I was an 18 year old, away with friends camping in the summer of '75. About four days into the trip, we were bored of the night life in the area so we would read at night. One girl in the group had a book that she couldn't put down. The book was "The Rape of the A.P.E.". At first she read us exerpts from it, but in the end she read the entire book to us. At the end of the trip, each of us had purchased his or her own copy. In the ensuing years, I purchased, loaned out and lost 17 copies of this book. My father , a NYC policeman, lost 3 copies to coworkers. I now possess my only hard cover copy and wouldn't lend it to the Pope. It is a book about the American Sexual Revolution. Allen Sherman gives one man an elongated lifespan of 100,000 years to see where we went wrong. It is funny, educational and thought prevoking. I hope someone has the insight to put it back into print. I would be interesting to see how the author would interpet the disco scene of the seventies, AIDS , as well as things today.

I purchased this book when it first came out and have been touting its praises and sharing Allen Sherman's humor and knowledge of linquistics ever since. It is the best book ever and everyone should read this book at least once. Fool that I am, I loaned my hard back copy to someone and it was never returned. I hope they re-print this book, it is a classic!

I was given my first copy of this book when I was in high school. I laughed hysterically at times from some of the true stories related in it, and cried at some of the others. Mr. Sherman ranks right up there in my mind with Robert A. Heinlein in his ahead of his time thinking. If more people read this book and applied some of the principles, there would be fewer sex crimes and a happier world. It is so sad that this book is out of print-I keep loaning out the copies I can get my hands on and never getting them back. Maybe we could get Allen Sherman to update and re-publish his masterpeice?

I think that this is his best book and I reccomend it to every Woody fan out there, his movies are the best of the comedy buisness, I have seen many of them and think that he has the ability to show reality in his own way. He shows you the relationship between husband and wife like it really is and could happen to anyone, I myself have done a article in my local news paper. I will like to discuss more deeply his works with anyone interested. I can still remember some of his jokes that i think are fabolous like: Mother (to doctor): He's been depressed. All of a sudden , he can't do anything. Doc: Why are you depressed, Alvy? Mother: Tell doctor (?) It's something he rea. Doc: Something you read, heah? Alvy: The universe is expanding. Doc: the universe is expanding? Alvy: Well, the universe is everything, and if it's expanding, someday it will break apart and that would be the end of everything! Mother: (shouting) What is your buisness? (to doctor) He stopped doing his homework. Alvy: what's the point? Mother: what has the universe to dp with it? You're here in Brooklyn! Brooklyn is not expanding! also another joke:I would never wanna belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member. and i have some more, well i think you should read this and other of his books he is a very wise man and he can handle to write anything.

Disillusioned by, "Interiors" or "Hannah And Her Sisters"? Think Woody is just not funny? Man, are you wrong. This book (which contains pretty much everything Woody wrote in book form) just kills you from the beginning & never stops. As goofball and irreverent as you'd expect from a comedic genius(Think, "Bananas" or "Take the Money and Run"- era Allen), don't be frightened off by the fact that Allen's later movies quit being side-splittingly funny. This book recaptures all the great, classic humor that made the Woodman famous to begin with!

I must admit I'm a sucker for the silly side. The thing with Woody is that he'll have you laughing out loud like a fool one sentence and the next he's got you staring off into space thinking, "Yeah, yeah...that's true." Conversations with Death, the supernatural explained, the story of one man's pathetic attempt at a life of crime, and the single best description of sex I've ever read- "...executing with total emotional commitment the absurd choreography of human passion," it's all in there. I was always afraid of Woody Allen because I thought you'd have to be Jewish to get it. Rather, you'd have to be dead not to.

Have no illusions about this book -- Bill Barnett delivers on his promise! We tend to make life more complicated than necessary! Bill strips away all the fluff and gets to the point on what works in the real estate investing business. This book is
truly a manual to get you on the road to wealth.

ARE YOU DUMB ENOUGH TO BE RICH is a candid "HOW TO" book on becoming rich by investing in real estate. Mr. Barnett (while using amusing antecdotes) explores and explains how to avoid the common pitfalls the that can destroy the novice real estate investor. Fortunatly he does not stop there, Mr. Barnett details the process and procedures (including scripts, formulas and templates) for obtaining quick loans for the purchase of real estate, how to find and aquire properties from motivated sellers and, once purchased, how to sell these properties quickly and for a predetermined profit. ARE YOU DUMB ENOUGH TO BE RICH is An excellent book for the novice and a great resource for the experienced investor.

Best Real Estate Book I've Ever Read.
Two Thumbs Up, a must read for any Real Estate Investor.
Thanks Bill
Sam

By 1963, the Rhodesian Cobra is an established assassin with Lumumba among his victims. His current assignment in Havana is to kill Castro, but he purposely misses shooting a cigar instead. When the Cubans catch him, Cobra explains that he intentionally missed. He proves his boast by reconstructing the shot using a "volunteer" from Texas, Rupert Justice Tolliver as the target. Cobra successfully demonstrates his abilities. The Cubans send him to meet J. Edgar Hoover's South Florida contact Fernandez who provides Cobra with his next job. In late November in Dallas, Cobra carries out his assignment. To escape the country, he joins the Marines.

Over the next three plus decades, Rupert becomes a TV evangelist and governor of Texas. Cobra buys a large farm in his homeland that he finances with an occasional hit. By 2001 Rupert is the president while Cobra continues to work his farm. Rupert believes that he is the world's savior and begins a religious war as described in Revelations. The international financial community panics and hires Cobra to kill Rupert. However, Cobra is unaware that the real brain behind the presidency is the First Lady and she has no compunctions to walk both sides of the conflict to gain what she wants.

BEHOLD A PALE HORSE is an exciting political thriller that keeps reader attention from start to finish. The story line never rests as the 1963 scenario ties back into the 2001 potential apocalypse. Though the characters are not going to gain any empathy, the audience will admire Cobra's chutzpah and gasp at Rupert's obsession with Revelations. Franklin Allen Leib had forged a triumphant tale that will send his fans searching for his previous novels.

Harriet Klausner

a wonderful tale of the apocalypse set from dallas in 1963 to washington and brazil in 2001, when the third millennium really begins. characters-president tolliver, his wife clarissa, his pursuer, cobra--excellent. highly recommended. roger.

This is an exciting book. You have a hired killer who took part in the original Kennedy assasination. The other character is a Texas Governor named Justice Tolliver who moves to the Presidency. The hired killer named Cobra has an interesting biography and an impressive list of hits. The President and his first lady are as wild as they come. They have shady land deals, the President was also a draft dodger. This book has every kind of scenario that you could ask for. The plot is outstanding as well. This will be one of the better books that you will read this year. You will be wondering if Cobra is sucessful in his newest assignment. You this book. It is a thriller.

"Intriguing," "fierce," and "provocative" best describes the suspense-filled thriller, "The Kiss of Judas." The book focuses on two characters: Justine Dasant and Isaiah Johnson.
Justine is a "devious" woman who is determined to do anything it takes to keep her boyfriend, who is Isaiah, at any cost! Consequently, Justine is the type of person who will not let anything or anyone stand in the way of what she wants and desires in her life.
Isaiah is an "intelligent" and "honest" young Black CEO who falls in love with Justine. But Isaiah does not have an "idea" or a "clue" to what he is getting involved in, once he starts a relationship with Justine. Once Isaiah decides that Justine is not the woman he wants to share his life with, a "fatal attraction" is ensued by Justine -- which leads to a "chillin" and "suspense-filled" thriller!
Lastly, "The Kiss of Judas" will have readers wondering and asking themselves: "What will happen next?"

Renee Allen enters the industry with a bang in her first novel "The Kiss of Judas". It has the love story, drama, suspense, and mystery that every interesting novel should contain. You begin by categorizing the characters, and just when you think you have it all figured out.......Ms. Allen also adds just the right spiritual twist to make you re-evaluate your own existence. I had a very hard time putting this novel down once I began, and I'm sure it will have the same effect on others! Definitely a must read!!

A love story, drama, murder mystery that is full of suspense from cover to cover!. Justine Dasant ( Judas) is a deeply disturbed woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Isaiah worships the ground she walks on until he can no longer take her. He then falls in love with a beautiful model named Debra, while Isaiah is moving on and following his calling with the church Justine plots and kills, he has no idea what he is in for. This story is full of spiritual twists and turns,the garden of good and evil. you will guess all through reading it but you won't be right!. You never will guess the end.... Suspense from cover to cover. A page turner indeed. A well crafted and worthy read. A must read.

This book does 3 things:
Firstly, the book presents the spirit and syntax of the C# language. And the presentation is very focused - it's done against a backdrop of Java.
Secondly, the authors do a flyby of the main areas of the .NET Framework Class Libraries. Again, the assumed reader's knowledge of Java motivates the discusion.
Lastly, and most importantly, Java and C# are contrasted rationally. No hype. Just the facts as the authors see them. This is good stuff and useful too.

If you're are an experienced Java developer, you will get a lot from this book. I still recommend to the Java folks that you also read up on the specialty areas, e.g. ADO.NET, Remoting, etc., if you will be working in those areas.

Before I found this book, I was rather lost. I was trying to learn C# and the framework using the docs that came with the .Net Framework installation and was only getting so far. I didn't feel like I was learning it comprehensively.

Even though this book is large, it's easy to read, has example code throughout, and covers a lot of what I needed to know. It had a breadth I found lacking in other Java to .Net books.

Unlike the other books I looked at, this one provides enough information so that you learn how to compile the example code using the free command-line compilers of the .Net Framework SDK rather than making you get Visual Studio.

I have purchased a few of the C# and .NET books for Java people,
and this is the best. The feature that stands out for this book
is the great Java to C# class reference, so you can look upa
Java class and find out which C# class does the same thing.

Having had a miscarriage myself recently, I wanted to read all the books I could about it. I found most of them to be pretty dry, very "fact based" and brushing over the emotional aspect of miscarriage. You see, miscarriage is much less a PHYSICAL experience but an EMOTIONAL one. The pain and grief you suffer is much like the death of a close family member. However with miscarriage there are no rituals--no burials, no supportive phone calls, most women don't even know if the baby was a boy or a girl. It is a very sad and lonely time and society certainly does not recognize the emotional aspect. No one can understand the devastation until they have gone through it themselves.

What I love about this book is that there are no medical facts--this book is about FEELINGS. There are hundreds of interviews with women who lost babies to miscarriage or stillbirth. They share their feelings, how they coped. Even "weird" things they did to help comfort themselves that many women (myself included!) could relate to. I felt less alone after reading this book. It made me realize that many women felt the same way I do after their miscarriages, and that it is ok to grieve. I absolutely LOVE this book and would highly recommend it to anyone who has suffered a miscarriage or knows someone who has.

I don't know if I would ever have described a book as supportive before reading this. A friend of mine (who lost a pregancy in week 16) sent this to me right after I lost my baby. It really helped me during my grieving process, which lasted about 5-6 months. By reading this book, I realized that I was not alone, nor was I crazy or overreacting to what was a devastating loss for me. I read it, cried, scribbled notes in the margins, and grieved (and grieved and grieved). It felt like a support group in a book!

The book was also useful in helping my husband understand what it was I was going through. I was too angry, sad and exhausted to be able to explain myself to him and it helped me to be able to simply underline passages and have him read them.

It's important to note that this book deals almost exclusivley with the emotional side of miscarriage. It does not attempt to explain the physical components of loss. It is for that reason that I think it is so valuable. After all, most of us are fine physically after losing a pregnancy. It's the emotional scars that take so long to heal.

Sadly, I have bought four more copies of this to give to friends of mine who have also suffered miscarriages. While I am grateful that this resource exists, I wish so much that none of us needed it.

I searched everything available on this subject after my miscarriage. Finally I came upon this book. Thank God I did. It was helpful to me in a way that all of the others combined were not. The book helped me to understand my feelings and to deal with them in a way which honored my baby and brought comfort. It brought my husband and me closer together again. My doctor learned how to handle women in the future in a manner more helpful. This is a book in which women help women to find comfort for a soul wound of women. Need I say more? --Marianne in California

I love books that are different. When I saw this I bought it right away. I was not disappointed.

Day Job is just about the funniest thing I've ever read. The author is really demented.

My only complaint is it's physically tough to read at times, but it only adds to the charm of the book.

On the back of this book, it reads: Fiction/Business/Popular Culture.

Is this some well-disguised TQM book? In the back of the book, it has order forms for more books -- so that middle management can give them to all junior staff and say, "I understand you, dude: my office, five o'clock."

If it's not just a disguised TQM book, I'm awed by the brilliance. If it is a disguised TQM book, I'm disgusted. They've infiltrated our ranks and are using our own against us.

This book can be read on many levels. From its unusual layout complete with artistic gems in the margins, to the well researched literary allusions peppered throughout, it's quite an experience. The writing requires a someone delicate read - otherwise much of the subtle nuance could be glossed over - there are many hidden treasures in this book. I have an advanced degree in literature, and I would hold this up there with some of the better things I've read recently. It really captures the zeitgeist of the 90's workplace, as well as the angst-ridden humor of young corporate Americans.

I've been waiting for a good NG book, and I was very glad to see this book come out. There's great stuff you can't find anywhere else, and the end of chapter reviews with FAQs are really helfpul. You can also use it to study for the exam, because it covers just about everything that's on it, and you can also get free exam questions from the book's Web site.

I've worked with the Check Point product for a number of years now, and we are just about to implement NG at work. I am very familiar with a variety of books that dealt with older versions
of Check Point(many of them excellent), but this book is head and shoulders above anything I've read before. I've never seen a book that covers so much, so well. Although they have it presented as an Admin. Handbook, anyone studying for the CCSA/CCSE would do well to take a look at this--if i had to describe this book in one word it would be "THOROUGH".

I'm in charge of several firewall-1 (NG). Because of this I got 5 books on this matter. Well, believe me, is like as I only had just one. This one !
In fact all the needed information is not only thoughtfully covered but besides it is well and coherently explained and correlated with the surrounding issues.
If you add up the information scattered in the other books, you'll find the same information contained in this book, only in a lot more hard to handle, diffuse and even contradictory. Firewall-1?. . . with the only help of this book you are done.

Though Beckett is usually given the title of THE master of the Theater of the Absurd, in many respects, Ionesco's Bald Soprano encompasses all the revelant themes of the genre. Ionesco, through his black humor, psychological insight, use of language, and pragmatic critic of metaphysics, stands as one of the foremost playwrights of the past century. Recommended.

I had the good fortune/misfortune to be a high school theatre teacher in a small town in North Carolina for two years. The most rewarding experience I had was letting a junior/senior cast loose with a script of The Bald Soprano. They had a ball and so did I. It was entirely liberating. They took it where they wanted to, which is Ionesco's point I think. Ionesco embodies this freedom. His scripts are not roadmaps, pointing to what an actor should think or feel. It is not as if he is providing a "fill in the blanks" master plan. The director and the actors are free to provide their own interpretation. Freedom of expression is boundless. I was really pleasantly surprised by the direction my students took on their own accord. I essentially just sat back and watched the play unfold.

In The Bald Soprano, Ionesco captures the true essence of the Theatre of the Absurd, while also offering significant political and social commentary. This is all not without the presence of humour. The Lesson contains Ionesco's traditional absurdist touch, but is indeed more grave and at times, disturbing. The focus is on the teacher-student relationship, but not without further political and social commentary. These two plays are essential for an understanding of Ionesco and his dramatic techniques, and, of course, they are both brilliant works of modern drama.