I am reading this "book" for my Gender and Law class and I have to say, DONT BUY IT if you really want to learn about men and their "masculinity." If there has ever been such a thing as "reverse sexism" this book embodies the entire ideal. From calling the BlueMan Group racist and stating as a corollary that men are turned on by violence (not adrenaline, violence). This book is not for an unbias class, but only for man-HATING extreme femenists.

And this is coming from a pro-femenist!

This book is a "cook book" style tutorial. Archibald does a great job of at least mentioning most of the commands that are available through Pro-E, however he only uses some of the commands that he mentions, and explains even fewer of them.

Unfortunately, this edition repeats many of the inaccuracies of the first book. If you are an experienced woodworker, the measured drawings and photos are useful; but ignore the so-called historical notes. A number of the projects are reconstructions of reconstructions, so there are many leaps of faith that the design is authentic. For accurate information on period furniture joinery, decoration, etc., see Victor Chinnery's book "Oak Furniture, the British Tradition." For information on how to build furniture using hand tools in a period fashion, see Roy Underhill's "Woodwright" series of books.

The book was disorganized, the material out of date, the concepts were irrelevant, and the language was often misleading.

Although the book was entertaining, it was full of misconceptions. The description of the Y2K problem was mostly accurate, but not the description of its consequences or the description of what a cashless society would be like. Current banking systems, technology, and laws regarding privacy and evidence collection will simply not permit many of the suggested problems described in this book from occurring. Only the uninformed and truly paranoid will find this book's description of Y2K and a cashless society credible.

I thought the author would actually REVIEW the outlet malls, not just tell us where they are (you can get that for free on the Internet!) He warns that not all "outlets" really offer great bargains -- but you have to check 'em all out yourself to find out which ones do.

And guess what -- he says you can get great prices at Sams, KB Toys, and Tuesday Morning. Well, "duh".

Finding an unpublished piece by Mark Twain is reason to celebrate, but that doesn't mean its shortcomings should be ignored. Though the story begins well and has an interesting set up, the ending is abrupt and does not fit well with what has gone before. More was needed to make this a coherent and, more importantly, an interesting read. For reasons unexplained Mark Twain ended this story savaging Jules Verne. I never read any opinions he had on Verne but would be interested in finding them, should they exist. This story is only worth reading as a curiosity. However, after doing so, one understands why Twain chose to let it languish on the shelf.

I wish this book could somehow be recycled back into a tree! The author wasted his time on this product

Somewhere buried in the text is a discussion of developing LiveWire applications, but I had a hard time finding it as I waded through all the fluff! In fact out of this entire book, only 3 chapters deal with LiveWire development and the LiveWire extensions directly. These chapters are:

Ch. 8. Using Server-side JavaScript (a quick overview)
Ch. 9. Writing LiveWire Applications With JavaScript (the basics of writing appliations)
Ch. 10. Writing Database Applications (the database example from the LiveWire documentation)

The rest of the chapters deal with Navigator Gold, Netscape Plug-ins, and lots of other stuff designed to inflate the book. Heck, there's an entire chapter that tries to justify why to use LiveWire. There's an entire chapter on installing LiveWire. There's an entire chapters that drones on and on about the LiveWire tools, which each have there own chapter anyway. There's so much talk that the real discussion is lost.

Larry recounts the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign, with all the inside information and insight that could be garnered just by reading the paper or watching TV during the relevant period. In other words, Larry offers no inside scoop at all. The book just rehashes the campaign in more or less chronological order, and I could've written it. Some book, huh? Along the way, Larry does manage to bungle a fact or 2 (E.g., claiming a wacky question during Gennifer Flowers' press conference was asked by a reporter, rather than the Howard Stern show flunkie who really asked it. I don't think Larry can bring himself to say the words "Howard Stern", so perhaps that was the problem.). If interested in the 1992 campaign/election, try ALL's FAIR by Mary Matalin and James Carville or STRANGE BEDFELLOWS by Tom Rosensteil instead.