- Title : Concrete Volume 3: Fragile Creature (v. 3)
- Author : Paul Chadwick
- Rating : 4.96 (874 Vote)
- Publish : 2014-7-11
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 208 Pages
- Asin : 1593074646
- Language : English
This was a great little study of the creature and was bilingual to boot, which helped her with both languages as she read it aloud. It makes me think that the books in this series are just cookie cutter plans to get people to sign up for []s online personal trainer feature. Its akin to getting many certification agency courses in one text, but speaks with the safety record and thoroug
This was a great little study of the creature and was bilingual to boot, which helped her with both languages as she read it aloud. It makes me think that the books in this series are just cookie cutter plans to get people to sign up for []s online personal trainer feature. Its akin to getting many certification agency courses in one text, but speaks with the safety record and thoroughness of NOAA procedures [ no inter-agency rivalry here.]In my readings, it has all useful civilian elements of 1999 USN Diving Manual FM 20-11, such as USN no-stop and decompression tables, advance staged decompression diving, nitrox, recreational diving equipment, mapping procedures, and search and recovery in more detail [ the USN Manual appears to have ommitted tables on whole body oxygen toxicity, potentially a serious omission.]The USN Diving Manual is written in an easier to read format, and is competitive as a pocket synopsis [ USN Diving Handbook] but is outclassed by the relevance of the NOAChadwick makes full use of the extra space, working in layers of satire and mixing in a few subplots with side characters. One of the central themes of this series is Concretes efforts to maintain some semblance of a normal life. Concrete spends his days tossing boulders, tearing down sets, and even powering the shell of a car careening through a city street. Faced with extreme budgetary issues, the producers of a fantasy/action film hire him–not as an actor, but to cut their special-effects budget by putting his abilities to use. Much of the action works as wry satirical commentary on the art and fakery of filmdom. Chadwicks visual style is at the same high level as in previous volumes; black-and-white drawings lend an odd sense of realism to the impossible happenings. But the heart of the story–and its main appeal–lies firmly within the well-developed, and ever-When you're seven-feet plus of walking, talking stone, you're bound to draw the media spotlight, especially when you live in Tinseltown. Concrete's celebrity status is sometimes a pain in the buttress but it does bring the occasional paycheck gig. When the producer of a low-budget science-fiction film approaches Concrete to use his prodigious strength to help save money on the film's FX budget, the siren call of Hollywood draws Concrete like a moth to a flame a seven thousand dollar a week flame, that is.
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