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Edgeworks: v. 3: Collected Ellison [Hardcover]

Harlan Ellison (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 334 pages
  • Publisher: White Wolf Publishing; 1st White Wolf Omnibus Ed edition (26 Jun 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1565049624
  • ISBN-13: 978-1565049628
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16.3 x 4.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,458,775 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Once again, Harlan Ellison fans can continue to collect the hard-to-find essays and stories that are normally available in expensive, out of print editions. Edgeworks Volume 3 presents The Harlan Ellison Hornbook, with more than 50 essays of Ellison at his hair-tearing, tooth-gnashing, maddening best. Here he ranges over miles and miles of territory, covering everything from death to dingbats with his personal brand of opinionated outrageousness. A true landmark in the Ellison landscape, it blazes the way for Harlan Ellison's Movie, the script commissioned by a 20th Century-Fox producer who asked the fatal question, "If you could make any movie, with complete carte blanche, what would you do?" Ellison's script has been previously available only as a big, expensive limited edition. Don't miss it this time around!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Outspoken Ellison cuts loose, again 19 Jun 1997
By A Customer
Format:Hardcover
Anyone who has ever read Harlan Ellison knows he throws a lot of personnel information and views into his writing. This book is all that.

In this collection of essays from the 70s, repackaged nicely, Ellison is angry, funny and sick at the same time. Reading these somewhat tall tales, I was taken back to the days of my childhood. Back to when one of my more crazy "uncles" used to tell me stories of his youth on hot summer days.

Ellison is a better writer now than he was then, but the essays still hold up. They hold up even though references to Nixon and Lenny Bruce may leave some younger readers feeling a little unattached to the stories at times.

I promise by the time you finish reading this one, you'll find it hard to forget some of the tales told by crazy Uncle Harlan.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best Essayists ever... 8 Jun 2004
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Format:Hardcover
My father had been a fan of Ellison's ever since I can remember and so I've always had his writing around. Alas, many of his books are out-of-print. I must have taken Harlan Ellison's Hornbook out of the library countless times, re-reading it cover to cover again and again. It's that good.

Most people, if they know of Ellison's work, know mostly of his short stories but this book collects essays he wrote in the 1970s about whatever struck his fancy... a great restaurant, some publisher who ripped him off once, the death of his beloved dog, a woman who double-crossed him, lamenting Lenny Bruce's death... Ellison writes with such authority and with such style--pithy yet degenerate is the best description I can think of. This book hums with intensity as the last greatest angry young man lets loose on all kinds of topics (to read his rant on why he hates Christmas is incredibly funny, even if you don't agree with his sentiments). This is one helluva read.

Even though I've read this book countless times, I keep coming back to it because Ellison's style of writing is endlessly entertaining and thought-provoking. It really gets under you skin and stays there.

Do yourself a favor and track down this book. It is definitely worth it.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Outspoken Ellison cuts loose, again 20 Jun 1997
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
Anyone who has ever read Harlan Ellison knows he throws a lot of personnel information and views into his writing. This book is all that.

In this collection of essays from the 70s, repackaged nicely, Ellison is angry, funny and sick at the same time. Reading these somewhat tall tales, I was taken back to the days of my childhood. Back to when one of my more crazy "uncles" used to tell me stories of his youth on hot summer days.

Ellison is a better writer now than he was then, but the essays still hold up. They hold up even though references to Nixon and Lenny Bruce may leave some younger readers feeling a little unattached to the stories at times.

I promise by the time you finish reading this one, you'll find it hard to forget some of the tales told by crazy Uncle Harlan.
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