This is The action in this book was intense. The story was great. It's a very fun book. Don't judge a book by it's cover; it was very thoughtful, not just action.

I loved reading this account of the money game in old New York played by the masters Fisk and Gould. The story was gripping and the themes amazingly relevant to today.

This story takes off at a fast pace right from the start and doesn't stop. The Author's style reminds me of Dean Koontz or John Saul. It is excellent.

Most movie reviewers are biting critics, Jay Scott is no exception. If he doesn't like something he isn't going to beat around the bush about it. The way he does it though, and the reasons he gives for both liking and disliking movies are original and fresh. What separates him from other reviewers are that his critiques are full of insight. Not only in what the movie attempts to portray but how it parallels to what is happening in the world. He considers everything from the director's past projects to where they stand on any number of issues. Scott succesfully melds together the insight of a psychiatrist, the power of words of any great poet and the wit of a stand up comic. For anyone looking for a fresh look on a movie they've seen or a place to start rather than roaming aimlessly through the video store aisles. 'Great Scott!' is the book for you.

Although he is a current TV star on Fox' "Burning Bright", Marty Burns knows how quickly an actor can fall off the producer radar screen. As a former child star of Salt & Pepper, Mary could attain no work once the show left the air. As an adult he became a private investigator and his two media visible cases (see CELESTIAL DOGS and BURNING BRIGHT) actually got him his present job.

Marty plays cards once a week with the same group of Hollywood men. However, this time screenwriter Emerson Hall asks Marty to stop and talk at an after hours dive. Reluctantly, Marty agrees although he has never done anything with Emerson except play cards. Emerson is writing the script for a remake of "Devil on Sunday" in which his father wrote the original script. Emerson believes that an important scene was cut from the film now owned by Fox. Marty obtains a screening and finds the movie interesting but disjointed. He learns that an actress who died during the filming was Emerson's mother and Emerson's father was a front for the real screenwriter. When Emerson turns up dead, an apparent suicide, Marty believes someone killed him and he owes his card playing partner the truth.

The third Marty Burns Hollywood investigative novel retains the freshness of its predecessors by combing hard- boiled noir with satirical social commentary. The story line never slows down even for Marty's asides that actually add to the plot. GREED AND STUFF has the right stuff as Jay Russell continues to prove that his rise to the top of the sub-genre is not a short stay.

Harriet Klausner

Peter Jay's selection from the Greek Anthology is, to me, an almost inexhaustible book. The some 4000 epigrams, short poems, inscriptions, and epitaphs of the original collection have been whittled down to about 860, organized by era, and then again by ascribed author. The translations, from a wide variety of translators, are a mixed bag: most modern and witty, some definitely more literal than others, some still a little precious in their attempts to duplicate the effect of the original verse. I favor the earlier entries, in particular the epitaphs, and the stark unrhymed renditions, but these little bite-sized poems cover the whole of the human condition, often presented with a straightforwardness that disarms us. Fans of the memento mori will find the greatest examples here, along with the usual range of realistic bitchiness, snide satire, and heart's longing. This is a book to nibble at. It will last you many years.

Jay Conrad Levinson's first marketing book hit the nail on the head. All of his books are excellent. I particularly like this first one, which I've read and highlighted and underlined, and included it as a gift to many clients in my consulting practice over the years. I still recommend that people pick it up at the library and read his other books on marketing. But this is an all time classic. Tips and techniques by the hundreds for making your dollars work like they're hundreds if not thousands. Five stars for Jay.

Author Levinson follows-up his earlier "Guerrilla Marketing" with this cutting-edge approach to new and innovative marketing ideas. Levinson shares his experience and knowledge from his years with the J. Walter Thompson and Leo Burnett Advertising firm, his own marketing firm, and his numerous guerrilla marketing trainings in this seminar-on-tape that will likely stimulate interest in the hardcopy. As the title suggests, Levinson explains a very aggressive approach to marketing and his opinion is brutally frank about why many marketing campaigns fail. The work begins at a fast clip with 100 guerrilla marketing weapons (which would be the wrap-up for many other writers), and just as in those Indy films, keeps on building from there. This litany of insights nicely expands on the fundamentals in his earlier work and is firmly rooted in his guerrilla marketing credo: "commitment, investment, consistent, confident, patient, assortment, and subsequent." The myths and truths of marketing, the characteristics of the marketing guerrilla, and other such highly practical and easily replicated techniques make this a sure certainty for all business and especially marketing libraries.

Seth Godin has time and time again delivered properous and productive information to the entrepenuer at heart. He walks us step by step into the depths of how to suceed in the dog eat dog world of commerce whether on-line or off, technology or pet rocks. A great book for anyone looking to "make things happen" in thier own, soo-to-be, corporation

An intricately informative piece of work, giving the reader all that is required in the subject. I wish more people would write with the same information quantity and quality.