i couldnt stand the discusting entrees this thing wanted me to cook! o yuck! i literally puked my food up when i ate what i had made. and boy did it stink! i couldnt sit for weeks after the diarrea!!!!!!!!

This is one of my favorite cookbooks. The greatest feature of this cookbook is it's diversity of recipes. These recipes utilize spice, fruit and vegetable combinations from many different parts of the world, so I can find a great chicken recipe whether I'm in the mood for French, Thai or a chicken potpie! A couple of the best choices are the Chicken Breasts w/Lime and Ginger, and the Provencal Chicken Stir-fry.

This book is great! The first thing I made was the balsamic vinegar-honey wings for the superbowl and they were great not to mention easy as could be to prepare. It is good how he divides the book up by the parts the same way that you buy them in the store. The chicken curry is great, too. The layout of the recipes (printing and instructions) is very easy to follow while you're in the kitchen. None of the recipes have come out poorly. In fact, I eat about 4 times as much chicken as I used to thanks to this book. Unlike steak which is excellent with a little salt or nothing at all, chicken really needs a little "dressing up" to be good and this is the book that gives you good recipes, and also has given me ideas to make chicken other ways on my own.

They should burn his book with his dead body. Thank God hes dead

All I can say is once again Dr. Pierce, cuts through all the BS and tells it like it is, and always was, not how others want you to think. Dr Pierce is the author of the Turner Diaries And Hunter, under the Name Andrew McDonald as well, as numerous writings that can be found [on the internet].
God bless Dr Pierce

This is a must read for any real Patriot. Don't be fooled get the facts.

The intro to this book suggested an interesting coming of age type book set in the late fifties. However, after slogging through over two hundred pages, I could continue no more. The book simply has no plot. Tollie's pregnancy seems like an aside, for which I could not develop sympathy for. Likewise when a character dies. You simply do not come to care for these people. I had to put the book down without finishing.

The pacing of this novel reflects the era it is set in. That long pause the nation took while it shook off the dust of the Great Depression, and the Second World War. Before television ruled the world. The country that produced the greatest military machine in history and defeated, simultaneously, two nations , either of which was a match for all the remainder of the worlds armies combined, now set about re-inventing itself. To raise its standard of living to unimaginable heights. As a result, many small towns whose residents had depended on a single industry, gradually found themselves as outdated as spinning wheels. For many, those who could not leave , who lacked entreprenurial skills, it seemed the Depression had returned, to single them out for its hellish amusement. Young people, helpless in this environment, often turned to self destructive behaviors. (Many of the songs popular with teenagers of this era focused on death and suicide.) Of course, there were also those who saw hope for themselves, in the unfulfilled promise of tomorrow. Tollie and Lily, whatever their shortcomings, were two of these.

At once funny and touching, this novel is an excellent evocation of time and place. The characters are complex and they grab you. You'll hear them breathe as you turn the pages.

I just finished reading The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce. It was a historical fiction book. I didn't like the book, because it was a boring book and because it was a journal and I don't get those kinds of books.
The book was about a boy named Jonathan that had to leave his brother Tom because he was going to America to practice his religion and to baptize too. When he got to America they found out that there were Indians there.
Jonathon was a very nice and brave, he stayed strong. They were on the Mayflower.

The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce Our rating: J J J/3 stars out of five

The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce, by Ann Rinaldi, is about a pilgrim boy who goes on the Mayflower. When he got on the Mayflower, he left his brother, Tom, behind. Tom and Jasper had different masters and Tom's master didn't want to go but Jasper's did. He writes in his journal to remember Tom. The journal he writes in is about his journey to the New World. We thought this book progressed slowly, because there was too much details. Also, we thought it was boring. But, despite all these negatives, we also liked it. We learned a lot of history. Norman Yu, Tracey Li, Brian Wang, Jeffrey Chan and Julia Chen

Ann Rinaldi is one of my favorite author's, so I grabbed "The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce: A Pilgrim Boy" as fast as I could. Most Mayflower stories are about life on the boat itself, while this book told about life on the Mayflower, life on their new land, and meeting with the Indians. It did drag at times, but nonetheless, it kept my attention. A great way to learn history. I recommend.

I've been using WebObjects for several years now (since pre-1.0 days) and this is a terrific addition to my reference material. The authors are well known WebObjects developers, and have an excellent grasp on the topic.

The chapters on the DirectToWeb technology are worth the price of the book alone. Direct2Web allows you to provide substantial functionality without writing large amounts of code. This book has the only DirectToWeb tutorials that I'm aware of other than an article by Max Muller (one of the authors of this book) which was published on Stepwise.com.

The DirectToJava coverage could have been more extensive (read that as more chapters... more coverage) but the one tutorial is certainly a good introduction of what is possible with that technology..

Another strong point about this book is that it covers the released version of WebObjects 5.0 for Java, not a beta version... and both Mac OS X and Windows development environments are given equal space.

OK .. I haven't completed the book yet! But, I have skimmed it entirely. The is one of the best computer books that I have read! WebObjects is deep, there is a lot to it. To use WebObjects one cannot not simply skim documentation and then start to hack away on a project. I started with one of the other books which was good, but effort wasn't yeilding my desired results.

After going throuh the work of reading, doing the excercises and digesting, I need to produce! I kept thinking, just go back to using servlets this ain't worth it. The other book wasn't exposing WebObjects well enough to get me psyched.

The quality of this book and clarity that it is giving me, has kept me working through the chapters. It is well detailed and fun to read. The book's projects are very good, and worthwhile. I feel that when done, my work will have been justified. This is not just a 50 pound redo of readily available product documentation, like so many other books. Most nerds can't write, these guys do, and they did an excellent job.

Next, I'd like to see a refernece manual.

The very eager to have my own web site that helps me organize many lab chores made me buy WO software. I was shocked at nice interfaces of tools first, and more shocked at little tutorial resources of provider, Apple(though it is very often the case with this company, good product, poor documents/resources) . I've read through this book, which made me a near-intermediate WO programmer. (though becoming a wizard is another-actually learning curve for this framework-especially EOF-seems sigmoidal)

Frankly, I think any book like this should be included in the sw package. Vendor should provide much reading/practicing material, I think. This book is well organized, and teaches much of the basic concept and coding/structuring techniques. But, as for me, a novice in this WO field, this book is somewhat hard to follow at first. So I've read whole documents the Apple provided, and then I could follow the way this book points out.

Though making distinction is somewhat obscure, this book is for from 1/2 beginners to 3/4 intermediates. To make a long story short, this book won't disappoint you.

Those diaries of Jim Morrison are probably a forgery. It reminds me of the fake Hitler's diaries a few years back. Furthermore, according to a friend who visited the website for the book, he left a message in the guestbook expressing his doubts about the diaries, and it got changed by the webmaster into a positive review! Many witnesses were present with my friend when it happened. This, already, is a bad sign.

I visited the website myself to read some excerpts of the book. The writing doesn't feel like Morrison. It doesn't have this sparkle you see in his poems, and believe me, I have ALL of Morrison's writings. It doesn't feel right.

I think that poets in general, and Morrison in particular, deserve better than this. If you love the Lizard King, buy his books, they are all available at Amazon, and pass these "lost diaries". Go for the real thing.

I'm not going to say don't buy this book. This book is fiction - if you like that kind of read - then by all means it probably is enjoyable. A nice book for daydreaming. But, for God sakes, don't buy into the myth that this individual is still alive and actually wrote this. Mr. Morrison unfortunately met an early demise due to a constant abuse of his body. It happens all the time - read the obtiuaries. His organs were subject to the same physical laws and consequences we all are subject to. Sad but true.

I was facinated by the artwork of the book cover. What indepth detail. This is one talented individual. I would like to hear what others think. tojazz8

Soon after I read this book, I tossed it out along with my retro polyester pants and orange creepers. The concept of the novel is a clever one and it starts out as being cute and funny. Even as a gay male, I could identify with Phoebe and a lot of her unwise choices in men.

Then somewhere along the line, the book loses what little bit of charm it has and suddenly you're finding yourself not liking Phoebe that much. As each man revolves his way through her life, you begin to dislike her and her choices more and more. Some of the boyfriends listed aren't even boyfriends but rather fantasy characters, penpals and in the case of Arnold Allen (the only Black guy who stereotypically appears on her list) a criminal. By the end of the novel you're thinking that she deserves everything that has happened to her. Some guys aren't good enough, others are too good and why doesn't she have any friends? One word for you Phoebe: THERAPY!!

At first I thought this was going to be a Sheila Levine for the new millenium. Whereas Sheila's self-depreciating humor and poor choices in men endeared you to her, Phoebe's self depreciating humor had you hoping she would grab a bottle of sleeping pills and end it all. I guess Mrs. Rosenfeld is a fairly talented writer as she was able to evoke such dislike for her protagonist from me, but overall this novel went absolutely nowhere and was a complete waste of my time. I liked Bridget Jones better and that's a stretch. I wouldn't really recommend this to book anyone. If you can find a copy, check out Gail Parent's 'Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York'. Although it's well over trhity years old now, it still maintains a crisp, hip, cutting edge feel to it unsurpassed by any other writer writing in the same vein as What She Saw.

I read Lucinda Rosenfeld's "What She Saw..." in one night, and it was like riding a roller coaster. At times, it was exhilirating and refreshing, funny and insightful, at other times it dragged beyond belief, and I couldn't wait to move on to the next chapter/guy. Not surprisingly, the characters and stories Rosenfeld clearly spent more time and thought developing (Spitty Clark, Humphrey Fung, Bruce Bledstone -especially Spitty Clark!) were the best and most interesting aspects of the book. The others (i.e., Kevin McFeeley, Arnold Allen) should have been left out completely; instead, they were brushed over in perfunctory, seemingly obligatory fashion. Certainly a better read would have been one that narrowed the list of ex-boyfriends to the few who played important roles in the character development of Rosenfeld's protagonist, Phoebe Fine. That way, their interrelation could have been explored and examined in greater detail. Nevertheless, Rosenfeld is a terrific writer, and I found myself laughing out loud at times. She just has to work on putting it all together in her next work, which I look forward to reading.

dreadful and fun is the conundrum i'm put in when i begin to go back through the quite thick entanglement of the boys, boys, and men i've dated, and in the book "what she saw", i was given the chance to delve into someone else's mess.

each chapter takes a look at a different boy/man the main character dated/went with/screwed. a fun idea, but there's such a distance on the page... it's difficult to understand her convictions. i wanted to laugh, and groan in aggreeance, but was left slightly unsympathetic and befuddled. the book begs to be written in the first person, but for some bizarre-o reason lucinda rosenfeld gave us a third person story.

after reading the first chapter i thought it was clunky, and decided to shut it for good, but i was at work, with nothing elese to read, so i kept going, and somehow fell in. i still didn't really like it, but felt hooked nonetheless. weird.

i gave it four stars due to the 'it hooked me factor;' what does it all mean? i suppose it's just as confusing as what she really did see in all of those guys.

This is very dry reading. As well, there is almost no mention of Pierce! Instead, the author focuses on the issues/characters that shaped the times. These are crucial to understanding the political atmosphere surrounding Pierce's presidency, but a biography should focus on the individual. We learn next to nothing about Pierce.

The years before 1860 were a period of increasing cold war in the United States. From the perspective of over a century after the conclusion of the internal war, we tend to lose the knowledge that there was more to the separatism than the disagreement concerning slavery. While the North/South dispute over slavery was paramount, other regional differences such as the role of the frontier led to a political fragmentation that prevented any faction from being able to govern and solve the growing problems. Several new parties arose while the formerly powerful Whig party was dying. This fragmentation is the main theme of this book and Gara states it very well. With the modern emphasis on the slavery question, the other divisive forces in the nation are often overlooked, which leads to historical inaccuracy.
Gara explains in great detail how the political fragmentation prevented any real attempt to resolve the issues. One point in particular that is often ignored is the three-fifths representation. For census purposes a slave was considered to be three-fifths of a person, even though they were also property. This absurdity caused a great deal of resentment in free states, as it concentrated more political power in the slave states than the size of the free population should have allowed. This caused more representatives to be elected from the southern states, which altered the outcome of some of the votes in favor of the south. Deeply resented by many in the north, it points out the inherent absurdities of slavery and is well documented and explained.
The federal government was still largely a weak institution with most of the power held by the states. With all of these problems, it would have taken an extraordinary president to alter the course of history. Franklin Pierce was no such man, and the best that can be said is that he muddled through without any great catastrophes. More than anything else, it was his handsome, presidential appearance that earned him the white house. His rise to the presidency was largely an accident, as he was a compromise candidate after the better candidates were somehow disqualified. His administration also began on a tragic note, when one of the Pierce children was killed before the eyes of his father and mother. Being largely untested on the national political arena, Pierce also wore a colossal political tin ear, often making basic errors that made things worse.
Given all of these problems, it is surprising that the Pierce administration did as well as it did. As the author points out, his presidency is ranked somewhere above a failure, but nowhere near a success. In reading about all of the problems of the country at that time, it is hard to see where a great deal of improvements could have been made. The country was expanding rapidly and the industrial revolution with associated social changes was just beginning. Slavery was a historical anachronism, clearly in the process of being eliminated and had it not become the symbol of the rights and tradition of the southern states, it would have naturally ceased to exist. Even the ardent proponents of slavery referred to is as the "peculiar institution."
In retrospect, the forces that led to the regional split were so powerful that it is hard to envision any way that it could not have led to a civil war. Those forces were stronger than any man or political party and in this book you learn about the actions of a man who landed in a job beyond his talents and yet avoided being a total failure. Given the complexity of the circumstances, his time as president was close to the best that could have been done.

THE AUTHOR, LARRY GARA, SETS THE STAGE FOR FRANKLIN PIERCE'S EMERGENCE TO THE PRESIDENCY BY DELVING INTO THE POLITICAL SURROUNDINGS OF THE 1840'S AND '50S. PIERCE WAS AN OBSCURE CONGRESSMAN WHO SAID NO TO BECOMING PRESIDENT. HIS WIFE SUFFERED FROM DEPRESSION.THE FAMILY EXPERIENCED THE TRAGIC DEATHS OF FAMILY MEMBERS AND PIERCE DRANK A LITTLE TOO MUCH. THE FAMILY PROBLEMS WERE ENOUGH, BUT BECAUSE CONGRESS' VIEW OF THE PRESIDENCY BEING THE PERSON WHO EXECUTED CONGRESS' WISHES, THE TRUE LEADERS OF THE TIMES COULD NOT GET ELECTED. FACTIONS ABOUND!! THE NEW YORK HARDS AND SOFTS, DEMOCRATS AND WHIGS, THE NEW REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT, FREE SOIL, THE NATIVISTS AND MANY MORE SPLINTERED GROUPS THAT CAUSED SETIONALISM. THERE WERE NO MAJORITIES. PIERCE WAS DOOMED TO FAILURE. IF YOU ENJOY AMERICAM POLITICS OF THE 19TH CENTURY THIS BOOK WILL PROVIDE GREAT INCITE.

A more discriptive title would be, "Ride Guide Mountain Biking the Counties of Northern and Central New Jersey." For those of you living in the southern part of the state...look elsewhere. All of Southern New Jersey is ignored.

Wharton State Forest is the largest single tract of land within the New Jersey State Park System. It covers part of Atlantic, Burlinton, and Camden counties and has some great off road riding. Lebanon St. Forest is historic and includes a major section of the 50 mile Batona trail. A major mountain bike publication listed Lebanon St. Forest in an article called "Five Great Places to Ride Double Track." These areas' as well as the rest of Southern New Jersey are completely ignored in "New Jersey Mountain Biking"

Hey Josh, buddy. Come on...if you're going to write a book about riding in New Jersy, how about including the rest of us!

I gave this book a token 2 stars because I wasn't actually able to try any of the trails for myself...So, I don't know how good the trail maps or descriptions are. All I can report is that there isn't anything here for those of us in the soutern part of the state! For mountain bikers in S. Jersey, I recommend Bob Di'Antonio's "Mountain Bike America: Greater Philadelphia Area." This book covers some S. Jersy rides as well as nearby Philadelpha and Eastern Pennsylvania.

I took up mountain biking last summer (1999). It has been a great source of challenge and pleasure to me.

Finding this book has made such an adventure out of biking in NJ! It is well-written, has great maps with the mileage and turns and a good rating system so you know what you are getting into before you leave. Driving directions to the spots and explanations of where to park, whether or not there is a fee... it's got everything you need to know. He really did a good job of researching the book and a nice touch is the inclusion of other nearby sites (relevant to the place you pick).

One possible improvement: There's a map of NJ showing all the sites, it would be nice if the page numbers were listed there and the trail ratings were also included on the map. As it is now, you need to go to 3 different pages to find all of that info. Hardly worth mentioning, but if there was one thing to make it better, that would be it, in my opinion.

I received this book to review for a zine I write for, and it was so bad i told the publisher it wasn't worth reviewing. pierce was grandiose at best and just plain crazy at the end, and it really shows here in the jumbled structure and absolute inanity of much of what is included. I was pretty grossed out by his attitude toward women, too. His obsession about all things Japanese was also really tedious. And I LIKED the Gun Club. Reading this book made me think of the book & movie "Being There", in which the main character speaks only in slogans he's heard from television, and those who meet him think he's a genius. What were you thinking, Henry?

This book looks great in your hands or on the shelf, but looks aren't everything. JLP wasn't much of a prose writer. His narratives ramble and falter regularly. The stories he has to tell are worth hearing. I really wish he had had a friend who had some talent in this medium to help him out. The second half of the book is just lyrics, and, as far as a read goes, that makes the back half of the book invisible. He was an interesting man. He led an interesting life & his death was certainly premature. This book is necessary for hardcore Gun Club fans. There is information, background, and anecdotes here that will complete the picture for you. If, however, your interest in the Gun Club is merely casual or non-existant, then don't bother. I wanted to know more about Pierce and the creation of Fire Of Love, and now I do. Unfortunately, one of the things I now know is that JLP was very deserving of a biography, rather than an autobiography. This book isn't terrible & I am not sorry I bought it, but I wouldn't recommend it. This one seems to've missed the vein!

...I really had no idea what to expect from this: Rollins & co. marketed the hell out of it, and certainly that was within their rights, having kept JLP going, to a certain extent, during his last year. But, reading about his sordid end -- cirhottic, hepatitic and HIV+ -- and the aneurysm that killed him in his 30s -- and constrasting that with the utter denial of all that in his writings (which makes you ask yourself: what the hell would I do?) -- you get an unbelievably human portrait of a very flawed, wheedling, obsessive, paranoid man, highly intelligent (though not quite as brilliant as he seems to want us to believe) and not particularly favored by Luck. Often his attitude's like he won the Sh#t Lottery -- took the fall for everyone -- everything that possibly could have gone wrong did in fact go wrong, praise be the auspices of Fate, and you are your own worst nightmare coming true... Poor, poor dogsbody... I go back and listen to all the albums now and can't believe how right-as-rain he was all the way up to the end -- but as for the book, it's -- not pretty. Pierce probably had it in him to be a decent prose writer, but it hardly shows here. For the most part, his braggadocio fails to stray from traditional Toastmaster lines (already a fundament of those same sources Pierce had always worked from) -- punctuated by weepy thickets of self-pity and bold-faced omissions, one begins to get a feeling for the kind of presence JLP must have been. Charismatic, whiny and difficult; stubborn, brilliant, and an incurable seeker of chemical oblivions. The only part of the story that's really clear is when he cleans up in London and is first living with Romi. The end of the story is just pathetic -- he must have been out of his head, surely, but it takes a lot of something to produce so total a state of confusion regarding one's own skin color and racial origins: no, Jeffrey, you are not an African. Sorry. 20 years ago, when it it still possessed a modicum of shock value, you were real apt at dropping the word "niggger" when it both suited and undermined a song's purpose, but -- from that nonsense onto the name-dropping, this star, that star, Johnny Depp, Eye-san, etc. -- and then finally tying things up with that awful 'erotic' story about "Jim." The prose half of the book ends on such a maudlin, pathetic note -- which is, in its own way, appropriate. He came to a tragic, pathetic end. No-one/-thing stepped in and saved him. Fate turned it's back: rot, sucker. I've had friends like that and it sucks. Watching's like having a hole chewed in your guts. Whatever. The first half of the book comes to an abrupt anti-end.

I was noncomittal about the second half of the book; I guess the lyrics are nice to have; a lot of the later songs are really hard to understand.