I have read this book a couple of times, along with Nick Tosches book on Dino. I like to read about the lives of different entertainers and find that Dean Martin was probably one of the most fascinating personalities of his time.The fact that he was such a private person makes him that much more intriguing. I do feel Arthur Marx did the best he could with the information he had, but I cannot honestly give this book 5 stars. I'll read it again and maybe I'll change my mind.

I have this book and the reading is good. Actually this book seems to be most of the research for Nick Toshes book. Minus the mob and language. Although you get the feeling that Arthur Marx really knew and liked the subjects he's writting about. Would recommend it to be included in any collectors library.

This book was good, had alot of pics. But at some parts of the book they had news paper clippings that were not compleat. I.E. One part is an interview with Passenger of the Fatel Crash. Half way into the interview, it cuts off. All and all a pretty good book if you like pics.

This James Dean book is Awesome, it has sooo many great photos to look at I looked at this book for hours! james Dean is the best actor ever!!!!! this book gives all the information and pictures for his whole life's story, its great, you should buy it right away if you want to know and see James Dean!

This is perhaps the best Dean book out there for those of us that are interested in the photographs. Some hard to find and exclusive pics are in this one. Keep in mind it's not a biography if that is what you're looking for, but in terms of photos, this one can not be beat!

I have rarely been one to read books about subjects that don't outright interest me. I had heard this book had a lot to do with surfing, so being an inlander (mid-MO), I was neither familiar with or interested in surfing.

But I read it anyway. I'm always willing to give things at least one try.

What I found was a moving and remarkably honest story about a young gay man named Matt. What threw me for a loop was the abundant lack of clichés within the pages. Nothing was romanticized. People made real mistakes and had real successes.

Halfway through, I had expected to give this book 4 stars because some of it feels redundant and some of the chronology is confusing. But I bumped it back up to 5 stars by the time I reached the last page. So much of what Mr. Quinn writes is beautiful and moving. It wasn't one of those tear-jerk novels, either (although it was in some places). Instead, it reached to places that no book I've ever read ever has. I felt what Matt felt and even what others felt.

This book is beautiful, calming, and a wonderful read. I recommend it highly to anyone.

Matt, the narrator of this wonderful, heart wrenching book, is trying to find his way as a gay teenager in homophobic surroundings: his religious mother think's he's sinful; even his boyfriend, Chris, just thinks of him as his pretty boy. When Chris goes off to college, Matt, who cannot afford to do so, goes to live at the beach with Tiger (his 'black sheep' relative) and Mark, his lover. Tall, slender, and beautiful, Matt learns the surveying business (terms from which the book's title is derived) and how to surf, as he searches for sex and love. Mr. Quinn has a natural, easy ear for the soft southern dialect of North Carolina, and that of teenagers. His descriptions are cinematic, and there is much poetry, wisdom, and warmth tucked away in his magical, down-to-earth tale.

Matt's surfing becomes a metaphor for his life: he takes of lot of hits in learning the ropes but, once he finds his balance, it is a real high. Still, he is reminded that he must respect its power to destroy as well. He maintains, despite some battering and life-induced skepticism, his innocent dream of security and warmth, aided by the watchful Tiger and Mark. The strength and power of their union is a beacon. A new family takes shape as Mark and Tiger take in two more 'strays' to care for. When Matt finds Jeep, he learns that love has the power to heal, not just hurt. And the reader is treated to some of the sexiest, and most tender, love making in literature.

Metes and Bounds is ultimately about families. Not the kind church and state preach, but those formed by acts of love.

Wow!! Jay Quinn the Author, has written an incredable novel that is Evocative, stinging, adn stirring. This story describes the intense and personal memories of a teenage surfer's confusion and subsequent coming out. The author clearly describes every detail of a young adults life. This story is set in the early 1980s, in the early day's of AIDS. This book feels as if it were narrated by the voice in your head, rather than a character on a page.

Matt is Eighteen years old and living in a tiny North Carolina community that would never accept his attraction to men. He has only one role model: his uncle Tiger. Despite their families' opposition, Tiger lives happily with his lover, Mark, and eventually Mark's young son. When Matt goes to work for Tiger's beachfront business, the feelings he thought were so unusual are suddenly accepted as matter-of-fact. Finally free to experiment both sexually and emotionally, Matt begins to uncover an identity in which he's equally passionate as a lover, a surfer, and even a role model.

I highly recommend this book to all young gay men that are learning to come to grips with their sexuality.

this book is in print and available from the publisher. it is a comprehensive discography (a listing of the recordings) of Dean Martin and includes information on videos and sheet music as well. there is an eight page color section illustrating various record jackets. a comprehensive index is included.

This book isn't bad, but the great biography of Dean Martin is still to be written. Nonetheless, this book is a vast improvement over Nick Tosches' "Dino." While Tosches elected to write the fluffy, tabloid nonsense version of Martin's story, this is at least a traditional biography. Other reviewers are correct that entirely too much time is spent on Martin's films; much more detail should have been spent on his singing. In particular, I would like to see a biographer discuss the divide between Martin's earlier hits and his later ones. It seems to me that there is a lot to be said about the traditional tunes, such as "Memories Are Made of This" and "I'd Cry Like A Baby" and later ones, such as "One Cup of Happiness" and "Lay Some Happiness on Me." These later songs come long after the high tide of the Rat Pack (circa 1966). While Martin's life certainly is complicated, and he was a purposeful enigma, I think a biographer can do better than exhaustively discussing "Irma La Duce."ÿ

As a big Dean Martin fan I found this book to be thoroughly enjoyable. It gives in-depth review of all of Dean's movies. The book also offers good insight on what was going on in Dean's personal life. The author denounces some frequently cited anecdotes and accusations about Dean and gives thoughtful explanations to support his statements. The author either interviewed people close to Dean or referenced interviews done by others. I wish he would have spent as much time detailing Dean's recording career as he did his films, but then the book would have been three times as big as it is. One thing I find odd about the discography that the author offers is that he doesn't consider "Everybody Loves Somebody" as one of Dean's "greatest songs". I found this book tremendously enjoyable and I think that any fan of Dean, Jerry, The Rat Pack or just someone who longs for the days before political correctness will enjoy.

This book is a nice, basic look at Dean Martin's life. I am a Frank Sinatra fan and of course became interested in Dean as well. I watched several biographies of Dean Martin and so I had a good overview of his life. This book helped with some details, mostly his movies. The author talks a lot about Dean's movies and I found this helpful, but had I already known all of Dean's film roles I probably would have found it tiresome after a while. However, I'm glad I read the book. It was helpful on dates and smaller details that are glossed over in television biographies. I recommend this book for new Dean Martin fans. If you are a diehard Dino fan, this stuff won't be news to you. Its an easy read.

This is a book that I read during the internet frenzy and recently revisited.

During the frenzy I thought it did a decent job of defining various roles a product producing or telecom company can have, separating a company to it's functional componenets, and did the usual job of having a company focus on it's core competencies. It only addressed supply chain companies, a card that was overplayed back then, yet a decent area of improvement with the application of the internet.

Yet it seemed like the authors struggled on every page to not say that Cicso is great, all companies should be Cisco, and if you hire them they wil make you into a Cisco by copying what Cicso did, and you'd get a Cisco market multiple. The catch is a variety of factors helped Cisco evolve organically, and a retroactive fit is risky in the sense that it would be artificial and thus unsustainable. Also, the whole think-tank and incubator type centralized company was en-vouge and this book tried to compliment a potential client/company that they could be in that special inner circle. Yet not everyone can be a chef in a time of limited kitchens, busboys, customers, etc. Beyond that, it seemed like the normal strategic rhetoric of putting your company in the middle of some diagram or four box chart, or citing some survey from what is most likely a 24 year old's opinion when faced with a deadline. A final reaction from reading it in 2000 was that it was also free lottery ticket in the sense that the salesmen authors tried to sell a major major overhaul to firms, and as career consultants it would be unlikely that they would be able to implement or take responsibility. But lottery tickets were free back then.

Now that I've revisited the book, I see that it was actually a joke even with the hindsight bias. If a company divests all assets and becomes a brand name, it brings tremendous risk into it's ongoing existance. This is underscored by the fact that all poster child companies mentioned in the book are now either out of business or trading [cheap], with the exception of course with Cisco.

The value in the book now would be similar to the Pets.com puppet, or putting one share of webvan in a picture frame. The catch is that nobody cared about this book back then, so it loses it's nostalgic value.

This book is merely a sales pitch written by PwC executives looking to drum up e-business sales. It is full of "e" cliches and flies in the face of accepted business theories -- such as transaction cost economics. This type of thinking by top PwC partners is clearly the reason why that firm is currently merging with IBM Global Services.

Die Autoren verkaufen alten Wein in neuen Schläuchen. Verschiedenste Managementkonzepte wie das Supply Chain Management oder der Trend zum Outsourcing sind altbekannt. Das einzige, das den bisherigen Trend vorantreibt oder verstärkt ist die technologische Entwicklung, welche die Autoren ebenfalls erwähnen.

Das Buch lässt sich theoretisch auf vier Seiten zusammenfassen. Es werden neue Ausdrücke kreeirt, welche - wenn überhaupt - nur dürftig erklärt werden. Den Diagrammen mangelt es an Aussagekraft, die auch im Text nicht wettgemacht wird. Verschiedenste aneinandergereihte Schlagworte tragen zu einem erschwerten Verständnis bei. Argumentativ befinden sich die Autoren auf tiefem Niveau. Es erstaunt nicht, dass die Autoren dieses Werk in zwei Monaten fertiggestellt hatten. Fazit: Als Anregung in Ordnung, aber sicher nicht kaufenswert.

Read the Microsoft documentation instead. This book is a thinly disguised rip-off of the Microsoft documentation padded with examples of dubious value. In 590 pages this book manages to add no value or information beyond the original documentation. That's quite an achievement.

If you want to learn ISAPI...think again. This was "hot" 2 years ago...now it is all but dead.

ISAPI's big promise was better performance and memory usage...ironic that it has now fallen in favor to the biggest performance pig of all web applications...ASP. In an age of fast machines and small web apps, rapid development and ease of use wins out over performance.

ISAPI is hard to learn, harder to get right, unstable, bug ridden (if written in MFC) and surprisingly inflexible.

Look, you're a smart person. You want to do the right thing. You don't need to subject yourself to the torture of learning ISAPI. Only hard-core programmers who are tasked with writing a custom web app that is going to get some VERY heavy traffic should even bother with ISAPI.

So why did I give this book 4 stars? There are no good ISAPI books out there. This one has the most information in it and will allow you the best chance to actually develop something that works. Get this book and hit Genusa's (now dusty) ISAPI site. Also spend a lot of time in the Microsoft knowledge base...there are plenty of workarounds and bugs to learn about too.

Keep in mind that with ISAPI you had better be a damn good programmer. If your DLL ever crashes...bye bye web server. This is harder than you think if you are doing "serious" web programming which includes database access.

Smart managers will not allow mission-critical web apps to be developed in ISAPI by a web punk who has never done this before. Do everyone a favor and get a clue. There is a reason why nobody is doing this stuff anymore!

Game over. Go home and don't look back. Go off and learn ASP and Cold Fusion like a good little web programmer. You will have a marketable skill and will actually get things done.

ISAPI is Microsoft's approach to adding capabilities to web serving. There are only a few books that describe how to use ISAPI. This book is the best of them, because the author: 1) provides examples in both C and C++, and 2) compares ISAPI with CGI solutions. Unfortunately, ISAPI is a complicated subject, so more and shorter examples would help elucidate the reader.

I bought this book, but sent it back immediately. Unless you're a screenplay-writing-student, this book is of little value to you. It literally goes like this:

Man screams: AARGH! Woman cries: What are you doing? Couple leaves room.

All in all: think carefully if this is what you need. Don't buy it just for the scary cover!

Not one of these stories was the least bit frightening. Some of them are so jaw-droppingly bad I can't believe the authors actually allowed them to be published without using pen names. Many of these screenplays bear all the marks of first-time screenwriters: boring protagonists, antagonists acting without any apparent motivation, page after page of dull padding... I can't list even the obvious problems in the 1000 words I'm allowed here. The writing styles range from Stephen King's "creative asides" which attempt to educate the reader in the art of screenwriting by telling us what to write instead of showing us, to Ed Gorman's rip-off of William Goldman's style (next time he should rip off a decent story, too). In all, the book includes four feature-length scripts, two shorts, and one 50 pager. In the title for this review I said "Six awful screenplays;" the seventh is a short by Harlan Ellison which isn't exactly horror, but it's a cute little murder story with a surprising yet inevitable ending. That and Dean Koontz's introduction are the high points of this book.