IT IS ABOOK THAT DON GIVES MORE THAT ONE STAR BUT IS FOR STUPIDS HWO DONT UNDERSTAND ANYTHING ABOUT ROBOTS

For my nineth grade english class howards end was selected. This book, though interesting in its text, was very long and slow. I hope that my teacher will not pick another book like it. Also if a teacher is reading this I might reccomend going a little bit slower.

SOME OF SHE WORKS IN CERAMIC

I have loved L'amour since I was a child, it's family history really but this book is a sad example of his work. The words were corny and sappy and the plot fairly predictable. The end left much to be desired. For an excellent book try: Grub Line Rider or the Chick Bowdrie series

This sort of thinking makes Christianity look plain silly. It presents an image of Christians as close-minded simpletons, easily lead by fear. And make no mistake, Arms is out to spread fear - it's remarkably easy to control people who are afraid.

As a Christian I am insulted that the very serious subject of good vs. evil is trivialized by comparison to a harmless series of books. The only crime J.K. Rowling is guilty of is getting kids' noses away from the T.V. and into books. As for Pokemon, referring to a cartoon as the work of Satan is simply moronic.

Every day I become more and more shocked with the stupidity of the people in our society today. As a Christian, I try to lead a God-like life, as it says in the Bible, but it's kind of hard right now. This Phil Arms gives Christians everywhere a bad name. As Robert Fernandez said, every episode of Pokémon has a an important theme for children to learn: friendship, values, etc. Check out the first movie if you don't believe me; it deals with segregation and its own form of racism. As for Harry Potter: these books are FANTASY. Look them up on this website, they're under FANTASY. If, as an adult, you are so stupid as to think FANTASY is REAL-LIFE, you need to go back to kindergarten. I don't remember anyone bringing out this Christian controversy when Lord of the Rings came out. Oh no! Our children may think that Hobbits and Elves exist! AAAHHHH! Please. Anyone dissing this stuff obviously has no lives of their own, and needs to check their religious status. I'm not proud to be associated with close-minded [people] such as this.

I did not buy this book(thank God), but for those of you who did, throw it away. I am a Christian and even though I am a Christian I enjoy Pokemon and Harry Potter a lot. All this book is going to do is tell parents that Pokemon and Harry Potter is evil, which it is not. I am tired of people saying these two things are evil and things of the Devil. These two things are only to build a childs imagination. I am 15 years old and I enjoy Pokemon and Harry Potter a lot. And to the author of this book, I know you are entitled to your own opinion but I do not believe a word of it. Again, if you bought this book, throw it away.

If it was possible, I'd give this book a zero. It was a complete waste of time!

Most of the book consisted of pointless letters from children seven and under to who knows who and said things like "I love Harry. Snape is mean. Harry is nice." over and over again. The editor's comments on the letter that were supposed to clarify it for the people who haven't read the book usually just restated what the letter said- I doubt seriously that Moore read the books herself.

A lot of the information in the kids' letters were fraudulent as well- some made comments about teachers called "Madame Pooch" and made comments about "Filch's cat having to die". The sections after that were just as worse, consisting of "what we want to be in the Harry Potter books", playing Quidditch on the ground, and other stuff that was even more boring... a terrible book. Don't waste your money.

In this collection, children talked about the Harry Potter books. Unfortunately, the entire first half of this book was endless reviews of the books, many of which were wrong and/or repititious. I was bored out of my mind by these reviews, which told the storyline but not what the children enjoyed about the books, and HELLO, we already KNOW the storylines, right? The last part was some letters and recipes and other things, and overall the title "We love Harry Potter; WE'LL TELL YOU WHY" is completely false. I wish it had been thought out more and better edited.

I bought this book out of optimism, because I thought that anything praising Harry Potter would be relatively harmless. When I ordered the fourth instalment from a shop, I was nearly made to buy it again. Thankfully, I didn't - once was enough.

What is the point of this book? Reading this repeatedly is enough to put you off Harry Potter. The book itself is divided into sections, as follows:

1. The children's opinions on the series. Most of the children made mistakes that showed how little they had understood of the Harry Potter books, such as talking about "Madam Pooch", and asking, "I don't see why Mrs Norris had to die..." when she didn't. The information that was correct was usually unhelpful and unnecessary. Even people who haven't read the books have probably gathered by now that Harry is, well, the goodie. They even went so far as to tell us personal information about their pets: "I have a pet frog whom I keep in a cage and feed crickets." Ms Moore didn't help, either; she regularly wrote unnecessary columns between the letters to talk about such irrelevant matters as Thanksgiving dinner and Valentine's Day.

There were "letters" to Hogwarts, there was a trivial trivia quiz and there was even an anagram puzzle in which about half the words were related to wizardry. There were comments about how Quidditch could be played on the ground, or with scrap metal claws (enough said), and even some pointless recipes - or, in some cases, non-recipes. A quote: "Last year I mad a restaurant called Slimy Louie's which served Road Kill Stew and Rat-tat-tooy. I didn't include Stuffed Owl because you wouldn't want to eat Hedwig or Errol." I won't make any more comments. I don't think they're needed. This material is normally channelled into amateur websites, not books.

On the back you will read: "Do you want to find out what others have said about how they'd like to fly on a hippogriff or raise a pet dragon?" Think about this. Do you? As other reviewers have commented, there's nothing new to be gained from this book. However, I have thought of one use for this book. It would be superb, all 100 or so pages of it, as kindling for a bonfire. And that's what I'm going to use my copy as.

Map collectors have had, in the past, a problem finding books that contain useful information to help with collecting. At first impression, Potter's book looks like it should be a very useful and important asset. Alas, not true. Although this book is visually attractive, it is poorly written. There is some information here, but Potter's style is ponderous and soporific, making reading it difficult and irritating. Overall, the writing seems to be sloppy and hastily done and this appears to be a book written (quickly) to order. Fifty-word sentences are common! I actually counted 97 words in a single sentence! That particular sentence contained some half-dozen, mostly unrelated, thoughts. Where was the editor? (Was there an editor?) There are also some conceptual errors. One example is when Potter writes about projections and explains that it is difficult to represent a circular object on a plane piece of paper, not knowing that a circle is a plane figure. It is surprising that these errors and difficult writing were not corrected in the second edition. In recent years, collecting maps has grown in popularity as a hobby (I've been at it for about 6 years). This book does little for the majority of new collectors. Potter has chosen to illustrate and to discuss (not with much relevant insight, I might add) only the most "important" and expensive maps, many of which are museum items, and the book is very out of touch with today's American (and many European) map collectors. A London map dealer's stilted (and often erroneous) prose does not help us with our hobby. Many collectors today focus on other types of maps, building very nice, and important, collections around themes other than just scarcity or museum quality. Unfortunately this book is of little help to the majority of these modern-day collectors, and map collectors who buy museum pieces don't need a book like this! The book might be nice as a collection of pictures, but otherwise has relatively little value, and I don't think I shall be consulting my copy very much. The previous review recommended Moreland and Bannister's "Antique Maps", and I concur. This is far better than the Potter volume. I also suggest getting Manasek's "Collecting Old Maps" whch is an important new book quite unlike most other map books. These latter two books will be of inestimable help to most collectors and make Potter's book an unecessary encumbrance.

Map collectors have had, in the past, a problem finding books that contain useful information to help with collecting. At first impression, Potter's book looks like it should be a very useful and important asset. Alas, not true. Although this book is visually attractive, it is poorly written. There is some information here, but Potter's style is ponderous and soporific, making reading it difficult and irritating. Overall, the writing seems to be sloppy and hastily done and this appears to be a book written (quickly) to order. Fifty-word sentences are common! I actually counted 97 words in a single sentence! That particular sentence contained some half-dozen, mostly unrelated, thoughts. Where was the editor? (Was there an editor?) There are also some conceptual errors. One example is when Potter writes about projections and explains that it is difficult to represent a circular object on a plane piece of paper, not knowing that a circle is a plane figure. It is surprising that these errors and difficult writing were not corrected in the second edition. In recent years, collecting maps has grown in popularity as a hobby (I've been at it for about 6 years). This book does little for the majority of new collectors. Potter has chosen to illustrate and to discuss (not with much relevant insight, I might add) only the most "important" and expensive maps, many of which are museum items, and the book is very out of touch with today's American (and many European) map collectors. A London map dealer's stilted (and often erroneous) prose does not help us with our hobby. Many collectors today focus on other types of maps, building very nice, and important, collections around themes other than just scarcity or museum quality. Unfortunately this book is of little help to the majority of these modern-day collectors, and map collectors who buy museum pieces don't need a book like this! The book might be nice as a collection of pictures, but otherwise has relatively little value, and I don't think I shall be consulting my copy very much. The previous review recommended Moreland and Bannister's book "Antique Maps", and I concur. This is far better than the Potter volume. I also suggest getting Manasek's "Collecting Old Maps" whch is an important new book quite unlike most other map books. These latter two books will be of inestimable help to most collectors and make Potter's book an unecessary encumbrance.

Geoff from NYC. "Collecting Antique Maps" by Jonathan Potter is an attractive book. It is replete with colour illustrations and virtually every page is illustrated, giving it a nice overall appearance. The book is a very general "bird's-eye" view of maps and can provide the beginner with some useful information. I own the first edition, essentially the same book, that was published as "Country Life Book of Antique Maps". I bought the present book on the basis of it being advertised as a revised, second edition, and I looked forward to a new version, expecting weaknesses to be corrected. The original edition, published in 1988, had a number of weaknesses, and I was interested to learn of this "revison". Unfortunately Potter's "revision" consisted ONLY of TEN added pages to the original text, which was otherwise left unchanged! These added pages seem to be hastily written and offer very little useful information. The 10 added pages include a bibliography that is both cursory and poorly organized and is of little use to those of us who want to read more about map collecting. Don't get me wrong - the book is OK, but still very anglocentric and now, more than ever, dated. It is clearly in the lineage of RV Tooley's "Maps and Map Makers" and represents that style and generation of map collecting, and maps from the English dealers' perspective. The images are very well reproduced and very attractive, but they touch mostly on the "highlights" and do not help the collector, like me, who cannot afford to collect ten thousand dollar maps. The picture captions remain as awkward as they were in the original printing. The book attempts to cover too much for its size and therefore is annoyingly superficial throughout. The illustrations are nice, but the text is now very dated and it remains overly superficial. I like the book, (as I liked the original editon) but I don't need two copies of the same work and feel somewhat cheated that Potter has simply changed the title, added ten pages of pap and calls it a revised second edition. I think this just a bit dishonest. Except for the colour illustrations, it cannot compete with Moreland and Bannister's book, which is far superior. If you have the Moreland and Bannister volume you won't need this. If you have "Country Life Book Of Antique Maps" don't bother getting this non-revision. I have downrated it by one star because it is the same old book being peddled under a new title.

Dr. Potter's book is a joyful gloat that ancient texts were found that shed doubt on the deity of Jesus Christ.

Dr. Potter chastises "ignorant" fundamentalists everywhere for attributing the miracles of Christ to the power of God, rather than the power of the human mind. ...

This book pretends to be an exploration into "the lost years of Jesus". Unfortunately for the reader the book digresses into a lengthy exploration of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The author condemns scroll research and promises "great revelations" as more of the scroll appears. This book is at least 20 years old, and as far as this reader is concerned, these revelations never came. The author jumps to many conclusions based upon the discoveries up until the book was written with inadequate documentation of his findings. This book was a disappointment to read with too many unfulfilled promises. The author's bold pronouncement that Jesus was a man and not the Son of God is merely the punchline to a poorly worded and developed joke.

Potter's book does much to validate the historical Jesus though does not complement accepted traditional teachings. For inspiration I found R. Patton's "THE Autobiography" infinitely more satisfying. Potter has done a commendable job of collating factual information that doesn't unquestioningly swallow orhtodoxy. A valuable reference tool.

This guy is so full of himself. He needs a proper editor as the book is in no particular order. Meanders. Repeats. Not worth the $

Bought the book, very disappointed in the kindergarten project appearance of the techniques explained here.