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by **August** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 5:43 pm

Here's a very enthusiastic review for the book at Powells.com
http://www.powells.com/review/2007_11_17.html

(I was also informed that my book was also enthusiastically reviewed in the latest issue of Film Comment magazine!)

by **armandv** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:42 pm

by **August** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 8:25 pm

Yeah, that was a really great review -- I'm looking forward to reading the review in Film Comment, since it's apparently very, very hard to get genre books reviewed in their pages! :Big-th-up:

by **August** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 10:19 pm

On Saturday, December 1st, author August Ragone will be appearing at an in-store signing of , from 3:00 pm until 5:00 pm at the . Located in San Francisco's picturesque Japantown (1628 Post St., between Laguna & Buchanan Sts.), the , is your one-stop solution for all of your Japanese toy culture needs. For more information call 415.409.4700.

by **dangerdiabolik** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:15 pm

just ordered it. CAN NOT WAIT to read it

by **August** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:47 pm

Thanks, I hope you will enjoy it!

by **Robert Saint John** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 3:16 pm

Latest issue of Wired has a very brief review with a picture of the cover (Reviews section, sidebar, p 109), and I think it's a "9 out of 10" symbol:

It's incredible to think that the Japanese monster boom -- Godzilla, Mothra, et al. -- all sprang from the mind of one filmmaker: Eiji Tsuburaya. In this illustrated bio, we're shown scenes like the master on a set, in hip waders, directing giant half-immersed crayfish and lizards. My favorite spread shows his most enduring brainchild, Ultraman, preparing to fire his Spacium Beam at an adversary. I am slain. â€” JM

by **August** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 3:19 pm

Thanks for passing this on, Robert! I was wondering when that was going to see press. Other recent magazines to enthusiastically review the book include Rue Morgue and the lofty Film Comment.

BTW, only a couple of hours to go until I am off to my next book signing at the Super 7 Store in San Francisco, so come and have a beer/soft drink with me (see post above for all of the details)!

by **kpa** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 3:53 pm

by **Mac** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:06 am

Hey August, I'm getting this book for Christmas, can't wait to read it!

by **Benjamin Haines** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:29 am

by **MouthForWar** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:30 pm

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by **MouthForWar** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 4:15 am

by **August** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:49 pm

by **Destroyer D** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:34 am

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by **Tohologe** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:39 pm

by **Destroyer D** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:22 pm

by **August** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 9:04 pm

EIJI TSUBURAYA: MASTER OF MONSTERS, continues to garner great press and enthusiastic reviews, including a 9 out of 10 review in the current WIRED magazine!

The WIRED review:
http://www.wired.com/culture/culturerev ... eviews1512

Now, my book has made the pages of TIME magazine! I would have never imagined to read this in the pages of TIME, "In Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters, San Francisco-based writer August Ragone has produced a fond, generously illustrated biography of the tokusatsu (special effects) genius, who died in 1970."

The TIME review:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 24,00.html

I only have one word right now... YEEEE-HAW! (Yeah, I know that's two words, so sue me!)

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