This is one of, if not, THE best true-crime book I've read. . . and, believe me, I've read almost all of them. What a page-turner!!! Finally a true-crime book that doesn't give away the ending, but let's you see the engrossing tale spin out before you. Just when you think you know all of the secrets of the Benson family, another one appears. . . and you can't stop reading and wanting for more. I was so intrigued by the book (and the author's gripping writing style) that I did some legal research to see how the various court cases involved in the story were resolved. A true-crime buff's dream!!!!!

This book was so informative and fun!My co-partner and I could not seem to figure out who pays for what, so I made him read the book with me!! Now we have our bank accounts in order and are saving for a house. I recommend this for my single friends too!

I'm relatively new to the slow burn workout program, but can say that so far, it's working well. I enjoy the workouts--amazing!--and I already see results from the workouts in myself and in my husband. It's obviously not a quick fix. You HAVE to be committed to doing the exercises correctly and regularly. But it does work. In this book and in The Power of 10 by Alan Zickerman, the authors make it clear that this is not a 'too good to be true' exercise program--I'm not sure why some of the one-star reviewers say the authors imply otherwise. The authors are very forthcoming with the fact that this is a lifestyle change rather than a quick-fix miracle cure.

Additionally, I've read Protein Power and been a low-carber for about 3 years now. Low-carbing, too, is not a quick fix, but a lifestyle change. I also wonder if critics of low carb eating realize that this is the same method of eating that is recommended to avoid and treat diabetes. When my mother and young cousin were both diagnosed borderline diabetic, the diet advocated by their nutritionists were low carb diets. Because this diabetes runs in my family and in my ethnic group (I'm African American) I find that it only makes sense to hedge my bets by adopting this healthy way of eating.

All in all, both the low-carb way of eating and the slow burn method of working out are excellent for me and my family. We have more energy, more strength and we look good! :-)

My first thought when I started following the slow burn program shortly after starting to read the book was "I can't believe how many years I wasted not doing the right exercise!" This is the smartest concept around and I'm thrilled that it's finally in a book so that anyone can do it.

I've actually known about this kind of exercise protocol for years, I'd even heard of Mr. Hahn from someone who trained with him in New York, but I didn't know how to go about doing it on my own. This book takes you every step of the way- it's articulate, well-written, very easy to follow, and takes the time to explain the concepts. So not only does it do your body good, it explains how and why.

Although Mr. Hahn credits many others for the evolution of slow strength training, he's truly REvolutionized it by making it available to the masses. I give this book my strongest recommendation!

My first thought when I started following the slow burn program shortly after starting to read the book was "I can't believe how many years I wasted not doing the right exercise!" This is the smartest concept around and I'm thrilled that it's finally in a book so that anyone can do it.

I've actually known about this kind of exercise protocol for years, I'd even heard of Mr. Hahn from someone who trained with him in New York, but I didn't know how to go about doing it on my own. This book takes you every step of the way- it's articulate, well-written, very easy to follow, and takes the time to explain the concepts. So not only does it do your body good, it explains how and why.

Although Mr. Hahn credits many others for the evolution of slow strength training, he's truly revolutionized it by making it available to the masses. I give this book my strongest recommendation

Burn Rate is an occasionally pedestrian personal history of the internet business world that rises above itself because of its special point of view. Uniquely for a business writer, Michael Wolff actually ran his own internet-related publishing venture for years. The bad and the absurd things that happen in this book (and there are many) happened to him, and this gives his account immediacy and a pungent flavor that would be missing in a third-person account.

The book covers the internet business from 1994 to 1997, when Wolff was trying to cut a deal with Magellan or AOL or Ameritech or the Washington Post, while keeping his venture capitalists at arms length. His "burn rate" is high-he's spending half a million bucks a month-and the money is always about to run out in a few weeks. He has no hope of turning a profit in a reasonable length of time and so he needs a deal, fast.

Wolff is always on the verge of that deal, always about to sell out for more money than he thought existed, only to have the whole thing collapse in acrimony or apathy or a shift in the corporate zeitgeist or whatever. Back then, everybody was making internet commerce up as they went along (the term "e-business" was a couple of years off) and huge sums of money always seemed about to be made or lost on hunches or whims or loopy idealism. Wolff has a keen eye for the resulting nonsense, and he can write about it without condescension because he realizes that he was just another asylum inmate. Overall, a good, fun read.

This is certainly the best book I've read about the Internet industry and probably one of the best business books I've read ever. You can't put it down and you laugh out loud (truly) many time a chapter. The interesting thing is how much controversy this book his inspired--because in its way it's not controversial at all. It's just an incredibly good story. Even the terrible things Wolff supposedly says about people are really more comic than anything else. My guess is that there is just so little objectivity and self-awaresness and skepticism in the Internet business that one a honest point of view comes along people freak. Anyway this is not a book that anybody who is interestesting in technology, money, business, and the general state of American culture and American writing is going to want to miss. Also, if you just want several hours of cough-up-your-coke laughter, try it. I guarantee: you'll wish you had written it!

"Burn Rate" is one of the best business kiss-and-tell books I've read in a long time. As the former CFO of a venture-backed Internet company, I know many of the people Wolff describes, experienced many similar situations, and admire/envy him for really telling it like it is (even though he'll probably never eat lunch in this town again ).

Not all investors, venture capitalists, and investment bankers are calculating and greedy, but enough of them fit that mold that Wolff's vivid portrayals ring true. Woe to the entrepreneur who thinks his investors are his friends who won't try to squeeze him when the going gets rough.

His tale of Magellan being left at the IPO altar by Robertson Stephens, its twirl around the dance floor with Wolff, and its eventual fire sale to Excite, the company that precipitated the IPO jilting, is filled with intrigue because of the Maxwell connection. What he doesn't detail, unfortunately, is the backroom machinations of a prominent VC and Excite investor who pressured RS&Co. to drop the Magellan IPO.

Wolff's depiction of AOL as one of the great dysfunctional companies of the Internet boom years is dead-on. I know, first-hand, that trying to find anyone at AOL who actually had the authority to make a decision was an exercise in futility. AOL management at the time was like the novice surfer who found himself riding a tsunami and somehow today, inexplicably, has made it safely to shore.

Revealing himself to be not only a victim but also a perpetrator of the Internet gold rush, Wolff's fleecing of CMP shows he is no saint. When considered in the larger context of the book, it makes painfully clear that whether you are buying a business or "buying" investors for your business, "Caveat Emptor."

Strangely enough, the business plan I wrote for my company in 1994 (that helped to secure funding from one of the "Big 3" Silicon Valley VC firms) prominently quoted some Internet statistics reported in the Wall Street Journal that had been compiled by Michael Wolff ! & Co. While I'd love to come full circle and quote from "Burn Rate" in the business plan I'm currently writing, I'm afraid it would hit too close to home for most VCs to stomach.

Both Kentucky Rich and Kentucky Heat were terrible. The dialog and the characters were totally unrealistic. I won't be reading the third in this lackluster trilogy. In fact I have been disappointed in the last few books Fern Michaels has written and I won't be reading anything she writes again.

Nealy Coleman Diamond returns in Kentucky Heat-the stage is set when Nealy throws her two grown children, Emmie and Nick, off her horse farm for what she considers irresponsible acts. To Nealy, who's worked hard with her horses all her life, her horses come first. It seems that they come even before her children, most especially Shufly, who just happens to be a hopeful for her. Showing the world a calm façade, Nealy is determined to stick to her guns.

When her ex husbands law partner, Hatch Littletree, enters the picture, we begin to see Nealy opening, and letting Hatch help her heal the chasm she's created with her children. But Nealy's a strong, independent woman, and it's hard for her to change her ways...

In the second installment in the Kentucky series, readers once again get to visit with the Coleman and Thorton families from Michaels Texas and Vegas trilogies, sometimes to the point we loose focus of the story of Nealy and Hatch. Ms. Michaels weaves a good tale, with more romance and much angst this time, but at times it seems like the focus of the story was lost to me. Long time Michaels fans will no doubt be thrilled, but if you haven't followed the series, prepare to be lost at times.

This book was my first Fern Michaels book, and it will definately not be the last one i read!
Nealy Diamond Clay is a famous jockey that owns and runs Blue Diamond Farms, a top horse racing farm in Kentucky.
Nealy's children, Nick and Emmie, had finaly convinced their mother to let them have a week off for vacation, which Nealy never had allowed. So when they both took an extra week off (without telling Nealy!) and one of the farm's mares had complications foaling, Nealy was angry. To her the horses came first, so she kicked them off the farm. Later in the book you find out that Nealy really kicked them out because deep down she knew knew that they would never create a life of their own if she didnt push them away from the comforts of Blue Diamond Farms.
Through this rough time, Nealy also meets up with her dead husband's best friend, Hatch, Nealy tries to fight it, but through it all she knows she has romantic feelings for Hatch.
Also, Nealy is entered to ride Shufly, her champion horse Flyby's son, in the Kentucky Derby. But Nealy is woman in her early fifties, and many people doubt her. Can she and Shufly win the triple crown races against all odds?
For awhile everything is great for Nealy. She is in love with Hatch, has reunited with her children, has had a good horse racing season, and has traveled the world with her new fiance. But can one dreadful night destroy everything for Nealy, and maybe even cost her life?

I was kind of rushed when I bought this book so I chanced it figuring I could return it later.

This book has no substance to it beyond what you can already find on the web. It just goes through basic "I did this, then that, then the other thing." No indepth look at any creation. I've found crap tutorials on the web with more information.

The gallery at the back is available on the web pretty much. One of the featured artists in it posts his work on forums I happen to moderate. I can see other works of similar caliber on the various community web sites.

One editorial note is I saw WAY too much Poser and Bryce work in this book which took away a LOT of credibility with me. I am sorry but those programs are not artist tools but cookie cutters. Tools would be Alias|Wavefront Maya, discreet 3ds max, and so forth. I think artists who take the time to learn those high-end programs deserve placement in books. Not someone who clicked a few presets and got an instant human.

How this book slipped under my nose for so long is amazing. I just recently found it and the book contains some amazing artwork. True, a lot of the book is just gallery work and the "step-by-step" section is more of a step-by-step overview of how certain effects were created. If someone is looking for a how-to book, this isn't the one. The interesting part is that the book fails to focus on any singular 3D app. One masterpiece may be done with poser, another with Lightwave, another with 3D max, another done strictly with photoshop, and yet another may use multiple application.

It truly opens your eyes on the quality available with soem of the apps. This book belongs on your shelf alongside the other non-app specific titles like Digital Lighting and Rendering and Digital Texturing and Painting.

Despite the other reviews, I found this book a worthwhile buy as a beginning digital artist. It does not provide an in depth explanation of every program in it, however, it shows a wide variety of artwork from various fantasy artists and gives basic tutorial steps and multiple tips. The work can be found online with some of the tutorials admittedly, but I found it very handy to have good examples and techniques for work sitting in front of me rather than clicking back and forth between multiple online tutorials and whatever program I was working on.

I am not familiar with 3d programs yet but this book gives examples of many different programs and gave me an idea of what programs I might like to try later. The tutorials were comprehensible and easy to follow as well as showcasing a variety of styles. They were not just sketch-detail sketch-end product the way that I've found many other tutoral books to be. Instead it shows the layering and painting process with each of the pieces, which is exactly what I was looking for. If you want nitty-gritty details, I suggest buying the "bible" for whatever program you want to find out more about. There's only so much you can do in a 160 page book, especially if you want an index and title page and whatnot ^.~

First off . . . terrible cover.

Now then: For people who like the coziness of a William Stafford or a Robert Francis, but without the surrealistic jumps (or "chicken soup for the soul"-isms of Stafford) should enjoy Burns' work. He operates within comfortable parameters of what a poem should say, how it is said, and what forms it takes. But within these modest parameters he works with sureness and maturity. He poses questions for his environment and psyche, but they are mostly old questions. I was never surprised or mystified by him, nothing called out for a second read. But then, he doesn't gloat in any cleverness or superficiality. He seems like he could've been Thomas Hart Benton's college buddy, but he undoubtedly would have disapproved of the above's mentoring of Jackson Pollack. Recommended for those who find modern poets a little too wacky.

This book trembles slightly in one's hands, full of life, but seems to stop short of a certain kind of intensity promised by little riffs such as "Willy Ballard". I really enjoyed this book, but wish one or three of the poems struggled a little bit harder to find themselves. Many of the poems are simply precisely abbreviated stories, and one wishes a sequence would begin to emerge--something to throw the reader off balance occasionally, something that crosses back and forth over imaginary borders. Still, "When God Met Adam and Eve for breakfast" is a fabulous poem, and there are many others. Burns has the talent. He needs to write a few poems without a net.

It was a good book, though boring at times.

A loser book about a manipulative, narcissitc, sociopath...and those are his most positive traits. Save your money. Go buy People Magazine.

Singular gives a boring and insightless account of Ovits - a power player in Hollywood for over two decades. This book left me wanting more

As an entertainment attorney, and a professor of entertainment studies, I can ASSURE you that this book is one of the VERY BEST books EVER written on power in the entertainment industry. The author goes into captivating detail and commentary on the industry--its powerful personalities, its structure, and its operation. Virtually every page reveals golden nuggets of information--teasing you to read on. The author has a wonderful ability to both arose your intellectual curiousity and evoke your emotions--all at the same time--at times, I found myself mentally & emotionally overwhelmed!

He who speaks in forked tongues gets forked