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Title: The Tao of Bada Bing: Words of Wisdom from the Sopranos by David Chase ISBN: 1-56649-278-5 Publisher: Carhil Ventures, LLC Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A MUST for Sopranos fans (others may be a bit confused)
Comment: If you're a Sopranos fan and realize that the show deals with a bit more than people getting killed, betrayals, a marriage falling apart, relationships and families -- then this book is for YOU. In fact, it is a MUST for any Sopranos fans.
The Tano of Bada Bing! is a masterful idea, beautifully executed (no pun intended), and small but meaty enough so you can take it on a trip. No, I didn't feel ripped off by this book at ALL... in fact I have read it four times already on trips and I love it.
The book culls key dialogue from four seasons of the Sopranos and puts them in chapters headed by a piece of immortal wisdom of the Tao Te Ching, the ancient Chinese text underpinning Taoism. YES...there are larger issues in the show's various scenes. And if you're a fan then seeing these larger issues, plus recaping your favorite moments, makes you realize again how much good WRITING is required in television (and film) to bring off an enduring hit. You realize that it isn't actors schitck that sustains the Sopranos but gem-like scripts that have big themes in them.
The Taoism is merely a device that gets this point across. Plus, it also serves to wet readers' appetites to find out more about Toaism itself, which isn't a bad idea.
The only reason this book shouldn't get five stars is this: there is really no explanation in it about various characters quoted in the key scenes used to illustrate the short Tao material heading up each chapter. So Sopranos fans, or anyone who has an even modest knowledge fo the show, will understand who is saying what -- but a non-fan or non-viewer will have trouble figuring out who the character is who is in each scene. Bottom line: GREAT book for any Sopranos fan who wants to enjoy the show's best moments and consider larger issues than sex, betrayal and violence. A bit confusing for non-Sopranos fans.
Rating: 2
Summary: Exploitation publication HBO cash cow
Comment: Nothing here beyond this: Large print between hard covers to justify high price (A paperback would have been about 1/8" thick), jumbled quotations from the various Sopranos episodes, chapter headings with fortune cookie level "wisdom", and that's it. This passes for a book?! A silly exercise in pop culture exploitation on the level of a Brittany Spears biography or a National Enquirer advice column. The series is brilliant- this kind of pure exploitation commercialization demeans it. James Gandolfini is right. People take the Sopranos FAR too seriously- especially if they regard this kind of fluff as anything other than another way for HBO to make money.
Rating: 5
Summary: Bada Wow!
Comment: Who would have thought there is a logical link between the centuries-old tenets of the Tao Te Ching and the "whack-y" antics of TV's most un-Zenlike family, the Sopranos? The editors of this book, that's who! With some of the best and most enlightening dialogue from all 4 season of The Sopranos, The Tao of Bada Bing! offers a truly unique way of reliving the great writing from the show. One of the most original TV tie-in books I've ever read.
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Title: The Sopranos Family Cookbook: As Compiled by Artie Bucco by Allen Rucker, Michele Scicolone ISBN: 0446530573 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 24 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Sopranos: A Family History - Season 4 by Allen Rucker ISBN: 0451210522 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Gospel According to Tony Soprano: An Unauthorized Look Into the Soul of TV's Top Mob Boss and His Family by Chris Seay ISBN: 1585421944 Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Psychology of the Sopranos: Love, Death, Desire and Betrayal in America's Favorite Gangster Family by Glen O. Gabbard ISBN: 0465027350 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 09 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: A Goomba's Guide to Life by Steven R. Schirripa, Charles Fleming ISBN: 1400046394 Publisher: Clarkson N Potter Publishers Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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