A beautiful, well written book! I enjoyed it a lot. It also contains good historic information.

Haunted Holidays contains dozens of color photographs and some very interesting line art. The New England section includes information on, among other things, the Salem Witch Trials and haunted lighthouses. The section on Chicago concentrates on gangsters (e.g., John Dillinger), haunted cemeteries, etc. There are also chapters on the ghosts of New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Williamsburg, Va., Charleston, S.C., Savannah, Ga., New Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Hawaii; and an entire section is devoted to Civil War Ghosts. In addition to describing the various haunts, each section includes "Travel Tips" regarding the best time to visit, transportation, haunted restaurants and hotels, ghost tour groups, etc., all with street addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. I highly recommend this book.

I thought that this book was very well put together. It's packed with interesting facts and information and it has great colorful pictures that make it fun to just browse. Also the quailty of the paper/binding is really nice for a paperback book of this price. The book does try to cover a lot of territory in just over 200 pages, but it is basically just a travel guide after all. It includes maps and loging info and travel tips for each state which I thought was great. If you enjoy The Discovery Channel's "haunted" videos, you will also enjoy this book.

This fascinating book is a snapshot of what California was like in 1850, the year it became a state. There's something for anyone who loves California or its history, as the book is divided by California county and is filled with brief and tantalizing historical tid bits. Begin by reading about your favorite county. You'll find yourself returning to discover nuggets throughout the book. One great travel idea is to keep this book in your car; then you've got a quick history guide wherever you travel throughout the Golden State.

California 1850: A Snapshot In Time by native Californian and history buff Janice Marschner is a riveting, informative, and unique county-by-county look at the state of California over one hundred and fifty years ago. Filled with black-and-white photographs, tables, maps, historical sites to visit, and a first-class survey of the notable events in the history of the state, California 1850 is the perfect reading selection for students of California history and the non-specialist general reader wanting to know more about this great Western and influential American state!

"California 1850, A Snapshot in Time" stands out as a unique, artfully researched "Must Read" entry into the family of literary ventures dedicated to California's early history. "Unique" in that Janice Marschner has focused on the colorful and action-filled events which launched California into statehood exactly 150 years ago. The author has fleshed out the swirl of activities taking place in "Year One" of the evolution of annual events which have brought us to the exciting California State sequecentennial celebrations of the year 2000. How incredibly timely for such a beautifully written and superbly illustrated masterpiece of Western history.

Junot Diaz is an especially talented craftsmen. In his collection of stories, "Drown," he has written a series of professional literary short stories that teem with detail about the Dominican experience and contain a plethora of ambiguous, life-like characters.

Somehow, though, Diaz' stories are too professional. They're sure to please any committee made of MFA graduates and writing school instructors, and it's no surprise that Diaz had landed in "The New Yorker." As such, the style and plotting are too familiar to be called original or even noteworthy, if it weren't for the detail about the Dominican Republic. And right now, that's the only difference between Diaz and hundreds of Iowa graduates.

I recently heard Diaz read in Berkeley from his novel in progress, and it sounds much better than the stories contained in "Drown." He's an intelligent writer with a fierce eye and ruthless character evaluation. And a distinct voice. "Drown" is a first book, rough in places, a bit cliché in composition, but written with a brilliant mind.

Junot Diaz writes fiction without flourish. His words are stark, edgy, direct - and his stories cut through stereotype right to the quick of the truth. DROWN pulses with the rhythms of Spanish and New Jersey accents as it explores lives in both The Dominican Republic and Jersey City. Mostly adolescents and young adults, the characters struggle against a dimming or obscured future, and tend to live for the moment, even as they hope for something better. The most compelling stories are "Ysrael," "Aurora," "Edison, New Jersey," and "How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie." This is a brief book, only ten stories and a few over 200 pages long, but it packs power with its brevity.

I highly recommend this book for those with an interest in Latino and/or multicultural fiction, and for those who enjoy short story collections.

When this book first came out I approached it with apprehension because it had been received with such fanfare by the literati and laymen alike. Indeed, so great was the hype that I honestly believed that regardless of the quality of the book, It would fail to live up to the praise bestowed upon it. Thus, you may imagine how pleasantly surprised I was when I realized that, in fact, Junot Diaz is an incredibly talented writer. I've read collections of short stories that showcase the skills of some of the most gifted writers of the 20th century, and, honestly, Diaz has written some stories that surpass anything I had read before. True, some of Diaz's stories are not as effective as the majority, yet that is because most of the stories in Drown are bona fide gems. I know I'm getting too effusive here, so I'll stop. Still, If you like to read good literature, this is a book that you definitely should consider. I look forward to reading Diaz's first novel.

I was at the epic length concert on June 30, 1999 (not July 30, as mistakenly written on this site), and I had a wonderful time listening to some of the most incredible guitar playing I'd ever heard. I was overjoyed to hear that a video/DVD of the show would be released, but I was very disappointed with the actual product. The concert lasted over three hours, and Amazon.com notes that the DVD/video is 170 minutes in their review, yet it is only 108 minutes! More than an hour of music has been cut out by the manufacturers, including what I believed to be the highlights of the show. Gone are Eric Clapton's "My Father's Eyes", "Pilgrim", Sheryl Crow's "Run Baby Run", "Leaving Las Vegas", "If It Makes You Happy", and Bob Dylan's "Not Dark Yet", "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat". Gone is the showstopping duet of between Dylan and Clapton of "Born In Time", a song Dylan wrote in 1991 that was covered by Clapton on his most recent album. Instead, what the producers of this DVD and video have put out are solid performanes of songs that have already been released on live albums and videos countless times. Sure, I enjoy hearing "Layla", "Sunshine Of Your Love", "Tears In Heaven", "Wonderful Tonight", and "Old Love", but I have them live on other Clapton live releases, and they sound very much the same; I would have rathered to have selections that no other live recording is avaliable of, or even better, the entire concert. DVDs can hold 4-8 hours, so there's no reason why they couldn't have included everything. Also, on the DVD, the producers do not allow the "angle" feature to be used; for those unfamiliar with DVD, this is a feature that allows you to change the camera angle at which you're viewing the picture. It's especially useful in concert videos, because if you want to look at Clapton's guitar solo when they're showing Steve Gadd's drumming, you can - if they encode that feature, which they inexplicably chose not to. What angles they did choose were poorly selected; it's filled with bad framing and inappropriate zooms. It's a shame they didn't, because it was a fantastic concert.

Well, I loved this DVD. From "Layla" (which, might I add, is not predictable, seeing as how it's the first time he's played the Derek and the Dominos version of the song in who knows how long) to "River of Tears", this is a great concert. The guest artists are excellent. Sheryl Crow and Clapton sound wonderful together, and I was glad to see her there. Mary J. Blige... I don't know, if it suits your fancy... and Bob Dylan was excellent if you like Bob Dylan, as I do. David Sanborn, one of the best rock saxophone players today, is an excellent addition to the house band, which includes standards like Nathan East, Steve Gadd, Andy Fairweather-Low, Tessa Niles, and Katie Kissoon, plus Tim Carmon, a great keyboard player who makes his keyboard solo sound like a guitar solo in "Old Love", and Dave Delhomme, who just sits and plays keyboards. Great companion to "Live in Hyde Park".

If you were there you know it was a magical night. If you were not, then this concert is an acceptable substitute. Every minute with Clapton is a gem throughout this performance. The down spots: the aforementioned, in the title, Mary J. Blige (could not wait for her to finish, what makes her a "friend"?), and Cheryl Crow. Cheryl needs a chrome pole and a garter so folks of that kind can place dollar bills in it. She repulses me because she refuses to take singing lessons. Well, if it makes you happy!!! Edit out Mary and Cheryl and you have a great show. At least Eric had the good sense to include Tessa Niles and Katie Kissoon, unlike the 2001 tour! ("Drowning in a)River of Tears" is a high point of the show, as was the appearance of Bob Dylan who performed more than made it on this video. I guess Mary and Cheryl used up his space on the disk!

A total stinkbomb. A real PVC-plugger. Let's see, take a reasonably decent first film with an interesting Sci-Fi/Fantasy premise and totally flush it down the loo and make up some bull about being aliens from another planet?

Was Sean Connery that desperate for money? Hadn't he just won an Oscar a couple of years earlier in The Untouchables?

And what was the deal with the flying skateboards?

Okay, it's probably the worst "Highlander"-movie, but the good news is that the "renegade"-version is better than the "normal" one...still: As a sequel to the classic "Highlander" this picture fails (which is why part 3 and 4 simply don't mention this one anymore).
If you go for the strange story and atomosphere (which isn't bad), you will probably have fun watching Sean Connery, as well as Michael Ironside as the bad guy and some great set-designs, but far too less action (=swordfighting).
All in all "there should have been only one"!

Technically this is the first sequel to the movie Highlander. In the origional adaptation to the 2nd film it was revealed that they were from another planet. The prize was given to the last one standing but would become immortal once again if more immortals showed up. This being said it really teed off a lot of fans. In the renegade edition they did what they could to salvage this movie by changing dialouge and adding scenes. However the core principal was still the same.

In this one the year is 2024 and Lambert is now an old man after winning the prize. The earth is coated with a shield because of the ozone layer being vanquished. Near death Lambert just wants his life to end. Then some immortals show up and once again he can't die. After decapitating one of them he regaisn his youth in a huge display of pyro technics and is young again (much to the female heroin surprise). He slays the other croney and then with new found youth basically rapes the girl (testing out the old machinery). After this an old face from his past shows up to cause random chaos and the girl falls in love with COnner. In the end they destroy the shield (with the help of the ressurected Ramierez played by Sean Connery) destroy the villian, and once again he is mortal.

The main problem is the fact that the villian was to much like the one from the first (as is the one in FInal Dimension) and and the story no matter how you swing it [stunk]. Overall this is the balck sheep of the series and for the most part should be avoided, unless you are a Highlander fanatic.