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Summary: mixed bag of retro tales
Review: Comic book-style stories explain the fads, events, people, music, sports, and everything else about one of the more colorful decades in history. Trying to cover pet rocks and Viet Nam in the same book leads to some inevitable unevenness, of course, and the serious topics are often trivialized or over-simplified. But there are already many books on Watergate; buy this book to learn about streaking and disco.
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Summary: mixed bag of retro tales
Review: Comic book-style stories explain the fads, events, people, music, sports, and everything else about one of the more colorful decades in history. Trying to cover pet rocks and Viet Nam in the same book leads to some inevitable unevenness, of course, and the serious topics are often trivialized or over-simplified. But there are already many books on Watergate; buy this book to learn about streaking and disco.
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Summary: Another winner from Factoid!!!
Review: I love the "Big Book" series, and this entry is no exception. It's a cultural history text for the discerning hipster. More than just a review of the Me Decade's fads, it examines the 1970's biggest news stories and most notorious personalities. The artwork, produced by dozens of comicdom's most talented pencilers, ranges from cartoony to photorealistic. But don't let the term "comicbook" throw you. Lots of informative, entertaining historical research is here. Learn more about what the Seventies were like, or reminisce about how much cooler things were back then.(Yeah, right.)
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Summary: This book is cool
Review: I put off taking Amazon up on the recommendation to buy this book (i had bought 4 "big books" in the past) I finally ordered it and received it Friday. I got it just in time because TLC ran a 70s special Sunday and FX has started showing 54. So now I can watch and read about the decade I was born in. I am planning on taping both this week when it airs again so I can have a 70s tape to go along with my book. ( Just wish my old beta vcr still worked lol)
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Summary: This book is cool
Review: I put off taking Amazon up on the recommendation to buy this book (i had bought 4 "big books" in the past) I finally ordered it and received it Friday. I got it just in time because TLC ran a 70s special Sunday and FX has started showing 54. So now I can watch and read about the decade I was born in. I am planning on taping both this week when it airs again so I can have a 70s tape to go along with my book. ( Just wish my old beta vcr still worked lol)
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Summary: This book is cool
Review: I put off taking Amazon up on the recommendation to buy this book (i had bought 4 "big books" in the past) I finally ordered it and received it Friday. I got it just in time because TLC ran a 70s special Sunday and FX has started showing 54. So now I can watch and read about the decade I was born in. I am planning on taping both this week when it airs again so I can have a 70s tape to go along with my book. ( Just wish my old beta vcr still worked lol)
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Summary: The 70s, now in easy-to-swallow pill form
Review: Pet Rocks, mood rings, streaking - They're all here. But this book also covers some of the heavier stuff from the "me" decade - politicians, drugs, riots, terrorism - and all very entertainingly. The art, as always, ranges from good to very good, and the writing is mostly sharp.I did notice a lot of stuff overlooked. We get lots of history of television aimed at the young, but no "All in the Family" or "Mary Tyler Moore". Also, the movie history leaves out disaster flicks, mainstream gore, and so-called "blaxploitation" movies. But that's not really a fault so much as a good excuse for a Volume II.
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Summary: Mellow out! Don't get uptight! The '70s are back!
Review: The '60s had their revolution. The '80s had their Reagan. What did we have, we wayward children of the '70s? Bell bottoms and the Brady Bunch. Smiley faces and Studio 54. Gerald Ford and Farrah Fawcett. Hey, they weren't much but they were ours. You'll encounter them all in "The Big Book of the '70s," the latest (and 17th entry) in DC Comics' "Big Book" series. It's the fourth one scripted by yours truly. So come along and share those and other warm, wonderful memories. Ah, yes, the Son of Sam Murders, the Iran Hostage Crisis, gasoline lines and the New York City Blackout. And that's just the funny stuff! But seriously folks -- is this thing on? -- if you ever discoed the night away, streaked or stuck a safety pin through your nose (hell, I've got one in there right now!), "The Big Book of the '70s" will bring it all back. You'll get DOWN to the art of Paul Pope, Danny Hellman, Steve Vance, Rick Geary, Terry LeBan, Dean Haspiel, Hunt Emerson, Sean Philips, Sergio Aragones and many other EXCELLENT cartoonists. It's gonna be happenin'! The "Comic Shop News" made "The Big Book of the '70s" one of their "Hot Picks" and called it, "History for hip cynics -- who could ask for anything more?" So please join me on my trip down Me Decade Lane. Oh, and one more thing... Have a nice day!
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Summary: The '70s Are Back, Man!
Review: This is the latest volume in Paradox Press' excellent Big Books series. It proves to be another winner! It chronicles the Me Decade, and analyzes how it affects society as we know it in this decade. It covers a lot of the wacky memories, like pet rocks, mood rings, and the fashions, plus some of the not-so-wacky memories, like the gasoline shortage and the Iranian hostage crisis. As someone born in the 1970s, I truly enjoyed this. But you don't have to be a child of the '70s to like it too!
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Summary: The '70s Are Back, Man!
Review: This is the latest volume in Paradox Press' excellent Big Books series. It proves to be another winner! It chronicles the Me Decade, and analyzes how it affects society as we know it in this decade. It covers a lot of the wacky memories, like pet rocks, mood rings, and the fashions, plus some of the not-so-wacky memories, like the gasoline shortage and the Iranian hostage crisis. As someone born in the 1970s, I truly enjoyed this. But you don't have to be a child of the '70s to like it too!
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