Let the buyer beware! I should have recalled this adage and examined my purchase more carefully.

I am now the owner of writings by the new John Milton, a politically correct John Milton, a John Milton that rejects manhood for adulthood and rejects man for person. This new Milton embraces the humanist pronouns hu and hus and hum, non-sexist third person pronouns. He, his and him and she, her and hers are no more.

Milton's quotation of Euripides is likewise changed. Euripides now says' "And hu who can and will, deserves high praise". Euripides stands corrected.

Milton's use of archaic English has also been modernized. Milton has cast aside much of his seventeenth century English. This Bandanna Books version of John Milton is no longer John Milton, but an altered, censored revision.

Ironically, in the essay Areopagitica John Milton is arguing to the Parliament of England for freedom of the press, specifically for the liberty of unlicensed printing. Would John Milton have approved this modern, secular, nonsexist version of his essay?

Milton would have agreed that Bandanna Books had a right to publish, but I suspect that he would have argued that that Bandanna Books had a moral obligation to label the book cover to indicate that Milton's essay had been significantly altered to fit a peculiar nonsexist standard.

Bandanna Books in Santa Barbara, California offers other humanist works including Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Plato's Apology and Crito, and commentaries by Confucius. Unless you find comfort in hu, hus, and hum, I suggest that the traditional Whitman, Plato, and Confucius might be adequate and that you look elsewhere. Let the buyer beware!

"Hu", "hus", "hum"? Ho hum.

John Leonar

Prospective buyers of this edition should be aware that it is edited; some of Milton's words have been changed, either to modernize or to "humanize" (that is, eliminate sexist usages by the replacement of he/she, him/her, etc. with bizarre "hu", "hum," etc. This is not a worthy edition of Milton's great text!

This is nothing more than a propaganda piece, where one side is made up entirely and exclusively of bloodthirsty, foulmouthed, and stupid villans, and the other of angelic, smart good guys. This book is so unbelievably bad that I find it difficult to believe that anyone with an ounce of sense could possibly enjoy it. There are MUCH better war novels out there. This one is a waste of time.

Give me a break, a hooker who LIKED her job. Kelly was totally misguided. And she glamorizes her "profession". She talks about how good she was, and all of the men who told her they "loved" her. Is she delusional? This can't be an autobiography. This is pure fiction if I ever read it. In the words of her pimp, 'BS, BS, BS'

Having read the first volume in this series, I was eager to read the second. It was quite a disappointment.

The first volume was very in depth, and I looked forward to the same type of coverage in the second book. Alas, that was not the case. The NASCAR aero wars of 69-70 are barely mentioned at all, and most of the chapters are a short preamble followed by a year by year short (maybe 5-6 paragraphs) reporting of what went on in that type of racing that season. Very little of the engineering and FoMoCo internal politics that were covered so well in the first book wer covered in this book.

Another big disappointment is that each seaon, of each type of racing is proceded by a "what was happening in the world that year" which would probably be interesting if it wasn't already covered so well by other books which are devoted to that type of thing.

The first book was great. Buy it. The second...well, I can't recommend it.

You really need to be interested in the British intelligence agency to get a lot out of this book. To this day I have no idea why I finished it (I was on a transatlantic flight with nothing else to read). It really just is not that good, you would think the author could have done something more given the man spied for such a long time, but he did not. There are just too many good books out there to spend the time with this book.

i have need all the contents and as well as water teratment meters.