This is definitely a book worth reading for learning about the tradeoffs involved when doing backpacking and photography. He discusses the equipment and the techniques that need to be considered when you can't carry 300lb of equipment.

He gets very specific when recommending gear, which is something I liked. The information is starting to get somewhat dated; this book was published in 1994. However, he talks about the reasons why he recommends certain gear, which is what you really need to know anyway.

A well-written, well-organized, useful book by a devoted outdoor adventurer. This is the best source I've found for practical advice on what/how to pack for different trips, how to use your time in the outdoors effectively, and how to capture the best light when adventuring. His inspirational introduction still motivates me (Campbell pursued his dream of becoming a professional nature photographer following a near-death experience). This book goes beyond the standard photography tips, providing useful insights and equipment recommendations geared specifically toward the outdoor adventurer/photographer. Campbell has spent considerable time in the wilderness and shares his knowledge quite effectively. If you enjoy mountaineering, hiking, rafting, or skiing and enjoy sharing your experiences with others through photographs, this book is for you

Although I am not an avid backpacker, my photography club recommended this book and I must say that it's my favorite photography book. I take it with me on every photo trip. It's tattered and torn from use and I will have to buy another one before long. Congratulations to Mr. Campbell for writing a clear and concise book. I know understand exposure.

The premise of the story is promising. Meg McConnell wants two things in life - her husband's love, and a baby to make them into a real family. Those two things don't seem like much, but for Meg they're going to be pretty difficult to come by. For starters, her husband, Joe, doesn't want to be in love with her. His ability to love and, therefore make himself vulnerable, is still all wrapped up in his former lover, Elena. She's dead and Joe seems to be unable to get over her.

As if that's not enough of a burden on Meg, she's unable to have children and the only option seems to be to adopt. She feels as if that would secure the family bond whether or not Joe ever loves her. Before they can adopt, however, nine-year-old Tony comes to live with them. Tony is Elena's son....and Joe's. Now Meg has to live with the knowledge that Joe loved - possibly still loves - Elena much more than he loves Meg, and Elena has already given him the child Meg is unable to have.

I wanted to like this book. I really did. The premise intrigued me, and I saw the potential for an emotinal, edgy read. I didn't get it. Meg was too sweet, too understanding, and too willing to accept whatever small crumb of affection Joe was willing to give her. I kept waiting for her to stand up for herself, to walk out on Joe, to tell him to get on with his life already - something! - but it never happened.

Right up until the very last pages of the book, Joe was calling out Elena's name in his sleep and talking about how much he loved her. If I were Meg, I would have smacked him and probably left him. Meg, however, decides she'd rather have a loveless marriage than none at all. I found that to be a pretty sad comment on the level of her self-esteem. And that was at the end of the book!

Sexual tension was almost non-exsistent in this story. In fact, I didn't get the impression that Meg and Joe had a particularly sexual relationship. He treated her more like a sister. His nicknames for her - Meggers and Meggles - were not something I'd want my lover calling me.

This book could have been fantastic. I had to force myself to finish it, though, and when I did I was disappointed.

The characters were so well drawn, so real to life. Ms. Campbell made me know them intimately, forcing me to feel with them, cry with them, and rejoice with them! Joe and Meg's story is about the heart and the struggle it often takes to open it and to finally admit to what's been inside of it all along.

Joe went through so much hell as a prisoner in Milagua that for years, all his emotions and energy were tied up in the only hopeful vision/idea he had to hang on to -- his first love, Elena. Even after he returns home and marries Meg (his best friend's sister), it's not until late in the book that he acknowleges he DOES love his wife, and always has. Watching him come to allow that love, to admit it, to own it -- and only after the impact of discovering his son -- is a powerful,emotional experience.

I don't keep many romance novels. I read them once and pass them along. But I have the feeling I'll read this one again and again and again, picking up new insights each time.

This isn't a typical romance. No hearts and flowers, no champagne and fireworks. So what is it?

A marriage. Between people who strike me as extraordinary realistic. Not your typical suave hero and fiesty heroine -- if you're looking for those, skip this book! But if you're looking for the depths of love, pain and compassion that can stretch a marriage to the breaking point...followed by an ending that'll leave you reeling...this book belongs on your keeper shelf.

Because I'm not lending ANYBODY mine!

The biggest problem with the WSH and VBScript is that it is marketed as being a powerful but simple "macro" language. Nothing could be further from the truth. VBScript is essentially VB without the forms and graphics. VBScript is just as powerful, has the same controlling capabilities, and uses almost all the same commands and syntax as VB. To think of writing scripts for the WSH as anything less than programming is a mistake.

When I first got this book, I read a ways into it, decided I didn't have the time or energy to go on, and put it aside. Had I written a review at that point, it would not have been favorable. Then I learned more about the WSH, what it was and what my expectations should be, what a person could do with it - and I picked it back up, and really applied myself. And apply yourself you must for this book. The first 154 pages of this 600 page book teach you the syntax and structure of VBScript (and some JScript). It's a little dry, and easy to get lost in. But once you have that down, the rest of the book can really open things up and show you quite a bit.

Besides an introduction to the language, the book covers "upgrading" your old batch files, writing logon scripts for users, automating network tasks, SQL server, IIS server, as well as showing you how to use ActiveX objects for the file system, CDO, ADO (Database), etc. The book even goes so far as to touch on ADSI scripting for Windows NT and Windows 200 Active Directory.

Even though at this point in time the book is a little out-dated (written in the Windows NT 4 time), it is still a good learning tool. Not so unlike other "... in 21 days" books, the average person won't complete the book in that time, and you learn just as much correcting the errors in the code and doing the workshop material as you do from the actual guided lessons. If you're looking for a scripting solution that is quick and easy, WSH and VBScript isn't it, and neither is this book. If you're looking for a powerful automation tool for network and services automation, and you're willing to spend the time it will take to complete this book, then this could be the title for you.

I am really new to WSH but this book made it really easy for me to grasp the concepts. It strarts from the basics and moves to harder material. I would recommend this book to anyone who needs to learn not just WSH but VBscript and jscript.

This is a great book. It provides a excellent foundation for learning the basics of: WSH, vbscript, jscript and provides useful real-world examples for scripting: IIS, MS Office, ADO, ADSI, etc. The author even devotes a chapter on how to deploy scripting solutions.

After you finish reading this book get the MS help files on: WSH, vbscript, jscript, ADO, ADSI, other COM, and MS OLE/COM viewer and you'll be ready for scripting in the real world.

How to start? Well, in my opinion, this book was not all that good.

First of all, this whole Star almost dying and then going to Montana to "find the itancan" or some such just scares me. As does Lyssa. Just a random character who comes into the story to save Star's life. Gag.

The mistakes in here are just terrible. On page 11, Christina is being interviewed by a reporter. In the book, it reads "'Ms. Howard is with the Racing Reporter, not the Daily Racing Form. I must have misunderstood,' Ashleigh said, barely masking her distain." OK, first of all, I don't think they meant to use 'distain,' I am pretty sure it should have been disdain. And also, why wouldn't Ashleigh support another racing magazine? Since Joanna Campbell stopped writing, Ashleigh's character has just gotten worse and worse. Also, they called Ian McLean Ian MacLean, they said Wonder won the Derby and Preakness when in actuality she won the Derby and Belmont, etc., etc.

Another mistake that bugged me is on page 54, when Parker and Christina are arguing over college, Parker says, "you know, it's not easy being out in the world with only a high-school diploma ... do you really want to struggle all your life the way your parents have?" He doesn't come out and say Ashleigh and Mike didn't go to college, but he implies it -- which is entirely false. Both of them went to college. Speaking of college, I don't think Christina would be allowed to skip it. Plus, there was no pre-story to that, really, and almost no arguements.

OK, enough about the mistakes, but this was not one of the better Thoroughbred books. And that is all I have to say. :)

Ever since Wonder's Star got sick at Belmont everyone has given up on him. Christina Reese is convinced that even her mother, the racing legend Ashleigh Griffen, doesn't believe that Star has what it takes to race anymore. And when a reporter asks her for an interview about Stars amazing recovery from Death's door, Christina jumps at the chance to tell the world how great Star still is. But everyone is calling Star a has-been, and Christina is furious that no one believes in her beloved colt anymore. When her cousin, Melanie, and another of Whitebrook's jockeys, Naomi, leave for the races in Florida, Christina finds herself and Star left behind. Will she have to break the rules again, and ask her boyfriend, Parker Townsend, to van them to the Florida track? But Ashleigh has other plans in mind. She wants Star to race in a small race at the Fair Grounds track. But when she tells Christina to look through the program for a race for Star, Christina doesn't have any nice, small race in mind. When she comes across the Lousiana Derby she knows it's the chance Star needs to prove himself. But her scheme seems to have gone terribly wrong when she gets to Fair Grounds for the race. Celtic Mist, the colt her mother had not wanted Star to race against, was running in the same race. Christina is confident Star can blow Mist away until the other colt sets a new track record. Two seconds faster than Star's last workout. Christina is losing faith in her colt, and she is losing the bond that she has always had with the colt, just like what had happened right after Star's illness. Before, she had turned to her talented friend, Lyssa Hynde, to help her get back together with Star. Can Lyssa help them again? And only a day before the Louisiana Derby?

This is a really great book! I just don't get it--what happened with the cover? Someone who reviewed another Thoroughbred book said the new covers aren't as good as the old ones, but I still thought they were okay. But the cover on Rising Star could at least be more colorful. Even though you could make an excuse that it's just all the dust kicked up by the horses in a race. The only other problem is that in 'Without Wonder' it says that Star had a heart on his forehead, and in 'Star in Danger it was a heart. But now his star is shaped like a diamond. Assuming that is Star on the cover...

Star is finally coming back to racing. Christina knows he will have to race in a bigger prep race for the Kentucky Derby if he will be eligable! But her mom, Ashleigh, thinks a smaller stakes race would be better for him. Christina is determind to enter him in the Louisiana Derby at the Fair Grounds but didn't realize Celtic Mist, Brad's expencive, fancy racehorse would be running too, after she convinces Ashleigh to let him run in it...Very well written and definatly a cliff-hanger!

This is a good book if you just want to know what's out there in terms of the different categories of technology. The author spends almost no time on any one technology, so this is purely just an overview book.

I found this book disappointing, since I was expecting more depth. It provides an easy-to-understand, very general, overview of many wireless topics. It does not, however, as the description states, give a comprehensive look at the industry with details. I am a software engineer, new to the cellular field, and was looking for more technical depth to get me started. This book did not provide that depth. It's more of a mass market look at wireless technology.

This book is informative yet still easy to comprehend. My collegue whom has been in the telecom industry for years recommended this book to me when I decidend to jump on the telecom bandwagon.

It is perhaps unfortunate that my reading of 'Touched' followed hard on the heels of reading Isabelle Holland's 'The Man without a Face'. The latter is acknowledged as a classic among the small category of books about a relationship between an adolescent boy and an older male. It possesses all the subtlety and literary coherence which the other book lacks, firmly placing it on a level with, for instance, the novels of Mary Renault.

'Touched' is unambiguously descriptive of the kind of 'abusive' relationship which has become in recent times the focus of attention by the media and social authorities alike. It is a topical subject which everyone knows about, a subject which continues both to fascinate and appal a media-driven public. It may thus offer a commercial opportunity for a writer to explore in fiction what is relatively uncharted territory. A good writer, however, treats his subject creatively, avoiding sensationalism and pandering to popular taste.

I note that a number of reviewers give credit to the author for introducing some complication in the delineation of the characters as, for example, in the suggestion that the 'perpetrator' is not without redeeming qualities, or that the 'victim' cannot be seen - in spite of his youth - as entirely innocent. Such observations are correct if simplistic -surely, for the author to do otherwise would render the narrative sterile and incapable of development? To be fair, both to the writer and his admirers, it is worth stating that the nature of the subject matter (the wilful seduction of a young boy by an adult) excludes the possibility - in popular perception - of justification or even understanding on a human level.

My question is whether the writer succeeds in conveying meaning beyond the predictable story lines and emotional upheavals. Does he add anything new to the familiar rituals of outrage, discovery, tortured emotion and court drama? The ploy of seeing through the minds of the four principal characters - including the boy as an adult - might well have worked if less space had been devoted to biographical background of doubtful relevance to the main theme. Part three (by Jeanette, the 'perpetrator's wife), reads perhaps more naturally than the rest in spite of excessive detail about the three daughters - why three? - and probes if briefly deeper questions: 'even if society had no problems with it, it's a love that's doomed from the start...'

Seen as a whole, however, this is a very ordinary book in which interest is sustained only by the use of shock devices and a theme which becomes more lurid in the telling. The language is unremarkable and often banal: imagery is crude (where it exists at all) and no more so than in the clumsy symbolism attempted in the 'touched' metaphor. There are lengthy descriptive passages which would find a place in any novel on whatever subject. The essential elements - the behaviour of the boy (the circumstances and manner of his 'revelation'), his brother's explosive reaction, the manner of the initial physical contact (the 'romantic' kiss) and the incongruous nature of the sexual acts described to the lawyer and court - are strangely unconvincing. Could it be that the writer has no genuine interest in the subject, or has failed to research it in depth: the remaining impression is that he has had to draw only on material and information from the popular press, official documentaries and legal records?

Whatever one's personal feelings, the subject (as any other social issue of our times) deserves dispassionate treatment which seeks to dismantle stereotypes rather than reinforce them. In spite of its pretensions as a psychological novel, this book sadly makes no positive contribution to the understanding of an important if controversial area of human experience.

Before actually reading "Touched" I expected to have the usual reactions such as pity for the victims and laothing for the perpetrator. Instead I found myself noting how some of the victims, the boy's parents and molester's wife, were partially at fault also. At times I actually sympatized with the molester which is a very uncomfortable place to be. The book made me realize how no one is completely innocent or completely evil. Scott Campbell does an excellent job of showing all sides of the issue and that this is a mental illness, not a malicious act.

Touched is without a doubt the best book I have read this year. The honest manner in which Campbell relates a disconcerting story makes it a brave and compelling page turner. His ability to write the thoughts of a woman is brilliantly astute(like Lamb, but better). The plot had me totally engrossed from page one.

The novel is insightfully psychological in a completly non-pretentious manner that will move and touch you. Told in four parts, from four perspectives, I believe that everyone will find something in this novel that they can identify with. Overall, a perfectly wonderful and highly recommended read.

Brothers and sisters, probably 90% of us could have written this book, being as it is another story-by-story, capsule-description-and-review style trawl through the televised series. Think a very heavily condensed version of "The Discontinuity Guide" and that's the format. The author (Mark Campbell) sat down and watched (or listened to) every episode and committed his opinion to paper. That's the book. Full stop. As I say, most of us could do the same.

This is a slim volume (less than 100 pages) and is thankfully correspondingly cheap, but it does mean it doesn't cover everything. The films, recent TV parodies, stage shows, and radio series get a review, the Big Finish stories get a mention, and, er, that's about it. Oh, and a few books and websites get plugged.

So why even bother buying it? Well, Campbell's is a new voice and he's not afraid to be controversial or blunt. No sacred cow is safe, and he even goes so far as to suggest that the show is dead and gone forever. Many of his opinions come straight out of left field, and they'll provoke infuriation and sighs of 'Thank God I'm not the only one who thinks that!' in equal measure. Just a handful of his observations:

"Destiny of the Daleks" is better than "Genesis of the Daleks

"Pyramids of Mars" is 'grossly overrated', and in parts 'rubbish' and 'nonsensical'

"Paradise Towers" is 'wonderful' and by far the best story of its season

"Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150AD" is much, much better than the TV version

The best story of Troughton's first year is "The Macra Terror" And so on, and so on, and so on - though Campbell agrees with fan orthodoxy a lot of the time too. (I personally agree with at least one of the above opinions, by the way, and think at least one other is utter nonsense - but naturally I'm not saying which is which.)

I get the impression this book wasn't edited terribly rigorously. There's the obligatory 'spot-the-source-material' slot for each story, and things get especially weird here - we learn that 'The Great Escape' influenced "Planet of the Daleks", 'The Wicker Man' inspired "The Stones of Blood", and that apparently the key influence on "Four to Doomsday" was bearded Aussie vet-botherer Rolf Harris. You also have to question his ability to review things like "Curse of the Daleks" with such authority given that he can only have read the script. So is it worth buying? Well, maybe. If you use the Guide you must have an interest in hearing other people's opinions of "Doctor Who", and that's basically all this is. At the very least it'll make you think, if only for the length of time it takes you to retrieve it after you hurl it away in outraged fury. And you will.

"Pocket Essentials: Doctor Who" would not usually be my first choice of reading material, being more of a "Dr Who" widow than a fan, but I was pleasantly surprised by the book. The introduction was refreshingly honest and laced with uncharacteristic cynicism for a "Dr Who" (sad) fan. Not to mention humour - something that is all too lacking in many "Dr Who" conversations! This is the sort of approach that fandom needs if it is to grow to include more than the saddest of sad fans.

The story by story breakdowns are a little anorakish - who but their mothers really cares which actors played the minor characters? - but some of the locations info is interesting, and reading the book actually made me want to watch some stories again. I definitely wouldn't give The Sea Devils 4/5 though!

Mark Campbell (editor of the definitive Doctor Who fanzine "Skonnos") is the perfect companion in this brief but pithy guide to the series. Always intelligent and never suffering from the fannishness that cripples so much Who-related material. We have an introductory essay, breakdowns of the storylines, an exhaustive reference section and an informed guide to further books, magazines and videos, along with spin-offs and websites. The series is called Pocket Essentials: this one really is.

This book provides a very simple and clear layout of Organizational Behavior. The headings and bold words make it easy to understand what is important and necessary for comprehension. The current issues and real life examples also make this book user friendly. However, the multiple use of models in this book can be somewhat confusing. The chapters are somewhat lengthy packing a lot of informatin in. I also feel that this book gives over-detailed definitions of words that can be much simpler defined. Overall this book does a good job of engaging the reader in the material at hand. The review sessions at the end of each chapter were very helpful and a definate bonus to help the reader learn necessary information. If anyone is unclear of what organizational behavoir is then they sould deffinately check out this book.

"Organizational Behavior: Foundations, Realities, and Challenges" is a great book for anyone studying the field of management! It is very easy to follow and understand. The use of real world examples paints a clear picture of how concepts studied are truely applicable to future endevors!! I appreciated how well organized the chapters were. The main concepts are clearly outlined, which I found to be extremely helpful! One thing I always find helpful is the use of drawings and diagrams and this book has plenty. Most all concepts that could be illustrated through the use visuals are, and this provides multiple opportunites to clearly understand the concepts! I found this book to be very easy and fast reading!! All in all I found this book to be a very useful text in the studies of Organizational Behavior!!

I really enjoyed reading this book. There are not many textbooks that I would say this about. I think I enjoyed this book so much because of the way in which it was written. It is very easy to understand and is complemented with numerous figures and tables. Also, the Realities sections helped to relate what we were actually learning in class, to the real world. I think that the definitions along the side of the page were extremely helpful, as well as the page number listed beside the vocabulary word at the back of the chapters. Something else that I appreciated about this book was the Learning Objectives. At the beginning of the chapters, it lists the concepts you should know after reading the chapter. You can then try and answer them on your own, and check with the chapter summary in the back (which covers the same concepts) to measure your mastery of the skills. Overall, I think that this textbook is good, and is ideal in teaching an introduction course to Organizational Behavior.

Stephen King heaped praises on this, Ramsey Campbell's first published novel, and I have tried to discover what he saw in it; after two readings, I still can't warm up to this book. Part of the problem is Campbell's prose style-his dearth of emotion makes the Liverpool setting of this drama even more colorless and empty than his characters. King has said Campbell's characters see the world in much the same way that an addict on an LSD trip does-if so, it is a bad trip indeed. I hate to keep citing King here, but one other thing he said about this novel that fits it perfectly is that some may feel as if Campbell has, instead of having written a novel, has grown one in a Petrie dish. This is exactly how I feel about Campbell's writing. These characters are not real at all; they are hollow husks of humanity blown aimlessly in the wind with no more than one or two ideas driving whatever they happen to do. Even when the passionless author tries to take us inside their heads, it is impossible to connect to them because their very thought processes are both mechanical and somehow wrong. I would sometimes get lost in the middle of a paragraph because Campbell would throw in a sentence or observation that made entirely no sense at all. Often, I felt as if sentences must have been left out, or even more frustrating, reassembled so that he was commenting on things before he even described them. I know many readers hold Campbell in high regard, and I will not attempt to judge his art based on this one novel, but this novel just did not work for me.

Campbell supposedly attempted to create a new type of horror story here. It's certainly unique; I know of no other writer I could compare Campbell to in terms of his writing style. The monster here, though, is basically just a cannibalistic, irrational killer of the type we have seen before. I grant you the story starts out promisingly, with Clare Frayn's brother Rob being killed in an accident and having his arm taken from the scene by an unknown young man. Clare, by the way, has a disturbing bevy of emotional problems all her own. Then a writer comes to town with the idea of writing a book on this "cannibal," claiming to have known him back in school. He, Clare, a fellow whose mother was a victim of the killer, and a weird actor who says his cat was killed (and presumably eaten) by the killer set out to find him. This task is made much easier by the fact that the writer knows who it is (based on some pretty shotty evidence, I say). The only gripping part of the narrative, in my opinion, comes when the group locates the killer's grandmother and hears from her lips some of the details of the psycho's birth. The identity of the monster comes as no surprise whatsoever, and the conclusion is basically just weird. Personally, I just don't see a lot of merit in this novel, and it fails to produce any kind of monster different from what I have seen before-it's just harder to see through Campbell's murky prose.

Quick synopsis: Clare and her brother Rob are in a car accident. Rob is killed and his arm is stolen. A true crime writer contacts Clare because he believes he knows who stole her brother's arm and he wants her help in tracking down the macabre thief. Okay, well maybe that is an overly concise version of the plot, but you get the picture.
I think it's shame this book is out of print. I really enjoyed it. I loved the bleakness of it all because I felt that it enhanced the story and helped to set its mood. I thought the juxtaposition of the horror of the events with the blandness of the setting made those events seem even more horrific.

Clare Frayn was giving her brother a ride home, on the night someone ran in front of her car and caused the accident. Her brother died instantly. Funny thing was, they never found his arm. Funnier than that - though Clare isn't laughing - is that the man who ran in front of her car seemed to be disappearing around a corner shortly after the accident, carrying something looking suspiciously like an arm...

A couple of months later, popular exploitative true-crime writer Edmund Hall contacts Clare for help in researching his latest book, "Satan's Cannibal," about the man he is certain was responsible for Clare's brother's death. When a young boy, Hall went to school in Clare's Liverpool neighborhood with a creepy kid named Christopher Kelly. Kelly was a ghoul, who eagerly attacked and ate living small animals - and even badly scared the school bully, by nearly biting off his nose.

Clare and Edmund play amateur detective, with a few friends, to track Kelly down. Of course, with that much attention coming his way, it can't be too long before Kelly turns the tables, and comes looking for them...

This was Ramsey Campbell's first novel, and it still reads quite well. It's more a crime story than anything else, sort of an odd and eerie "day in the life" of an unsettled and unsettling shadow-crawler of a man. Balancing the psychological and possible supernatural aspects is what makes Campbell's story so compelling - that, and his fascinating characterization of a truly bizarre criminal.

The book reads like a good episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, and is surprisingly mature for this kind of material. It may well have partly inspired Thomas Harris' more famous Hannibal Lecter novels, Red Dragon especially - though it isn't quite as good, just along similar lines.

At least we know where Cindy went, right? That's filled in about one one-hundredth of the empty space.

But, ew. This was not a great way to bring her back. I mean, to me, the plot just seems unlikely. Dubai and Belmont? Cindy not being recognized? Yeah, she won the Dubai Cup. People would notice you, at least on the backside of Belmont. And if I were her, I'd want to be noticed, and who cares if you are associated with Whitebrook? It is supposed to be a good stable. Yeah. . .

And Ben being sarcastic? That just got a big no from me. Lame excuse for stupidity in his case.

So, I suppose it's decent. Mistakes a-many, as always, but they were small. Decent way to bring back Cindy, but it still left me wondering. What happened to Mandy, Heather, Max, everybody she knew? The horses? This covers about two years of the blank decade or so, I'm wanting more.

Okay. Here's how it is. I thought this book was fairly decent. I really appreciated the fact that they finally told what happened to Cindy after all these years. I was also wondering what had happened about Ashleigh. First she was pregnant and then she wasn't? The first book in the diary series (Cindy's Desert Adventure) really helped me figure that one out. However, like everyone else, I am still wondering to this day about Heather, Max, Mandy and all the rest of them like everyone else is? Did she just up and leave Max or what? I think that it is great that she and Ben made up. I DO believe that he was being sarcastic unlike some other people. He seems really into her. Why would he want to hurt her feelings? Duh. Think about that. Also how everyone is wondering about Wonder's Legacy....that was back in book 24. He was only 2 then and Christina was what, 12. So now that she is 17 or 18 that would make him 7 or 8. HE IS PROBABLY RETIRED!!!! Also, if Legacy isn't a Whitebrook horse anymore, why would they write a book on him? Sure I'd like to know if he won any big races like the Derby but I'm not that worried about it. So, in the end I personally feel that these two books about Cindy were pretty good. It helped answer a lot of questions. Hopefully more of my questions will be answered in the future books.

This book was really good. It was nice to know what happened to Cindy, over all those years. It was almost like she dissapeared after she raced Champion. It was good to find out about all her experiences at Belmont and when she came home. The ending on this book is really good and suprising, but I won't tell or it will ruin it.

Now, that we know what happened to Cindy over those years what about everyone else? Did hay all just take a 10year break in life or did something happen. It would be nice to know about the foals Woder must have had, and how some of our favorites did in those years. What happened to some of our favorite characters, or interesting charaters like Mandy. Also what went on in Ireland? Hopefully there will be more books about these type of things soon.

This book was well written and had a good ending. Before you read this read Cindy's desert adventure, it will give you a better idea of what is going on.