I read this after reading some of her newer novels - which I have loved. This one, however, is similar to a couple others of her older ones that lack substance. For some reason, I couldn't feel the connection with the characters that she gets you to feel in some of her newer books. The main character here is a woman named Georgie, who is "crazy in love' with her husband - to the point of obsession, and the poor guy, who is in love with her, can't seem to convince her that she doesn't have to be insecure about their relationship or be jealous... yet she hates to see him go to work each time he has to leave. She wants to follow him around, and does sometimes. She was driving me up the wall, just reading about it, and I am a woman. Georgie gets funding for a research project about Human Nature where she interviews people and tells their stories about events in their lives, but even that doesn't get the reader involved ... I didn't find it very enjoyable and had to skim through a lot of parts of this book to get it finished. If you haven't read her before, start with one of her newer ones, "Follow the Stars Home" "Home Fires" or "Summer Light." She is a great writer and has a new one out that I can't wait to read.

This novel reads like a letter from your best girlfriend: it describes the ins and outs of one couple's life as they navigate marriage and their respective needs.The narrator, a woman whose purpose in life might be defined as mastering the art of the relationship, is in love with her own husband--but must find a way to balance that love with the realities of his (and her) life.

The best that can be said about this book is that it is the weakest effort at humor ever achieved. This potboiler should have a warning label stating that it is not for a serious reader in search of any kind of learning or information about driving. The author's name appears on every alternate page.

Here are a few choice statements; "Your goal in an accident is to try to make it as much fun as possible." "Before you turn, always make sure you wear comfortable underwear." "Never yield to anyone. Yielding is a sign of weakness."

The book, sadly, made me feel like an idiot for buying it. Buyer/Reader; forewarned is enough.

I am a short elderly woman who drives a full busload of children to school every day. Recently, I had lost my driver's license for failing to stop at a stop sign while entering onto a major highway causing a major accident. I was also starting to have problems with my eyesight as I was noticing certain items appearing on the front of my bus after work, like baseball caps and gym shoes. It was then that I knew I needed a book that would help me to drive better and get my license back. Besides I needed a book that I could sit on to see over the dashboard while I was driving.

Well, I am proud to say that I did get my license back and I credit it all to this book. Now, not only do I get to drive the bus again but I now have the confidence to embark on my own book using my years of previous experience as an airplane pilot. I'm calling it 'Piloting for Idiots'. I hope to sell it to all the major airlines as textbooks for new recruits.

Patty's book was great. I especially found the part about having a friend write your driver's license exam for you very helpful. Thank you Patty!

This book was sappy and silly. I found it inane, useless and irritating. Don't waste your time and money. If you really want a good book about dealing with middle school kids, try this: The Roller Coaster Years, by Giannetti and Sagarese.

I was stressed when my 10 1/2 year old started in the the next stage of (pre)teenager. I did not have a real enjoyable time my self at that age. This book really helps a parent to relate and be reminded of what they are going through at that age. As a parent I am now able to see her for the stage she is going through, and be more compasionate, and not reactive. This book is very helpful. I've tried to get advice from other parents on this stage and they trivialize it, and just say, you haven't seen nothing yet! This gives alot of encoragement to parents where this stage is a new ball game to us. Thank you so much!

I took a 2 week road trip through Baja, so I know something about the place. Sadly, from these 2 weeks, I know infinitely more about Baja than the author of this book. It is terrible.

First of all, the title is misleading -- rather than describing both Southern California and Baja with roughly equal lengths, the author dedicates only 45 of 337 pages to Baja. Secondly, what he does describe is often incomplete, poorly presented, INACCURATE, and/ or useless. If you're going to Baja, get the Peterson's "Baja Adventure Book", which is much better.

Don't buy this book for Southern California, either, because it is equally useless in this respect. I spent a few days there, and this book didn't help me at all.

I wish that I hadn't wasted my money on this book.

Since I moved to San Diego two years ago I've used this book on a regular basis. It's a great cross-section of outdoor activities for people like me who like to do a wide variety of outdoor sports. I spend a lot of time hiking plus enjoy ocean activities such as scuba diving and hanging out at the beach. This book showed me places I'd never have found otherwise.

this is one of the stupidist books I have ever read. Blah. Boring!! There is nothing to look forward to. Please don't hurt yourselves! Don't waste precious time reading this stupid book! It has no beggining and no ending! How can anyone call this a book?

It was a great book.It told a good story about a boy who gets made fun of for not being a courageous boy.The boy tries to prove that he is courageous.

Artamian does a fabulous job of infering that ERB must have read (1) Paul Du Chaillu, a French non-academic who did the first field-work and specimen collection of gorillas in French Gabon in the mid 19th C (available from Amazon), and (2) J W Buell's "Heroes of the Dark Continent" of 1889 (one in the Auctions as I write this). He also has some excellent stuff on the place of ERB & Tarzan in early 20th C society; why Tarzan has lasting appeal; the child-hero myth; and a wonderfully concise critique of ERB's writing style. He gets a bit silly, however, trying to locate the Greystoke cabin using a too-literal analysis - Tarzan and D'Arnot couldn't have walked for many, many weeks through THIS part of Africa because ERB didn't mention the three rivers and the impassable swamp here. Hello! This is FICTION we are talking about here! He also concludes that ERBs "great apes" are a "composite or a photographic montage of the gorilla, the mbouve and the koola" but he makes no attempt to tell us what animals Du Chaillu was describing by these terms, only that they were "two brand new species". I suspect he is talking about Pan troglodytes verus, a west African subspecies of chimp and possibly Pan paniscus, the bonobo, but it is too small to fit the description. Du Chaillu would have only encountered the Western lowland subspecies of gorilla - Gorilla gorilla gorilla (see Kingdon's field guide). Artamian also sidesteps ERB's separation of apes (mangani) and gorillas (bolgani) as different species. Conclusion - ERB created a fictitious animal, and no it don't fit reality, but it's a great freakin story anyway.

Artamian then hi-jacks the thing for the last ten pages with his own spiritual philosophy and a waffle about Jungian archetypes and how the world has gone to the dogs because the hard light of science has made everyone disbelieve and oh! what a mess we're in! This stuff is very far removed from ERB's (and Tarzan's) no-nonsense, sceptical, good-old-common-sense approach to life. He does, however, point out that the old-fashioned values of selfless heroism and nobility that Tarzan personifies will almost certainly outlive the current fashion in sneering anti-heroes.

Charles Berlin, who wrote the other review here, told me his source for the William Mildin story is an article called "The Man Who Really Was... Tarzan" by Thomas Llewellan Jones in a March 1959 issue of "Man's Adventure" magazine. Let's hear it for Chas! We're talking REAL obsure stuff here. Mr Artamian, who prides himself on finding the TRUE source of Tarzan while other ERBologists (good term Sarkis!) have missed the mark, may just have... missed the mark. I hope there are old copies of "Man's Adventure" in the library in Wasilla, Alaska. If so, I await the next edition with much glee.

Great piece of research... but that accursed elusive shipwrecked sailor story! Damn!

THE AUTHOR FAILS TO BRING UP THE STORY OF WILLIAM MILDIN, THE EARL OF STREATHAM, A CHILD WHO LIVED WITH "APES" AFTER BEING MAROONED ON THE AFRICAN COAST IN THE 1800'S---A SUPPOSEDLY TRUE STORY THAT BURROUGHS "VAGUELY" REMEMBERS READING. EVEN IF ERB DIDNT READ THIS TALE, ITS AN AMAZING COINCIDENCE THAT THIS STORY WAS PUBLISHED IN AT LEAST TWO SOURCES IN THE PERIOD BEFORE BURRROUGHS WROTE TARZAN.

First they plagerize the "101" theme of my bestselling series (LIFE 101, LOVE 101, WEALTH 101), then they call "reality" the fantasy of the Bible. The poor, misled teens who are unfortunate enough to read this book looking for what's real will learn nothing about reality and a great deal about the anti-life, anti-nature, anti-pleasure, anti-love, pro-hate, pro-repression, pro-judgemental dictates of modern "Christianity." I put "Christianity" in quotes because modern "Christianity" has nothing to do with the teachings of Jesus. With "The kingdom of heaven is within you" and "Our Father, who art in heaven," Jesus gives the precise location of God--within each one of us, not, as the "Christians" teach, some external being keeping track of every maturbatory act that will send the "sinner" to hell for all eternity. If titles could be copyrighted, I would sue. As they cannot, I can only say here that, to whatever degree these people plan to trade on the success of the LIFE 101 Series, I denounce this books utterly. That it is called "Reality 101" is false advertising. That this book is aimed at children is child abuse. The authors have no qualm about either stealing titles or misleading the young. For shame.

Peter McWilliams (www.mcwilliams.com)

First of all, I was incredibly disappointed with the other review that I read about this book. Whoever wrote that obviously knows nothing about Truth and what the Christian life is. Before he slams a book like this, he better understand what he is saying and reading first. (Secondly, the title is not in anyway illegal or plagerized--these are publishers, I think that they have a little more knowledge about publishing than that reviewer does). As for the book, I think it was terrific. So many youth grow up in this "Hollywood" world, knowing little about real life and what their faith is all about. In a fun and easy way that teenagers can understand and relate to, these authors have managed to give some helpful insight and guidance to these kids. It is a very enjoyable book and I recommend it for any teenager and as a terrific gift that parents can give to their children as well.

"Tarzan and the City of Gold" is the sixteenth Tarzan novel authored by Edgar Rice Burroughs and represents what was clearly the standard formula for these novels at this time in ERB's career. Tarzan rescues a white man being tortured by natives and discovers the stranger, named Valthor, is from the fabled land of Onthat. This particular region is the home to two more of those lost cities that keep popping up in the Tarzan novels, Athne, the city of ivory, and Cathne, the city of gold. The later is an evil land, ruled by the beautiful queen Nemone, where prides of lions are trained to hunt down the enemy in the great war between the two cities. Of course Nemone wants the Ape Lord to be her king, with the alternative being served as a main course to Belthar, Nemone's favorite fighting lion. The plot may be a standard ERB adventure, involving yet another trip to yet another undiscovered lost land in darkest Africa, but Burroughs does heap on the adventure. There is the gladiator Phobeg, the Cathne prisoner who has to fight Tarzan in a public spectacle, Alextar, Nemone's brother and the rightful king who is now imprisoned, and Hafim, another slave freed by Tarzan. All of these characters become part of the mosaic of sub-plots that keep the action rolling. The repetitive formula is becoming tedious (Nemone is just another cut rate version of La of Opar), but Burroughs does like to create new cultures. Still, starting from scratch over and over again in these Tarzan novels is not as satisfying as the depth he provides in other series such as the John Carter of Mars or Pellucidar books where he has plenty of time to develop his strange new worlds. "Tarzan and the City of Gold" is an ERB adventure that you read more out of a sense of completeness rather than because this is one of the best in the bunch. This is average Burroughs, which for its time and place, was meant above average adventure yarns. There is a sequel to this novel in the ERB novella "Tarzan and the Elephant Men" (1937), which was published as the second half of "Tarzan the Magnificent."

"Tarzan and the City of Gold" is the sixteenth Tarzan novel authored by Edgar Rice Burroughs and represents what was clearly the standard formula for these novels at this time in ERB's career. Tarzan rescues a white man being tortured by natives and discovers the stranger, named Valthor, is from the fabled land of Onthat. This particular region is the home to two more of those lost cities that keep popping up in the Tarzan novels, Athne, the city of ivory, and Cathne, the city of gold. The later is an evil land, ruled by the beautiful queen Nemone, where prides of lions are trained to hunt down the enemy in the great war between the two cities. Of course Nemone wants the Ape Lord to be her king, with the alternative being served as a main course to Belthar, Nemone's favorite fighting lion. The plot may be a standard ERB adventure, involving yet another trip to yet another undiscovered lost land in darkest Africa, but Burroughs does heap on the adventure. There is the gladiator Phobeg, the Cathne prisoner who has to fight Tarzan in a public spectacle, Alextar, Nemone's brother and the rightful king who is now imprisoned, and Hafim, another slave freed by Tarzan. All of these characters become part of the mosaic of sub-plots that keep the action rolling. The repetitive formula is becoming tedious (Nemone is just another cut rate version of La of Opar), but Burroughs does like to create new cultures. Still, starting from scratch over and over again in these Tarzan novels is not as satisfying as the depth he provides in other series such as the John Carter of Mars or Pellucidar books where he has plenty of time to develop his strange new worlds. "Tarzan and the City of Gold" is an ERB adventure that you read more out of a sense of completeness rather than because this is one of the best in the bunch. This is average Burroughs, which for its time and place, was meant above average adventure yarns.

I did not go nuts for this book. I have find alot of better books but this book is still ok. It will show you how to interact with cgi programs, use java for client-server application and some more. I would not run out to buy it, but I would buy it

While the review questions in this book are very comprehensive, the rationals for the answers are not supplied. Instead, a page number next to the answer is supplied, but it doesn't actually match up with that page in the book. There must be some other book that goes with this, but I sure couldn't figure out what book it was. It's difficult to test yourself when you can't find the rational for your answers. I know that I learn and retain information better when I know the reason why something is done. I therefore would recommend that it someone knows what the companion book is, please list it on this site!!