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King George's Army 1740-1793: (3) (Men-At-Arms Series, No 292)
Published in Paperback by Osprey Pub Co (May, 1996)
Authors: Stuart Reid and Paul Chappell
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Good but Dry
This book gives information on British calvery and artilllery units from about 1740 to 1790. It deals with troops in the seven years war, India, American revolotion, and Jacobite rebelions. The pictures and illustrations are good. The info is good and accurate. One problem is the writing is very dry. I've read many Osprey books but this is the dullest. I also wish the author had given information on Loyalists units in America.

Night Visions 5
Published in Hardcover by Dark Harvest Books (July, 1988)
Authors: Stephen King, Dan Simmons, Martin. Goerge R.R., George R. R. Martin, and Martin. George R.R.
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GOOD SHORT STORIES

3 stories by Stephen King: "The Reploids", "Sneakers" and "Dedication".

3 stories by Dan Simmons: "Metastasis", "Vanni Fucci is Alive and Well and Living in Hell" and "Iverson's Pits".

1 story by George R. R. Martin: "The Skin Trade".

While the stories by King and Simmons are more or less short, the story by Martin is long, taking up almost half of the volume.

The only (almost) original story is "Metastasis" by Simmons, where a medical experiment lets a man see strange violet creatures (usually invisible) feeding on human beings like vampire slugs, causing cancer.

"Sneakers" is a ghost story, while "Dedication" is about urban witchcraft and "The Skin Trade" is a story about werewolves and investigation.

The Reluctant King:The Life & Reign of George VI 1895-1952
Published in Unknown Binding by Weidenfeld and Nicolson ()
Author: Sarah Bradford
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Talented biographer treats her subject with sensitivity
Sarah Bradford's biographies are a joy to read. Her admirable prose style, her ability to recreate a very different era or level of society, her thorough but never tedious research give a wonderfully full-rounded picture of the public figures about whom she writes. The fact that this biography is less satisfying than some of Bradford's other works has nothing to do with any weakness on her part but instead is the result of her choice of subject. This shy, repressed monarch for much of his life seemed a fairly colorless figure, overshadowed by the stronger personalities around him (his casually arrogant elder brother, his formidable mother, his extraordinarily charming wife). George VI comes accross as a conventional upper-class Englishman, the sort of bland personality about whom no one would have dreamed of writing a biography had he not been a monarch's son. When George VI is involved with exciting external events (as in the sections of the book devoted to World War II or the chapters dealing with his elder brother's romance with Mrs. Simpson and subsequent abdication) Bradford's biography becomes compelling reading. However, much of George VI's life was comparative uneventful or dedicated to fairly tedious subjects (to me at least) like the role of the monarchy in British constitutional law or the symbolism of goodwill tours to the dominions. Nor can Bradford uncover that much of the inner life of an extremely diffident man who apparently only felt comfortable confiding his true feelings to his wife. Despite its perhaps inevitable limitations, this remains the best biography of George VI I know (but for a clear sense of what Bradford can do with a livelier subject, have a look at her biography of George's daughter, Elizabeth II).

Rhode Island in the Colonial Wars A List of Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors in King George's War, 1740-1748, and A List of Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors in the Old French & Indian War, 1755-1762 (GW 945)
Published in Hardcover by Genealogy Warehouse (March, 1994)
Author: Howard M. Chapin
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Useful Book for Genealogists
Rhode Island in the Colonial Wars has a brief history of the King George's War (1740-1748) and the Old French & Indian War (1755-1762). A majority of the book consists of lists of Rhode Island men who served in these two conflicts. The book has limited notations for each soldier/sailor listing units and period served. This book would be useful for genealogists searching for information about early Rhode Island military men.

A Sailor of King George: The Journals of Captain Frederick Hoffman RN 1793-1814
Published in Paperback by Duckworth (May, 1999)
Author: Frederick Hoffman
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An interesting historical account
This is a real life account of service in the Royal Navy from 1793-1814. It provides some insight into naval service of that era from the standpoint of an officer. It has some failings in that it does not identify the time from year to year, and sometimes leaves the reader wondering exactly where the action is taking place. It also reflects the biases of the writer who comes across as a little self-centered and concerned with his own personal comforts. It is a little hard to sympathize with the writer's complaint about being retired as a commander on half-pay, as that was probably about five times the earnings of an ordinary working person and, as he relates in the book, he tended to squander money when he had it. He also dawdled about Paris for about 3 months after being released from captivity rather than reporting back to the Admiralty. Overall, the book is worth reading if one wants to gain some insight into the realities of naval service, where disease and accidents were often more life threatening than the enemy.

Selected from Carrie
Published in Library Binding by Bt Bound (October, 1999)
Authors: Stephen King, Literacy Volunteers of New York City Sta, and George Ochoa
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Selected From Carrie Abriged Version.
I thought the book was pretty good but the movie was much better. This book is a scary kind of non-fiction book. It tells how mean some people can be and how nice a person can be. For instance, being mean like when Carrie gets pig blood dropped on her while she is sitting as a queen at the prom and all the people keep laughing at her. One of the girls who were teasing her felt bad so she told her boyfriend to take her to the prom instead of her.

The Skin Trade (Night Visions, 5)
Published in Paperback by Berkley Pub Group (March, 1990)
Authors: Stephen King, Dan Simmons, George R.R. Martin, and Douglas E. Winter
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GOOD SHORT STORIES

3 stories by Stephen King: "The Reploids", "Sneakers" and "Dedication".

3 stories by Dan Simmons: "Metastasis", "Vanni Fucci is Alive and Well and Living in Hell" and "Iverson's Pits".

1 story by George R. R. Martin: "The Skin Trade".

While the stories by King and Simmons are more or less short, the story by Martin is long, taking up almost half of the volume.

The only (almost) original story is "Metastasis" by Simmons, where a medical experiment lets a man see strange violet creatures (usually invisible) feeding on human beings like vampire slugs, causing cancer.

"Sneakers" is a ghost story, while "Dedication" is about urban witchcraft and "The Skin Trade" is a story about werewolves and investigation.

The Fox and the Whirlwind: General George Crook and Geronimo, A Paired Biography
Published in Hardcover by John Wiley & Sons (March, 2000)
Author: Peter Aleshire
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Junk
What a sorry mess of a book. This a shallowly researched retelling of the lives of these fighters, based on outdated secondary sources. In fact, it reads like apologia for Crook. It is well known today that only 500-750 Lakota and Cheyenne warriors faced Crook (and his 1300 men) and beat him at the Rosebud, yet Aleshire tries to claim that the two sides were of equal strength. And later, the role of Crook in conspiring with Red Cloud to remove Crazy Horse as a potential rival to Red Cloud (who had no civil authority with the Oglala except that handed to him by Americans) is not even mentioned. Instead, Crook is portrayed as innocent of having anything to do with the death of Crazy Horse. I freely admit to knowing much more about the Lakota than about the Apaches. But if Aleshire can not get these details right, why should I trust anything he has to say about the Apache aspects? Again, this seems like a book designed to gloss over Crook's moral lapses, perhaps as a counter to recent books that expose these sad events.

I Loved It!
I am a Phoenix, Arizona native and I Loved This Book! I bought 3 copies to share with family and friends for Christmas.

Although I have lived in Phoenix and the White Mountains of Arizona all of my life and have known of the diverse Native American nations sharing our community, I had never heard the fascinating histories told with such depth and detail. I enjoyed the dual biography format of the book which allowed the reader to see General Crook and Geronimo side by side as men in opposing political environments.

The descriptive, creative language Aleshire uses makes the scenes come to life as if I were there. His story makes the history of the White Mountains, Chirichauas, San Carlos areas rich, deep and vivid with history.

Many thanks to Peter Aleshire from an Arizona native.

Theory and Practice of Go
Published in Paperback by Charles E Tuttle Co (October, 1990)
Authors: O. Korschelt, Samuel P. King, and George G. Leckie
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Simply awful.
This is by far the worst book on Go I have ever seen. Korschelt's understanding of the game appears to have been rather limited, and the language and notation are close to unreadable.

In its time, it was one of the few English-language books on the game, but today there is no good reason for it to be in print. To anyone interested in learning about Go, I suggest Janice Kim's _Learn To Play Go, volume 1_ or Kaoru Iwamoto's _Go For Beginners_. To anyone already familiar with the game, there is nothing of value in this book.

Semi-average Go book; not really for beginners
This book is everything you'd expect a translated Go book from German writings of the 1800's to be. It's a bit dry, it's tough to read, it's not laid out too well, and there are certainly better choices out there. Still, it's interesting in its own historical way, and if your Go library already full of other books, this one provides an alternate facet.

Sophocles, 2 : King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Penn Greek Drama Series)
Published in Paperback by University of Pennsylvania Press (December, 1998)
Authors: Sophocles, David R. Slavitt, E. A. Sophocles, Jascha Frederick Kessler, George Garrett, and Kelly Cherry
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An excellent work, but a poor translation.
I do not mean, by giving this book a poor rating, to dissuade anyone from reading Sophocles' greatest works. Rather, I would instead urge everyone to avoid the Slavitt & Bovie translations specifically. Examples of the excessive liberties that they have taken with other Attic dramas include inserting puns and one liners into the Chorus of Agamemnon, adding references to Black American hymns to the Chorus of the Libation Bearers, as well as many smaller, but still significant translation crimes. Get the Grene & Lattimore or almost any other version of these works, but do not get the Slavitt & Bovie

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