I read this entire book, and I can honestly say that the most interesting part of the entire thing was watching paint dry. I'm serious on both counts; there's over a chapter on people watching paint dry, and it's the best part of the entire book.

If that didn't scare you off.. The main characters are people you couldn't care less about, the flow of the story's broken up too much by there being way too many characters, who never quite come off as being even half human because we're barely even introduced to any of them, and the author seems more interested in name-dropping than giving us a decent story. (I'd say plot, but that would be giving him too much credit. Every time we get to a point where it seems like something's finally going to happen, and we'll actually see something real in the main characters, the author pulls another god out of the closet to write himself out of that corner.) Overall, the best thing I can say about it is that it comes off feeling like a very bad Star Trek: Voyager rerun.

The only reason I'm giving this book two stars, rather than one, is because of the scene involving watching paint dry.

In summary? Look elsewhere for your mythological fantasy fix.

I found this book to be very poor in the teaching of Spanish. Most of the teaching relied upon vague references and much guess work. Many key areas of the spanish language were very briefly covered and had little to no explanation for the usage of words. Most of the teaching was with examples that didn't seem to follow any rules. Ultimately, I disliked this manual and the course using it. The ONE good thing about it is it teaches numbers very well and basic greatings. However, I wouldn't expect anyone using this book to ever learn how to converse in long conversations. Ultimately, if it wasn't for a few saving factors, this would be at the bottom of the barrel.
- Travis

This is the worst "Doctor Who" book I have ever read. The Sixth Doctor, who was never as annoying and unlovable on TV as some consider him to be, lives up to his bad reputation in this book. Peri and Turlough are also poorly characterized. The worst aspect of the book, though, is the depiction of Chris, the character who represents the reader. One of the most important things in writing a plot-your-own story is to make the reader-character agree with readers' own perceptions of themselves. I would certainly never say "Wowee!" as Chris does early in the book. The drawings by Gail Bennett are also poor, being only slightly superior to her hideous portrait of Jon Pertwee which appeared in "Timelash."

This is the worst "Doctor Who" book I have ever read. The Sixth Doctor, who was never as annoying and unlovable on TV as some consider him to be, lives up to his bad reputation in this book. Peri and Turlough are also poorly characterized. The worst aspect of the book, though, is the depiction of Chris, the character who represents the reader. One of the most important things in writing a plot-your-own story is to make the reader-character agree with readers' own perceptions of themselves. I would certainly never say "Wowee!" as Chris does early in the book. The drawings by Gail Bennett are also poor, being only slightly superior to her hideous portrait of Jon Pertwee which appeared in "Timelash."

I opened this book with eager anticipation. I was interested in knowing how to improve my parenting skills to help raise my daughter with greater self-confidence. I was disappointed from the start. The book is written strictly from the point-of-view of Christian educators and with a devout Christian dogma. She seems to believe that almost all teachers know better than parents how to raise their children. Additionally, without her specific ideas of God firmly rooted in the home, no one is capable of successfully raising a child.

While I have seen many parents that are over-reactive, I believe she encourages her readers to be under-reactive. As she admits her own mother was with her. A few of her points are good and helpful. But the examples she uses do not illustrate them well.

All through the book, answers to questions posed to children are referenced. The language used by these children is quite unbelievable. Many of these statements seem incredibly mature and sophisticated for children to have written alone. Amazingly, they all illustrate her points and confirm her theories.

Why does this book claim fossils determine the age of the dirt they were found in and then claims the age of the earth's crust can be determined by the index fossil found? This is circular reasoning! There is no proof of evolution but there is proof of the biblical flood! Read Bones of Contention or In the Beginning. Go to creationscience.org for real proof of the age of the earth. No bible necessary, though always encouraged.

I studied for four years under this series in high school, and graduated with an awareness of my own slack-jawed ignorance to the german language. This book series subscribes firmly to the notion that total immersion is a necessary fact of language acquistion. When that immersion comes in the form of cartoonish illustrations and eerily androgynous audio tapes, monolingualism becomes a tempting option. This series taught sixty students, once eager to learn the german language, that german is both laughable and abhorrent. If you are a teacher and you seek an instructional series for your classroom, please heed my warning. This series is insulting, obtuse, and poorly thought-out from its inception. I am more confident in my Latin after six weeks of study than I was after four years of Komm Mit German. Bitte, kauf diesen buch nicht. Es hat mir bose gemacht, und gab mir nicht von den sprache des Deutschland. I'm sure there are grammatical mistakes in the above passage, which I lay at the feat of the quality my instruction failed to possess.

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This is Not the book you want to buy, if Any of the following apply: you need specific information on container-planting (more than a few lines); are new to rose-growing; you want more info than the book will provide (no bibliography). I was disappointed in this book. I am a new owner of miniature rose bushes, and wanted a fairly comprehensive volume to explain all aspects of container planting, watering, feeding, how to remove buds and when, etc. This book seemed more like a off-the-cuff attempt at money-making without any attempt at sharing real knowledge of the miniature rose and its care. An experienced rose-grower will likely know all that is contained in these pages, and the novice best look elswhere - as I shall. The pictures are very professionally taken and are pleasant to view, but I would have preferred more descriptives along with photos - e.g. types of soil roses in pictures were planted, feeding schedule of those flowers shown, or something along those lines. The writing style was not clear, and seemed contradictory as well. Definately geared to the coffe table, not the serious grower. The search continues for the perfect rose...mine are dying as I type, thanks in part to my choice of this book, plus a LITTLE help from my general ignorance!

Hazel Holt's 'Mrs Malory' books have never been detective stories in the classic mould. That is to say, there has always been a tendency to concentrate on the characters, with the crime element growing out of the interactions of those characters.
Nevertheless, the books, numbering ten (up till now) have usually offered a satisfactory read and a reasonable degree of obscurity as to "who dunnit".

In "Lilies that Fester", however, Mrs Malory - or rather her creator, Ms Holt - seems to have totally lost the plot.

In the first place not only the identity of the murderer, but also the motivation, are clear as soon as the main characters have been introduced. Even the author seems to have realised that all was not well, since a majority of the book simply wanders round and round the same marginally interesting bits of story line and does little or nothing to help in the detecting the culprit.
Indeed, on the final two pages of Chapter Nineteen, Mrs Malory and her son decide that the only reason for bothering to solve the mystery is so that the son's fiancee will feel like agreeing to a date for their marriage.

This feeling that the author has lost all interest in her story is further emphasised in the half-hearted denoument wherein the characters decide not to hand the murderer over to the police, nor even to stop him embezzling a regular £1,000+ per week, apparently for no better reason than ... well, quite frankly for no apparent reason at all!

It's a daft ending to a vacuous story, and totally inconsistent with the central character's typically 'conservative' thinking and behaviour as depicted in the previous books in the series.

On this showing, it's definitely time for Mrs Malory to hang up her magnifying glass and disappear quietly into the sunset.