Title: EIJI TSUBURAYA makes TIME magazine!
Description: Postive review also in current WIRED!
Description: Postive review also in current WIRED!
August Ragone - December 15, 2007 01:07 AM (GMT)
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/culturereview.../pl_reviews1512
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/article/...1694124,00.html
I only have one word right now... YAHOOOO! :)
The WIRED review
http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereview.../pl_reviews1512
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/article/...1694124,00.html
I only have one word right now... YAHOOOO! :)
Georgelen Kuhn - December 15, 2007 05:07 PM (GMT)
Congratulations! That's wonderful.
August Ragone - December 15, 2007 07:21 PM (GMT)
Thank you very much! :)
August Ragone - December 22, 2007 10:22 PM (GMT)
Because of the TIME review, I was contacted and interviewed by Radio Australia! Will keep you posted when their story on Eiji Tsuburaya will be available.
Today's Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,430 in Books
Popular in these categories:
#1 in Books > Entertainment > Movies > Cinematography
#2 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Arts & Literature > Movie Directors
#11 in Books > Entertainment > Movies > Biographies
Today's Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,430 in Books
Popular in these categories:
#1 in Books > Entertainment > Movies > Cinematography
#2 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Arts & Literature > Movie Directors
#11 in Books > Entertainment > Movies > Biographies
August Ragone - January 9, 2008 11:02 PM (GMT)
BTW, copies of EIJI TSUBURAYA are also being sold at the Mori Art Museum "Ultraman Exhibit" currently running in Tokyo:
Photo by Matt Jones (12/31/07)
Photo by Matt Jones (12/31/07)
Randy Byers - January 10, 2008 12:27 AM (GMT)
August Ragone - January 10, 2008 01:03 AM (GMT)
Thanks for passing this along! :)
August Ragone - January 11, 2008 08:00 PM (GMT)
These are some snippets from two more reviews -- click on the links for the full reviews!
In the December 15, 2007 edition of Northwest Asian Weekly Andrew Hamlin writes: "Photos quickly overwhelm the text in August Ragone’s coffee-table book, 'Eiji Tsuburaya: Master Of Monsters,' the first English-language biography of Japanese special effects doyen Eiji Tsuburaya. The text remains important, however, since Tsuburaya accomplished much more in 68 years than even many of his ardent fans know... The sum total surpasses its parts to become the definitive document, in pictures and words, of an unsung, essential man."
In the December 19, 2007 issue of SF Weekly, contributor Aaron Farmer writes: "For the geek in your life, or anyone else who is interested in Japanese culture and cinema, this is an intense and thoroughly researched book that goes behind the scenes of Godzilla, Ultraman, and tons of other sci-fi classics."
Please visit our official MySpace page EIJI TSUBURAYA: MASTER OF MONSTERS
In the December 15, 2007 edition of Northwest Asian Weekly Andrew Hamlin writes: "Photos quickly overwhelm the text in August Ragone’s coffee-table book, 'Eiji Tsuburaya: Master Of Monsters,' the first English-language biography of Japanese special effects doyen Eiji Tsuburaya. The text remains important, however, since Tsuburaya accomplished much more in 68 years than even many of his ardent fans know... The sum total surpasses its parts to become the definitive document, in pictures and words, of an unsung, essential man."
In the December 19, 2007 issue of SF Weekly, contributor Aaron Farmer writes: "For the geek in your life, or anyone else who is interested in Japanese culture and cinema, this is an intense and thoroughly researched book that goes behind the scenes of Godzilla, Ultraman, and tons of other sci-fi classics."
Please visit our official MySpace page EIJI TSUBURAYA: MASTER OF MONSTERS