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The Die-Hard Fan's Guide to Sooner Football

5 reviews
Jim Fletcher

Regnery Publishing, 2008

Die-hard Fan
I could not put this down! This book is full of great stories and interviews. This is the kind of thing that stirs up the memories and makes me proud to be born an OU Sooner. I will be adding this to my favorite shelf in my library!

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel

588 reviews
Lisa See

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006

A richly woven story
I could not put this book down! The story draws you in from the start. Watching Lily grow from a little girl who undergoes the barbaric foot binding process all the way to an old woman with all her memories is fascinating. She is completely human, doing good things and bad things. That is what makes this book so good, you cannot put her soul/psyche in a box or label her. Lisa See is a very ...

Cosi fan Tutte, K. 588: Vocal Score

6 reviews
Ruth and Thomas Martin

G. Schirmer, Inc., 1986

Cosi Fan Tutte
good edition. has everything needed and there are no mistakes in the music.

The Magic Fan

7 reviews
Keith Baker

Voyager Books, 1997

The Magic Fan
This beautifully illustrated Japanese fable by Keith Baker has long been one of my favorite children's books. I am a music teacher of young children and at the end of their first grade classes with me, we turn "The Magic Fan" into a musical movie, complete with costumes, children playing instruments copying Japanese instruments, dancing girls, script, Yoshi, singing of "Sakura" (a Japanese ...

Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach To Customer Service

122 reviews
Ken Blanchard, Sheldon Bowles

William Morrow, 1993

In lieu of Book
I bought this in lieu of buying th book and am glad I did. We slipped it in and played it while on a day trip on the road. We are Amazon booksellers and found the information very helpful in our applying it to our bookselling business. The narration is story form which helps keep it interesting as well.

The Elusive Fan: Reinventing Sports in a Crowded Marketplace

5 reviews
Irving Rein, Philip Kotler, ...

McGraw-Hill, 2006

informative, entertaining, timely
The Elusive Fan is an enjoyable read with a good blend of facts and analysis. It is entertaining yet serious. As new forms of entertainment emerge rapidly and businesses of all types hire consultants to compete for our attention and dollars, The Elusive Fan articulates the changes we are witnessing and describes how sports fit in to our evolving economy and culture.

God Save the Fan: How Preening Sportscasters, Athletes Who Speak in the Third Person, and the Occasional ...

29 reviews
Will Leitch

Harper, 2008

A Primer on a Notorious Blogger
Will Leitch recently gained national fame through an appearance on (Bob) Costas Now and a failed debate on sports blogging with the boorish Buzz Bissinger. And for fans who want a big helping of what Leitch delivers in the cyber-universe, this is a great venue. But where reading Leitch online - and in smaller doses - can be compelling, sidesplitting, or just plain fun, the style fails to ...

Lady Windermere's Fan (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)

7 reviews
Oscar Wilde

ReadHowYouWant, 2008

Wildely Entertaining
My first experience reading Oscar Wilde... and certainly not my last. Wilde's sardonic wit and ineffable satire had me enchanted from page one. Wilde writes with devastatingly appealing witticisms, and with a style and cleverness matched by few other authors. It is said that he is one of the more oft-quoted authors in the English language, and I now understand why. In addition to axioms ...

A Fan's Notes

62 reviews
Frederick Exley

Vintage, 1988

Reasons to be a fan of A Fan's Notes
I'll be brief: this is a long, intense, parodic, rhapsodic, beautiful and, at times, ungainly piece of American literature. A Hemingwayesque verve, a Faulknerian playfulness, and a Nabokovian look at the underside of American life, this book should be read by men, women, and children (over 18 years of age, of course), after which they will know not only much more about narcissism, alcoholism, ...

100 Things Cowboys Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die (100 Things 100 Things) (100 Things)
Ed Housewright

Triumph Books, 2008

The Ultimate Resource Guide for True Cowboys Fans Every good Dallas Cowboys fan can tell you about the highlights from the franchise's half century of existence--including five Super Bowl victories and 10 players inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame--but how many know all the stories behind the names, games, and traditions of one of the NFL's most popular teams? 100 Things Cowboys Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die was created for ...

Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (Studies in Culture and Communication)

4 reviews
Henry Jenkins

Routledge, 1992

Outstanding Analysis of the Culture of Television Fandom
Culture studies has been one of the most provocative and controversial areas of investigation in the social sciences during the last score years or so. Using the tools of postmodern analysis of texts, and the deconstruction of ideas, institutions, and forms scholars have reshaped our understanding of everything from the mundane to subjects acknowledged by all as critical to our modern society. In ...

Raving Fans (One Minute Manager)
Kenneth H. Blanchard, Sheldon Bowles

HarperCollins Business, 1998

Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Media Consumers in a Digital Age

2 reviews
Henry Jenkins

NYU Press, 2006

All together now
Henry Jenkins provides an excellent step away from our normal expectations of media philosophers. Coming in between the doom-and-gloom media affect tradition and the corporate schlock Jenkins writes (and speaks!) for the fans. The book is a collection of articles set in three chapters: In the first, Jenkins lets us into the world of fandom (if you aren't there already) and more specifically ...

The Fan Man

32 reviews
William Kotzwinkle

Vintage, 1994

It's fun, man. Like FUN, dig?
There has been a lot of counterculture literature since the rise of the Beat Generation in the 50s. Much of it fails to measure up to the standard of Kerouac, Ginsberg or Burroughs. There are some writers who have managed to rise up to the occasion with classic or near classic works. Terry Southern would be one that comes to mind. Another writer who has produced some fine works is William ...

The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan: An Enola Holmes Mystery
Nancy Springer

Philomel, 2008

When Enola Holmes encounters her friend Lady Cecily hiding behind a pink fan, she finds it peculiar. In fact, she realizes Cecily is in danger! But what, exactly, is the matter? And how can Enola help? After examining the clues, Enola discovers Lady Cecily is being held hostage in an abysmal orphanage, and if she isn’t rescued, she’ll be forced into a miserable marriage! This complicated case has Sherlock and Enola (literally) running into each ...

We Are Cubs Fans (We Are Cubs Fans, An Unofficial Journal of Baseball's Best Fans, Volume 1)

8 reviews
Will Byington, 2008

We Are Cubs Fans
This is a really wonderful book. The pictures are great and it's always nice to hear everyones' stories on how they became Cubs fans. A terrific book to give your friends who are Cubs fans. I have gotten 5 copies now. LOVE IT !!!!

Jazz Fan Looks Back
Jayne Cortez

Hanging Loose Press, 2002

Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet

4 reviews

McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2006

Covers a variety of viewpoints
One of the things I found particularly interesting (and enjoyable) about reading this book was how it mirrored discussions held with fan communities about what they do. Along with a helpful bibliography on fan studies, and more than one review of fan fiction history (its origins as well as academic study on the topic) there are various, sometimes contradictory, perspectives on the writing of fan ...

Fan Cultures (Sussex Studies in Culture and Communication)

1 review
Matthew Hills

Routledge, 2002

Hyper-Theory Meets Common Sense
This really is one of the best academic books on fandom, if not the best. Hills has a remarkable ability to read in, through, and around established theory, and yet also has a nice knack of forcing theory to account for grounded realities. Each chapter boldly approaches fandom from the standpoint of an existing binary in fan studies, and as a result, the book shatters through multiple impasses ...

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