Whittell's book has only one strength -- that of covering a special region in the world on which there is little information or unfortunately, little international interest. Whittell's book is purely descriptive and an account of the places he visited, how he got there and the people he met. It is sorely lacking in observation and whatever little observations he comes up with are trite and tacky. Whittell seems to have a lack of understanding of the people, or chooses to be so. One gets a feeling that this book will fit right into a larger anthology on Whittell's life rather an attempt to make readers learn more and understand a region and its people. Whittell's account is a mediocre and half-hearted attempt to delve into the deeper issues facing Central Asia -- identity in the period after Soviet occupation. Central Asia has always been an interesting region for me, from the culture, history, to the location and the people. I would love to visit there sometime. The book is good for some information on the vast region, but otherwise less than average.

There is nothing exceptional about this western. The writing style is above average, but the plot has the usual western elements with few surprises. Giles A. Lutz has done better.

The author of this book was a nephew of Winston Churchill. He was captured by the Germans and held as a hostage in Colditz, their maximum-security prison camp. Lots of daring escapes took place from Colditz, but Romilly, being valuable to the Germans, was heavily guarded and couldn't participate much. His story is interesting if you enjoy prisoner-of-war narratives or WWII history, but it's not the most exciting book I've read along those lines. I'd recommend "The Colditz Story" by P.R. Reid or "The Great Escape" by Paul Brickhill.

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A lot of critics said the Million Man March wouldn't amount to a hill of beans. Yet, since October 16, 1995, every person with any issue on the planet has duplicated the event. This book is a photographic documentation of that special day. It is filled with realistic pictures of everyday African-American men and the celebrities that spoke to them at the podium. I am glad that this book, along with Spike Lee's "Get on the Bus", exist. I would also encourage every library in black neighborhoods to make sure they have a copy of this work. There are many books documenting the marches of the 1960s; I am pleased to see photojournalists are capturing the plentiful activism which happened in the 1990s.

I loved the story "Chocolate Footballs." However, for the most part I felt a certain sameness throughout the stories, as though the characters were essentially reapeated, but the names had been changed. I felt a middle-class blandness throughout. Besides the tick in "Chocolate Footballs," nothing memorable happens; no lasting impact. Still, it was a good read and I enjoyed the stories.

This book "Stagecoach to Hell" is ok, hence my title, I have ead a lot of Giles A. Lutz's books and I had high expectations, but...this wasn't as good as most of his.

Undoubtedly one of the worst books I own. The technical content is often incorrect and self-contradrictory. The text is sprinkled with inappropriate, inane, and spurious comments like "Life is good". The writing style is muddled, repetitious and boring. If you seriously want the CCIE I would pass on this book and put the money towards the exam.

The book reads like a rough draft. Some of the verbage is diffucult to follow and is reapeated with numerous inconsitances. The pratice questions were usefull but there were a number of errors that need correcting and many questions were pointless or self evident.

Structure should be a high priority on the rewrite. The book could probably be shortened by a hundred pages or so if redundancy was removed. Numerous grammar mistakes were a surprise, and I found myself wondering who the editor was at many times.

The book did not reflect the CCIE written test catagories very well and the complete lack of IOS commands was disappointing.

The book is worth buying but just barely. If you can wait for the second edition do so, if not it's worth the price of admitance.

This guide has more errors in it than ANY technical manual I have ever read. They appear both in the sample questions and the in-chapter examples. I would wait for the 2nd edition...

One of the few books organising algorithms around design techniques instead of application areas (see "Algorithms" from Sedgevick). Though both approachs have pros and cons, I've found the former most convenient for people learning to design algorithms. Many problems admit several solutions depending on the design tecnique involved. This fact is emphasized by the authors.

The book is self-contained, plainly written, so that an undergraduate can read it after taking a prerequisite course on programming.

It's also mathematically rigorous, while mantaining simplicity. This allows analysis of algorithms to be really "analytic" (no more guessing the solution to a recurrence relation).

One main drawback (certainly usual) is the lack of excercise solutions.

I don't agree with the other reviews. This book is a serious one and it is a "smooth" version of "Algorithms: Theory and Practice" from the same authors, which has a 5 stars rate. The book don't teach how to program, but the main kind of techniques in algorithm design (Greedy, Divide and Conquer and Dynamic Programing techniques, and others like Backtracking, Probabilistic Algorithms, etc.). I teach a course of Algorithm Design with this book (having the Sedgewick and Cormen books like additional very good references) and I think that it is a very instructive course on algorithmics (but NOT in programming, of course).

This book is written in a simple style: algoritm class description, related proofs, examples, variations and exemples. Because of this clean approach, you can basically read it in a couple days if you have the necessary background knowledge, and in a couple weeks if not. I strongly recommend this book to everyone who are calling themselves "programers", either graduated or not, it will teach/remind them what are the elegant fundamental algorithmic approches to common problems; it's seems that today's software could use a bit of this elegance. As for all the negative reviews, I'm astonished. I own several books on the subject, and I find this one the easiest to read, no question. It must be some sort of personal vendetta against the author, a failed undegraduate course with this book as teaching material, or some other personal reason; that's probably why this/these person(s) whish(es) to remain anonymous.

This book contains too many errors and misleading statements.
Just check page 376.
The excises following each chapter might be good for kids only.

I kept hoping the author would stay focused on CCIE written materials, but time and time again, I found myself joining him on a journey into the technical details of the technical details.

The fact is, if you want to pass the written, you have to study specifically for it. Why else would you be spending hours and hours reading about RIF's? There are much better topics to focus on. This book doesn't keep that in mind. It sways into territory that you just don't want to explore.

I passed the Written Exam today. I can say it was hardly due to this book. I suggest the CCIE book by Swartz.

I want to leave it on a good note. The text is very detailed and I will always keep it as a reference. It's obvious a lot of work was put into this book, it should just be renamed.

This book is a good resource to assist in your studies. It lacks in some areas and dives way to deep into others. It's not a balanced attack that we all want to get the CCIE. I believe the Caslow book plus Cisco's Routing TCP/IP combined are the best 1..2..punch.