144 pages. Introduction by Madame Chaing Kai-Shek. Wonderful photographs...it is somewhat of a coffee table book.

This book is a collection of correspondence, and like al collected correspondence, it must be taken with a grain of salt. Samuel Beckett was a brilliant, albeit incredibly self-indulgent author, and in this collection his personality is on full display. For example, he disregards bad reviews and cold audience reaction to his plays, because by and large he felt that they were not getting the joke, and that his writing was too complicated for the Philistines in the audience to appreciate.

Fans of Beckett will enjoy this book becuase it will help them understand who he was and where he was coming from in his absurd plays. Also, people who work in theater will be able to relate to the author-director relationship and understand how both artists shape what appears on stage. For those who are not Beckett experts (like myself), there is still much delight to be obtained from Beckett's prose. He won the Nobel Prize because he was an excellent writer, and this book provides otherwise unavailable pieces written by him -- his correspondence. However, unless the reader has a deep interest in one of the two corresponders it can get a little dry.

Dr. Jekyll and My. Hyde - A tale of a scientist (Dr. Jekyll) and the mysterious drug that transforms him into the cryptic Mr. Hyde. Through the book Mr. Hyde gains contol of Dr. Jekyll, ultimately ending the life of Jekyll and sealing the new life of Mr. Hyde. Through the mystery and the " who done it " concept of writing, Stevenson keeps the reader on their toes. Even though written before Frued's naming of the id and ego, Stevenson demonstrates a remarkable "perceptive understanding of the personality's inner war." I would recommed this book to all mystery readers.

I'd never had any accounting courses before. This textbook was required for my financial accounting course in an MBA program. The book does a good job of logically explaining all the important topics. Unfortunately, it takes a Herculean effort to sit down and study the material due to the dry subject matter.

The authors did a good job of using examples from real firms, which, I think, makes it more interesting. I've decided to keep this book after the course for a reference.

Many people get this book wrong. This is a book for graduate students, not for undergraduates. It introduces the concepts of financial accounting in a condensed way, which does require more time and patient to understand it, like the way we study in MBA program. Since this book assumes its reader as future statement readers, it introduces finanical statements, including balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement,in the first few chapters to let student understand the linkage among them. It is usually very difficult to understand for those without background, though. Plus, given the fact that this book is required by most of top MBA programs, like Chicago, Columbia, and NYU, I'd like to say that accounting professors have told us the quality of this book. For those who have a hard time on this, I would also recommend its accompanied study guide and solution manuals (used one available on amazon website ISBN 0030269695& ASIN: 0030182697; make sure get the right edition!!). After all, this is a good book, but requires more practices. Good luck.

I recently used this book for an accounting class. I am not really an "accounting head", having come from a computing background, and I had to do the course as a graduate degree requirement. I found the book to be very thorough and well written. The authors took their time to explain every new term throughout. The book also has numerous exercises [maybe too many]. I do not expect to "do accounting" in the future, but if I have to, I'll get a copy of this book again. In reading this book, I found my professor's advice quite handy: 1. start off with the learning objectives for each chapter; 2. read the chapter summary; 3. check all the diagrams in the chapter; 4. read the text; 5. practice as many exercises as you can; 6. finally, review your work. I did this and smashed the course [B+--not bad for a "non-accounting head"]. I found the accompanying study guide [By LeBronne Harris and James Moon] invaluable also. This is probably the best book out there on Financial Accounting.

First off, I would like to say that I am an avid reader of historical romance. Every book I start I finish... except this one. I really tried to get through it, but the writing style was extremely hard to read. The conversation read like a forth grade english project. Meaning, that the main character used either Mr. Lord or Dr. Lord in every sentance.. even when it was just the two characters on the road together. It was boring and redundant to say the least. And a horse that has his own opinion?!?!? PUl-leaz! The main character seemed shallow and vain and completely unlikable. But to be fair.. iI only got to chapter 6 before I had to put this stinker away. I have read Danelle Harmon's books before and they aren't the most spectacular, but they arre much better than this one. Please don't waste you time, money or energy on this one...

I read this book about a year ago. The book was not that good to me. I found it juvenile, immature, easily forgotten. It was not exciting and barely kept my interest, and I actually found it corny. Especially the ending. There was no tension, no excitement and I skimmed through the ending because I was bored with it.

Funny, fast-paced, and steamy. Loved seeing a horse with his own point of view. This one's sure to go on my keeper shelf

I buy at least 25 technical/computer books a year and I can definitely say this is the worst one I've bought in the last year. I think I'll go and buy the Addison-Wesley one.

This book is vague and littered with manager-speak. Not for developers at all (there is no code, for a start off). If you have ANY understanding of objects and classes you will find the first 4 chapters completely useless.

It did have a reasonably good bibliography, but it's like they're saying, haha we tricked you into buying our book, now go read the good ones...

This book is a fairly light introduction to UML. It is an ok overview for those who don't really need to use it, but its not enough for someone who does.

On the positive side, there are some worthwhile areas of the book, particularly describing what the different types of UML diagrams are and what they represent in the development process. It's a helpful intro to UML, but there are better ones.

On the negative side, they have huge amounts of the book dedicated to things like OO vocabulary, developing apps in VB, COM and DCOM, CRC Cards, and Object Model Design Patterns, that have NOTHING to do with the title. And, several of the designs in the book can't be done in Visual Modeler or Rose. What were they using, Visio? Then make it a Visio book! Other diagrams that look like Rose diagrams had features in them that Rose doesn't have. Several valuable UML discussions (extends and includes in Use Cases, how to add class properties and methods -- only 3 pages on this) are very skimpy or just not there.

In short, this book is not at all what the title says. It is a very intro OO/VB/sort of Rose/a little Visual Modeler/UML book that doesn't give enough of what it says it will in the title, and presents a smattering of other topics that really aren't needed (and from which one can learn very little anyway).

This collection is a travesty indeed. Great poems no doubt, but abysmally read. Furthermore they should have put all the introductions together separate and apart from the poems. It's nice to hear intros the first time around. But who wants to hear the intros everytime you listen to the poems? Sometimes I want to hear just a stream of poetry without any interuptions and this format makes that impossible. It's incredible that such a great concept could be so terribly executed.

I could not get this back to the store for a refund quickly enough. While the poem selection is great and the poem introductions are narrated well, the choice to use "modern poets" as the readers made this compilation utterly unlistenable. The only one that I found acceptable was Anthony Hect--the others were notably bad. In particular, I found Jorie Graham's "readings" to be abysmal. She reads each poem as if it were simply a string of unconnected words, giving equal stress to each, with halting pauses between them, never breaking out of a drowsy monotone. Other readers were not much better.

There are three major flaws in the readings:

1) The readers are no better than the average untrained person, and often much worse. (You've just got to hear them for yourself to appreciate how bad they are.)

2) Successive poems by the same poet are read by different "readers." It's jarring to hear 3 or 4 poems from Poet X, each in a wildly different voice.

3) No regard is given to matching the sex of the poet and reader. In general, it is really annoying to hear your favorite poet read by the wrong sex. In particular, making this mistake on "gender specific" poems (like having a woman read Poe's "Annabel Lee") is unforgivable.

Why is this all so upsetting? Because it is practically impossible to find poetry collections on CD, making this a serious waste of limited resources. If you are looking for a good collection on CD, buy "81 Famous Poems CD" by Audio Partners (ISBN 0-945353-82-0). It's a good collection on two CDs and is read by professionals: Alexander Scourby, Bramwell Fletcher, and Nancy Wickwire. In the meantime, we can only hope that the producers of this collection will eventually come to their senses and re-record the poems with the services of trained professionals.

If you are prepping for the GRE in literature or are trying to gain a basic understanding of literary periods and poets, this audio-collection is a must. It features a brief introduction about each poet's life. It also includes a brief introduction about the theme of each poem. The fact that you have to listen to these introductions before listening to the poem inculcate the poem and aids retention. If literature has turned into a cumbersome and overwhelming task, this collection will not only provide you with a sense of direction but will also make literature far more pleasurable.

Like a lot of movies it has maybe one good scene. Advice on working with actord is basically correct. Advice on how to cut budget is puching it. One thing most people learn is to NOT edit in the camera, but to have a well planned shoot with the option to shoot throw aways. While other authors use award winning, audience pleasing, well-known films, she opted to use less than memorable work.

What surprised me most about this book is how much information the author simply gets wrong. Some of it is technical and possibly not that important for a director to know (a cinematorgrapher once told me a famous director I won't name could not even comprehend the basics of photography), but some is fundamental, such as how to handle basic screen direction continuity. Other places the writing isn't clear enough to know whether the author is offering useful advice or not. That said, the book has some merits, including some sensible advice on directing actors. It might be worth while as supplemental reading, provided one takes what is says with a grain of salt, but it would be serious mistake to try to direct a film based only on what is in this book. A much better choice would be Sidney Lumet's Making Movies or Gaspard & Newton's Persistence of Vision (both of these aren't just informative but a real joy to read). Also, pretty much anything by Michael Wiese would merit a look.

When I first picked up this book I thought it would be a sound read. Well, I was wrong; while not a horrible book it is rather outdated, dealing with such things as Moviolas and splicing film all of which is dissolving from an increasingly technological industry. Also, take a look at some of the films this "filmmaker" has made - Jungle Trap, Exterminator II. I didn't have the courage to watch them, but instead visited the internet movie database, found a review of the latter film by Leonard Maltin, who gave it a rating of "BOMB". As much as I can appreciate the author's experience making movies, I find it silly to be taking advice on how to make films from someone who has been working "in the industry" for over a decade and has not had one commerical, or (apparently) critical success. Even the technical stuff gets old after awhile. Do yourself a favor and go read Robert Rodriguez's Ten Minute Film School (or whatever it's called), and avoid this outdated book, written by someone who really has about as much place giving advice to other filmmakers as I do.

I recently purchased this book, "Film Directing: Killer Style & Cutting Edge Technique", by Renee Harmon. I don't think the book is very good or particularly insightful. I have other books by this author which are good, but this book is made up of dry, cookie cutter listings of film terminology and (in my opinion) simplistic definitions of the same. The "exercises" at the end of certain sections appear to be last minute add-ons that don't offer much in terms of actual directing. It might have useful general information for the filmmaker wannabe, but there is nothing that lends credence to the cover's subtitle of "killer style and cutting edge technique'. There are certainly much better books out there that talk about directing that more intersting and a much better read. Like I said, I have other books by this author which are pretty good, but as someone who has actually started to direct I didn't find much of use in this book. I'm sorry I bought this one and certainly can't recommend it to others.

I have read this book and the title is a little miss leading, however for basic info on directing it is a good book. This autor has given a lot of insight to many areas and has provided good examples to support it. However the title is a little bit exaggerated. But still a good book. TG

Shawn Fallot Book Review
Senior English #4
18 February 2003

Daniel E. Harmon wrote The FBI; in it he describes how the FBI works. The book begins by describing in great detail what happened in the Oklahoma bombing. I was really engrossed in the book while it was giving details about the events that happened but when he started talking about how the FBI was formed I got board.
The FBI was mainly used to enforce the laws of the government. The FBI helped stopped the "bootlegging" of alcohol and enforce prohibition. He went into some details about what the FBI does now and how they help police officers. It could have been very interesting when he talked about people on the most wanted list and the highly publicized crimes but he really didn't give enough details.
Over all I really didn't like this book and felt he could have done a better job of keeping the reader in suspense.