This was a sad, dissappointing purchase. From the description, I expected that this would illustrate how to integrate Crystal into reporting applications. While a cursory attempt was made at showing you how the most very basic integration could be accomplished, this title sorely lacked detailed, useful information that could be applied to real-world applications. In addition, it rambled on about material not even related to report integration and was definitely NOT worth the money.

This book may be good for a addtional material for free in a training program of a Crystal Reports training in author's consulting company.... I do not know why they sell the manual without adding any useful material. They sell the bone without any meat. I rate the book 3 starts becaue I think it maybe a little bit useful for the person who attend the author's training program. I have not that money and time to go that kind of training....

This book could have had better examples and more screen shots but what I liked about it is that it gave alternative solutions to web enabling reports. Visual Basic and Active Server Page alternatives can save my company a lot of money over the Enterprise solution that Crystal presently offers. I do like the point and click options of Enterprise too. What I liked about this book is that it doesn't limit you to one option.

This book was disappointing. I have read in many books on psychic subjects that clairvoyance means 'clear seeing' and refers to actually seeing visions, beings, auras and other 'other-worldly' things with the third eye.

This book explains clairvoyance differently - as intuition in general.

It claims to be a guide to development, but offers nothing meaty that you can sink your teeth into and practice. It's really a childrens book with lots of pictures.

This book tries to convince readers of its superiority to other titles in the same new-age genre by using complicated terminology. Although some of the visualizations are helpful, the amount of thought behind them is minimal. Beware of terms used such as "higher" and "more pure". This book perpetuates stereotypes of superior Christianity and denigrates the solid body and earth. There are much better books on the same subject. Avoid this one.

I bought this book off the sale rack. Well, now I know how it got onto the sale rack. It was obvious to me that this was a sequel book (I had not read the first one, but noticed it got 5 stars on Amazon's review page), and I'm sure there was a lot I missed by not reading the first one.

This book wasn't awful. I enjoy futuristic romances (I love Dara Joy's futuristic novels), and I have even read some enjoyable books dealing with ESP and the paranormal. I thought this would be one of them. The hero, Drew, is not badly written. He's strong, and he can also keep up his end of an intelligent conversation. Chrysanna, however, is a pampered, spoiled brat. Her intentions are good, and her heart is in the right place, and it's very noble of her to be willing to sacrifice herself for her people, but ultimately, this book was one that was easily put down. In reading this book, you know right from the beginning who the villain is, and the end is very predictable. There is nothing "gripping" enough in this book to keep the reader's attention.

This so-so book is going into the "To Be Donated" pile.

This deck claims derivation from Crowley/Thoth symbolism. While following it in form, the implementation doesn't quite "get it"! As another site reviewer points out, Crowley/Thoth has some dark/shadowy imagery. Melody & Goins have tried putting light-hearted "New Age" colors & themes onto the structures. If you are familiar with Melody's books, you will be quite disappointed that she has not assigned a particular gemstone to each card as might be expected. If you do NOT know the Crowley/Thoth, you might be able to accept this rendition. If you are looking for a deck that assigns specific stones based on properties, check out "The Tarot of Gemstones & Crystals" ISBN: 0880791276. Or better yet, make one of your own using photo illustrations from a New Age retailer's old catalogs. The main drawback to a gemstone deck is the fact that different stones/colors have different associations in each person's mind (thus making it almost impossible to totally agree with another author's assignments)

I just finished reading High Crystal this morning. It's the first time I have read it in about 20 years or more and to be honest it was a little disappointing.

By the time you finish the book, you think that it has been edited down from a larger story, there are too many questions left to answer. Who is Odd Fossengan? What did he know? Who was he working for? Who killed Major Ryland? What did they learn from the pyramid? The list of questions goes on!

Some of these questions are even asked in the book, but they are never answered, leaving the reader to wonder why they were even asked.

All in all, the book appears to be an unfinished work, rushed out for publication and could even have been an episode in the 6 million dollar man series.

So I would reccommend Cyborg but neither Operation Nuke or High Crystal.

I thought that this book was going to be about importance of language play to human life, but once I dug into the book, I found that it consists almost entirely of examples of different language games, without much evidence or analysis regarding how or why these games are actually important.

The first 2/3 of the book reads more like a catalog of word games than a discussion about the importance of language play. The background information provided about the games also feels rather thin -- the author tells you only a little bit about the history of some games without much development. Furthermore, readers will already be familiar with most of the games presented, so there's little new to learn.

Thankfully, the chapters on childhood language learning finally provided some actual research information on the topic, and finally built up an argument about how language play is critical to a person's development. In my opinion, the interesting stuff in the last 1/3 of the book is probably not worth the price.

Despite being published in 1990, many of the contributed chapters are written on typewriters, with low quality illustrations and typesetting. The quality of writing is often not much better, making for a book that is tedious to read. There are a lot of books on liquid crystals, and you can do much better than this set of volumes.

I bought this to study the connection between Hindu & Egyptian mysticism and mirror mythology, but was very disappointed. It's mostly wishy-washy vagaries about getting a person in touch with the astral plane. There's very little reliable referencing to actual ancient beliefs, and instead sounds more like Delaurence was attempting to fuse different systems he'd studied into some new, simplified route to "enlightenment". It would be more appropriate to call it "The Wanna-Be-Genuine Psychics Text Book". Who knows, maybe those looking for such a book would benefit.

I have been fascinated by Clare Francis after following her round the world sailing feat and subsequent battle with chronic fatigue syndrome. I thoroughly enjoyed her first book Night Sky but found Red Crystal to be far fetched and hard to generate any empathy for the characters. Am currently reading Deceit and find this very slow going. I wish she would go back to writing about sailing.