This is a pleasant read. It's an ecelctic mix of essays around the subject of food. I have pulled out a few essays for my husband's kids to read, to show them how some other people in the world approach the dinner table. Long after having read it, I still think about some of the essays and I will be sure to pick it up and read it again sometime. If you like this genre of writing, you'll enjoy this little book.

I thoroughly enjoyed We Are What We Ate. With few exceptions, the stories were endearing, funny, and very, very real. I loved the tribute to junk food and the touching memoir of the onion pie. A mouth-watering, heart-touching treasure, profits from this book also benefit Save Our Strength, an anti-hunger organization.

"Twin Peaks: Access Guide to the Town" opens with a puzzling, rather humorous letter from Mayor Milford (isn't he always?), which gives the pace to the rest of this tongue-in-cheek, pseudo-guide of Twin Peaks, Washington. There is some fun stuff in here, like mini bios and mug shots of the more relevant cast members (but why did the waitress from the Great Northern get such a large bio?), town maps, and even the jukebox selections at the Double R Diner, plus some recipes for any Twin Peaker's diet: cherry pie, coffee, and doughnuts.

However, this book is absolutely brimming with useless facts, like an excerpt from Andrew Packard's will, a ten-page section on Packard Sawmill (oh, thrills), Washington State history, first explorers, Native American tribes, flora, fauna, geology, weather, and a bizarre advertisement for Tim and Tom's Taxi-dermy (one part blind taxi driver; one part taxidermist). Even if you condensed the more important stuff, it would never reach the current 112 pages, but less than 1/4 of that, if that much.

I wouldn't consider this book necessary reading, even if you are a Twin Peaks fan; but if you love to collect Twin Peaks stuff (like I do), then you might consider buying this book. Even so, Twin Peaks fans looking for info on the series will more than likely be disappointed, because this book reads more like a boring tourist guide or junior high history textbook than a TV tie-in. I'd recommend checking out "Welcome to Twin Peaks: A Complete Guide to Who's Who and What's What" and/or "Twin Peaks: Behind the Scenes" instead.

What would a third season of this great television show provided? This book provides the clues as well as other interesting tidbits, including a drawing of the Owl Cave petroglyph and other oddities. Some entries are sketchy a best, but this is a must have for any fan of the little town with a popualtion of 51,201

This was a very interesting story. It was full of suspence. I could not put it down for one second. It makes you think, and it actually gives you a chance to feel what each character is going through.

When a man with a gun and an attitude interrupts the daily on-goings in a diner by the highway, the results are bound to be exciting. This is an impeccable play that constantly leaves you on the edge of your seat. You will never anticipate the twists and turns of this intense piece. Occasionally disturbing, sometimes funny, but always interesting, this is theater at its best. A must read for any thespian.

I consumed this mystery in very short time. Like all good mysteries, the murder is revealed in the first chapter (in this book on page 4!). The past is fast and furious, leading the reader through a maze of character relationships held together with drug dealing, jealousies and suspicions, and of course murder. This was the third Zubro book I've read (Political Poison, and Another Dead Teenager being the other two) and it has renewed my faith in the author as a competent crafter of murder mysteries. Characterization remains a weakness for Zubro, however. His characters at times are difficult to differentiate: primarily they speak the same. He shrewdly and effectively uses how they dress and what their home environments look like to establish their character, as well as creates interesting set pieces for them to move and act within, but as soon as they open their mouths, they sound like everyone else.

But his strength remains crafting plausible plot lines that hold you and tease you enough to wonder if you really know who did it. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and will continue to acquire and read his others.

Like potato chips, the Tom and Scott mysteries are easy to consume and (as brain food goes) nutritionally valueless. I WANT to like these books. I keep hoping...

The problem with Tom and Scott is that I can't tell Tom from Scott. Oh, I know one of them (narrator Tom) is a Viet Nam vet who now teaches highschool, and one of them (guess who) is a highly paid professional athlete. Scott is Southern-born, starts out a little closeted (a potentially interesting conflict never explored), and Tom is...not. Unlike in Joseph Hansen's Brandstetter series, or Richard Stevenson's Strachey novels, I'm never lured into believing Tom and Scott are real people. They are a gay fantasy--not even an interesting gay fantasy. They are too perfect, too plastic. Barbie's Ken without Barbie.

Another thing. No sense of humor. Scott and Tom have the most painful repartee I've heard outside of a kung fu movie.

But as serious a handicap as having cartoons for lead characters is, Zubro does have his strengths. He concocts a crafty, clever mystery here about murder and drug rings in highschool, and he paints a realistic picture of highschool (minus the drugs and murder), as well as unflattering portraits of administrators, fellow teachers and students.

It wouldn't take a lot to turn this series into something delicious and satisfying. Until then I'll keep munching away, knowing I should be doing something better with my brain.

It is a tough job to pull church history in America together into a short volume; one will always tend to leave things out. Noll does a decent job in selecting material, but the book suffers from poor writing. There seems to be no real organization to his chapters; they read as loose collections of ideas and paragraph biographies. If the book were reworked, it could be a valuable introduction.

How does one cover the history of Prostestants in America in but 133 pages?

Read how Noll pulls this off admirably in this fine text. He sweeps through using main emphases and figures that moved the history along.

His focus is fair from this reviewer's perspective, treating all areas with enthusiasm and interest as they play out their role in this unfolding history.

This is done in four main timeframes: 1607-1789, 1790-1865, 1866-1918, and 1918-. To supplement this there is an chronology, as well as bibiliography with reading suggestions.

Well done! A great resource to start one out on this topic.

Mr. Shelton has written a well researched book. I find it specifically interesting in the fact that the doctor, Dr. Jannetta, allows the author a glimpse into the admitted as well as the often unadmitted; the surgical practice of "ghost surgery". (I no longer have the book so I may be wrong about page citiation but I believe it is approximately page 252.) The author relates an anecdote told by a resident about the time he wanted to operate on a woman with a brain tumor who had just given birth. Although Dr. Jannetta at first tells the resident not to operate because of the potential danger to the patient the resident persists and Dr. Jannetta relents. The author goes on to tell how the patient died and Dr. Jannetta, who had not been in either the O.R. or the hospital, comes in in the middle of the night to commiserate with his resident. It is not often, if ever, that a doctor admits publicly that he, by his actions, endorses 'ghost surgery'. This book gives the reader an entry into an often secretive and closed world. Neurosurgery seems to be the most highly regarded, feared and unknown of the medical specialties. For anyone curious about the life of a neurosurgeon, this is one of the books I would recommend.

Due to the review below, I was reluctant to buy this book, but I'm glad I did. It is one of the better books on neurosurgery. It chronicles the early career of Peter Janetta (Director of Neurosurgery at Pitt) and his "discovery" that decompression of the Fifth Cranial nerve will relieve the pain of Trigeminal Neuralgia. This book is similar to Healing Blade by Edward Sylvester, in that both books use an outside observer to descript the world of neurosurgeons to the reader. They use historical references (ie. Harvey Cushing and Walter Dandy, two pioneer neurosurgeons) to help us to understand the political battles that occur backstage as well as battles that hinder the progress of medicine. This book has great descriptive passages that makes the reader feel like one is inside the OR with the surgeons. It also makes the reader feel like one knows more about the techniques in question. It is also an immensely entertaining read because it teaches us about so many things. There are technical descriptions, historical references, touching case reports and a-day-in-the-life-of-a-neurosurgeon type of stories that attach the reader to the hips of the neurosurgeon as he rounds on patients, goes to the OR, goes to another OR and yet another OR, and then goes to a conference, and yet another conference.....what a life! If you are a medical student pondering about neurosurgery, read this book before investing 4 weeks in a neurosurgical elective! I love this book.

I whole-heartedly enjoyed this book. The characters especially linger in my mind for they were not what one would commonly consider heroes, they are merely people struggling with their own internal conflict and coming together against the greater evil.

The plot is not predicatable - although the characters do spend an awlfully large amount of time running away (which is reasonable given the unsurmountable odds rising against them). The seemingly excessive amount of vomitting and falling unconscious did detract somewhat from my intense enjoyment, but all-in-all, I found it a highly addictive, unpredictable read. And the ending is just the sort of ending I enjoy ^^ But I'm not giving away any hints except to say - I want the second book and I want it now!

Well, where do I start with this? What first attracted me to this book was the fact that it was the first book of a series. Which often tells me that the author is dedicated to writing a real 'story' and not trying to make a simple 'money spinner' one off book.

Mark Chadbourn in my mind has written a real story with characters to both hate and cheer, his characters are quite three dimensional and believable. Even though the story advances and the characters often overcome vast obstacles in their path, they do not come through unscathed. This is not a story of boy meets girl; boy and girl fall in love, and then together they defeat the villain. This story and characters have twists and turns throughout the plot. There is no real black or white in this book, more often than not there is mostly grey. This is not that the story is bland, far from it; this story is quite often filled with a seat of your pants thriller type of affair. The plot and story are quite believable and quite within a credible scope of reality.

Both myself and my friends, who I recommended this book to, could not put it down once we had started reading it. I was constantly reading this book to find out what happened to the main characters. Would they survive the current predicament that they were in? Would Jack and Ruth get together or are they destined for other things?

Overall, the book is fantastic and I cannot wait for the second and further books on this story to be published. I only hope that Mark Chadbourn has not gone on holidays now that the second book has been published. I hope that he is now hard at work with any other books so that I can enjoy them as much as I have his first book.

WELL DONE MARK CHADBOURN!

I have a child with Cerebral Palsy. I found this book to be the best layman medical explaination of the disorder that I have read. I recommend it to family members to help explain the disability to other people.

I use this book as a reference tool for children who have disabilities. The book is written in clear and concise language for anyone to understand. Many of my college students who work with young children have purchased this text. Excellent .... I recommend this book for anyone who wants to learn more about children.

Mark Twain's 1,000,000 bank note is a charming story with a few suprises. Whe a man is shipwrecked his life takes a surprising turn. He finds himself accross the Atlantic Ocean without a cent to his name and with only what he is wearing. In England his missfortune interests two welthy men who decide to make a bet on him. He is given only a 1,000,000 pound bank note and a month on his own. Mark twain uses humor and irony wonderfully in this book. As in many of his books insights into human nature, especcially pride, are enlightening and logical. I would recomend this book to anyone who enjoys humorus short stories without too much slapstick.

I enjoy this book, because when i go online i have SO much fun going to different sights! I think that other people reading these reviews should totally get this book! I promise you, you will never get on the internet and be bored again!