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The seventh edition of this popular introduction to Old English language and literature retains the general structure and style of previous editions, but has been updated, and includes two new, much-requested texts: the Cotton Gnomes and Wulfstan’s Sermo Lupia ad Anglos – and two new appendices: A List of Linguistic Terms Used in This Book and The Moods of Old English.

• Provides a range of helpful pedagogical tools: a map of Anglo-Saxon England, notes, a glossary, indexes to Part I, and a general introduction to Anglo-Saxon studies.
  
• Contains a special "How to Use this Guide" section, to aid both self-study and classroom use.

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Good Resource
This book is an excellent resource for those interested in literature written in Old English, or in doing research into medieval things.It came ina timely fashion and is in very good condition.
Thank you.

Accessible and Fluid
This is probably the best grammar of Old English in current circulation (unless you can somehow get your hands on a copy of Bright's).Don't waste your time trying to find another one.It clearly arranges each section and provides a preface/introduction to each element of grammar.My only complaint would be its limited dictionary, but Clark & Hall have published a decent student dictionary for Old English.

Useful, if the organization of the book is understood
This book was recommended to me as preparation for graduate studies in Medieval English literature. As some of the other reviewers have noted, the book's organization is somewhat difficult to understand at first, especially if you are used to books like Wheelock's Latin, which is organized in self-study lessons with grammar concepts, vocabulary, and texts presented in order of increasing difficulty. This book is NOT organized in that way, but is still helpful if properly used.

The book is organized in a more encyclopedic fashion, e.g. with all noun declensions (including a number of notes on excceptions and variations) presented together, followed by all strong verbs (with notes), etc. Syntax has its own chapter. Therefore, you cannot expect easily to work through the book in the order in which elements are presented. It is better to remember that the book is organized by topic, not by the order in which a the many aspects of a topic should be learned. I had much better success when I started by memorizing the basic noun paradigms (ignoring the variations and exceptions), the pronoun paradigms, and then starting with weak verbs.I was then able to begin translating the basic texts provided, with the help of the glossary, and by referring to the syntax portion of the book where necessary to decipher the uses of different cases. In the midst of this I read about, but did not try to entirely memorize, the rules of sound changes, which helps greatly when looking up words in the glossary.

In short, it is not difficult to use this book for self-study, as long as you put forth some effort and thought into organizing your own "lesson plans," pulling necessary material from the book in a sensible order. Having learned another inflected language will be of great help in giving you an idea of the order in which concepts should be learned, but the "How to Use This Guide" section does give some suggestions about how to approach the material.

No good structure for learning
Having read several other language texts, I was expecting an organization wherein each chapter consists of an explanation of a set of concepts, in increasing order of difficulty, followed by several examples (initially completely contrived, later becoming more authentic) that illustrate those concepts for practice purposes.This book, however, attempts to teach Old English by first simply listing all the rules of the language (often, as other reviewers have noted, in no particular order) and then presenting a stack of texts to decipher.The quality of the glossary notwithstanding, this is not a good way to learn a language, and only the similarities between Old and Modern English make it possible at all.By contrast, I learned Ancient Greek from the appropriately titled Teach Yourself Ancient Greek much better and more easily despite that language's innate difficulty owing to a far superior tutorial structure.If this is, as others suggest, the best available Old English primer, then I must regrettably conclude that it is not at present possible to learn Old English on one's own purely for fun; if you use this book, you will either fail to learn the language or fail to have fun, or quite possibly both.

comprehensive but often lacks organization
If you only buy one book to learn Old English, this should be it. It's been the main text in both of the Old English classes I've taken. It's the most comprehensive offering available (as far as I know): it includes chapters on syntax and poetics and information on A-S culture. The introductions to the texts are often excellent, and--as someone else commented--the texts are organized by difficulty. The glossary is also everything a student could want: not only does it give the meaning of the term, but it lists all the places in all of the texts where the poem is used, and for each usage, it tells you number, gender, and case. Impressive.

However, much of this valuable information is presented as a hodgepodge of information. There is little rhyme or reason to the organization of the verb tables, for instance: the order of tenses often varies from table to table for no apparent reason. There are no section headings (unlike in Bright's grammar, where declensions are clearly labeled). In the chapter on Nouns, for instance, no explicit attempt is made to group the 18+ different paradigms into categories, although it would be easy enough to group these paradigms into declensions. The authors have also decided to include phonology and sound change information within their discussion of the grammar, but--again--they fail to include headings or signposts that could help the beginning student *understand* the connection between the phonology and the grammar. I found the organization of Bright's to be much more helpful. If you are using this text, you should plan on taking a lot of notes: much of the information in this book must be categorized and rearranged into more logical sequences in order to be used most fruitfully.

The best thing--in my experience--is to use this book alongside another grammar such as Bright's Old English Grammar or _An Old English Grammar_ by Quirk and Wrenn. These grammars will both help you understand the "big picture" of English grammar, which you can then use to reconstruct Michell and Robinson.

As of yet, there seems to be no strong, authoritative, highly accessible introductory textbook for Old English, comparable to Wheelock's in Latin. This book is the best of an uneven lot.

**Since I wrote the original review above, I found another textbook which I would recommend highly: Peter Baker's excellent Introduction to Old English.The material in Baker's text is presented in an extremely clear and sensible way. I strongly recommend it as a self-study book or as a supplement to anyone using Mitchell and Robinson in class. (Klinck's book of Old English Elegies plus Baker's Intro to OE would make a potent combination for an elementary course.) ... Read more

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Meet thirteen-year-old Thomas Penman. Growing up in a bizarre household of eccentrics, including a mother and father who wage a silent war against each other. Thomas downs his first drink, smokes his first cigarette, pursues the beautiful Gwendolin Hackett--all the while forming a special bond with his beloved, ailing Grandpa Walker, a World War II veteran prone to dark habits. An obsessive snooper, Thomas undertakes a quest to locate his grandfather's legendary pornography collection, setting in motion a series of misadventures that ultimately leads him to uncover secrets about his life that will change him irrevocably. The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman is a hilarious, engaging, and touching debut novel, a brilliant tale of one British working-class teen's unforgettable coming of age.

Pornography, masturbation, voyeurism--according to Robinson, these arethe main preoccupations of the adolescent boy. This book is being comparedto J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, and who's to saythat Holden Caulfield might not have had similar hobbies had he beenwritten 40 years later? If you can get past the raunchiness of the languageand the situations, Thomas makes an unexpectedly sympathetic hero, and hisrelationship with his half-mad grandfather is oddly tender. The PeculiarMemories of Thomas Penman is not for the faint of stomach, but forthose who like their fiction raw, this one fits the bill. --AlixWilber ... Read more

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The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman
This YA story is a mess. The premise of the story revolves around human and canine fecal matter and a dysfunctional boy and his family. While many reviews expound on the humorous aspects of the story I was unable to find anything funny about it, I think "disgusting, pathetic and pitiful" are a more appropriate description! The only redeeming qualities I found in this story is that it is well written and features well developed characters...

A Great Coming of Age Tale
Like some other reviewers, I admit that the jolting image of the youngster on the cover induced me to pick up the book, thumb through its pages and buy it. Rarely is the promise of great cover art realized in the contents of the text, but The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman proves a pleasant exception.

Thomas is profane, a rascal, an upstart...and a lot of fun to hang out with. He's a working class British kid growing up in the England of the 1950s. His home is classically dysfunctional; his parents are too wrapped up in their own interpersonal marriage struggles to really pay attention to what's happening in his life. The one oddly bright spot in his home life is the relationship he shares with his dying grandfather, a figure who understands him and remembers what its like to be young. He offers Thomas poignant moments of insight at just the right time.

Thomas is smitten with the beautiful Gwendolyn, prettiest girl in the class. Fortunately, she's smitten with him too, but maybe not for the reasons that Thomas thinks. Suffering through an early teenage romance may seem like wince-inducing piffle, but author Bruce Robinson manages a nearly impossible feat: making you remember what that time of life was like and just how you probably felt. It's not treacle; it's just really good drama.

Running in parallel with these threads is the Big Secret hiding just around the corner. The grandfather knows what it is, the parents know what it is and so does local fortune teller Olanda. Thomas has to fit the pieces together for himself.

If you're like me, you'll be pulling for this troublemaker half way through the novel (and laughing out loud in a few spots). It's one of those rare books where I wish the pages hadn't run out so quickly. There seems to be room for a follow-on to this book, exploring the further adventures of Thomas Penman. I wonder if Robinson will indulge us.

The Poop on Thomas Penman
This is the wonderfully comic and touching story of an adolescent coming to adulthood and terms with the hypocrisy of the adult role models that make up his world. We meet the protagonist of the title as a thirteen year old acutely contending in math class with lingering scatological difficulties - and briefly the recounting of how he deals with an unwelcome addition to his undershorts gave this reader pause - what, exactly am I in for here? But in short order you warm to the child, his innocence and sense of wonder - he's interested in poetry, antiques and a female classmate - his misadventures, he confuses "enema" and "anemia," so universal and ably described in Robinson's jagged prose that leaves you laughing out loud when, two sentences after the fact, you realize what he has just said. But for some wonderful friends - an experienced fellow student who relieves him of his virginity and his grandfather, mysterious in his utterances after a head wound in the Great War ( his time lying among the battlefield dead described in a beautifully limpid passage) he might have wandered off into adult bitterness. For, as we discover, he has every right to his scatological difficulties - parents whose biologic and emotional ties to him are more than just suspect and his best friend betraying him at every turn so too does he have allies in the child's never ending battle against adult hypocrisies. For in a wonderful turn at the end of the story the dead speak and history is righted. As I passed this book off to a friend I envied him for the fun he was about to experience. And you too.

An ongoing enjoyemnt and admiration...
Ok straightforward enough - I am a fan of 'Withnail and I' and ';The Peculiar Memoirs of Thomas Penman' - firstly I've seen a lot of films since first seeing 'Withnail and I' in the late 80's - I mean french films (Betty Blue,Les Amants du Pont Neuf) german films(Wingsof Desire) Serbian, Chinese, Northern European,English, American, a lot for one person - bucket loads - but after over 20 years 'Withnail and I' ids still my favourite film of all time andit;s had a lot of competition - sometimes everything comes together in a film, whether it's as raw as a spade sliced spud or astyilisded piece of perfection which 'w& I' is both in spades nothing has come close for me. OK so that's 'W & I' out of the way.

I read 'The P eculiar Memoirs of ...' in Venice, Italy and then gave it to my girlfriend at the time, we split up a year later but we're still pals, so next time I must ask her whatr she thoyght of it, in any case I loved it - mademe feel less like a freak for my porn obssesscion and less guilty for feeling guilty in rthe first place and the healing and painful course that love outside of ones immmediate family will take throughout ones adolkescent and adult life.
I guess a lot of folks could associate with 'W & I; forgive the discguysting abbrteviation. but I'm pissed on two bottles of red wine (3.95 euros from aldi - still have one left : ) and perhaps many can associate wiyth Thomas Penman - they both seem male perspective orieantated - from their standpoint well Bruce Robinson is a man/male bollox, buyt where else should one come from bu6t their origins. Cheers to Bruce and to a beautiful portrayal of a decent love in Thomas Penman. To Innocence or the decency of the naive savage sarcasctic sosphisticate! Please publish this - maybe clean it up a bit. I have been a good amazonian custmner in the past!

Memories is a good, if disturbing, read
An old man, a boy and his feces make Memories peculiar.

Thomas Penman, in Bruce Robinson's The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman, has a bizarre problem.

He leaves steaming piles of his own feces hidden all over his house. He buries the "Shakespearean potatoes" under couch cushions, behind clocks, in cabinets and once, in a pinch, in his schoolmate's hat.

After reading Robinson's Peculiar Memories, it makes sense that this is Robinson's first book and that prior to this he wrote and directed movies. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay, The Killing Fields. Were Peculiar Memories a movie, surely it too would be up for an award because it is a compelling read from beginning to end, if for no other reason than that it is so peculiar.

Intermingled with a touching, albeit weird, story about a boy and his grandfather, is a story about a boy obsessed with porn, a girl he is beset with and parents constantly in the middle of a row.

Unfortunately for the sweeter parts of the story, it's the nastier parts that stick with you.

Thomas lives with his grandfather, Walter, and communicates with him mostly through Morse Code. Their conversations are mostly one-sided because Thomas' machine is the only one that receives, as well as sends, messages. It was Walter who taught Thomas Morse code, a skill he learned in World War I.

It was in WWI that Walter became ill through an unfortunate turn of events that ended with the top of his head being blown off.

Since his brains had been shot out of his head and shrapnel was embedded in his belly, one might think Walter would have died. But he managed to live for 17 days - because maggots ate away the rot in his body - until Germans found him. After moving Walter, the Germans performed an experimental procedure on him, shoving his brains back in his head and placing a metal plate on the top of his skull. This miraculously saved his life.

Back in the United States, Walter managed to live a fairly normal life, with his hair carefully combed to cover the shiny metal plate on his head. Soon though, the wounds in his belly lead to fast-spreading cancer, and with it, impending death.

With Walter so close to death, Thomas finds himself driven to find the key to the cabinet where the old man keeps his collection of pictures of naked women before his grandfather dies and the treasure is lost. Thomas glimpses the photos for a glorious instant and he starts to see what sicknesses Walter's war injury has spawned.

Walter, possessive of his porn, knows that Thomas has been prying and tells the boy that he is occupying himself with the wrong secret. It is with this revelation that the real adventure of The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman begins and the mysteries unfold.

Robinson writes with great description, maybe even too much at times. He creates a story that is a quick read but that ends a little too neatly. The love story that winds its way through Thomas' struggles at home is just a little too cute and not very believable.

Despite these things, The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman works because it is hard not to turn the page and see what sick thing Thomas does, finds or buries next. ... Read more

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With more than 1400 wineries producing many of today'smost celebrated labels, North America has become a respected worldpower in wine production.California Chardonnays now compete withFrench, and discriminating shoppers can now choose Mexican andCanadian reds in addition to their European counterparts. The OxfordCompanion to the Wines of North America encompasses this fertileregion's wine and winemaking with scope and authority, illuminatingthe major techniques, variations, and key players on the NorthAmerican scene for the first time in one comprehensive volume.

The ultimate complement to The Oxford Companion to Wine--now in itssecond edition and praised by The New York Times as the "most completecompendium of wine knowledge assembled in modern times"--this newCompanion objectively surveys the current state of American wineproduction, celebrating traditions and sensibilities unique toAmerican vintages while highlighting the geographical, philosophical,and commercial variations that distinguish regional wines.GeneralEditor Bruce Cass and world-renowned wine expert Jancis Robinson weavethe knowledge of wine academics and writers from across America into acompelling set of introductory essays that distinguish features ofNorth American wine and its history, followed by correspondingalphabetical entries that explore wine topics in depth.AlthoughCalifornia dominates American production, wineries and localspecialties from throughout North America receive balanced coveragewithin individual area, region, state, and country entries. Mondaviand Beringer are here, along with segments on Gold Seal winery of NewYork, Santo Tomas of Mexico, Stoney Ridge of Ontario, and many others.Curious wine tasters will also find reliable information on grape andresultant wine varieties, viticultural techniques, notable brands, andthe most coveted wines.All technical terms are fully explained withhelpful cross-references to Robinson's Oxford Companion to Wine.

Sure to become the classic book on American wine, The Oxford Companionto the Wines of North America is a masterpiece of scholarship with adynamic flavor befitting its subject. Novices and connoisseurs alikewill find it an irresistible resource. ... Read more

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Good, but could have been better
Given some of the less than stellar reviews of this book, I was expecting far less. This is a collection of excellent information specific to North American winemaking, wineries, producers, etc., that can't - to my knowledge at least - be found anywhere else "under the same roof". There are also some good introductory articles that are educational, especially for the neophyte.

True, the maps in the back of the book are fairly useless. They display towns, highways, mountain ranges, elevation, but no AVAs. That left me dumbfounded. I now know that Hwy 101 can take you from LA to Ventura and further north into Washington State, but - so what? I already knew that, and I live in Illinois. If you're going to include maps in a book like this, they need to be specific and informative.

Still, as I said, the fact that there is excellent information in the A-Z section, and that in the text of that section references are directly made to the Oxford Companion to Wine if the reader wants more information, makes this a very good reference.

an inferior supplement to the Oxford Companion to Wine
The "Oxford Companion to Wine", edited by Jancis Robinson, is the definitive modern reference on wine.Not intended to be read as a book, the entries nevertheless make compelling reading and following the cross-referenced entries can easily consume a pleasurable evening.This "supplement" doesn't live up to the original in terms of quality, comprehensiveness or value.If you were expecting a version of the companion tuned to American wines, you'll be sorely disappointed.On the other hand, if you can't get enough of the original and long for more information on California growers, this isn't a bad start.We can always hope for a revised, expanded, second edition.

For the North American supplement, Jancis Robinson served only as a "consulting editor".She apparently corrected the editor's English usage (see the preface), but she didn't write any of the entries.She did write two throwaway pieces in the beginning of the book on "How Good are North American Wines?" and "Commentators and the Wine Media".There are roughly 60 pages worth of introduction to North American Wine, most of which I did not find deep enough to be particularly informative.

Almost all of the cross-references on vinification, wine-making, cellaring, tasting, defects, grapes, etc. are in the "Oxford Companion", making it essentially impossible to use the North American guide alone.

Compared to the "Oxford Companion", the entries are relatively breezy.The font is larger, the margins are wider, and the book is much shorter.Like the "Oxford Companion", the maps are truly horrendous; you'll remember them from coloring assignments in grade school.Invest in Hugh Johnson's and Jancis Robinson's wonderful new "World Atlas of Wine" for maps.The Atlas's coverage of North American wine styles, grapes and regions isn't half bad, either.

Doesn't deliver as a "companion"
I bought this book for our public library's reference collection.Reviews indicated that this book would be an excellent source of information about wine.It falls far short of that.One example: I needed it for a definition of "syrah" (which they refer to in an article) - neither the alphabetical arrangement of the book nor the index yielded anything. This is a coffee table book and nothing more.

The definitive guide for wine connoisseurs
The Oxford Companion To The Wines Of North America is the definitive guide for wine connoisseurs, weaving the knowledge of 21 wine academics and writers from all over American into a set of compelling introductory essays. The comprehensive 302-page compendium includes an A-to-Z survey of North American vineyards and wine terminology. The informative, "reader friendly" text is further enhanced with superb color photography, twenty maps, and an exhaustive index. The Oxford Companion To The Wines Of North America is an invaluable, fundamental reference for all wine enthusiasts and would make an excellent Memorial Fund acquisition selection for community library collections.

Wit and Unbelievable Wisdom
"Waiting on Petite Sirah hoping for elegance is like marrying a stripper in the hope of witty conversation in old age."

This is the wonderful kind of wit that you find throughout this book.Bruce Cass, Jancis Robinson and the other fine wine writers who are responsible for the book's substance all appear to have a tremendous love of wine but don't need to deify it.I laughed out loud several times as I read descriptions of wines and wine characters.

The Wisdom is even more amazing.There is a wealth of factual information and interpretation.Just open up the book to any page and start to read.Within 45 seconds, you will utter, "Wow, I didn't know that."

This is the best book on wines written in a long time. ... Read more

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Robinson Crusoe redux
Defoe draws on the actual real life experience of Selkirk to describe the odyssey of Robinson Crusoe and his castaway existence on a desert island. Stevey and Stu Bruce compare the similarities.Their work justifies the pleasure of reading (or rereading) this challenging and exciting life adventure novel.

A Tale of Two Tales
This is a delightful pair of parallel tales, about the legend of Robinson Crusoe and Alexander Selkirk's time as a castaway, which inspired the novel.If you have ever wanted to travel to Robinson Crusoe island but couldn't find flights and acommodations to suit your budget, this book takes you there.

The real Robinson Crusoe
Despite the presence on my bookshelf, for many years, of my mother's copy of Defoe's book (kept for that reason and for the N.C. Wyeth illustrations), I cannot say that it was ever a favorite of mine.Certainly the heavy doses of sermonizing did not attract me as a youngster.

Reading it again, in this version annotated with notes comparing Defoe's fictional character's life with that of his real-life inspiration, Alexander Selkirk, I found more to enjoy.Though the sermonizing still detracts from the book for me, I am mature enough now to accept it in its context, and let myself be drawn into the story.The story of a man marooned on a desert island for "eight and twenty years, two months, and nineteen days", filled with all the details of how he sheltered himself, fed himself, entertained himself, how he filled his days, is told by Defoe in a surprisingly interesting fashion.I say "surprisingly" because, after all, the days must run together in much of a muchness, with little variety, in the constant struggle for survival.Yet Defoe manages to draw us in, and not a little of that is due to describing, not merely Crusoe's actions, but his thoughts.

Now the Bruces come along and give us, side by side with Defoe's text, glimpses into Selkirk's life, so that we may, as was often said in high school English class, "compare and contrast" the two.By doing so, they give us a glimpse into how a writer can take an event and transform it, keeping the nub of it but expanding on it, and using it to present a philosophy as well as a rousing good story.Indeed, if I have any criticism of this presentation, it is that I would have liked to have had a short biographical sketch of Selkirk at the beginning of the book.Though we are given plenty of information as we go along, a short bio would make it easier for those not familiar with his story to follow the notes.

I must add that the Bruces' descriptions of their visit to the actual island on which Selkirk was marooned, and of their researches in England and Scotland, were a definite bonus! ... Read more

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In this work, Bruce Robinson talks to Alastair Owen about his life and work, from the cult "Withnail and I" and "The Killing Fields" to his penning of the bestselling novel "The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman". It should interest film buffs everywhere as well as fans of the man himself. ... Read more

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A collection of 119 hilarious religion-themed, "FarSide(r)-type"cartoons by one of America's top gag cartoonists. Wittyand cutting-edge humor endorsed by the likes of Johnny Hart (creatorof the B.C. and the Wizard of Id comic strips), Bil Keane (creator,The Family Circus ), John McPherson (creator,Close to Home), MichaelRoss (editor, Breakaway magazine[a Focus on the Family Publication])and a host of others. ... Read more

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TOTALLY HYSTERICAL!!! Better than watching AMERICAN IDOL!!!
WOW!!! These cartons are SO HYSTERICAL!!! I don't know what the one reviewer was talking about who didn't find these cartoons funny! Maybe they had a "bad hair day" ??? Keep up the FUNNY & GREAT work Mr. Robinson!!! I EAGERLY await and anticipate your next book!!!

ABSOLUTELY HYSTERICAL!!!!!!!!
What an ABSOLUTELY HYSTERICAL book!!!!! I just LOVED it!!! I especially loved the "Noah and the missing worm" and "the other disciples were jealous of Peter" cartoons! I was laughing so hard I had to get some tissues to dry my eyes! I hear that Bruce Robinson, the book's author is going to release GOOD MEDICINE # 2 soon. I EAGERLY await its release. But first I have to stock up on some more tissues! This book is SO F-U-N-N-Y!!! It should be a part of EVERYONE'S library!!!

Yawn...(But I'm sure they're good people)
If you find Family Circus to be one of the best comics in your paper, chances are you'll really enjoy Good Medicine.
Frankly, I was having a hard time detecting any similarity between this stuff & Far Side (which I thoroughly enjoy).I read through the book just in case I missed a good one.When I got to the end, I realized I missed nothing.
I would like to be able to give this book a stronger endorsement, because I'm sure their intentions are good, but I found this book to be seriously lacking in hilarity.

"...witty, reflective humor from..a true comedic master"
"GOOD MEDICINE is a hilarious religion-themed collection of 119 Bruce Robinson single-panel cartoons retreived from the pages of the 'Breakaway' magazine, 'The Saturday Evening Post' and a host of other nationalperiodicals. Featured are the adventures and antics of 'Harkins', an angelof 'good cheer'. GOOD MEDICINE is a terrific assembly of cutting-edge,witty, reflective humor from the mind, heart and imagination of a truecomedic master." -The Midwest Book Review ... Read more

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Presents the screenplay of the classic cult film by Bruce Robinson, with an introduction by the director. ... Read more

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Shut up, Withnail! Of course he's the fcuking farmer!
I'd seen this movie about twenty times when i received the screenplay as a gift. I wasn't expecting to laugh much, or even read it, having memorized the script, but i was very much mistaken. Reading the screenplay was a completely different experience than watching the movie; robinson's writing is delicious. It's also amazing to see what the extrodinary cast took and turned into the film. Their preformances seem all the more impressive. I'd recomnend this to long-time fans, one-veiwers and non-veiwers alike. Truly a modern masterpiece.

I would love to review this item...
...but I can't since Amazon doesn't seem to be able to fill my order for it.I love the movie, and I was really looking forward to reading the screenplay, but Amazon keeps telling me that there are "delays" -- and not sending the product to me.

It's a book, but it sure seems like vaporware.

What fu........ said that?
It was with great relish and exitement that I read my newly acquired copy of Withnail and I. I think that Bruce Robinson is a literary genius! The charactarisation of Withnail is perfect, the setting of the book is uncannyand uncle Monty reigns supreme. Quotable quotes: "As a youth I used toweep in butcher shops!"

Fantastic reading.If only we knew thehalf of what goes on.
Essential reading - if only everyone wrote with such condor - for anyonewho enjoys Richard's work, and is wise enough to realise that Hollywood isa very sick place.

Richard, thank you for giving us insight into theindustry in which you work, and how you survived.

I look forward toyour next book.

one of the most hilarious screenplays ever written
Withnail and I is possibly one of if not the funniest book I have read in a very long time and does not receive the amont of credit it so obviously deserves. ... Read more

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Explores the depths of a paranoid writer who is terrorised by visions of deadly attackers and their horrifying crimes. A call from his literary agent, a possible plot on his life and a disastrous trip to the launderette ensue. ... Read more

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This text covers the deterioration of the immune responses in the lungs, whether from cancer, infection, vascular disease or any source. It contains current clinical and scientific research. ... Read more

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Broadstairs, a little village at the English coast in the fifties. Here Thomas Penman is growing up in poor circumstances — with a rough father, who betrays his wife, a mother, who has disappointed focused on cooking and a quaint grandfather with delicate affinities. But Thomas is very decided to explore the world how it is! Thereby he says Good-bye to his childhood, every day a bit more…

Broadstairs, ein kleines Kaff an der englischen Küste in den fünfziger Jahren. Hier wächst Thomas Penman in ärmlichen Verhältnissen auf – mit einer Familie, die es in sich hat: Der Vater ist ein rauhbeiniger Bursche, der seine Frau betrügt, die Mutter hat sich enttäuscht hinter ihre Kochtöpfe zurückgezogen, und der kuriose Grossvater ist ein Mann mit höchst delikaten Neigungen. Doch Thomas ist wild entschlossen, die Welt im Sturm zu nehmen! Und unmerklich nimmt er darüber Abschied von der Kindheit, jeden Tag ein wenig mehr ...
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This volume contains two film scripts by Bruce Robinson, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay of "The Killing Fields". Robinson has directed as well as written both "Withnail and I" and "How to Get Ahead in Advertising". ... Read more

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