Ethan Mordden
Author of I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore
About the Author
Ethan Mordden is the author of Make Believe: The Broadway Musical in the 1920s, Everything's Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s, Beautiful Mornin': The Broadway Musical in the 1940s, Open a New Window: The Broadway Musical in the 1960s, and One More Kiss: The Broadway Musical in the show more 1970s show less
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Works by Ethan Mordden
A Guide to Orchestral Music: The Handbook for Non-Musicians (Oxford Paperback Reference) (1980) 100 copies
The Happiest Corpse I've Ever Seen: The Last Twenty-Five Years of the Broadway Musical (2004) 64 copies
The Guest List: How Manhattan Defined American Sophistication---from the Algonquin Round Table to Truman Capote's… (2010) 37 copies
The ghost of Champ McQuest 1 copy
Puhhi trenniraamat 1 copy
The mute boy {short story} 1 copy
Homogay {short story} 1 copy
And Eric Said He'd Come 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Mordden, Ethan
- Other names
- Verlaine, M. J.
- Birthdate
- 1949-01-27
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Pennsylvania, USA
- Places of residence
- Pennsylvania, USA
Venice, Italy
Long Island, New York, USA - Education
- University of Pennsylvania (B A ∙ History)
Friends Academy, Locust Valley, New York, USA - Occupations
- writer
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Statistics
- Works
- 66
- Also by
- 6
- Members
- 3,126
- Popularity
- #8,176
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 35
- ISBNs
- 146
- Languages
- 6
The first and final chapters carry the day as Ethan Mordden manages to capture A. A. Milne's style quite well and has the Pooh friends staying true to themselves even as the narrator attempts to change and improve them.
The middle of the book drags quite a bit, unfortunately, as Mordden tries to turn every Ernest H. Shepard picture with even a little bit of motion in it into an unimpressive form of exercise for the Pooh friends. He also pads out the book by dropping in long segments of text from Milne's original, and it's always a mistake to remind the reader of what they could be having instead of the imitation they've got.
Still, it finishes strong with an amusing marathon that will please any child who can get past the sagging middle section (an apt description of mine and Pooh's general shapes, by the way).
FOR REFERENCE:
Contents: Introduction -- 1. Planning a Fitness Program -- 2. Exercises for the Tigger Shape -- 3. Exercises for the Pooh Shape -- 4. Exercises for the Piglet Shape -- 5. Exercises That Get Something Done -- 6. An Exercise for Savage Weather -- 7. Stretch-and-Flex Exercises -- 8. Water Sports -- 9. Making Up Personal Workout Charts -- 10. The Forest Exercise Club -- 11. The Forest Marathon -- 12. An Exercise for Resting Up After
(My Pooh Project: I love Winnie the Pooh, and so does my wife. Having a daughter gave us a chance to indoctrinate her into the cult by buying and reading her every Pooh book we came across. How many is that? I’m going to count them this year by reading and reviewing one every day and seeing which month I finally run out. Track my progress here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/23954351-rod-brown?ref=nav_mybooks&she... )… (more)