The only reason I'm even giving this book 1 star is because as a Hamptons regular Brady transports me back to summer evenings at lawn parties and the beaches. Although I do not take these Hamptons books as high-brow literature, just fun casual reading I found this one to be absolutely implausible and preposterous.

It is always interesting how Brady takes the real and mixes it with the fictitous. However, this one was just out of control. It is true there is a huge house being built in Sagaponack ... which most people believe is to be a retreat or compound of some sorts... Brady uses this as his basis for the Kuwaiti backed mansion being erected in the book. But this is the only clever way he mixes it in this one. I'm not even going to get into the plot, but to use Howard Roark, the hero of Ayn Rand's fictitous The Foutainhead, as a character is just way beyond belief. The Fountainhead is not some obscure book that a few people have read. It is highly regarded and continue to sell 100,000 compies a year... Also in light of current events in the U.S. and Middle East it is so unbelieveable to have Beecher's father captured by the Taliban and let go because of some emails going back and forth. Which brings me to another point. How is Buzzy Portofino's character receiving emails over a computer while they are on a boat, running through the woods, in the hospital or wherever? This book was published in 1999 wireless internet services were not that good back then, and you can't even get good cellphone or "Blackberry" reception in the Hamptons in 2002.

All in all I felt as if Brady was taking his reader to be completely ignorant. Brady's other 2 Hamptons books that I have read, Further Lane and Gin Lane, are far better summer reading. This one seems to me to be Brady's way of quickly trying to capitalize on their NY Times best seller list status. I say skip this one.

This is a work of staggering ineptitude.

Too many words, in too flowery language, describe too many characters, engaged in too many irrelevant events, advancing too little plot.

Moreover, there is no attempt at subtlety. Hints of future developments go off like hydrogen bombs ... which is somewhat unfortunate for a "mystery novel".

Next to this, the average Victorian English novel looks like Raymond Carver.

This is a silly story, but it's great escape reading. All the escape elements are there -- the life styles of the rich and famous, an improbable story line, and a pleasant ending. This is a great book to take to a vacation cottage -- and leave behind for the next occupant.

There is absolutely no reason to buy this book unless required. Homework is covered hardly at all, and the 'reviews' are meaningless.

If you want to get ripped off, by this book. Homework is not even covered within the chapter it is from. I know from experience. However if you don't use homework for it then it is ok.

This book provides an excellent demonstration of the application of mathmatics and science to the entire field of engineering. The authors touch on the engineering properties of materials, formulas for plane and solid figures, and the application of statistics to process control. A format for clear communication of engineering data is presented. This is a useful book for the student and practicing engineer or technologist.

Dr. Lane wrote this book so he could sell his shark cartilage. He wrote this book to sell a product that does not work. Sharks do get cancer, but incidences of cancer are much lower than in humans. The shark immune system may be better adapted to combat cancer. That does not justify grinding up shark cartilage and selling it. Dr. Lane's company sells the stuff for $130 a pound. I would reccomend reading "The Shark Chronicles" by John A. Musick. The book does a great job of describing this awe inspiring creatures.

This book's premise is fundamentally flawed. The authors try to promote the use of shark cartilage to cure cancer, but they use bad science. In fact, as any zoologist or marine biologist will tell you, sharks do get cancer! So much for accurate research. This book's information is dangerous for two reasons: 1) people may use this unproven treatment when they need traditional medicine, and 2) many sharks are being unnecessarily killed for their cartilage. A dangerous book and a waste of money.

Some people approach this topic, and the author, with a great deal of aggression but "lead with their chins" in expressing their discontent without having read the material.

First, Dr. Lane (PhD not MD) explains that medical treatment may well be necessary, and he does not advise against it. He does see nutritionally-based therapy as adjunct therapy, although, for some brave souls, or some Stage IV souls (end-of-the-line medically) nutritional therapy may be their lifeline back to health.

Second, he has a PhD in marine biology and well knows that some sharks do get cancer, AS HE EXPLAINS in the opening pages. The types are limited, the incidence quite rare. Title for effect!

Third, this approach is not his idea, as he explains. The anti-vascular factor(s) in cartilage inhibit, or even reverse, neovascularization (vein and artery infrastructure)necessary for tumor growth. Dr. Judah Folkmann of Harvard has been working on this for over 30 years, searching for the active ingredient. In the interim, Dr. Lane suggests using the part of the shark they have been throwing away! It must be processed correctly; it should not be contaminated or deactivated by processing; it must not be "cut" or reduced by additives so the proper dosage can be delivered.

Fourth, shark cartilage is for tumor-based cancers, not blood-based cancers (for further info please see his Immune Power book and MGN-3 data). This is not a cure-all, but for those cancers, such as brain cancer, which do not yield to chemotherapy, where surgery is a problem, where radiation may also do more harm than good...there is still hope.

You actually have to read the book to learn what anecdotal evidence there is. Anecdotal (stories from patients) evidence is not accepted as science in some circles. NIH trials are on-going at this time. In the meantime, I KNOW people who got benefit from Dr. Lane's company's shark cartilage. ("Benefin") Some other products by other suppliers have been shown to be compromised. He explains why. Being alive and well when you were expected to be dead and gone does not need supporting data, in my opinion. What would it take to convince you?

This book tells about a chipmunk getting ready for all the obstacles that comes with winter and all of the problems chipmunk has to face to succeed. Even though, there really isnt a moral to this particular story, it is a good book just to imagine all the things the chipmunk must go through.

Yes, I would recommend tis book, because there is some action parts, chipmunk must face, which is quite interesting. I liked this book.

Lynsi

For the price that I paid for the book, I was disappointed in the content. I was expecting it to contain many, many interesting craft ideas for Marine Biology, appropriate for upper elementary/enrichment. Instead, there are only 20 craft projects. It is more for lower elementary, Grades K, 1, and 2.

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When you had read the original Ghost Rider, The Punisher and the others characters who had been "re-visited" or "re-make" by the Marvel Knights Series you feel it's not the same.. The plot is good, but the graphics presents the Ghost Rider like a cartoon very funny not like the Spirit of Vengeance that is...

Talks about a Johnny Blaze who works in a cubicle and wants to be free or the Ghost Rider...

If you are a Spirit of Vengeance, better buy "Ride of the Midnight Sons" or "Ghost Rider Resurrected"...

I take the exam tomorrow, so I don't know how relevant the questions are yet, but I am shocked by the number of typos that the book has. The book is full of misspellings, answers that don't match questions, and some very strangely worded questions. It's a shame that the only study guide for this test is so poorly edited.

use the book as a reference tool to gauge which areas you need to study more, then use the recommended reading list provide by the state department to find the appropriate texts to aid you. the english expression section format is changing in '99, but the goals are still the same- identifying grammatically correct, concise sentences (buy the study guide from ACT to see the new format). also refer to the information in the ACT study guide regarding the essay and oral examinations.

This is about the only test preparation book available for the American Foreign Service Officer's test, and it's a few years old. There was a major change in the '98 exam that this book doesn't cover, simply that the essay is given first thing on the day of the test, as opposed to the day of the interviews. To get more info, you should also splurge for the ETS test preparation guide also (about $11.00). It's another practice exam, like the ones in this book. More info can be found at the State Dept. website. Other than that, ARCO's book is necessary, but less than adequate. The suggested readings at the index will benefit a test taker more than the test itself. Maybe with an exam like this one, they figure that you either live on a diet of international relations or there's no hope for you. Good luck.

Where to start with this whiff of literary effluvia? The first thing you'll notice are the disturbingly gruesome pictures. That's no mistake. The author must have gone through every police file available to get the nastiest, most shocking shots he could. He HAD to, otherwise he would never have sold a single copy of this...book. The pictures are there to distract you from the author's endless, boring stories about HIMSELF. I'd say a quarter of this book is about the life and crimes of Bill Suff, and the rest is a vainglorious autobiography of the author himself: An uplifting tale of a nerdy boy who grew into a rabbity man, overcoming obstacles such as car accidents and invisibility to pretty girls until he eventually found his calling as a writer for Matlock and Hunter. WHO CARES? Shut up already!

The inclusion of Bill Suff's cookbook and his idiotic writings (a lame ghost story and a tale about a gentle soul who's been wrongly imprisoned - talk about someone who watches too much tv) are there for the same reason as the pictures. The novelty of a serial killer cookbook will sell more copies. The irony is that the author praises these writings as unusually professional - like he would know what that looks like! But he's got a point. Compared to his own, they really are.

Another thing that bothers me is the "Novelization" of the murders. Apparently, the author can read the thoughts of the victims and detail how they tried to bargain with their killer, despite the fact that they never lived to tell what they had been thinking that day, and their killer isn't about to tell anyone what they said either. How does the author know that Suff licked a victim and thought she tasted "sweet"? How does he know that the victim, a prostitute, had been happy that all her customers were easy to please that day? It's all just speculation. The thing about Suff putting a body part into his award-winning chili for the cookoff is speculation too. There's no proof, just innuendo that might sell more copies.

This is a really boring book. You can skip page after page and not miss a thing. Brian Alan Lane should go back to writing unmemorable episodes of barely memorable tv shows and leave the real writing to someone can pay attention to the subject.

I am appalled that this book would even be published. Not only is this book unnecessary but distasteful and disrespectful, especially to the victims' families. I am a daughter of one of the victims, and to hear that this garbage is out there and that William Suff is getting any type of recognition as well as a profit for the heinous crimes is disturbing. Maybe there should be a book about the hard times and the pain and the impact this made on each family and what they had to overcome. Not some sick deranged man, that is getting credit for killing women.

I thought the book was very disturbing. First of all, it skipped around too much and it delved into the life of the author, which I found strange. Secondly, why did they have to put those awfully graphic pictures in there? And third, the short stories and cookbook were totally inappropriate material for the topic of the actual book. Another thing, why did they give Mr. Suff's family(Don)half the proceeds from this book? It should've went to the victims families. And last might I add that Kimberly Lyttle had been a childhood friend of mine whom I had not seen in years and I was truly devastated by her death and the fact that she left behind a daughter and father who loved her.