) came back looking like Sam, yet he was David
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I thought the ending to be very confusing. The David person (where did he even come from?) came back looking like Sam, yet he was David. Sam was still there and was now Dove? But yet Powell called him Sam? It was just not a good ending. And if Sam had the ability to tell Ziggy to bring him home, why didn't he do it? Je kept saying he wanted to go home.  Also, some of the things Sam said just weren't Sam. This novel broke my heart just like the ending of the TV series. Sam should have gotten to go home........somehow, someway!
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Made me think long after I finished the book.  I am still trying to figure out about Sam....  Don't want to spoiler alert but I have a lot of questions about him.
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I don't know why but the introduction about April leaving after a nasty altercation with Sam's model fling drew me in and I had to read the book. I just re-read the intro blurbs on both Goodreads and Amazon and neither one of them say that so I must read this book out of pure confusion. Good thing it was worth the read.

Sam is a hard working alpha male who shunned his family money (sort of) and has dedicated himself to making his company a success, despite his father <spoiler> who sabotaged his first company and stole his fiance.</spoiler> He has never forgiven his father and their feud only gets worse as Sam's success grows. April has worked hard to scrape her way through college and overcome her less than stellar upbringing. Over the last six years April and Sam have worked together to build his company, all while April has been holding a secret torch for her playboy boss.

Now, April is ready to graduate college, the company is about to go public and Sam believes he has found the one. Unfortunately for April his 'one' is an aging model with an instant dislike for Sam's curvy executive assistant. After eavesdropping on Sam and his new model April quits in a snit. As soon as April walks out the door Sam realizes what he had and wants her back and not just at work...too bad she has been snatched up by his arch-nemesis. Sam's father has been out to get him for as long as Sam can remember, and now he has April.

I think what I liked most about this book was actually the interactions between April and Sam's father. He is an interesting character and it was nice to see the feud from both sides. I didn't particularly love either of the characters but they were both charming enough to carry the story and make it a worthwhile read. Plus I am always a sucker for a happy ending no matter how cheesy.
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I've been with David for about a week now.
At first, I thought, "WOW, a match made in heaven!"
We fit so perfectly together, like no other ever before!
Then about day five, everything started to fall apart :-(
I just couldn't keep it together!
I was beginning to come un-glued, LITERALLY!
My sole was detaching from my body :-O, right on the tip of my nose and where David and I would bend together.
I knew this was the beginning of the end, and there was nothing David nor I could do about it.
Only my maker could fix things now, he has yet to heed my prayers...
One hundred twenty times over I have put into this!
How sad it is that it should end this way, and after such an investment!
I will miss David from beneath a banana peel and a little green bag of someone's dog poo here in the Oaklnad landfill.
I will forever remember our amazing one week love affair, and how perfect we were together for that week!
It was sooo good... sigh...
<3 Dharma
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We used this for a Goblin King cosplay, and it worked out wonderfully. My fiance definitely looked like David Bowie. <3
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Got to see the inside of a run for the presidency and his good representation of Obama.  Both David and Obama seem more real and forthright.
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I've been wearing my docs practically every day for two years and I never did any maintenance on them. The Wonder Balsam made them look brand-new again. I forgot what they were even supposed to look like. The toes of the shoes were wearing away and now you wouldn't be able to tell that they were. There used to be a pretty ugly scratch on the side of one of the shoes but now it kind of looks like a healed scar. I should have taken "before" pictures but oh well. My little bro also used this product on his beat-to-shit timberland work boots and they look shiny and new again.
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I remember seeing this season the first time around. Christopher was amazing. He's the reason I gave Dr. Who a shot. I was instantly hooked. His quirkyness and carefree attitude was fun. The dark notes that bled through in later episodes gave a welcome edge to the character as well. The four stars is because,  although this first incarnation of a new Dr. was inspired, David Tennant would perfect his own iteration and cement by devotion to the history and future of the Doctor.
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This album, while not Sammy's best, was something he needed to do after the ugly breakup with VH.  For sure, the acoustic-turned-electric leadoff track, "Little White Lie", says it all about how he was feeling at the time.  The rest of the album is filled with a variety of styles, most of them a bit different from the big heavy rock sound we are used to from Sammy.  Some of the tracks are downright moody sounding with (for Sammy) understated vocals.  With songs such as the pretty ballad "Who Has The Right?" and the rocking anthem "The Yogi's So High (I'm Stoned)", Sammy proved he still had the touch.  For sure, his two solo efforts after this one brought him more back into a rocking mode.  Still, this one is good to listen to now and then to hear something different.  Definitely an interesting, worthwhile purchase.
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The king was reluctant to reign but finally got it together. The hobbits Sam and Frodo are true Christian brothers. Sam`s a slave to frodo.
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The main character was creepy for sure. I could almost hear his real voice, cold, pragmatic, and calculating.  I wonder if he'll be back!
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OMG. So beautiful <3 The details are amazing and it looks EXACTLY like Daryl/Norman Reedus. :DD
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Gets back to the originality of the show and characters
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Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the accelerator chamber and vanished, thus the Quantum Leap was born. In Mirror's Edge we find Sam in the body of the fourth richest man in the world gearing up for a run for the presidency and Sam's memory is starting to come back.
Taking just over six hours to  complete this novel, we follow Sam, Al, Gooshie, and Ziggy and they try to  piece together what Sam is supposed to do and what he must fix in order to  leap out. One catch, Sam's brother Tom, now a congressman, wants to know  what has happened to Sam.
Trying to stall Tom and help Sam at the same  time, Al works on no sleep making sure that both parties are given the  right information. Another problem that faces Al is the displaced body that  is in the holding chamber, that person remembers everything and this has Al  worried.
With power failures, lock downs, government inspections, missing  files, dysfunctional family problems and so much more, you'll have a great  tome reading and imagining the entire story line. Now if they can take this  book and turn into a TV Movie then you have got it made!
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Sam was somewhat annoying because it kept marking right answers when it was right, but other than that it was good.
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This film gets excellent treatment in this DVD, despite the quibbles one might have over over-acadamized touches in some of the essay/commentary material, but I suppose that only goes to prove the film's impact and staying power.  Lots of interesting extras, well worth the investment, especially for Sam fans.
I have a mixed reaction to the voice-over commentary, much of which is interesting, some of which I find debatable.  I take exception to the idea that David is in fact the "heavy", though his passive-aggressive conduct is note-worthy.  Peckinpah may indeed have originated this notion, but he was known to be argumentative, and not always the most trustworthy interpreter of his own films (Major Dundee as Moby Dick in the desert?).
I think he may have been trying to down-play the idea of David as home-defending hero, which he knew would be a reaction, and was mainly planting the idea that the character wasn't all that admirable. I mean, if David's the heavy, who's the protagonist?
A quick glance at many of the non-academic reactions to the film's climactic sequence should give a clue as to whom the audience at least wants to root for. Maybe we're meant to be completely repulsed, and not pull for anyone in the final melee, but that's tough to do; I don't believe the case can be made that the local toughs are the good guys, anyway.
David Sumner is definitely the film's protagonist, and rather like Alex in the other infamously violent film released the same year, A Clockwork Orange, he attracts audience sympathy despite his flaws. The director needs for the audience to identify with someone in his story, while setting them up to question what that identification means.
Also, the voice-over guy is locked into a woman-good, man-bad mindset, at least in regard to the Amy and David couple.  According to the commentator, David is completely cold, uncaring, vicious, selfish, and other bad stuff, while Amy is his noble, all-virtuous victim.  Not only does this contradict the usual Peckinpah-as-misogynist stuff available in the "Man of Iron" documentary, but it goes against the director's running theme of violence and complicity.  He completely ignores Amy's role in pushing David into a more macho, violent stance - he only seems interested in finding ways to denigrate the David character, and you can hear his argument running out of steam toward the end.
As for "Man of Iron" - I had seen it broadcast some years ago, and recall being somewhat disappointed, though I appreciated it more on seeing it again.  It is rather rambling, with some I think dubious interiew subjects - the screenwriter Alan Sharp for instance, who apparently only worked on one picture with Peckinpah, which he seemed ashamed of, and otherwise didn't seem to really know the man or think too much of his work.  The documentary tends to go off on tangents, like the obligatory woman-hating and brutal-behaviour accusations, which go mostly unsupported here.  On the other hand, Kristofferson, Coburn, R.G. Armstrong, L.Q. Jones and others offer lots of interesting incidents and insights, and make it overall a valuable, touching look at the maverick filmmaker.
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I always thought I was a social outcast- then I met Sam. Instead of giving up, Sam adapts and fights on.  I enjoyed watching the world through her eyes.  Thanks for another great book!