Houston It's Worth It (HIWI-The Book)

By: ttweak

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604023015
• ISBN13: 9781604023015
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: ttweak
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

WELL Worth It!

WOW! As I flipped through the pages of HIWI, that is the word that kept popping in my head with each turn. As a native Houstonian there were also many quotes and photos that I quickly related to - 'that is so true!' I have lived in my fair share of cities, including LA, Dallas, Hamburg and a few cities on the East coast, but there is something about Houston that is hard to explain. HIWI helps with that explanation. This book has managed to capture so much about the city and not in a pompus way. Sure, there are certain quotes and even photos that if you have not spent some time here only makes sense to those that have ("The way the Pierce Elevated makes your car go ka-thump, ka-thump" pg 120-121, I LOVE that about the Pierce Elevated!!). Houston is truly a magnificent and magic city and the gang at ttweak did a magnificent job of putting it all together - and all of the Houstonians that contributed their photos and quotes about the city they love!! A great book to be appreciated by both native and transplanted Houstonians, as well as those that have not had the opportunity to visit our fair city.

Houston and the people who love it

A loving portrait of Houston, Texas. If you live or have ever lived here, you will recognize the pictures. The photos are of the Houston that you rarely see in professional photography books: the people, the quirky stores and buildings, the events, and the little nooks and crannies of the city that are not exactly beautiful or awe-inspiring unless you are a Houstonian. The quotes about Houston are beautiful and strike home in the heart of its residents. This book gives Houston the love that it needs. Nobody else pays attention to our city, so it's up to the residents to pay respects, and this book is a great contribution to that end.

Gotta get to Houston

We have visited Houston several times over the years, and immersed ourselves in the quirky, gritty energy of the place, enjoying every humid, bug-bitten moment. This will be my Christmas book, for friends and family to pile alongside the elegant shelter tomes about English gardens and highbrow metropolitan design. I love it!

it's worth it, and so's this book

At first it feels like sort of an elegant book for what is in effect a love poem to a great American city "built on a ditch" -- the book is a beauty to hold in your hand -- but then the super saturated photographs and vivid texts ring out, and it's Houston to a T-texas T. Scarlet Pimpernel, gobstoppers, chopped and screwed hip hop, hundreds of sharp images in pictures and text...and hardly a lie among them. And the lies are worth it too. I've spent more than a little time in Houston, and what are gobstoppers anyway?

worth it. definitely.

no longer will houston be oppressed! finally. the world can now see our city for all its guts and glory.....from the REAL straight shooters! my 'Houston.Its Worth It.' book will always be by my side. thanks guys for sharing our pride!