I was a bit surprised by this book. It had an abundance of recipes and ideas for the crafter at heart. Many of the ideas are quick, easy and look down right fun! Now, some of the gifts are just not worthy of mention, but the majority are worth trying. It's worth the money and is quite handy for a reference book.

If you like crafts, enjoy cooking and want to steal the spotlight with your gift, this is the book for you! Everyone likes to be remembered with a special little gift that was created just from them. Recipes are easy to follow and uncomplicated to make. There is no end to the presentation ideas.

This is my all-time favorite food and craft book. Clever presentations of food gifts make this book a timeless treasure. My favorite ideas are the baskets of miniature apple pies, button sugar cookies, cow cookies and hot chocolate mix and the incredibly delicious blueberry butter. The charming packaging ideas will be useful when you want to give gifts of food with you own recipes, but be sure to try some of the books recipes, too.

I really liked this book for it's depiction of characters who aren't afraid to feel. A man who was in the Vietnam War meets a woman whose family was affected by the war. How they connect is thought-provoking and moved me.

This guide provided fairly reliable, basic information when I was trekking through Southeast Asia for seven months. When I landed by bus, taxi, motorcycle, truck, boat, trishaw, foot, or (sometimes) horse in a strange town at night where I didn't speak the language, it kept me alive. With its help I could always find the town center, the police station, and a bus stop.

Just don't expect it to enhance your experience, or even guide you safely. It's written in a rather smug, perfunctory style, and despite its budget approach seems aimed at very conventional travelers. There are none of the colorful, devil-may-care suggestions one finds in other guides, and it brings to mind the dour, conscientious tourists one meets on the road who are very nice but could backpack through Borneo without bringing back a single interesting story. This book has no spirit.

Maybe the reason it seems a bit inflexible and "un-hip" is because the editors are not responsive to the feedback of readers. I was very badly robbed a couple of times while using services recommended highly by this guide (for instance by the owners of the "Good Luck" Guest House in Bangkok), and after writing Lonely Planet with a polite request that they caution future travelers, I received no acknowledgment of my letters, and in fact the services in question are still touted by their guide.

This sort of apathy illustrates to me why their latest editions often seem years out of date, and why hotels and restaurants highly praised by them turn out to have closed down years ago. I understand that they have a limited number of researchers, but if they ignore input from readers who actively explore these regions, their book is naturally going to be out-of-touch, behind the times, and useless.

My advice is to buy the book if nothing else is available, because it does provide detailed factual information like phone numbers, addresses, etc. Just don't assume that it tells you all the interesting places and activities in a given city, because that's a laugh!! And don't ever take its advice on quality or safety.

A very useful and reliable, concise guide on South East Asia. Very good information on different highlights in each of the countries, good info on getting there and travelling around. Good to know where and when to go, as every other Lonely Planet guide featuring multiple countries.

This story takes place in a camp called "Camp Run-A-Munk" It is a camp where you should not act like a teachers pet. All the food in the cafetieria is horrible. All the kids are counting on the one and only canteen where they sale candy.

Sunndenly the canteen catches on fire. There is nothing for the kids to eat.Now the two assistant cooks are getting mobbed for anything sweet. The assistant cooks are trying to find out what was the cause of the fire. The kids are all going crazy and will eat anything! For example, toothpaste and stale cereal. They are desperate! Later on Lucas and Justin(assistant cooks) find out that someone in the woods is selling candy for a huge amount of money. No one in camp knows who the mysteriouse merchant is. All Lucas and Justin want to know is who is selling the expensive candy. They wonder where the candy is from and how the seller thought of somthing so smart! They think it might be the stuck up teachers pet that is over pricing valuble candy, but he's not smart. So he probably couldn't be. They check any way here is there plan. They get an old mutilated monkey and make a shish kobab with that.(since he loves shish kobabs) They make the one and only girl he likes to bribe him into eating it, and of course he ate it, but he has no idea what meat it contains. Then she said what she was craving for, and that was candy, and he stared straight into space. The story goes on..............