Big Fat Liar is a movie that teaches values. The theme of the movie is, "Don't lie because it can get you into trouble!" This book is believable because the main chacters are just like normal kids. They have this talent that they can change their voices like anyone! Well most people can do that but nto everyone. Their names are Jason and Kaylee. The setting of this story takes place in a small town in California and Los Angeles. I think the plot of this story was interesting because it was funny. Big Fat Liar held my interest. The actors did a good job of making their characters seem believable. I highly recommend this book!!! I liked the book better than the movie because it describes what they are thinking better.

Reading through this book over and over is like taking a roller-coaster ride through other galaxies and beyond! Finding something interesting and new every time I read it, I finally took it home with me. Zak and Tash Arranda escape the tricks and traps set up by . . . something or someone they have never encountered before! They both have to find a way to get off a cruise ship with all the exits sealed and the communications shut down. This is no easy task . . .

This book has been more helpful to us in many different areas. It explains everything from how and when to prune to how and when to fertilize. It shows both common name and scientific name in the table of contents to quickly find what you're looking for. If you are looking for a book that explains how to take care of everything available in the cold northeast, this is the book for you. Gardeners can't go wrong with this book.

This book was my favorite, and I'm more that sure that no Digimon book is like it. This was such a relief and surprise of how they defeated Devimon. Well, I'm not telling you anymore since it's so good, except that you can't miss this one.

Throughout the last 100 or so years, artists, collectors and curators have debated what a museum should be. Unfortunately, most museums are buildings that immediately focus on art as icon. Many contemporary artists want just the opposite. MASS MoCA represents a breakthrough in establishing a new sort of museum. Its purpose is to "mount in-depth quality work that would otherwise remain unseen for lack of properly scaled, appropriately tools facilities." That purpose has also been expanded to include being a location for the performing arts, both outdoors and in a theater.

Located 5 miles from the Williams College museum of art and 35 miles from Tanglewood in North Adams, Massachusetts, MASS MoCA adds an important new element to a major cultural center (especially in the summers).

The story of the museum is also very interesting, having been based in a rundown series of converted mill buildings that had housed manufacturing since 1768. Most recently abandoned by the Sprague Electric Company (who originally took it over from the Arnold Print Works -- makers of printed fabric), the facility covers 13 acres and over 780,000 square feet of building space. Originally, Massachusetts had planned to provide most of the funding. A recession and change in political leadership greatly slowed the progress, and much of the funding eventually came form private donors.

The book has many wonderful elements. The director, Joseph Thompson, has a fine essay explaining the museum's roots and concept. The architect, Simeon Bruner, also weighs in with his thoughts about the design along with drawings of his plans. The pieces de resistance, however, are the wonderful photographs of the site (both before and after) in black and white and color that capture the transformation. These were done by Nicholas Whitman, and started before the museum was planned. He and his father had both worked in the Sprague plant, and he wanted to preserve the memory of the space before it was torn down. There are some stunning side-by-side photographs of before in black and white, with after in color with beautiful art on the walls.

Most of the current photographs were taken during the 1999 grand opening of the museum, which I had the pleasure to attend. The classic piece that defines MASS MoCA during that opening was the display of Robert Rauschenberg's "The 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece" from 1981, which can only easily be displayed in full in MASS MoCA. There are also nice photographs of Natalie Jeremjenko's "Tree Logic" and James Rosenquist's "The Summer in the Econo-Mist." There are some fine John Chamberlain sculptures as well.

This book is a great resource to have for any contemporary art lover, or someone who is interested in new museum forms. I also recommend it as a working document for a museum still in progress, for most of the development of the MASS MoCA site is still ahead. If you are a museum trustee or are planning a new museum, you should read this book, as well.

I should admit that I collect contemporary art, and love to visit collections of contemporary art. If you share that love, you'll adore MASS MoCA!

Abolish your stalled thinking about what a museum is and should be! Also, be sure to give yourself a treat, and visit MASS MoCA soon. It's well worth a special trip from Boston, New York, or Philadelphia.

Donald Mitchell

Coauthor of The Irresistible Growth Enterprise (available in August 2000) and The 2,000 Percent Solution

(donmitch@fastforward400.com)

Hi, I would like to recomend this book to every one who likes star wars. Great ending. If you like this one the young jedi knights are about the same person.

We originally bought this book for our little boy at Toys R Us and he loved it so much that he broke the spine of the book. The soundstory feature makes this a great way to get a very young child more interested in books in general and that takes him/her one step closer to reading. My boy especially likes the page with the cantina band where he can press the buttons and make the different instruments play. If you have a toddler tearing about your house I give this my highest recomendation!

The phantom menace is a great film and book with star wars favourites: Obi Wan, Qui Gonn Jinn and of course Anakin Skywalker.

Burroughs was a respected man of letters and a dedicated naturalist. This was the first book to appreciate Walt Whitman's poetical prowess.

Kingdom Come, through it's generation gap tale of Batman, Superman, and various other classic DC Super-Heroes fighting for humanity against the new breed of "Heros" that are indifferent to Human suffering, also functions as an allegory/wish fulfillment for creators Mark Waid & Alex Ross: Their hope that modern fans will stop embracing mindless walking-death-machine characters (Note the Liefeld-esque "Americommando", preceeding the Liefeld Captain America revamp by years, and the character of Magog, instigator of Kingdom Come's Kansas disaster, a thinly veiled jab at Marvel's Liefeld-created Cable.).

Ultimately, despite the apocalyptic premise, Kingdom Come is a very hopeful and optimistic tale, with good prevailing over evil, and Waid and Ross get their point across quite well: Do we REALLY want heroes to act less-than-heroic? Would you rather entrust your life to Superman or Wolverine?

Ross' art is lovely, and Waid does a fine job on the script, maybe his best ever. The only problem was, unlike other "Iconic" graphic Novels, like Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen, I think a strong knowledge of the DC Universe and it's denizens is a must for understanding the story. Thinking back, I don't think there were any expository captions in the book at all, and the cross-generational connections can be very overwhelming, even to a comic-geek like me.

Overall, I think fans will be in heaven, and newcomers will at least get taken on a great thrill ride.

First of all, I do not read comic books, I am simply familiar with many of the more famous ones and enjoy the superhero mythos portrayed in comic books.
I generally hesitate in considering most comic books as anything other than pulp fiction with graphics, but "Kingdom Come" is on a level all its own. The main story is a struggle between the 'old guard' of DC superheroes (Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and many, many others) and a new group of superheroes who are far more violent and far less principled than their esteemed forebears. This struggle brings up a host of issues, which I will not delve into, because of the length of time involved in such a discussion.
But what makes this superb story even better is the unbelievable artwork of Alex Ross, which looks like sculpture on canvas, vividly painted and beautifully realized. The characters are gorgeously rendered and the artwork alone makes this a worthwhile purchase for the average comic book reader and even the casual fan of the superhero mythos.
Highly reccomended.

What's wrong with "truth, justice, and the American way?" This graphic novel provides you with that answer: NOTHING! In a world where super-powered violence and self serving heroes are the order of the day, nothing is really sacred. Especially not human life. Real heroes seem long gone, and there is apparently no salvation in sight. It takes the bigger part of the Midwest being wiped out in a super-powered battle led by one of the new generation of "heroes", Magog, for Superman to decide he's seen enough.
This remarkable story by modern masters Mark Waid and Alex Ross is beyond compare.
Alex Ross illustrates heroes so real and life-like, you can almost reach out and touch them! Just like the old Christopher Reeves movies provided the definitive vision of Superman for the previous generation, Ross's Superman is the current standard. Like the cliche says, "accept no substitutes."
Waid proves here why REAL, true good triumphs over gloom-and-doom, grim-and-gritty fad heroes ANY day. If you're a Superman fan, or a fan of comics in general, then you OWE it to yourself to buy this book.