To Life is the story of what happened to Riva when the concentration camp she spent years in was finally liberated.

Honestly, The Cage was infinetely more interesting to me than this book was, but The Cage is without a doubt the best book I've ever read. To Life is not uninteresting by any means, however.

The struggles Riva must go through are heart-wrenching. It really makes a person appreciate the life they have. When something good finally happens for Riva, the reader feels happy for her because she's been through so much. If you're going to read this book, you've just got to read The Cage first.

This book, about a girl named Riva who survived the holocaust and rebuilt her life, was an amazing memoir by Ruth Minsky Sender. It showed how hard the holocaust was. I was so impressed with how well written this book is. Ruth Minsky Sender's story really inspires me. This was an excellent book.

This is a really good book.The Cage, the book that came befor this book, was really good but this one is better. It tells of what happened after Riva's concentration camp is liberated. It tells of the hardships that Riva has trying to find family...This is a great novel and its a good book to read if you loved The Cage.

This is a really fun little graphic novel, loaded with great artwork and a decent storyline. I wouldn't recommend it as a first-time read for anyone unfamiliar with the X-Men - taken out of context from the overall series - it might be a somewhat confusing introduction. But for those who know the characters and have a general idea of what is going on, believe me, this one delivers the goods.

In the past, I have generally hated the X-Men's adventures in the Savage Land, or whenever they would go to outer space or get into really super sci-fi type situations. I always felt the X-Men stories worked much better when they were grounded in very normal, down-to-earth settings, because it made the X-Men themselves stand out and seem that much weirder. But this book is an exception to the rule. It's a big, crazy, larger-than-life adventure, part of which takes place in the prehistoric Savage Land, and part of which gets hyper technological, and it works out OK.

The artwork is tough and gritty. Jim Lee draws a mean, shadowy, ugly Wolverine who kills lots of villains and looks like he needs to take a shower very badly.

And Lee's women - whoa. This book contains more gratuitous cheescake shots than any X-Men graphic novel I've seen, but it's all very pleasing to the eye. Especially the scenes with Rogue, whose bare skin can kill anyone she touches and thus, understandably, was always the one major female character who kept herself completely covered at all times. This was the first storyline in the series where they finally drew her as a scantily-clad, sexy heroine. A real treat for male Rogue-fans who'd been reading the series patiently for years.

This storyline also chronicles the transformation of innocent young Psylocke into a mature woman trained in the art of Ninjitsu, and she becomes an ultra-violent, sexy bad girl. And then there are cameo appearances by other Marvel superheroes, namely Captain America (from the Avengers series) and The Black Widow (from the Daredevil series). All in all, it's a satisfying, action-packed, well-drawn, crowd-pleasing comic book in trade-paperback format.

X-Men Visionaries Jim Lee trade paperback Is a great X-Men graphic Novel by Jim Lee! the book reprints Uncanny X-Men issues #248,#256-258,#268-269,#273-277 are reprinted together in this wonderful Marvel book collection! This book contains the early Uncanny X-Men issues that made Jim Lee famous! All the issues are written by Chris Claremont with artwork by Jim Lee. These issues lead to the popular Claremont/Lee colaboration on X-Men#1 in 1991. Most of the artwork was done by Jim Lee. Uncanny X-Men #273 was done by various artists. Buy this book if your fan of X-Men and Jim Lee. Highest Possible Recommendation!

This is a great X-Men: Visionaries Jim Lee graphic Novel! This is Jim Lee's early work on the Uncanny X-Men series! This Marvel Tradepaperback reprints Jim Lee's early years when he was the comic book artist on Uncanny X-Men. In this book reprints Uncanny X-Men#248,#256-258,#268-269, #273-277. His early work on the Uncanny X-Men in the early 1990s, lead to to the critically aclaimed Clarmont/Lee work on X-Men #1 in 1991. All the Uncanny X-Men issues are written by Chris Claremont. Most of the artwork is drawn by Jim Lee. Unncany X-Men#273 is drawn by various artist. Buy this book if your a big fan of X-Men and Jim Lee. Highest Possible Recommendation.

As others have said, definitely read other Thompson books first ("The Killer Inside Me" or "The Criminal" would be excellent choices), but this is a great book. By modern standards, it's tame. The title seems an exageration, given Thompson's self-censoring repression of anything truly ribald, profane or shocking ... though maybe this is more a reflection of where pop culture has come today than of Thompson. That said, the book is extremely funny in places & a great insight into the writer. For the truth behind Thompson's stories, try Robert Polito's excellent biography, "Savage Art," which is a must for anyone who gets really interested in Thompson anyway. If you read many Thompson books, there's a good chance you'll get seriously interested.

This is a good book, but you get more out of it if you've read a couple of his other novels before this one. It's kind of slow paced in the beginning(his childhood)but picks up with his bellhopping and bootlegging.Solid.

I don't think anyone could dispute that Thompson has taken many liberties in retelling his own story. Even so, the stories are well-written and wildly entertaining. The fabrications don't detract from the overall enjoyment, they enhance it. You find in these pages the roots of many Thompson characters. That is a large part of the fun. The chapters are very short, giving Bad Boy an addictive quality. You'll likely finish it quickly and wish that there was more(there is: Rough Neck). Bad Boy is funny, twisted, ugfly and occasionally tender.

Jim Thompson created an image for himself. This is merely the autobiography of that self-made image. If you want more fact than fiction you should check out one of his biographies. I wouldn't recommend this as a first Thompson book. Get familiar with him first...and then check out this wonderful book.

I know, let's go back to when ONLY WHITE MEN wrote and published stories that were ever anthologized, and how about only doing those by WHITE MEN who are AMERICAN and live in DELAWARE? since those are stories that might be good...?

Jerome Wilson's story is simply amazing, by the way, I've taught it for years to give my students hope.

Ashley Hammond: Thanks for liking "Paper Garden"!--Jerome Wilson

I read this in a writing seminar class I took with the author Wally Lamb (She's Come Undone, I Know This Much is True)at University of Connecticut three years ago. It impacted my appreciation for short stories and led me on the path to read many of the authors represented in this book. I bought complete short story collections of several of my favorite authors represented. I loved the idea of reading about other author's feelings about the stories and how they were influenced in their own writing. If you have an interest in writing, this book gives invaluable insight. I am purchasing it for my brother-in-law who is currently taking a creative writing course. My favorite story was "A Paper Garden" it captured my imagination and delighted me with description of the main character and her charm. Enjoy!

The young protagonist of this book leaves Earth to teach English (the only official language for dealing with Earth itself, which is portrayed as an high-handed superpower) on a remote planet inhabithed by a weird human/squid race.
I believe that the author choose a SF setting to (thinly) disguise his criticism of current political and cultural issues. In a sense the novel is very similar to novels (or non fiction books) about americans (or western men in general) who spend some time in Japan, teaching English and trying to adjust to a very different culture (like "Ransom" or "Angry White Pyjamas").
Just don't read it for the Science in "Science Fiction"; it would probably disappoint you.
Apart from this, I found it funny and touching, and the author surely has a vivid imagination.

ANGRY YOUNG SPACEMAN is a fast, fun, touching, tragic book about a disenfranchised young man who departs a future Earth -- treeless, oceanless, completely commercialized and culturally regulated -- to teach English on a backwater, underwater world. On the surface, this book is an interesting, vividly imagined fish-out-of-water story, but it is also so much more. Munroe packs this book chock-full of biting social/cultural/political commentary/criticism -- pretty much you can just substitute America for Earth, and just about any third-world country for Octavia, and you'll get the picture. Despite the serious and relevant undertones, the book is written in a funny, witty, straightforward conversational tone, making it very readable and almost impossible to put down. The characters, while not people I'd particularly want to spend time with, are interesting and likeable, the settings are interesting, well fleshed-out, and believable. The customs and conventions of the people ring true, as do the attempts by the locals of "modernization" to meet the Earth standards. This book is well worth the read.

Munroe continues the keen-eyed, witty social analysis of FLYBOY ACTION FIGURE COMES WITH GASMASK and increases his range of targets, from the media conquest of spontaneous, grass-roots "subcultures" such as punk (in the book's case, "pug," a loosely structured system of street fighting that brings Chuck Palahniuk to mind)--a process that seems not to have changed a great deal by 2959, only becoming more formalized--to the larger phenomenon of cultural imperialism, here substituting "Earth" for "America." Sam Breen, a twentysomething similar in many ways to FLYBOY's Ryan Slint, heads for the underwater world of Octavia to teach English and faces many of the perils and irritants of being a member of the galaxy's ruling entity while in a colonized region. While learning the language and getting to know the locals, he falls for Jinya, a young female who seems as interested in Earth as he is in Octavia. Mixed in with the narrative are compelling observations of life on Earth and Sam's former "pug" subculture that have urgent and relevant parallels for the present day. ANGRY YOUNG SPACEMAN certainly merits 5 stars, even though I still prefer FLYBOY (although that could certainly change after repeat readings). Through intriguing plot twists and tender portrayals of romantic longing, Munroe manages to transcend genre and create a well-crafted scifi novel that certainly shouldn't keep away those who "don't get" scifi.

nothing wrong with this comic book , nothing at all , it serve as good example of the qualities that made the avengers what they are & more, and that's all I have to say .

When current Avengers scribe, Kurt Busiek, was reading comics these are the issues that he formed his Avengers ideas. The team that appears here is the team Busiek uses today. This was definitely George Perez's best work. Much better than today's work, which is at the top of industry. The tales were definately enjoyable and I recomend this book to any fan of the Avengers.

The greatest superhero comic in the world right now is George Perez and Kurt Busiek's Avengers, Volume 3. These two masters are providing more storytelling excellence and excitement in 22 pages a month than 100 issues of any other comic for sale right now.

This book shows the development of the legendary skills of George Perez, on the title that made him famous to not one but two generations of comic readers. It reprints Volume One issues 161, 162, 194, 195, 196, a short Jarvis story from 201, and Annuals 6 and 8. The inking is inconsistent, with the best being Pablos Marcos's inking on 161 & 162 and Joe Rubenstein's inking on 194. The rest can be pretty rough, but you still get to see the development of one of the greatest comics storytellers of all time.

This book is definetly for an avid fan! Christopher Golden is a great author with fantastic ideas. The graphics of this novel were outstanding, and the plot terrific. A must have for any Buffy collector

Set in the third and fourth seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this is a medley of eight stories buy a variety of authors and illustrators. The keynote tale is the two part 'Food Chain,' which traces the fate of a young juvenile delinquent who first runs afoul of a high school student/very bad demoness, and then, when that doesn't work out, invokes a demon who likes murdering all his friends. Buffy, of course, to the rescue.

Other tales include 'The Latest Craze,' the story of what happens when owning miniature demons becomes a fad for the rich and snooty, and 'Double Cross' about a demon who resembles the Alien on steroids and has a knack for being in two places at once. Then there is 'One Small Promise,' a Buffy/Riley tidbit and 'City of Despair,' an interesting story that pits Buffy and Angel against each other in a final confrontation in yet another dimension. The remaining two tales are 'Bad Dog,' in which Oz is freed to so that a geek with low self-esteem can drain Willow's power, and 'Punish Me with Kisses,' a ghost story that is a bit too cute.

On top of offering a set of interesting, well conceived stories, 'Food Chain' has a stellar cast of illustrators. Both the stories and the full page artwork offer a far greater variety than the regular Dark Horse productions, which gives the reader a chance to appreciate different styles and better understand the arcane art of comic book production. If you aren't normally drawn to the graphic novel format, but want something that offers a representative sample of its potential this is the one to own.

Thompson's life in his own words, what could be better? Of course, a lot of it is obviously apocryphal, but its a great ride.

Roughneck pretty much takes up where Bad Boy left off. It was originally published in 1954. In Roughneck, as was the case with Bad Boy, we get a sort of creatively enhanced autobiography of the king of noir pulp. Follow Thompson through early adulthood, marriage, fatherhood(his description of his own children is hysterical), hobo jungles and more. He describes employment ventures that leave no doubt why he always had more ideas than time to write. He goes through stints as a collector, baker, morgue employee, writer of the labor history for the W.P.A., etc. You will love the story behind the writing and publishing of Thompson's first novel(Now & On Earth). The man was never short on audacity or irreverance. Roughneck is an absolute page-turner. Here's an added bonus for us Thompson fans...this book is absolutely coherent all the way through. There are no lunatic throw away chapters in Roughneck.

If you enjoy the work of Jim Thompson, then you must read this book! As it states on the back of the book: Hard times have never sounded so good!

"To the Top of the World" is essentially a condensed version of Brandenberg's fantastic book, "White Wolf," and is perhaps a better book to acquaint younger readers with wolf-related issues. This brief volume contains information about human-wolf relations, myth-busting, and of course much about wolf behavior and pack relations. It's also a great way for someone of any age to learn about this magnificent, keystone predator.

The wolf has been maligned for centuries, and it's absolutely crucial that we teach our children the importance of the wolf's role in nature; we have only to look to Yellowstone for a direct object lesson in what losing the wolf does to an ecosystem. In 1930, the US Government proudly shot the last wolf in Yellowstone, and that began a 60-year slide into an environmental disaster. Now, with the wolf replaced only seven short years ago, the park is almost completely back in balance again. It's crucial to understand that there are no "extra" animals in nature, and this book is a wonderful way to begin that learning path.

The book is written about Jim Brandonbrug's year spent with the artic wolves. He gets to know the wolves personaly and they begin to trust him completly. A great book for doing reports on artic wolves

If you are looking for a baseball page turner, this book is tough to put down. But if you are looking for the real life baseball insights found in Bouton's classic "Ball Four" you won't find them here.

Bouton and Asinof's "Strike Zone" is a surprisingly good book. I didn't think that a novel written in alternating chapters by two authors would even be readable, much less absorbing, but this book is both. The two parallel story-lines are simple but affecting: a journeyman pitcher's efforts in a crucial game and the plate umpire's moral dilemma about whether or not to define the strike zone in a way that will "throw" the game and thus allow an old friend to pay off a gambling debt. The action takes place in one 24-hour period, but with flashbacks effectively
worked in to fill out the two men's lives. Particularly when the action moves to the baseball diamond, the novel perfectly captures both the leisurely pace and rhythms and the terrific tensions of the game.

Anyone who's read "Ball Four" would know that the pitcher, Sam Ward, is closely based on Bouton himself--all the stuff about knuckleballs is a tip-off--and the stone wall building as therapy after a marital separation comes directly out of Bouton's own experience, as described in the Epilogue to "Ball Four." Sam Ward is Bouton in the same way that Father Blackie Riley is a kind of fantasy stand-in for Father Andrew Greeley in the latter's novels.

Maybe the most difficult thing to write in a novel is a good sex scene and Bouton succeeds with what seems like unpromising material: an anecdote about Ward relieving his pre-game tensions by masturbating in his hotel room before going to the ballpark to pitch. Bouton spares the reader any description of what Ward is actually doing; instead he recounts in rapid succession the series of vivid fantasies that pass through his character's mind, then ends with a humorous zinger that picks up a punch line from earlier in the story. The episode is very sexy (as well as romantic, since he's fantasizing about his estranged wife) and very funny--a rare combination that few writers could capture so successfully.

Not a great book, but a worthwhile read for baseball lovers. (I think the pitch-by-pitch description of the crucial game would drive non-fans out of their minds!)

"Strike Zone" is a book that tells the story of a pitcher of the Chicago Cubs named Sam Ward. Sam is a middle-aged guy who has never pitched a major league game before. Sam gets the chance to pitch for one of the Cubs biggest games of the year. Sam and the umpire Ernie Kolacka tell the story; the chapters go on in detail about everything that is going on from their point of view.

The authors of this book really went into detail about everything, making the book more understandable. A bad thing about the detail is the it makes the book longer than it should have been, because the book takes place in a twenty-four hour period and there is so much detail it made it kind of drag on. "Strike Zone" is very well-written and things are written as if one could actually see them. The authors convey their purpose very well by telling every single detail, but once again a little too much detail can be bad.