a mystical, universalizing type of religion--are from the outset at the heart of modernism and modern art. He consequently expands on this position and follows its development up to the present period. Taylor appears to view the creation of art and architecture as being fundamentally religious acts. If this is the case, what does modernism say about who we are in the West? Taylor claims commodification and an obssessive fascination with the rational seem to be a part of what modern art says the West worships. As a "post-modernist" thinker, Taylor examines how we can live religiously without the totalizing claims of modernism, the violence that often comes with a society bent on rationalizing the world, and the deepening relationship between money and identity...He lays out a few suggestions and dicusses how some artists and architects are struggling with the fractured--the torn--condition of the West. A rupturing of the state of affairs in a modernist culture, he appears to say, is not a bad thing--it's maybe even necessary in order for us to understand "spirit" apart from some of the objectives of modernism. This is a remarkable book.

Mark Taylor explores the responsibility of Christians to follow Jesus Christ's entire "way of the cross" by engaging in dramatic actions and movements to counter the oppressive, biased imperial systems in our world. This book challenged me to think differently about my faith, and to be willing to truly engage it publicly. The book is readable and thought-provoking; I would suggest it to any who seek a more just world.

I MUST SAY THAT THIS MARVELOUS BOOK WRAPS UP ALL OF ELIZABETH TAYLOR'S CAREER COVERING MOST OF HER BEAUTIFUL APPEARANCES ON FILM & THEN SOME.I ONLY WISH THEY WOULD MAKE A VERY LOVELY COLORIZED VERSION OF IT,TO SHOW THE LIZ IN ALL HER BEAUTY.CHILD STAR ON UP TO SUPERSTARDOM,FROM NATIONAL VELVET TO CLEOPATRA TO CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF,GIANT,RAINTREE COUNTY,ELEPHANT WALK,A PLACE IN THE SUN,CONPIRATOR,IVANHO,BUTTERFIELD 8,SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER,REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE,THE VIP'S,ASH WEDNESDAY,THE MIRROR CRACKED.LONG LIVE THE LIZ!,AND TO MARK THE RARE OF ALL HER MOVIES THE BLUEBIRD WITH THE LEGENDARY LATE,GREAT AVA GARDNER!JOEY HOFFMAN DOVER PA.

Gives McSweeney's a run for thier money. I am now eagerly awaiting works from several of these contributers.

Can't wait to see this one. Lilla and Dworkin is like a collaboration between Ken Vandermark and Wynton Marsalis.