If you like Howard Roffman's photographs, you should purchase this postcards-book. It's fascinating and fabulous for you.

Dr. Walter Turnbull shares not only the story of his upbringing and motivations, but he blends these lessons into the direction and fullfillment of the Boy's Choir of Harlem (BCH). This book is an intense look behind the faces, costumes and music of BCH. It reveals the intimate details of struggle of the members of the choir, the staff and ultimately the African-American/Latino males of our society at large. It forces the reader to look deeply into their own pysche and how one views his fellow man as well as himself. There are highs and lows throughout, but you never sense a moment of utter defeat! This is a triumphant wake-up call to all with regard to the potential of all our youth, if all are willing to pay the price for our dreams! A must read!

I can't say enough about 'Revenge is Best Served Cold'. This book has one of the most juvenile and sophomoric plots I've read in a very long time. The dialogue is choppy and the story jumps from event to event without resolution. The flow is silly. The events are silly. The reactions of the main characters are silly. The book is silly.

I haven't read anything with this much unnecessary name dropping in a long time. The only thing in it's favor is the ending, although predicable, it was cute. From a book of 296 pages, two good pages is not enough.

Save your time and your money. Reading this book is revenge, hot, cold, or otherwise.

I've never submitted a review to Amazon before but I just read "Revenge Is Best Served Cold" and loved it so much that I thought others should know!

"Revenge" was a highly entertaining book with not one but two compelling main characters (Morgan and Dakota) and a cunning foe (Blake St. James) whose sole mission is to charm and disarm---while he's quietly plotting their demise .In the process,he turns their lives upside down but not before they exact their 'revenge'. I won't give away the plot but trust me,they've got to use all of their feminine wiles to put Mr St. James in check.

If you're running the rat race (like me!) there are plenty of references to the good life that Morgan and Dakota have worked so hard to achieve--fancy restaurants,fly cars and the finest of clothes---and I'm not mad at them! I would expect no less from two successful professional women running the fast track in New York City circa 2000.If you're the romantic type, (like my wife) the portrayal of the relationships between the main characters and their mates are realistic and very well done.

Even though I'm not from New York the vivid descriptions from chapter to chapter made me feel like I was part of their posse.There was just enough suspense,action and sex (the sex scenes are HOT!....and I do mean HOT!) to allow me to breeze through "Revenge" in no time (took me two days.....).My wife started reading "Revenge" last night and she can't put it down.

If you're looking for an escape from the tension of today's world events,I would highly recommend that you RUN (don't walk....) to your nearest bookseller and pick up "Revenge" right away!You won't be disappointed!

I thought that this was one of the best books that I had ever read. It is very captivating and at many times, I wanted to "jump" into the book and handle some situations myself. I recommend this book to all the sisters out there working in the corporate world and have to put up with ... on your jobs all day long, folks getting on your nerves, being passed up for poromotions, people getting in your business and etc. Yall know what I mean! GET THE BOOK!

This slim little book is not very useful except for absolute beginners. It really only skims the surface of this topic without going into any meaningful detail about the artists or their context(s). I would recommend either The Rough Guide to World Music or The Musichound Guide to World Music instead. Both go much deeper than a mere list of albums to buy. Overall, this seems like the work of an enthusiast who took a walk through a record store than serious scholarly writing by a professional.

Hands down, this is one of the worst books on "World Music" that I've ever come across. It's superficial, shallow and reveals a serious bias towards the American consumerist mentality. By focusing on the "best" CDs by certain artists, the author only focuses on what's available in CD form and often misses key recordings in many of the genres that he attempts to cover. Even the coverage of his selected CDs lacks depth and is perfuctory at best - it reads more like a slick attempt to cash in on the World Music boom than anything else. "The Rough Guide to World Music" is a far superior and authoritative World Music Text. This one is an embarassment.

This is a rather slim book which covers some 150 artists in brief 1 and 2 page reviews. For someone who knows little of world music, this would be a good place to start, though a true music lover might be annoyed at the lack of scope-- he only lists a few albums by each artist, for example, and there are probably many artists he omits (no entry for Yma Sumac?).

This book should be re-titled "Howard Blumenthal's Personal CD Collection". The artists that he lists are only a handful of jazz giants and innovators (he lists benny green as being one of the 100 greats, without a mention about Scott Joplin!). The selections do not contain a personnel listing (a must when it comes to jazz music), and there are a number of inaccurate facts (i.e. naming jelly roll morton's 1926 band as being the Red Hot Chili Peppers, a punk/funk group of the 80/90's. the 1926 band was the Red Hot Peppers.) While this may appear as nit-picking, it still makes the book a minor amongst the other greats (see: the history of jazz, Ted Gioia). Get the Penguin Guide instead.

This is a must-have reference book that is of great use to the jazz aficionado. It does have one glaring flaw, though -- not enough coverage of bossa nova and jazz influenced by Brazilian music (think of the hundreds of jazz interpretations of Jobim's compositions). For that I would recommend "The Brazilian Sound," which includes 1,000 titles in its discography.