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Every four years the thirty-two-team, sixty-four-game World Cup captivates the planet’s populace for a month. Work absenteeism skyrockets. Political campaigns grind to a halt. Fans mortgage their houses to buy tickets. And teams employ every means possible—even consulting witch doctors and astrologers—in their quest for national glory.

Veteran soccer commentator Jamie Trecker traveled to Germany for FIFA World Cup 2006. Here, reported from the restaurants, trains, bars, town squares, hostels, press boxes, and brothels, is his unvarnished account of the games and parties, great plays and fistfights, gossip and tacky souvenirs that turn the largest sporting event on earth into a true world bazaar. With equal measures insight and irreverence, Trecker captures the passion, politics, controversies, and economics that make soccer a reflection of the world.

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• Published on: 2007-10-01
• Released on: 2007-10-01
• Original language: English
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• 272 pages

From Publishers Weekly
The FIFA World Cup is the planet's biggest event. Not sporting event-event, period, writes Trecker in this in-your-face firsthand account of the 2006 World Cup in Germany. Trecker, Fox Sports soccer columnist, is passionate about the game (Munich exploded in the sixth minute when Phillip Lahm, employing his signature move, cut from the left side into the area to sink a powerful right-footed shot into the top of Jose Porras's net) and the players (What makes Zidane truly special is not that he can control the pace of a match-there are other holding midfielders in the game-but that his motions and instincts are artful, serene, and beautiful). Unfortunately, Trecker, while covering the sport, the games and the '06 World Cup comprehensively, falls prey to clichéd sports writing. He spends much time describing brothels (in South Korea and Germany), topless women and drunken debauchery-of both fans and the media alike. While not without its pleasures, this is mostly for the already initiated rather than the general reader. (Oct.)
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From Booklist
In the run-up to the 2006 World Cup, U.S. publishers offered many books explaining the World Cup, soccer, and why players aren't allowed to use their hands. Certainly, many Americans still need the help, but books timed to coincide with the event lacked a crucial element: results. The U.S. team went home early, but journalist Trecker went the distance. His firsthand account of soccer madness is lively and intelligent, as full of funny anecdotes as it is opinionated commentary. He doesn't stint the historical context, either, detailing not only the history of the tournament but changing cultural and political attitudes toward it. And if he occasionally provides a little too much background—the U.S. history of the game is a book in itself (see Jim Haner's Soccerhead, 2006)—he goes some other writers one better by placing the tournament in another crucial context: financial (because money is what makes the world of sport go round). This comes too late for 2006 World Cup newbies, of course, but it proves to be the book they were waiting for. Graff, Keir

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"Finely balancing his personal experiences with comprehensive historical detail, and a generous supply of factoid footnotes . . . Trecker delivers the goods with gusto." -- Kirkus Reviews

"Trecker went the distance. His firsthand account of soccer madness is lively and intelligent, as full of funny anecdotes as it is opinionated commentary. He doesn't stint the historical context, either . . . [and] he goes some other writers one better by placing the tournament in another crucial context: financial." -- Booklist

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Pleasure and Substance
By Keith Perry
I had no grasp of how little I knew of US Soccer, much less the world cup, until reading Trecker's book. It is a "stay up all night 'cause it's so engaging" flight through the politics, sociology, finance, underbelly and countless freaks which color the world football stage. It doesn't just tell the story (and it does, with great entertainment value); it gives you an understanding of all the forces behind the story, and why it matters.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Quick read - but stick to soccer
By Oliver Koehler
I picked this book up on my way out of a Borders store, not having previously heard anything about it. The title and the short description on the back, however, intrigued me as I spent 4 weeks at home in Germany last summer.

Trecker does a good job shedding light on the workings of FIFA, the US soccer federation and the problems the sport faces in the US. The soccer tidbits in the book are a good read, but he gets much too shallow when he tries to analyse participating countries, their followers and customs. He should have left the judgement out of this book (or analyse deeper) - after all, why do I care about his inability to buy medicine in the host country, something he goes into some detail about? And while he complains multiple times about perceived transportation problems he makes no effort to investigate the underlying reasons - good journalism reads differently.

While I found the concept (reading a book about the 2006 World Cup) intriguing, the execution fell short of my expectations.

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Disappointing
By Paul Marc Oliu
Before I begin, it would probably be wise to let everything out. After all, if a reader understands where I am coming from, they can take my observations with the appropriate grains of salt.

First off, at one time, I was writing for any number of soccer sites, including MLSnet.com. I gained somewhat of a reputation from my work at the now defunct InternetSoccer.com. In some circles I guess I was considered a "journalist," but I laugh at that one, as I personally wouldn't sully the reputation of the many good real journalists out there by lumping myself in with them. Anyhow, thanks to my work, I had a chance to interact with a good many soccer journalists, including the author of "Love & Blood: At the World Cup with the Footballers, Fans, and Freaks," Mr. Jamie Trecker.

Among the many of us who intently follow the sport in the US, there is this sort of love/hate relationship with Mr. Trecker. On the one hand, we value and appreciate the few professional soccer writers in the US. On the other, Mr. Trecker has been one of the most outspoken critics of Major League Soccer, US Soccer, and anything else related to the US game. Like anything, some of his criticism is justified, some of it is not. Many of the disagreements many have with him is the fact has to do with personality, his argumentative style, and his pretentiousness. Throw in a penchant for the perceived lack of substance and his running loose with facts, you can understand why his name causes many soccer fans to roll their eyes.

There are other reasons as well, but if you are reading "Love & Blood" you are probably well aware of the issues. In fairness, Mr. Trecker has always stated that his objective was to cover the sport the way other sports are covered. Meaning, his role as an investigative journalist lends himself to constantly question, wondering what the true motives are to any decision, a healthy skepticism for the marketing spin that most soccer organizations have fallen prey to, and a belief that there is a better way (Even if that better way often seems to be his way...).

With all that said, let me get on to his first book, "Love & Blood." I bought this through Amazon. My view is that regardless of my opinion of the author, if a professional soccer writer in the US is going to take the time to write a book, I will read it. Perhaps the day will come when Bob Costas writes a book on the game. When it does, I won't be so inclined to buy anymore. In the meantime, with so few out there, I will buy. I even own a copy of Chris Gallutia's "Addicted to Black & Gold: One Fan's Year With His Club and the World's Most Popular Sport."

Honestly, I was excited to read it, and truly wanted to be able to say that this was the great American soccer book. Any book that combines a fans love of the game, married with observations about the world cup, and some inside views from a journalist, well, the combination sounds like a great read. Unfortunately, it did not meet my expectations.

There are two parts of this book - one I thoroughly enjoyed, and the other that I considered to be pretentious, amateurish, elitist, and at times rambling. The first part are his discussions of being on the ground in Germany, interacting with fans, running around the country. Far from glamour, there were moments where you realize being a journalist at the World Cup must be awful. Covering games, dealing with the pomposity of FIFA, you prefer to be a fan... that's if you can get tickets. To his credit, Mr. Trecker seems to have jumped head first into his subject. His liver probably was the worse for wear considering the amount of times he was stuck with fans at a beer garden or some other watering hole.

His penchant for staying in places that were less than ideal were also amusing, albeit a bit tired after awhile. There are only so many stories one can read about prostitutes, before it becomes old hat. His story of getting to his hotel in Berlin just before the final was truly funny. While walking up the stairs to his room, luggage and wife in tow, he stumbled across a film crew making a gay porn movie. He even had a chance to enjoy a beverage with one of the members of the crew. Truly a classic story if I have ever heard one. I wonder if there is not a XXX rated movie out there with his name in the credits for having helped get a can of coke for one of the crew.

There were some observations about the game that I considered to be simplistic. For example, in discussing the World Cup in Japan and Korea in 2002, Mr. Trecker writes - "Without their imposing stadiums and fans behind them, quite a number of European teams were revealed as very average." While I am certain this had something to do with it, I think the difficulties of the Europeans to deal with this World Cup, the hectic scheduling that occurred prior, and soccer fatigue have been well documented.

Interestingly enough, early in the book as he comments on the US game, Mr. Trecker makes some interesting observations. Among them is a tacit recognition that the game has evolved quite significantly over the last 15 years. For him, there has been a sea change, and 2006 it was noticeable. He writes, "Back then (2002) America's Pro League was still considered shaky; today no one asks if (or when) MLS is going to close its doors." What he failed to mention that he was one of those most vocal authorities on the demise of MLS. In fact, I started writing because of an article he wrote in 1999 extolling the greatness of the NASL. He does the same to a lesser degree in this book, but I think I, others, and history has shown that the NASL wasn't as great as what we would like to believe.

Regardless, his unadulterated experiences at the cup is certainly worth reading. But the second part of the book, the part that I certainly could have done without, was his feable effort at historical analysis, melted together with some social criticism, and spiced up with a pinch of politics. These were the parts I considered to be "pretentious, amateurish, elitist, and at times rambling." What struck me was how much of this took away from the soccer experiences. In an effort to add some color, Mr. Trecker often would do deep dives into the local history, it's impact on modern Germany, and ultimately how it was manifest in the Cup. Unfortunately, Mr. Trecker's history book only went back to World War II. Certainly a major event as it relates to modern German society, but I was amazed at what he managed to exclude - Germany's impact on European intellectual history, home of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation, the Marshall Plan. Obviously, this is not a history book but a collection of his observations. But in telling the stories he did, using the history he chose to focus one, Mr. Trecker revealed his myopic point of view that he has often been criticized for.

There were a host of references, whether in the actual text, or his liberal use of footnotes, that had my head scratching. In one footnote, where he discusses how teams came to get their kit colors (Page 25), he seems to give legitimacy to the reasoning behind Australia's for using Brazilian colors. He adds in, almost mockingly, why the US never wore the color red in its uniform for the longest time. If, as Mr. Trecker rightly suggests throughout his book, that history does play a significant role in how things are, then it is perfectly legitimate for a US Soccer President to ban red from the uniforms because he thought the color was "commie."

I don't think he was trying to be intentionally funny, but I laughed when I read his comparison between the worlds of 1972 and 2006. Mind you, not the soccer world, but THE world. Bottom line is that there were similarities - "unpopular American Presidents fighting ill-considered wars, a global energy crisis, a war raging in the Middle East." Reminds me of that email that "eerily" compares how similar President Lincoln and President Kennedy were - both became president and both were assassinated. This is the sort of thing that struck me as amateurish. I remember sitting in grad school arguing similar absurdities. It was all a part to sound so intelligent, so grasping of big ideas, so capable of being the next great American historian... all the while, the reality was that we were naïve, selective in our readings, opinionated, and myopic.

There is so much more, but I don't want to go point for point. You can support Mr. Trecker (one of the few US Soccer Writers in the US) by buying "Love & Blood: At the World Cup with the Footballers, Fans, and Freaks," and finding them on your own. To his credit Mr. Trecker has blazed a trail for others to follow. And perhaps, someday, thanks to his initiative we may even see a soccer book by Bob Costas.

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a powerful arguement for democracy
By A Customer
E.M. Forster is better known as a writer than as a great thinker.
This volume contains most of his nonfiction writings and thus introduces us to a different side of Forster. Some of the pieces, it is true, are on writing, but most relevant for today is probably his political thought.
Forster provides us with a window into the world of the nineteen thirties where democracy was perceived as a fragile and precious object in danger of being blown away by the forces of fascism and communism. Still, in "What I believe" and "Three Anti-Nazi broadcasts" Forster reaffirms his belief in this form of government.
Democracy is important, he argues, because it allows criticism. He argues that "parliament is often sneered at because it is a Talking Shop. I believe in it because it is a talking shop. I believe in the Private Member who makes himself a nuisance. He gets snubbed and is told that he is cranky or ill- informed, but he does expose abuses which would otherwise never have been mentioned".
Forster argues forcefully against hero worship and against the cult of "great men". Although rooted in a bygone era, much of his thinking retains some relevance today.

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Excellent Writing, thought some subjects are now obsolete
By Classics Lover
This is a collection of essays by Forster, the authors of "A Passage to India", "A Room with a View", etc., etc., about numerous contemporary subjects -- from his 1930s and wartime essays, lectures, and broadcasts against fascism and for democracy, to his recollections of India, to his reviews of the works of his generations' poets and writers -- the best and longest (2/3rds or so) part of the book -- on people as varied as Lawrence of Arabia and Virginia Wolf.

Some of these essays are general, pro-democracy and pro-culture, anti-fascist writing. They are perfectly competent, but are the weakest part of the book (hence only four stars). I am not saying this is due to Forster's lack of talent. It is, paradoxically, because what he said turned out to be right: OF COURSE fascism and communism are against human rights, against individuality, against freedom and all we hold dear, isn't it?. But that is clear to us now; it was not at all clear to all when Foerster wrote most of these essays, in the 1930s. It is sometimes hard for us to remember how enticing fascism and communism, with their apparent success, looked to many -- by no means all of them stupid or evil -- at the time, when democracy seemed to be on its last legs. Similarly, OF COURSE writing, of poetry, of music, should continue in wartime. Isn't preserving culure what the war was all about? Yet in 1940 and 1941, when these essays were written, it was not at all clear Britain will survive, and any penny spent on culture seemed a penny less for the war effort. He said what was obvious in 1950 -- but already in 1930 or 1940. No mean feat.

Much more interesting, for us, are his reviews of the work of contemporary writers, Forster was a humanist in the real sense of the word. He loved India -- and by that I mean he loved Indians, too, not just the exotic scenery. He was not racist at all, seeing women, Greeks, Indians, and Muslims (including Indian Muslims), as his full equals in poetic power, intelligence, and achievement, as his essays on Woolf, Cavafy, or Syed Ross Masood show -- quite a remakable characteristic for a man of his time. Why? Because he cared for culture above all. He cared nothing for politics, for race, for feminism (or male superiority). He cared only for individual human beings, and for their spiritual, poetic qualities, at that -- not their political achievements. So whomever you were, it was whether you are a cultured person that mattered ot Forster, and what kind of work you did as an artist that he cared about.

This comes out most strongly in his essay, "What I Believe", in which he envisions a society of "Aristocrats" -- culturally superior, senisitive and intelligent people. Such people (of which it is not at all clear he is vain enough to include himself) tend to avoid government jobs and positions of power, and march on, resisting society's desire to make them serve "useful", government ends, instread of "useless" things like, say, poetry. But one poem by Cavafly, a clerk in an Alexandrian (in Egypt) railroad stations in "real life", is worth any number of powerful go-getter master-of-the-universe lawyers: he was one of those who belong to this "invincible, yet not a victorious" army. Far fewer peoples would have known about Dr. Samuel Johnson today if Boswell, instead of looking after his career in the courts, had not preferred to spend his time with him. Clearly a club to which women or Indians could easily belong, indeed, perhaps more easily than the career-oriented white men of the time.

Thus the essays in the book. He was a close friend of T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"), who surely told him some interesting stories about his exploits. Yet he (Forster) dismisses in a few lines what Lawrence did politically. He cared far more for the fact that he was an old romantic who ran away from civlization deliberately, and of the curious qualities of his book, "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom". Similarly, he dismisses Woolf's political, i.e., feminist work (correctly I think) as her weakest, and appreciating her literary and poetic achievements in her other works, such as "To the Lighthouse". (He thinks she was a poet who wrote prose, a very interesting view). Or he sees Butler's satirical novel "Erwohn" ("Nowhere"), a retelling of Moore's utopia -- where the hero, with his friend Yram ("Mary") and the Nosnibor ("Robinson") family, where he satirizes Victorian society -- as far more important for its literary qualities than for whatever political effect it had or injustices it pointed out.

This is the exact opposite of today's most popular view, that literature and culture must serve political ends -- for him, there is no point for politics if it does not serve culture and literature . An extremely interesting read of extremely interestesting opinions, by a great writer who was also a great critic.

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In times when it seems all too easy to give away our rights in exchange for largely virtual safety, the voice of E. M. Forster sounds more loud and clear than ever before. In his essays written before and after the Second World War Forster discusses the dangers that we are facing today. Forster's solution may seem naive to our cynical age but only if we don't try to get to the bottom. This book is a lesson we still have not learned - always worth another look.

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Coy is a sailor without a ship.Tánger Soto is a woman with an obsession to find the Dei Gloria, a ship sunk during the seventeenth century, and El Piloto is an old man with the sailboat on which all three set out to seek their fortune together. Or do they?

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• Published on: 2004-06-07
• Released on: 2004-06-07
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 8.00" h x 1.14" w x 5.31" l,
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

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A treasure hunt for a Jesuit ship sunk by pirates off the coast of Spain is the plot on which Perez-Reverte's new novel turns, but a love story is the real heart of this nicely crafted, carefully told adventure. A suspended sailor happens on a maritime auction in Barcelona, where he meets the beautiful Tanger Soto, a museum curator whose winning bid buys her a 17th-century atlas that may reveal the final resting place of the Dei Gloria. Coy, the sailor, is totally smitten, so it's no surprise that he signs on to help Tanger track the sunken ship to its grave in waters he's sailed since childhood. Enlisting the aid of a diver friend, Coy and Tanger stay a few steps ahead of the crooked salvagers who've been trying to get the atlas, outmaneuvering the attempts on their lives and the efforts to keep them from the treasure. Perez-Reverte (The Fencing Master, The Club Dumas) is better at plumbing the mysteries of the human heart than those of the sea, but The Nautical Chart manages to combine history, suspense, and obsessive love in a slow-paced but ultimately engrossing read. --Jane Adams

From Publishers Weekly
Popular Spanish novelist Perez-Reverte (The Fencing Master; The Club Dumas) is known as "the master of the intellectual thriller." But his customarily skillful blend of pop erudition and conscious borrowing of literary precedents threatens to capsize this tale of a race to retrieve a fortune in emeralds that sank off the Mediterranean coast of Spain in 1767. Manuel Coy is now in the Conrad phase of his life, having previously lived a Stevenson period and a Melville period. He is a "sailor exiled from the sea," his pilot's license suspended for two years after he ran a merchant ship onto an uncharted rock in the Indian Ocean. Attending an auction of nautical relics in Barcelona (in his "Lord Jim jacket"), Coy watches a beautiful young blonde woman outmaneuver a menacing ponytailed man to purchase a 17th-century nautical chart of the Spanish coast by Urrutia Salcedo. The woman is Tanger Soto, of Madrid's Museo Naval; the ponytailed man is a famed pirate of sea salvage, Nino Palermo. Coy comes to Tanger's defense when he sees her being threatened outside the auction house by Palermo thus putting himself in the service of a woman he is sure will eventually betray him. The characters are only too aware of the affinities of their story with The Maltese Falcon, and with a whole library of sea literature. Perez-Reverte is too accomplished a novelist to write a truly dull book, and the underwater sequences that climax the story are masterfully done. But any sea adventure that is more than half over before it makes it to the sea has to be in some kind of trouble. (Oct.)Forecast: This may not be Perez-Reverte at his best, but his second-best will be more than good enough for most readers. A first printing of 125,000 copies and a five-city author tour are in the works.

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A suspended sailor and a gorgeous woman who works at Madrid's Naval Museum join forces to uncover a sunken galleon and find themselves in hot water. From the author of intellectual thrillers like The Flanders Panel.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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48 of 51 people found the following review helpful.
Unlike His Other Work 3.5 Stars
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Mr. Perez Reverte's previous books have always maintained a level of tension throughout the unfolding mystery. He has always brought well-planned and complex tales that revolved around great literature, great art, or even the art of classic sport, as he did with, "The Fencing Master". He always has piqued the curiosity of the inquisitive reader from the outset of his tale, and while sharing pieces of the outcome as the story progressed; he never pulled the curtain entirely back until the very end. "The Nautical Chart", is a very good story, however the author takes too long to tell his tale, and while he provides an ending that unfolds to the very end, unlike his other works this one can be seen clearly if not completely well before the close.
Throughout the book there is a great amount of detail regarding the operation of 18th century sailing vessels. As the reader progresses with the story there is no way of knowing how critical this information may be. The frustration arises as only those readers with very specialized knowledge of sailing and its terminology will be able to follow the reconstruction of the tales within the tale. I don't see why a few drawings of the craft in question could not have been provided. The detail would have enhanced the read, and kept the pace more brisk as those without the knowledge would not feel left out, and wonder how much they were missing.
The main players are hard to like as well, as for the most part they loathe one another. One is particularly annoying as he seems to go through his days confirming his and everyone else's low expectations of him, and he catalogues it all with acronyms. There just was not as much substance and depth to these characters as the author has delivered in the past. Virtually all are driven by the same base motive, and even that is hard to get involved with.
I love this author's work, however of the novels he has written to date, this is the one I favor the least. I certainly will once again pick up his next work, and I look forward to the tales that are of the caliber of his first four novels.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Engaging, but not Amazing
By A. Ross
Perez-Reverte's literary mysteries, as wonderful and entertaining as they tend to be, all follow a somewhat similar template, one that is faithfully reproduced here. It all starts with a somewhat highbrow subject-chess and painting restoration in The Flanders Panel, antiquarian books in The Club Dumas, the Vatican and Catholicism in The Seville Communion, fencing in the Fencing Master-which is represented here by cartography and sailing. Then he adds a hero who is an expert in the subject, and somewhat of a loner, removed from the mundane world around him or her. The expert/hero is activated by powerful persons whose interest in the hero's area of expertise is ultimately revealed to be linked to some murky historical episode which proves vital to the story. And finally there is a ending that is often surprising or ambiguous. That this template works over and over is a testament both to the skill with which Pérez-Reverte weaves his plots, and to his ability to carry the reader deep into the details of whatever subject happens to be the focus of that book.
In this book, Pérez-Reverte presents a fairly compelling hero, Coy, a born to the ocean, jazz loving sailor at loose ends. He's quickly embroiled in a treasure hunt led by the beautiful and always in control Tanger, who's in a race with a slimy Gibralterian professional treasure hunter and his sadistic Argentine dwarf enforcer. Simpler than any of his previous books, the story both directly and indirectly references the Dashed Hammett classic, The Maltese Falcon. As in that tale, most of the suspense is created by lack of information, which is slowly released to Coy in dribs and drabs, as well as the question of who's double-crossing who. This makes the main characters conversations a shade too melodramatic at times to be realistic, but this is balanced by his naunced capturing of Coy's total attraction to Tanger and her manipulation of it.
As so much of the book involves Coy and Tanger crouched over old maps, or discussing them, one wishes the publisher would have included some reproductions to help the reader out. Similarly, it would have helped a great deal to have an illustration of the two maint ships being hunted for, as there are pages upon pages describing their duel. This is rather frustrating, as without some basic knowledge of sailing and its terms, the reader is unlikely to be able to follow chunks of the writing. The book takes a bit too long to get going, although when it does, it is quite suspenseful, although the clues are a little more visible than usual in Pérez-Reverte's work. Unfortunately the ending doesn't live up to its buildup, and one suspects this eminently filmable thriller will have its climax tweaked for the big screen. All in all, it's not among his best, but still entertaining and highly readable.

26 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
Good book? Poor translation?
By Patrick Burnett
Someone once said of Peter DeVries, "I love his book. I read it every time he writes it." Arturo Perez-Reverte has cemented his claim to such backhanded praise with this release, "The Nautical Chart".
This book follows the standard Perez-Reverte formula, one that became almost tiresome after "The Flanders Panel" was released.
Here we are offered Coy, a down-on-his-luck sailor with barely enough knowledge to get the job done, a man who thinks and acts with his fists as opposed to his wits, Tanger Soto, a single-minded femme fatale who echoes Hammett's Bridget O'Shaughnessy (from "The Maltese Falcon", which this book references and echoes)and a pair of villains as cruel and unlikely as Gutman and Joel Cairo. The group are all in search of a vast treasure buried beneath the sea centuries ago. That's pretty much all there is to the story.
It's not the repeat of the old formula that bothers me so, rather it is the change in writing style that seems to have sucked the joy out of my reading of Perez-Reverte, and I don't know whether to blame this on the author or his translater. Former translator Sonia Soto had a flair for language and helped ease The Club Dumas and The Flanders Panel into the American consciousness by imbuing these books with a fluid formality that seemed just right for the content. New translator Margaret Sayers Peden has a wooden ear, seemingly translating some sections exactly as written (which makes them seem odd and flat to an English speaker) and others by trying to inject modern slang and make the book sound more contemporary.
It is a fact that, unless we read the original language, we are at the mercy of the translator when reading foreign literature. A good one can make the work sing and a bad one will make it squawk. Sadly, without a strong, fresh framework from Perez-Reverte, this translation merely squawks.

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The setting is Danzig during World War II. The narrator recalls a boyhood scene in which a black cat pounces on his friend Mahlke’s “mouse”-his prominent Adam’s apple. This incident sets off a wild series of events that ultimately leads to Mahlke’s becoming a national hero. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

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"'Gunter Grass' second novel is quite different in character from The Tin Drum." less of a showcase for an obstreperous talent (although there are still scenes of caricature and occasional scabrous humor), it is a more controlled book and far more internalized. This time the German-realist-surrealist, while again using many symbolic allusions, has subdued some of the abstractions, some of the elements of the absurd. The latter is chiefly apparent in the physical disfigurement of the central character which again singularizes him: the demonic Oskar Matzerath was a dwarf; now it is the protuberant Adam's apple which jumps conspicuously like a mouse, the neck of Mahlke whose story is told by his friend Pilenz. Both boys grow up together in a small Danzig town and the always solicitous, increasingly admiring Pilenz follows Mahlke, in a sense an unlikely hero, odd, quiet, solemn, devout, as he performs his amazing feats. These extend from the childish games, when- as an underwater diver- he brings up trophies from a sunken minesweeper in the bay, to the atrocities of war and his spectacular performance in action. Little by little, however, there is the erosion of the individual by the system and Mahlke, the "mouse", the "clown", but most of all the "redeemer" with his resounding faith, goes deliberately to his death. It is the gesture of the individual against the philistinism which has always dominated German life and which was so much a part of the earlier book.... A tantalizing, eloquent, strange and strangely moving book, filled with remarkable scenes, a tragi-comic vitality and a transcendental vision. " (Kirkus Reviews)

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

About the Author
GÜNTER GRASS (1927–2015), Germany's most celebrated contemporary writer, attained worldwide renown with the publication of his novel The Tin Drum in 1959. A man of remarkable versatility, Grass was a poet, playwright, social critic, graphic artist, and novelist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1999.
 

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29 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
The second part of the Danzig Trilogy holds up just as well
By Robert Beveridge
I first read Cat and Mouse without the benefit of having read The Tin Drum beforehand, and I missed a lot. Cat and Mouse is the second book in Grass' Danzig Trilogy, three books that look at life in Danzig under the Nazi regime from three different points of view (the tales are told concurrently, and time can be fixed by seeing the same event from different points of view; for example, the picnic taken by the jazz trio and Schmuh in Book III of The Tin Drum shows up towards the end of Cat and Mouse, and Matern, one of the main characters of Dog Years, shows up in The Onion Cellar, where Oskar's jazz band is retained, in The Tin Drum).

Cat and Mouse is actually a novella, originally a part of Dog Years that broke off and took on a life of its own; on the surface it is the tale of Joachim Mahlke, a high school student with a protruding adam's apple (the Mouse of the title), and his fascination with a sunken Polish minesweeper after he learns to swim at the age of thirteen. It is also the story of Pilenz, the narrator and Mahlke's best friend. The two spend their high school years in wartime Poland, reacting to various things, and that's about as much plot as this little slice of life needs.

The interesting thing about Cat and Mouse is its complete difference in tone from the other two novels. Both The Tin Drum and (what I've read so far of) Dog Years have the same high-pitched, almost hysterical humor combined with a profound sense of teleology (not surprising given the apocalyptic nature of life in Danzig under the Nazis); Grass attempts to confront the horror with over-the-top slapstick, because only through that kind of comparison is it possible to make the reader understand. But while Cat and Mouse has its moments of the same kind of ribald humor, it is more dignified, in a sense, and closer to reality; enough so, at least, that when the book reaches its inevitable climax and denoument, one feels more genuine, or more human, reactions to the fates of Pilenz and Mahlke than one does to Oskar, the hero of The Tin Drum. Perhaps that is why it was segmented off from Dog Years; perhaps there was another reason. Whatever the case, it stands on its own and as an integral part of Grass' magnum opus.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Why is it I always end up liking books I read in school?
By Thomas Edgar
Okay, I'll admit freely: "Katz und Maus" was required reading in school, which obviously biased me against it immediately. What's worse, it was German postwar literature, which never fails to be depressing and downbeat. I knew I was in for a greuling read.
And then, suddenly, it wasn't. In fact, I started liking it from the first line, and carried on until the end, which I'd give away if I said wasn't an end, so I'll let you read it yourself.
The story is complicated and non-linear. It is told from a first person narrative, the exact reliability of which is consatantly brought into question, either by the fog of the years or deliberate misconstruction due to feelings of guilt, the narrator never seems too sure about what happened, often offering several different versions of the same story at the same time, and even going so far as to admit his own fictitiousness. The story that serves as a Leitmotiv, as well as title of the book, is the cat that attacked Mahlke's adam's apple, and exactly how it got there.
What I found most striking about the book on first glance was the descriptions of the places and characters that the novella is centered on. At the same time, you have a feeling that it's merely a part of a greater whole. It fits in with the other two books in the so-called Danzig Trilogy seamlessly, yet still sets itself apart.
I have another confession to make: I attend a German high school, and so I read it in German. In my opinion, though what I've read of the excerpts seems like a decent translation, Günter Grass is an author who uses the German language to its full extent, emplying every manner of grammatical and syntactical tricks to underline the story. These, unfotunately, are completely lost in the translation. If you understand German decently, I would strongly encourage you to seek out an original language text.

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
Clever, moving, insightful; instantly a classic
By Yaumo Gaucho
This is a sensitively written tale of Joachim Mahlke and his "mouse" (that up-and-down-bobbing Adam's apple of his) -- through the eyes of an unreliable narrator reminiscing about his youth, and life, and morals, and how ordinary, decent people, some of them children, lived in Hitler's Germany. Realistic, telling, bittersweet. Lots of little chases and reflections: hence cat and mouse. Often uproariously funny, sometimes with a deeper message, sometimes just for humor.
Cat and Mouse is the most purely enjoyable book I've read in a long time. Perhaps not the most challenging to read (that's not always a bad thing), but definitely the most enjoyable.
There's lots of subsurface musing about war and the morality of killing... for an American, it reminds one of the collective guilt brought about by Vietnam. (But it is never in-your-face war-musings a la Tim O'Brien or anyone like that.) Yes, these teenage boys joined the Hitler Youth and aspired to shoot at British airplanes; but can we blame them? And can they morally redeem themselves decades later -- and need they?
A side point: I was shocked by one frequent error among reviewers here. How can people read this book and think that it is set in Poland! Its German setting is perhaps its most salient feature. It is set in what was then Germany, although that part of Germany became Poland after WW2.

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George Orwell's collected nonfiction, written in the clear-eyed and uncompromising style that earned him a critical following

 

One of the most thought-provoking and vivid essayists of the twentieth century, George Orwell fought the injustices of his time with singular vigor through pen and paper. In this selection of essays, he ranges from reflections on his boyhood schooling and the profession of writing to his views on the Spanish Civil War and British imperialism. The pieces collected here include the relatively unfamiliar and the more celebrated, making it an ideal compilation for both new and dedicated readers of Orwell's work.

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• Published on: 1970-10-21
• Released on: 1970-10-21
• Original language: English
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Imagine any of today's writers of "creative nonfiction" dispatching a rogue elephant before an audience of several thousand. Now, imagine the essay that would result. Can we say "narcissism"? As part of the Imperial Police in Burma, George Orwell actually found himself aiming the gun, and his record--first published in 1936--comprises eight of the highest voltage pages of English prose you'll ever read. In "Shooting an Elephant," Orwell illumines the shoddy recesses of his own character, illustrates the morally corrupting nature of imperialism, and indicts you, the reader, in the creature's death, a process so vividly reported it's likely to show up in your nightmares ever after. "The owner was furious, but he was only an Indian and could do nothing.... Among the Europeans opinion was divided. The older men said I was right, the younger men said it was a damn shame to shoot an elephant for killing a coolie, because an elephant was worth much more than any damn Coringhee coolie."

This essay alone would be worth the cover price, and the dozen other pieces collected here prove that, given the right thinker/writer, today's journalism actually can become tomorrow's literature. "The Art of Donald McGill," ostensibly an appreciation of the jokey, vaguely obscene illustrated postcards beloved of the working classes, uses the lens of popular culture to examine the battle lines and rules of engagement in the war of the sexes, circa 1941. "Politics and the English Language" is a prose working-out of Orwell's perceptions about the slippery relationship of word and thought that becomes a key premise of 1984. "Looking Back on the Spanish War" is as clear-eyed a veteran's memoir of the nature of war as you're likely to find, and Orwell's long ruminations on the wildly popular "good bad" writers Charles Dickens and Rudyard Kipling showcase his singular virtues--searing honesty and independent thinking. From English boarding schools to Gandhi's character to an early appreciation of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, these pieces give an idiosyncratic tour of the first half of the passing century in the company of an articulate and engaged guide. Don't let the idea that Orwell is an "important" writer put you off reading him. He's really too good, and too human, to miss. --Joyce Thompson

About the Author
GEORGE ORWELL (1903–1950) was born in India and served with the Imperial Police in Burma before joining the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell was the author of six novels as well as numerous essays and nonfiction works.

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Good Stuff, Mostly
By Sarang Gopalakrishnan
Note that all the essays in this collection are available online, most of them at multiple sites.
This sample of Orwell's essays is representative but perhaps a little too small. At least two other essays, "A Hanging" and "Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool" should have been included.
"Such, Such Were the Joys" is a moving reminiscence of boarding school, where Orwell had a miserable time as a frail student on "reduced fees".
"Charles Dickens" is a long piece of literary-social criticism. It is insightful on Dickens the man and his politics, and how they relate to his work. Orwell notes the class limitations on Dickens's outlook, but feels that in spite of them, Dickens is a "free intelligence".
"Rudyard Kipling" is an essay in the same style. Orwell admits Kipling's faults but feels that despite them, he produced better poetry than most of his contemporaries. This is put down to his writing about/for a class with a sense of responsibility.
"The Art of Donald McGill", "Raffles and Miss Blandish" and "Boys' Weeklies" are essays that analyse public sentiment through a survey of popular literature and art. These essays are the best in the genre, and definitely among Orwell's best essays.
"Inside the Whale" is an essay about contemporary (1920-1940) serious literature. Parts I and III praise Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer; part II reviews literature between the wars. The image of a transparent whale (inside which Henry Miller sits) is arresting, but this essay is not otherwise a very good one. Orwell says several obvious or false things about 1920s writers, misrepresents the Auden group, and is somewhat hyperbolic about Henry Miller.
"England your England" is an essay about the English national spirit, and is very revealing about Orwell's own patriotism.
"Looking Back on the Spanish War" -- Orwell fought with a Trotskyist militia in Spain; his experiences are recounted in Homage to Catalonia. This is a brief reminiscence. Hopefully it will inspire you to read the book.
"Politics and the English Language" has been very influential; its thesis is that the use of cliches and euphemisms leads to muddy thinking which makes totalitarianism bearable. It includes his six rules of good writing. Orwell also makes this point in the brilliant appendix to 1984.
"Marrakech" and "Shooting an Elephant" are essays about colonialism. The latter describes it from much closer range; it describes an experience Orwell had as a colonial administrator in Burma and is one of his most famous essays.
"Reflections on Gandhi" discusses Gandhi's personal ethics and political philosophy. Orwell's critique of Gandhi is memorable:
"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals. No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid."
"Why I Write" is an account of Orwell's development as a writer. Orwell claims that the political purpose was foremost in all his writing, and ends this essay with the famous aphorism that "good prose is like a windowpane."

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Value for money
By Manuel Haas
If you want to find out about Europe in the first half of the 20th century, this is the book you should book. These 300 pages offer excellent value for money; Orwell writes about the most diverse aspects of life: elitist literature and pulp magazines, the horrors of boarding schools or what it felt like to be a colonial officer in Burma. What he writes is full of insight and first-hand experience. You will find yourself telling others about what you have learned from this collection.
Orwell's style is not just transparent "like a window pane"; it is just beautiful in its rhythms and deadpan humour. - My personal recommendation is the essay on "Boys' Weeklies". These magazines did not only inspire Rowlings' Harry Potter, but seem to have been an early form of the theatre of the absurd as well...
The only setback of this edition is that it does not say where the essays where first published.

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A Great Read
By Mitchell Honan
Orwell writes with such a clear and cutting voice. His critiques and suggestions not only put a reader in the mindset of the mid-20th century western thinker, but also span decades of experience and insight. Orwell is best known for Animal Farm and 1984, but these essays offer a much deeper perspective into his earlier life and the many experiences that he had. I would highly recommend at least reading "Shooting an Elephant" as it delivers a thought-provoking perspective on colonialism.

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• Published on: 1991-10-15
• Released on: 1991-10-15
• Original language: English
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Faulkner's immortal Yoknapatawpha County has been renamed after the shaman of Star Wars , Obieonekenobie. The Sartoris family--whose saga made for some of Faulkner's finest fiction--has had its ancestry traced by Jay Martel to "the primordial Sartorisaurus and its scalyno comma/pk ill-fated broods of Sartorisauruses." And Sam Staggs satirizes Faulkner's sometimes exuberant verbosity in "As I Lay Dieting." Those are just some of the myriad indignities the author suffers in these perversely inventive parodies from American Way magazine and Faulkner Newsletter' s faux Faulkner contest, which read like an entertainingly cracked set of Cliff's Notes. The volume also includes earlier faux Faulkner, such as Kenneth Tynan's parody of "that old diurnal round of sufferin' and expiatin' and spoutin' sentences two pages long" of Faulkner's characters. As if to prove old Bill was not above a laugh at his own expense, Wells--Faulkner's niece and editor of Faulkner Newsletter --reprints his self-parody "Afternoon of a Cow," which, due to self-consciousness perhaps, never quite achieves the impish charm of the volume's other satires. Illustrations not seen by PW.
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Hemingway
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I teach literature so I purchased both volumes to help students parody a work, namely Hemingway. Both books are interesting, though a number of the parodies are boring and as a requirement of the contest, they must all mention Harry's Bar & Grill, which is where this book stems from. The contest is no longer judged but this is a fun example of different parodies, none-the-less. If it is cheap enough, it is a fun book to have around.

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Funny parodies
By Bruce A. Bebb
Funny parodies, if you're old enough to remember when Hemingway was considered one of the greatest novelists of the century.. Mine's on pp. 22-23

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Quit while you're ahead.
By Peter Garland
This first volume of this work by a great American was funny. This follow-up by other people was bad. O, well.

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Anecdotal, funny, frank, POPism is Warhol’s personal view of the Pop phenomenon in New York in the 1960s and a look back at the relationships that made up the scene at the Factory, including his rela­tionship with Edie Sedgewick, focus of the upcoming film Factory Girl. In the detached, back-fence gossip style he was famous for, Warhol tells all—the ultimate inside story of a decade of cultural revolution.

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• Published on: 2006-09-05
• Released on: 2006-09-05
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PRAISE FOR POPISM
 
"A vivid re-creation of a great time to live and a great time to die."--Martin Scorsese

From the Back Cover
"It is as absorbing as the best telephone gossip, funny yet full of insights."—Christopher Isherwood
 
A cultural storm swept through the 1960s—Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, happenings, underground movies, the British Invasion—and at its center sat a bemused young artist with silver hair: Andy Warhol. Andy knew everybody—from the cultural commissioner of New York to drug-driven drag queens—and everybody knew Andy.
His studio, The Factory, was the place: where he created the large canvases of soup cans and Pop icons that defined Pop Art, where one could listen to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground and rub elbows with Edie Sedgwick, where The Chelsea Girls and Warhol’s other underground classics were shot, and where Warhol himself could observe the comings and goings of the avant garde.
Anecdotal, funny, and frank, POPism is where Warhol tells it all—the ultimate inside story of a decade of cultural revolution.
 
"POPism reads like a novel . . . Social history of the rarest kind, set down in ultra-sharp focus by someone who helped shape the events he describes."—Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker
 
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was a painter, graphic artist, filmmaker, and leader of the Pop Art movement. He was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, and died in New York in 1987.
 
Pat Hackett worked closely with Andy Warhol for twenty years, coauthoring two books and a screenplay as well as serving as his diarist.

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Andy Warhol, a painter and graphic artist, also produced a significant body of film work, including his famous Chelsea Girls. He was equally well known in the late sixties and early seventies as resident host at his studio, The Factory, where one could listen to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground and rub elbows with Edie Sedgwick. Warhold died in New York in 1987.

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I would give it five stars but I am not sure this is a book for everyone but I loved it.
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Well, that book was something. Kind of made me wish I knew him. He writes glibly about a crazy time in history, against the backdrop of that time (the 6o's mostly) and his influence on the art and pop scene was modestly and funnily written about. I would give it five stars but I am not sure this is a book for everyone but I loved it.

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The Good News of Andy Warhol
By calmly
Why wait for others to come along years later to write your Gospels? With Pat Hackett, Andy got out the Word.

If you've only read what others wrote about Warhol, you might be surprised to learn here to what extent the others seem to be using "Popism" as a source. You may wish you'd saved the money you spent on the other accounts. Few seem to present Warhol as well as he and Pat did.

It is to be wondered how many of the biographers and critics understood him. This guy who "lacked social skills" but somehow during the 60's seemed to have 10-20 friends with him whenever he went out for dinner shows in "Popism" what an extraordinary social magnet AND social observer he was. Sex and drugs and rock n' roll rarely get pushed this far.

"Popism" is surprising conventional in form, however unusual the people it describes. It flows easily. It is among the best publicity of Warhol and his circle. There's a helpful 8 page index of the people mentioned. To name a few: Brigid Polk, International Velvet, John Cale, Ultra Violet, Jackie Curtis, Joe Dallesandro, Candy Darling, Duchess, Baby Jane Holzer, Fred Hughes, Gerard Malanga, Mario Montez, Paul Morrissey, Billy Name, Nico, Ondine, Lou Reed, Edie Sedgwick, Ingrid Superstar, and Viva. You may never have been to The Factory, never seen a Warhol movie, never even seen a Warhol silkscreen, never heard Velvet Underground music, but, if you read "Popism" you'll feel like you know all these people and more.

Warhol's description of being shot and his recovery is especially fascinating. How was he able to be so objective? Andy and Pat are among the best storytellers.

After reading this book, treat yourself to watching "I Shot Andy Warhol" for another good presentation of what this scene may have been like.

Warhol lives.

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book review : POPISM the WARHOL SIXTIES by andy warhol & pat hackett 1980 harcourt brace.
By Clinton S. Freeman
book review : POPISM the WARHOL SIXTIES by andy warhol & pat hackett 1980 harcourt brace.

this marvelous autobiography is andy warhol's first person narrative from 1960-1969, focussing primarily on his art & film work, but also including many famous stars, & infamous Factory characters, various trips he made to california, michigan, paris, and elsewhere, and also depicting the cultural/historical backdrop to that era. It's always interesting to read andy's interpretations of popular songs, films & celebrities, the parties & clubs he attended, and his film-making process, which seemingly took up as much of his time in the mid-late 60s as his painting did. The theme/meaning of POP is explored frequently in the book, warhol analyzing events like nightlife/discos, politics and society, fashion from Mod to unisex, the Pope's 1965 NY visit, music both pop & radical, the Beatles & hippie, all in terms of "POP."

Here are some of the details & events described that I found particularly interesting:

1960-63: travelling to the fox theatre in brooklyn with ivan karp to see murrey the k's rock & roll shows, incl. many motown acts.

his friendships with larry rivers, rauschenberg & other art peers, and the suspicious reception he received from the abstract expressionist painters of the 1950s, an earlier, more earnest generation, as opposed to the cool, ironic POP.

his relationship with underground cinema curator jonas mekas, who encouraged andy's alternative cinema style & projected almost all his films.

outrageous characters reappear throughout the decade, like Pope Ondine, The Duchess, Billy Name, Edie Sedgwick, Taylor Mead, International Velvet, Ultra Violet, Fred Hughes. Candy Carling, all brought to life in chronological order as Andy met & worked with them.

The evolution of the Factory, from east 89th st in 1963 to east 47th in by 1965 to union square west by the end of the 60s.

1964: hanging out with the rolling stones, mick, keith & brian jones, and Bob Dylan.

1966: the velvet underground & nico become the Factory's focus, from their debut LP to multi-media gigs/performances in the village & in selected cities. any rock fan will be fascinated to hear stories about hanging out with nico, lou reed, john cale & the crazed performances they innovated that year, S&M dances, light shows, sex & drug charged discoteques, confrontational noise performances, radical visuals & music -- essential underground nightlife & art historical events as they occurred. afterhours clubs with guide lou reed. the hostile reception the velvets got in LA & SF .

discos like the cheetah and the ultimate latenight hangout max's kansas city.

1967: happenings/be-ins in central park organized by tom hoving. "chelsea girls" the 4 hour, double screen film at last winning worldwide recognition for his cinema, incl. shocking sex, drugs & a bizarre cast of personjalities, in documentary style- no scripts!

1968-69 . turning over filmmaking to paul morrissey, warhol re-dedicated himself to silk-screening, photography & publishing. nico's solo career with chelsea girl & marble index. andy getting shot by valerie solanas in summer 1968 and almost dying. how his shooting affected his work & social routines for the rest of his life. his daily use of polaroid cameras & cassete recorders in every situation. "andy warhol enterprises" was run as a business by the end of the 60s, the Factory was no longer an open house for flamboyant and damaged personalities to act out their their spontaneous psycho-dramas on film.

"POPiSM" is a fascinating chronicle of an amazing era in nycs cultural history, especially the underground music, cinema & nightlife worlds, told with a unique perspective from warhol,. the artist who was behind so many of the ideas that we now associate with that ground-breaking era, who was there & analyzes but always from a dis-engaged viewpoint.

warhol applies his signature Pop interpretations to events both personal, social, historiocal, worldwide from this time. his Pop perspective & many of the art music & film ideas he pioneered in the 60s -- the cult of celebrity, media as art, noise rock, independant, underground verite cinema, multi-media discos & performances, uptown vs downtown, trans-gender roles in fashion & lifestyle-- remain pertinent today, & contunue to impact art, music, culture, communication, & media in the 21st century.

RATING: A

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