A good guide to the buildings in Milwaukee, excellent for students of architecture and those new to Milwaukee.

I can only comment on the Kansas section of this book, but that leaves a little to be desired. It seems that Knapp found the most popular trails but didn't dig too deep. Another problem is his tendency to list utterly boring rides on semi-maintained doubletrack. If someone buys a mountain biking guide book, it means they are looking for the real thing, not some flat access roads. Unfortunately, there are not a lot of alternatives to this book for cyclists in the midwest so I still have to recommend it as part of your collection, if for nothing else but the states you do not live in.

This book has beautiful pictures of around the state of North Dakota with awesome country scenes. It did show one city picture of Minot which was nice however I think to have made the book complete He should of had a city picture of Grand Forks, Fargo or even Bismark the capital. I feel most of the pictures were of the western side of the state however the book was good and the pictures were impressive.
Worth buying.

Really good book with focus on the Midwest. Would recommend to anyone interested in saving money by going to the outlet mall. Its a proven method of savings over buying direct from the manufacturer's retail stores. This book is a fairly comprehensive guide to outlet malls in Middle America.

The story of Floyd Olson's career is fascianting, but I think he could have had a better researcher and biographer than this book evidences.

Quiet Magic provides the reader with a real insight to what Nothern Minnesota and the Boundry Waters Canoe Area is like. Author Sam Cooks' writing style gives you a good mind set of what the wilderness is like up north here. If you are from a large city or down south this book may intigue you to take a vacation fishing up in the BWCA. My thoughts on this book are that it provides me a resident of the area that the author is writing about a eye opening experience to what beauty nature really provides for me. The book is writen in first person format, but it almost puts you in the scene with him giving you that feeling that I could be experiencing the same pleasure that Mr. Cook is. The book is easy reading and not very long and would recommend this book to just about anyone, weather your nich is outdoors or indoor.

There's much to like about Mark Marimen's collection of college ghost stories. He presents these traditional stories (no New Age channeling or Satan-Comes-A'Calling claptrap) in a straightforward, fairly objective fashion. One of the blurbs on the rear cover commends the book for NOT being "your campground variety of ghosts stories," but that's basically what this book is...and that's not a bad thing. Where better to sponsor a shiver than around the campfire!

The author does a decent job overcoming the basic weakness of the anthology format. These ghosts have nothing in common except that they appear on college campuses, and these colleges don't have much in common either; obviously Marimen used the two geographical regions simply to garner enough stories for a book. Plus, college students are an excitable bunch on the whole; one can never quite take them seriously in matters of the supernatural. That's why the West Point story was so effective: the witnesses were students, yes, but students being trained to not give in to panic or whimsy.

Somewhat distracting are the several typos (not the author's fault, probably) and the occasional patches of verbosity. For example, "The legends are further enriched by the addition of a rumor that still another young woman is said to have..." (page 3) should be trimmed to simply "Another young woman is rumored to have..." Also, the rather lengthy historical lead-in to the Gettysburg College chapter is unnecessary: most people either know their history or don't much care. Jeb Stuart wouldn't really affect the Kline Hall theater goings-on, would he?

Still, I like a good ghost story as much as the next impressionable middle-aged school teacher. Keep up the good work, Mark.

This book tell you more information out side of construction which iscrucial in the everage life in daily life in US nowadays.Thiscontrubute to the understanding of the city adn the world greatly.

I read this book because I was given a signed copy of it as a gift (the author is now deceased). I grew up in the same town as the author, and he wrote extensively about the area in many books, not just this one. But this was the first (and so far only) book of his I read. His philosophy is similar to James Joyce's DUBLINERS or Sherwood Anderson's WINESBURG OHIO. The book examines the lives of people living in a specific community and how it shapes them, and although the other books were fiction, Derleth's is not. The book started out very slowly but I stuck with it and it did get better. He tells the story of people in a small Wisconsin town from the late 1800s to the 1950s. Many of the people went crazy or committed suicide. It also has a good dose of nature stories, as Derleth recounts his walks in the forest and marsh in the countryside and describes the wildlife he met. This book is definitely not for everyone but if you are patient and are interested in nature and a slice of life in olden days Sac Prairie (known more commonly as Sauk Prairie or Sauk City and Prairie du Sac), then this will be an enlightening read.

This book wasn't quite what I expected. For some reason, I expected little stories or anecdotes. (Maybe I've read too much Garrison Keillor or heard too much Paul Harvey.)

However, this book was 15 short chapters of quotations. Good quotations, but entirely quotations.

Thus, I'll summarize this way: if you like READER'S DIGEST's "Quotable Quotes" feature, you'll like this book; if you hate READER'S DIGEST's "Quotable Quotes" feature, you'll hate this book.