If you ever wondered where that phrase came from, this is the book. Other than that, there just isn't much here.

Lytton got a bad rep because of the opening sentence of this novel. However, this novel is an unexpected delight: it is rather ironic, witty and the plot, with the highwayman as the hero, is very complicated and involving. I especially like the satirizing of polite society through the twisted reflection of its meaningless conventions in the criminal circles.

Not as good as Last Days of Pompeii or Pelham, but certainly worth a read.

Seeing the book rated for "Accomplished" programmers, I thought this would be a great way to learn Windows programming (since I already knew C++ itself). This is a very thick book that spends fully 1/2 of the volume with a C++ tutorial (well written). Then, suddenly, the example programs become Windows applications without much discussion on **what is going on**. Nothing on Windows specific programming is found until page 629, where a discussion of the Grapics Device Interface ensues. I found the Windows section to be very vauge. If I want to learn how to use the Integrated Development Environment, I can read the User's Guide that came with the compiler. This book might be a good reference for C++, and possibly for some advanced Windows programming concepts, but it is certainly not good for learning Windows programming with the OWL library

The very first program you try to compile and debug tells you that you "Can't debug 16 bit executables." This is because Borland C++ 5 uses the 32 bit debugger as the default. You can compile the example programs and use the 16 bit debugger, but it doesn't allow the ease of use intended for the IDE.

This book was obsolete when it was published, as it is a tutorial on the poorly written AmigaBasic programmed by Microsoft. Almost nobody uses AmigaDOS 1.3, which is the latest OS that this program works. The local library recently bought multiple copies of this book, all of which collect dust on the shelves

This book is a tutorial on the Microsoft written AmigaBasic, which broke at version 1.3 of the operating system due to extremely poor programming practices of Microsoft. As almost nobody can use the Amiga operating system below 2.04, this book was obsolete when it was published. The local library bought multiple copies of this publishing obscenity, all of which are still on the shelves as no-one cares even enough about this tome to steal it

Heidegger scholars pretty much unanimously agree that Edwards completely missed the boat on this one. He takes "death" at face value and ignores Heidegger's clear warnings in Being and Time that this should not be done.