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Lara's Book--Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider Phenomenon

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This book has practically all the tombraider fan needs background imformation, imfomation on what she wears, walkthrough (there nice and simple not like on the web pages),and of course thousands of pictures.

Sure there were mistakes. Page 121: "Leap atop the fence, Find the Uzis", and later "Leap and grab the edge of the wall Shimmy Left". They should be switched! I spent about three days figuring out this and many other mistakes. But I shouldn't complain: I would never have gotten past page 2 if it weren't for this book. It really helped a lot! Seriously, I would reccommend it to anyone who is into Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider series!

In my mind's eye, I picture Lara back-flipping and gunning down the giant Atlantean mutant in Natla, the last level of Tomb Raider. If it wasn't for this book I wouldn't have completed Tomb Raider I, II or Unfinished Business.

Lara Croft has been and always will be my hero and inspiration. I love this book! It really is more like an art book...and I don't know why some people are disgruntled about it...there are many nice pictures and if you are a true Lara Croft fan(90's), you will want to grab this!^-^ If you only like the new tomb raider games don't get this. Only if you like 90's Lara.

This book actually touches on two favorites of mine. Douglas Coupland is the author of two of my favorite books - Generation X and MicroSerfs. Tomb Raider is my favorite gaming series and I just adore Lara Croft. She is the coolest. This book combines a tribute to Lara and a walk-through of the Tomb Raider Games - I believe through Tomb Raider II. Now, anyone who's ever played TR knows how rockin' cool Lara Croft is. This book contains excellent renderings of our favorite adventurer. The overall book quality is very good - glossy pages and very well presented. There's a lot of look at but if you enjoy the series, then this is a must have. And just a reminder - as all Tomb Raider fans know - The Tomb Raider movie - starring Angelina Jolie ( they couldn't have made a better choice ) as Lara Croft - opens on June 15th 2001...I know I can't wait. Best Regards, turtlex

This book is mostly fluff, little substance. It looks like the bulk of the effort went into trying to be fancy with images download from the web. The walkthroughs are printed in multiple fonts--which makes them tough to read. There are much better guides available anyway. This book could have been much better. I was very disappointed. Save your money.

This is a coffee-table type book that doesn't open flat. Lot's of computer graphic pictures of fictional Lara Croft, but almost nothing about the the history of Tomb Raider, the company or the people that developed it. You can read the whole text in 10 minutes, except for the "fan fiction" story in the back, which you really can miss. Oddly, what text there is it keeps referring to her "kicking" and shooting. What kicking?

Just about any walk-thru posted on the 'net is better than those included here, which are seriously hampered by every other word being 15 times larger than the one before it and in some artsy color. Readability is about 0. What were they thinking ("Marketing", probably). Save your money and visit Tomb Raider web-sites instead.

I am a big fan of Lara Croft, and try to get everything that has to do with her, most of 'em are good. BUT this book under review "Lara's Book" I hate!This book is not worth the paper that it is written on! The guides are inaccurate and confusing to read -- if you want a good walkthrough get "The Tomb Raider Official Strategy Guides" by Zach Meston, which are put out by Dimension Publications.The pictures (the only worthwhile thing about the book) can be found in other sources -- calenders, websites and so on.Finally the story . . . put me to sleep. Good night, ZZZZZZZ!

I really like Douglas Coupland's writing--I've read Microserfs, and it's a great book, but what is THIS all about? A super-long fan book about a videogame character that looks like a generation-X pornstar? I'd be almost less surprised to hear he'd written a book about the Spice Girls. Yuck.