While not exactly the most exciting Super Bowl ever played- the Niners pretty much had it won at halftime- this book does give the Niner/pro football fan a good look at the glitz, glamor, & hype that surrounds the 'Great American Time-Out'. The enormity of this amazing event in pro sports is depicted in the seemingly-endless array of color photos, with a bit of text here & there.

There's pre-game pics of the fans, decked out in some of the most interesting clothing & costumes ever seen as they pay tribute to their allies. There's the prepping of the field for the big day. You'll also see the players coming off the planes, the annual NFL Experience 'carnival', and go behind the scenes at rehearsals for the halftime show.

Then there's the game itself, featuring plenty of 49er highlights (Steve Young's amazing performance, Jerry Rice & Ricky Watters' two-man touchdown show, Deion Sanders' steppin') and a few Charger Moments as well (Andre Coleman's 98-yard kickoff return TD). Kathy Lee Gifford's national anthem and the 'Indiana Jones'-themed halftime show (with the Super Bowl trophy standing in for the gold idol from 'Raiders') are also depicted.

Finally, there's the post-game wrap-up, featuring stills from the victorious 49ers locker room, press conferences by both teams, and the Niner victory parade down San Francisco's main drag. Finally, a few words from commissioner Paul Tagliabue, the sentimental thoughts of Hall-of-Famers Dan Fouts & Ronnie Lott, and an appendix of game stats are included to give this book a little something aside from photos to look at.

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I think the writing in this book was very good. There is actually quite a bit of it: Ronnie Lott sounds incredibly sensible, and Crumpacker's piece is a hoot. Even Tagliabue comes across less than smarmy.

I am a die-hard Charger fan, so even though we got massacred in this game, I still have a lot nostalgia of the 1994 season. It was the first year that we ever made a Super Bowl, and it was a year that I will never forget. This book brings back all of those great memories. Chargers 2000 all the way!

This is the first BP novel I've read. Found it quite entertaining, except for the f--k word which she uses quite frequently, and in my opinion oft times unnecessary. But it keeps you guessing as to who the real killer is.

But the word, and phrase that caught my eye, was "caca" used in a comment made by Gails mother "I'll be up to my knees in caca". Unless you're English the word would be meaningless to you, to myself it brought back memories of many years gone by, used by many parents to children, for going to the toilet.

Which brought to mind a question for Ms Parker, where did you pick up that expression, Caca, I'm certain there's nowhere in N.America where they use it.

Would love to hear from you, and where you heard it.

Sincerely Richard Barlow

This is what I call an airplane book. It would be great on an overseas flight. I read it while suffering through a cold and it kept me entertained. However, I think the characters are not clearly defined. Both Gail and her boyfriend change to suit the mood of the book. Sometimes she seemed like an incompetent wimp, other times she seemed tough and intelligent. I didn't like her all that much. I wasn't pleased by the way she kept breaking promises to her daughter. Is that what it's like to be a divorced mom? And the sappy wrap up from Anthony's point of view made me cringe.

I love the Gail Connor series by Barbara Parker!! They are about my favorite. Her relationship with Anthony is so well written. The chemistry between those two is so exciting and always in each book there is great suspense. I anxiously look forward to another book. I highly recommend you start with the first book in the series though to get the full effect. Otherwise it get's confusing because you will want to truly understand Gail's relationship not only to Anthony but to her ex husband, Dave. Parker is good at spinning a mystery and I can never put her books down. A great read!

Once again, this author has presented her political views on Cuba under the guise of a novel.

Lupe is an interesting character and the books are well-written. However, they continue to be so overrun with everything Cuban (obviously the author's personal feelings on the subject) that they end up turning intolerable. Couple this with the author's constant need to hit us over the head with Lupe's wealth and background, and the whole concept of the novel gets lost under the trivialities.

Pages and pages on Cuban sugar mills is not why I picked up this book. Had I wanted to learn about that, I would've bought a history book. I find it hard to believe that the author can't find anything in such a vibrant city as Miami to write about without drowning the entire story in Cuba. She'd do herself and readers of her books a great service if she could manage to produce one novel that wasn't a history of Cuba and its politics, and that didn't focus on her obvious obsession with the country.

This first-person detective novel about private investigator Lupé Solano, set in Miami sometime after the Elian Gonzales affair, is a wonderful woman's FANTASY!! I came across this book because I was specifically looking for books with WOMEN as the private investigators. The exotic setting also attracted me. This book has far exceeded my expectations-so much so, that I anticipate reading the book again and again.

I LOVED this book. Lupé is a bright, intelligent young woman out of the Cuban community in Miami, who has become a private investigator, much to the chagrin of her conservative Cuban family. The character is single, either late 20's or early 30's. She tools around in a Mercedes, conducts half her meetings in lavish restaurants, and has dashingly handsome men coming in and out of her life like a revolving door! This is what I mean by the book being a woman's fantasy. This lightens up the book compared to other, male private investigator books. It was a nice change from the PI books where the main character is barely making ends meet, and always dealing with one scruffy person after another.

I enjoy exotic settings and foreign cultures, and that made this book doubly enjoyable for me. I learned a lot about the Cuban community in south Florida, and was quite favorably impressed! I also learned about what it was like for the Cuban exiles before, during, and after they left Cuba, as well as how and why they left.

Lupé investigates a double-homicide with all sorts of interesting characters. But she does it all in STYLE. This book is definitely NOT a thriller, in terms of not being able to put it down. It's a book to be read leisurely, and savored, page by page, just like a fine wine. The first thing I'm going to do now is see if this author has written any more books for this character, as it appears to be first in a possible series. If there are any more, I intend to buy every one!

THIS IS THE HOTTEST BOOK I'VE EVER READ,FROM THE MOMENT I STARTED READING IT TO THE END, I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN. I THOUGHT THE END WAS VERY SICK WHAT THEY DID TO MARGARITA, I THINK I WOULD'VE JUST LEFT HIM.

This book had the potential to be an intriguing suspense however too many characters, too many subplots and an anticlimactic ending made it a disappointing read. I didn't count but I believe there were at least twenty characters introduced with a brief explanation of his/her history and at least three sub-plots.I found myself scanning the subplots to hurridly get to the main plot of murder and to the main characters of Sam, Caitlin, Dina and Frank only to lead to an ending that left too many unanswered questions and the reader,me, who lumbered through the 438 pages actually wanting to read more to get some satisfaction and closeure to the story. I found it too cumbersome to remember how everything and everyone related to the main story if in fact they did. If you enjoy stories within a story you may tolerate this. It wasn't my favorite. I am not however, going to let this one book, since this is the first I've read by this author, dissuade me from trying another by this author.

I am a fan of Mary Higgens Clark and found this novel to rival her best. It was suspensful, fast paced and full of surprises. I loved it.

Better than Grisham. Think Scott Turow meets Sue Grafton. This female attorney author pulls no punches. Miami, the setting, is as much a character as the likeable and tormented Sam Hagen, state prosecutor who has recently lost his only son. I loved this book! Went out and got all the rest of her novels after this. A must-have if you like lawyer thrillers. Maybe a must-have if you just like well-written books about real human beings in trouble.

Hoke Moseley lives in a residential hotel in Miami Beach. He turns over half of his pay to his ex-wife. He is a sergeant in the Miami police force and needs to move into Miami. Suddenly he has his two teenage daughters staying with him and his partner is pregnant. He cannot afford decent housing and has been tasked, along with two others, to solve ten out of fifty cold cases in two months' times. In the meantime he wonders if his last homicide case was accidental death or, well, homicide. The book is excellent--a thoroughly professional job.

'New Hope for the Dead' is one of Charles Willeford's comic-mystery novels starring Hoke Moseley, a crusty yet lovable member of the Miami police force. It is hard to not enjoy the trials and tribulations of Moseley: work partner getting pregnant, his own love life on the skids, two teenaged daughters arriving at his doorstep, etc. Always interesting; I never felt like I was reading the script to a soap opera. However Willeford forgot to include a strong crime element. Yes, there is a dead junkie and a sexy step-mom. But the story itself compares badly to 'Miami Blues', a much superior Hoke Moseley novel. And compared to Willeford's early masterpiece 'The Woman Chaser' one senses the Hoke Moseley series was not the best way for Willeford to end his career.

Bottom line: more of enjoyable literary junk food rather than quality stuff. Recommended for Willeford fans only.

In this second book of the Hoke Moseley series, our loser-pants police detective must deal with various sleazoids while figuring out how to raise his two daughters who have been sent back to him because his ex-wife's pro-ball-player novio finds them distracting during his spring training. Sound Familiar? It's not. Funny and amoral, Hoke's counseling sessions with his daughters are not for the timid or politically correct. Lacking the outrageous antagonists of MIAMI BLUES or SIDESWIPE, this is not the strongest book of the series, but it is an essential set-up for the next tale. Buy it.

Wild tale of a frenetic Young Upward Cuban-American (YUCA). Suarez seems able to take the reader on an exciting ride (like Miami's traffic) and explore deeper cultural issues. For me it was an introduction to some Cuban culture that doesn't make it into the Miami Herald, such as a sanetera (faith healer) and conga playing. Suarez seems to write about what he knows. A compelling and quick read!

A new wave of fiction by and about 2nd generation Hispanic Americans has finally arrived. Virgil Suarez' Going Under seeks what it means to be Cuban American in Maimi. The sweet success and bitter failure of Cuban in the US has never been more candidly explored in fiction

This is an excellent book for quick reference of your trip. I use it alot in the cockpit, but find more detail would be better. The layout is good for going north to south, but I find the backwards reading (South to North) a little difficult to follow. I recommend this as a companion book along with others, but not as a stand alone book unless you are the casual boater (weekender)

When Margaret and I took our trip from Cleveland, Ohio to the Florida Keys and back we took and used a large collection of charts and guides, including this book. Of all the resources we had available on board, this book was the one we used constantly. It is arranged mile-by-mile as you proceed down or up the Waterway and tells you what to expect as you go. It is an excellent planning tool. We wouldn't do the Waterway without it!...

Miami Only Worse is a really funny book - at least I enjoyed it. But there are a few wierd parts in it. The humorous tales in it are cool, and the people in it are really funny. Write on, Mr. Sanchez!

I found this book to be a superb historical and rather funny satire of the crazy events that made Miami nortorious (remember Miami Vice?). Sadly these same business and humanistic practices have spewed into America and equally corrupted it. But what this book does is reveal them (and boy some of them are incredible) into a nice novel, story-telling funny way.

My only minor critique is that it is wordy at times perhaps due to a culture that likes to talk a lot. But at times it is brief, as in describing some of the characters, which is great given how shallow they were and how shallow the times were. A very fast and funny read.

a book that tells storys about 10 wemon that were born befor 1900

I was very disappointed in this book. I felt that certain scenes dragged which left me bored and turning pages without reading them. The chemistry between Lance and Britt could have been more explosive. There was something always exploding or catching fire in this book, too bad it wasn't them. And then, when a relationship between them is finally established, in the end they part and go their separate ways. I really felt cheated. This was my first taste of Edna Buchanan's work and if her other books are like this one, it'll be my last. Read it and decide for yourself.

Truly the author has tied up all the necessary components in this novel set in a Miami that is beautifully diagrammed. Britt, a crime reporter, has her back up most the time but slides into a more human role about halfway into the book. The story weaves through the setting, crimes and a movie in a starkly lovely way, meeting some pretty weird folks. A bit different, but a good tight story. I listened to the unabridged audio, and thought the reader was well suited to the Britt character and did an admirable job on voice changes as well.

I listen to audio books while doing housework. I found this one to be different and interesting. Which is hard to find when you read as much as I do. The ending was totally predictable, but it was still a fun, easy read. I'm glad they didn't end up together, it would have never worked and made the story more realistic that way. Go for MacDonald, Britt!!!