TERRIBLE!!!Too many mistakes.Mr Hurd don't know the first thing about a correct Chevelle restoration.Too bad its the only Chevelle restoration book available.Stick to assembly manuals and original dealer books for your best source of information.This book don't cut it!!

The book is a bunch of notes without comprehensive organization. Models like '69 are insuficiently covered (but nice if you have a '71). This book can give you a hand but is very very limited.

This book provides a plethora of facts and decoding information. So many facts that this book is more of a technical reference than reading material. If you're working on restoring a Chevelle this book can save you many hours of research.

Did you pass it around the trailer park?

The author of this ridiculous book obviously has no sense...not to mention no class. For him to lump every single member of a fine university into one category truly tells a story. Tell me Mr. Finebaum. Did a good looking girl at Ole Miss turn you down? I have many friends who attended Ole Miss and that school has turned out many a good person. Get a life!

If you're a State fan, you should definitely read this book. It will make you laugh until your ribs hurt, then refer back to it often for more. Never before has a book about Ole Miss been truer. This book should be featured in every Library, and be present in every home throughout Mississippi.

The author of this book should be commended for his style and humor in writing this book. Looking forward to more from him. Don't keep us waiting, give us more!

If it was possible to give this book 0 stars I certainly would have. As others have said before, this is just a bad book.

I usually find O'Reilly books excellent but this one is a disppointment. You could print out the Tcl manual pages and get as much information. Examples are few and meager. There should at least be a brief primer, with examples, to get the reader accustomed to the Tcl way of doing things. There's a tips and hints chapter at the end that's good, but it's all too short.

The previous reviewers seemed to think that this book would teach them the way of TCL/TK and were thoroughly disappointed. But what they failed to realize that this book is meant to be nothing more then a reference book. Perhaps if they had paid attention to the product description, they would have been prepared.

A thing to keep in mind, anytime an O'Reilly book has "...in a Nutshell" after the title... it's a reference book. Pure and simple. Say it with me, people. R-E-F-E-R-E-N-C-E. Not to be confused with "Master TCL/TK in 24 hours" or what have you.

So, keeping that in mind, as a reference book, it does a fantastic job as the rest have stated. Makes for a good "dictionary" so to speak.

Where to begin? As a Kevin J. Anderson reader, I was somewhat intrigued at the premise of the novel. However, I should have sensed danger at the extremely lengthy and confusing front flap. However, I risked it and read the book anyway. The middle of the book is somewhat interesting, but I agree with some of the other reviewers that the plot and timeline were choppy. With two chapters to go, I was moderately doubtful that the book could be tied up neatly. Well, the writers didn't think that was impossible. In fact, as if they were desperately tired of writing, the book simply stops. I cannot express my severe disappointment in the quick and shallow way the end of the book was treated. I half-jokingly suggested to my husband that I take the book back to the store and get half my money back since it was, after all, only half a story. My only comfort I can get from spending time reading this book is that it wasn't too long. Therefore, I didn't waste too much of my life reading it.

I had to search for this book after hearing about it and reading a glowing review. I couldn't wait to start it. But it was not worth my efforts. The characters are shallow and uninteresting. Their idea of a daredevil stunt is to swim from a ship to a dock with the possibility of a shark nearby. Big deal. And the artifact only appeared in a few pages at the beginning and end and had all the powers of a radish. What were the authors thinking?

Though it's an easy way out of writing a critigue, I pretty much have to mirror everything PW has to say about this book. I know if F. Paul Wilson alone would have written this novel it would no doubt have been much better. Not an incredibly solid read with a less than fulfilling ending. The whole concept of the story was good but the 'putting together' was not.

This tape is exactly 10 minutes long with the same recording on both sides. All it says is, to sit up straight, hold your book up and scan the top of the words with several practice sessions. You decide if that is worth the money for this tape. I believe there is more informative tapes out there.

After going through the audio cassete, I can definitely say that I cannot double reading speed in 10 minutes. There is absolutely no logic and technique. It's just a waste of money. Please do not buy this book and suggest the author to do meaningful stuff.

What a scam! The more I concentrated on the so-called tangerine the more I regressed. If you want to double your frustration in 10 minutes, then I recommend this.

Account of how the fearless leader hoodwinks yet another pidgeon. Too bad Toomer & the rest of them couldn't honor & respect those who truly deserved it...their wives & mothers.

I suppose the motivation for writing this book in the words of Gurdjieff in Beelzebub's Tales would be: 'to destroy, mercilessly, without any compromises whatsoever, in the mentation and feelings of the reader, the beliefs and views, rooted in him, about Gurdjieff himself".

I always thought that Gurdjieff took care that his own image was not without tarnish; this has been explained as his way of getting his followers not to identify the man with the teaching. Paul Beekman Taylor completes this work and achieves a clear separation, without leaving us any shadow of doubt.

Gurdjieff according to Mr. Taylor was a womanizer, father of his sister Eve and about half a dozen (if not more) of other children, who Gurdjieff left to their mothers to raise shunning all resposibility like plague (at least he did so with Eve). His Gurdjieff wrote appallingly childish letters in bad taste to Mr. Taylor's mother, Edith Annesly Taylor, who said of Gurdjieff: "He is not a nice man", and kept coming back to him like a jojo for about 25 years.

Jean Toomer, one of the many lovers of Edith Taylor, comes out much cleaner. As Gurdjieff would say: "very handy, no children, just handkerchief".

Nobody is a prophet in his own country; only very few of Gurdjieff's relatives, official or unofficial, seem to have learned from him about the things he taught. Mr. Taylor is almost family, but he learned at least one thing. His book has a one page record of the conversation he had with Gurdjieff in 1949, in which he said: "Come see me in New York, you pay me for summer here with story there, at Child's. Story is breath, life. Without story man have no self." Gurdjieff died before Paul Beekman Taylor told his story to him.

Now 50 years later he achieves with his story a good increase of the distance between Gurdjieff the man and his teaching.

Paul Taylor's book has two perspectives. One is that of an insider who grew up within the Gurdjieff movement. His mother was Gurdjieff and Jean Toomer's lover. His own father remains an unsolved mystery. He tells many stories of the rather Bohemian love affairs the various members of the entourage "enjoyed" -- although they mostly sound miserable and crazy.

Taylor, an English professor at the University of Geneva, also manages to put Jean Toomer and Gurdjieff into a larger academic perspective -- commenting on Toomer's race, and Gurdjieff's proximity to other philosophers and writers of his period.

The book is well-written -- maintaining at one time a personal perspective, and a wider, more objective, academic perspective. For Gurdjieffians and Toomer fans alike -- the book is highly readable and informative.

-- Kirby Olson

I was hoping this book would be a well written and interesting account of the work and lives of the musicians in Roxy Music. Sadly,"Unknown Pleasures" suffers from its pretentious style and frequent excursions into topics that are only distantly related to the band. The academic style of the book makes it tedious to read. A sample quote: "As per colleague Ian Penman, Morley's obsession with assuming the character and style of a French post-structuralist fatuously fugs up otherwise pertinent observations about the commerical implications of pertinent observations of pop sincerity and emotional syntax in a log jam of textual obfuscation and misplaced allusion." The author was not granted interviews with any of the band members, so the quotes and information about the band are from previously published sources. "Unknown Pleasures" is a disappointment.

Okay, it's true that having the bulk of a biography concerning people who are still alive be bolstered mainly by second-hand rather than first-hand accounts renders the final product more than a little suspect. And Stump does get a lot of his facts garbled up too much of the time. But I like this book in the end because it does what it set out to do, namely place Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry in a cultural context. Two cultural contexts, really---the culture of the early Seventies U.K., when glam rode high and punk wasn't even a spec on the horizon; and the cultural trappings of 30s and 40s Hollywood glamour that so entranced Mr. Ferry that both he and Roxy Music wore them proudly on their sleeves. Stump does a fairly credible job of examining and critiquing Roxy Music's history, and if there's a paucity of "sex-'n-drugs-'n-rock-'n-roll" tell-all gossip here, it's partly because, whatever else they were or weren't, they were pretty straightlaced yobbos offstage. It's more fun reading about the music then the gossip, anyway, and Stump looks at all of it thoroughly; you won't agree with everything here (maybe not even ANYTHING!), but it's still entertaining reading. My question; why a Joy Division album title for a book about Roxy Music?

Best about this book is the author's attempt at explaining the historical forces that created Roxy; worst is his stiflingly dense prose and penchant for obscure references. Consequently, I found myself alternately spellbound by the many insights and frustrated by language and references that shot miles over my head.

If you're looking for an academic disquisition, this book's the ticket. If you want to dig into the personal lives of Roxy Music members, give it a miss.

After much success using the MCSE Windows NT Study guide by Alan Carter from IDG Books, I decided to purchase this one from IDG books also. After reading through it, I feel that it did not cover the subject well enough to help you pass. I recently purchased the Official MSPress Exchange Training Kit, it easily beat this book hands down.

This book is moderately easy to read but requires a decent working knowledge of the Windows NT platform. The book covers the startup and installation process very well but lacks greatly in other areas such as configuration of the client services. If you are really good at remembering many different abbreviations and acronyms then you should have no problem weeding your way through this book because it is full of them. For every new term that is in the book there is also an abbreviation that will go along with it that you will need to remember throughout the entire book. I would also suggest that you understand a little about exchange and that you work with it while reading this book or you will soon become very lost in the reading and most of it really won't come together until that last few chapters. If you're having troubles with your current configuration of Exchange and you need some help with troubleshooting, I would definitely suggest this book because the last three chapters focus on different problems that may occur throughout the design and implementation of Exchange Server 5.5.

It's a good book to study before exam. It gives some good points which other books doesn't mention.

Totally inadequate for the California Surveying examination. The 3 chapters in Civil Engineering Reference Manual by Lindeburg covers more surveying than this entire book. A real surveying book or review course is required. This book is a rip-off.

I'm completely disappointed with the book. Everything is so superficial and at times not very well explained. The example problems also do not contain a detailed step-by-step solution, which at times can be very frustrating. The book lacks dedication and hard work from the author and appeals more like a "get rich quick" scheme type of work.

I used this book as well as it's companion "practice exam" as a study guide for the California Special Surveying Exam and was SOARLY disappointed by how useless it was. The level of difficulty of the actual exam far surpasses ANY information this book provides or prepares you for. If you have NEVER taken a surveying class in your life, this book is good for introducing you to the subject but should be followed up with a practical surveying reference. It has no index and proves completely useless as a reference to use during the exam. Don't be misled by it's being marketed as a review for the exam because it is NOT.

This plot (I use the word loosely here) had more holes in it then the cheese from the same country. Ok so the details are correct, the only reason I kept plodding through this one, and it is just that he did not use the details to any great effect. The writing here was very forced and not fresh, almost like a bad high school history book. I have heard some good things about this author but I either picked up the wrong book or there are some people that have some explaining to do to me. Where do I go to get a refund?

I'm a big fan of Erdman and recently got all the books I have not read yet by Erdman. This is the worst book I have read by Erdman. I guess if you are fascinated by WWII history and like reading a history book versus a novel, then this book may be for you. Erdman usually mixes in the appropriate amount of historical detail in his books, but he mixed in too much in this book.

Erdman is a man of many talents. But it seems like his fictional writing talents were diluted in order to make room for some pinches of historical data. It's not a ponderous read nor a fact-o-rama. In fact, he does do a good job keeping everything fairly easy and balanced for the reader. It's just that he usually does better.