Edgeworks 3 [Hardcover]

Harlan Ellison (Author)

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Amazon.com Review

Third in a projected 20-volume series (with two books per volume) from White Wolf publishers, Edgeworks 3 contains the definitive editions of The Harlan Ellison Hornbook and Harlan Ellison's Movie. The award-winning Ellison is the most acclaimed writer in the history of science fiction and fantasy. The Harlan Ellison Hornbook is a collection of essays, most of which were originally published in the Los Angeles Free Press in the early 1970s. A more recent essay on the nostalgia of reading comic books, "Did Your Mother Throw Yours Out?" is by itself worth the price of admission. The modestly titled Harlan Ellison's Movie is just that: the original screenplay for a motion picture the author was commissioned to write in the 1980s. It's amazing, bold, and masterful, as only Ellison can deliver. --Stanley Wiater

From Library Journal

This third volume in White Wolf's Ellison series contains two of the author's oddities and rarities. The former is a kind of gospel according to Ellison, for which the author is well known, in which he offers his thoughts on countless subjects. The latter is just what the title says, a movie Ellison wrote that was never produced. Ellison is always provocative and a hell of a wild ride.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 334 pages
• Publisher: White Wolf Publishing; 1st White Wolf Omnibus Ed edition (March 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565049624
• ISBN-13: 978-1565049628
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,207,588 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best Essayists ever..., June 8, 2004

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This review is from: Edgeworks 3 (Hardcover)

My father had been a fan of Ellison's ever since I can remember and so I've always had his writing around. Alas, many of his books are out-of-print. I must have taken Harlan Ellison's Hornbook out of the library countless times, re-reading it cover to cover again and again. It's that good.

Most people, if they know of Ellison's work, know mostly of his short stories but this book collects essays he wrote in the 1970s about whatever struck his fancy... a great restaurant, some publisher who ripped him off once, the death of his beloved dog, a woman who double-crossed him, lamenting Lenny Bruce's death... Ellison writes with such authority and with such style--pithy yet degenerate is the best description I can think of. This book hums with intensity as the last greatest angry young man lets loose on all kinds of topics (to read his rant on why he hates Christmas is incredibly funny, even if you don't agree with his sentiments). This is one helluva read.

Even though I've read this book countless times, I keep coming back to it because Ellison's style of writing is endlessly entertaining and thought-provoking. It really gets under you skin and stays there.

Do yourself a favor and track down this book. It is definitely worth it.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outspoken Ellison cuts loose, again, June 19, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Edgeworks 3 (Hardcover)

Anyone who has ever read Harlan Ellison knows he throws a lot of personnel information and views into his writing. This book is all that. In this collection of essays from the 70s, repackaged nicely, Ellison is angry, funny and sick at the same time. Reading these somewhat tall tales, I was taken back to the days of my childhood. Back to when one of my more crazy "uncles" used to tell me stories of his youth on hot summer days. Ellison is a better writer now than he was then, but the essays still hold up. They hold up even though references to Nixon and Lenny Bruce may leave some younger readers feeling a little unattached to the stories at times. I promise by the time you finish reading this one, you'll find it hard to forget some of the tales told by crazy Uncle Harlan.