The Accident so far is taking place in a school and at Matt an Chris's house. Most of these settings are at the begging at the book. The charicters in this book are Chris who is a drugie, Matt who is a smart intelligent guy, Karen who is Matt's girlfriend, Jason and Bobby who are two of Matt's friends, Mrs.Walsh is Chris's mother, and Mrs Thompson who is Matt's mother. The plot of this book is that a whold bunch of kids are getting excited about going on a ski trip but soon they will be wishing it was all a dream! I think this book was a very good book, and I would encourage people to read it. Parts of this book would help kinds understand to not drink and drive, and they would discover the consiquences.

This novel, The Accident, is a thrilling mystery that adds an element of intrigue to it. It makes you want to keep reading to find the clues they give you in the book. Four kids were at a party and they got in a accident. They had been drinking a lot, they were driving home and they got in a collision. This book is very well-written, dropping indications along the way to help solve the mystery. Todd Strasser has once again written another great novel.

The Accident was a thrilling mystery and it dealt with drunk driving. It wasa dark,icy night when five drunk teenagers flew off a ravine;only one survived. Matt is the main character in the book who suspects that something was wrong that night. Chris was also a character who died that nihgt from drunk driving. everyone suspects that he was the one driving since he was known to be a "bad guy". All of the people in the town vanalize Chris's home. Meanwhile, Bobby Stewrt was Matt's best friend, and one of the five who died that night. The Stewerts are a rich family who are donating a pool tot he school. It appears as if they have something to cover up, so Matt is trying to figure out what's going on and who was driving that night. This book taught me never to drink, because if you do, you will have to face the consequences which are destructive and can lead to death. I recommend this book to people who are interested in mysteries and who want to find out who was driving.

Admittedly, this book is for fans of author Anne McCaffrey. Fans had been clamoring for her to tell her life's story, but she's been too busy writing her novels. Her second son, Todd, wrote this book to give the fans a little bit of what they want. That's the problem. It is a little bit. This is a very slim volume (coming in at not much more than 100 pages) and is not very well organized. We are not really treated to the entirety of McCaffrey's life and this is not a chronological book. Todd McCaffrey jumps around quite a bit and never stays on any one subject for too long. We get glimpses of the science fiction legend. We see a little bit of her early life and the problems she had growing up. We see her as a struggle writer, and a struggling singer/actor. We see how these experiences shaped her later novels (the singer problems translated directly into Crystal Singer), but we never really get a sense of who Anne McCaffrey is. Granted, I'm not expecting the depth of research that we would get from Robert Caro or David McCullough, but this is a very skimpy biography and is somewhat of a let down. Decent enough for fans of McCaffrey, but I can't imagine this would be of interest to anybody else.

The only criticism possible for this biography of Anne McCaffrey by her son, Todd, is that it is too short. The book is a must-read for any Anne McCaffrey fan, but will leave any such fan saying "More! More!" It tells in brief her family background and the story of her life in a series of family anecdotes and his own favorite memories of growing up with his mother. What is in the book is lovely and charming and interesting and often quite touching, but it is disjointed and reads more like a sketch than a real biography. What you are left with is a sense of what an interesting person she is and how much you'd like to hear more, to have a really well-rounded portrait. That lack is why I gave it only four stars instead of five. Still, you are left with a new awareness of how incredibly brave Anne McCaffrey was and is. She wrote her wonderful dragon stories under the worst possible conditions -- an unhappy, difficult marriage, raising three children, one quite ill for some years, frequent moves, the death of her father, serious money worries. Through it all, she kept writing and was clearly an excellent mother. That alone makes her an inspiration. Read the book knowing its limitations and enjoying learning some charming fragments of a life.

It's not hard to understand why Todd McCaffrey might be fond and proud of his mother. Anne McCaffrey remains one of the finest science fiction authors in the genre today, over thirty years after she began writing. It's also not hard to see that he is indeed very fond and very proud of her when you turn the pages of this biography. Told from his own point of view as someone who was there for quite a lot of it, this story of Anne's life vivdly illustrates her family tree, her childhood, her activity in the worlds of theater and music, her less-than-satisfying marriage to Todd's father, and how she got started writing her marvelous books. Complete with family photos and written with ill-concealed amusement and love, this is the kind of book any mother would want her child to write about her.

I was expecting more recipes and was hoping for more quick and easy recipes for my peanut, milk and egg allergic 3 year old. Some of the recipes are too time consuming or require specialty items. Since my child is very picky, I have wasted so much food in the past so I am hesitant to spend time and money on some of these recipes. I was looking for more simple ideas for 3 meals utilizing simpler and faster ingrediants.

My son was recently diagnosed as both dairy and soy allergic. I was fine with 'normal' meals, but struggling to find treats for him. This book provides great recipes for both standard fare and special treats. The format is clear, and the allergy substitutions easy to follow. I thoroughly recommend it.

I have found the book to be an excellent resource and cookbook for adults with food allergies as well as for children. While the recipes selected were targeted at the types of food that children like and the types of food that children want to eat to be like other childen, I have found recipes in this book that work well for adults with various food problems. My grown daughter has delevoped an allergy to gluten products recently, (she's in her early 40's) and she has found the book to be very helpful.

Several friends have recently been diagnosed with Type II diabetes and using the book have been able to manage their diets, eat some of their favorite foods and still not increase their sugar intake. All in all, although it says for SPECIAL KIDS, it is for everyone who needs to monitor their intake of certain kids of foods. It is, in the parlance of today's technology, user friedly.

Stephen Colbert is not only a comic genius in the televised world, but also in the literary world. I have no idea which of the trio actually had the most to do with this great book, but it screams Colbert, so I have to praise him above all. It seems as if the entire thing was written soley by him. Buy this now Strangers With Candy friends, and bask in the great SWC-ish comedy.

Favorite excerpts from the book(its about a stuggling writer): "I'd look around at the other diners thinking there must be a book's worth of material just in this room, if only someone would write it and put my name on it"
"The Lord, like every women I've ever known, was cold and distant."
"I was intrigued. When was it incorporated? What was its population? And just how hot were these ladies? The first two questions seemed to lose importance after I raised the third"

Need more proof? I thought not, get the book.

If you liked Strangers with Candy or Exit 57, you'll love Wigfield!! Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, and Stephen Colbert are comic geniuses who make me laugh like no other writers can. Wigfield is laugh-out-loud material and perfect for a fun read. Buy it-- you won't be sorry!

This book was laugh out loud funny from beginning to end. Very unconventional, but in a good way. Any Colbert fan will recognize his brand of humor- the book is very similiar to his Daily Show field pieces. Plus there were pictures!

As a writer of a book on credit myself, I would say that this books covers the basics pretty well. - Kristy Welsh, author of "Good Credit is Sexy".

DFC is completely off base with his review. You need a book like "guerilla credit" exactly because of people like DFC (a banker - little wonder) who believes that everyone with bad credit is a loser who simply needs to pay his/her bills. Well, I have news for you DFC, this book is extremely helpful for those of us who are the victims of credit reporting agencies who couldn't care less about the accuracy of the information they are reporting.

I am one of the many people who, at 30 years old, had never requested copies of my credit reports, and who thought I had perfect credit prior to inexplicably being turned down for a loan. Much to my horror, I found out that there were more than 40 errors in my credit reports. Dozens of accounts that had been closed for many years were still reflecting as open, students loans erroneously reflecting defaults, credit card accounts erroneously reflecting 30 and 60 day late payments. All false information. Using Todd's book, ALL of this false information has now been removed from my reports. Moreover, this book will teach you how to get results when the reporting agencies play their little games of "verifying" erroneous information. I can't tell you how many times my reports came back with "information verified" even though I had enclosed written documentation that the information being reported was not correct (it really is unbelievable isn't it!) Berman explained how to be persistent, get aggressive, and fight these unethical reporting companies and their shoddy work practices.

Even if you legitimately have creditors knocking on your door, this book will give you some very helpful advise as to negotiating a partial payment in return for a promise not to report the negative information to a credit bureau (DFC doesn't want you to know that). And the book will also tell you how you MAY be able to get some accurate (but old) information removed from your report.

Finally, the credit reporting agencies try very hard to make your report as cryptic as possible in an effort to prevent you from understanding exactly what they are reporting about you. Todd's book shows you how to read your report - a very important first step. However, I must add that because the book is now 6 years old, and because the agencies keep changing the form of their reports (gee, I wonder why?), this is the book's biggest downfall right now (and the ONLY reason I didn't give it 5 stars). PLEASE Todd if you're reading this, revise your book and publish a new edition!

Notwithstanding this one downfall, I still HIGHLY recommend this book.

It doesn't get any better than this. I was desperate trying to get a book that could help me in the subject. God, am I glad that I got this book. It teached me everything I have to know in order to fix my credit; from getting my credit report, how to read it (and understand it), and how to "repair it". I jumped from a lousy 523 points to 715 points in a period of 6 months. Yes thats right, they are not magicians (not over night fixing), but real fixing of your credit trough very easy and practical steps. You just have to be consistent cause time is important.
Thank you gentleman for saving my life !!!

Looking through an online version of this book, I was astonished by how outdated it was--but then, it was published five years ago. Lots of references to Microsoft vaporware like Enhanced Directory Services (DS), not to mention plenty about gopher and WAIS and other obsolete stuff that's pretty irrelevant now.

Presumably, there's a more up-to-date book available from these folks, but I truly can't understand how this book has so many fans.

This book has helped me so much in finding the little problems that come up in a day to day NT environment. I recommend this for every NT shop!

Don't listen to the bad reviews. They don't know what they are talking about. Mark has put together the most informative book on networking with TCP/IP and NT that I, or you, will ever see in our lifetime. I recommend this book.

"Stainless" is mindless, summer-trash, horror fiction. Its a vampire wannabee novel. The story is a rushed to completion Gen-X: boy meets female Vampire, Vampire falls in love with boy, Vampire loses boy, and gives herself a fatal sunburn. Lets call it a nilhilist's Romeo and Juliet. The book does have a couple of good lines. The author would make Coupland proud. However, what might have been a good satire was is washed away in gratuitous sex and violence. The jacket calls it erotic, I call it tawdry.

A vampire and her lover amidst trashy LA goth types.

The lead characters are rather hollow, and the goth characters are ugly and unsympathetic. There's also an evil vampire whom the goths end up serving, to their misfortune.

I guess this book is supposed to be a commentary of some sort on the vapid LA lifestyle. Sort of like LESS THAN ZERO with fangs. Lots of bored "been there, done that" characters on the fringes of the music scene.

It's not a "heavy" or "literary" as the author seems to intend, but it reads well. Not a bad book if trashy goth types interest you.

Never in my entire life have I read such a creative, heartbreaking book. Grimson's characters were so believable that I actually felt the broken rock musician protagonist's sadness. The plot, although not 100% original, was a nice change of pace from the usual bore and lore that can be found in Anne Rice's books. It's nice to know you won't find any whiny, "why must I continue to kill?" vampires here. The writing was pure poetry and I love his unusual style. Thanks for your contribution to the horror genre, Mr. Grimson.

Are you ready for the most monumental event in human history? A day is coming when millions of people will suddenly disappear and the world will have a difficult time trying to explain what has happened.

This book is sprightly but respectfully written. It is certainly not deep or complex theologically. It was designed to be read by your average "Joe." It is an excellent complement to Hal Lindsey's books about the Rapture which concentrate more on the biblical explanations and history of church teaching on the topic. Strandberg and James do make excellent use of shaded areas of some pages that allow readers, who are interested to take side trips to particular parts of the bible, to study for themselves that the Rapture is coming and probably sooner than anyone knows.

The book is certainly a witnessing tool for non-believers today; however the book is also addressed to those "left behind." The book anticipates that the Rapture of believers will be the biggest media event of all time. There will be hysteria, panic and a bevy of experts on CNN, FOX and the major networks attempting to provide explanations and answers to grief-stricken, confused people. The book candidly explains what the Book of Revelation foretells about world events coming for these people left behind. Yet, promises from the bible are detailed for those who believe despite persucution. Instructions are clear that one left behind must not accept the mark and worship of the coming world leader.

I pray this book gathers a wide audience. As for me, I plan to leave a copy of the book in my office in the hope one of my co-workers will find it after the Rapture. With the peace efforts by President Bush in the Middle East right now, I have goose pimples that the prophecies of Daniel, Ezekiel, Zechariah and the Apostle John are so rapidly unfolding right before our eyes.

Todd and Terry have found an unique way to continue their ministry even after they are no longer physically here after the Rapture. Thank you Todd and Terry, not only for the book but also the website that provides even more information:

I read your updates once or twice a week and it encourages my Christian walk to focus on the blessed hope those who will leave in the Rapture have. God bless.

Todd and Tery do a great job of explaining Bible prophecy with just the right blend of humor to keep it entertaining, yet with the deep insight of years of study.
Many authors have an annoying habit of becoming dogmatic about issues better left to speculation (such as date-setting, or the identity of the anti-Christ), but this book never does that. It simply provides solid Scriptural support for all it's assertions, while sticking to a literal appropach to prophecy sure to please fundamental Christians, or (even more importantly) to edify those seeking the truth who haven't yet found it.

There IS such thing as black and white - right and wrong.

The Bible is either true, or it isn't.

Some proofs in favor of the Bible being true and the existance
of God are as follows:

1) You can calculate Israels return to the exact MONTH and YEAR
from the time of the end of their Babylonian exile. Do you
homework, the research is out there to verify for yourself.

2) The Babylonian King in Daniel 2 had a vision of a statue
made of different metals for different body parts.

Daniel's interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream outlines the
further history of Gentile world power. The 4 metals of the
statue represent 4 future world empires:
(1) Babylon (Jer. 51:7) - The Head of Gold
(2) Medo-Persia - Left-Right Arms & Chest Of Silver
(3) Greece under Alexander - Belly Thighs Of Bronze
(4) East-West Rome. - Left-Right Legs Of IRON.
Then then much later(after a very long time apparently) these
legs continue into the ten toes, a confederacy made up
largely of European nations (Dan. 7:24-27).

These toes are made of IRON (a fragment of the Roman Empire)
and CLAY (man).

Coincidence? I think not.

3) Jesus made reference to Solomons temple in the end times in
Matt 24 which did not exist along with Israel as a nation after
70 A.D. when the Roman Empire destroyed Jerusalem. As of 1948,
Israel is back, and so will Solomons temple when the Antichrist
steps onto the seen. Jesus was making reference to a passage
in Daniel, when the Antichrist sits in the rebuilt temple.

Are you Rapture Ready?

This book explains it all, and why you should be
"looking up" in expectation for Christ.

But wait.. wasn't all of these points written "after
the fact"?

No. We have in our posession today the ORIGINAL copies of
the Greek Old Testament which pre-dated Christ by 300 years.
Carbon dating is good within 6-10 thousand years, so it's a
safe bet, it's legit.. especially when you got 3 copies.

Do your homework.

This stuff all checks out.

The real question is. DO YOU WANT TO BELIEVE.

This book is an excellent starting book.

Todd's site, was my introduction to the Rapture and his
book nicely ties together all of the articles posted to
it over the years.

I highly recommend it.

If you've read any of the left behind series, or wish to
start, this book is an excellent introduction as well.

THIS IS HAPPENING FOR REAL.

When does it happen? We don't know because the bible says
we cannot know the DAY or the HOUR. But we can know the
SEASON, as Jesus makes reference to Israel in Matt 24 as a
figtree in bloom once again in the end time. He also said
that THIS (the Generation that witnesses it's blooming - or
rebirth - would by no means pass away until all these things
come to pass).

That "generation" Jesus was referring to is the Baby Boomer
Generation who witnessed Israels return in 1948.

Just one more reason to be Rapture Ready.

Are you Rapture Ready?

I have only read the first few pages, but I find Todd Gitlin's accusations that CURE was hypersensitive to bigotry unconvincing in virtually every instance, poorly thought through, and lend support to the worst forms of racism/bigotry which persist in full bloom today...

Phil Ochs'sarcastic "Love Me I'm a Liberal" seems to have been written to criticize trains of thought such as those in Gitlin's opening pages...

The book may offer some helpful insights elsewhere, and some solid, detailed history of recent times, but I am going to try to spend my limited time reading things that seem more respectful of others and truly inspired...

Written in the mid-90s when the "culture wars" were at their height, Gitlin's history of how the wars began in the Left, how conservatives fanned the flames and in the confusion consolidated their claim on the average American, seems somehow remote now. What with all politicians now running for the center, and the latest war (on terrorism) acting as a yet another national "unifier," the flames of the culture wars appear to have been stamped out by all the rushing, marching feet. Appearances are deceiving though. It's my guess the embers are still smoldering, and that a little poking and stirring will re-ignite the blaze.

In this book, Gitlin's strategy is to try to lower the heat of the culture wars through a "pox on both their houses" retelling of its genesis and most important battles. His attempt to shed light on the destructive effects of identity politics as practiced by the Left and distorted by the right feels forthright and balanced. There's a good summary of the influence of various thinkers on the academic Left: Foucalt, Derrida, Horkheimer, Adorno, all of whom attacked the Enlightenment project in varying degrees, ushering in the era of "relativism." Also, he anticipates much of the ad hominen counter-Enlightenment criticism to be heaped on him by Lefty reviewers ' e.g., he's an old white male liberal academic Jewish prof out of touch with the latest radical twist on of those white male French guys, who still believes there can be a Left, and liberal and progressive causes worth fighting for. In other words, he does not agree with one of his graduate students who told him there is "no such thing as truth ' there are only truth effects." (Gitlin nicely points out that anti-Enlightenment types still use the ground rules established by the Enlightenment to attack the Enlightenment).

He starts the book with a first hand report on the difficulties of getting a new textbook series approved in Oakland, CA, which serves to demonstrate on a practical level the effect of post-modernist theory. Identity politics, that hydra-headed hyphenating monster (Japanese-Americans, African-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Mexican-Americans, etc.) kicked up so much dust that Oakland didn't succeed in adopting any textbooks for at least two years. By contrast, the conservatives who protested were easy to mollify: some minor revisions mentioning creationism and they were fine. The hyphenates major complaint? The textbooks didn't treat their various victimologies fully enough. Or that their stories were not told with enough obsequiousness and guilt. The textbooks themselves, in trying to anticipate such criticisms, broke up the main narrative with a multi-media look, and multi-perspectivist story-telling strategy.

Less balanced is his description of how the false crisis of P(olitical) C(orrectness) was created in think tanks fueled by conservative money men (Olin, Heritage, etc.), spread by D'Souza and others, and promulgated through the media to whom it was cynically and successfully pitched as a story of "free speech denied." But then, Gitlin couldn't have "balanced" this chapter in the Culture War because the Left, ambushed by the conservatives, couldn't recover fast enough, and never had a chance to tell its side of the story in any meaningful way. It was an upside-down time when conservatives got to call liberals anti free-speech and McCarthy-like. Those free speech loving conservative anti-PC warriors were suddenly keeping America safe for good old-fashioned race-baiting, gender intolerance and just plain good ol' hate! I know they helped me see how wrong to be anti-anti-woman, anti-anti-Semitic, anti-racist, and anti-fascist.

Eventually this latest semi-real war against terrorism will die out and we'll see the usual rancor return. In fact, the lack of a budget consensus now is a welcome step in that direction!

Todd Gitlin has written a much needed book. I hope for an update soon. There is no question that today's "left" is really not "left" at all - it's just wacky! Gitlin is arguing for a TRUE left...one that focuses on the evils of capitalism and the gulf between the rich and poor. Gitlin wonders what happened to the left that challenged the moneyed class. Instead, today's "left" is all about race, sexual preference, (add the latest "Transgendered" rights), all of these culture wars caught up in Identity Politics and having no interest at all in fighting the class issues of the haves and have nots based on CLASS. Today's left is consumed with their own particular victimizations, rather than as a member of a class that is being oppressed for THAT larger reason. The "left" of today (or what's left of it) MUST wake-up to the realization that they are turning potentially hundreds of thousands of possible progresssives away with way-out "in the ozones" cultural absurdities. Not all, mind you, some such as race have to always play a large role in the fight. However, the left is so splintered into fragments, each fighting their own little corner of the culture wars, that one has to wonder if the idea of progressive and/or socialist unity is impossible. There is NO way all these disparate groups can come together as long as they are trashing white folks just for being white and insisting on absurd things like reperations,.....I just realized, I could go on and on. You get the idea. Gitlin is right on-target and only needs to update this or write another book - as this Identity Politics business that runs off all potential progressives who might join us on CLASS issues and concentration of wealth issues and corporate abuse issues and labor issues erodes the ever smaller foundation of what TRUE "left" there is. Good book!

The book provides some good general information, but is very wordy and confusing at times. I was dissapointed

Very well organized, chock full of helpful charts, quotes from coaches and timelines, this book is geared toward walking high school students through the process in a way that is clear and nonthreatening. As a parent of such an athlete, I found this a very useful resource.

This was an invaluable aid in our recruitment process. It is a very easy to follow guide for letter writing, organization of schools, and user-friendly in it's entire format. While using this book as a starting place, it was necessary to find additional resources of information. But this was great to get us started.

We have recommended this book to other sports parents, many have found it helpful in a very long, confusing process.