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Laddar... The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived (2006)av Dan Karlan, Allan Lazar, Jeremy Salter
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. i have a feeling i'm going to hate this. the writers are waaay too big for their britches. but i'm curious enough about some of their choices to keep reading. for a little while ... yeah, couldn't be bothered. i don't need to know about this particular set of people's ideas of who was and wasn't influential. this list is not objective at all, so it's just like being forced to listen to these people talk about things they like. they don't seem like the kind of people i want to listen to talk for very long. and their reasons for listing characters as influential are sometimes vague and include nothing more than the retelling of a story with no commentary. no thanks. I have been looking forward to reading this one for quite some time. I expected to like it but thought that it might be a little dry in places. It exceeded my expectations. Each entry was of a fictional character, and the characters were grouped together into such topics as Folktales, Monsters, Literature, Movies, Commerce, Propaganda, etc. The background of the fictional character was discussed and why it was important. Lots of humor as well. I was familiar with 98% of the characters; here are a few: the Marlboro Man, Rosie the Riveter, Big Brother, Scrooge, HAL 9000, Godzilla. The book included a list of those that didn't make the list, and there were amusing interludes as to how the authors came up with the list, how they wrote the individual entries, etc. I was very disappointed in this book. I loved the premise and the list itself, but found the description of each character to be more of a commentary on the author's opinion than less on the history of the character and almost none of how society has been shaped/impacted by the existence of the fictional person. I don't care that the myth of Cinderella should not be taught to our daughters and certainly find it horribly subjective to call Adam the "first male chauvinist pig." There was much potential here, only to be squandered by a group of authors more interested in writing of an OpEd and less of an informative, non-emotional book. Not recommended. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
From Santa Claus to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from Uncle Sam to Uncle Tom, here is a compelling, eye-opening, and endlessly entertaining compendium of fictional trendsetters and world-shakers who have helped shape our culture and our lives. The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived offers fascinating histories of our most beloved, hated, feared, and revered invented icons and the indelible marks they made on civilization, including: # 28: Rosie the Riveter, the buff, blue-collar factory worker who helped jump-start the Women's Liberation movement # 7: Siegfried, the legendary warrior-hero of Teutonic nationalism responsible for propelling Germany into two world wars # 80: Icarus, the headstrong high-flyer who inspired the Wright brothers and humankind's dreams of defying gravity . . . while demonstrating the pressing need for flight insurance # 58: Saint Valentine, the hapless, de-canonized loser who lost his heart and head at about the same time # 43: Barbie, the bodacious plastic babe who became a role model for millions of little girls, setting an impossible standard for beauty and style Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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This was a glorious little romp through a whole lot of people I agree in large part did change or influence my life. I'd suggest it to anyone who wants to spend a good ninty percent of the books going "Oh, wow, I remember this" the whole way through. The history is wonderful as are the trite and glorious little in jokes and puns and literary lincences taken. ( )