i was just lookin for a lennon book when i came across this book ive never read it i never will how the hell can some of u lot give this 5 stars? tha chapman done it for publicity and some of you are falling for it!even if your not lennon fans why are you so interested in this scum? ive heard he has posters on his prison wall saying i killed john lennon he is proud of it! and you silly people are interested in this killer? may i ask why?to read about him and to say his name is giving him the fame he wants dont do it!!and the authour if he thinks this is some sort of a good idea to give publicity to that scum well he is one <@!(* thank you.

It hurts me a bit to read that Chapman was a nice guy, appreciated for some of the things he did. A picture even shows him playing a "guitar during a meeting of his prayer group from the Chapel Woods Presbyterian Church in Decatur, Georgia." Someone who was six years old when Chapman shot John Lennon in 1980 would have been 18 in 1992, when this book was published, and decided to remain a nobody in American society, could have been 25 in 1999 and taken part in the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. A real nobody wouldn't have known that the bombs were falling on an embassy, and nobody would really be held responsible, either, because everybody wants to maintain their rights to be nobody. The frightening thing about this book is its consideration of options for anyone to be somebody in a global society which encompasses millions of people in the United States and billions in the world. There are pages in this book about drug use. Is this book the reason that so many more people in our prisons are serving time for drugs than back in 1980, when some people were surprised that John Lennon was shot?

It was entertaining and extremely informative. I really cannot say enough good things about this book. What I love is that most text in the book is dialogue taken from interviews with MD Chapman, and you really get a chance to know him through his words. Terrific. You see an emotional, logical, artistic, and human side of him.

Where have the authors been for the past 30 years?
Times have moved on. Yet the writers seem to be stuck in this time warp where this matter is still relevant. Like it or not, Jane Fonda's visit happend - end of story.
The US goverment have bigger fish to fry than a 65 year old actress living in Georgia.

- This book is great for Vets and patriots that just wont move on, or atlease feel the world still owes them some thing.

Though I disagree with the book's conclusions, in fairness, the authors set a clear argument with their reasons why Jane Fonda should be tried for treason and use as many facts as possible (instead of lies)

...A lot of US soldiers were betrayed by what Ms Fonda said and did during her trip to Vietnam. Many of her ilk (for example Bill Clinton)protested our involvement in Vietnam because it was fashionable. Unfortunately, Vietnam vets weren't allowed to be fashionable as they were dying overseas to the tune of 58 thousand over 10 years.The purpose of the book as I see it is "He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it"...

This text is a superbly written and seriously scholarly product that provides the fundamental basis, based on a foundation of thorough legal analysis of documented events, for formulating what amounts to an indictment of the behaviors of a traitor. The text is fascinating but nevertheless maintains a rigorous adherence to analyses of various data bases, and provides the reader with a fine example of integrated logic and reasoning in what could easily have been be a purely emotional treatise which typically characterizes much of the published articles concerning Ms. Fonda's behaviors in time of war.

Before you purchase this book, as yourself, "when have I ever seen a review of popular culture that covered everything?" The answer, probably, is never, and if so, this book won't change that. The author states as much in the introduction. Having said that, the book is very good at what it attempts to do, namely give novice readers a basic understanding of the key elements of Japanese popular culture in the post-War era. A book which covered every fad, popular music group, TV program and movie during that time period would be larger than several phone books and would have a hard time selling. What this book does well is describe, in a fair amount of detail, the important cultural icons, from Misora Hibari and Sazae-san, through Pink Lady and Doraemon, ending with SMAP and Sailor Moon. If you're looking for a primer on Japanese pop culture over the last 50 years, this is the book. If you already have deep personal knowledge or are interested in only one thing (like anime), you may be disappointed. One other small problem with the book is that because it is in print form, the information is fixed in time, but Japanese culture goes on. In other words, some of the stuff in this book is dated. The concept of the book might better be served by a web site, but I doubt that Mr. Schilling could make a profit with such a site. If anybody decides to try though, please let me know. I'd visit!

I have read this book and found it very interesting for Jap pop culture beginners.

it's not possible. It just is -not- possible to do a pop culture encyclopedia no matter how hard one tries to. If you're going to do one, though, the key ingredients are to pick the lasting phenomenas and to assure your reader there's a depth in it worth covering.

Schilling doesn't cover most of what I remember from Japan. He doesn't cover rock music. He doesn't cover kogaru. He doesn't cover ramune or pocky. Honestly, on an encounter level with other similar books I've found myself insulted by the lack of knowledge presented in their so-called "encyclopedia". But with what he covers, he covers it well and authoratatively and with an expressed but not hideously overt sense of irony about the entire situation.

I've found myself keeping it for a reference piece because what he does cover tends to get incorporated into a lot of what he doesn't.

Media tie-ins are the redheaded stepchildren of the fiction section. Often written in extreme haste by work-for-hire authors with no interest in the project other than the paycheck it provides. While not the poorest example of a media tie-in, Greg Cox's DAREDEVIL, a novelization of the 2003 movie hit starring Ben Affleck, exhibits all the hallmarks of a hurried adaptation of a less-than-stellar screenplay.

Authoring DAREDEVIL was surely a thankless task. The story upon which the book is based attempts to serve as an origin tale for the eponymous hero while shoehorning in a romance plotline that didn't appear until years later in Daredevil's comics continuity. Based on the writing in DAREDEVIL, Greg Cox has some skill as an author, but he falls into traps that often snare tie-in writers; unable to figure out a way to beef up the narrative presented in the screenplay, he leans on internal monologue and overly-florid prose to fill pages. Perhaps Cox did not have the time to invent original material to fill in the gaping holes in DAREDEVIL's story - media tie-ins are notorious among authors for their punishing deadlines - and if so he cannot be held totally at fault for the book's weakness, but when far better examples of the tie-in form can be found on the shelves, Cox's work simply pales by comparison. Chris Claremont's X-MEN 2, released just two months after DAREDEVIL, makes much more of a very slender screenplay.

Great fans of the film upon which DAREDEVIL is based might enjoy this novelization, but those who haven't seen the movie, or who may have picked up DAREDEVIL in an attempt to get pleasure from the book on its own merits, won't find anything about which to get excited. Instead of papering over the shortcomings of Mark Stephen Johnson's screenplay, Cox's adaptation puts a spotlight on them. Readers aren't dazzled by incredible stunt work or special effects, and they don't have a hard-driving techno-metal soundtrack to keep their pulses racing. All the readers have are words and their imaginations, and when the framework upon which the story is placed is so rickety, the characterizations so paper-thin, the author must work doubly hard to make up the shortfall. It's clear from the pages of DAREDEVIL that Cox didn't make this effort.

This is all the more disappointing due to the fact that Daredevil is a fascinating character about whom better stories have been told with even less space than in a 250-page novel. Brian Michael Bendis, in his "Underboss" and "Out" storylines in the ongoing Daredevil comic, brings real depth to the Man Without Fear, and Greg Rucka's take on the Daredevil/Elektra romance, entitled ULTIMATE DAREDEVIL/ELEKTRA, rings far more true than in Cox's DAREDEVIL.

Of course, it's difficult to blame Cox. After all, it's impossible to tell under what circumstances the novelization was written, and the DAREDEVIL screenplay is clearly a poor effort. But sympathy for the author doesn't mean anyone must feel obligated waste time with his work.

All I have to say, is thank the lord that Mark Steven Johnson can film much better than he can write. The writer of this novel was also the writer/director of the feature film which this is based.

I am a comic collector. Plain and simple. And it gives me joy when I see a comic make it to the big screen. And when one does, I buy three things: The official movie poster, the novelization, and the movie on DVD when it is available. And this is one of the few times I've wanted to take that novelization back.

The movie was great. Almost fantastic. I would defenitely have to say that the portrayal in the movie, the overall tone, made Daredevil one of the best movies of the year. But this book was horrible. It lacked detail, and proper description to create imagery, to create the movie in the readers mind. And that made the book horrible. Now, not everyone has the ability to describe something like Tolkien, but the settings were poorly described. Basically the extent of description in this book goes "the dark street. The tall man." Johnson's depiction of the film in writing is horrible, and definitely not worth the money.

Reviews are hard to write, so I'll make it short, sweet, and to-the-point.

Daredevil is a good book for what it is: A screenplay-based novel. I wouldn't put it at the top of my list for books, but I wouldn't put it at the bottom either.

This novel has more than the screenplay written. Daredevil has a sub-story which leads to the end of The Kingpin's assisstant.

For anyone that doesn't want to see the movie, but is interested in what the story of the movie is, I reccommend it. If you have seen the movie and interested in how the author makes it into his own, I reccommend it. But, for anyone who is thinking about picking it up for a good read, I beyond all, DO NOT reccommend it.

There are so many sites listed on the internet which are available for free - why shell out almost twenty bucks for something which can never be as up to date as celebs change their agents like they change underwear! There was no rating option for 0 stars. This is also directed to every other autograph collecting address book out there....not this one in particular. Use your resources at hand before digging into your wallets :-)

Sent for 4 autographs; one was returned deceased and two were returned for expired forwarding order.

This 352 page step-by-step guide to celebrity authographs contains everything you'll need to know to enjoy this hobby. There are more than 950 black and white photos of celebrities with their autographs, and more than 7,000 listings and updated addresses of celebrities. Simple, detailed instructions show you exactly where to write, how to write and who not to waste your time on. Each celebrity is rated, as to their responsiveness to requests. An absolute necessity to succeed in this hobby. It will save you much time, energy, and postage and help you develop an enjoyable, and valuable, collection. There's even a list of winners and losers from 1996 to 2000 and the top ten best and worst signers. Contains a wealth of information. Add it to your library.

This book is an obvious rip-off of the excellent Let's GO parody "Let's Blow thru Europe" without the sophisticated wit and charm that made "Let's Blow" a cult classic.

This is one of the worse books ever written. The book makes the word " stupiod American ' seem very true. Taking a trip is more than just hanging out in bars day in day out. I think this book was someones's need for a tax write-off. Amazon take it off you list.

This book is fantastic. It is definitely not for Stevie and Mikey who just graduated from some small softy east coast liberal arts college where they learned to "appreciate art and respect the environment," and are in Europe to observe "cultural diversity." Stay at home boys: maybe someday you'll score. This book is for the people who want to rage and puke through Europe and see the sites if not too hung over. In a nutshell, if you want boredom and predictability in your Eurotrip pick up "Let's Go" and stay in Florence looking at paintings and discussing politics. If you want to push the envelope, fly to London, start heading toward the epicenter of chaos (Greece), and don't forget "Let's Party." Reality.

It is the most shallow coverage of Notes that I've ever seen. I still don't understand how they managed to pack so little information into so many pages.

For example, a new feature of 4.5 is Multidatabase indexing through a site search database. Here is the unabridged exerpt from this "reference" on site search:

"The Multi Databse Indexing feature enables you to create many indices at once. After these indices exist, it is possible to search more than one database at a time for data (such as a client's name or company name). This feature can be extremely helpfull when designing a Web page. As shown in figure 8.21, you must be a manager of the file to enable this option."

That's it. That pathetic, inane, useless, and technically incaccurate blurb is all the info this book provides on site search. They don't even know what a site search database is (its the tool used to actually build a multidatabase index). And the worst part is that the whole book is like this. Uhh... I don't know exactly what this is but uhh.... here's the property box for it and uhh... you can click boxes and stuff on it. And uhh.. oh, yeah, you have to have sufficient access to do that.

Avoid this one like the plague. New Riders Publishing should really be ashamed of themselves.

This book is less than useless, I had more questions than answars after reading it. The book is terribly shallow and never goes into any depth.

Read some reviews here.

Some folks feel it is not a good book, so I went to a local bookstore and spent an hour leafing ... for the 2nd time. For my project [ where there were some challenges, this book came closest to giving me script pointers, though not solutions]

I beleive this book is by far the best I have seen for Notes/Domino 4.x and would be happy if they released one for R 5.0 - same manner....

Great book in my personal opinion..and stands out in the Notes/Domino arena.

The Spiritual Teachings of Marcus Aurelius by Mark Forstater is not a book recommended for any serious student of Stoic teachings. The book contains no actual text from Aurelius' teachings or meditations, rather it contains only Mr. Forstater's thoughts on what Marcus Aurelius was thinking. Furthermore, since Mr. Forstater is not any type of noted scholar in stoicism, I don't understand what prompted him to tackle such an important historical figure. The book would have had much more value to me had it contained actual translations of Aurelius'teachings but unfortunately it didn't even exceed that hurdle.

This book received a lot of bad reviews which I don't think it deserved. First of all it is a modern translation of Aurelius--so therefore a little--I should say--a lot more understandable to a modern day reader. And after having read other more literate versions--I don't think much is lost here. The fact Marcus Aurelius has a lot to say to us today--strangly enough--more so than the people of his own era. The into could have been shorter--but the meat of this book (the sayings) is more than worth the price!

I almost didn't buy this audio cassette since many previous reviewers panned it. I'm very glad I did buy it. If you are looking for a scholarly work on Marcus Aurelius, this isn't it, sorry. Rather consider it more of a primer on the teachings or Marcus Aurelius. I particularly like to listen to it on the way to work. I didn't find it that different from what I had read in the Penguin classics edition, merely abridged. So, if you want a good taste of what The Stoic emperor was all about, give it a listen. You won't be disappointed.

This book is a difficult read. It's difficult because it's poorly written, it's difficult because it doesn't really say much, and it's especially difficult because after about an hour of trying to find something of value you will start getting very angry that you were ripped off. Supposedly this book should give you the information you need to "understand" SOAP. In fact, SOAP is not very complicated; it's XML messages flying back and forth via HTTP. It's like CORBA or RMI only text-based. But instead of getting this message across and exciting the reader about what can be done with the technology, the authors have chosen to write in the most boring, matter-of-factual language they could possibly utter. Worse, they bloat the pages with reams upon reams of C++ code. Not Java or C# or Visual Basic that most developers that would be interested in SOAP use, but C++. Each C++ segment is explained in painful detail by near-pseudocode text, no doubt to fill as many pages as possible but with the dreadful side-effect of boring the reader to tears. The chapters that try to "introduce" XML are particularly bad, dry and unintelligible. In fact, it almost seems as if the authors didn't understand XML themselves, which seems hard to believe since Stiver claims to have spent two years with it. Perhaps it's just really bad writing style, or really bad attention to detail, or just a great deal of pressure from the publisher to get something, anything, out and onto the shelves. The result is a worthless white book that should no be any part of a web developer's library.

This book contains actually too books: 1) A deep introduction to SOAP. 2) A description for a SOAP to DCOM to SOAP converting framework. ad 1) This book is a true must have for its description to SOAP. It shows the details in a clear and trustworthy stile. Also one gets a good impression on the impact of this technology without any hype. I am strongly looking forward to a new updated edition.

ad 2) This is hard stuff. You have to be reasonably well acquainted with DCOM at the ATL level. Some knowledge on Assembler is also more than helpful. The framework is ok, though incomplete. Yes it is a bargain at the price of the book and it is interesting to read through.

Should this be two separate books? I think so yes. Though than I would never have read the second book.

Excellent presentation of fundamental SOAP technology in chapters 1-7 (193 pages). Explains how the SOAP protocol and request/response model can be used in web applications. Compares SOAP with CORBA and DCOM. Illustrates the contents of SOAP request and response messages. Presents an ISAPI extension for monitoring SOAP traffic (debugging & development). Defines XML content of SOAP messages and shows how to package data types using XML types including base64 for data structures. Introduces approaches for managing state-information in a SOAP based application. Chapter 8 explains how Microsoft's BizTalk Server uses SOAP technology. Briefly discusses the philosophy of Microsoft's SOAP toolkit. Chapter 10 presents code for creating a transparent framework for COM objects which are unaware of SOAP to be called through the SOAP protocol. Chapter 10 covers at least 1/3 of the book, is difficult to understand, consists primarily of code, and occasionally drops into assembly language for unexplained reasons.