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Title: Such a Pretty Face by Lee Martindale, Doug Beekman ISBN: 1-892065-27-4 Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Unique and Exciting
Comment: "Such A Pretty Face" puts more than just a new look at an old stereotype. Editor Lee Martindale has put together an amazing collection of size-positive short stories to celebrate a new era of heroes. With contributions from both well-established authors to new-comers in the genre, these stories are inspiring and entertaining. They affirm the beauty and abilities of a snubbed majority - the person of size. This collection is ground-breaking, exciting, and long overdue, but has been well worth the wait...and weight.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great read - I hope it becomes a series!
Comment: No, I haven't any reason to think it will be a series, but I can hope, can't I?
I ran across the book back in July and fell in with the cover painting. Then I saw that it was edited by Lee Martindale, someone I remembered encountering (and respecting) in the size acceptance newsgroups. At that point I probably would have bought it no matter what, but the theme of the anthology cinched it.
I finished it within 48 hours of getting it, and it was wonderful. As usual with any anthology, I enjoyed some stories more than others. I think "Demon Bone" by Teresa Noelle Roberts had to be my favorite story. The poem "Fat Is Not A Fairy Tale" by Jane Yolen and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough's story "Worse Than The Curse" were awfully good, though :-) Paula L. Fleming's "Polyformus Perfectus" left me wishing it were the beginning of a novel rather than a short story.
I've already recommended this book to quite a few people, but I have a feeling I'll be handing it out to more. I'll probably buy a hardback copy to keep and loan out the paperback, but I'll be buying some copies to give as gifts as well.
And if I EVER find a print of the cover painting by Doug Beekman, it's going in a place of honor in my living room.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fat is beautiful...and funny.
Comment: This is an anthology about fat people published by Meisha Merlin Publishing. Such SF/F luminaries as Jody Lynn Nye, Gene Wolfe, Jane Yolen, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, K.D. Wentworth, and a host of others present a look at another view of the hero. A princess is cursed, and starts a new fashion trend, a sizeable selkie is the love of a man's life, a forty-year-old fat bi . . . uh, woman rediscovers the joy of creation on a lonely dirt road, and a couple of truly fat cats are far more than they appear. These and more stories just as exciting grace the pages of this thoughtful, wildly funny, and excellent volume of stories.
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Title: What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology by Donna Jarrell, Ira Sukrungruang ISBN: 0156029073 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 08 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Bountiful Women: Large Women's Secrets for Living the Life They Desire by Bonnie Bernell, Carmen Renee Berry ISBN: 1885171471 Publisher: Wildcat Canyon Press Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Zaftig: Well Rounded Erotica by Hanne Blank ISBN: 1573441228 Publisher: Cleis Press Pub. Date: 09 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Big Big Love: A Sourcebook on Sex for People of Size and Those Who Love Them by Hanne Blank ISBN: 1890159166 Publisher: Greenery Pr Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Invisible Woman: Confronting Weight Prejudice in America by W. Charisse Goodman ISBN: 0936077107 Publisher: Gurze Books Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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