Sunday, October 15, 2006
My Story - General Peter Cosgrove
Title: My Story
Author: General Peter Cosgrove
ISBN: 000732283841
Review to Come
Author: General Peter Cosgrove
ISBN: 000732283841
Review to Come
Thursday, October 12, 2006
The End by Lemony Snicket
Title: The End
Author: Lemony Snicket
ISBN: 0064410161
The final chapter on the life of Baudelaires orphans. Last we saw them they were in a boat with Count Olaf, in the middle of no-where but sure it was somewhere.
The final book of A Series of Unfortunate Events entitled the The End. Is very fitting indeed. The children find some answers to their questions and more about themselves then ever before. Although grim at times and repeatative at most, Lemony Snicket has told the story well of the three orphan children. From their happier times to the unfortunate events that followed them where ever they went. Through friendship and death, to near death, the children have survived and done what is best.
A wonderful ending to their journey. However readers will feel the urge to want more of them. Written in a cleaver manner, the series could almost be called a dictionary, a remakable thing for children to have today.
Highly recommended to anyone who enjoys misfortune, grim tales, adventure and books. A wonderful series of 170 chapters!
In bookstores now. This would also make a great Christmas present for pre-teens!
The Unpublished Spike Milligan - Box 18
Title: The Unpublished Spike Milligan Box 18
Edited by Norma Farnes
ISBN: 000724195x
What a wonderful insite into one of the worlds funniest and most creative talents, Spike Milligan. Box 18 contains some of Spike Milligan's unfinished works. Very interesting in seeing how his mind worked. From simple skit concepts to letters sent and received, plus some of his diary entries. Although he was a funny man he also suffered from depression. In some of his diary entries, his editor notes of when he was slipping into depression and often for how long.
Sections of the book, show his concepts for such shows as the Goon Show, he drew them as he would see them. Skits that were just ideas and transformed into what we see on TV or listen to on the radio.
A very enjoyable read, with will often leave you feeling happy, a giggle here and there and sometimes the totally confussed. What a great opportunity of us to have look into the world of Spike Milligan.
Edited by Norma Farnes
ISBN: 000724195x
What a wonderful insite into one of the worlds funniest and most creative talents, Spike Milligan. Box 18 contains some of Spike Milligan's unfinished works. Very interesting in seeing how his mind worked. From simple skit concepts to letters sent and received, plus some of his diary entries. Although he was a funny man he also suffered from depression. In some of his diary entries, his editor notes of when he was slipping into depression and often for how long.
Sections of the book, show his concepts for such shows as the Goon Show, he drew them as he would see them. Skits that were just ideas and transformed into what we see on TV or listen to on the radio.
A very enjoyable read, with will often leave you feeling happy, a giggle here and there and sometimes the totally confussed. What a great opportunity of us to have look into the world of Spike Milligan.
