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Mister Quickly's Profile
Customer Reviews: 80
New Reviewer Rank: 6,106,110
Classic Reviewer Rank: 6,515
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Reviews Written by
Mister Quickly "Amazon epicurean" (Victoria, BC Canada)
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
David Dramamet, February 18, 2008
Through studying David Mamet's theories, I came to realise that a character can be understood not only through what they do, but also through what they say. My style has started to incorporate Mamet's technique of having characters talk, often to each other, as well as to express themselves through physical acts like gestures and walking. The education in this book has convinced me to abandon my earlier style, where characters have wordless internal monologues while not moving for a play's 2 or 3 hour duration.
3 stars.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Carole 'Buy Her cds' Sager, January 28, 2008
I first heard the Carole Bayer Sager when she was played to me by my endocrinologist, Oliver Shale Condor.
His last words to me concerned "the primordial dwarves in the Pegasus room." Sadly, I never got to look at them through the two-way mirror.
Carole Bayer Sager puts it best:
"We almost sailed away one pearly dawn
But in the light of early morning
Ooo the wind blew in Whisperin
Some folks are not meant to win"
Sadly, you were not meant to win at not dying, Oliver.
Carole Bayer Sager. 5 stars.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Goya's Dream, January 26, 2008
The sign of a quality product is whether or not its existence is presaged for you in a dream during childhood. I dreamed of this Goya codfish batter mix. I was in an olive grove, Leo Sayer was playing, and then this Goya codfish batter mix --- startled, I awoke yelling "Bacalaitos", as though it were the name of a Spanish magician who was untying a silk handkerchief that had been blinding me. At last I could finally see.
With that being said, I prefer the Crab Place's more versatile Fish & Shrimp Batter sold here on Amazon. It can be used with codfish, basa, probably sea cucumber. Try it out.
4 stars.
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1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Kit for Mopping Aspirants, January 26, 2008
This product is a good to initiate the mopping novice but for the real professional reading this review you're going to want to remove most of your flooring in the kitchen and replace it with a mesh net and sturdy bracings. You will then place a removable tarp underneath the netting to catch everything you spill in the kitchen that sifts through the mesh, from cod batter mix, silica, phosphorus, anything you may be cooking with. It's an unusual method, but you'll find your floorspace much cleaner. And the tarp can be wrapped up without spilling it all over your basement. I like my basement clean because I have a vintage white rotary dial telephone collection there, one of North America's foremost collections.
So this Swiffer, while it does remove some dirt, is by far one of the lesser methods.
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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Slim LEDgend, January 22, 2008
This magnificent onyx rectangular viewing receptacle has vivacious crispness and doubles as a capable scrying medium during twilight.
4 stars Samsung.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Combattimento Mortale, August 10, 2007
Based upon the popular film Mortal Kombat, 'Mortal Kombat: A Novel' is beginning to be recognised as a classic.
Generally the book is very faithful to the film, and what it lacks in the movie's luscious visual textures it makes up for with Martin Delrio's lyricism. In one episode of the book, Sub Zero is looking at Scorpion whose leg he has just frozen "in a legwarmer of diamond butterflies", while Scorpion "evacuates from the pigpen dungeon of his dirty guts a powerful authoritarian bellow." Another scene Johnny Cage uppercuts Reptile and the action momentarily suspends in this delicate lull; a wind "enchanted with a fine herbed pungency from whisking through a sage patch" passes by Johnny Cage, and Reptile is "reeking and barfing green poisonous syrup." Such potency.
This book is timeless... immortal kombat.
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45 of 97 people found the following review helpful:
Christopher C. Horner, brilliant, February 14, 2007
Thank you Christopher C. Horner. Communist sympathisers are generally scientists. They ruin good research by forcing results to prove dialectical materialism is at play, even at the most basic molecular level. I quote a passage from the report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:
"We scientists believe Karl Marx and Lenin or Stalin expressed it best: Science must always be victorious for the proletariat. We will never engage ourselves in bourgeois pseudoscience. We support theories that climate change is real. Science must always dance to the melody of Marxist doctrine and destroy capitalism with this dancing."
This is Lysenkoism. Though I took liberties with that quote and most of the words, the pith remains the same. Christopher Horner would agree, yet my friend Sree Albatap, noted expert on bowel anatomy, he would not. I also know real Science stopped progressing sometime in 1962. The study of Economics is a purer method of understanding man's relation to the world, in my estimations.
I've thoroughly enjoyed Horner's excellent refutation of science. I will definitely read this again.
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11 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
Style: Yes, February 13, 2007
This collection of printed pages assembled with binding glue and intelligently ordered in numerical order according to linearity of the author's argument is a masterstroke and abetted my clarity most satisfactorily and advanced my compositional structures of writing passages with grace. Good writing is simply, and quite unerroneously, and most purely and undilluted and is - basically - getting down to it and putting your point out there as briskly as possible, like the crack of a wet towel on bare inner thigh.
Thanks Joseph M. Williams. Your penmanship is of such mastery that in my mind's eye I envision so starkly your calm veinous hands.
In addition to this I recommend "The World of Music According to Starker." Page 69 could have been modeled upon Joseph M. Williams's collection of printed papers tastefully held between two ends, one on each side, so that anyone with the requisite dexterity may force them apart and ergonomically move their hand to turn the papers and see new words that explain the motion of the thoughts of the man who conceived of these words in this specific order.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Unfurling the World of Music According to Starker, January 30, 2007
Written without the technical competence his fingers are usually spirited with, this is still an intriguing book. Janos Starker barely disguises that he composed this book while bathing. The narrative of his life is interrupted several times with present tense statements concerning his hygiene at the time of writing. "I am flecked with pheasant grease as I compose these words" he writes. "But back to my time in Budapest, or I shall return to it soon. Presently I am bathing, removing these irascible grease spots. I remove the grease with a coarse loofah, then I write a sentence. This is the slow fugue of Janos Starker's life. A sinuous musk snakes from my armpits. The odor, she returns my thoughts to the pungency of Lady Hungary." A strange journey through the life of the notable cellist, his mind, and what is on his mind as he bathes.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Helen 'Hoof' Santmyer, January 27, 2007
"...And Ladies of the Club" is a warm story. It follows a group of women who struggle to comprehend their place in a complicated world, finding solidarity amongst each other in a fellowship for women with club feet, the name of which gives this novel its title. One particular highlight is page 168 where the author describes the relapse of a club foot back to its starting position, calling it "a time-lapsed lilac closing in on itself as the sun sets, creaking." Beautiful.
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(Victoria, BC Canada)
