Cuisinart TTG-500 Two-to-Go Coffeemaker
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Perfect for preparing coffee at home before dashing out the door, this coffeemaker brews through the lids directly into either one or both of the 14-ounce travel mugs accompanying the machine. The stainless-steel mugs have rubber, nonslip grips, fit most vehicle cup holders, and are 6-3/4 inches high, with 2-5/8-inch-diameter rubber bottoms. Lids keep coffee hot in the mugs and are deeply indented and sloped toward the drink hole to contain spills. Both mugs and their lids are dishwasher-safe. The coffeemaker uses disposable paper filters (two included), automatically shuts off after the brewing process, and can also be used to heat water for tea, hot chocolate, and instant foods like oatmeal and soup. Made of gleaming black plastic, the coffeemaker measures 13 inches high, 5-1/4 inches wide, and 8-1/2 inches deep, and carries a three-year warranty against defects. --Fred Brack ... Read more

Features

• Brews through lids into one or two 14-ounce travel mugs
• Stainless-steel mugs with rubber, non-slip grips fit most vehicle cup holders
• Automatically shuts off after brewing for added safety
• Dishwasher-safe mugs and lids; includes 2 disposable paper filters
• Measures 13 by 5-1/4 by 8-1/2 inches; 3-year limited warranty

Reviews (58)

I just love this coffeemaker
I've had my Cuisinart Two-to-Go for about six months.This is the best coffeemaker: quick, easy, and good tasting coffee... even before considering the great price!

The only negative is (duh) you can't warm your coffee in the microwave if you don't get it finished fast enough.I've taken to requesting 16oz cups and lids from my local (better than Starbucks) coffee store when I buy beans.They generally sell them to me very cheap.This compliments the machine's time-efficient qualities perfectly.

Again, just about the best thing invented in the world of coffeemakers for "always on the go" types.

Good only for about 9 months!
Reecived this as a Christmas present last year, but it took two months of moving before I could actually use it. Once I did, the travel mugs lasted about a week before the bottoms came off and they had to be thrown away due to rough bottom edges. No big deal I thought, I will just use other travel mugs. That lasted for about six months. The coffee it brews is HORRIBLE tasting! I have ran the "residue cleaners" through it, like all my past coffeemakers, and it just won't come back to its days of making a decent cup of coffee. Too bad I had a convenient coffeemaker for about 9 months!

Coffee maker for lazy people!
I have this coffee maker in my apartment.I share it with my roommate (who is smart yet does really dumb things sometimes).If someone could mess something incredibly easy up, it would be my roommate.He has yet to mess up brewing coffee with this machine.There is one button so there is not much to mess up.

Not only does he have a habit of messing things up he also is lazy.This coffee machine is so easy to clean up that he actually takes the two seconds to clean it up after using it!The proper filters to use with this machine are cone shaped and size #2.I use coffee filters by Melitta (B0006NIRO2) that help making clean up of this machine a breeze.

Also note that there is not anything to adjust if you are going to brew one or two cups.To brew one cup instead of two all you would do is place the cup in the center of the drip.There are two drips and they usually would drip into separate cups, so if there is only one cup in the center both drips would go into the single cup.

Since there is not heat pad underneath the coffee cups while they sit in this machine the coffee will get cold if left there after brewing for a while.So you are going to want to brew your coffee right before your planning the drink it.On the upside the cups that come with this machine are pretty good at keeping the coffee hot.I am able to brew coffee and make it through the cold of a north east USA winter to where I work and still have my coffee hot when I get there. ... Read more

Asin: B00005M1VF
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L'Equip 221 Juice/Pulp Extractor
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Capable of continuous operation, this appliance extracts juicefrom fruits and vegetables and then ejects pulp either into its pulpbasket, or, for juice-bar quantities, into a garbage bag that can besecured to the extractor with a special holder. The extractor's480-watt motor is computer controlled for precise operation, and theappliance stands on big rubber feet to reduce vibration and protect thecounter's surface. Easy to assemble and disassemble for cleaning, theextractor comes with a bowl, basket, and blade that are made ofstainless steel and are dishwasher-safe. Its plastic exterior, pulpbasket, plunger, and cover wipe clean with a soapy cloth. The extractormeasurers 12-1/2 inches high, 9 inches wide, and 13 inches deep,including spout and cover. It carries a 12-warranty against defects.--Fred Brack ... Read more

Features

• 12-year warranty against defects
• Extracts juice continuously from fruits, vegetables
• Ejects into pulp basket or into garbage bag secured by holder
• Computer-controlled, 480-watt motor; rubber feet safe on counter
• Dishwasher-safe stainless-steel bowl, blade, basket

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Beware the L'EQUIP 221
I purchased this model in March 04. It vibrated badly upon arrival, and it took months to get a replacement. Then the replacement juicer vibrated badly, so I contacted the manufacturer, L'EQUIP. L'EQUIP forces you to pay to ship the juicer back to them to fix their problems, and you have to send a check for $10.00 to cover their "service fee". I recently recieved the juicer back unfixed, and vibrating badly. The company is still stalling, unwilling to correct this situation. Their warranty, and service are worthless.

less foam more filling
I have owned all the juicers this is the one to own and think it is imperative for people to understand this juicer was truly designed for the hardcore juicer because if you have a very fast juicer it can deplete the nutrients you are tryng to achieve with your commitment to live foods you waste money on foamy juice the 221 sacrificed some efficency in order to give you the ideal glass of live food. so if your life is based on convience
you might as well get your really efficient high speed bottle of snapple

Extremely disaapointed in this product.
Avoid the troubles associated with this unit and the extremely poor customer service from L Equip USA. This juicer will break in less than a year and you will have to ship it yourself at your expense to the manufacturer for evaluation and possible repairs. If you need a reliable juicer for your daily diet, avoid this toy. ... Read more

Asin: B00005LVV4
Subjects:  1. Small Appliances    2. Electrics    3. Juice Extractors    4. Juicers    5. Juicing    6. Juice Machines   

Garmin eTrex Legend 8 MB GPS with PC Cable
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There are now enough handheld global positioning system (GPS) receivers on the market that you can be choosy when it comes to price, features, and design. Garmin--a leading manufacturer of car, boat, and personal GPS receivers--has a complete line of eTrex handheld receivers, with our Legend falling about midrange.

Easily look up nearby services with optional downloadable details from MapSource CD-ROMs.

With Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) support, the Legend offers extremely accurate readings (rated to within 2 to 3 meters). (For more on WAAS, see the Frequently Asked Questions section.) A good-size screen--288 x 160 pixels--makes it easy to see location details, and the Legend redraws maps quickly when zooming in or out of a position.

Its 8 MB of memory means there is also plenty of room for waypoints, routes, and saved tracks. The Legend will hold up to 500 waypoints, complete with a name and graphical symbol, 20 routes with 50 waypoints each, and it contains slots for 10 saved tracks. You can also download maps from Garmin's MapSource CD-ROMs (thorough but expensive accessories for the GPS receiver) to see street-level or topographic detail (depending on the CD-ROM title).

Built-in exit listings show services at U.S. interstate exits.

But one of the most striking attributes of the Legend is its comfortable and efficient design. While it rests easily in the palm of either hand, it's most suited for the left hand, where its handy click-stick can be manipulated with the thumb. The click-stick works like the pencil-eraser nubbin on laptop PCs and is handy for moving through screen icons and menus. It also works as a button when pressed down.

The Legend is coated with a waterproof, rubberized plastic shell that grips nicely. Weighing in at only 5.3 ounces, it fits into a pocket or clips onto a belt loop, going almost unnoticed.

The internal trip computer of the Legend provided a range of data about our hikes and drives, including current speed, average speed, trip distance, and time traveled (both moving and stopped). For those interested in checking out their foot pace and distance traveled, it's a handy GPS to have in hand.

Our only major beef with the Legend is that the receiver sometimes seemed to grow weak. Even when it wasn't in WAAS mode (which can be tough to maintain a signal in), it dropped the signal from time to time. We even lost the signal once while walking along the streets of San Francisco--it seems that the medium-size buildings were enough to interfere with the reception.

But this only happened on a few occasions. Most of the time the well-designed Legend was able to keep us in touch with up to 12 GPS satellites for a strong-enough read to maintain a tight handle on our location. --J. Curtis

Pros

• Comfortable, compact design
• Click-stick for interface navigation
• Bright backlight
• Handy distance-traveled feature

Cons

• Sporadic reception within urban areas
• Can take several minutes for a cold fix ... Read more

  Features

  • Accuracy to less than 3 meters with WAAS correction data
  • Rocker switch on front panel for quick and accurate map panning
  • Compatible with optional Garmin MapSource software; includes serial PC interface
  • Global positioning system (GPS) receiver with built-in Americas basemap
  • 8 MB of internal memory for map and data storage; PC cable included

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  Working together
  I've been GEO cacheing for 6 mths now. My wife has a Magellan Meridian Platinum and the combination of the two systems puts us right on top of our finds.I like both systems but the Legend brings you in closer. The Magellan has optional memory espansion. As for which is really the best, its not in the name, it is what you are willing to pay and what bells and whistles you want. The low ends of both manufactures you will be dissatisfied if you stay with it.

  Reliability Problems with the e-Trek Legend
  Bought my e-Trek Legend in March 2002 for geocaching; initially it did ok, tracked well but lost signal often when under leafcover in the woods.Started noticing power shutoff problems when first turning it on;thought it was the battery connection, I'm beginning now to think it was poor/thin soldering in the manufacture.Now the click stick will only work in two of four directions.For what I paid for it, and as little as I used it, I doubt if I'll replace it with another Garmin e-Trek, they just don't seem substantial enough for hiking (to think, I cradled that thing like a baby in the woods, being careful with it!).

  My first one, not easy to figure out without book.
  Well, so far I kind of dig it. Its not easy to manage without learning it first. Its not a "duh obvious" operating system. I am trying to figure out still how to map where I have been but not save the whole thing. I want to save just legs.
  
  It is almost one hand useable, but some of the buttons are hard to press with one hand. It is a nice size and very easy to read. It does not come with any computer software and I am not sure how to get other maps on it yet.
  
  I guess I need to buy additional software. Its been fun playing with it since I bought it yesterday, now I need to learn the nitty gritty. ... Read more

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  Subjects:  1. Legend, Garmin GPS, Garmin map, Map, Hiking, E Trex    2. Outdoor Gear (Out Door)    3. Digital compass (compasses)    4. Handheld (Hand held)    5. GPS (Global Positioning System)    6. Units    7. map (mapping)    8. navigation    9. PDA    10. Laptop   
  

Juiceman's Power of Juicing
by Jay Kordich
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Mass Market Paperback (01 August, 1993)
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Juiceman knows his juice.
This is the ultimate book on juicing.This is exactly what I wanted. Straight up juice recipes! No blender recipes (Well there are two at the end of the book for shakes but its minute after you read all the juice recipes). No add yogurt or soy milk and herbs. Nothing. Only add fruits and vegetables,just what I bought a juicer for juices! Jay delivers. His recipes are precise, being which he tells you how many carrots, how many apples, and tells the reader what the possible prevention tips of the particular juice are. My favorite is the juice for the sinus. And it does help.Also the energy and feeling you get from juicing is amazing. A pot of coffee could not get you going this good.
Now dont get me wrong there are good books on juicing out there but as stated above they want you to add other health ingredients (herbs and spices,soy milk etc...).Thats not the reason I wanted to juice.I wanted the benefits of juice and juice alone not something I can buy as a pill from the GNC and skip all the juicing. Buy this book if all you want are juice recipes. This is what it's all about.Straight up juicing!

A life changing book for me
This book along with Dr. Norman Walker's "Fresh Vegetabels and Fruit Juice" helped me begin my quest and desire to mostly eat and drink raw fruits and vegetables. Ten years ago as a first-year graduate student at UC Santa Barbara I found myself with an acne problem that had plagued me for the last 5 years, despite ingesting numerous antibiotics. Moreover, my eyes were beginning to tire easily. Then one day I stumbled upon this book by Dr. Walker which from the onset made complete sense to me. Around the same time I saw an infomercial advertising the Juiceman Jr. whichI bought the next week(and it hasn't failed me since!), along with the "Power of Juicing" book and began a regimen of fresh juice three times a day, using many of the recipes and suggestions from both books. Some amazing things began to progess over the next year:!
i) my acne not only completely disappeared, but I found myself having a very youthful, vibrant look. I looked better than I had ever in the past.
ii) I lost 15 pounds in one year and became a star on the softball field.
iii) I have not touched my reading glasses in the past 9 years.

In the words of Jack Lalane (who is older and more fit than 99.99% of all other Americans) "If man made it, I don't eat it".

One note on juicers: low-rpm juicers which press the juice now offer a nice alternative to the Juiceman or any other of the centrifugal juicers. They seem easier to clean and produce a higher yield of vitamins and less oxidation. I recommend Samson6 in 1 juicer which has a 5 year warranty on the auger (like a drill bit which is used to press the juice) and a 10 year warranty on the motor.

The revolution does not begin in the streets, but rather with a tall class of carrot and spinach!

A Must Have
I purchased this book to use with my juicer.It's only been 2 weeks, and I have had such a great time with this book.There are recipes for ever kind of aliment you can think of.Even after 2 weeks, I have noticed a difference in my skin, hair, nails and body in general.If you are ready to give juicing a try and learn about what and why you are juicing, this is the book for you. ... Read more

Isbn: 0446365483
Sales Rank: 41302
Subjects:  1. Diet / Health / Fitness    2. Diet/Nutrition    3. Diets - Better Health    4. Fruit juices    5. Health & Fitness    6. Natural foods    7. Nutrition    8. Vegetable juices    9. Health & Fitness / Nutrition   

Juicing for Life
by Cherie Calbom Maureen Keane
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Paperback (01 March, 1992)
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Food for Thought
We're about to order our second copy - we think we loaned the first one out, but we can't remember to whom.

I think there may actually be a section in this book on juices for improving memory...

In any case, we're on our third juicing machine and this is the best juice "cookbook" we've found so far.

Counterbalancing the taste of raw kale juice is a culinary trick, but these folks do it!

Excellent Juicing for Life, Health and Vitality
What I love about this book is that ailments you wish to cure are listed in category order, which makes it quite easy to find a juicing recipe to help reverse the internal effects.

Additionally, the book gives wonderful general recommendations along with an explanation of that ailment. On top of that, "Dietary Modifications" are provided with practical, easy to understand advice as to what foods and beverages to avoid, along with "Nutrients that Help" combined with "Beneficial Juices". Then, to top it all off there are great "Suggested Juicing Recipes" that will target whatever ails you.

From anti-ageing to chronic fatigue syndrome, to underweight, this book is simple to follow and provides you with the knowledge of exactly what your system needs in order to maintain maximum health.

Highly recommended if you want to improve your health, and bring nutrient-rich vitamins and minerals into your body naturally.
Barbara Rose, author of, `Individual Power' and `If God Was Like Man'

Juicing for Life-A Review by Joseph S. Maresca CPA,CISA
This work is a comprehensive guide on the nutritional dimensions
of various food groups; such as alkaline and acidic.The author
provides very detailed recommendations relative to the
anti-inflammatory vitamins and nutrients which are necessary
to prevent and manage rheumatological diseases and processes.
The author explains how to make juice preparations with widely-
known anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory components.
Such preparations include Vit. C, Vit E, Cu., Bromelain
and Superoxide dismutase to mention just a few.Back pain
and tenderness may be managed with reduction of animal fats
in the diet, the addition of fish and particularly Omega-3
fatty oils, avoidance of coffee and cleansing diets.
There is an interesting protocol for osteoporosis which
consists of kale, parsley, apples and carrots in a juicing
cocktail.In addition, the author identifies Vit. C, E,
Selenium, Ca., Potassium and chromium as nutrients which might
help to implement a cancer protocol.Lastly, the author very
studiously reviews sample diets and nutrients for a plurality
of chronic disease processes that may or may not respond well
to conventional therapies. This book is a worthy investment
for any person willing to make the commitment of time and
sacrifice to implement the protocols in the interest of
maintaining good general health far into the future. ... Read more

Isbn: 0895295121
Sales Rank: 3573
Subjects:  1. Beverages - General    2. Diet / Health / Fitness    3. Diets - Better Health    4. Fruit juices    5. Healing    6. Health & Fitness    7. Health aspects    8. Health/Fitness    9. Nutrition    10. Therapeutic use    11. Vegetable juices    12. Health & wholefood cookery    13. Non-alcoholic beverages   

Animal Farm
by George Orwell
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Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigsare brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm dependon us.Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for yoursake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson ... Read more

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"BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS"
Animal Farm, published in 1945, is widely considered to be one of the cornerstones of George Orwell's literary legacy. Though it is a much shorter and somewhat less developed account of totalitarianism than his later work 1984, muted only by its fairy-tale qualities, it is no less frightening in presenting the dangers of blindly following a leader in a political climate of absolute power.

Orwell presents to us the story of Manor Farm, run by the drunk, laggard farmer, Mr. Jones. The animals of this farm are under the poorly organized rule of their proprietor, mistreated and underfed. One night, the animals, rallied by a speech from one of the senior animals of the farm, the pig, Old Major, decide that the only way to lead a better existence is to rebel - more precisely, revolt - against Jones, thereby pulling themselves from the yoke of human rule and enjoying for themselves the fruits of their own labor. Old Major dies shortly after his portentous speech and two pigs - Napoleon and Snowball - arise from the vacuum to successfully lead the animals in triumph over Jones chasing him and all other humans off the farm. With the renamed Animal Farm under new leadership, committees are formed along with a party flag, party slogans and songs. The pigs assume the top of the political hierarchy and set up rule over the other "lower" animals convincing them of the porcine superiority for planning, oversight of the farm and their new government. Both Napoleon and Snowball are young and intelligent, possessing a lust more for individual power than true equanimity among the other animals. However, it is shown that Napoleon maintains the greater cunning of the two. In the midst of the senior pigs' personal rivalries, political cohesion among the farm's animal populous also splinters. Napoleon ousts Snowball in the midst of this division forever using political machinations to denounce him as a type of "Emmanuel Goldstein" figure, later used by Orwell as the agent provocateur of Big Brother in 1984.

Orwell's use of names in this story serves as a form of irony to guide the narrative in such a way as to present a foreshadowing of the totalitarianism that is to come to Animal Farm. One can see that Napoleon will surely be the despotic lead pig when all is said and done. True to form, Napoleon assassinates all political rivals and manages to break every covenant of the animal community protected by a pack of dogs he has raised and indoctrinated with his own political world-view. Squealer, the silver-tongued pig spokesperson for Napoleon's camp, evokes the popular connotation of a conniving liar, pushing Napoleon's agenda with poems created by the party's propaganda minister, Minimus. The main worker horse, Boxer, is a symbol of the everyman worker on the farm and promotes an image of someone willing to fight. In fact, Boxer does fight but selflessly for the party of the pigs and what he believes to be the good of the community of animals, forever chanting the mantras, "I will work harder" and "Napoleon is always right." In Boxer, Orwell's irony is most biting. When Boxer lays mortally injured from overwork just before his retirement, Napoleon tells the other animals that he will be taken to town for medical treatment and is instead picked up by a horse slaughterer. This event summarizes the moral lesson Orwell wants his readers to understand in Animal Farm, that is, never to sacrifice a life of individual liberty unto a centralized power for when replicated in like forfeiture, it is likely to be perverted into a form of control over the masses. Tied to the lesson of Boxer, the ultimate irony is perhaps found in the donkey Benjamin, who surely is the only one with any horse-sense (if the pun can be pardoned) in the whole affair. How fitting that the ass should reign as the supreme intellect in Orwell's world. Be that as it may, Orwell's symbol for the intellectual in society remains taciturn in those times of the most dire distress, perhaps the author's way of telling the reader of the dangers of waiting for death to come into one's own backyard before reacting to it; a condition exemplified all too well in the political climate of World War II when the work was written.

In the spirit of true repression, Orwell has Napoleon keeping the tools of education from the masses he rules over. Only a select few of the animals are educated enough to read their own laws in the form of Seven Commandments printed on the side of the barn, which are artfully modified in instances when it is most convenient for Napoleon to adapt them to his personal lusts and political indiscretions. Ultimately, when Napoleon and his cronies have become utterly scrofulous and achieved unchallenged control, the commandments are done away with entirely and replaced by the slogan, "All animals are created equal but some animals are created more equal than others."

By the time the worker animals realize their economy has been one of more guns and less butter, it is too late for them to consider taking back any semblance of equality. Most animals on the farm were content to be in the role of coolie; to let the pigs rule and gain more power over their lives until the community fell into the iron grip of Napoleon and his cabinet. By the time the animals are alerted to the incongruity of the poor quality of their lives and the gluttony of the pigs, we find Napoleon and the other pigs going against all of the communal tenets of the Animal Farm as originally conceived by Old Major. Instead of denouncing the vile life of man and exalting the animal with "Four legs good, two legs bad", the pigs emulate man's existence to the point they finally choose to walk on their hind legs in physical imitation; the new party slogan, replete with whip in hand, is now "Four legs good, two legs better!" Their physiognomy even more closely resembles power-thirsty men who have fattened in such a way as to emulate the gluttony of despots of the time. When Orwell speaks of the many chins of the pigs as they sit around the table playing cards in Jones' old farmhouse with the very men they professed to hate, there is more than a tongue-in-cheek resemblance to men like Göring and Mussolini.

Even though many have previously read Animal Farm as part of a core requirement for a high school or college curriculum, a book such as this is always worth rereading at a later point in life as a reminder on how historical events shape an understanding of any lived-in political climate. It was Orwell's hope that such foresight could be utilized as an aid for future citizens of the world to pinpoint potential sources of governmental malignancy. Animal Farm can be read independent of other sources to glean Orwell's message, for certain, but is better employed to supplement 1984, which, as an augmented exposition of his theme, paints a more realistic depiction of the social philosophy and political dangers he attempted to portray.

If this subject is of interest, H.G. Wells', The Time Machine and Arthur Koestler's, Darkness at Noon are two similarly-styled books for recommended reading.

-Edward J. Carvalho

Dated? Perhaps, but a cautionary tale nonetheless
With the end of the Cold War, Animal Farm, so clearly modelled on the Russian Revolution, may have lost the urgency it once had.(I first read the book as a high-school student in the mid-1970s.)Nevertheless, the course of the revolution described in Animal Farm is characteristic of so many modern Western revolutions, beginning, of course, with the French Revolution.It remains a brilliant, cautionary tale about the perils of attempting to bring about the eschaton on terms that are compatible with secular modernity (or postmodernity).

an allegorical genius
What is amazing as I read through this book was not so much how well it relatedto the events of the past, but how perfectly it defines our current condition today. The ability of an elite vanguard/oligarchy to covertly impose it's will and subjugate an entire population utilizing atrocity, propaganda, and a rampant, unrelenting nationalism hand-in-hand-- under the false pretext that all such sacrifices truly are necessary to protect and serve the whole from further suffering, and that any who would oppose such a view should be considerd immoral, treasonous or much worse.

In the edition I have, the introduction begins by explaining how Orwell turned out to be basically wrong in his assumption of how things would turn out, but I could not disagree more. The buffer between what is truly happening and what we are being told has never been greater, and too many of us are only too willing to blindly accept this under the justification that at least things are better now than they used to be, or could be-- or are they?

Often times today I find myself reminded of the qualities of a population described in Adorno's "Authoritarian Personality." How so many could possibly allow and even be complicit in atrocities taking place both by and among them.

In my mind this book could not have much more relevance than it does now.I also never read this in school, but it provides much more insight and meaning now than it would have ever afforded me as a child.The literary prose and profound symbolism found within so few pages is truly a reflection of a very talented and inspired author. ... Read more

Isbn: 0451526341
Subjects:  1. Classics    2. Literature - Classics / Criticism    3. Literature: Classics   

For every child who has known the agony of being trapped inside when the wholewet world outside beckons, Edith Thacher Hurd and Clement Hurd have your number.With warm, gentle wit and enchanting illustrations, this well-lovedauthor-illustrator team perfectly captures those rainy day blues. Clement Hurd,whose illustrations for Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon broughtchildren's picture books to stunning new heights, can do more with a palette ofyellow, red, and blue than many artists can do with a whole rainbow of colors.(Ages 3 to 7) --Emilie Coulter ... Read more

Isbn: 0064442950
Subjects:  1. Animals    2. Animals - LionsTigersLeopardsetc.    3. Children's 4-8 - Fiction - General    4. Children: Grades 1-2    5. Children: Kindergarten    6. Fiction    7. Infancy    8. Juvenile Easy Readers    9. Juvenile Fiction    10. Lions    11. Nature & the Natural World - Weather    12. Rain and rainfall    13. Readers - Beginner    14. Sports & Recreation - Imaginative Play   

Ruckus
Director: Max Kleven
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DVD (05 October, 2004)
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Dirk Benedict, shame on you!
Dirk and Linda. Linda and Dirk.
In a film
that makes
even the staunchest aficionadoes
of terrible movies
blush

but the movie's salvation is the previews at the beginning
which were genuinely badand thusenough
to restore my emotional balance.

My search is over
I seen this movie several years ago on VHS.I have wanted it ever since.My search is now over.What a great action movie without all the blood.A great love story without all the mushy stuff.And a great comedy without all the stupid stuff.This movie is the total package.I can not believe it did not do better than it did!

Love to make a ruckus
This movie was my absolute favorite way back then. Haven't seen it on video until recently. It still kept my attention after all the years. The story is very believable, and who wouldn't fall in love with Linda in this movie. Dirk was great too. A very real character knowing some of my vet friends. Made me wish I was him.
All in all, a great way to spend the evening watching this movie. ... Read more

Asin: 630584156X
Sales Rank: 9948
Subjects:  1. Feature Film-comedy   

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
Director: Simon Wincer
Average Customer Review:
DVD (06 February, 2001)
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Editorial Review

Sheathing itself in bad taste, this film flaunts its tackiness, its machismo, and its very stupidity, which of course makes for a lot of dopey fun. Harley Davidson (Mickey Rourke) returns to his roots, the LA of 1996 (the film was set in the near future, as it was made in 1991). Burbank has become an airport, a new drug called Crystal Dream is all the rage, and Harley's favorite bar is being torn down. To save it, he and the Marlboro Man (Don Johnson, at his most engaging) concoct an armed robbery that goes awry. Instead of cash, they end up with a shipment of Crystal Dream. Hunted by a drug dealer's goons, the two bark, fight, drink, and squint at each other as they try to get themselves out of their mess. This is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for the monster-truck crowd, with plenty of breasts, choppers, broken pool cues, and empty bottles. It's impossible to blame this film for being so emphatically trashy; its creators would consider that a compliment, anyway. --Keith Simanton ... Read more

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Reviews (42)

Guns are meant to be shot, Harley
Bon Jovi sings over the opening credits.Heavy on the heavy metal, chopper hogs and chrome fetishes.Loud motorcycles and pole-dancing strip clubs.Even the convenience store clerk is drop dead gorgeous.Loud guns, bar fights, big explosions and high speed chases.
HARLEY DAVIDSON AND THE MARLBORO MAN is one of those testosterone loaded guy flicks that more or less defies criticism.Set in the near future - 1996 (the movie was released in 1991) - Mickey Rourke plays Harley Davidson and Don Johnson plays Marlboro Man, a pair of hard-living buddies who find themselves in possession of $2.5 million worth of `crystal dream,' a street drug that its owner, sleazy banker Tom Sizemore, will go to great lengths to get back.He sends heavily-armed and kevlar armored Daniel Baldwin and his gang of identically clad goons to retrieve the stuff.
Okay, it ain't Citizen Kane, but if you like watching stuff blowing up, guys getting into a lot of fights and women dressed in tight-and-clingy (and fading into the deep background after breakfast) HARLEY DAVIDSON & THE MARLBORO MAN is recommended.

This movie SUCKS. period.
I dont know what kind of drugs the people here are on who gave this piece of garbage 5 stars!! This movie couldnt have been any worse even if it tried. Its amazing how Hollywood can take two great actors like Rourke and Johnson, put them in an unforgivably bad film like this one, then just sit back and watch all the money come in, and call it a success. This film just reeks of product placement deals, box office receipts, and big Hollywood money. Maybe one of the worst films I have even seen.

ride on!!!!!!!
simply put when i was 9 yrs old and heard that opening song "wanted dead or alive" while harley (mickey rourke) is burnin across the desert, i was a fan for life.... though now i wondered why they didn't pick ccr's "run thru the jungle" for the opening credits... ... Read more

Asin: B0000542CH
Subjects:  1. Feature Film-action/Adventure