Well, I simply cannot finish this book - it's so boring and slow moving that I cannot bring myself to carry on any further. The hero is immature (at 30 he really ought to be a bit more of a man and not chafing under his daddy's thumb!) and the heroine really is off-putting and unlikeable to the point that I just can't empathise at all! So, sorry, this one is going to the charity bookshop forthwith!

A big disappointment!

When I read the plot summary of this book I looked forward to reading it. The summary seems to indicate this is about a earl who wants to farm who runs into a young lady tenant and things happen from there. If this was the plot, I would have been much happier than what actually came out.

Max indeed wins an estate in a card game and goes off to see his property. But first he arranges to have a house party of his rakish friends and ladies of the night join him. When he arrives, he finds the house has two tenants with an unbreakable lease. Since the two are ladies of quality, Max "nobly" decides to divide the house in half and keep the other tenants' presence a secret. As the house party unfolds, Max learns more about himself and his "friends" and finds love with Hope, the lovely young tenant.

This book is simply fraught with problems. Max is very unlikeable, especially when he doesn't have the backbone or honor to cancel the house party but lets it continue. This image of Max is never completely dispelled, even when he begins to mend his ways. Hope comes out as a self-sufficient, smart lady but doesn't have the brains to investigate the circumstances that have robbed her of her fortune. Even though the writing is very good, it just cannot make up for the lack of the plot. The sexual references are embarrassing to both the reader and the author's talent. And the confrontational climax about dastardly deeds and hidden agendas is absurd and out of place.

This book had great potential. But Ms. Lane simply didn't carry it through. I would recommend skipping this book and finding something else to read that might be enjoyable.

This was a very enjoyable book because the characters and plot were so entertaining. Two things detracted from it being a great book. First, the sexual ennuendos were poorly written. Instead of arousing interest, I was thinking, "How lame, enough already." Secondly, the plot was very busy, which necessitated the author quickly wrapping up all the loose ends at the end of the book. However, these two problems were relatively minor, and I could recommend this book heartily.

despite it is cheap, it does not give any value to an interested beginner of collecting old maps. "Collecting Old Maps" by Francis Manasek is a much better book and well worth the higher amount spent.

Too superficial - it really wouldn't help even a novice collector. The idea of a brief intro guide is a good one, but the author hasn't pulled it off here.

I'M SEARCHING AN OLD MAP OF VILNIUS(1900-1920

This book is not what I expected. It is designed for musicians, of which I am not. I expected a book filled with every song just like the video series and with only the words to the songs. A lot of my favorite songs were not included. Only 10 songs with sheet music is included.

I viewed this book at a bookstore before buying it so I knew exactly what I was, and wasn't purchasing. I have no problem with it being incomplete and I do have a lot of fun playing the pieces. I especially enjoy the fun bits -- the intro. to "Conjunction Junction" is a kick.

If you are a good pianist and have some rhythm (swing baby), you should be able to play the music.

One thing I don't like about most piano books (including this one) is the binding. Most of the time it's a real fight to keep the book open unless you break the binding.

After reading the other reviews of this book, I realized it was exactly what I was looking for! I wanted sheet music for some of the songs. This book had many of the songs I was looking for...in particular "Interplanet Janet", "Three is a Magic Number", "I'm Just a Bill", and "Conjunction Junction".

If you are looking for sheet music for Schoolhouse Rock, this has some good ones in it! There is very little in the book besides the sheet music, so I could see why other people were disappointed if they didn't realize what this book really contained.

I cannot believe this book got published. This guy supposedly has a Ph.D., and he writes an entire book about being on the college track team. What a yawner. But heck, if it gets you the Ph.D.....

I liked Sands' work. He is an anthropologist, and ethnographer, looking at the relationship between race, cultural identity and sport. By observing and participating as one of the college sprinters he is studying, he allows the reader to become personally involved in the sprinters, and Sands' own, experience of becoming a sprinter. You feel the elation of winning and the pain of losing, and beyond that you understand the larger picture of how contemporary black and white college athletes perceive who they are on and off the track. I have never been a runner, but I can understand now what being called a "sprinter" means.

This book was terrible. Flat, cliched, two-dimensional characters, unrealistic dialogue and spotty character development abound. Take a pass.

This book is a quick, easy adventure. The story flows nicely and the characters are easy to like. The murder unfolds and you are into it in no time. Would be good while flying or driving. I also enjoyed the sequel.

Brady seems to think that a liberal amount of name dropping surrounded by his fantasy world of journalism makes for a good read. I still can't figure out whether the book was a poorly disguised attempt at kissing up to Parade magazine (we're to believe the narrator and protagonist of Further Lane has left Newsweek to write for Parade - supposedly a step up) or simply bad writing. The fact that Brady has chosen to write about the place where he lives (or lived) simply magnifies the fact that he has no imagination whatsoever. This book is nothing more than a collection of whodunit cliches and rip-offs. How ironic that one of Brady's characters makes the same criticism of Hannah Cutting, the victim of the "savage stabbing" that our narrator is out to report on.

Brady's characters are two dimensional at best, his story is unimaginative, and his writing would be hard pressed to challenge a fourth grader. If anyone seriously recommends this book, reconsider your relationship with this person.

Thankfully I borrowed, rather than bought, this book for the flight home over Thanksgiving. I should have known I'd made a bad choice when the owner told me I didn't need to bother to return it. I suspect she was embarrassed to even own it. Flights usually go relatively fast if I'm reading, however this made two relatively short flights seem like a transatlantic journey. Given a chance to do it over again, I would rather repeatedly read the airplane safety brochure than read Further Lane.

I grew up in New York and often spent summers in the Hamptons so I thought this would be a fun romp for me through my old stomping grounds with some moviestar names thrown about. Not only was this book tedious; it was DULL. It reminded me of Sander's McNally series but instead of Palm Beach, Florida as the setting, we have the Hamptons.....another place where old money or lack of old money rules. While Beecher Stowe and Alix Dunraven have some promise, the story didn't. I bought this book based on a People Magazine recommendation that it would be a "good summer read." It wasn't.

This is a real beach book. It is set on the beaches and villages of the East End of Long Island, mostly in the celebrity ridden Easthampton village. The protagonist is a descendent of the original settlers who thinks of himself as a local. He is really just a summer person who has contempt for the people who really live and work on the East End. The female character, Lady Dunraven is a one dimensional cartoon version of a woman as are many of the local people. The murder mystery, however is good and moves quickly. It is a pretty good choice for a beach read or to read on the Jitney on your way to The Hamptons.

Ferdie Pachecos book showcases neither the twelve greatest rounds of boxing nor any substantial boxing knowledge on the part of Pacheco. Pachecos book is filled with so much sensational garbage it is a disgrace to boxing. LaMotta was drinking cognac in between rounds of his final fight with Robinson because he was afraid to get knocked out!?! First, Pacheco being a "doctor" knows that this would produce more than a few ill affects on the body that would still result in an early stoppage. Second, LaMotta may not have been a saint but he was a great boxer and he didnt get that way by swilling alcohal in between rounds. His ability to take a punch was and is legendary I think that ability (which had as much to do with skill as it did with being tough) would have been hindered more than a little by a belly full of liquor. Needless to say there are a lot of great books out there on the sport of boxing... This isnt one of them. Save your money and buy a book by a writer who knows what hes talking about, not a "writer" who is still living off his glory days when Ali was champ.

Someone needs to tell Pacheco that famous and historically significant doesn't always equal great.

Ring Magazine recently had a list of the 12 greatest rounds of all time, which if you compare it to the list that was compiled by the Fright Doctor, the Ring's list,is pure genius. Actually it was pretty solid. Dempsey Firpo 1st, Hagler Hearns, 1st, Frazier Quarry I 1st, Holmes Norton 15th, Bowe Holyfield I 10th, Garza Mesa 1st, Patterson Johansson III 1st, Gomez Pintor 3rd, Foreman Lyle 4th, Saad Lopez II 8th, Lamotta Dauthille 15th & Benny Leonard Ritchie Mitchell 1st which, in all honesty, I never saw. This list exceeds Pacheco's moronic list that includes, Ali Liston II 1st, Louis Schmeling II 1st, Robinson Lamotta VI 13th, Dempsey Willard 1st and Marciano Walcott I 13th. Ferdie, these rounds were not even remotely great! The Phantom Punch? Louis mauling Schmeling was great? Dempsey doing likewise to Willard? Marciano's picture perfect kayo of Walcott wasn't a great round, it was a great punch!

My inclusions to the Ring's list would be Chavez Taylor I 10th, Frazier Ramos 1st, Leonard Hagler 9th, Hagler Mugabi 6th, Duran Barkley 11th, Duran Dejesus II 3rd, and the biggest oversight of all is a round no one ever lists and just may be one of the two or three best rounds ever in Heavyweight title fight history is Holmes Weaver 11th. This round blows Bowe Holyfield 10th away.

Here's a few more: Leonard-Benitez 15th, Leonard-Duran I 11th and 13th, pick a round from Johnson-Franklin I, pick a round from a Chacon fight vs. Limon or Boza Edwards, Lyle-Shavers 3rd and 4th, pick a round from Holyfield-Braxton I, Holmes-Witherspoon 9th, Marciano-Moore 6th, Norton-Quarry 4th, Pryor-Arguello I 1st, Shavers-Ali 15th, Spinks-Ali I 15th, Johnson-Franklin II 8th, and Weaver-Dokes II 1st.

These are great rounds. Pacheco's book only touches on the headline/marquee rounds in history. And worse yet, the writing on the rounds is pathetic! It appears little to no research was done here. Examples: Pacheco describes the 1st 10 rounds of the Leonard Hearns fight as all Tommy, with Ray only winning a handful of rounds with his boxing ability. What? THis fight displayed a role reversal for Ray and Tommy with Hearns as the boxer and Leonard as the stalker. Ray ravaged Hearns in the 6th and 7th rounds. Ferdie, put a tape of the fight in and watch it before you write. What's even more scary is that fact that he announced this fight for NBC and can't remember what happened.

Ferdie briefly discusses the Leonard Hagler fight and talks about the 14th and 15th rounds respectively. Not bad for a fight that was scheduled for 12 rounds.

Or how about his description of the 13th round of Marciano Walcott? Ferdie states that the cover photo on his book is the knockout blow that Rocky delivered to win the title. A smidgen of research will show that this is NOT the KO punch as the knockout shot took place against the ropes and Walcott and Marciano were trading right hands.

The cover photo takes place in the center of the ring and Joe is delivering a left uppercut that lands in Rocky's armpit. Further idiocy displayed by Pacheco is when he says that when Walcott fell from the punch and he was up against the ropes with his arm over one strand, that Rocky threw a left to Joe head that missed. How the hell could he miss that one!?!? The left clearly landed and helped Walcott further is collapse to the canvas.

I would not recommend the book to anyone looking to learn about the sport of boxing. You will be grossly misled and totally misinformed. Not a good effort. By the way, Pacheco actually originally hosted this special for NBC several years ago only to repeat it for Showtime but with the reduction from 15 rounds to 12. He then did this book. All three efforts were a disaster.

This book is boxing lover's dream. Pacheco's revealing analysis and descriptons of the fighters and rounds makes for compelling reading. I simply couldn't put this book down. Pacheco and Moskovitz did a great job. I want more.

I too am a college instructor. I will give one example of poor authorship. The book has barely over 1 page on micro-operations, then it goes off on and on about micro-programming with diagrams that look like my dog's barf. Also, the very first chapter on operating systems babbles about distributed systems, which most other OS texts do not touch till 8th or 9th chapters. Words cannot express how bad this book is.

I am a college computer science instructor teachng a sophomore level CS course in computer architecture. This book is supposedly meant to introduce first or second year computer science students to the basic organization of computer components, but it miserably fails at presenting the fundamentals as it attempts to be all things to all people at all levels in all disciplines. Most chapters are unfocused as the authors jump all over the map instead of focusing on one component at a time and methodically presenting fundamental concepts of computer systems. I would not hesitate to use the word "criminal" to portray the authors although they have not broken the law of this land by charging $95 for this. Just 4 weeks into the semester, I have explicitly told the students to go back and attempt to sell the books back. The authors are more than welcome to email me so that I can address some specifics, but since the book is so poorly written and hopelessly unfocused that I would not know where to begin.

Pinkert and Wear are at it again, this time with a grippingly detailed masterpiece of hardware and software design passion. This book was a rock-em-sock-em roller coaster - Pinkert and Wear can not be stopped. This dynamic duo set out to make a hot and steamy text book and they did just that. No other authors to date have managed to capture the sheer erotic power that is achieved by the perfect bonding of HARDware and SOFTware as these two have. Each word flows forth with expert percision that exudes pure sexual energy that surely all engineers must experience as they pursue new levels of system design. Once again proving that celebacy really does lend itself to brilliant feats of engineering!

The authors of this book most definitely need to do more research because they alone are unable to keep dates and names correct. All the other "Encyclopedias" are able to at least know what they are talking about. These guys also need an editor worth at least minimum wage. The one they hired for this book was not doing very much to correct anything that needed it.

Lane and Gregg's book is nice if you want something to carry around everywhere you go, but it is poorly edited and/or poorly researched (for instance, Herman Webster Mudgett was hung on May 7th, not May 27th). There is also too much of an emphasis on murderers whom I wouldn't immediately title "serial killers," such as Adolfo Constanzo and Dr. Thomas Neill Cream. The writing is about average and overall the Schecter and Newton books are better references for those interested.

Instead of just giving to eye candy and "big names" in the field of serial murderers, this book gives close to about a 100 or so "others", and their crimes...pretty good.

If the book made no attempt to list street name changes, that would be one thing. But when it lists street name changes and leaves many out (I'll add the change of Jackson to Maryland to the example cited in an earlier review.), then it is worse than useless. It gives the false impression of being comprehensive, so that the absence of a name change from the list might be taken as evidence that there was no name change, when in fact the list is not at all comprehensive and omits many street name changes. I was very disappointed in this book.

Since the book is described as a history of Chicago street names, I expected the book to not only tell me how the present day streets received their name, but their previous name and when and why it was changed. Just one example, Burley Ave. was once known as Ontario, but the book doesn't give any mention to this fact.

This will be a fascinating book to anyone living in, or near Chicago, and who like me, is interested in the history that is all around us. There is so much of this history in the street names - people, places, stories, changing geography etc. I recommend this to any curious person.