This book was a delight to read. The fact that it was written as a first person account, using the vernacular of the time, made it even better. Also, the fact that the majority of the book is involved with nocturnal New York, and all the seedy goings-on one might associate with it in any time period, make it even more interesting. I especially liked the way Foster evoked a sense of adventure, by figuratively taking the readers hand and "leading" him down darkened streets and alleys, etc.

For a quick dose of NYC history from a perspective you can't get everywhere else, this book is highly recommended.

memorable or favorite, as shown through a New York Times Newspaper Corespondent's Chosen Restaurant. The reporter reveals their special restaurant pick in every International Capital and other selected cities in every part of the world and then persuades the Owner/Chief to share their "how to" for their signature recipe. Wonderful flavors and easy to follow recipes from around the globe. I know, I have visited many of the restaurants in person and then kitchen tested these recipes! Magnifique! Dr. A. Ross

I've been looking for a book to help me get started in this new sport and now I've found it...Great discriptions of the skill and equipment necessary to get started. A must have for all those intrested in learning Surk kayaking!!

Sir Norman Foster is one of the few architects who acts in what he believes. The book is a great collection of his amazing feats in architecture.

Sometimes the road to adventure starts from your own backyard. If you have the itch for adventure, Lee Foster shows you the way!

This book is exteremely informative and well organized. I enjoyed the book and highly recommend it for all adventure seekers.

Norm Foster cleverly weaves together several separate and yet curiously intertwined sceenes into a fascinating and amusing tapestry. I would love to see this play performed. I completely enjoyed reading it.

One True Friend by Joyce Hansen was a great book. It was about a boy named Amir who lived in a foster home. Originally, he lived in the Bronx until his parents died. He still kept in touch with his friend, Doris. They were the best of friends. She gave him advice on what to do in certain situations. In his foster home, he lived with one of his youngest brothers named Ronald. His family was split up.

I really enjoyed this book. I couldn't put it down. It expresses that even if you move far away, you still have friends and family that keep in touch with you. True friends care about you and will always be your friend no matter what. You still have someone to look up to. These are people you should want to be friends with.

My favorite part in this book was when all of Amir's brothers and sisters came to visit Ronald and Amir in the foster home. His auntie and uncle came along also. They were all so glad to see each other again. They all had a feast together. After, Amir drew a picture and the other kids played basketball until it was time to go back home.

How is it that the Final Opus of Leon Solomon is out of print in both hardcover and paperback?

The book's author, Jerome Badanes, died halfway through the sequel to The Final Opus of Leon Solomon. What he had written, and revised himself, was a pretty amazing 100 page novella called Change or Die which appears in Issue number #5 of Open City in its entirety.

It is always a peculiar thing when you take a piece of writing that has so much peculiar character and substance, and lump it in with all the other stuff that happens to comprise that issue of the magazine.

This issue has some absurd wild cards - when seen in the light of its central feature, "Change or Die," - such as an Irvine Welsh story he wrote shortly after completely Trainspotting, and this wonderful piece of non-sense that Delmore Schwartz wrote about T.S. Eliot's anti-Semitism. That is the one interesting thematic thread in this issue--Both Shwartz and the academic protagonist of Change or Die (a man trying to recover from Shakespeare,) have a certain lovely fatedness about them.

And Change or Die has one of my favorite short lead sentences:

"The Blik family was a dream and an education."

What a great beginning to such a great story!

(And what a concise and honest use of the short sentence, which has been bastardized and beaten up on any number of fronts, from Hemingway imitators to the cold pragmatism of news providers).

If this whole computer as a means to shop for books is to have any good side, then it is that finding a book like, "The Final Opus of Leon Solomon," or getting your hands on the novella "Change of Die" is something you MUST GET! If only to make use of the fact that you are sitting in front of a computer and perusing.

Jerome Badanes. He is coming back in the only way he can.

Orphan Boy combines the values of character and responsibility. The Orphan Boy must make several critical decisions throughout the story.The pictures are absolutely stunning. The ending is a complete surprise but still plausible. A great book for grades three and up.

This book tells you how to exploit the power of the computer to model dozens of astronomical systems. Written in a conversational mode, it includes both the formulae and source code, in BASIC, (on disk) and executable files so you do not need a BASIC complier or runtime program to execute the programs. Subjects include: Simple Harmonic Motion, The Doppler Effect, Non-Spherical Masses in Orbit, Trojan Stability, Orbital Resonances, Ovendens Principle, Size Distributions of the Minor Planets, Global Positioning System, Gravitational Lenses, Harmonies Among the Stars, An Animated Analemma, Stability Zones, Solar Sailing, The Heliogyro, Build ing a Galaxy, Moon Phases, plus much, much more...