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1 comments about Waterside Living: Inspirational Homes by Lakes, Rivers, and the Ocean.

1. Beautiful pictures of inspirational homes. On how/why people became owners of their house and on how it is decorated. Not endless pictures of homes, but in-depth stories of remarkeble homes.

5 comments about New York for New Yorkers: A Historical Treasury and Guide to the Buildings and Monuments of Manhattan (Second Edition).

1. This is one of the finest guides to New York City that it has been my pleasure to use and peruse. It is strong, unique, and essentially "nonpariel." There is really nothing on the market that has such natural down-home photography. In other words...none of the "faux-monumentalism" and deceptive proprtioning of space and matter which is the downfall of most guides. Ms. Greene accomplishes a Baedeker-style simplicity,with her perfectly concise and edited text. The size,format and substantiality of this book, as well as the ease in carrying it in a tote or rucksack make this guide a complete success. After the tragic events of September 11th, 2001...this book takes on an added poignancy, because so many of the treasured that Ms. Greene has unearthed, collated, collected, and memorialized are not directly connected with specifically "The Ground Zero" area of the Island of Manhattan...she helps to illuminate the complete diversity, universality, timelessness, and the raw raging dynamic power that shall forever be Manhattan"s legacy to the World, and future generations. This book is one of the strongest entries in its class since the Post-World War Two Era bagan. A thoughtful,encouraging,and Ms. Greene never puts herself above or between the wonders that she is illuminaring. She gets the information to you without the boredom of its conveyance. A remarkable job all the way around.



2. I purchased Liza Greene's book last Spring at my local bookstore and I have been very pleased with it. I have bought dozens of books and guides to New York City over the years. I am a married housewife with four daughters with a workaholic husband and my particular reward and gift from my family is that I get to go to New York City about four times per year for a little shopping, The Pierre, some nice dinners, the Met, Lincoln Center, and a few shows. I am originally from Dallas, Texas and I was just raised that way, and of course I realize that I am just an old dinosaur from a bye-gone time, but that was my generation. I have always thought and known that I was missing alot of New York City by being tethered to such a limited agenda. Last year I decided to broaden my horizons. Well, I couldn't be more pleased with Liza Greene's book, and I have used it as a blueprint, and a guide to some very exciting visual experiences that are just not to be found in any other guidebook. I just think that this book is a peach, an absolute peach. I am very glad that Liza Greene wrote it, and I am very pleased with its very nicely proprtioned size and portibility while it also gives a feeling of heft and substance. I don't think that the writer or the publisher could have done any better of a job of it. This is just a perfect little source and it has improved my feeling of grasping New York City a thousandfold. Thank you Ms. Greene for helping an old woman to get out of her rut.



3. I purchased Liza Greene's book last Spring at my local bookstore and I have been very pleased with it. I have bought dozens of books and guides to New York City over the years. I am a married housewife with four daughters with a workaholic husband and my particular reward and gift from my family is that I get to go to New York City about four times per year for a little shopping, The Pierre, some nice dinners, the Met, Lincoln Center, and a few shows. I am originally from Dallas, Texas and I was just raised that way, and of course I realize that I am just an old dinosaur from a bye-gone time, but that was my generation. I have always thought and known that I was missing alot of New York City by being tethered to such a limited agenda. Last year I decided to broaden my horizons. Well, I couldn't be more pleased with Liza Greene's book, and I have used it as a blueprint, and a guide to some very exciting visual experiences that are just not to be found in any other guidebook. I just think that this book is a peach, an absolute peach. I am very glad that Liza Greene wrote it, and I am very pleased with its very nicely proprtioned size and portibility while it also gives a feeling of heft and substance. I don't think that the writer or the publisher could have done any better of a job of it. This is just a perfect little source and it has improved my feeling of grasping New York City a thousandfold. Thank you Ms. Greene for helping an old woman to get out of her rut.



4. I purchased Liza Greene's book last Spring at my local bookstore and I have been very pleased with it. I have bought dozens of books and guides to New York City over the years. I am a married housewife with four daughters with a workaholic husband and my particular reward and gift from my family is that I get to go to New York City about four times per year for a little shopping, The Pierre, some nice dinners, the Met, Lincoln Center, and a few shows. I am originally from Dallas, Texas and I was just raised that way, and of course I realize that I am just an old dinosaur from a bye-gone time, but that was my generation. I have always thought and known that I was missing alot of New York City by being tethered to such a limited agenda. Last year I decided to broaden my horizons. Well, I couldn't be more pleased with Liza Greene's book, and I have used it as a blueprint, and a guide to some very exciting visual experiences that are just not to be found in any other guidebook. I just think that this book is a peach, an absolute peach. I am very glad that Liza Greene wrote it, and I am very pleased with its very nicely proprtioned size and portibility while it also gives a feeling of heft and substance. I don't think that the writer or the publisher could have done any better of a job of it. This is just a perfect little source and it has improved my feeling of grasping New York City a thousandfold. Thank you Ms. Greene for helping an old woman to get out of her rut.



5. Liza Greene's book is quite unique, and in many ways is one of the best books on the subject of New York's fabled architecture in the annals of the city. It is very obvious that this book was a labor of love and personal commitment on Ms. Greene's part. There is nothing cliched or by rote in this book. She has captured a number, a very large number of very fresh takes on the city "in situ." This book is so very New York in the fact that it is D.I.Y. She did not use twenty-five thousand dollars of expensive equipment, and lighting with a small horde of assistants and gofers. This book is the work of a single woman's very singular vision of what I think is the ultimate Metropolitan dream in the history of mankind. The labor of single-mindedness is reflected in pictures that are not dollied or craned or overly artificialized by city permits and special access. This is the work of an almost guerrilla sensibility. I only wish that PBS would give Ms. Green a full camera crew and 110 minutes to present her vision in context with her own voice-over so that more and more people would have access to her unique vision and singular passion. This book eloquently proves that the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Bravo, Ms. Greene, bravo indeed.

1 comments about Sydney Opera House Aid (Architecture in Detail).

1. Seeing the magnificent Sydney Opera House a few years back nearly brought me to tears; it's such an magnificent building. After that I got very interested in the saga of the building's design and construction, including the resignation of architect Jorn Utzon years before the project was finished.
   
   The building is a marvel of architecture and engineering, yet the book is quite accessible for the non-expert who wants to get an appreciation for just how extraordinary achievement the building of the Sydney Opera House was for its time.

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1 comments about The Virginia House: A Home for Three Hundred Years.

1. SINCE THIS INCREDIBLY WORTHY AND LOVELY BOOK WAS FIRST PUBLISHED CIRCA 1984, I HAVE BOUGHT AND GIVEN AWAY MANY COPIES.
   I CAN ONLY COMPARE IT TO THE FINE SERIES ON VIRGINIA HOMES THAT WAS WRITTEN BY EMMIE FERGUSON FARRAR BACK IN THE 1950'S.
   ANNE MANNINGTON FAULCONER POSSESSES THE GOOD COMBINATION OF A FINE HISTORIAN AND THE GIFT OF AN AESTHETIC'S EYE.
   EVERY HOUSE REPRESENTED IN THIS BOOK IS A JEWEL, CHOSEN NOT BECAUSE IT IS FAMOUS OR FANCY, BUT BECAUSE IT REPRESENTS CERTAIN, UNIQUE TRAITS THAT ARE PECULIAR TO A CERTAIN HOUSE THAT
   IS KNOWN AS "THE VIRGINIA HOUSE".
   THOSE TRAITS ARE NOT SPECIFIC IN STYLE OR DESIGN;
   INDEED, THESE HOUSES
   ARE QUITE VARIED AND RANGE FROM THE VERY GRAND TO THE VERY SIMPLE.
   WHAT ANNE MANNINGTON FAULCONER DOES BEST WITH HER BOOK IS TO LET THE HOUSES SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.
   SHE PRESENTS THE FLOORPLANS AND THE ELEVATIONS AND THE SIMPLEST DESCRIPTIONS OF EACH HOUSE AND ITS HISTORY. THE READER IS COMPELLED TO ADMIRE THE 'OLD WAY OF SEEING' AND WONDER HOW WE COULD HAVE POSSIBLY DEGENERATED TO THE MCMANSION MENTALITY OF TODAY.

1 comments about The Shingle Style Today: Or The Historian's Revenge.

1. I bought this book a couple of years ago because my husband and I have a recurring fantasy of building a shingle style house and this was one of the few books I could find on the topic at the time. At first, I was a little intimidated by the book because it looks very dry and scholarly. Once I got over my intimidation and actually started reading, I was pleasantly surprised to find that while it is indeed scholarly, it is extremely readable and even witty. Scully manages to weave together a fascinating range of influences and expressions of shingle styles, from Italian palazzos to very modern architecture. The only reason I don't give this book a higher rating is that I wish it had color pictures and more of them, but I am probably just being peevish. The truth is, when I bought the book, I really wanted a glossy picture book but none were available (this was before the 1999 publication of "Shingle Styles"). The book's small black and white photographs will not be satisfying to someone who wants to drool over rich photographs of this gorgeous architectural style, as I did. Nonetheless, the book itself will be quite satisfying to someone who wants to immerse themselves in the history and theory of this unique American style and who is willing to exert a little brain power to do it.

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