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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Worthwhile passions
A glorious celebration of twenty collectors and their passions. Peter Brenner's excellent color photos capture them with their lifes work. My favorite is Dorothy Twining Globus who collects (as she says) 'Everything'. The Cade brothers go for anything Studebaker and that includes over thirty real cars. Kit Hinrichs loves the Stars and Stripes, his collection can be...
Published on December 30, 2001 by Robin Benson
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Not enough photos of the cover collection.
It is always interesting to see what others are collecting. I would have liked to see more of the aquarium furniture that was shown on the front cover. I was more interested in seeing the collections than reading so much text.
Published on August 23, 2007 by D. Taylor
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Worthwhile passions,
This review is from: Magnificent Obsessions (Paperback)
A glorious celebration of twenty collectors and their passions. Peter Brenner's excellent color photos capture them with their lifes work. My favorite is Dorothy Twining Globus who collects (as she says) 'Everything'. The Cade brothers go for anything Studebaker and that includes over thirty real cars. Kit Hinrichs loves the Stars and Stripes, his collection can be seen in the sumptuous book 'Long May She Wave'. Author Tuchman's fascinating text details how each one pursued their dreams, I can identify with a lot of this because some years ago I managed to collect 450 radio station t-shirts (still got 'em too, email me with offers). This book is very similar to Ellen Land-Webber's out-of-print photo essay 'The Passionate Collector'. If you really have the collecting bug check out 'The Collecting Book' by Ellen and Lewis Liman, 800 photos of collections and lots of practical information. I wonder if anyone collects books about colectors? Hmmm...this could be the start of my new collection!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Makes you feel like you're not so wierd...,
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This review is from: Magnificent Obsessions: Twenty Remarkable Collectors in Pursuit of Their Dreams (Paperback)
If you can stand waiting a while to get this book, it's definitely worth the wait! The collections featured are all similar in that they are exhaustive in scope, and many of them are extremely intriguing due to their subject matter. The only drawback to this book is that it's too short! It wets the appetite for the unusual and eccentric, but doesn't come close to satisfying you once you've started reading.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not enough photos of the cover collection.,
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This review is from: Magnificent Obsessions: Twenty Remarkable Collectors in Pursuit of Their Dreams (Paperback)
It is always interesting to see what others are collecting. I would have liked to see more of the aquarium furniture that was shown on the front cover. I was more interested in seeing the collections than reading so much text.
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Magnificent Obsessions by Mitch Tuchman (Paperback - August 1, 1994)
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