A pretty cute book, very unrealistic (especially Michelle sneaking in the dressing room and convincing the stars to come to her shcool) but it's written in a cute way. Not my favorite book in the Full House Michelle series, but not the worst either.

It's a pretty good book! I liked it because it had tips on how to meet a superstar. I got it as a gift for my little sister and I ended up keeping it and buying her a new one! It just is like the how to plan a party book you can write info in it about who you wanna meet and things like that.

This book was pretty good. It was a little childish-it'd be good for kids about 10 or so. Basically, two very sheltered people go out and fight against the bad guys-using water. If you like this book, be sure to read the other two-Explorers of WWS and Invasion of WWS.

I found this book at a book fair, bought it because of my last name- Durbin -and I loved it. I hope that more people have read it than have writen reviews. It is to good a book to miss!

Please, I realy need analysis, theme, plot, and character of Maison Jennie by Julie Ellis. Thank's to anybody who wants to send me a data! (sorry,if my English not to good)

I found Maison Jennie to be what I call a cosy novel-an absorbing read that isn't too brain taxing.Jennie Straus is the daughter of a poor,immirant,Jewish shopkeeper who settled in New Orleans, and an overbearing,whining mother who is constantly nit-picking and finding fault with Jennie.After many family traumas,Jennie eventually becomes a successful shopkeeper,selling fashionable clothes to the more affluent matrons of New Orleans society.After her horrible mother literally wears her down on the subject of marriage, she gives in and marries the man of her mothers choice, Mannie, a brutish, uneducated peasant of a man by whom she has 2 children. Earlier, at the age of 16, she met Marc Goldman,the unattainable, educated son of a wealthy Jewish family, who was to be the love of her life.Julie Ellis weaves a fascinating tale of the intertwined lives of Jennie and her family and her eventual emergence as the owner of a chain of stores bearing her name and a highly respected figure in the world of high fashion.

Jesse Winslow goes on a hunting trip with his cousin in the Black Hills Forest, where the Blair Witch supposedly roams.

Merrill's series is beginning to feel a lot like X-FILES. Time for a fresh story Cade--not rip-offs.

In, The Night Shifters, Jess Winslow experiences some unusual things. this book is hard to believe, but a part of me led me 2 believe that it was true. the humans changing into animals was kinda hard to believe. i still am questioning who Sylvannus is, is he really dead? i didn't like the fact that i predicted a lot of things b4 they'd happened. plus the ending sucked. i still think she should have survived, oh well!

This book is well organized and speaks in a language that the novice can understand. Unfortunately, I have often been left with the impression that more information could have been added to the book so as to spare me a few trips to the library. I bought Brotzman's book when I was living in Germany at the same time I also bought "Textkritik der Hebräischen Bibel", the German translation of a Hebrew work by Emmanual Tov, also, I believe, translated into English as "Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible". I have to say that I prefer Tov's work. Tov provides more information on the various non-Hebrew versions, with Saadia ben Yusuf's Arabic translation being completely absent from Brotzman's book. Also, Tov's book has much more material on the Dead Dea Scrolls. Actually, Tov's book, being considerably larger, has more material on just about everything. Also, Tov's bibliographic information is more extensive and accessible, being listed with every chapter.

Brotzman's book is easier to understand (at least for me, as I was working with Tov in German), and perhaps this is why it is more commonly found in seminary bookstores than Tov's book. I would have to recommend Tov's book on account of the content, however. If you think you are too stupid to handle Tov's book, then this one is for you, but if that is the case, you'd best not meddle in Old Testament textual criticism.

I gave this book three stars because it is a complete introduction and provides all the basic information that a beginner needs to know. Beyond this, however, the book is really disappointing. I already knew pretty much everything in Brotzman's book before I read it and have never found any reason to refer back to it. Tov's book, on the other hand, though also an introduction, was a valuable reference to me long after I bought it and read it for the first time. Unfortunately, I lost that book during my move from Germany and have occasionally picked up Brotzman's book in hopes that it might answer some question that I had, only to be disappointed every time. Three stars is a generous award for this work.

is concise enough to be understood and does lend something to the neat field of OT Text Criticism. it isnt exactly written for the expert in the field of hebrew knowledge (this is only my 4th semester of it), but the title says it all, "a practical introduction".

The title of the book promises software to aid in software measurement. Unfortunately the software installation is poorly designed. This makes installation diffucult if not impossible. The software support that is mentioned in the book is nonexistent and unresponsive. I don't recommend the book.

This books is the next step in the evolution of Dr. Barry Boehm's seminal work, Software Engineering Economics (it was NOT written by Dr. Boehm, however). It provides a logically laid out format that examines measurement at each stage of the development life cycle. I was impressed with the attention paid to testing and V&V. I have not tried the software that comes with the book (book includes a CD ROM with a product called PAMPAS); however, I view the software as an added bonus. It is certainly not required to gain an extradorinary amount of knowledge from reading the book from cover to cover. Highly recommended!

This is a perfect example of editorial intrusion. It's based on the diary of the editor's great-grandfather, a member of the high-casualty 11th Mississippi. But the editor has fictionalized it. It's impossible to tell what was originally there and what has been added, and of course all the authenticity of the authorial "voice" has been lost. Does Wilkins' diary really contain one of the best first-person accounts of Pickett's Charge out there, or has Ellis made that part up? I'd love to see an edition of Wilkins' diary permitting him to speak in his own voice. The tiny quote in the introduction only serves to tease. As it is, this book is an interesting, but frustrating, portrayal.

This is an excellent read. Although the actual dialogue is fictionalised, the facts portrayed in this book are all true. Tithes of Blood presents the War Between the States from the Southern private's point of view. It is not overly moralistic but conveys very well the feelings that may have been experienced by the common soldier, from the excitement of first mustering out to the fear and dread that accompanies battle. The unique perspective of the author, having received much of his information through the oral histories of his family, add a personal dimension to the book that many authors with no connection to the subject matter cannot acheive. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the War Between the States or historical military life.

Welcome to hell on earth. North America is ruled by an evil mutant called Apocalypse. His kingdom only lives by one rule: Survivial of the fittest. Humans are regarded as the lower class and even not all mutants will be survive in this world. This all happened because Professor Charles Xavier never existed. Thus he never got to form the X-Men to appose Apocalypse.

But there is a sole sanctuary for the unchosen in this world. It's the island of Avalon. Humans and mutants go there the escape the cruelty of Apocalypse's America. And among them is a prophet called Destiny. She is one of the key characters to save the world. So Magneto assigns Nightcrawler, and his mother Mystique, to find her and bring her to the X-Men.

The story is a bit above average with some suspence and the art is on par with most of the other Age of Apocalypse books. It's another good stand alone story, but it won't mean much if you haven't read this AoA storyline from the start though. If you get this, I recommend you get all the other AoA TPBs too. For a complete reading list of it, see my X-Men: LegionQuest review.

Warren Ellis's X-Calibre is perhaps the best contribution to Marvel's Age of Apocalypse. In many ways, the story is like the Elseworlds tales that DC comics run. Ellis has taken the characters we all know and love and placed them in a very different, darker world, which is perfectly suited for his style of writing. This is worth reading for the new spin on Nightcrawler alone. The art is also terrific (even for an "X" book, which is saying something). i think some people may have avoided picking up X-Calibre if they weren't fans of the Excalibur series, which is too bad because they missed out on the best written chapter of the whole Age of Apocalypse.

Well...I have read this book and I enjoyed it very much. But I think you sould like borrow it from a friend not buy it if you are a person under like 8. Because it's too easy to read and it takes like less than 2 min. to read the whole book. I mean,why do you buy a book u have been dying to get and get thriled for 2 min. and forget about it! Anyway,lucky this book I rated it 2 stars. Because of a locket! And the price is not just worth it and this book is not the kind of book Mary Kate and Ashely would write.So if you want a book with MK&A's humor,jet a book like Two of a Kind #1 It's a Twin Thing. You would wnt the rest of the series!

It's a great book.Buy it NOW!!!!!!!& dont listen 2 the other review its great!!!!

Mr. Ellis' strength is in his realistic dialogue and characters, which is well on display here in this collection of character sketches.

I say character sketches, and not short stories, because that's really what they are. A series of interconnected portraits of the different, intermingling layers of society in LA.

And it is pretty impressive at that. Each of the characters in the book are going through very similar feelings, have very similar problems (spiraling depression, enstrangement from their parents, etc.). Luckily, Mr. Ellis is able to differentiate their characters and situations.

As happens with books of this type, the ending seems to rush together more quickly, and feel more connected than the beginning. And frankly, as much respect as I have for Mr. Ellis' writing, it was exhausting to read story after story. The book is an interesting portrait of a city constantly on the edge of destruction, but there's only so much nihilistic fiction a guy can read before you curl up into a ball in the corner.

As always, Ellis is a writer worth reading. But be prepared: it is a short book, but a long haul.

3 and 1/2 stars leaning towards 4.

Bret Easton Ellis applies his cold Californian brushstroke to another slice of L.A. life. He is still using the same kind of clipped, cold and quick-to-read writing, but the difference here is that is is applied to more marginal members of society (as opposed to highschoolers, uni students and yuppies) such as rock stars, modern-day vampires, murderous dealers as well as possibly more familiar family settings.

Some of these stories are pretty good (The Secrets of Summer, Letters from L.A. & Discovering Japan), others are more average (Water From The Sun), but really if you know Bret Easton Ellis, then you know what you're are getting (bored, cold and uncaring charcters in interesting surroundings), the main difference here is due to the lack of an overall story there is a wider range of terrain and a little less cohesion. If you dig the man, you'll probably dig this book, it's a pretty decent page turner, but not in the same league as "Less Than Zero" or "American Psycho".

In The Informers, Bret Easton Ellis continues with his stream of dark consciousness style, plunging deeper into our American wasteland. There is not a plot to speak of. This book is an expose, a strung out journal. No linear story exists. Not a single pleasant thing happens to any of the characters, with the exception of Anne, who does manage to meet a boy, but of course he winds up getting slaughtered by vampires. Even the vampires suffer, vomiting into toilets after discovering their victims blood was rich with heroin. Ellis ended American Psycho with the alarming, "This is not an exit," but The Informers offers perhaps even less redemption for its sorted cast. Loveless and stark, with no epitaph to speak of. Ellis does manage to evolve and branch into, for him at least, new literary territory. In The Rules of Attraction and American Psycho we are introduced to Sean and Patrick Bateman. The young spoiled, exceeding wealthy, ubiquitously jaded brothers who form the crux of Ellis's dusky landscapes. Sean even has a cameo of sorts in The Informers. But Patrick and Sean are young like Ellis is. They are men like Ellis. In The Informers Ellis introduces us to something different, their families. The mothers and the fathers, the sisters and brothers. The portrait is now complete. Here is the why behind the hedonism, the violence, and the senseless moral ambiguity of it all. This is where the monsters come from. Here we find roots, jaundiced and sickly, but roots never the less. Ellis has managed to mature and enlarge his shadowy world, without sacrificing any of the unholy brimfire that continues to be so fresh a voice.