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5 | Five Stars | Inspiring as well as insightful for craft and color theory. | [] | 1782214380 | 1782214380 | AFMTMV4OHGXQGNPDMTYJXDTKDWFA | 1,500,664,658,115 | 0 | true |
5 | Five Stars | All the more amazing for being his first novel. | [] | B0082ZE4V6 | B0082ZE4V6 | AFMTMV4OHGXQGNPDMTYJXDTKDWFA | 1,500,664,583,592 | 0 | true |
4 | A worthy contribution by one of the 19th century's best author's. Oh to have been a mouse in ... | A worthy contribution by one of the 19th century's best author's. Oh to have been a mouse in the corner of her and Lewes' drawing room, especially when visited by other literary luminaries of the day, such as Trollope or Hawthorne. | [] | B0082YWDZQ | B0082YWDZQ | AFMTMV4OHGXQGNPDMTYJXDTKDWFA | 1,486,240,674,000 | 0 | true |
5 | Five Stars | Excellent read and true to Aickman's vision. | [] | B01HK1EQ4M | B01HK1EQ4M | AFMTMV4OHGXQGNPDMTYJXDTKDWFA | 1,473,549,450,000 | 1 | true |
5 | Five Stars | Excellent, versatile map of the area. | [] | 1770681973 | 1770681973 | AFMTMV4OHGXQGNPDMTYJXDTKDWFA | 1,464,404,550,000 | 0 | true |
4 | A very interesting series taking place a decade or so ... | A very interesting series taking place a decade or so after the Thirty Years War that affected most all Europe and Scandinavia. | [] | B006JTTK3O | B006JTTK3O | AFMTMV4OHGXQGNPDMTYJXDTKDWFA | 1,447,020,802,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Nobody does it like Dunnett | Dorothy Dunnett is nothing if not thorough. First I bought the Kindle edition and downloaded the family trees. I bought the hard cover copy to get a clearer view of the maps relating to the the material. The book is a treasure all it's own. Best of all is the very plausible story of very real people fighting to sur... | [] | 0394523784 | 0394523784 | AFMTMV4OHGXQGNPDMTYJXDTKDWFA | 1,355,925,932,000 | 0 | true |
4 | Running on fumes | Mount is a terrific writer, but this memoir doesn;t measure up to his previous memoir of growing up in a privileged English family. | [] | 1472979427 | 1472979427 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,653,606,757,626 | 0 | true |
5 | The Golden Years of Hollywood make today's movies look like crap | They took pains and spent a lot of money looking good back then. Now? Well... you know. | [] | 0688075207 | 0688075207 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,652,572,485,062 | 0 | true |
5 | Hastings' usual first rate job | Operation Pedestal to bring food and supplies to embattled Malta during WW2 was like a maritime version of the Charge of the Light Brigade. A convoy in the Mediterranean had to make it through attack after attack from the Germans and Italians and the French not lifting a finger to help. | [] | 0062980157 | 0062980157 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,641,420,061,364 | 0 | true |
4 | The closeted gay life | Berlin Stories by Isherwood are set in Germany during the interwar period when all was collapsing or had, from the economy to the political and moral order to the beggaring of the middle class. The first story is about an old, twittering queen involved in some sort of foreign intrigue and the second, more openly gay, i... | [] | 081121804X | 081121804X | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,639,190,873,261 | 0 | true |
4 | Good behind the scenes look | It's hard to imagine a duller subject than Queen Mary, Elizabeth's mother, but Pope-Hennisey's notes on his research are screamingly funny. | [] | 1529330610 | 1529330610 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,638,655,765,337 | 0 | true |
3 | Not too sure about this. | Horowitz is a top writer for TV, absolutely first rate. And this seems like it would work well for one of his made-for-TV movies, but it is a little slow out of the blocks. It might be because he is writing in a woman's voice, which is not easy. I haven't given up on it yet, but I don't feel an urgent need to go beyond... | [] | 0062955454 | 0062955454 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,632,004,709,611 | 0 | true |
4 | The author was born under a lucky star | He was knocked unconscious when Pearl Harbor was attacked and had several other brushes with death as a Navy pilot in the years that followed. When it was over, he had to commit a serious crime to return to civilian life. Very serious. If you are a student of WWII, this is right down your alley. | [] | 1555718108 | 1555718108 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,600,970,277,423 | 0 | true |
4 | Good but not his best work | When he is in top form, William Boyd is Britain's best writer. When he is not, as in this case, a sense of disappointment descends. | [] | 0525655263 | 0525655263 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,597,961,065,536 | 0 | true |
5 | Waugh at his curmudgeonly best | The luster has faded from the author's reputation because he wrote at a time few today know about because of the destruction of history in our schools in favor of grievance mongering, but he was one of the funniest writers of the 20th Century. Funny is way harder to do than serious, ask anyone in the craft. Waugh over ... | [] | 0316216666 | 0316216666 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,596,563,117,814 | 3 | true |
4 | A master of his period | Parker was so successful at writing you can read in one or two sittings and put away without giving it a second thought that hired writers are continuing the brand. | [] | 0425132935 | 0425132935 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,594,512,380,436 | 0 | true |
3 | Hopefully, the TV series is better | This reads like the outline for shooting the scenes to come. Julian is a wonderfully comic when he wants to be, but he didn't put out much effort on this. He marches the characters onto the page and marches them off again. No depth, none of his earlier brilliance. I guess he's rich enough now that he's not that into ha... | [] | 1538760371 | 1538760371 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,590,010,445,976 | 0 | true |
4 | Inside Enigma | The author strays too often into the long grass of technical minutia, but not a bad effort. His later books have been far better. | [] | 0804115486 | 0804115486 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,590,010,210,119 | 0 | true |
3 | He used to be funny | His stuff seems stale now. | [] | B008UX3FCY | B008UX3FCY | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,590,009,877,544 | 1 | true |
1 | Don't waste your money | The first five or six websites I looked at were no longer available, the bloggers had moved on but remained for years in this useless compendium. | [] | 1944098089 | 1944098089 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,590,009,825,985 | 0 | true |
3 | Rather bad | The author displayed a good knowledge of the history of that period but his characters are flat, never come to life. | [] | 0345494792 | 0345494792 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,590,009,619,229 | 0 | true |
4 | The Other Side of the War | This first-person account of a Japanese destroyer captain, among the best of his breed, delivers an insider's look at the Imperial Japanese Fleet in World War II. It went from victory to victory, as did the Japanese Army, to the point it saw itself as victim of their own successes. "Victor's Disease," it was called af... | [] | 1591143845 | 1591143845 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,563,032,458,881 | 10 | true |
5 | It was the worst of times | It was the best of times, it was... no, forget that. It was the worst of times, straight up. After the claptrap Age of Aquarius creaked on, it gave way to a powerful and long-lasting Age of Darkness in San Francisco that makes present-day unpleasantness seem like a holiday with umbrella drinks at sunset and waves lappi... | [] | 1950393925 | 1950393925 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,561,159,732,378 | 4 | true |
3 | Only for the most extreme Anglophiles | If twee P.G. Wodehouse is you cup of tea, this is for you. For the rest of us, forget it. | [] | 1448216877 | 1448216877 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,559,483,491,285 | 0 | true |
5 | Got here on time and as promised | I am using this for research. | [] | 0465048986 | 0465048986 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,552,345,965,890 | 0 | true |
5 | Politically incorrect. | That is why it is so funny. | [] | 0394553578 | 0394553578 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,552,345,907,707 | 0 | true |
3 | The author plays his card close to the vest, but a lot of names dropped | He doesn't discloses much. | [] | 0374279926 | 0374279926 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,527,292,121,980 | 1 | true |
4 | For the academic only | Dry but factual. | [] | 075096197X | 075096197X | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,527,291,978,037 | 0 | true |
2 | Don't bother | Stodgy, badly written. | [] | 1573225142 | 1573225142 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,524,436,046,626 | 0 | true |
4 | Four Stars | An interesting book about a now obscure time when history hung in the balance. | [] | B0000CJJKC | B0000CJJKC | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,524,435,607,814 | 0 | true |
5 | Five Stars | Fine job | [] | 0452264138 | 0452264138 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,515,542,060,984 | 0 | true |
3 | Three Stars | This was a pretty weary copy of the works. | [] | 185326895X | 185326895X | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,515,542,043,644 | 0 | true |
3 | Pass unless you're hopelessly besotted with the rich and titles | You can tell exactly where Consuelo lost interest and the manuscript was handed over to a professional historian. | [] | 0704100029 | 0704100029 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,504,475,389,527 | 0 | true |
2 | Dated, wrong and the writing will put you to sleep. | Roberta did a good job reporting what the official line was. Alas, the truth lay elsewhere. | [] | 0804705984 | 0804705984 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,504,475,253,227 | 0 | true |
3 | Read His Poetry Instead | Hall is a far better poet than essayist. | [] | 0544287045 | 0544287045 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,491,600,120,000 | 1 | true |
5 | "A Superb Writer" | BookLife Prize Critic's Report: "Carroll is a superb writer, with a clear gift for not only prose but for plotting, pacing and characterization. With a gripping narrative that will hook the reader from the very first page, this haunting story is the stuff nightmares are made of." Overall: 10 Stars. (Maximum p... | [] | 0989826953 | 0989826953 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,491,599,983,000 | 0 | true |
3 | Sort of good | Brittle in the style of humor from that period. | [] | B0000CHUBU | B0000CHUBU | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,487,874,459,000 | 1 | true |
3 | Breezy and funny in parts. | Her later work, especially the one about the bookseller, were much better. | [] | 0395956196 | 0395956196 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,487,874,395,000 | 2 | true |
3 | Mrs. Miniver isn't who you think she was | Mrs. Miniver stumbled into fame and fortune, cheated on her decent husband and lost him, gained another she liked better, got cancer and died. In between, she captured the brave spirit of the British battered in their country homes during the Blitz, although safe on a lecture tour of the U.S. throughout. Not a very adm... | [] | 0312308264 | 0312308264 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,477,676,502,000 | 1 | true |
3 | Three Stars | It began as a newspaper serial and kinda shows it. | [] | 0061358304 | 0061358304 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,477,676,004,000 | 1 | true |
4 | He thought he was God's gift to literature | This is all you need to read about a gifted writer and seriously nasty man. There is some ponderous authorized biography by a fan boy, but ignore that and buy this. | [] | 0374280487 | 0374280487 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,477,675,919,000 | 0 | true |
3 | A good read | A weird household in the throes of WW2. | [] | 0226583570 | 0226583570 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,475,001,992,000 | 0 | true |
3 | You wouldn't want her in your family...still | A grasping, ambitious courtesan like her strange grandmother, Pamela puled out of this project leaving the author to feel his way to a sort of truth. | [] | 0316911887 | 0316911887 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,475,001,973,000 | 2 | true |
5 | Colville didn't like Winston Churchill at first and even had contempt | Colville didn't like Winston Churchill at first and even had contempt, but came to realize his greatness. This is an essential book for anyone interested in World War II. | [] | 0393022234 | 0393022234 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,475,001,770,000 | 6 | true |
1 | Look elsewhere | This authorized biography is a real snoozer. You get very little feel for the man. | [] | 0394482964 | 0394482964 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,475,001,660,000 | 1 | true |
3 | Highbrow journalism | Malcolm is one of the dimmer stars in the New Yorker stable. Unlike most writers, she admits journalism an on-going act of betrayal. You gain the confidence of the mark, pump out the information you think is interesting or contradictory, and then do the knifing. Somebody else gets to mop up the mess because you are ont... | [] | 0374157693 | 0374157693 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,468,528,714,000 | 2 | true |
4 | Light, bright and funny | John Derbyshire is a very bright guy who has the kind of dry humor only the Brits do this well. He needed advice on the title, however. It's not one that would see books fly off the shelves. | [] | 0312140444 | 0312140444 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,468,528,332,000 | 0 | true |
3 | Earnest, deeply-felt wartime saga worth your time. | This is an earnest, deeply-felt saga of warships at sea doing convoy duty during WW2 when England stood alone against the German war machine. Nicholas Monsarrat was the skipper of an escort, a smaller version of a destroyer. He knew the brutal truth of how it was and this comes across in detail that is sometimes labori... | [] | B000TA2ZN6 | B000TA2ZN6 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,468,528,116,000 | 1 | true |
4 | It's good for what it is. | A literary analysis of Milton's "Paradise Lost" is not for everyone, but this is much better written than the sawdust-dry work of modern-day academic work. | [] | 0195003454 | 0195003454 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,456,186,968,000 | 1 | true |
5 | This is awfully good | one of the best single-volume histories of WW2 I've read. | [] | 0307273598 | 0307273598 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,443,555,628,000 | 0 | true |
5 | Five Stars | Used it all the time on a recent visit. | [] | 0615346391 | 0615346391 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,430,418,159,000 | 0 | true |
5 | Five Stars | We looked at it frequently during a recent visit. | [] | 0985653205 | 0985653205 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,430,418,137,000 | 1 | true |
4 | Lawday is a magician | Jolly good, this book. The author conjured to life a towering figure shortened considerably in the end by Madam Guillotine. It was much as he conjured the engine off my sailboat in the Sausalito waters many years ago. One motion of his hand and it was gone; it took a considerable feat of seamanship to reach harbour. I ... | [] | 0802145418 | 0802145418 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,418,082,540,000 | 0 | true |
5 | Memoir as literature | This is what you get what a marvelous writer has a life crowded with incident in an England where everybody knew everybody else of consequence. | [] | 0688009530 | 0688009530 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,409,517,472,000 | 1 | true |
2 | Two Stars | A first-rate writer has produced a second-rate franchise novel. | [] | 0062223127 | 0062223127 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,409,066,721,000 | 1 | true |
3 | Pretty good in spots | Pretty good in spots, very good in others. The best we can do, I guess, but a far cry from the British essayists who address large subjects and small men people think are large. | [] | 160419068X | 160419068X | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,408,576,763,000 | 0 | true |
4 | People aren't like this in the age of the selfie | Spare in its eloquence, a man doing his job without self-dramatization. People aren't like this in the age of the selfie. | [] | 1606351206 | 1606351206 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,408,576,623,000 | 0 | true |
3 | Jokey but okay | I wasted my time on this so you don't have to. Lardner, part of the famous writing family, left his sports writing job and went off to report on the war. He had a few fun adventures, has a few interesting things to say, but not enough to warrant your attention. | [] | 0803240988 | 0803240988 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,402,754,307,000 | 2 | true |
4 | Excellent book on Hollywood | Friedrich was the editor (I think) of Saturday Evening Post, a fine magazine in its day, and his top-notch journalistic skills are in evidence. He wrote that he had read 500 books about Hollywood before sitting down to write his own, and the deep research shows. He unearthed such gems as the history of The Maltese Falc... | [] | 0060156260 | 0060156260 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,398,959,785,000 | 12 | true |
5 | Author: Very happy about this | This is from the Kirkus Review:<br /><br />". . . a heady brew of military history and conspiracy theory that will appeal to aficionados of both."<br /><br />"The Pulitzer-Prize nominated journalist smartly centers this historical novel, an amalgam of facts and suppositions, on a charming rogue."<br /><br />"Carroll be... | [] | 0989826902 | 0989826902 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,398,550,267,000 | 2 | false |
1 | What a stinker | It is now only skimpy on research but badly written. Koster didn't bother spending much time in the archives or stacks and it shows. It is a book for conspiracy hacks of the lowest order. | [] | 1596983221 | 1596983221 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,388,765,314,000 | 14 | true |
2 | I'm a rabid fan | But the author of the Flashman series indulges in a bit of self-mockery to show off his metafiction chops. It's like he's saying, "See how easy it is." | [] | 0394538374 | 0394538374 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,388,765,200,000 | 1 | true |
4 | An expansive canvas | A tour de force for Walter that begins in WW2 and takes you to modern-day Hollywood. A sharp satire and a rather less convincing love story. Walter is a terrific writer. | [] | 0061928178 | 0061928178 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,388,764,770,000 | 0 | true |
4 | Very dark | But if you don't mind very dark, you will like this one if it doesn't creep you out. Things go from bad to worse and then beyond. This is an international bestseller that will keep you turning the pages as you get to know the characters better. | [] | 0770437850 | 0770437850 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,388,764,656,000 | 0 | true |
4 | A novel for poets | Baker is an adroit wordsmith and laugh-out-loud funny in spots, but this had too much about the mechanics of writing poetry for me. Poets will love it, however. | [] | 1416572457 | 1416572457 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,388,764,538,000 | 0 | true |
3 | Way back then | Alvin Kernan was a teenager living on a remote, impoverished ranch in Wyoming with his mother and stepfather. There was no work to be had so, like many other young men fortunate enough to pass the tests, he joined the Navy. He was eyewitness to a good deal of the pivotal battles in the Pacific, rising from ordinary swa... | [] | 0300123159 | 0300123159 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,375,022,005,000 | 2 | true |
2 | I tried | I tried, I really did, but I just could not get into this book. It is slow, dry and -- I dunno. Maybe you'll have better luck. | [] | 1848540256 | 1848540256 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,375,020,900,000 | 0 | true |
2 | Meh | The more I read, the less I liked the author. She seems lazy, self-indulgent, shallow and a victim. I quit half way through. | [] | 1616201312 | 1616201312 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,373,461,297,000 | 3 | true |
4 | Good pointer | This is a good way to find out what books to read about WWII. There are some it would never occur to you to read. | [] | 0091792290 | 0091792290 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,370,024,217,000 | 0 | true |
3 | You know what you're getting | Furst has settled into a groove or a rut depending on your point of view. Mine is somewhere in the middle. | [] | 1400060184 | 1400060184 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,367,690,464,000 | 1 | true |
3 | The Downton Abbey writer | "Snob" by Fellowes is a much better book and takes half the time to make the same points about people yearning to rise high enough in society so they can rub elbows with people every bit as dull and dreary as those found lower down in the order. They live in better houses, though. Fellowes (he is now a life pee... | [] | B003STCRMY | B003STCRMY | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,366,635,344,000 | 0 | true |
5 | The best writer in England today | Forget Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Zadie Smith and the rest of those names you read about so often. Boyd is the real deal. He has written enough first-rate novels to keep you occupied for quite a while. Start with Every Human Heart and work your way forward or backward. Many are comic gems, others quite serious. | [] | 0061956317 | 0061956317 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,366,634,852,000 | 1 | true |
3 | The writer's writer? | I don't think so on the strength of this memoir written in what Salter evidently thought was the sunset of his life. That was fifteen years ago, and a new novel by him has just (2013) been published to so-so reviews. So much more emotion went in to his description of the buddies he has had over the years made me wonder... | [] | 0375500154 | 0375500154 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,366,634,503,000 | 3 | true |
5 | Meets every need | We relied on it heavily and found it concise and reliable. We'll go back again and take it along. Boston is not exactly a city that changes much from year to year. | [] | 0756669731 | 0756669731 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,366,634,147,000 | 0 | true |
3 | Still dark | Richard Price certainly has a dark view of life. His previous fiction and his scriptwriting work with The Wire shows an intimate acquaintance with the underbelly of life. Most if not all of his characters have some defect in character or understanding. The result is dead-end lives and hopelessness. The man can spin a t... | [] | 0374299250 | 0374299250 | AGVR45X3BLG2CNEISGQMJA7TGBPQ | 1,207,403,413,000 | 0 | true |
5 | Five Stars | It was a gift but they enjoyed it very much! | [] | 0744017483 | 0744017483 | AFQW7GO3ZRPBAKVXVRDR6TDWSG2Q | 1,484,444,324,000 | 0 | true |
3 | Just Okay | Toned down from House of God, but less focused on medicine and more just a story in a fictitious town. | [] | 0425258785 | 0425258785 | AHI3FRM3WTD6OC2GVU4VFHAMN2AA | 1,453,151,466,000 | 1 | true |
5 | Great book for people who improv | I have cindy’s first book. This one is written the same way……so clear, inspirational, and with a bit of humor. Improv design and quilts need not be strange, or look hard. Cindy shows to how to be free and create. | [] | 1644030691 | 1644030691 | AG6ZSGC2MCNKR3EENMDJQTPY5KEQ | 1,638,580,151,963 | 2 | true |
3 | small size for an instruction book | this is a little book……6 inches square. I cannot find a place for it in my bookshelf, it gets lost. the method is unique and very easy to follow, and an alternative to traditional Cathedral Windows. | [] | B09CKYSZ68 | B09CKYSZ68 | AG6ZSGC2MCNKR3EENMDJQTPY5KEQ | 1,638,580,001,008 | 2 | true |
5 | Learned a lot | Men have the ability to drill down to the essence of a quilt pattern and then spin it into something totally new. I love this book and the authors work. The patterns are not hard to make, but they sure make you think about color placement. | [] | 1939696658 | 1939696658 | AG6ZSGC2MCNKR3EENMDJQTPY5KEQ | 1,638,579,529,014 | 0 | true |
3 | Photos are not crisp and clear | Not up to par for a major museum book.....photos are disappointing. quilts look very dull and some a bit out of focus. black quilts are impossible to see detail or even the overall design. half the book are historical pieces, 1800’s. the title is very misleading, i was expecting a retrospective from 1971 forward. ... | [] | 1735278424 | 1735278424 | AG6ZSGC2MCNKR3EENMDJQTPY5KEQ | 1,622,243,596,890 | 2 | true |
5 | excellent resource for quilters | Eye opening style. Love the projects and the simplicity of construction, that delivers a dynamic quilt. I just wish it included directions to make fula’a (flowers) for the corners. | [] | 160705809X | 160705809X | AG6ZSGC2MCNKR3EENMDJQTPY5KEQ | 1,602,099,413,765 | 1 | true |
5 | love this book | Gwen Marston was a master of free form style. Read the book, Gwen always put some humor in her books and this one is no different. Great quilt book. | [] | 1604600284 | 1604600284 | AG6ZSGC2MCNKR3EENMDJQTPY5KEQ | 1,602,099,291,714 | 1 | true |
2 | irrelevant to me | was looking for a book about knitting with cotton. this book is all patterns that appeal to teens. | [] | 081205816X | 081205816X | AG6ZSGC2MCNKR3EENMDJQTPY5KEQ | 1,585,263,634,433 | 0 | true |
4 | Be careful......read the instructions several times | Author names half square triangles a completely different way than we do in the States. The instructions can be confusing, and you could end up with the wrong size on your blocks. Not fun to find out the hard way. | [] | 161745205X | 161745205X | AG6ZSGC2MCNKR3EENMDJQTPY5KEQ | 1,580,514,953,652 | 3 | true |
5 | A must buy for all sewers | This is book is so comprehensive and easy to use. It has everything you ever wanted to know about it, and then some. I learned so much! | [] | 1618471015 | 1618471015 | AG6ZSGC2MCNKR3EENMDJQTPY5KEQ | 1,553,903,677,895 | 0 | true |
4 | good, but...... | This book does not have good instructional pictures. You have to watch the process on the authors YouTube videos got really get how to do it. It is a unique approach to very complicated designs, and it works. | [] | 1604600217 | 1604600217 | AG6ZSGC2MCNKR3EENMDJQTPY5KEQ | 1,523,719,444,689 | 1 | true |
5 | Excellent resource book | Out of print, but should be republished.......this is the definitive guide to sewing with specialty threads. Excellent resource book. | [] | 1564772160 | 1564772160 | AG6ZSGC2MCNKR3EENMDJQTPY5KEQ | 1,523,719,149,968 | 0 | true |
5 | Best book to learn cooking | Do the spatchcock chicken method and you will never by a precooked chicken again. So delicious. This book has become my bible. Very readable, humorous, and packed with tips to be a better cook. recipes are easy to follow, and all of them are winners. | [] | 0393081087 | 0393081087 | AG6ZSGC2MCNKR3EENMDJQTPY5KEQ | 1,518,758,888,512 | 1 | true |
5 | Five Stars | Great reference. | [] | 1426307683 | 1426307683 | AHVHDVGEZSSJIAEDZOAIIYEKWQPQ | 1,485,349,864,000 | 0 | true |
5 | These are Masterpieces! | Maurice Durufle Listened to the Improvisations and then wrote them down so others could play these masterpieces for themselves. Without Durufle's transcriptions these pieces would be lost. | [] | 0044065493 | 0044065493 | AE3ADG6WP7UYB54J3CRQ22BLQE3A | 1,655,435,292,279 | 0 | true |
5 | classic cartoons | there is much wisdom to be learned from the peanuts characters! | [] | 1608864278 | 1608864278 | AE3ADG6WP7UYB54J3CRQ22BLQE3A | 1,568,343,031,589 | 1 | true |
5 | gifted cook | enjoyed reading the receipts. i watch him on the youtube from london. | [] | 0857832115 | 0857832115 | AE3ADG6WP7UYB54J3CRQ22BLQE3A | 1,493,682,346,000 | 0 | true |
5 | classic karg-elert | it's a wonderful piece of music and the typesetting i this edition makes it easier to read. | [] | 0206706480 | 0206706480 | AE3ADG6WP7UYB54J3CRQ22BLQE3A | 1,479,234,195,000 | 0 | true |
5 | good musical reading | this wonderful book is written about kenneth leighton , who was a very important british composer. | [] | 0313305153 | 0313305153 | AE3ADG6WP7UYB54J3CRQ22BLQE3A | 1,474,596,716,000 | 0 | true |
5 | classic | affordable score of a famous work. | [] | 0769242642 | 0769242642 | AE3ADG6WP7UYB54J3CRQ22BLQE3A | 1,467,857,767,000 | 0 | true |
5 | Well written book | This is one of the definitive books about Marcel Dupre. It's one of the books in my library that I read over and over again. | [] | 0930350650 | 0930350650 | AE3ADG6WP7UYB54J3CRQ22BLQE3A | 1,466,479,831,000 | 2 | true |
5 | The Kids love it! | I have thought from this book for over a year now. Students love the pieces and the cd recordings.I was simply buying myself a back-up copy. | [] | 0825633974 | 0825633974 | AE3ADG6WP7UYB54J3CRQ22BLQE3A | 1,447,118,247,000 | 0 | true |
5 | A Must for Train Enthusiasts | I enjoyed reading the story and viewing the wonderful pictures.Thanks for the good service. jb | [] | 0517633515 | 0517633515 | AE3ADG6WP7UYB54J3CRQ22BLQE3A | 1,446,506,886,000 | 1 | true |
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