Debbee

"Frank Netti's book is a wake-up call. To his credit he doesn't downplay the compexities of planning and living a decent retirement in contemporay America. Instead he makes complexity eminently readable. This wise, honest, and instuctive book makes a loud case for finding and partnering with a professional advisor."
Barbara Levin, Director, Fourm for Investor Advice

"In his book, Retire Sooner, Retire Richer, Frank Netti offers 23 investment proverbs to guide the reader in planning a secure retirement. These are the 23 best tips to enjoying your retirement years, and his book offers countless more insights to sound money management. Read this book and take heed, without careful planning, there's trouble ahead."
Christopher L. Davis, Executive Director, Money Management Institute

They write a good deal about what Reiki is, in fact, including procedures and practices not easily found elsewhere. They thoughtfully include pictures, diagrams, and careful descriptions that assist those who are unfamiliar with these forms of Reiki.

This would have rated five stars, had they sought out a better editor and included an index. These three authors deserve a better treatment of their work: the errors were distracting. An index is almost a must-have for a book like this--I will have to settle for sticky-note bookmarks for important passages or subjects.

Buy it anyway. It's one of the best Reiki resources I've seen, and it should be on the bookshelf of every teacher and practitioner.

If you are a person who tends to read technical books from cover to cover you will find that a great deal of time is spent with theory. Mr. Cervone spends many pages discussing every topic theoretically, and even gives good descriptions of useful command flags and what things you should be tuning.

The big failure of the book, that I've found, is the lack of examples. For the most part, the books is devoid of this important tool. However, this book is not intended for the beginner. By the time that you get around to using this book you should be able to understand man pages and figuring out how to issue commands based on the archaic writings of Sun engineers (enough of my ranting on Sun man pages). So if you can read man pages you can figure out, based on the book, the commands you need to issue for maximum performance.

I highly recommend this book for any professional who uses Solaris daily for their livelihood, although I would hold off purchasing it if you are a novice Solaris admin.

Frank does an excellent job of conveying internals information where many authors would have failed by either going far too deep or staying far too shallow. It is definitely not a good book for beginners, though. An understanding of how a CPU works seems to have helped me out a lot, since he frequently refers to things like hardware registers and program location counters when explaining how Solaris handles certain situations.

This one belongs on the desk of any serious Admin. Hopefully he updates it soon for Solaris 8 and/or 9!

I must admit that I really like WFB's fiction, and I'm delighted that his publisher challenged him to try it.

The Blackford Oakes series relies on Buckley's own experience with the CIA, I'm sure. But the stories are more than depictions of black craftsmanship. Buckley has a fine ability to weave an interesting plot, and his characterizations are detailed and marvelous. He has spent time and effort bringing his characters to life, and giving them motivation and hstory.

There is, of course, a cycnical side to international espionage, and he has also portrayed that convincingly.

In this story, for example, the Soviets and the Americans actually cut cards to see which side will murder a heroic German character whose greatest desire it is to reunify his country.

I think it is amazing how well he has interwoven history and historical characters with fiction and his invented characters, and made it all hang together so convincingly.

Bill Buckley, sir, you are an amazing man and one to admire.

Joseph Pierre