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The Automatic Muse: Surrealist Novels (Atlas Anti-classics)

1 review
Michel Leiris, Georges Limbour, ...

Serpent's Tail, 1995

Great collection of Surrealist writing
THE AUTOMATIC MUSE is a wonderful collection of surrealist writing from the 1920s. Desnos, Peret, Limbour & Leiris were all members of the Paris Surrealist group. For those interested in experimental literature and the avant garde, this is a highly recommended book. It's disturbing, dream-like, blasphemous & hilarious. THE ELEGANT EWE by Peret is especially funny, while MOURNING FOR MOURNING ...

All Flesh Must Be Eaten: The Atlas Of The Walking Dead

1 review
Various

Eden Studios, 2003

Gotta Love Zombies!
When my husband and I came across AFMBE, he thought he was in heaven. This particular book explores "zombies" (sometimes also old vampire legends) from around the world. What's better than having an endless wealth of knowledge on zombies, huh? When the apocolypse happens. You are not safe anywhere in the world!

Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel Masterworks)

1 review
Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, ...

Marvel Enterprises, 2008

Return of the Giant Monsters!
Another fantastic collection of Atlas era monster and sci-fi comics. These brought back the wonder and thrills of these old stories (stories I read while waiting with my dad for a chair at the barber shop!) The stories are as creepy as the comics code would allow for that time, and some of the tales actually made our little minds ponders things other than the safety of our own little worlds. ...

Atlas Shrugged, a novel

1 review
Ayn Rand

Random House, 1957

Those who preach selflessness do it for selfish reasons
In today's political clime Rand's writing is must reading. We are currently experiencing a resurgence in the war on the individual, with Hillary Clinton dropping quotes right and left that sound remarkably similar to statements made by Stalin and Lenin. Enough is a enough. Those who preach collectivism are trying to subjugate you. Those who preach altruism typically have their hand in someone ...

The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay

4 reviews
Louis Begley

Atlas & Co., 2008

The bearable lightness of being (and reading) Kafka
Thanks largely to Max Brod and scores of subsequent literary commentators who read Franz Kafka through Beckettesque lenses, the image of Kafka most of us grew up with is of a tortured, self-loathing, desperately unhappy and hopelessly ill prophet who'd looked into the abyss, recognized the futility of existence and the absence of God, and tried to write about it in allegorical tales in which he's ...

The Great Pretender

2 reviews
James Atlas

Viking, 1987

Atlas: An American Great
In this gripping story of a young Jewish boy's passage into manhood, Atlas takes his reader on an entertaining tour of the suburban 1960's culture that the protagonist (Ben, I believe his name is) is caught up in. Sex and relationships dominate the novel, as well as Ben. Ben eventually goes to Harvard and majors in English or Literature and is something of a poet. The best thing about "The ...

Marvel Masterworks Atlas Era Tales Suspense 1

2 reviews
Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, ...

Marvel Enterprises, 2006

Monsters running wild!!!
Before a Gamma bomb was detonated in the dessert, or a young student had a fateful run-in with a radioactive spider at Empire State University, and even before Marvel was Marvel, Stan Lee was in the monster business. Under the banner of Atlas Comics, Lee and the amazing talents of Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck, Matt Baker, Carl Burgos and Joe Sinnott assaulted young 1950s readers with bold ...

Marvel Masterworks Presents Atlas Era Heroes

3 reviews
Bill Everett, Carl Burgos, ...

Marvel Enterprises, 2007

Make mine the origional Human Torch!
Martin Goodman's 1950's Atlas Comics, the seed that someday would sprout the mighty Marvel Comic Group, showcased a diverse assortment of genres; everything from funny talking animals, to romance, to horror / sci-fi, to war and espionage. All of which fell victims to the changing times and the whims of their adolescent readership. What remains from this golden age of Atlas Comics are the ...

Atlas Era Strange Tales 1 (Marvel Masterworks)

1 review
Joe Maneely, John Romita, ...

Marvel Master Works, 2007

Atlas Era Strange Tales 1 (Marvel Masterworks)
collecting all the masterworks some are very hard to find, it is nice to know i can come to amazon to find the missing ones, this is a wonderful book and series worth collecting for reading or saving for your kids which is what i intend to do.

Atlas Shrugged (Cliffs Notes)

8 reviews
Andrew Bernstein

Cliffs Notes, 2000

GREAT TOOL TO HAVE!
I've pushed my way through many years of school without buying a single Cliffsnotes. I found it funny that my first purchase would be for a book I choose to read on my own accord. Rand's novel can't be praised enough, but I also have to give the Cliffnotes for the novel their fair due. This little book was a great help in gaining a better understanding of this massive novel. I really enjoyed the ...

Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged

1 review
Edward W. Younkins

Ashgate, 2007

A true must-have
Very few novels have stood the test of time. This year marks a venerable exception to this axiom, with the fiftieth aniversary of the first publication of Ayn Rand's groundbreaking novel Atlas Shrugged, which has never been out of print since its inititial publication. Hugely popular among literature and philosophy buffs alike, it has meant many different things to many people over the years. ...

Becalmed

2 reviews
J. K. Huysmans

Atlas Press, 1993

Green Acres of Hell.
Becalmed is a crucial novel by an important, eccentric writer. Having tried city life and monkish asceticism/astheticism, Huysmans gives the coutryside a shot, and returns the familiar misanthropic, peevish verdict. Amazingly, Becalmed out-against-natures Against Nature! The people who work the land are rendered stupid and greedy, and many passages throughout the book use disease imagery to ...

Atlas of Novel Tectonics

6 reviews
Jesse Reiser

Princeton Architectural Press, 2006

a rare exemplar of clarity in architectural writing
Reiser and Umemoto (henceforth R&U) have put together a wonderful role model of a textbook in a field that erroneously prides itself on having NO textbooks -- that is, by having far too many "must-read" books that remain disconnected and often irrelevant to the problem of learning HOW TO GO ABOUT wrapping one's head around this thing called Architecture. Without turgidity, mysticism, pedantry, or ...

Cloud Atlas: A Novel

171 reviews
David Mitchell

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004

In some way, the best book I've ever read.
I won't go in depth- just add my confirmation to the many voices of praise, for what little that may be worth.... Its deep, touching, very well written and highly entertaining. A true masterpiece. I would challenge any other writer to achieve what this book achieves in the same format. Some could, many couldn't. Six short stories, all interconnected, all masterpieces of emotion, and all ...

The Atlas of Middle-Earth

79 reviews
Karen Wynn Fonstad, Christopher Tolkien, ...

Houghton Mifflin, 1992

Excellent
I got this for my son-in-law who is a Tolken fan. I ordered this from Amazon, but it was damaged. They did replace it. Thanks to them my son-in-law's Christmas was saved and he really likes it. Kudos to Amazon.com.

Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish Volume 1

9 reviews
Stan Lee

Marvel Enterprises, 2006

Monsters running wild!!!
Before Reed Richards and his stoic companions where belted by cosmic ray, or a young Peter Parker had a fateful run-in with a radioactive spider at Empire State University, and even before Marvel was Marvel, Stan Lee was in the monster business. Under the banner of Atlas Comics, Lee and the amazing talents of Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck, Matt Baker, Carl Burgos and Joe Sinnott assaulted ...

Slayers Text, Vol. 2: The Sorcerer of Atlas

2 reviews
Hajime Kanzaka, Rui Araizumi (Illustrator)

TokyoPop, 2004

Something unexpected
For fans of the anime expecting the novels to continue the general storyline that the TV series took, the second Slayers novel can be kind of a shock. This novel chronicles the general events that take place early in the Slayers Next TV series, but things are so different from the TV series interpretation that you'd hardly recognise them. But different doesn't necessarily mean bad and the ...

The Wizard's Grimoire (Ars Magica) (Ars Magica Series)

1 review
Jeff Tidball, David Chart

Atlas Games, 1998

You know you want it...
Okay. You have Ars Magica. This is the next one you want. It's as simple as that. Here is what people want in their campaign -- more magic, more Virtues and Flaws, more background on bein a mage, the centerpoint of any saga. If you are only going to pick up one supplement, make it this one. Hands down it will give you more bang-for-the-buck than any other two supplements.

X marks the spot: A novel

3 reviews
Les Martin

Atlas Editions, 1995

A strange begining!
When F.B.I. agent Dana Scully is first meets Angent Fox Mulder she is confounded."..like putting together 2 pieces in a puzzle that don't fit.." He is deffinatly the ruddest man that she has ever met! Together they investigate the strange disippearance of one high school class. Each victim has strange red welts on thier lower back. Agent Mulder thinks that the kids have been abducted by ...

Over the Edge: The Role Playing Game of Surreal Danger

4 reviews
Jonathan Tweet

Atlas Games, 1997

Unleash Yourself
Freedom... That's what I'm talking about. I started playing Over the Edge with its first edition. My game group and I were tired of character classes, of prefab dungeon crawls and the typical nonsense associated with the roleplaying hobby. About that time, we were also getting heavily into Philip K. Dick (We Can Remember it for you Wholesale), David Lynch (Eraserhead), William S. Burroughs ...

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