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APRIL 2009 ISSUE OF ESQUIRE MAGAZINE. THE COVER FEATURES BEN AFFLECK. ARTICLES INCLUDE KATY PERRY, TIGER WOODS, PLUS THE WORST STORY WE EVER HEARD! ... Read more

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MARCH 2003 ISSUE OF VANITY FAIR. COVER FEATURES BEN AFFLECK, ARTICLES INCLUDE "ANNIE LEIBOVITZ-20 YEARS OF V.F. CLASSICS", "DOMNICK DUNNE GOES HEAD TO HEAT WITH ROBERT F KENNEDY JR", "BIKINIS, BOSOMS, AND BLOOD AT THE MISS WORLD PAGEANT", AND MORE. ... Read more

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Features Ben Affleck, Smashbox Studios, David Hockney, LA Power Players, and much more! ... Read more

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248 page magazine featuring Ben Affleck, Molly Sims, an article on Rae Carruth, and lots of other stuff! ... Read more

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Details is a monthly men's magazine that features articles on fashion and lifestyle as well as relevant social and political views. ... Read more

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Signed and numbered Graphitti Designs edition, limited to 2500 copies signed by Kevin Smith, Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti. Comes with multi-media CD Rom with a ton of extras that includes 2 hours of Audio Commentary by Kevin Smith, Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti. ... Read more

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Need to temper the accolades
Frank Miller was the creative sage behind Dark Knight and the rebirth of comics. That's fact. Although I was not impressed with the drawing style, the totality of his drawing and writing output in that project was perfect.
This is not the case here. The drawing style looks awkward. Many other reviewers have praised the layouts cinematic etc but these were achieved by other terrific illustrators with better drawing techniques. Looks like Miller didn't even write most of these stories. I really didn't enjoy the comic, Elektra was OK, Bullseye was way over the top, Kingpin was drawn too large (at times the size of the Hulk) to be believable.
Hate to go against the tide but I don't see anything here that deserved a 5 star rating.

Graphic SF Reader
The start of Frank Miller as an artist.You can see the beginning of the type of story he is interested in.How the Mauler story comes across could almost have been a tale of The Spirit, for example.Some odd villains, the Black Widow, and as he points out, the nicking of Spider-Man villains, with Doctor Octopus, plus the appearance of that green rampaging Hulk.

Entertaining
This collection contains Frank Miller's very first Daredevil story, but only as an artist. But boy can this man draw. No one does it better than Miller. His heroes and villains almost jump out of the pages, and the way he draws the big city and all it's inhabitants is spot on, and his layouts are among the finest in the industry, period. The stories in this book are not written by Mr. Miller, but the art is worth the price of admission alone.

Frank Miller Only Drew These Ones - He Didn't Write Them
I've got to wonder if the other reviewers are talking about a different book.In Visionaries Volume 2 things take off and start to feel like the Frank Miller we know and love, but with Volume 1 it still feels like the Stan Lee / Chris Claremont comic writing of the previous decade.My advice - skip this one entirely and go straight to Volume 2.Even that's not Dark Knight / Born Again / Sin City caliber, but you do get to watch him grow as a writer.

Miller leads DD down a new path
Frank Miller's work for Marvel up to this time was usual fare. But when he started on DD, he developed a greater cinematic style not seen in comics before. If you get this volume and the next two, you'll see Miller take over the writing chores and then the blend of words and layouts really shines. The gritty look that Klaus Jansen gives Miller's art works well. If you actually study the panels, the art is crude at times--look at the proportions of feet and hands to heads, for example; yet the cinematic layouts make it work. Overall, this was a milestone in the history of comics that true fans shouldn't miss. ... Read more

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Here is the bestselling novel about growing up before free sex, Vietnam and AIDS. A "wildly sexy novel (that) isn't a sex novel".--Kurt Vonnegut. ... Read more

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Sexual and intellectual frustration has gone all the way!
Sonny and Gunner are two recently discharged Korean War veterans, who meet on their way back home. In his depiction of the growing friendship between the two young men and the inner world of Sonny, Wakefield playfully describes the two young men's journey in search of themselves, while hilariously describing the limited male mentality and overactive sex drive that is the primary focus of so many young men.
Like his friend Vonnegut; Wakefield is brilliantly sarcastic and funny. I can imagine him smiling the same sarcastic, smart smile that Vonnegut flashes.
Admittedly, I'm not a big fiction fan, but this novel is immensely entertaining and intriguing.

Growing Up In America
I first read Going All the Way in a lit class called "Growing Up In America" at prep school, in 1974.The book was only a few years old then, and it was assigned along with other fine works like The Sound and the Fury, Member of the Wedding, Red Sky at Morning, and The Car Thief.Going All the Way was my favorite, and remains one of my favorites today.I've reread it many times, and have greatly enjoyed reading the whole thing aloud to two different receptive audiences-of-one.

Going All the Way is funny, wise, and true.As a girl of 16, it also taught me a great deal about men, and particularly about the visceral fear most men have of women -- the degree to which they feel we have the power to define them.It is a book that entertains, educates, and enlightens, all at the same time.It doesn't get a whole lot better than that.

I went to a book signing when this edition came out, so I could meet Dan Wakefield, and tell him how much this book has meant to me.I was also very pleased with the movie, which came out literally decades after the book -- while it did, of necessity, pare the story down to the essentials, it portrayed the heart and soul of the story and the characters truly.

Don't miss Going All The Way.It may not be The Great American Novel, but it's certainly *A* Great American Novel.

Abridged Apparently Means "Same as Movie"
I wanted to write a review of the Going All the Way audiocassette to clear up one of the major questions I had when I considered purchasing this item.My question was, "What exactly does abridged mean?"How much of the book is cut out?Keeping in mind that I haven't read the novel, only seen the movie, I can say that the abridged audiocassette develops almost exactly like the movie.I give it only 3 stars because I think it is a good story, but I am very disappointed that it is missing the "extras" you don't get from the movie.The total running time is about 3.5 hours.If you think about how long it would take to read a novel aloud, this indicates that perhaps the majority of the book was cut.If you have seen the movie, you will gain very little from this audiocassette.

Despite these negative comments, the audiocassette has some good points, which is why I went no lower than a 3 star rating.The narrator does an excellent job of bringing all of the characters to life and putting the listener inside Sonny's head.This would be a great purchase for someone who has neither read the book nor seen the movie.

Finally, some potential customers may be worried that Going All the Way is something only people similar to the characters (20-something white males) can enjoy, but Dan Wakefield has done such a wonderful job with the characters that anybody can find something with which to identify in both Sonny and Gunner.

Dan Wakefield CAN handle the truth!
This is one of the most pitilessly honest and funniest books you'll ever read about early adulthood -- late high school, college and just after.The sexual preoccupation.The social striving.The uncertainty about one's future.Along the way, Mr. Wakefield captures a time and a place(Indiana, early 1950s) perfectly.You could draw a straight lineconnecting the art of J.D. Salinger, Dan Wakefield and Nick Hornby. Thankyou, Mr. Wakefield!

Captures turning points
This novel captures the underlying unease that two young men face when they return home from the Army in the early '50's. It sketches their growing perception of all the boxes and groups that they were in beforethey left, like the jocks, what today would called nerds, and the sororitygirls.

As they go through their first summer of freedom they begin torealize that the old home town has gotten too small and confining for them,and that it is time to go see what's over the hill. They begin to realizethat they do have many choices, and the freedom to pursue them, and theytry to sort out what some of them are.

Along the way there are somepretty accurate and painful descriptions of the social and sexual hangupsof your average Midwestern male at mid-century.

Good stuff. ... Read more

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Best Friends Suri Cruise & Shiloh, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise, Seraphina Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Ben Affleck, Jade Goody, Bachelor's Melissa Rycroft March 23, 2009 Issue #12 ... Read more

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This authentic series was signed by writer/director Kevin Smith (known as Silent Bob) on 1st page. ... Read more