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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR STEPHEN COONTS BRINGS TO LIFE THE MOST THRILLING MOMENTS AND THE MOST LEGENDARY FLYERS IN AIR WARFARE
In this collection of true tales of aerial combat, you'll meet some of the greatest figures in aviation history from all nations: American, British, German, Japanese, and more. Witness the courage and charisma of America's first air hero, Captain Eddie V. Rickenbacker, whose exploits set the standard for all fighter pilots to follow; "The Doolittle Raid," in which sixteen B-25 Bombers struck hard at the heart of the Japanese empire; "The Flight of Enola Gay," the mission that changed the world forever; and "The Last Ace," an original account of the first victory of Vietnam jet ace Captain Steve Ritchie.
These are not stories about airplanes, but rather of the heroes who flew them -- of the steady hands, bold hearts, and raw nerve that it takes to survive when the sky becomes a battlefield.

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• Published on: 2003-05-01
• Released on: 2003-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 6.75" h x 1.21" w x 4.19" l, .43 pounds
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 416 pages

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Kirkus Reviews A glorious medley celebrating heroes of yesteryear's aerial wars....Coonts rescues some genuine treasures from undeserved obscurity.

Sport Aviation Awe-inspiring....The best twenty-six stories of aerial combat a person is likely to find.

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Stephen Coonts is a decorated Navy attack pilot who flew combat missions from the USS Enterprise during the Vietnam War. All of his novels have been New York Times bestsellers. He is also the author of The Cannibal Queen, the acclaimed nonfiction account of his flight across America in a vintage biplane. A former attorney, he and his wife, Deborah, reside in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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From The Last Ace

by Stephen Coonts

A fighter pilot who scores five victories has been regarded as an ace since World War I. As this is written -- in the summer of 1995, eighty years after the first ace, Roland Garros, scored his fifth victory -- one can legitimately ask if the era of the aces is over. Will the ace fighter pilot prove to be a phenomenon of the twentieth century, as unique to his time and place as the Japanese samurai or the English longbowman?

The collapse of communism ended the threat of an all-out conventional or nuclear conflict between the two largest superpowers -- the Soviet Union and the United States -- and their allies. Simultaneously, extraordinary advances in computers, lasers, composite construction, metallurgy, miniaturization, and a host of other fields obsolesced entire weapons systems at an ever-accelerating pace and drove the cost of new, state-of-the-art systems into the realm of pure fantasy.

In his 1983 book, Augustine's Laws, Norman Augustine pointed out that in every decade since the Wright brothers, the cost of warplanes has quadrupled. He noted that if that trend continues, by the year 2050 the purchase price of one fighter will consume the entire American defense budget. The trend appears to be continuing: ten years after Augustine's observation the U.S. government's first buy of B-2 bombers was a mere twenty airplanes...for $2.2 billion each!

Manned strategic bombers are today artifacts of a bygone age. It is beyond dispute that airplanes costing $2.2 billion each are purchased for political reasons, not military ones. They are too expensive to be flown for training purposes, too expensive to bear the political risks of a training accident, too expensive to be exposed to hostile fire, and too few to be a military factor in future conflicts.

As this is written, governments throughout the world are drastically reducing the sizes of their air forces. This course of events is perhaps inevitable, but it has profound implications for future armed conflicts. The 1991 Gulf War proved that a second- or third-rate power cannot hope to contest air superiority today or in the foreseeable future with a superpower, which by definition is a nation that can field well-trained, modern armed forces equipped with state-of-the-art weapons.

One suspects that in future conventional wars the inferior air force will be destroyed on the ground or flee to a neutral country. If a nation cannot contest air superiority, one wonders exactly how it could sustain a conventional army on a future battlefield. The answer may well be that it cannot, and if so, conventional wars as we knew them in the twentieth century will not occur again.

In any event, one can confidently predict that fighter pilots in the twenty-first century will come in two varieties -- they will either be highly trained specialists flying state-of-the-art superplanes with sophisticated, computerized weapons systems, or they will be undertrained cannon fodder flying obsolete equipment cast off by a superpower or some cheap volksplane with limited capabilities. Whichever, we can predict that since air forces will continue to shrink, there won't be many fighters or fighter pilots. Future conventional wars will be almighty short, with durations measured in hours, not years, and there will be drastically fewer targets aloft for winged warriors to shoot at. The chances of any individual pilot achieving five kills under such circumstances are poor indeed.

The Israeli Air Force, which has fought more conflicts in the jet age than any other power, is notoriously closemouthed about the records of its active-duty pilots. Still, Israel is known to have at least two high-scoring aces on active service as this is written; one with seventeen kills, one fifteen.

The Vietnam War may prove to be the last war on this planet in which the aerial conflict lasted long enough for pilots to become aces. The American side of the seven-year Vietnam conflict produced only two, Navy Lieutenant Randy Cunningham and Air Force Captain Steve Ritchie. Both scored five victories in F-4 Phantoms, then were removed from combat by their respective services.

Legend has it that there was at least one Vietnamese ace, Colonel Tomb, with thirteen victories scored in MiG-19s. Tomb was supposedly the fifth and final victim of Randy Cunningham and his radar intercept officer, Willie Driscoll.

Cunningham scored his last three kills on just one mission on May 10, 1972, one of the most eventful days of that long war. Laser-guided bombs -- LGBs -- were first used by the Americans that day against two of the most heavily defended, brutally tragic targets in North Vietnam, the Paul Doumer Bridge in Hanoi and the railroad bridge at Thanh Hoa. Both bridges fell, finally.

Perhaps it was coincidence, but that day the North Vietnamese elected to launch their largest aerial effort of the war against inbound American strikes. That they still had intact airplanes at usable airfields with which to oppose the Americans illustrates not the military genius of the North Viet communists, but the grotesque stupidity of the American politicians who committed their nation to an Asian war and then foully mismanaged it. As usual in that war, the execrable decisions of these criminal incompetents would this day cost American lives.

And it was on this day, May 10, 1972, that Steve Ritchie scored his first kill. Let's fly now with the pilot destined to become the last American ace as the battle for air supremacy in the skies over North Vietnam reaches a grand crescendo.

THE BRIEFING FOR FLIGHT CREWS IN THE 555TH Fighter Squadron at Udorn Air Force Base, Thailand, began before dawn, at 5 A.M. The briefing always began at this ridiculously early hour, according to sour GI humor, so that the crews would have more time for weather delays, which occurred almost every morning at this time of year.

Capt. Steve Ritchie, a 1964 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, was on his second combat tour in Southeast Asia. On his first tour he flew 195 combat missions and helped inaugurate F-4 Fast-FAC missions, in which the Phantoms' crews called in aerial strikes in areas too hot for the slower prop or turboprop machines flown by conventional forward air controllers. This morning Steve and his guy in back, or weapons system operator -- WSO -- in Air Force terminology, Chuck DeBellvue, were scheduled for another such mission.

Ritchie was in a grim mood. Two days before, on the eighth of May, he had finally engaged an airborne MiG. He was flying as a wingman, yet when his flight lead's weapons system malfunctioned, Ritchie got the communist fighter in his sights. He was just a trigger squeeze away from launching a missile when he broke off. He was below bingo fuel, the fuel state necessary to return to base safely, so he terminated the encounter. For two days the memory of that moment, and that decision, has haunted him.

The North Vietnamese rarely committed their meager air forces to aerial combat. More than half the American fighter pilots who flew north of the DMZ never even saw an enemy plane airborne, and only a few got a shot.

Although Ritchie's decision to break off was dictated by squadron doctrine and his years of training, still...He now felt that he had had a rare opportunity, and he had blown it. Worse, the enemy pilot was still alive, still had an airplane that was a lethal threat to every airborne American. The thought that that pilot might someday kill one of Ritchie's friends gnawed at him mercilessly.

He is still stewing when he learns that the number three pilot of a flight of four Phantoms scheduled to precede the bombers to Hanoi this morning has failed to appear for the brief. Ritchie quickly volunteers to fly in his place.

The call sign of the flight will be Oyster. The flight leader is Maj. Bob Lodge, a close friend of Ritchie's and a '64 classmate from the Air Force Academy. Lodge is on his third combat tour and has a reputation as the best highly experienced combat flight leader in Asia. Ritchie considers him to be a superbly competent fighter pilot, a man destined for a great Air Force career. It is an honor, Ritchie feels, just to fly with him. Lodge's wingman will be 1st Lt. John Markle. Ritchie's wingman will be 1st Lt. Tommy Feezel.

Lodge has concocted a special plan. On several previous missions North Vietnamese MiGs have orbited northwest of Hanoi, near the Yen Bai airfield, while waiting for American strikes on their way to Hanoi. When the Vietnamese GCI controllers felt the time was right, they vectored the MiGs southwest toward the inbound Americans.

Predictability is vulnerability in combat, so today Lodge hopes to ambush the Vietnamese. His plan is to lead his flight into North Vietnam at a few hundred feet above the treetops, below the radar horizon of the communists. He hopes to establish an orbit at a location that will allow him to remain undetected by enemy radar. Then, when the MiGs leave their orbit to attack the inbound American strikes, Lodge's flight will pop up and execute a surprise head-on attack.

Timing will be crucial to the success of this plan. Fuel will be critical, time on station too short. And yet, if Lodge can get his flight into position at just the right time, perhaps they will be able to break up the MiGs' attack on the Americans. Maybe the Americans will even get a shot or two.

The key to being in the right place at the right time will be knowing where the MiGs are. The Americans have a top-secret gadget to help solve this problem, the APX-81, a black box that tells the U.S. pilot the distance and bearing to the enemy aircraft, and what kind of aircraft the enemy is flying. Three of the four aircraft on this morning's mission will be equipped with this device.

When Lodge finishes briefing the specifics of this mission, he has a few words to say about emergencies. Although F-4 crews are trained to eject if their aircraft is visibly on fire, Lodge recommends staying with the...

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A love story. An artistic journey. A matter of life and death...

In 2000, Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen embarked on a tour across America -- one that would give them a glimpse of the darker side of the justice system and, at the same time, reveal to them just how resilient the human spirit can be. They were a pair of young actors from New York who wanted to learn more about our country's exonerated -- men and women who had been sentenced to die for crimes they didn't commit, who spent anywhere from two to twenty-two years on death row, and who were freed amidst overwhelming evidence of their innocence. The result of their journey was The Exonerated, New York Times number one play of 2002, which was embraced by such acting luminaries as Ossie Davis, Richard Dreyfuss, Danny Glover, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, and Robin Williams.

Living Justice is Jessica and Erik's fascinating, behind-the-scenes account of the creation of their play. A tale of artistic expression and political awakening, innocence lost and wisdom won, this is above all a story about two people who fall in love while pursuing their passion and learn -- through the stories of the exonerated -- what freedom truly means.

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Capitalizing on a shifting trend in public attitudes about the death penalty in 2000, former actors Blank and Jensen decided to write an ensemble piece using the words of real people to highlight the legal flaws in the death penalty statute. The result was the play The Exonerated, about wrongly convicted men and women on death row throughout America. This passionate book explains how Blank and Jensen researched the work and concurrently tells the story of how their own relationship blossomed in the process. Initially worried about winning the confidence of the freed ex-convicts, Blank, a "pushy East Coaster," and Jensen, a self-absorbed Midwesterner, charmed and cajoled the suspicious and secretive group into revealing how the justice system shortchanged them by lack of hard evidence, legal miscues and racism. The authors illuminate each case and then explain how they assembled their findings into a script. The play's Broadway production, which starred Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Richard Dreyfuss and others, went on to receive critical acclaim; and the work recently appeared on Court TV. This book about its making is a fascinating, revealing memoir by a couple who were able to find meaning in their lives and bring light to a pressing issue in American society. (Mar. 1)
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Blank and Jensen integrate a few genres--social commentary, love story, and memoir--in this extraordinary book. Primarily, they chronicle the making of the acclaimed play The Exonerated. The substance of the play and the core of this book is the stories of individuals sentenced to death who, through various circumstances, were subsequently exonerated. Blank, a writer and actor, and Jensen, an actor, developed the play as an outgrowth of their social activism. Their interviews with exonerated men and women, of various racial and class backgrounds, provide compelling background. As these two white, college-educated liberals pursued their research, the process evolved into one of self-discovery. They chronicle the making of the play from its conception to its opening performance before former Illinois governor George Ryan, who enacted a moratorium on executions when he learned that many death-row inmates were wrongfully convicted. Blank and Jensen explore their own biases regarding regional, class, and racial differences; their personal stories lend another layer to the reality of social injustice. Vernon Ford
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"Don't read this unless you're prepared to be saddened, encouraged, and changed."
-- Kirkus Reviews (starred)

"A compelling look at the intersection of art and real-life drama."
-- Marlo Thomas

"Erik and Jessica's journey shows the power of the passionate, inquiring mind."
-- Lynn Redgrave

"[A] tale of courage and compassion that changed the face of criminal justice in America."
-- Mike Farrell, actor, president of Death Penalty Focus

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great book, great voices: a very personal, compelling story
By Han-shan
This is a great story. It's about two young people falling in love while testing their own and each others' limits, researching and writing "The Exonerated," an excellent (and very influential) play about the fascinating, tragic, and ordinary people exonerated and released from death row. Erik and Jessica don't stumble down the rabbit-hole of the American criminal justice system. They climb down it step by step, confessing their fear and confusion, and insecurity that they have no idea what they're doing, and probably have no business doing it anyway. The book takes the reader along for the cross-country trip visiting with and interviewing the people whose stories became The Exonerated. There's lots of captivating background on the subjects of the play, and the authors write passionatley, but also honestly and insightfully, about the politics of the death penalty in America.

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To Live Or Die, That Is The Question!
By Betty Burks
This memoir (loosely-termed as such) is an account of an adventure in 2000 when these two young actors left Manhattan in a rented car to travel across the United States on a quest. They drove from Chicago to Florida and stopped at places in between, from Oregon to L. A. to interview some of those exonerated of murder charges.

Jessica had been in a movie for Court TV called 'The Exonerated' about prisoners falsely accused and who spent time on death row in prisons. It is the result of her friend, Erik Jensen from Minnessota,who agreed to make the trip and they nose dived into the darker side of our justice (or injustice) system and were told stories of gross conditions which were repulsive and overwhelming to the victims, before they could win their freedom after such a long interval between being accussed and released.

"The desire for revenge is powerful" on all levels. I've been against the death penalty for many years now because of the innocent "criminals" who are due to die for some crime someone else perpetrated. They discovered that 74% of Americans support capital punishment. If it doesn't happen here in East Tennessee, some decide to take matters in their own hands.

This book entails the creation of the play they wrote using actual cases they uncovered. It is 'a fascinating chronicle of political consciousness.' Instead of dwelling on statistics and legalese, they put a human face on stage so every person in the audience could can and understand what was at stake. This is the story of real people who had lost so much; they used the interviews they did with those abused by the inequities of the system to make a social comment in the form of a play. It took them three years to work through and it changed them forever. They called it a "crazy journey" but in the end discovered a common bonding. Involved in off-Broadway theater, they were drawn together by a chance meeting in a bar.

It is foolish to think that the system (any government service) functions in reality the way it does on paper. It is the propoganda and self praise on forms which win the awards, not what happens in real life. They discovered what I've known now for a long time (from personal experience) that mayors, lawyers, judges and the police are all human and make mistakes, act carelessly, and think of 'self' first and foremost.

It's not enough to pray that the leaders will do what's right and fair to all; we have to take action and speak up, ask questions and seek the truth. Relationships now prove to be more trouble than usual, but don't let this prevent you from staying emotionally present. Even if you are somewhat uncomfortable with holding your ground today, remember that this is truly one of your strengths. The source of your uneasiness may be guilt that is stirred up, whether or not it applies to the current situation. Speak the truth gently and be open to the possibility of positive transformation.

Mainly the leaders in whatever capacity should act ethically. Freedom isn't something which occurs simply because our leaders promise it; they will promise the sky if you foolishly believe them. Politicians never keep promises, but some younger ones will listen. Reach out to them.

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Edgy Brilliance, Gritty Passion!
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A fierce, brilliant account of a political, artistic and personal quest: two young people in search of truth and justice end up finding love and adventure and the harsh realities of America's dark side. Blank's searing intelligence and total conviction for her cause make this book incredibly hard to put down, even as the truths it reveals are often hard to take. If you have seen "The Exonerated," you will love reading the stories behind the stories on stage or film. But even if you haven't seen it, there is much to glean here about the kind of guts required to make a difference as an artist or an activist in the world today.

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The explosive novel based on the eagerly anticipated StarCraft II video game expansion, Heart of the Swarm!

The sinister zerg leader no longer commands her legions of bloodthirsty aliens against the humans of the Koprulu sector, all thanks to the combined courage and tenacity of Jim Raynor, General Horace Warfield, and a mismatched team of Dominion soldiers and outlaw rebels.

Although the queen is no more, Sarah Kerrigan is very much alive. The woman who once controlled countless alien minds in a rampage across the stars has been spirited away by the man who dethroned her. Now Arcturus Mengsk’s Dominion armada is on her heels, roaring for blood. Jim Raynor will need to test his strength, his wit, and his loyalties against impossible odds to protect the woman he loves. StarCraft II: Flashpoint bridges the events that take place in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty and the upcoming StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm. Featuring never-before-seen glimpses into Jim Raynor and Sarah Kerrigan’s past, this novel opens a window into a world of passion, action, and adventure.

• Sales Rank: #808520 in Books
• Published on: 2013-05-28
• Released on: 2013-05-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 6.75" h x .70" w x 4.13" l, .40 pounds
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 352 pages

About the Author
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Christie Golden has written more than forty novels and several short stories in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Among her many projects are over a dozen Star Trek novels and several original fantasy novels. An avid player of World of Warcraft, she has written two manga short stories and several novels in that world. Golden lives in Tennessee. She welcomes visitors to her website: ChristieGolden.com.

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17 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Incredible!
By Luna
What an excellent book for Starcraft fans! For fans of Christie's character driven stories in the Blizzard universes, this is an absolute MUST HAVE! It's got a bit of everything in it: tons of action, adventure, great dialogue, mystery, suspense and heart touching romance!

The story transitions well from the immediate aftermath of Wings of Liberty to set the stage properly for the upcoming Heart of the Swarm expansion set. Many characters, both major and minor, have their motivations and personalities shown in spotlight to create a much more personal journey than has been explored in the previous games. Of course the main characters you would expect make appearances: Jim Raynor, Sarah Kerrigan, Matt Horner, Valerian and Arcturus Mengsk. More importantly, many of the series minor characters are also explored, including Mira Han, Rory Swann, Egon Stettman, and previously unknown members of Raynor's Raiders. The character driven plot gives a much greater sense of a "universe" than Wings of Liberty could on its own, giving the games setting more depth in hindsight.

In my opinion, though, the highlight of the book was not its wonderful, character driven plot to set up Heart of the Swarm, but the tantalizing looks that it gave to the past, concerning the relationship of Jim Raynor and Sarah Kerrigan. The book goes into detail about just what Jim thought upon meeting Kerrigan for the first time (the famous "You pig!" and "Yeah but you were thinkin' it" line), their first date, Jim's deepening feelings for Sarah as she expresses her true emotions and motives.

While I have mentioned many of the character driven elements of the book, that is not to say that it isn't still set in the Starcraft universe! There are still fantastic action scenes in the book: plenty of gunfighting, battles in outer space, chase scenes and the like! The difficulty is that I caught myself having to re-read many of these scenes because the spoken dialogue between the main characters are just too captivating! Readers, I know it's difficult when the story is just so ridiculously engrossing, but slow down and take your time to read through the actions scenes as well! They really help to set the scene for just how much trouble Jim, Sarah and crew are in than the dialogue alone can convey!

To round out my review, I would like to add that I have touched very lightly on the plot elements, and I neglected to mention some of the more important things at all because I do not want to spoil the book for you. I have not mentioned the most tender moment of the franchise so far, the suspense involving the reveal of Raynor's true allies and enemies, or the sinister plot underlying the franchise expanded upon ever so slightly in these pages.

I have been a fan of literature since I was young, and a great fan of Christie Golden's work for Blizzard since I discovered her. This book, in my opinion, will rival her novel about Arthas Menethil as the masterstroke of her career so far. Going into the novel I had many idolized ideas about who the characters and their feelings towards each other. I was pleasantly surprised, at the end of my reading, to find that my ideas about the characters were not only correct, but enhanced by the backstory presented to us. To me, the mark of a great book is one which can not only present a beautiful overall scene, but also colors in the small details to create a full picture. In this book, the Starcraft universe is our canvas, and the complex characters fill in all of the wonderful details.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
It's amazing!
By Philip Penchev
I'll be honest, I did not expect to enjoy this book. I was afraid it would be a side-story, unimportant. But I was absolutely wrong! Damn, the book is amazing. I have not finished it yet, but what amazes me about it is that it is written very well, the characters talk like they do in the game, and the story is very important, and interesting! It is the key story from two seconds after the ending of Starcraft II, to the beginning of Heart of The Swarm. If you care about the game, buy it. If you like sci-fi, buy it.

Overall, it's amazing (so far)!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Great book with few missed opportunities
By Sung M. Kwon
First I would like to lay out my potential biases for-or-against this book. I'm really into Starcraft universe, but mainly through the games and online wiki pages. This is the first book on the Starcraft universe(besides from game manuals) I've read thus far. I do read regularly, but my topics of interest in books were mainly history/politics/philosophy than fictions of any sort. My primary reason for purchasing this book was the new Heart of the Swarm cinematic trailer. After seeing such epic trailer, I really wanted to satisfy the itch to find out just what happened after Wings of Liberty. I figured that the odds are, I would have a decent time reading through this. Worst case I would be reading a total cheeseball of a story about characters I liked, which would still be fun.

Now that I laid out my background, here is my opinion on the book itself. Overall I had a great time reading this book. It gives much needed explanation to make sense of some really lackluster character motivations in WoL.

SPOILER ALERT

For me, the prime example is Valerian. If you played WoL without reading any of the outside canonical materials, his whole motive of "let's cure Kerrigan so I can show people what a great leader I can be" sounds extremely naive to the point of complete foolishness. Why not just use the artifect to weaken her to kill her? Once Golden tell us that Valerian is aware of the prophecy, his plan suddenly makes a whole load of sense. This revelation, along with the rest of first three chapters of the book, IMO, is so necessary that I want to praise Golden and criticize Blizzard. To Golden, thank you for making better sense of the whole messy final arc of WoL. To Blizzard... why would you leave out such an important information that help make sense rest of WoL to outside of your main storytelling device, that is the actual game? Whatever their reasoning is, the first three chapters alone made me appreciate my purchase of the book as a Starcraft fan.

Another messy plot dynamics of WoL that was better fleshed out here is Acturus-Tychus-Moebius-Valerian connection. If you played SC, BW then WoL without reading any of the books like me, the aforementioned connections is just messy. First, Acturus releases Tychus as a spy/assassin. Tychus then gets hired by Moebius to collect the artifacts. Moebius is collecting artifacts because of Valerian (also maybe because Narud is Duran and wants them for currently untold purposes), who is suppose to do this in secret from Acturus. This puts Tychus in middle of pretty much everyone, which is a huge problem in surprise-focused arcs like the "Media Blitz" in WoL. That doesn't get resolved in this book, but Golden at least simplifies this convoluted 4-way mess by turning Moebius into treacherous group that was actually in league with Acturus.

But enough about problems with WoL... More on Golden's book, Flashpoint does a great job in making sense of Kerrigan's motivations for upcoming HotS. We all knew she was not going to become Queen of Blades again because Blizzard just used entire game's plot to turn her human-ish (what a complete waste of entire WoL plot would have been if she would just revert back to being the Queen of Blades!)... so that left few questions such as how would she emotionally deal with all the carnage she caused and what her goal is now that she's less zerg-like? Flashpoint explain both through her love for James Raynor and her desire for revenge against Acturus. But instead of just turning that into a form of info-dump, Golden walks us through various phases of Kerrigan's emotional 'growth'. She would start off as a trauma victim, ridden with guilt and self hate. With Raynor's help she becomes more, erm, functional over time. It is here where Kerrigan-Raynor relationship is much better fleshed out through flashbacks, and I agree with few other reviewers on this site, this is probably the best form of character growth in this book and it's just really good. She goes through a rather rapid surge of recovery at the Prometheus base arc but by this point, all of the pieces about Kerrigan as a character is in place and her transition into a super warrior doesn't feel rushed at all. Rather, it felt welcome.

Two other characters, Valerian and Mira Han, felt bit cheesy in their overall goodness but I feel hesitant to fault this book for. Valerian had much of his character fleshed out in previous books, or so I am told, and his depiction in Flashpoint is suppose to be true to the framework laid out before Golden so there is that. Mira Han is largely motivated by her true-yet-playful love towards Matt, and her 'allegiance' to Raynor is true to the character but bits of informations about her tertiary good works, like giving food to refuges, feels like it came out of nowhere; doesn't hurt the story at all, but it felt just bit cheesy. Even so I feel hesitant about marking it down as a fault because the universe and story so far had enough bad guys as it is, did we really need to turn everyone into some sort of grim-dark survivor? Maybe to some, but I don't think it's necessary and bit of cheesy-goodness doesn't really hurt.

My issue with the book is that I feel like it missed out on a HUGE opportunity early on. When Acturus and Valerian is faced off against each other early on, the fleet that Valerian brought with him follows his order to fight against their Emperor to protect the former Queen of Blades. The crew of Bucephalus and maybe few other captains would be understandable, but the whole scale of things was basically a civil war breaking out. If I understand the lore correctly, resocialization is only for the marines/firebats/marauders (basically infantry/meatshield) so I'm assuming that all of the captains under Valerian's command freely decided to stick with him against their emperor. This pushed suspension of disbelief bit too far for me. And by missed opportunity, if you ever saw the remake of Battlestar Galactica or good books on topics of revolution/rebellion/coup-de-ta, you should see the ample opportunity for the mind games that both Acturus and Valerian would be forced into with various captains of battlecruisers as they would have to vie for their loyalty. Perhaps it would be too "off-topic" but I felt that it could have made for great read.

So there you have it, IMO Flashpoint is a great read. It missed few opportunities but it still help iron out the overall lore and tells the tale of Raynor's Raider's escape, new allegiances forming, and most importantly, Kerrigan's transformation through her love for Raynor and her hate towards Acturus.

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Feast your eyes on Clarissa.
At twenty-eight (thirty-one), Clarissa Alpert is blessed with a designer wardrobe, a daddy-subsidized apartment, and an A-list speed-dial. Gorgeous and wildly uninhibited, she has amassed a list of exes that amounts to a Who's Who of Hollywood power players. But with her twenty-ninth (thirty-second) birthday looming, she starts to panic. Who on earth could possibly make her an honest woman?

She's reserved a table for two.
Enter Aaron Mason, the latest, hottest new producer in town, who Clarissa decides is the future "Mr. Alpert." With the help of her vivacious friends, her aerobicized Latina mother, her ex-con father, and the most divine gay waiter in Hollywood, Clarissa plans the biggest wedding L.A. has seen in years -- all before the couple's first date. Catching Aaron's eye is not the problem. He just seems to have his own agenda. Could Clarissa have finally bitten off more than she can chew?

• Sales Rank: #3267561 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06-22
• Released on: 2004-06-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.25" h x 1.00" w x 5.31" l,
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Amazon.com Review
Gigi Levangie Grazer has written one previous novel (Rescue Me), helped pen the screenplay for Stepmom, and, not least, is married to Hollywood uber-producer Brian Grazer (he of the wacky hair and the not-so-wacky partnership with Ron Howard). At first glance, Mrs. Grazer appears to be a complete parvenu as a novelist. Maneater rips off every girl-power/shopaholic source from early Tama Janowitz right up to Sex and the City. Her prose can be ungrammatical, her plot hopelessly predictable, and her characters paper-thin. But Grazer has a secret weapon: her preternaturally acid powers of observation. When she writes about the freaky mores of Hollywood, the book exerts an irresistible pull. Thirtyish LA It girl Clarissa Alpert reflects on her shallow, jobless, mateless (but fabulous!) life, and decides it's high time she was married. She and her four best friends (hello, Sarah Jessica Parker and company) hatch a plan to snag the cutest, hottest young producer in town. What ensues is hardly new territory, but the book is enlivened by Grazer's amazing ability to nail down pop culture ephemera. To wit: "Clarissa was sentimental--she liked saving messages from old friends and C-level celebrities. She had an answering tape collection that dated all the way back to babydoll dresses, sparkle dust and Hole." Her eye for detail--and her refusal ever to make Clarissa lovable, or even likable--make Maneater a hypnotic read. This is fiction-as-gigantic-chocolate-bar. Halfway through, you feel a little off color, but there's no way you're going to stop. --Claire Dederer

From Publishers Weekly
No other actor could capture the voice of spoiled L.A. golddigger Clarissa Alpert as perfectly as Thurman does here. She effortlessly evokes the petulance, sense of entitlement and "Ohmigod, wait 'til I tell you..." Valley Girl shallowness of this hilarious anti-heroine. Thurman effectively differentiates all the character voices, including Clarissa's coterie of colorful girlfriends. She offers a hint of British accent for Simon, Clarissa's pretentious, faux-English ex-boyfriend; a light Spanish accent for Alejandra, Clarissa's Brazilian mom; and a smarmy, false sincerity for the Hollywood movers and shakers who populate Clarissa's world. The story itself is frothy fun with a wicked satirical edge. As soon as she hears of Aaron Mason, the hottest movie producer in town, Clarissa decides to land him and his bankroll for herself, and begins phoning florists and caterers to plan their wedding-before they even meet. Her machinations are successful-or so she thinks. It turns out her quarry has been scheming just as shrewdly, motivated by his own agenda. Perfect for a long road trip or a lazy weekend at the beach, Grazer's entertaining satire is sure to spice up any occasion.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
This is the second novel by Grazer, a Hollywood screenwriter, and like her previous novel (Rescue Me, 2000), this one also has been optioned for a major feature film. Here we find the story of an obscenely superficial yet beautiful Beverly Hills resident, Clarissa, who flits about town with a group of her equally obtuse girlfriends. They lead lives of almost unimaginable vacuity. After Clarissa decides that it is time to get married, she set her sights on a man she hardly knows, mainly because of his supposed great wealth. After the briefest of courtships, she finds, upon marrying him, that he is destitute. Her parents have cut her off as well, so her life soon takes a turn for the tacky, all macaroni and cheese and crowded apartment buildings. But this character-building experience has some merit because eventually Clarissa is able to find her true calling and begin a fledgling writing career. The heroine's disdain and sarcasm have their appeal, and even romance fans will enjoy. Kathleen Hughes
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Absolutely delicious!
By A Customer
MANEATER is a scrumptious story written in a witty style as sharp as the spike heel of a strappy Manolo sandal. Our heroine, Clarissa, is as shallow as a wading pool, knows it, and wouldn't have it any other way. At first you may not like Clarissa but soon you will be almost as fascinated by her as she is by herself. :) The other characters are just as cleverly written; from her ex-con ageing-playboy, yet loving, father Teddy to her rarely un-intoxicated self-declared genius best buddy Gravy to the (still hot for) ex-boyfriend Simon with the long lingering English accent and spiffy wardrobe.
What's a girl to do? Clarissa is hitting 29 (in Clarissa years)-- OK, so she's bypassed 31 and trying to ignore that 32 is on the way -- knows the younger, firmer, fresher competition for the alpha male is on her bountiful booty and her time bomb of a biological clock is ticking away. If she doesn't get married - but quick - she may have to resort to getting a J-O-B, heaven forbid! Daddy (Teddy to Clarissa) has supported her thus far, but Teddy has threatened to stop paying her rent. So Clarissa sets out to find a suitable -- read rich, handsome - well not too ugly - rich, available, rich, socially sophisticated, (did I say rich?) hunk of prime husband material. And voila, being the woman around town (Los Angeles of course, is there any other?) she finds an appropriate victim, umm, man, Aaron Mason. You know she's going to snare him, but Aaron turns out to be just as feisty as Clarissa and not that easily lead to the slaughter.
Best laid plans and all, well, you know how that works out sometimes. The groom to be has secrets of his own, ones far more creative than anything Clarissa has ever cooked up.
But beyond being just a great beach or poolside read, Maneater is also a good lesson in how we shouldn't raise our daughters. Thank goodness Clarissa's self-realization that taking the seemingly easy, quick way in life to success and happiness is neither easy nor quick, doesn't come too late for our heroine.
Maneater is a great poolside read - fun fun fun - and easy to find, just look for the M.A.C. Lust lipglass colored jacket cover. ;)

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Nobody walks in L.A.
By Krisilou
What a read! I think the Steve Martin quote on the back cover says it all- "Women aren't really like this, are they?" Needless to say, Maneater is a witty and sharp insider's view into the material world of Hollywood. Clarissa wants it all and wants it NOW. She is a social climber who gets what she wants and doesn't let her friends (aka the Star Chamber) or her mother stop her. She gets what she's after, all right, but her story is one that will keep you laughing, gasping, and ultimately, reading. The characters are fresh and funny-I especially love her Bolivian/Jewish mother. Take this novel for the satire that it is, and you will truly enjoy reading Maneater.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
"Maneater" spits it out
By E. A Solinas
Gigi Levangie Grazer's "Maneater" is the evil sister of "Sex and the City." It tries hard to turn into some sort of glitzy Hollywood morality tale wrapped in the story of a former "It" girl. But it's too strained, limp and irritating to be more than self-conscious urban chic-lit.
Clarissa Alpert is twenty-eight (real age: thirty-one) and needs a husband. Since she has no skills, no independent income, and her dad may stop sending her money, she needs a rich husband before she hits her "marry by" date. She's slept with every rich'n'powerful guy in Hollywood, but the man she needs is rich producer Aaron Mason.
She dates him. They get married very quickly. She uses a turkey baster on their wedding night to make sure that she gets pregnant. But the next morning he reveals that his incredibly wealthy parents have disowned him, and they're going to live at a struggling-actor apartment complex. Clarissa, being quite spoiled, is appalled. But she struggles to maintain her life in the dingy apartment... until she learns that Aaron has some weird secrets of his own.
Hollywood is one of those places that just asks to be spoofed. And Grazer does a passable job. Her satire is over-the-top, but cute enough to be vaguely amusing. Not everybody there is like Clarissa and her cohorts, but there are enough that a book like "Maneater" is inevitable. So... whatever. Such satire is amusing in itself.
What "Maneater" lacks is good writing. It drags on a lot longer than it should, and too little gets accomplished. Once Clarissa marries Aaron, the only semi-surprising development is that she actually lives in the dingy apartment. Name-dropping, sex-related talk and plenty of whining fill in the gaps between plot developments. (Of which there aren't many)
Clarissa is a not-so-good character from the start. She's selfish, spoiled, vain, artificial and described as being sociopathic. So by the time she has a sudden change of heart, you may not care. You may want a Clarissa voodoo doll instead. Supporting characters are caricatures -- shallow pals, hunky ex-boyfriend, annoying quirky parents, and an equally annoying husband.
"Maneater" is an overlong piece of froth. Like Clarissa's mother, it's too thin and weird to be much more than a failed satire.

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In Othello, Shakespeare creates powerful drama from a marriage between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona that begins with elopement and mutual devotion and ends with jealous rage and death. Shakespeare builds many differences into his hero and heroine, including race, age, and cultural background. Yet most readers and audiences believe the couple’s strong love would overcome these differences were it not for Iago, who sets out to destroy Othello. Iago’s false insinuations about Desdemona’s infidelity draw Othello into his schemes, and Desdemona is subjected to Othello’s horrifying verbal and physical assaults.

The authoritative edition of Othello from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes:

-Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play

-Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play

-Scene-by-scene plot summaries

-A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases

-An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language

-An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play

-Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books

-An annotated guide to further reading

Essay by Susan Snyder

The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.

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• Published on: 2004-08-01
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Shakespeare's legendary tragedy is revisited in this spirited and entertaining production that ran in London from November 2007 to February 2008. The flawless, talented cast features Ewan McGregor as the conniving Iago, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Othello (whose performance won him the Olivier Award as best actor) and Kelly Reilly as Desdemona. There is also excellent support from Tom Hiddleston (as Cassio) and Michelle Fairley (as Emilia). This audio production is a rousing, theatrical performance expertly guided by director Michael Grandage. Complete with a musical score as well as full sound effects and background noises, listening is so enjoyable that the play speeds by at breakneck pace. An enclosed booklet contains color photographs of the production and a well-written essay by drama professor Russell Jackson. There's also an entertaining bonus DVD disc featuring interviews with the cast and crew. Brilliantly produced in all departments, listening is the next best thing to seeing it live. (July)
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Gr 10 Up-Naxos AudioBooks' top-drawer Classic Drama Series blissfully continues with this exquisite rendition of Othello starring Hugh Quarshie, Anton Lesser, Emma Fielding, and a full cast of professional English actors with extensive credits in the Royal National Theatre, BBC Radio Drama Company, and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Shakespeare's most domestic tragedy is an exceedingly complex journey through jealousy, self-doubt, inadequacies, and societal acceptance. Passed over for military promotion, Iago, perhaps Shakespeare's most nefarious character, manipulates Othello's downfall, culminating in the murder of his beloved wife, Desdemona, and Othello's subsequent suicide. Under David Timson's stewardship as director, the story is beautifully and simply told, embellished only with intermittent brassy flourishes of classical music and a dramatic echo effect and throbbing heart beat to underscore Othello's chaotic descent and rage. While the entire cast is excellent, the trio of Quarshie (Othello), Lesser (Iago), and Fielding (Desdemona) are outstanding. An outline of each individual cassette, complete synopsis, full notes regarding the text, and cast biographies are included in a compact 24-page supplemental booklet. For all collections.-Barry X. Miller, Austin Public Library, TX

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From Booklist
This impressive audio is a version of a London theatrical performance featuring McGregor as Iago, Chiwetel Ejiofor in the role of Othello, and Kelly Reilly playing Desdemona. In a studio recording session, the actors “reproduced as closely as possible the stage production.” Authentic sound effects and background music further enhance the presentation. Experiencing a play aurally is different than viewing a stage performance, and sometimes it is difficult to distinguish between the voices in the predominantly male cast. Nevertheless, this is an excellent vehicle for introducing the classic tragedy to students and Shakespeare fans. An accompanying DVD includes interviews with cast members. Their discussions of the characters, analyses of motivations, and decisions on delivering lines are thoughtfully presented. These fascinating commentaries add immeasurably to listeners’ comprehension of the play and the acting process. --Barbara Baskin

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My problem with the Kindle Bantam Classic edition of Othello is that there are no footnotes at the bottom of each page. This means no immediate vocab definitions or comprehension aids. I bought the Kindle edition because my old Signet paperback Othello is yellow with age, plus tiny font. (I'm rereading Othello before watching the live performance starring Blair Underwood and Richard Thomas.) Not being a scholar of Elizabethan English, I do need annotative help with the vocab and idioms. So unfortunately, it's back to the old, barely readable but annotated Signet print version for me.

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Great play, great electronic version
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Othello was one of the first plays I was exposed to when I was younger. It has murder, suicide, intrigue and things that would get a teenager into Shakespeare.

I've had mixed success with some of the free Kindle versions of Shakespeare. Some have been good, some have been awful. This is an exceptional version. It's formatted nicely and is easy to read. The only "lack" is that it is without line numbers, so if you were to use this for academic reasons, you might have an issue or two.

Thus far, Othello's my favorite free Shakespeare play. I missed how much of a jerk Iago was, and all the deception that lead to Othello killing Desdemona.

If you've got a Kindle and want to read Shakespeare, then download this version.

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Othello is such an interesting play that I find it hard to put it down! I definitely plan on reading more Shakespeare's plays from the Folger Library!!!

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In the Beginning

The story of Dave Matthews Band begins so far away from the stadiums the quintet would someday pack to capacity. It starts in Johannesburg, South Africa, on January 9, 1967, when David John Matthews was born to John and Val Matthews. During her pregnancy, Val listened to a lot of Vivaldi and years later some would joke that this early exposure to music would tune the then-unborn Matthews's ear for the art.

South Africa was not the ideal place to raise a child at the time. The white Afrikaners had officially gained their independence from Great Britain less than ten years earlier in 1958. In the years following, there was an increasing sense of disillusionment with the corrupt political system and its leaders by the majority black population. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s South Africa was a police state ruled by white minority leaders who maintained the overtly racist system of apartheid. Before the abolishment of apartheid in 1991, South Africa was torn by massacres, riots, and widespread social unrest.

However, when Dave was two and before he could truly adjust to his surroundings and be aware of the revolution happening around him, Matthews's parents moved to the New York suburb of Yorktown Heights. There Matthews's father worked for IBM as a physicist, developing superconducting circuits.

It was a tight-knit family, consisting of Dave, a younger sister, Jane, an older sister, Anne, and a brother, Peter. The whole family lived by the Quaker tradition, which is officially known as The Religious Society of Friends. This religious movement was started in England around 1650 by a group of people, though George Fox would go on to become its leader. The Religious Society of Friends is a Christian organization, but does not have a set creed or dogma, since Friends believe that God is within all of us. However, Quakers are pacifists and do not believe in violent action, a sentiment that is succinctly summed up in the "George Fox Song": "If we give you a rifle/Will you fight for the Lord?/But you can't kill the Devil/With a gun or a sword."

A former architect, Val Matthews was a painter, as well as remaining involved in the Quaker anti-apartheid movement. From a very young age, Val brought her son up with Quaker mores and the belief in interracial harmony, pervasive themes in songs he would write for DMB. Dave told Rolling Stone, "We were brought up, very aggressively, that bigotry and racism are evil things, and they stem from fear." This Quaker sense of inner peace and outer pacifism would be a defining moral trait for Matthews throughout his life. It would help him make some very big decisions and would be reflected in the ideals of his lyrics.

When Dave was five he was introduced to the Beatles. He later reminisced to Rolling Stone magazine, "They made me dream of making music when I was five. I stopped thinking about Little League. I was obsessed." Dave would never forget the Beatles: in fact, he would later cover a number of Beatles songs with DMB, including "Can't Buy Me Love," "All You Need Is Love," "You Won't See Me," and "Yellow Submarine." Touched by Beatlemania, the young Matthews began his life-long obsession with music.

The family moved to Cambridge, England, in 1974 when Dave was seven, but returned to Yorktown Heights a year later. Dave took an early interest in the guitar and started taking lessons when he was nine. "I was a horrible student," Matthews told Steve Morse of the Boston Globe, "But he [Matthews's guitar teacher] told me, 'Keep your foot tapping whatever you do.' That has always stuck in my mind. If you miss a note or you miss a chord, as long as you keep the rhythm going, it really doesn't matter. Maybe I already knew it, but he verbalized the necessity to stay in the groove." He liked the acoustic guitar from the start, because of the hollow body's percussive elements that he couldn't coax from an electric guitar.

Tragedy struck the Matthews household when Dave was only ten. His father passed away from lung cancer, leaving the family devastated. He later theorized to Rolling Stone magazine, "We figure he might have got the disease from the radioactive material he handled." This was the young Matthews's first encounter with tragic death. Unfortunately, it would not be his last. Death would be an unfortunate specter that would haunt Matthews at far too early an age.

It is misfortunes like his father's death from which Dave may get his "carpe diem" sensibility, an attitude that is reflected in his lyrics. The idea of "living for today" pervades the lyrics of early songs like "Two Step," "Tripping Billies," and "Lie In Our Graves." Matthews admitted to the Washington Post, "There's always been a good handful of songs about death and loss, but always with the idea that [death] was something that should bring us together. There are arbitrary lines between bad and good that often don't make a lot of sense to me. I don't want to die, obviously, but really, the wonder of life is amplified by the fact that it ends. If it went on forever, it would be such a tiresome thing and we'd all be so bored: 'What are we going to do today?' 'Just live again, I suppose.'"

He later divulged to the New York Post that death had become less dangerous to him, "It's unfortunate that so many people think about perpetuating themselves and holding onto their youth, maybe because it is further away from death. I'm attracted to the idea of getting old. I like that young people will probably tell jokes behind my back about what a doddering old fool I am. That seems attractive to me."

After the shock of John Matthews's death, the family returned to Johannesburg. There Dave started attending middle school and later went to a local high school. While in South Africa, Matthews started listening to native artists like King Sunny Ade, Salif Keita, and Hugh Masekela, whose music would go on to shape Matthews's rhythmic sensibility and be responsible for the ethnic touches in his own work. Back in South Africa, Matthews found music and inspiration all around him through "appreciation of long hikes through the woods" and "the sounds of things around us: the heartbeats, the footsteps."

By high school Dave's interests were pretty much confined to drawing and noodling around on the guitar. He didn't really know what he wanted to do and no one was about to push him to figure it out. To avoid South Africa's compulsory military service, which ran against the tenets of Quaker philosophy, Matthews returned to the United States when he was nineteen, in January of 1986. Matthews remembered, in an interview with Michael Krugman, "When I finished up high school and got my call-up sheets, I made my departure hastily. Half my friends went [into the military] and half left the country. Things were pretty bad there. There were a lot of young people leaving to avoid the army. And a lot of young people going to Europe and going up north of the border. The demise of the then Nationalist Party was definitely visible on the horizon." At thirteen, while still living in South Africa, he had been granted U.S. citizenship and now he took advantage of that fact, but he still felt a very intense connection with South Africa and continues to be drawn back to the country again and again.

When he returned Stateside, he lived in New York and took a job as a clerk at the IBM research center where his father had worked. There were no firm plans for college and Matthews felt no heartrending draw for him. Later in 1986 the young Matthews moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, and rejoined his family, who had moved there while he had been in New York. His father had taught there before he was born and the family still retained connections to the region.

Charlottesville, or C'ville as the townies affectionately refer to it, is a beatnik Southern college town, the home of fifty thousand people, a burgeoning music scene, and a bohemian artist community. Taking its name from Queen Charlotte-Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the child bride of King George III of England, Charlottesville is located in lush Central Virginia on the upper Piedmont Plateau at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and at the headwaters of the Rivanna River. The area is rich with colonial-era American history and is home to University of Virginia, which was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson. It now has over 18,000 students enrolled in ten schools and along with Piedmont Virginia Community College, C'ville has over 20,000 college students bent on studies and a good time -- the perfect audience for an up-and-coming band. Charlottesville is where the tale of Dave Matthews Band truly begins; its music scene is almost incestuous as one will see from all the connections among the many players within the DMB story.

Dave attended Charlottesville Community College on a limited enrollment basis. His chief interests were philosophy and partying. He batted around the possibility of attending art school, but the idea kept falling by the wayside. He still loved abstract drawing and guitar playing, with no thoughts that his idle strumming might lead to a career someday. In fact, some of the sketches Dave had done would later be turned into T-shirt and sticker designs for DMB merchandise. However constant his guitar playing, he had yet to write a complete song.

Between 1986 and 1990, Matthews traveled between South Africa and Charlottesville several times, a process that strengthened his love for South Africa's beautiful countryside and, perhaps most importantly, the music. Dave told Michael Krugman, "A large part of me is tied to South Africa. I go there as often as I can, and I do watch its political situation. The social change that took place seemed so impossible to the international community, and the media. When the transition [from apartheid] took place, they all seemed disappointed it went so smoothly." Until April of 1994, when the first multiracial elections were held, South Africa was under white minority rule, though apartheid was ended in 1991. Nelson Mandela and former president William de Klerk had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for their work toward a democratic South Africa and Mandela was elected president in a landslide victory, effectively ending minority rule and instituting black majority rule.

However, when Matthews was then visiting, it was still a time of grievous disorder. It was just prior to the abolishment of apartheid in 1991 and Matthews became friends with some activists there, including a young man by the name of Chris Hani. He and Hani bonded over their beliefs that South Africa's political and social systems were unjust and that it was time for a change. Both attended anti-apartheid marches and rallies and discussed the injustices around them. Dave would later tell Rolling Stone about his trips: "I would go back and stay with friends, and political conversations were going on because they were all in college now. My friends would go to marches, and I would join them. It was a really interesting, vibrant time. The theater and music we'd go to see was always a voice of opposition. Going back there now and seeing them striving for freedom is such an amazing thing."

Back in Charlottesville, Dave decided not to attend art school and took a job bartending at a local bar called Miller's, a bohemian hang out where local musicians gathered and jammed on the small stage. All the C'ville regulars played there, including many names that will pop up down the DMB timeline. One night at Miller's in 1987 Matthews met local guitarist Tim Reynolds, who was playing the bar that night. Dave and Tim bonded immediately and Matthews eventually sat in a couple of times with Reynolds's eclectically influenced trio, TR3, who played frequently around town. The bond between them stuck and Reynolds would come to act as a guide, teacher, and cohort for Dave's creative impulses.

Tim Reynolds started out playing the electric bass when he was twelve and would later pick up the guitar. He settled in Charlottesville in the '80s after a nomadic period and began TR3. His playing skills soon led him to become one of the most prominent figures on the local music scene. He counts Carlos Santana, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, and Led Zeppelin among his musical influences. Over the course of his career he has released three solo albums and three TR3 records, as well as contributing to projects like Sticks & Stones, Secrets, and Cosmology, and working with local musicians like Michael Sokolowski and Shannon Worrell.

Another respected local musician, John D'earth, saw Dave perform one of those nights he sat in with TR3 and was introduced to the fledgling musician by Reynolds. D'earth too would become a part of the DMB tale. Playing around Charlottesville with a number of bands, D'earth often crossed musical paths with future DMBers Leroi Moore and Carter Beauford. In 1989, D'earth wrote a piece called "Bypass" for a modern dance performance that Matthews and another local singer, Dawn Thompson, performed. Thompson knew both D'earth and Reynolds from a musical project called Cosmology, which they had collaborated on some years earlier.

Matthews loved to act and appeared in several local productions in the late '80s and early '90s. He was a theatrical natural, which proved to be a good skill when he started taking centerstage as a frontman. His innate good humor and quick wit shone through in his acting, and later, his stage performances. There was a time when Matthews's muse may have drawn him toward drama and the theater instead of rock 'n' roll, but luckily Dave was soon to be irrevocably turned down the road toward rock 'n' roll fame.

Dave started writing songs in earnest in 1990 when Ross Hoffman, a local songwriter who owned a studio, encouraged Matthews to take his scattered guitar noodlings, put them together, and actually compose a full song. He convinced Matthews to write and play for a set period of time every day and dedicate himself to the composition of some fully realized pieces. Matthews told Rolling Stone, "He was the guy who pushed me. He was the one who'd say, 'No, don't smoke that pot. Finish that verse. Finish that song.' He was my musical mentor, the guy who said, 'You should do this.'" By the end of 1990, or perhaps early in 1991, Dave quit his job at Miller's to concentrate on his writing full time. Hoffman began acting as Matthews's personal manager, helping guide him and his songwriting.

Dave later told the Washington Post, "I was not really sure what I was going to do. I didn't think of myself as much of a singer at all, but then it sort of became evident with what I was writing that there weren't a hell of a lot of people who were going to sing it. So I thought I might have to do it myself for it to go anywhere." Little did he know that the songs he was writing then would go on to be crowd pleasers from coast to coast, much less in Charlottesville.

His constant practicing would lead to one of the most fertile songwriting periods of his early career. The songs Dave wrote were intensely personal, dealing with relationships, family tragedies, and his views of South Africa's politics. Musically, Dave found his influences from a range of people, from Herbie Hancock (who would go on to open for the band) to guitarist Robert Fripp and a slew of African artists like pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, contemporary jazz pianist Keith Jarrett, and Senegalese born father of the mbalax rhythm tradition Youssou N'Dour. During an AOL chat a couple of years later Matthews also admitted that there were more Westernized influences -- "John Denver, the Beatles, Dollar Brand, Pink Floyd, Vivaldi, sex, and hangovers."

Another local musician, Greg Howard, was introduced to Matthews through Tim Reynolds and saw Dave play several shows with TR3. Howard is a master of the Chapman Stick, an electric 8-, 10- or 12-stringed instrument invented by Emmett Chapman in 1974. The Stick is played using a unique two-handed tapping technique, much like piano playing. Howard and Reynolds had collaborated before on a project called Sticks & Stones and over the course of his career, Howard has released four solo albums, toured the States, and taught workshops on the Chapman Stick. He and Matthews bonded over their love for making music and immediately became friends. Soon they started bouncing musical ideas off each other and talked of laying down some of the tracks Matthews was working on.

Matthews gained confidence in his songwriting, finished composing several tracks, and eventually went to Howard's house in November of 1990 to record some demos. Howard remembers those first sessions, "He would come into my studio and record his voice and guitar and a few other things. The first demo was a four song demo and I played the Stick and sang back up on a few things." The first Dave Matthews demo consisted of "The Song That Jane Likes," "I'll Back You Up," "Recently," and "The Best of What's Around." Howard played Chapman Stick on "The Song That Jane Likes" and also played alto sax and added drum samples to give it a fuller sound. John D'earth laid down some trumpet and another local, Kevin Davis, provided additional percussion.

The first song on the demo, "I'll Back You Up," is considered the first song Dave ever wrote, though he had the music for "The Song That Jane Likes" first. "I'll Back You Up" is a song Dave wrote for his ex-girlfriend, Julia Grey, whom he had met in South Africa and who had subsequently moved to C'ville. He had proposed to her on three different occasions, only to be rejected each time. The lyrics are as lovestruck as they come and as Dave gently croons, "But I know no matter how fast we are running/Some how we keep, some how we keep up with each other" you can feel his earnestness shining through the soft guitar plucking.

"The Song That Jane Likes," so titled because his sister liked it the first time he played it for her, was the second song Dave completed. He actually had the music for it first, but failed to finish the lyrics before finishing "I'll Back You Up. The lyrics of "The Song That Jane Likes" are somewhat vague, though it seems to be an open letter to an old friend in Dave's past. Musically, it is based in a simple guitar melody that Leroi, Stefan, Carter, and Boyd extrapolated on to strengthen the melody. Definitely a popular song from the start, it would get many airings during Dave's acoustic shows with Tim in the years to come.

"Recently" would eventually become DMB's very first single, though Dave could not have foreseen that when he laid down a somewhat simplified version on the original demo. The song is reportedly about a girl Dave fell in love with during one of his many trips to South Africa, perhaps again his old flame Julia Grey. This song exemplifies much of Matthews's early lyrical stylings -- personal, unerringly emotional, and woven in a folk-tale manner.

The demo's final track, "Best of What's Around," was another of the very first songs Dave had written. Lyrically, it is filled with that pervasive Matthews optimism, as Dave, within a folk story of a damsel in distress, weaves his admonishments to look forward to better days: "And if nothing can be done/We'll make the best of what's around."

This four-track demo would be the start of a story that no one could have foretold. It would lead Matthews to his future bandmates and become four of the most loved songs in the DMB catalog.

Copyright © 1999 by Nevin Martell

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Good in its intentions...
By Peter Mocker
Being someone who picks up everything that is Dave Matthews Band, I purchased "Music for the People," hoping that it would be what "Step Into the Light" strived for but didn't quite reach. Unfortunately, I was even more disappointed with this read than I was with the band's first book. Nevin Martell's writing is the main downfall of "Music for the People," as his authoring is plain and seems amateur-ish. I was also appalled by the number of errors found in this book -- I'm sure most people would buy this book to learn about the band, so it scares me that this text has probably over two dozen mistakes involving song titles, dates and other somewhat-useful trivia about Dave Matthews Band. Although hands down I would recommend "Step Into the Light" over "Music for the People," this book does beat its predecessor in several aspects. First and simple, the book contains updated info about the band through Spring 1999 ("Step Into the Light" left off sometime around late '97, prior to the release of the "Before These Crowded Streets" album). "Music for the People" also contains several appendices, which include a "DMB gigography," discography, complete listing of almost every DMB concert in the band's history, and more (this is the book's strong point, but not solely worth the purchase price). Finally, this book is thankfully missing the "essay" format found in "Step Into the Light."
Fans looking for a lone book about Dave Matthews Band will fare better with "Step Into the Light," but a diehard fan who craves for DMB would most likely not regret buying "Music for the People."

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
good enough but outdated
By Angela Ginsburg
buy the updated one and read those reviews, this version doesn't really capture the band anymore.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Smack the author of this book upside the head
By A Customer
_I_ could have done a better job. This book had several mistakes (One particularly obvious one, if you trouble to glance at a picture of Dave. Blue eyes? Brown hair? Please.), the style wasn't altogether engaging and how many people actually care about the cover band? The lead singer of which, by the way, does NOT resemble Dave Matthews. I cannot believe he put a picture of them in there. Speaking of which, at least the pictures could have been of better quality. Plus, the layout wasn't exactly balanced. It's so maddening to see this kind of thing! Such simple little stuff in presentation and obvious errors in description. Songs that were mentioned in the book left off of the lists in the back to boot. Come on. Ever hear of proof-reading? Honestly, I do think I should try my luck at this. God knows it could not be any worse.

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