BAD! Wow; this man gets plenty of press and great reviews, but I cannot see why! The book is written at a grade eight reading level, and it does not state anything new. In fact, this author understates everything. Books and videos by Dede Owens, Sam Snead, and Jack Nicklaus will give you more and cost less.

This book is really good. It taught me more than I've ever known about the game. The short game section isn't very detailed, but he takes you step-by-step into developing a good swing that you can repeat. He covers all the areas in which a golfer should work( long game, short game, mental game, and course management game). I would reccomend this book to anyone who wants to tone up there skills and improve.

wow, this is definately the best teaching book that i have ever read. If you are a beginner or a skilled golfer just needing a tune up on your game, definately get your hands on this one. McLean works on all swing mechanics as well as your mental golf game, in my opinion, he covers every part of the game that might be troubling you. also helpful in this book are the many step-by-step pictures visually showing the correct and incorrect ways of certain steps.

Designed as an "outline for most of the major canyons in the Grand," this volume is a treasure trove of scarce (and otherwise impossible to locate) information on not only the seldom explored western reaches of Grand Canyon, but also on the more frequently traveled heart of the Canyon. Its author, J.D. Green, and editor, Jim Ohlman, have together and separately logged many thousands of miles in the Canyon, describing new routes and accomplishing technical climbs. Ohlman is credited with over a dozen first ascents in John Annerino's 1986 guide (see references). Green's expertise is clear from the pages of this book.

While non-climbers may find its sometimes-terse descriptions lacking in comforting detail ("From the Tonto you can climb down Serpentine Canon to the River and routes go to the river in Copper Canyon and across from Hakatai Canyon." "Ruby has a cairned bypass to the right of the fall."), I found these tantalizing comments more useful than the replies from the BRO on the question of Tonto-to-River routes in Serpentine and Ruby-"Wouldn't even try it."-"Maybe if you used ropes."

To a climber, a "ropeless" route offers encouragement. A non-climbing backpacker, however, will balk at the mere presence of the word "rope" in a trail description. Green frequently offers more hiker-friendly information, such as, "...Travertine Canyon provides a not-too-difficult access for hikers wanting to reach the Colorado River." Green's limited descriptions of little-traveled routes must be contrasted to Butchart (who ignores Travertine, and says of Ruby and Serpentine, "...there are routes...almost surely in Ruby, and certainly in Serpentine..." though Butchart's marked map of the area shows none) and Annerino (regarding emergency hiking to the river from the Tonto between Hermit and Bass, "hike to the river...using either Boucher Creek, Ruby Canyon, Serpentine Canyon or South Bass Trail."). Green's guide gives us Tonto-to-River routes at Travertine, Boucher, Sapphire, Turquoise, Ruby, Serpentine and of course Bass.

The narrative makes enjoyable reading, laced with the mythology of some of the Canyon's unusual place names, historical vignettes and personal experience. Green recounts numerous confrontations with the reclusive Grand Canyon Rattlesnake as well as several near-fatal mishaps and unfortunate turns in the weather.

"Making the summit late in the day, darkness fell during the return series of rappels through the Supai cliffs north of the peak. The storm made me hypothermic and when clouds cleared the temperature dropped sharply. In the darkness my flashlight dropped, going out some forty feet below me. Not having made it past the cliffs I was unable to get back to my sleeping bag that night. It was a very cold December night as the South Rim recorded a temperature of 0 degrees. Unable to continue in darkness for fear of running out of rope the option for a very cold night seemed logical. Without a stove or a sleeping bag and only wearing a wool sweater, the situation was serious. To stay alive that night I burned some of my climbing sling along with every dead bush within reach. NPS frowns on open fires, especially those using native vegetation as fuel, but as the saying goes, "desperate times call for desperate measures!" It was one of the most miserable nights I have ever spent and I learned a great deal from it."

His comments on water sources are a welcome addition to descriptions of less-traveled areas. "This rough trail makes a rapid descent to the saddle below Shiva Temple, where water-filled pot holes remain for a week or more after rainstorms."

Numerous hiker and climber routes are described for Marble Canyon, below the East Rim Drive, below the Walhalla Plateau, Main Corridor, Clear Creek, the threshold trails from Indian Garden west to Hermit, west from Hermit to Havasupai, west of Bright Angel to Kanab, Tuweep to Kelly Point, National to Diamond, and both the south and north sides of the Canyon at Lake Mead. Most of the trail descriptions for the heart of the Canyon include little-known alternate routes, such as hiking up the Redwall and Supai at the head of Hermit to reach Dripping Springs Trail. Some are clearly described as hiker trails, some as climber's routes, and still others as "rugged route."

The volume is well illustrated with topo maps and historical photos. A real treat was the inclusion of sections of Harvey Butchart's hiking map, marked with his wanderings. (This reviewer was stunned by the sheer mileage represented on them. In comparison to Butchart's three tiny volumes, the map is an awesome testament of the 20,000 Canyon miles covered by the legendary hiker.) A ten-page index references all place names, numbered peaks and canyons. An annotated bibliography lists 77 references, as well as Green's comments on their value and where they may be obtained.

This book is not for the novice planning a first hike. But after the second or third Canyon hike, an ambitious hiker or climber will discover in its pages answers to the questions that usually elicit a shrug from many backcountry rangers. [E.g. busy trying to bite J.D. Green and Jim Ohlman.]

This solidly bound paperback is difficult to find in bookstores, and difficult for booksellers to special order, since it is "self-published." to the inner canyon routes, La Siesta Press, Glendale, CA (1970). 72pp. Also G.C. Treks II and III.

Nothing compelling here. Just a prison. I have never been to
or in a prison so can not comment there. But the story is lacking and the characters are dull. The broad is flat out stupid. The
main character doesn't even belong there, so it's just ridiculous. Who wants to read about violence anyway. All violent
criminals should be put to death, in my opinion. And the fact that the author is a "young British psychiatrist who has never been
to Texas, or to a prison" .blows any credibility. And Booklist describing this book as "part Stephen King horror novel" is
totally irresponsible. What an insult to the great man of horror Mr. Stephen King (1974-1999)

Sure as a debut it may be good. I had read this book upon a zealeous advice from one of my work pals, describing the author and book a "new Stephen King in the sense of riveting writing and character development" as well as "future bestsellerdom-king". So I grapped it excitedly...started...but disappointed. The story is interesting; but the language is extremely foul (may be necessary to create a compelling sense of location in prison you know) but even then it was very extreme and not offending but simply boring and taking you out of the story. Not riveting also as well as a King book (I am a huge fan of King and I know well when he becomes riveting) so this guy falls short of catching up with King. Character development?No. A woman foolishly wandering around and in prison where even men survive just to remain alive, or having foolish sex with one of inmates just because of a pity on him while monsters are pounding on the door; a man with a bleak past, ie, a philosopher doctor, a cool one, almost too coool you cannot help but wonder why he is in such a pit of hell... full of blacks and whites against each other bla bla bla. No I did not like, it did not captured me and the author will be bestseller-king like our beloved King? No way...He is too philosophic (but not a deep one)and has too much sexual (prison) fantasy. I gave it three stars just thinking that if perhaps I should not have started it with huge hopes, it might have been a nice pass-time reading

I think it's stupid to put Stephen King and Tim Willocks on the same level. Green River Rising is a thriller. It reminds more of an actionmovie. Stephen King on the other side writes horror. Green River Rising doesn't have any mysterious elements, and has much more action then King books. Kings books are very detailed, and GRG on the other sides has a pretty quick developing story without pagelong descreptions of for example rooms. To me GRG was like a good actionmovie. I read the german translation, and I thought that the bad language and all the violence fit in the atmosphere of the book. The books lives off his sick crazy characters. And I think that it's really interesting to read chapters out of views of mentally ill people. If you like movies like "Face off", but you like deeper stories and complexer characters you should read this book. It's one of my all time favorites. And people that complain about the dirty language and the violence should not even write a review about this. It's about a prison with mentally ill people. So what do you think what they are doing, maybe playing with puppets and drink tea?

I fell in love with the Little House books back when I did Little House in the Big Woods in grade three for novel study. Since then I got my parents to purchase the rest of the series and I read them over and over again. I was a bit suspicious of this book because of the whole filling the gap idea. Like one reviewer said, Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote On the Banks of Plum Creek and By the Shores of Silver Lake so that it wasn't obvious there was a hole. But now that they've brought in Old Town in the Green Groves... Anyways, onto the actual book itself.

Cynthia Rylant is a great author but she fails misearably here. I have a feeling she did this for the sake of money, not because she wanted to write it. This book does not have the vivid descriptions or magical feel to it like the originals. The writing was way too simplistic and the dialogue sounds cut up from the originals and pasted together. Somehow a modern feel leaks into it too... Oh, and by the way I forgot to mention that even though I managed to get to the end I was still left wondering about what happened. So, I had to go to the library and take out a biography on Laura Ingalls Wilder instead.

I think the publishers (whoever they are) should have just left the Little House Books by themselves. They stood out on their own just fine. Also, I think it was unfair to add this book in because Laura didn't want to write about those years, considering how depressing they were. They should've respected her wishes instead but it's too late now...

Let me begin by saying that Cynthia Rylant is an accomplished author, and has written several books that I've read and enjoyed.

This is not one of them.

If you are at all familiar with the Little House books, the style of this book will appear glaringly unsimilar. The original series had the unique feature of progressing in reading/comprehension difficulty as the age of the characters progressed--thus, Little House in the Big Woods was the 'easiest' read, and "These Happy Golden Years" was the most advanced. Using this criteria, "Green Groves" does not fit into the space between "On the Banks of Plum Creek" and "By the Shores of Silver Lake." It reads too simply.

Additionally, the conversations between the characters will make you squirm; Laura's books may be wholesome, but they never were saccharine! Rylant has them speaking like "The Beverly Hillbillies," when they aren't being 'cutesy-wootsey;' this is certainly not a feature of any of the original books! I think that the stilted dialog was one of the major disappointments of this book.

Even if the dialog had been true to the originals, however, it is still disconcerting to have someone step forward and claim to know the intimate family details (right down to the dinner conversation!) of a family not her own, and not her contemporaries. As a Laura Ingalls Wilder program presenter, I am fairly well-informed about her life and times, and I've read the original books more times than I can count. (I've worn out three sets...) Still, I would not profess to be able to step into Laura's shoes, and write about her life as if I had been there.

I think that the most upsetting thing of all is that the original, wonderful books are being buried in a sea of look-alike (as far as the covers go!), wannabe, spin-off books, and that today's children might miss the excitement of knowing Laura and her family. What a loss.

On the Banks of Plum Creek was one of my favorite books since I was 9. For some reason I loved reading about Laura's life on Plum Creek. I knew there were stories she didn't feel like telling because it was too painful to write about yet I was curious about the rest of her life in Minnesota. I was so delighted to find this book! Like another reviewer said, I don't know if it should be considered part of Laura's original series, but it is still a joy. The author has a very positive yet non-saccarine way of telling the story, and she well-establishes the characters, showing what a loving family Laura has and how much she loves her family...you really feel like Laura is a part of you; almost a soulmate. I just wish Johnny had gotten what he deserved; he was such a rascal to Laura and her sisters. He should've known better than to pick on girls. If I was there I'd fix him for Laura!!

Most of the Aliens comic books have been great so far. However, this particular story is not very interesting. It begins when a band of smugglers go in to obtain some eggs from a Queen's nest. When they arrive, they find that their comrades have all been killed, but also entirely stripped of their flesh and muscles, leaving nothing but bone behind. The smugglers intrude on the angry queen, and after a brief scuffle, take one single egg that had been left untouched. There is something odd about this egg however, as it is always secreting a strange substance.

When the egg is smuggled into a resort town on a distant planet, a playboy inadvertantly becomes the host for the facehugger in the infected egg. After he is invited by a super-model to join her on a trip to her own personal resort, all hell breaks loose. The alien egg had a flesh-eating virus. Shortly after the chestburster hatches, it begins to spread the disease all across the resort.

Definitely not the best Alien comic i've read. There is no real action, and the Alien doesnt live long enough to survive past the chestburster stage. The story itself is also not very good. It is a little convoluted and silly. All in all, an Aliens short that definitely doesnt deliver based on the high expectations set from previous Alien comics. This was a 2-part comic book and this book is the collaboration of the two. Of you are an Alien fan and feel that you must own all the Alien comics for collector's purposes, then by all means buy it. If you are looking for a new, interesting and action-packed story like all previous Aliens comics, then this is definitely not worth buying.

This is the book that got me hooked on the Green Lantern as a kid. A friend of mine recently let me read their copy of it and to be honest I was let down. To be honest the book just isn't that well written. The story is just a bit too clunky and contrived. It really does not do anything new with the medium If you have read one comic then you have read this one too.

This book retells the origin of Hal Jordan, the GL of sector 2814. It focuses on Hal's personal life, and about how he grapples with becoming a GL with the "most powerful weapon" in the Universe. The book revolves around the interaction between Hal, his family and friends, and the Guardians. There is also a small hint on a plot device that was later used in Emerald Twilight. Overall, I would not recommend it unless you enjoy thinking about serious issues in life.

In an effort to try to figure out what to do with a character so willful, strong and noble, DC decided to retell his origin. Concentrating mostly on family and the inner demons Hal carries, they manage to take a "hero" and make him a human with a ring. No wonder some people didn't like it. Heroes should be simple and straightforward, right? Maybe. But humans are much more interesting. I'm a big Hal fan, even when he was silly in the old days, and I really liked this retelling.