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Title: Coney Island by Harvey Stein ISBN: 0-393-31787-0 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Very disappointing.
Comment: Having grown up in Coney Island I found this effort to be extremely substandard. This book takes the most uninteresting pictures of the most uninteresting individuals that I can imagine. Mr. Stein would have done much better to find alot more of the old timers who truly represent the feel and atmosphere of What Coney Island was, not so much the depressing delapidated dangerous neighborhood that it most unfortunately has become. He did not look hard enough to find what is truly representative of the Coney of lore, because had he done so, it's still there, just difficult to unearth. The pictures of the parade just shows how far down Americas greatest playground has gone. Do yourselves a favor and go to the library and pick out any number of other books on Coney Island and then compare. Unfortunately, you might become meloncoly and saddened, for Coney is really just a microcosm of what has become of this nations great cities.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great photos - full of feeling
Comment: I love this book for the way it captures the feeling of the place. While it is not full of text about Coney Island, it is full of visual and emotional information. I am an ex-New Yorker and have a few books I turn to when I feel homesick, this is one of them.
Rating: 1
Summary: SAVE YOUR MONEY!!!!
Comment: I was EXTREMELY disappointed with this book. The title is VERY misleading. THIS IS NOT A BOOK ABOUT CONEY ISLAND!!! This is a book about carny people and Stein took the sleaziest most unattractive pictures of them. I know Coney Island. I lived there for 15 years and still visit annually. There is history of amusements and cultures that are not captured in this book. Out of 80+ pictures, there are only 3, including the cover wrap, about the attractions of Coney Island. The rest is a picture book of people. If you are looking for a nostalgic journey about Coney Island-SAVE THE RETURN COST & FORGET ABOUT THIS BOOK!!!
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Title: Coney Island: Lost and Found by Charles Denson ISBN: 1580084559 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Good Old Coney Island: A Sentimental Journey into the Past : The Most Rambunctious, Scandalous, Rapscallion, Splendiferous, Pugnacious, Spectacular, Illustrious, Prodigious by Edo McCullough, Brian J. Cudahy ISBN: 0823219976 Publisher: Fordham University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (American Century) by John F., Kasson ISBN: 0809001330 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub. Date: 01 September, 1978 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Coney Island by Solomon, Professor Solomon ISBN: 0912509082 Publisher: Top Hat Press Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements by Woody Register ISBN: 0195144937 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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