No comments about The Gourmet Guide to Cigars.

No comments about Full-Color Cigar Labels CD-ROM and Book (Dover Full-Color Electronic Design).

No comments about Have A Baby, My Wife Just Had A Cigar.

5 comments about Perelman's Pocket Cyclopedia of Cigars, 2003 (Perelman's Pocket Cyclopedia of Cigars).

1. Pearlman's lists 97% of the cigars on the markettoday. Published yearly, the book has been growing in leaps and boundsfor the past 3 years. We are in the cigar business, and when someone calls us and asks about a cigar and we've never heard of it the first place we look is Pearlmans. A must for anyone in the cigar business and a bargain at $12! Also includes interesting information and facts about tobacco growing, curing, rolling, etc.



2. I expected the cyclopedia to include pictures of the cigar bands. It doesn't. Without a rosetta stone to correlate the listing in the cyclopedia to the actual cigar, it's pretty usless to me.
   The info listed; shape, name, length, ring, and wrapper; can already be found any number of places on the Net.



3. Perelman's Pocket cyclopedia doesn't rate cigars, it's only a list of all non-cuban brands and their size, so don't plan any buys in Cuba with this book. This book is also of a small size (pocket size) as well as his font size which makes it quite difficult to read.



4. If your looking for a definitive listing of all the cigars on the market today, this is it. Don't kid yourself and think this is anything more than what it is...a paper database of the world's cigars. if that is what your looking for, you have found it.



5. More photographs would have been helpful. Pictures of the entire line of each brand, with a close-up of one band, would have been much more useful than much of the text.

   The proliferation of commercial ads brings the integrity of already subjective commentary into question. Objective information, such as country of origin, is much more useful overall.

   All that being said, the book has it's uses, and was a fair value at the purchase price.

No comments about Lily Cigar.

2 comments about Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures.

1. Michael Swanwick has consistently impressed me with his imagination in both his novels and short stories. Here we have a collection of miscellaneous very short work of varying quality. The title story was particularly fun given its original appearance - I could easily visualize Swanwick reciting it from atop a trash can. Along with some interesting essays on various subjects, there are several groups of stories fitting certain criteria which show the author's ability to write about absolutely anything. See his Periodic Table of Science Fiction for more of this. I didn't like The Mask as much as the expanded version, perhaps because I read this one second.

   While only a few stories here reach the quality of his longer fiction, Swanwick's creativity and sense of humor shine throughout.




2. To read this collection of tiny stories is to have a series of unusually personal interactions with the storyteller. In each story, the author seems to be completely at your disposal, with no goal other than your amusement. The barrier of the book disappears.
   
   Reading it is the adult equivalent of having your dad tell you stories in which the main character has your name. Each story speaks directly to you, its ideal reader. Some were written specifically to amuse Swanwick's wife, or son, or favorite editors, and these happy origins may contribute to the effect. It's not a children's book -- there's no sugar here, rather, an intoxicating, slightly tart, effervescence.

No comments about Tampa Cigar Workers: A Pictorial History.

1 comments about The Connoisseur's Book of the Cigar.

1. This book addresses the philosophical and the physical sides of Cigar Smoking, weaved around the biography of one of the Grandfathers of Cigar Smoking, Zino Davidoff.

5 comments about Cigars: Cigar Aficionado's.

1. I really loved this little gem! It's small in size but's packed with huge flavor.

   Clever writing by Marvin R. Shanken. I look forward to reading more from this connoisseur - over a fine cigar and possible cognac.

   Here's one he left out;

   "Try enjoying a fine cigar along with a cesar with a touch of tabasko sauce and grainbelt beer chaser."

   - Michael A. Mosher- Human Interface Designer




2. Top notch quotes from your favor famous people just loving their best things of life. . . CIGARS!!



3. This LITTLE book (roughly 2 inches by 3 inches) is just a collection of quotes about cigars by mostly famous people, interspersed with only 10 actual tips on cigar smoking etiquette and methods. A short entertaining bathroom read, but by no means is this a guide or "instruction" manual.



4. This LITTLE book (roughly 2 inches by 3 inches) is just a collection of quotes about cigars by mostly famous people, interspersed with only 10 actual tips on cigar smoking etiquette and methods. A short entertaining bathroom read, but by no means is this a guide or "instruction" manual.



5. 
   This tiny gift-book from CIGAR AFICIONADO latches onto the celebratory nature of modern cigar-smoking and works it for all its potential. Essentially, it's a compilation of quotes by cigar smokers and about cigar smoking that will give the average celebratory cigar smoker a good chuckle.
   
   A good stocking-stuffer for the guy who fits the demographic.

No comments about Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919 (Working Class in American History).