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The Glass Teat Mass Market Paperback – May 5, 1955

by Harlan Ellison (Author)

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Mass Market Paperback: 319 pages
Publisher: Ace Books; 10th edition (May 1, 1973)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0441289886
ISBN-13: 978-0441289882
Product Dimensions: 7 x 1 x 5 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
Average Customer Review: 10 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,815,089 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Robert W. Bly

with TV being more the backdrop -- the passion with which he articulates his positions is engaging and makes for great reading.

February 13, 2015

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Whether you agree with his politics or not -- and this book is more about politics and social issues, with TV being more the backdrop -- the passion with which he articulates his positions is engaging and makes for great reading. I think Ellison is not only a great short story writer but also a great essayist, and I have always enjoyed his essay collections -- including this one.

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J. D. Heise

Ellison gives no quarter and does not suffer fools lightly.

February 6, 2013

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If you love TV, this will make your blood boil; if you HATE TV, you will find yourself reading this with relish (and maybe a little ketchup or mustard). Either way, Harlan Ellison, who has never been one to mince words, takes on the world of the tube in this second volume of criticism gleaned from his Los Angeles "Free Press" and "Rolling Stone" pieces. The opening piece is titled "Days of Blood and Sorrow," and here is what is just in the opening paragraphs: (Ellison describes being sick in bed and taking meds while watching "Let's Make a Deal") "I don't know which will kill me first: the flu or Monty Hall...From time to time in the writing of this introduction, I will keep you apprised of what nightmares flit across my screen; if I have to be miserable, so do you. We can go nutso together."

Hang on, everyone-you are going for a fun ride.

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James Spradling

Five Stars

August 12, 2016

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Just: Harlan was right.

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Bill Gauthier

Ellison Still Knows

August 8, 2016

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While the references are somewhat dated, the thoughts behind them are not. Essential reading.

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Darby

A nostalgic peek at Harlan's days as a TV critic & socio-political activist

April 24, 2008

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What a fabulous read ... a great opportunity for new fans to see Harlan back in his rabid TV critic, socio-political activist, and college campus rabble-rousing prime.

It's all in there, complete with a generous serving of his laser sharp insights, verbal kung-fu, and utterly fearless take-no-prisoners attitude. See him go toe to toe with censorship-minded political archconservatives, and their lists of the disloyal. He him rail against cowardly, and hopelessly out-of-touch TV network and studio executives. See him drag under-educated middle-American moral-majority `scuttle bugs' by their repressionist scruff of the neck out into the open, and thump them resoundingly with their own ignorance, and watch as their own kids cheer Harlan on. See him take the fight to all those who've been successfully brainwashed by "The Establishment" into unwittingly championing the causes of style-over-substance, and blind obedience to authority, while sucking placidly at that establishment's proverbial "Glass Teat" of unreality (re: an anatomical metaphor for the television medium as a whole).

As a reader, I couldn't have asked for a better as-it-happened spectator's view of the crazy days of 1968-1970 (during which I was in elementary school) than re-reading reprints of Harlan's weekly column for the LA Free Press (aka "The Freep").

I didn't always agree with Harlan's viewpoints on various topics, or with his tactics, and I found myself repeatedly wondering if (or how) his opinions would change given how both our society and the TV medium as a whole have changed in the 35+ years since then ... but none the less, I found myself feeling wide-eyed admiration at times for his utter fearlessness, his creativity, and his determination to fight for what he believed in (regardless of whether I agreed or not), and to challenge those who either misused, or were overly bemused by, the unreal phosphorescent mirage that is TV.

Would that more of us were as keen, and as bold, as he.

Highly recommended.

p.s. Before now, I've only seen Harlan work the Scifi convention scene, but now, at last, I can see where that tireless multi-generational journey truly began in ernest. Having sat/stood across the table from Harlan on several occasions myself, I could instantly empathize with those were in a similar position 35+ years ago, as he hammered at THEIR grasp on (un)reality, like a jeweler looking for "AH HA !" chinks of weakness in our mental carapaces of surety and/or ignorance.

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The best book about tee vee that I have ever read

August 18, 1998

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I have read a good many books about television and its history, but this is, far and away, the best of the lot. I do not always agree with Mr. Ellison's opinions, but this man can write with the best of them and everything in here is worth reading and mulling over. I am a little young to have been a part of the civil rights/anti-Viet Nam era, but everything here coincides with my recollections of this time as a youthful bystander. You might not remember many of the shows about which he wrote. Most of them are forgotten, and with good reason. Here, it doesn't matter at all. Ellison writes about so much more just tee vee that, ultimately, America's portrait is reduced to a 21" tee vee screen. Scary, enlightening, entertaining and often roll around on the floor rolling your head off funny. He wrote a companion volume called "The Other Glass Teat," which consisted of later columns from the Los Angeles Freep and a few from the paper that picked up the column after the Freep dropped him. Not as good as this, but still excellent writing. Perhaps the best stories are those of when he went to speak at a high school in the ghetto and had a kid tell him off and the other of when he was a tryout contestant on the pilot of "The Dating Game." The first tells us more about America at that time than all the self-righteous academic nonsense ever published; the second is uproariously funny and also tells us a great deal about how vacuous we can be. What can I say? Get it. Read it. Think about it. I have recommended this book to friends many times with the guarantee that if they did not like it, I would buy it from them at cover price. I still have only my original copy of this gem.

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