I think this book is great for Spanish families who have seen the movie; or have read the myth, but hadn't seen the movie, or who just want to see the movie.

When your think of going clubbing with your friends, you usually don't think your routine would be any different than any other Saturday night. Vinny and Jasper were doing what they usually do on a Saturday night and unexpectantly, things went terribly wrong. Vinny and Jasper were swarmed by a enormous crowd on their way home. Jasper turned around, only to find that Vinny was nowhere to be found. Jasper and his friends became very worried but decided to go to the place they went to when they were drunk. When they found that Vinny wasn't there, they became even more worried. They notified Vinnys mother and she notifies his girlfriend. The worrying only gets worse. Vinny didn't come home Saturday night and didn't show up for work on Sunday, That's not like Vinny, so everyone was really puzzled as to what might have happened. Later on Sunday night, Vinny returns home and still thinks it's Saturday. he doesn't know what has happened to him and he is very confused. If I told you the rest, I would be giving away the ending, so I guess that just means your have to read the book. Personally, I think the book was boring and went very slowly. If the pacing would have been faster, the book would have kept my attention and I would have liked it more.

Saturday nights in Melbourne aren't just ordinary nights where you would just stay home and watch TV or do some homework, especially when you were nineteen. Well in Jasper's and Vinny's case Saturday night in Melbourne was a clubbing night. Where the coolest place to be was in King St where all the pubs and clubs were. Jasper and Vinny had been legally clubbing for a year now and where experienced in the area, not like when they first started clubbing at about the age of 17 and wore heaps of aftershave to make themselves older and mature. They knew the tricks of the trade, and which were the best clubs to go to and just how much aftershave to wear. But this Saturday night was no ordinary night. As vinny was getting ready to go out he had a starnge feeling that something was not quite right that night. On ordinary Saturday nights they would be out and return home a Jacks place at about 5 o'clock Sunday morning too drunk to go home so they found themselves commonly waking up at Jacks place on his couch with a hangover. No, this Saturday was different. Vinny didn't return home!

Jasper had just turned his back for a moment outside the hanging gardens club and his best mate Vinny has disappeared. He Had vanished in a street of lights and clubs and cars and crowds of teenagers going home. He was no where to be seen. That Sunday when Vinny did not return home or show up for work, his family and friends began to worry. By sunday afternoon Vinny was a missing person.

In this book "the lost day" Judith Clarke writes depicting Melbourne's saturday nightlife and the dangers behind all the glamor. The story is about a nineteen-year-old teenager who goes missing one Saturday after a night out in the clubs and pubs of Melbourne. It was no ones fault Vinny went missing that night , but no onw knew where he went . His family and friends showed their emotional and scared side and feared that Vinny wasn't going to return home at all and the possibility kept creeping into their minds that something terrible happened to him and that he could even be dead!

After using this book as the first year text at university, I discovered that this book is lacking in conceptual content in many sections and overall, is not very clear. I must say that the two stars are for the sections that were good. These included the section on nations and states, basic population geography and a couple more. All backed up with maps, of course.

The maps are good, but there are too many related to insignificant examples, and several sections in the book where a more general map would have been helpful.

I think that the authors have concentrated too much on production of many editions of the same work and have not thought about the content, or the readability of a text. Especially for a text which is so broad as to make it suitable only for a first year text book, if it's lucky.

I have found The Dictionary of Human Geography (Johnston, et al., 1994) a much more valuable item on the book shelf. It is not as colourful but is by far more contextually solid. Fellman, Getis and Getis is in my opinion a severly lacking text and should only be read for two reasons. 1, to look at the pictures, and 2, if you live in an isolated region and can't get any other books.