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English, 177 pages. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1865.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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This is both broad and general look at the American Indian from North America to Central America. ... Read more

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"Make us something about cats." This dictum, given to the artists and writers who participated in the 2003 Catholic exhibition at Guild & Greyshkul Gallery in New York, produced--beautiful, startling, thought-provoking, sweet, disturbing--results. According to editors/curators Jesse Pearson and Glynnis McDaris, "If they said 'cats are pretty,' that was fine. If they said 'cats are stupid,' that was fine too. This is Catholic in the spirit of its neglected definition: Having varied tastes. This isn't about eating fish on Fridays . . . .

The visual art in Catholic includes photographs by Roe Etheridge, Ryan McGinley, Colin DeLand, Richard Kern, Terence Koh, and Terry Richardson; drawings by artists Jim Drain, Sabrina Mansouri, Pieter Schoolwerth, and Spencer Sweeney; and projects from Le Tigre's JD Samson, Built-by-Wendy's Wendy Mullen, and United Bamboo. Cats also includes Steve Lafreniere's writing on his mother's cat photography, Amber Gayle on brushes with 300-pound mountain lions, Amy Kellner's diatribe on the "Hang in There, Baby" tradition, and a poem from Eileen Myles's pet, Avi.

There are people in this world whose love of cats reaches near-religious fervor. For those people, Catholic fills a market niche that magazines like Cat Fancy and Cat World never could, or maybe, never dared. --Patrik Ervell in V magazine

Catholic is cuddly and clever and purrs when you pet it. --Brittney Brown, Flaunt Magazine

Cat-holic is the kind of pun we'd hate ourselves for not using. --Jesse Pearson and Glynnis McDaris

Edited by Jesse Pearson and Glynnis McDaris.

Hardcover, 7.5 x 8.5 in./128 pgs / 80 color and 20 b&w. ... Read more

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You Have to Get This
Two friends chipped in to give me this book for my birthday and I am so grateful!OK, it looks a little amateur hour, but the designers and editors have come up with a really good way to help settle that uneasy feeling of nausea that comes from looking at too many pictures of cats.I'm of the school that believes my own cats are pretty good looking, but that the cats of others are basically monsters just seeking attention.Magazines like CAT FANCY try to dress up this unpalatable truth and pretend that we all love each other's cats and even cats in shelters.Instead McDaris and Pearson go here for the DIY, not to mention scary look.The endpapers (designed by McDaris) display a hanging spider web of lit filaments (like Shelob) studded with floating cat heads, like an early Judy Bolton mystery.And the writing is pretty cat-skeptical too, especially Amy Kellner's scathing expose of the thinking behind those rancid "Hang in There, Baby" drawings of cats clinging to tree branches and clotheslines.Hate them!

Roe Ethridge has a cat that looks cute, but it's asleep, possibly dead, in this photo, a cat on a blue linen tablecloth with white stitching like a baseball.Steve Lafreniere presents the cats and the cat photos of his mother--at one point, he recalls, there were no fewer than sixteen cats living with them--in Chicago, where the cats are more vulnerable and yet tougher than other cities--its artists too I think.It is more the story of a human, a woman whose passion for photography took her to Rolleiflex but just short of professional status, the ultimate mystery, rather than how cute her cats were.Somehow Ryan McGinley got his cat to climb up a piece of gauze (like Doris Day) and shot it from underneath, light stirring in the cat's left eye like an aspirant to great stardom.I'm not used to gee the George Hurrell side of Ryan McGinley, but here it is.And is that really Bruce LaBruce in Terry Richardson's picture of a masked, naked man crouched over a pan of kitty litter?Bruce, you look gooood!

Had I the time I would comment on every text and picture in the book, but they are mostly all of a piece, and that is, most of them are sort of offputting at first, than one admires the ingenuity and the freshness with which the writers and artists carried out their assignment.Terence Koh, dressing your cat in that flat, white Peggy Lee wig must be a comment of Lee's impersonation of the Siamese in LADY AND THE TRAMP?If not, what is your excuse!You're scaring me here . . .

Most interesting cat book yet!
This is not your typical cat book with cutesy photos and silly conceits ( think "why cat's paint"......)
Assorted artists get real with all the angles on the feline world and they dont' hold back. Highly amusing and a visual treat. ... Read more

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Chapters: Robert Gordis, Peter Spencer, Richard Sipe, Jay Samonie, Billy Joe Daugherty, Jesse Lee, Clyde X, Merril Jessop, Charles Meade, Joseph Epes Brown, Lucy Harris, Gedaliah Silverstone, Richard Land, Eboo Patel, William Ingraham Kip, John C. Whitcomb, Arthur Simon, Ruby Muhammad, Ralph Blair, Paul Rader, Gerónimo Boscana, Bernt Julius Muus, Guy Beck, Ira Hatch, Tommy Barnett, Asa Mahan, Adam Crooks, Wilhelm Sihler, S. Kent Brown, Francis Murphy, Virginia H. Pearce, Junius Ralph Magee, Loren Bommelyn, Hobart Baumann Amstutz, Louis P. Sheldon, George Durrant, Curley Headed Doctor, Gardiner Spring, Robert Elliott Speer, Robert Grant, George Boardman the Younger, Pinchas Stolper, Henry Harris Jessup, Laurence Higgins, Stuart Briscoe, Ruth White, Sarah Harding, Lama, Ben Ammi, William Faunce, Franklin Littel, William Thomas Manning, Arthur James Armstrong, Frederick Buckley Newell, Ole Anthony, Samuel Augustus Hayden, Mark L. Prophet, Davi Paes Silva, Dana Mclean Greeley, James Samuel Thomas, Andrés Quintana, Stacy Brooks, Vicente Pascual Oliva, Michael Sells, Arnold Stiebel, José Barona, Morris Silverman, Johanna Veenstra, William G. Sinkford, Arthur Wheelock Moulton, Henry Eyster Jacobs, Charles Woodruff Shields, Emil G. Hirsch, Francis J. Weber, Gorham Dummer Abbott, Dayna Curry, Menachem Genack, Leighton Coleman, Benjamin Bosworth Smith, Bowman Foster Stockwell, Galusha Anderson, John A. Buehrens, Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, Samuel Mcchord Crothers, J. Philip Wogaman, Albert Rosewig, John H. Dietrich, Archibald Thomas Robertson, Francis Joseph Hall, Ann Holmes Redding, Abraham Cohen Labatt, Gregório Amúrrio, Paul Barnes, Vicente Fustér, William Norman Guthrie, Harlan Page Beach, Alice Callaghan, Nathan Sites, Manis Jacobs, Pablo de Mugártegui, Daniel Parish Kidder, Zephyrin Engelhardt, David Nelson Beach, Jason Evert, Experience Mayhew, Leafy Anderson, Henry Sloane Coffin, John Russell, Arthur Glasser, Isaac Touro, St. John ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25675183 ... Read more

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Tough and tender, sweet and sassy, here is a story of honesty and humour for anyone who has ever lived and loved.Scott Gandy has always been a gambling man, relying on his lazy Southern charm to smooth a way out of difficult situations. Hoping to make his fortune, he opens a saloon in Proffitt, Kansas. But he soon becomes a target of the prohibition movement, led by the owner of the hat shop next door to his establishment -- the enchanting yet volatile Agatha Downing.The saloon keeper and the prim and proper milliner are hopeless adversaries! until the innocence of a child opens their eyes and hearts to each other. ... Read more

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NOT one of Ms. Spencer's best
Ugh!!!I have read and enjoyed most of LaVyrle Spencer's work, but there are a few stinkers among them -- this one is truly painful, even for a mindless beach read.I know that part of the charm of the romance genre is suspension of disbelief, but this storyline is beyond ridiculous and cloying.It's rare that I completely give up on a book, but I couldn't take the downward spiral anymore.Big thumbs down!

Wonderful book
I've read The Gamble by LaVyrle Spencer countless times.It is one of my favorite books, written by my favorite author.Spencer creates likable characters, although they are not all perfect characters by any means!She does thorough research into the era she is writing about, and the area of the country that she is writing about.This book is one of my favorites because I had not read many books about the South that discussed the aftermath of the Civil War.This one does.Waverly, the plantation that Gandy eventually returns to and that Agatha ends up at, is a real place.I was fortunate enough to run across a wonderful article about Waverly in a magazine many years ago.Spencer has described the place so well that when I saw the picture in the magazine, I immediately knew what it was.It's unfortunate that LaVyrle Spencer chose to retire from writing.She has a true gift for it.Over the years she created some of my favorite stories, with many of my favorite fictional characters.The Gamble is by far my favorite.

Boring
I agree with several other reviews.The first part of the book was good.However, it became a CHORE to finish.I finally gave up, skimmed through the last few chapters to get to the end which was so pollyanna ridiculous I was disturbed that I even bothered to finish it.

I have read Years and Hummingbird by Ms Spencer and really enjoyed them.This book does not hold a candle to either of them.

Doesn't Get Better Than This
I work in a library and when someone asks me to give them a title of a book to read I always suggest The Gamble. This is one of my favorite books and every time I read it I cry at the same spots. The main chacters are so great you can't help but fall in love with them. I keep holding out hope that they turn it into a movie. I would love to see this book come to life in a tv movie.

Sorry folks......
The first half of the novel was FANTASTIC!!!! I was desperate to find another Spencer novel that equaled Hummingbird and after reading the first couple of pages of the Gamble I thought I had found it, only to be incredibly disappointed after the second half of the book.

After Scott left Agatha in Kansas to go back to his hometown Mississippi, the story fell flat and became gratuitous. There were only a couple of passionate interactions between Scott and Agatha in the first half, which were paced perfectly and made you salivate for more. However, when Scott invited Agatha to Florida to offer her a proposition, Spencer left the relationship stagnant and platonic, which completely confounded me!!! Where was the sexy, daring, impatient and utterly adorable male hero I have come to love in the first half of the book????? Spencer changed Scott too drastically and suddenly became a sweet and patient gentleman that was not conducive to Agath's prim and proper character.

You were left with the feeling of utter confusion and impatience for the romance and passion-verbal or physical- to start between them again, but to no avail. Spencer just kept writing so much of the peripheral environment-and hardly incorporating any heat between Agatha and Scott-that you felt the novel falling apart from its promising start. Finally when the romance began to pick up slightly it ended before you even knew what hit you when they confessed their love for each other and then getting married. Even the love-making ending was flat and nowhere near as passionate as you would have liked.

After finishing the novel I was still confused and felt cheated as to how Spencer could have written such different halves of the same novel-especially when it came to Scott's characterization. He started off like Jessie Dufrayne in Hummingbird and ended like a complete different person-too sweet, too patient, and too boring.

I am still sighing over the ending of the novel in utter and sad disappointment. I have not read all of Spencer's novels and I hope one day I will hit upon one of her books that come close to Hummingbird or the Fulfillment. ... Read more

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Catherine Spencer Strikes Gold Again
"The Millionaire's Marriage" is the best of Catherine Spencer's many fine romance novels. The plot is easy to relate to yet so ingenious. It is the story of a couple split apart by a misunderstanding. When they get together to pretend to be happily married, the adventure begins.

Gabriella, the Hungarian bride of a Max, a Canadian millionaire, loves him so intensely. Yet Max cannot forgive her the circumstances that brought them to the altar. She counters his accusations by leaving Max and becoming independent via a successfulworldwide career as a model. As the book starts they are reuniting after 18 months separation for the sake of her parents who are visiting them in Vancouver.

Through flashbacks, all the delicious passion of their first love is contrasted against their discomfort at being together again.I could feel their irresistible attraction for each other. Max fought this attraction so resolutely. Gabriella fervently wished it were otherwise.
What empathy their situation evokes.What humor and poignancy Catherine Spencer shares as she describes their sniping at each other yet all the while longingfor each other. Their experience rings so true yet seems so regrettable. Their coping with the pretense of a happy marriage is so real.

Max realizes his true feelings when Gabriella is in peril. The incident that threatens Gabriella's very life is described so authentically as one of the dangers of urban life. Gabriella's response to Max's reaction is a real surprise.

The final chapter is the best ending imaginable.It is so realistic yet so incredibly romantic.

This is a romance novel you have to read. Catherine Spencer always tells a fine story but this is her best ever. In conclusion, buy this book and read it; you will treasure it. ... Read more

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A story about a group of young men, their comrades and girlfriends, as they evolve in often unpredictable ways: Blake Hurlingame and Steve Larkin, boyhood friends who take different paths into fighters and bombers. ... Read more

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An excellent book of vignettes about World War II's Pacific Theater
Some of the other reviewers of this book are apparently unfamiliar with the literary style of the vignette. This book is an excellent example of it in use. the book consists of a series of short stories, mostly about American pilots in the Pacific Theater in World War II. The stories are all related to one another but any one of them is also a stand-alone story on its own (in fact, the author notes in the back note that 5 of the stories were previously published independent of one another in magazines). The dust jacket liner notes call it a novel-in-stories.

Many are complaining that the stories are disjointed. Yes, that's the intention. It is similar to the difference between a movie about an event and a few snapshots of that same event. The movie is smooth, a series of photographs is disjointed - but each picture can stand on its own.

Anyway, Spencer's book consists of 15 vignettes about the lives of two pilots. The first one is about their childhood. It is by far the weakest of the stories. It has the least to do with the war, but it is a decent little story about the Great Depression. The rest of them give us a little taste of the action in the air over the Pacific but also a sense of life back on base and on leave.

The book is a breeze to read and quite enjoyable. As a memoir in fiction, one can assume that some of it really happened to Spencer, some of it is based on things he heard about and some of it he just made up.Either way, I enjoyed it.

I give this one a grade of A-

Story of combat from someone who lived it.
I read this book this year.I picked it up because my Grandpa was a B-24 pilot in the war and said it was a good fictionalised account of 'his war'.I started reading and was sucked in.

The way he describes dogfights and bomb runs is in great detail.The book is based on two characters, Lieutenants Stevie Larkin and Blake Hurlingame.Both are childhood friends who both join the Army Air Forces during WWII.One is a fighter pilot and the other a bomber pilot.The book bounces between different characters but the stories are intertwined.If you want a well written, tragic WWII novel, "The Pilots" is a great choice.

Very visceral look at WWII...
I read this book at the recommendation of a friend, and I must say, I have never been endowed with such a clear perception of what it was like to actually be in WWII. The gritty characters, intricate settings, and detailed descriptions made the book seem very, very real... I would recommend this book to anyone who would like a thrilling glimpse at what it was like to actually BE THERE. An enjoyable and gripping novel overall.

Missed Opportunity
I also salute the author's contribution in WWII.However, "The Pilots" is just too disjointed and -- quite frankly -- predictable to recommend.Apparently much of the book was written as short stories, which is fine.But there should have been some effort to edit these into a seamless whole, rather than just slap them together between covers.As a result, we often hear the same bits of information over and over.Trust me, Mr. Spencer, by page 228 we KNOW that "Blake Hurlingame was Steve's boyhood friend who now flies B-24s!"And too many of the incidents were telegraphed far in advance.When Addie finds the .45 automatic in her nightstand drawer, we KNOW she's going to need it in just a few pages!On the plus side, some of the flying sequences were quite enjoyable.There just weren't enough of them.It seems to me that if you're writing a novel about combat flying in WWII, you pretty much know who your audience will be.And it's not women.Therefore, I would suggest cutting down on the "romance" and jacking up the action.Just one guy's opinion.Still, it's a quick, painless read and flying novels are hard to find.
(By the way, one positive:The new trade paperback edition has the appropriate P-38 on the cover.)

Amateurish collection of stories that dont fit together well
I thought I would enjoy "The Pilots" because I am a fighter pilot myself (albeit of the modern era) and I enjoy first-hand accounts of WWII.The glowing accolades on the back cover from some aviation/military authors seemed to indicate a good read.I was rather disappointed.Although I read the whole thing, and it was mildly entertaining, it was far from what I expected.It was a very amateurish piece of work.The author himself tells us in the forward that he wrote down these "stories" to record the world of WWII pilots, their experiences and feelings, for his own sons.He then collected the stories into a book.

It could have been much better if he had put a little more effort into consolidating the stories, but he didn't even bother to clean up the individual stories and mesh them neatly together - sometimes they left you hanging and sometimes they seemed to go nowhere.Some were obviously left out entirely.And he bounces back and forth between a B-24 pilot (which he portrays OK since he was one) and a P-38 fighter pilot (which is most of the amateurish stuff) that he tries (unsuccessfully) to tie together at the beginning with a too-long account of their childhood as neighbors.And probably because the author later became a Psychotherapist (as reported in the "about the author" on the cover flap) the whole book is laced with a lot of people with childhood issues, who "need to talk to someone".Reading this you would think that half the pilots (and flight docs) in the Pacific theater were loony.And the author seems to have the characters, rather than dwelling on bonds of friendship and camaraderie, mostly be antagonistic towards each other.

The author's credibility dropped even more when he mentioned that WWI fighter pilots didn't fly with parachutes because they hadn't been invented yet (which is blatantly false).A last minor, irritating point is that the cover of the hardback that I read shows a P-51 which never (to my knowledge) served in the Pacific theater (where the book is based) and which, more to the point, is never a part of the stories.
Overall, if you've got nothing to do for a weekend, and the book is sitting there on the table, you might want to read it.But I wouldn't buy it. ... Read more