Authentic and original
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This cookbook is full of wonderful, healthy, delicious recipes. Highly recommend this cookbook to anyone looking for a healthier alternative in food preparation. The French Classic Vichyssoise soup is sublime and for something more spicy try the Ethiopian Red Lentils soup.
4721229
Imagined is a wonderful acoustic reworking of Lennon (and Lennon/McCartney) songs.  Some of the songs are closer  to the original renditions than others,  but most are beautifully  retold in the voices of these accomplished musicians.  Rex Fowler, of Aztec Two Step, and Tom Dean of Devonsquare, have combined their own memorable  voices and their creative  arrangements of these songs (and in some of the best tracks,  couplings and interweaving  of these songs) to present them in a way that is haunting, familiar, and fresh. Personal highlights for me are: "I'll Cry Instead", where Tom Dean and the band both manage to simultaneously  tone down and spice up the original with instrumental and vocal flourishes; Alana MacDonald's hushed but gorgeously quiet rendition of  "In My Life";  the masterful instrumental work in the perfect coupling of  "Come Together and I am the Walrus" (I liked both better after hearing this), and Rex Fowler's "Johnny's An Angel" which is a lovely and hit-worthy original tribute to Lennon.  I recently had the chance to hear this great group of musicians present the project  live, which only added to my appreciation of the real  artistry in this "album".
4834603
An incredibly original creative foray for the novel. Far more complex than a write your own adventure. I like the influence of choice from the different starting points to the views criss crossing between the 1400s and the 2012s. A book that makes you reflect and re examine what you believe and why you formed that view. The stories were both engaging and in their moments. The history of a 1400 fresco painter on commission who believed he should have been paid more was contemporary. The grief in the young girl from today was grief no different to grief from the 1400s. How to be both is the lesson in the ned, the ned to be both is ever there.
4456339
The author's experience lends an air of great authenticity to his story, and the plot was believable. The characters were well-developed given the length of the novel.
2858953
Beautiful music.  Authentic and beautiful.  Evocative in its story-telling.  Very interesting variety of vocals and instrumental.  Great songs.  I recommend it.
619654
Posie Graeme-Evans has an authentic voice and unique turn of phrase, which were delicious to relish. Her knowledge and vocabulary of dressmaking, food, furnishings and nature are intoxicating. While it took me a few chapters to immerse myself in Victorian England (I blame jet-lag), immersed I was. I thoroughly enjoyed the beauty and horrors that were depicted in Ellen's worlds. This protagonist suffers many tragedies but is never portrayed as a victim, building strength of character from each new challenge. Inspiring.
It is tightly written (I could count the number of "saids" on one hand) and easy to read.
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Going to Dolpo is an bold and original account of the author's journey into the Himalayas. It has a cinematic feel with beautiful tracking shots high above the mountains and then zooming in to the close-ups of real people eloquently drawn.
A friend recommended this book to me. He said that it is the literary eqivalent of an espresso! I think what he means is that it is small, but powerful and unadulterated.
I would recommend it to anyone who apprecicates originality and doesn't like to be treated like an idiot.
3126583
Already gifted at expressing herself, Jacquie writes in a voice that's authentic and moving about her experience living in Africa and the culture she encounters. As the reader I was engaged and wanting to find out what she'd explore next. Genuine and compelling.
1576021
One doen't see or hear about this book anywhere which is a shame as it is so hugely original and compelling.  Parry gives life in 19th Century Paris an incredible immediacy in this selection of stories.  I found the photographs almost superfluous except that they do remind you that these imagined tales are actually real.  Parry dignifies the dead in a way that is a genuine tribute to our humanity (or at least hers) at a time when I'm not convinced we're feeling all that good about ourselves.  If you are hesitating, don't!  A truly inspiring work.
4829062
This book is authentic. The history is intriguing (who knew that Caesar was interested in codes), the history of secret codes as accurately presented in a story line that makes you eager to know the next installment, and the coding process is accessible to any curious reader. Math and science are all about puzzles -- why not turn them into a story? I can't judge the attraction level to young readers (not being a young reader myself), but to me it's lively and engaging. Two teenagers conversing with Caesar! Give it a try! the content should provide a rich basis for discussion and playing with codes by the reader.
902036
Very interesting and original. Gives a perspective over all of the Middle East at the time of Akhenaton, Moses etc.
It states that Monotheism in its Yahvistic version is a produce of a crisis of faith in the Cananean and Egyptian millieu of those times. This faith crisis is related to Akhenaton's revolution and in Canan dethrones the traditional Ilu or El from the pantheon. This Ilu/ El is of course related to the biblicals Elohim, El Elyon, El Saday etc. all adequate names for God in the Penthateuc, together with the "I am/ will be" that appears later and is related to the well known Mosaic teophany.
It is a pity there are not much bokks left to buy.
The second edition amplifies and even modifies some of the original approaches of the first 1990 edition.
I am not really an expert, neither mother tongue english speaker, and I loved this book.
2955464
Loved the originality of the book and true to real life experiences of the characters. I would recommend this book to any one.
3658557
I really liked this book. It wasn't what I expected and that was a good thing. It's original. It's emotionally engaging. I read a ton of these self-published books and this is definitely one of the better ones. I'm hoping there's more where this came from.
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If you can only see one movie about traditional peoples, this is the one you should see.  From my own experience of two years living with Aboriginal peoples, I can vouch that it is remarkably authentic.  This is how Aboriginal people really look, act, and think.  Compare it to the rubbish that is "Mutant Message Down Under" and you see the point.  The filmmaker was not trying to start a cult movement like the Mutant lady.  He was trying to tell a story--a true story, an amazing story, a tragic story.

Other traditionalist movies, like "Whale Rider," also do a good job of conveying the lives and thoughts of native peoples, but this one is uniquely realistic.  If you watch the extras about the making of the film, you will be even more astounded, since the director used real-life Aboriginal people who had never acted before.  It is a truly awesome accomplishment and adds depth to the realism.

Now that you have watched the movie, go to your local library or bookstore and learn more about the fate of the Aboriginals, as well as that of the Native Americans and every other traditional society that came under the heavy hand of colonialismm and Western paternalism.  And then be glad that it was not some other society that came and separated YOU from your family, your land, and your traditions.
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This book is truly an original. It was birthed out of a mother's heart for her child. The desire to portray a black child in a book with a positive light. At the time it was written, there were very few of these kind of books in the market. This belongs in your collection of the changing social culture in America. I highly recommend it and it's brother book Li'l Tuffy and His ABC's.
3742049
I loved this story...  I found it so original that it almost must be based on true events.  Real life of course is as original as it gets.
3309459
Like the Alice in this story, for nearly 34 years, I owned an annotated copy of The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland -- yet never read it.  Through this book, I feel as if I intimately know each of the main characters, and Alice most of all, for she and I share many of the same character and personality traits.  I kept re-confirming this was indeed a fiction novel, rather than a biography, and I believe this is because the author's thorough research lent it an air of authenticity.