Seemed to be very comprehensive yet easy to use.

As far apart from the Disney classic as the movie version of Moby Dick is to its literary partner, Alice in Wonderland portrays the fanciful tale of the little girl, Alice, wandering about in a world of her own childhood imaginings and storybook recollections. If you have never actually READ the book, than you have a chance to know what your mother always thought would scare you as a little child, but really just adds to the fantastical wonderland which was the author's intention.

The 1999 reprint is a "Facsimile reprint"; the pictures appear to be photocopies of the original photographs - the quality is not up to Dave Friedman's norm. Some of the photos can be found in other publications; so, do not purchase this book for the photographs.

John Christy's narrative is informative and included a lot of stories/facts that I had not heard previously. It's style is very readable. If it were not for the pictures in the 1999 reprint, I would rate this book at 4 or 5 stars...

Mr. Eightball:

Judging from your brand of humor, I suspect you will dismiss this e-mail out of hand, but I work with , and your "review" of work may be funny within the confines of your own tiny mind, but out here in the world where adults live, it's juvenile. I'd suggest that you be a human being and not do this sort of thing, but having dealt with morons in the past, I expect all you will do is reply with some carefully-crafted sarcastic message. You ain't funny, pal. I'd ask you to consider how you would feel if you worked hard, only to have someone as as yourself riff on it, but then I'd be assuming that you're capable of a degree of creativity that's beyond your grasp.

But hey! As long as you think you're funny! That's all that counts, right?

A Devoted Fan

P.S. Why not consider using your real name, coward?

Three stars.

This book intends to develop in what one already knows of the language. It point out some phrases in specific items and explain how to use in similar situations. It relates the daily life of a young couple who runs a regional restaurant. They are interviewed by a television journalist. The dialogues are pretty understables and they are recorded to a normal speed. However I think, the explanation in english must be confined to the book alone and not use so much time for that in the cassettes. I supposed that two hours of recording would have had much more listening skills but actually more of that is an english speaker trying to guide you through the french language. Nevertheless I consider this book as fairly good from which definitely you can cath many useful phrases.

...Someone has finally taken the next logical step beyond thecanonical work of Andrew Beyer, 1975's _Picking Winners_, and given usthe next step in looking at speed handicapping. Which is good, because of all the types of handicapping out there, Beyer's is the one that the public seized on, and it's since become so popular that Beyer's figures are published in the Daily Racing Form, and are so deadly accurate in most cases that those races which can be unlocked through their application have become unprofitable. Carroll gives us another way of looking at speed, a new take on velocity that turns the work of Broahmer and Sartin on its head, and in doing so takes the many complex calculations of _Modern Pace Handicapping_ and instead substitutes the kind of one-number handicapping ease that the crowd loves. Does it work? I don't know, I have a whole lot of fact-checking to do before i go endorsing Carroll's methods and theories. But as a book, it's a pretty good one. Carroll doesn't go over the same old racing history as most books, but instead gives us background information that we haven't seen before-- the various schools of handicapping, how the money flows, and most notably conformation, something many handicapping books steer far clear of. Most of it has nothing to do with handicapping speed, but any knowledge a player can get is knowledge he can put to use, if he knows how. A worthwhile addition to the shelf of the horseplayer, and if it works, it becomes the sixth book in the canon.

This book covers a lot of territory and hikes, and it gives good directions on how to get to the hikes and how to follow the trail, but I was disappointed. Although it's 258 pages long, it does not provide a whole lot of background information on what you are going to see on the hike--just where to turn left or right, etc. How about what I'm going to see other that just say "there is an overlook?" What kind of overlook? What am I going to see? There are quick mentions of a few plants and animals that may be seen, but certainly no background on them to help me identify them or know about their natural history. Very little, if any, mention of human history is provided.

The contents shows 70 hikes, but as you look through the book you find multiple hikes in several areas that could have been identified as just one longer hike. In all it identifies 46 sites to take hikes in.

It is a nice book to direct you to some good hikes in WV, but don't expect much more than that.

After much experience with wine and beermaking, I decided to try making my own cheese. Well, it is defiantely not a trivial matter. We are not making pasta here... This book was not bad, and helped me understand the process of making cheese but the actual recipes were confusing and hard to follow. If you have never made cheese before, try another book. There are better ones out there by Shane Sokol & Barbara Ciletti for beginners. In summary: a nice book if you want some insight into the cheesemaking process, but on the "how-to" side, the book is of limited use once you have gone past your first steps.

This is one of a series of books about earth science written by Mr. Carroll. He does an admirable effort of integrating the record of nature with the Bible and succeeds on many points. My only disappointment is that he misses several key Scriptures, such as the description of the atmosphere in Psalm 104 and Genesis 1, which could help refute the fallacious canopy theory.

This book wasn't bad. It wasn't great, but not that horrible. I much prefer "The Night Drifter" by her. And while the two books have no connection, I like that one a bit better. This book had it's good points. It wasn't a complete bore, but it didn't have that spark that really makes the reading enjoyable.