Charlie Greene's mother is the prime suspect in the murder of her next door neighbor, and there are more murders to follow. The actual storyline wasn't very captivating, but the big cast of characters kept your brain turning. The major downside to this book was that this was Charlie's first visit home to Boulder since she left sixteen years ago as a pregnant teen. The mystery of who fathered Charlie's daughter, Libby, almost took top billing over what was supposed to be the actual mystery. The book was okay--it makes for a light weekend read.

The story here was just not to my liking. The mentally super-powered hero was overcome by a Pagan goddess and made to forget his lover. The lover follows his ex and his new love around Paris and Euro-Disney hoping for a chance to defeat the spell and the goddess. I could not buy the fact the super-heroes were so patient in letting one of their own behave in a hurtful way to his partner and himself. In the end we are to accept that the gods the pagans worship are humbled by them and will obey their edicts.

There are at leat two definite impact structures on the Colorado Plateau: The Meteor Crater (Barringer Crater) in Arizona, and Upheaval Dome in Utah's Canyonlands National Park. I expected a somewhat detailed treatment of these features, and didn't get it.

I also expected some discusssion of impact features in arid areas in general. I didn't get that, either.

What I did get, and didn't want, was a thin, generalized history of the Colorado Plateau in terms of stratigraphic horizons, something any general textbook on the region would have provided. I feel the title of the work was highly deceptive, and I am sorry I bought what amounted to a duplicative text.

There are far better, more specific text on the Colorado plateau. Buy one of those, and leave this one on the shelf, or in Amazon's stocks. Not recommended.

The author's "research" consists of copying previous guides to the area and transfering topos onto bad photos. Unfortunately, the result is incomplete, inaccurate, and incoherent. As best as can be determined, no effort was made to talk to any of the route authors for this area. You're better off going to the cliff and asking other climbers for directions, recommendations, route names, and grades.

This book, billed as "historical fiction," is closer to pornography-poorly written pornography at that. Much of the "evidence" used to make the author's case is, indeed, fictional. For instance, the photograph on page 178, said to be the last photo from Bessie Hyde's camera, is actually one taken two weeks earlier at Phantom Ranch by an onlooker. The significance heaped upon it, then, is imaginary. The lurid details of the Hydes' sex lives, brutality, and crudity, are pure fiction and based not on history, but on the author's twisted fantasies. Fiction, yes. Historical, no. Don't buy this.

In just four years this book is so out of date as to be worthless. Some places no longer exist, some are 40-70% more in price, both of which can be a shock when you get somewhere with your child.

For example, KidSlope doesn't exist and hasn't for more than two-and-a-half years. Elitch Gardens Amusement Park is listed in there but not forthe prices listed and they charge for parking

Frankly, I'm afraid to attempt anything else that's in this book and will look on-line for something more current. Like something from this century. One would assume that Chronicle Books would update their information a little more frequently, but I guess not. I'm going to suspect any and all of their books in the future.

Anyone who justifies the mutilation of bodies, the wearing of women's body parts as hat ornaments, the smashing of children's heads as they beg for their lives, is a very sick person. People who would justify this would justify the holocaust.

The problem with this map is mainly that the street names are so small. A bigger map would have been better. Also, the map is already out of date. The city of Colorado Springs is changing so rapidly that some new roads aren't even on the map (according to this map, Powers blvd. ends on Woodman, in reality it goes to Research and may extend all the way to I-25 in the future).

We bought this book for a trip to Steamboat in July 2003. My wife is a beginning rider, so we picked a ride classified as "easy", and described as fire roads/dirt roads throughout. That may have been the case when this book was first written in 1993, but 10 years later, there were almost no signs, and about half the course had regressed to seriously overgrown single-track. It took three of us (two with substantial outdoor and hiking experience) 6 hours to finish what should have been a 2 hour ride, as we kept getting lost and having to back track. The authors say they revise this book: DON'T BELIEVE THEM.

The format of the street locator in the back of the book changed dramaticaly from the 2001 format 2001 is much easier to follow than the 2002 or 2003 version of the some book.
I hope they realise there mistake and go back to the better and easier format