My Year of Flops
My Year of Flops

Author: Nathan Rabin

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-10-19

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1439160317

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In 2007, Nathan Rabin set out to provide a revisionist look at the history of cinematic failure on a weekly basis. What began as a solitary ramble through the nooks and crannies of pop culture evolved into a way of life. My Year Of Flops collects dozens of the best-loved entries from the A.V. Club column along with bonus interviews and fifteen brand-new entries covering everything from notorious flops like The Cable Guy and Last Action Hero to bizarre obscurities like Glory Road, Johnny Cash’s poignantly homemade tribute to Jesus. Driven by a unique combination of sympathy and Schadenfreude, My Year Of Flops is an unforgettable tribute to cinematic losers, beautiful and otherwise.

You Don't Know Me But You Don't Like Me
You Don't Know Me But You Don't Like Me

Author: Nathan Rabin

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-06-11

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1451626886

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A writer's journey with the fan bases of Phish and Insane Clown Posse describes his unexpected discovery of how both groups have tapped the human need for community, a finding that coincided with his diagnosis of bipolar disorder.

Not Since Carrie
Not Since Carrie

Author: Ken Mandelbaum

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Published: 1992-08-15

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1466843276

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Not Since Carrie is Ken Mandelbaum's brilliant survey of Broadway's biggest flops. This highly readable and entertaining book highlights almost 200 musicals created between 1950 and 1990, framed around the notorious musical adaptation of Carrie, and examines the reasons for their failure. "Essential and hilarious," raves The New Yorker, and The New York Times calls the book "A must-read."

The Big Rewind
The Big Rewind

Author: Nathan Rabin

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2009-07-07

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1439165769

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Nathan Rabin viewed pop culture as a life-affirming form of escape throughout his childhood and adolescence. As an adult, pop culture became his life. Head writer for A.V. Club for more than a decade, Rabin uses specific books, songs, albums, films, and television shows as springboards for dissecting his Dickensian life story in his acclaimed memoir The Big Rewind. Rabin writes movingly and hilariously about how pop culture helped save him from suicidal despair, institutionalization, and parental abandonment during a childhood that sent him ricocheting from a mental hospital to a foster home to a group home for emotionally disturbed adolescents. A fun book about depression, The Big Rewind is ultimately a touching narrative of a motherless child’s search for family and acceptance, and a darkly comic valentine to Rabin’s lovable, hard-luck dad. With comic dissertations on everything from The Simpsons to The Great Gatsby, and from Grey Gardens to Dr. Dre, The Big Rewind chronicles Rabin’s improbable yet all-too-true journey through life, and its fortuitous intersections with the dizzyingly wonderful world of entertainment.

Fiasco
Fiasco

Author: James Robert Parish

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 2008-05-02

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0470358645

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A longtime industry insider and acclaimed Hollywood historian goes behind the scenes to tell the stories of 15 of the most spectacular movie megaflops of the past 50 years, such as Cleopatra, The Cotton Club, and Waterworld. He recounts, in every gory detail, how enormous hubris, unbridled ambition, artistic hauteur, and bad business sense on the parts of Tinsel Town wheeler-dealers and superstars such as Elizabeth Taylor, Clint Eastwood, and Francis Ford Coppola, conspired to engender some of the worst films ever.

Flip and Flop
Flip and Flop

Author: Dawn Apperley

Publisher: Orchard Books (NY)

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780439288927

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A two-year-old penguin named Flop is sad when his five-year-old brother, Flip, would rather play with Hip, a polar bear friend his own age, in an Arctic romp that will warm the hearts of little siblings of every climate.

Flit the Fantail #1
Flit the Fantail #1

Author: Kat Merewether

Publisher:

Published: 2018-06

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781775435105

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Flit's first flight is a flippy, floppy fail. But Flit's friends have a clever plan! Can they get him safely back to his nest? The first in a gorgeous new series from the author of the #1 bestseller, KUWI the KIWI books.

Freeways to Flip-Flops
Freeways to Flip-Flops

Author: Sonia Ann Marsh

Publisher:

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780985403911

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A suburban family discovers that trading materialism for a simple life on a tropical island helps them reconnect in unexpected ways. The author chronicles the ultimate triumph of seeing once-frayed family ties grow back stronger from shared challenges and misfortunes.

Flip-flops
Flip-flops

Author: Nancy Cote

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13:

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It''s beach day and Penny and Mama are headed to the ocean. But wait--Penny has only one flip-flop. The other one is nowhere to be found. So what good is one flip-flop? Penny soon discovers the answer to this question in this charming story of friendship and flip-flops. Full color.