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Hardly "A Different Party", this book will "Give It To You".
I bought this book last year, ON the day of its release, so dedicated aJordan Knight fan am I.Easy reading; after all, this isn'tShakespeare--and doesn't need to be.But while it doesn't offer anyearth-shattering insights(I actually did know everything recited in italready and could quote the original sources without a bibliography handy,if asked), it does offer honest, accurate information, however simplystated it may be.There are some nice pictures of Jordan, mostly from hisNew Kids days, with a few newer ones.Personally, my favorite part was thelisting of Jordan Knight websites given, with grades for each; and I wasglad to see that my favorite("Jordan Knight:Since You Walked Into MyLife", whose webmistress is Melissa C., a very friendly andknowledgeable young lady who deserves to be Jordan's personal assistant)got the props it deserved, an A+.I do recommend this book for fans whohave followed Jordan since he was in New Kids and want a nice piece of solomemorabilia on him and to the newer fans who are just discovering whyJordan has enchanted so many of us for so long, who need some good basicinformation on him and how he's gotten to where he is today.The only bookabout Jordan that could be any better would be his autobiography--but he'sa little young, yet, for that.

This book surprised me!It's actually good!
Hello, all.GIVE IT TO YOU: THE JORDAN KNIGHT STORY has got to be one of the most eloquent, well-written pieces on a hot young celebrity today.Not only is Knight's life story artfully told, but the language the authors useis mature and not offensive.In other words, there aren't any "Like,Oh My Gawd, Jordan is like SUCH a babeliscious dude.He's like total eyecandy and like I just want him to be my bf."Even though I loveJordan Knight and am his biggest fan and would have bought this book evenif it was dumb, I actually ended up pleasantly surprised and liked it verymuch.It had everything I wanted to know about this hot dude, and more! Bravo!!!I highly recommend this book!!!

Cool book on Jordan Knight
I was so excited when I got this book, since the old books on NKOTB never had such in depth account on any of the singers. The author followed Jordan's career from the begining of NKOTB to his sucessfull solo debut.This definitely makes for one fascinating and entertaining read. BravoJordan! Way to go!!!

An amazing book about an amazing guy
I loved this book.It had everthing you would ever want to know about the talented and gorgeous Jordan Knight.From his childhood days with his family to his heartthrob days with NKOTB, Ms. Furman's book is informativeand precise.The pictures are great--bring back a lot of memories!It'sabout time that someone did a bio on a real talented younger singer.Thisbook did not talk down to the fans, it "spoke" to us in a matureway.I'm one of the older fans, and I appreciate the fact that there wasno ridiculous language that you read in teeny bopper magazines about starstoday.A must have for every Jordan Knight fan out there!!And there area lot of us!

A comprehensive and honest portrayal of Jordan's life
Besides the few errors that I found which only die hard fans would notice and why I can't give it 5 stars, like New Kids presenting the Grammy to MC Hammer instead of Young MC, and the Tommy Page song "I Will Be YourEverything, instead of "I'll Be Your Everything", the book is avery good read.Being one of Jordan's older fans, I assumed the book wouldtalk down to the reader, and use a lot of exciting buzz words to keep thenew younger fans interested, as many others have in the past.To mysurprise the book was a well written, comprehensive, and honest portrayalof the life and times of Jordan and NKOTB.I found that the book brouhtback many nalstigic memories for me, and the pictures, especially the oneon the cover, will get any red blooded girls heart racing.So, I dorecomend picking up a copy for anyone who is interested in learning aboutJordan's life, and any hard core block heads out there who have livedthrough the mania, and want to be reminded of the good old days. ... Read more

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I want to purchase the book!!!
Can you give me some information on how to purchase the book titled:East Jordan Remembers:A Collection of Stories about East Jordan's Past

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Chapters: Donnie Wahlberg, Joey Mcintyre, Jordan Knight, Jonathan Knight, Danny Wood. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Donald Edmond "Donnie" Wahlberg, Jr. (born August 17, 1969) is an American singer, actor and film producer. He is a member of the popular 1980s and 1990s boy band New Kids on the Block . His work background includes music, feature films, and television. Donnie has had featured roles in the Saw films, The Sixth Sense, Boomtown and Righteous Kill, also appearing in the award-winning World War II miniseries Band of Brothers. Wahlberg was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, as the eighth of nine children, with older siblings Arthur, Jim, Paul, Robert, Tracey, Michelle, Debbie and younger sibling Mark Wahlberg. He also has three half-siblings from his father's first marriage- Donna, Scott and Buddy. His mother, Alma Elaine (née Donnelly), was a bank clerk and nurse's aide, and his father, Donald Edmond Wahlberg, Sr. was a teamster who worked as a delivery driver; the couple divorced in 1982. He is of Irish, English, Swedish, and French Canadian ancestry. Wahlberg's first film acting role was in the 1996 film Bullet with Mickey Rourke and Tupac Shakur. Also in 1996, he appeared as a kidnapper in Ransom with Mel Gibson. Wahlberg received attention for his role in the 1999 film The Sixth Sense, playing the patient of Bruce Willis's character in the opening sequence. This role was originally intended for a 13-year-old boy until Wahlberg met with writer and director M. Night Shyamalan to inquire about obtaining the rights for a theatre production, and ended up getting the role. In 2001, Wahlberg co-starred as Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton in the television miniseries Band of Brothers. Wahlberg also starred ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=587794 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jordan Nathaniel Marcel Knight (born May 17, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter best known as a singer in the boy band, New Kids on the Block (NKOTB), and actor which rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s. He is best known for his distinctive falsetto style of singing, influenced by The Stylistics. After New Kids On The Block disbanded Jordan continued a solo career. He released 4 Top 40 singles, most famously for his hit song "Give It To You" in 1999 but since then he has failed to reach the Billboard Hot 100 again, Jordan has also done two studio albums, one remix album and 1 EP. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:V. THE NUN OF THE TEMPLE OF AMIDA.When O-Toyo's husband—a distant cousin, adopted into her family for love's sake—had been summoned by his lord to the capital, she did not feel anxious about the future. She felt sad only. It was the first time since their bridal that they had ever been separated. But she had her father and mother to keep her company, and, dearer than either,—though she would never have confessed it even to herself,—her little son. Besides, she always had plenty to do. There were many household duties to perform, and there was much clothing to be woven—both silk and cotton.Once daily at a fixed hour, she would set for the absent husband, in his favourite room, little repasts faultlessly served on dainty lacquered trays,—miniature meals such as are offered to the ghosts of the ancestors, and to the gods. These repasts were served at the Such a repast, offered to the spirit of the absent one loved, is called a Kage-zen; lit., "Shadow-tray." The word zen is also used to signify the meal served on the lacquered tray,—which has feet, like 3 miniature table. So that the term "Shadow-feast" would be a better translation of Kagt-zen,east side of the room, and his kneeling-cushion placed before them. The reason they were served at the east side was because he had gone east. Before removing the food, she always lifted the cover of the little soup- bowl to see if there was vapour upon its lacquered inside surface. For it is said that if there be vapour on the inside of the lid covering food so offered, the absent beloved is well. But if there be none, he is dead,— because that is a sign that his soul has returned by itself to seek nourishment . O-Toyo found the lacquer thickly beaded with vapour day by day.The child was her constant delight. He was three y... ... Read more

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A Fluent Translation of Unspoken Worldviews
Not to be confused with Natsume Soseki's novel by the same title, Lafcadio Hearn's "Kokoro" is a magnificent collection of essays, vignettes, memoirs, and meditations on Japan in the 1890's. Very much a product of the mid-Meiji period, these masterfully-written little literary pieces are nonetheless timeless. Each piece is quite different from the rest, and yet almost all of them manage to start from everyday incidents or obvious observations and gradually spiral inwards to some deeply moving and startling insight into Japanese attitudes, values, and worldviews; more than once this seemingly methodless method allows Hearn to share with the reader certain common opinions and normal spiritual orientations held by average Japanese folks--the kinds of things usually taken for granted and so unarticulated, hence least amenable to documentation and scholarship (especially of the time, but even today). And Hearn does all this with an unpretentious erudition and an understated and balanced sympathy for his subject that, along with his literary flair for wonderfully clear and flowing prose, places his writings here in a category far above the rest. With him we can find none of the unintentional strains of condescension and orientalism so typical of folklore and religious anthropology, for while he's looking with the surprised gaze of the outsider with one eye, his other eye is that of the insider feeling very much at home where he is. The resulting view is visionary--but in subdued and shadowy tones.

Appendix on an Appendix: in addition to the fifteen excellent essays forming the main body of "Kokoro", there's an extensive appendix featuring Hearn's translations of three popular folk ballads: "The Ballad of Shuntoku-Maru", "The Ballad of Oguri Hangwan" and "The Ballad of O-Shichi, the Daughter of the Yaoya". These are fascinating on a number of levels. They provide a tantalizingly fleeting glimpse of plebian drama, remarkable in its very lack of remarkableness. There's a certain sociological angle, as the versions of these oral ballads collected and translated by Hearn are those recited by mountain outcastes in the area of today's Shimane Prefecture. Religiously the first two ballads are key in understanding popular attitudes concerning pilgrimage in Japan--the first demonstrating a creepy (almost voodoo) edge in Kannon faith at Kiyomizudera Temple, the second delightfully exaggerating the rejuvenating benefits of Kumano and its sacred hot springs. Meanwhile, the third ballad is a straightforwardly melodramatic retelling of a true story better known to us today in a more refined and literary version as found in the novelist Saikaku's "Five Women Who Loved Love" of 1686.

The Heart of Things
"Kokoro" is a difficult word to translate from Japanese to English.Heart, Spirit, Way of Being...it is all of these things.Rather than attempt a direct translation, Lafcadio Hearn offers a selection of stories focusing on Japanese inner life, so that by the end you will understand kokoro.

The stories follow Hearn's particular interests of Japanese folklore and the vanishing culture of which he found himself a part in post-Meji Japan.Each story is a slice of life focusing on Japanese character, morals and feelings.This is what the Japanese people care about, what they think is important, what is inside.

The selected tales are non-judgmental and non-orientalist.This is no attempt to explain or highlight the "strange" Japanese, but merely a record and an illumination, in the best sense of the term.

The collected stories:

"At a Railway Station"
"The Genius of Japanese Civilization"
"A Street Singer"
"From a Traveling Diary"
"The Nun of the Temple of Amida"
"After the War"
"Haru"
"A Glimpse of Tendencies"
"By Force of Karma"
"A Conservative"
"In the Twilight of the Gods"
"The Idea of Pre-Exsistance"
"In Cholera Time"
"Some Thoughts about Ancestor Worship"
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Jordan Hasay, Phil Knight, Steve Prefontaine, Alberto Salazar, Galen Rupp, George Varoff, Harry Jerome, Andrew Wheating, Joaquim Cruz, Matthew Robinson, Rudy Chapa, Mac Wilkins, William Dellinger, Otis Davis, Jerry Tarr, Daniel Kelly, Kenny Moore, Jim Puckett, Dyrol Burleson, Lisa Martin, Ralph Hill, Wade Bell, Bill Mcchesney, Martin Hawkins, Dave Edstrom, Siegmar Ohlemann. Excerpt:Alberto Salazar Alberto Salazar (born August 7, 1958 in Cuba ) is an American marathon runner of the 1980s. Born in Cuba, Salazar immigrated to the United States with his family. They ultimately moved to Wayland , Massachusetts , where Salazar competed in track and field in high school. Salazar is best known for his performances in the New York City Marathons in the early 1980s and his American track records of 13:11.93 for 5,000 m (July 6, 1982 - Stockholm) and 27:25.61 for 10,000 m - (June 26, 1982 - Oslo). Athletic career Salazar started as a high school standout from Wayland, Massachusetts. He was the state cross country champion in 1975 and trained w th the well known Greater Boston Track Club (whose members ncluded the likes of Bill Rodgers , Randy Thomas, and Greg Meyer ) where he was given the nickname of "the rookie". From there he went to the University of Oregon where he won numerous All American honors, was a member of the 1977 NCAA cross country championship team, won the individual NCAA cross country championship in 1978, finished third in the Olympic Trials 10,000 meter race to make the 1980 Olympic team (that didn't compete in the Olympics in Moscow due to the U.S. boycott), and broke the American indoor 5,000 meter record in February, 1981 at the Millrose Games in New York (his 13:22.6 beating the old AR by nearly 20 seconds as he finished second behind Suleiman Nyambui , who broke ... ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! New Kids on the Block is an American pop group that enjoyed success in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a boy band which went on to sell 80 million albums worldwide. Assembled in Boston in 1984 by producer Maurice Starr, the members consist of brothers Jordan and Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg, and Danny Wood. They won two American Music Awards in 1990 for Favorite Pop/Rock Band, Duo, or Group and Favorite Pop/Rock Album. After having disbanded in 1994, several attempts were made to get the group back together, all of them unsuccessful. ... Read more