Ok- i was joking when I said that Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry was the worst book that I have read. Baitchopper is worse!!! It has a pointless plot and doesn't develop at all. I read it in my Advanced 6th Grade English class. It should have a label on it that reads: SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: IF YOU READ THIS BOOK, YOU MAY INSTANTLY EXPLODE!

I didn't like the book I have read and personally would never buy the book. My close friend and I also agree that the book has no real info

John Vornholt is a very two-faced star trek author, with the ability to produce ambitious and well written stories, while producing just as many naivé and brainless action adventures.

"Crossfire" is the purest example of the latter.

The main character is the drily portrayed younger version of Geordie LaForge, who works as a roadie for the Starfleet Academy Big Band, where the equally dimensionless younger version of Will Riker plays the trombone.

The book starts with the band traveling to a music competition on Pasifica, the much mentioned vacation planet of Starfleet officers.

The first half of this ridiculously short, but still overstrched story centeres around the question of the band winning or not, with tons of unnecessary and clumsy scenes filling the pages. The action begins as a bunch of Orios kidnapp the band.

Why?

Because they like the way they play, of course; no more, no less.

The band is taken to a planet where Orion troops are fighting as mercinaries in a war they've got nothing to do with, and the band is instructed to cheer them up. And of course the fighting begins just as they get there, leaving LaForge and Riker stranded together in the middle of a war zone.

Needless to say, the book has a discusting 'Happily Ever After'-ending, wich involves a lot of technobabble and a solution any reader can figure out aieons before the characters.

By the end of the book, I was truly perplexed by the question of how such a potential author could waste his time on something so utterly horrible.

I'm not sure exactly how to review this book. I bought it sight unseen and without having read any reviews of it. From the title, I hoped this was an historical and archeological look at changes in pueblo architecture at Orayvi (Oraibi) over the course of its use. I assumed it would cover things like changes in building materials, design, and pueblo orientation over the past 600 to 800 years.
However, this book looks at one specific question - how did pueblo room sizes, numbers, and usage change from the 1880s to the 1940s? It covers that in great detail, but reads very much like a graduate thesis. That is, it's very dry reading and repetitive.
If you are an archaeologist studying puebloan sites, you probably already have the book. If you're an interested lay person (like me) it's probably not going to satisfy you.

Recently, I had the pleasure of reading Mr. Cameron's tome of Lynn Waldorf. Having lived after "Pappy's" reign as a coach and a as a coach myself, I found out, interestingly enough, how little the game has changed. There still is the organization and planning of a program, the intense rivalry and competion, sacrifice, the desire to be a part of something bigger than yourself and the realization that football is just a stepping stone for life. If you know a true "student of the game", coach, player or amateur football "historian", this is a great gift and a fantastic and inspiring read. I wish I played for Coach Waldorf.

This was so disjointed...the story was hard to get into..the characters were not explored in any depth. Not a good example of Stella Cameron stories.

Whereas the first book in this series, THE STAR GHOST, was at least readable, semi-likable, and understandable, this book is absolute rubbish. It makes a mockery of Bashir, a mockery of Jake and Nog, a mockery of the Bajorans, a mockery of the whole great show. This is not only a bad book, it is downright insulting. Stay away from this one.