From Publishers Weekly
Since Trainspotting, heroin chic has certainly put down literary roots?sometimes it seems that you can’t be a hip writer unless you know your way around a needle. Perhaps none has chronicled the mechanics of addiction in such mind-numbing detail as Australian poet Davies (Absolute Event Horizon) does in this strong if unimaginative first novel: Davies concentrates as much on preferred syringes as on the adventure of getting the smack, which makes the novel seem, sometimes, like Consumer Reports for junkies. The Candy of the title is both the woman that the narrator falls in love with and, of course, the stuff that he takes. Candy’s degradation, from beautiful actress to call girl to streetwalker to madwoman, mirrors the narrator’s own passage from a sort of smart-aleck cuteness to the monster whose main concern is finding a viable vein to prick. Starting out in Sydney, the couple moves to Melbourne to go straight but, of course, relapse. They engage in a tedious round of finding money and finding smack, in which all other attachments become peripheral. The narrator’s habit of viewing these events from a distance strikes the right chord, but it’s a monotone, insights notwithstanding: “Veins are a kind of map, and maps are the best way to chart the way things change. What I am really charting here is a kind of decay.” The result is a more harrowing than the usual return to a familiar landscape of admonishment and self-negation. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Like Trainspotting, Candy depicts heroin addicts in a British subculture, but it is set in Australia, not Scotland. “Candy” is the slang name of the unnamed narrator’s two great loves: his girlfriend and heroin. He introduces her to the drug, and they descend from being high on life, love, and drugs, to being shamed through prostitution, crime, addiction, and recovery. With no character background, the book reads as a string of scams to score money and heroin: some hilarious, some desperate, and some both at once. One scam starts when they answer a ringing public phone that the caller mistakenly believes is a suicide prevention line. Candy and the narrator are ruthless but human; their likableness and the immediacy of their dramas make them sympathetic even when pathetic. The writing is lean and strong but offers no resolution. Although that reflects junkies’ reality, sometimes the pacing is jarring as the characters take action long after the audience is ready. Still, the good writing, realistic portrayal, and affable characters plunge readers into the junkies’ world, safely returning them with veins intact. Kevin Grandfield

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Amazon.com
The supercharged possibilities of a single set and two amped-up actors are explored in Hard Candy, a twisted cocktail with a poison kicker. After a flirtatious encounter in an online chat room, two people agree to meet for coffee: a 32-year-old man (Patrick Wilson) and a 14-year-old girl (Ellen Page). They quickly advance to his house, and just as quickly, the apparent pedophilic seduction morphs into something else entirely. After the tables turn, Hard Candy becomes a tale of revenge and torture that might have tempted a filmmaker like Park Chanwook. Here, first-time feature director David Slade opts for a slick look that stays close to the actors, and you can’t really blame him–this movie is like a conceptual, more-than-slightly unbelievable off-Broadway play, a showcase for actors and “controversial” ideas. Those actors are strong: Patrick Wilson (Angels in America, Phantom of the Opera) is every bit as creepy as he needs to be, and Ellen Page has nothing short of a triumph. The Canadian actress was around 18 when she shot the film, but looks like an adolescent, which makes her authoritative wrath all the more shocking to witness. The provocations of Hard Candy sometimes seem arbitrary or forced, but Page’s electrifying performance can’t be denied, or dismissed. –Robert Horton

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A smart, charming teenage girl, Hayley probably shouldn’t be going to a local coffee shop to meet Jeff, a 30-something fashion photographer she met on the Internet. But before she knows it, she’s mixing drinks at Jeff’s place and stripping for an impromptu photo shoot. It’s Jeff’s lucky night. But Hayley isn’t as innocent as she looks, and the night takes a turn when she begins to impose a hard-hitting investigation on Jeff in an attempt to reveal his possibly scandalous past.

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This Nostalgic Candy Gift Box is a real Blast from the Past!Over 50 pieces of classic old fashioned candy favorites including Double Bubble, Jaw Breakers, Hot Dog Cinnamon Gum, Cinnamon Fire-Pix, Atomic Fire Balls, Chick-o-stik, Sugar Daddy, Lemon Heads, Boston Baked Beans, Kits Taffy, Lik M Aid Fun Dip, Necco Wafers, Mike & Ike, Walnettos, Zotz, Bottlecaps, Red Hots, Slo Pokes, Bit-O-Honey, Boston Baked Beans, Pipes, Salt Water Taffy, Root Beer Barrels & more!
Over 1 1/4 pounds of candy (small & medium candies).

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They may have a new name but they are exactly the way you remember them. Each pack has 10 white candy sticks with a red tip.

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Haribo, founded in 1920 in Bonn, Germany by Hans Riegel, is one of the most prominent manufacturers of sweets (namely fruit gums, licorice, and foam) in the world. The company name is an acronym for “Hans Riegel, Bonn” and stands as a reminder of Haribo’s continuing loyalty to early traditions. After Hans Riegel died during World War II, his son, also named Hans Riegel, took over the factory and expanded its operations, taking over many local confectionery manufacturers in countries all over the world. Currently, Haribo operates five factories in Germany and 13 throughout the rest of Europe. The company also has sales offices in almost every country in Europe as well as in the Unites States. Haribo’s German catch phrase is “Haribo macht kinder froh / und Erwachsene ebenso,” which translates as “Kids and grown-ups love it so / the happy world of Haribo.”

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About the Brand
Haribo, founded in 1920 in Bonn, Germany by Hans Riegel, is one of the most prominent manufacturers of sweets (namely fruit gums, licorice, and foam) in the world. The company name is an acronym for “Hans Riegel, Bonn” and stands as a reminder of Haribo’s continuing loyalty to early traditions. After Hans Riegel died during World War II, his son, also named Hans Riegel, took over the factory and expanded its operations, taking over many local confectionery manufacturers in countries all over the world. Currently, Haribo operates five factories in Germany and 13 throughout the rest of Europe. The company also has sales offices in almost every country in Europe as well as in the Unites States. Haribo’s German catch phrase is “Haribo macht kinder froh / und Erwachsene ebenso,” which translates as “Kids and grown-ups love it so / the happy world of Haribo.”

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Haribo Gold-Bears are the original gummi bear. Invented in 1922, the Gold-Bear was originally called the “Dancing Bear”. Haribo Gold-Bears are a mixed delight of white/pineapple, green/strawberry, yellow/lemon, orange/orange and red/raspberry gummi bears. True gummi bear connisseurs know that Haribo Gold-Bears surpass the others for quality.

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Amazon.comCandy, based on the naughty, notorious erotic satire by Terry Southern, whose wicked pen contributed to Dr. Strangelove and Easy Rider (among other ’60s classics), and adapted for the screen by the sly Buck Henry (The Graduate and Catch 22), is a bizarre second-hand reconfiguration of Candide for the permissive ’60s. Swedish teen beauty queen Ewa Aulin is Candy, all breathy, wide-eyed innocence as a curvy blond kewpie doll–think Lolita, Barbarella, and Baby Spice all rolled into one–whose naiveté lands her in the sack with one dirty old man after another on a sexual odyssey. Guest cads include Ringo Starr as an embarrassingly unconvincing Mexican gardener; James Coburn preening as a surgeon who puts the “theater” into his operating theater; Walter Matthau as a snarling, insane general; and French crooner Charles Aznavour as a humpbacked spider man. Richard Burton stands out as a soused, sex-mad poet with an ever-present wind machine dramatically blowing his hair, and Marlon Brando’s phony guru with a seductive line of mystic patter is downright hysterical. Despite luscious cinematography by longtime Fellini collaborator Guiseppe Rotunno and gorgeous opening and closing sequences of space flight by Douglas Trumbull, this clumsy misfire has all the cutting satire of a Monkees episode and only half the style. Director Christian Marquand lets the film ramble interminably while his cast mercilessly mugs their way through ill-conceived roles (except Aulin, who remains a passive, almost alien presence in the center of the chaos). The result is a sloppy all-star sex farce with blunt, misdirected attempts at social topicality buried in teasing peekaboo pinup photography and sexual romps, pleasing enough eye candy but hardly the erotic, satirical, transgressive portrait the picture promises. –Sean Axmaker

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This Retro Candy Gift Box is full of favorite nostalgic candy. GREAT GIFT IDEA!

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Oscar®-nominee Heath Ledger stars as Dan, a charming but reckless young poet who falls in love with Candy (Abbie Cornish), a beautiful young student who is attracted to his bohemian lifestyle. In order to get closer to Dan, Candy joins him in his drug addiction. Their passionate relationship then alternates between bursts of ecstatic oblivion and bouts of despair and self-destruction. Hooked as much on heroin as one another, their story becomes an intense love triangle ? a boy, a girl, and a drug.

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About the Brand
Haribo, founded in 1920 in Bonn, Germany by Hans Riegel, is one of the most prominent manufacturers of sweets (namely fruit gums, licorice, and foam) in the world. The company name is an acronym for “Hans Riegel, Bonn” and stands as a reminder of Haribo’s continuing loyalty to early traditions. After Hans Riegel died during World War II, his son, also named Hans Riegel, took over the factory and expanded its operations, taking over many local confectionery manufacturers in countries all over the world. Currently, Haribo operates five factories in Germany and 13 throughout the rest of Europe. The company also has sales offices in almost every country in Europe as well as in the Unites States. Haribo’s German catch phrase is “Haribo macht kinder froh / und Erwachsene ebenso,” which translates as “Kids and grown-ups love it so / the happy world of Haribo.”

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Haribo Gold-Bears are the original gummi bear. Invented in 1922, the Gold-Bear was originally called the “Dancing Bear.” Haribo Gold-Bears are a mixed delight of white/pineapple, green/strawberry, yellow/lemon, orange/orange, and red/raspberry gummi bears. True gummi bear connisseurs know that Haribo Gold-Bears surpass the others for quality. Available in 5-pound bags–enough to share with friends and family. Approximately 97 pieces per pound.

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