The Encyclopedia Of Fantasy and Curb Your Entusiasm

This book is one of vast knowledge, it's an archive on A-Z everything "fantasy". From The Addams Family to the small change fantasy card game of Magic the gathering to the different stories of how Santa came about. It's fun to read and the pictures are quiet appealing too. I'd think it would be great to read to a Yr 13 classics class considering it's got a whole 52 page section on mythologys all over the world. It's just a book you could never get bored of.

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It is often said that Larry David was the driving genius behind Seinfeld, that his was the mind that spun all those comic situations that made the show so ineffably funny for so many years.Curb Your Enthusiasm, does nothing to contradict that claim. It is rife with the same sense of humor that propelled Seinfeld, all the way down to the recognizable mix of self-absorbed characters compelled by their natures to do outlandish things that eventually ignite in a come-uppance finale of guilt and embarrassment made ironic by intricately interconnected storylines. The situations in Curb are every bit as brilliant as the ones in Seinfeld.

Having said that, it's unfortunate that Curb is about a fifth as pleasurable as Seinfeld. I pick that fraction purposefully, because my take on Curb is that it is essentially Seinfeld minus the four foundations that made that show work so well: the brilliant comic actors, the micro fine-tuned comic dialogue, the studio production quality, and the everyman New York setting. It's almost as if David is saying, "I know I can succeed with all those elements, but it bores me to use them. I want to see if I can play the game without the equipment."