I have not completely read this, but I glanced through this book at a bookstore, and It's not worth paying for. I can name a myriad of other sites (I don't know if I can but just look for "mac easter egg" on a search engine) that list more eggs than this, more up to date (obviously), and FREE

This book offers some astonishing content. It's also small in size, so you can carry this book anywhere. Kudos to Pogue! He's made an interesting little book worth its price. Just read it - it'll be a positively astonishing read!

This book is excellent! It tells you how to find the hidden Easter eggs in your mac and software. This is a great book.

From cover to cover of David Hunt's paean to San Francisco's embrasure of divergent (read hedonistic) lifestyles, I found myself constantly ping-ponging between in-the-moment captivation and detached cynicism. Hunt's heroine, Kay Farrow, a colorblind photojournalist obsessed with the death of a Polk Street hustler, constantly teeters on the edge of believability. For that matter, all of "Magician's" characters come off as either too good, bad, or fantastically flawed to b e true. Yet this story of an artist's quest to catch a killer by using her art is a compelling read. The plot -- replete with prostitution, pedophilia, incest, dismemberment and magic tricks -- has Kay galavanting from The Castro to Polk Gulch and back, tracking down hustlers and johns in a somewhat contrived effort to expose a killer and avenge her friend's death. The ride is uneven, but interesting.

It seems fashionable nowadays for mystery authors to provide their protagonist with a physical or emotional handicap. David Hunt's heroine is a photographer with autosomal recessive achromatopsia. It means she is totally color blind, and sees only shades of gray. Naturally she sticks to black and white photography.

This is a well written book, and while it is not full of twists and turns that make you gasp in surprise, it is a worthy mystery tale. The heroine, true to today's current writing fashion, is a feisty lady who pursues the bad guys without giving in to threats, and even beatings.

This author obviously lives or has lived in San Francisco. For those of us who have also lived there, DH never leaves us in the dark as to which street corner Kay Farrow is standing on. That's a lot of fun for me, but probably won't be exciting to readers in Mobile, Alabama. It is also nice to know that the author has some knowledge of the protagonist's profession. It is jarring when technical mistakes work their way into a book, but DH seems to have at least a nodding acquaintance with photography. When Kay takes a picture of her father outside of his bakery, DH mentions that the resulting image resembles an August Sander portrait. Shows he knows something about the field.

I refer to David Hunt as a "he", but I have heard rumors that the author is really a woman. (?)

A truly fabulous read! The ultimate San Francisco thriller. The best crime story set in San Francisco since Hitchcock's "Vertigo." I read this book because I heard it won the Lambda literary award. Hunt's protagonist, colorblind photographer Kay Farrow, is truly a woman of our times---tough, savvy, smart, tender. It's remarkable to me that a male author could write in the voice of a female character with such authority. And the San Francisco revealed here is marvelously atmospheric. As a devoted San Franciscan, I believe "everyone's favorite city" has never been depicted better in a novel. Highly recommended!

Though never having owned an Airstream, I've always been interested in its development and history as the 'Cadillac' of travel trailers. This book was, for the most part, a disappointment. I was primarily interested in the trailers themselves. There are very few illustrations of floor plans over the years, of the development of the interiors and exteriors--after all, today's trailers are quite different from 40 years ago! A great deal of space is dedicated to a few Wally Byam caravans with some large, page-filling photos.

In the end, this can make a nice coffee-table book for Airstream fans. I'd still like to see a more comprehensive research into the trailers themselves and their development.

This book is wonderful. I'm going to have to purchase a new copy for my dad's Christmas present, I've worn this copy out reading it. The photographs are vintage, the text facinating and informative.

Well, although this book does talk a lot about Wally Byam (how can you not when refering to Airstreams), I found it to be very interesting, and a lot of fun. The book is designed beautifully, the pictures are fantastic, and it is a visual feast.

I just bought my own used Airstream, and love it. If you've ever owned an airstream, or if you've just admired them from afar, this book is just too much fun to own. It makes a great coffee table book, or a great gift for the enthusiast.

"The Losers" is a contemporary novel that stars a man named Rapheal. Rapheal has all the positive aspects of life; good looks, intelligence, and athleticism. However, when he goes to college, he rooms with a man named Damon who represents all the negatives of society. Shortly after this meeting, Raphael has a severe accident that will forever change his life. Raphael moves away, and thinks nothing of his old life until Damon finds him again. This novel contains the classical motif of good versus evil.

In "The High Hunt", the reader is introduced to a pair of brothers coming from a disfunctional family. Dan, who is the younger brother, has just been discharged from the Vietnam war. With nothing to do, Dan looks for his older brother Jack, who he has not seen in years. Dan is quickly taken in by Jack and Jack's friends. However, Jack's friends are not the most "politically correct" friends. A hatred grows between some of these friends, which culminates in a hunting trip high in the mountains. What happens when guns and hatred mix? Find out...it is an entertaining novel that does slip down into the decadence of society.

Well known for characters such as King Belgarion and Sir Sparhawk, David Eddings takes a step back away from fantasy into the world of non-fiction, revealing his commanding mastery of the English language in his two novels: The High Hunt and The Losers. At times hilarious, offensive, but always introspective and thought-provoking, the two novels lead the reader into an ever spiraling path of self-reflection. With witty commentary on the social customs of modern society and their affects on an individual, Eddings creates tales which are a must for those who consider themselves hardcore Eddings fan - allowing exposure to a side of the author that is merely hinted at in his fictional writings.

This relatively short book helps the reader understand how God has uniquely designed each person, with special gifts and talents unlike anybody else. It then guides the reader through a process of self-evaluation in order to reveal those special qualities that determine how we operate, and what we like to do on a daily basis. Armed with this information about himself, the reader is then prepared to look for job opportunities that will match his specific skill set, and result in employment that will have a good probability of being man satisfying, and God glorifying.

John Saul has been writing clichéd horror novel after clichéd horror novel for years. Not that that's a bad thing - his novels are usually compelling and, at the very least, fun to read. Manhattan Hunt Club provides Saul fans with a different twist however. No supernatural occurrences, no possessed children, no haunted houses. Instead, Saul gives readers a pretty standard thriller.

As with most of Saul's novels, the characters are under-developed, the plot is straightforward, the action often intense but the outcome predictable. Manhattan Hunt Club is a simple novel yet the plot is interesting enough to draw readers in. I personally thought that Saul could have introduced a little more background about the NYC underground world. Additionally, as other reviews have pointed out, the coincidences in the novel were ridiculous. While the novel wasn't at all plausible, these coincidences made it seem even more ridiculous.

Overall, Manhattan Hunt Club is a fun read. Its not a fabulous novel, nor is it horrible. Just entertaining.

The Manhattan Hunt Club is a much different read than all of the other John Saul books I have read. There's no family curse or haunted youths to be found here; rather, this is a book of gritty, gripping realism. I admit it took me a while to get completely wrapped up in the story, but the final hundred pages had me captivated. The book starts with young college student Jeff Converse trying to help a lady being attacked in the subway; his good Samaritanism earns him a conviction of attempted murder as the victim fingers him as her assailant. Then a freak accident as he is being transferred to another prison finds him taken down into the unseen depths below the New York subway system, thrown together with a bona fide murderer, and forced to play a game he can barely comprehend: you win, you go free; you lose, you die. So begins a terrifying ordeal pitting Jeff and his new-found friend against a team of vigilantes straight out of The Most Dangerous Game. Meanwhile, Jeff's father and his "uptown girl" girlfriend refuse to believe the evidence given to them that Jeff in fact died in the traffic accident. They eventually go into the tunnels themselves in search of Jeff, and the convergence of all the characters takes place in an exciting climax of action.

There are some surprises in these pages, and a feeling of justice that sometimes does not find its way into Saul's fiction. The makeup of the Manhattan Hunt Club and the ideas behind its formation are disturbing yet frighteningly plausible. Saul does an admirably fine job of humanizing the homeless in all of their guises; the characters we meet underneath the subway tunnels are not all bad or shiftless, yet even some of the best of them, through their mute cooperation with "the game," cause one to face some troubling propositions and wonder if, in their shoes, he might do the same thing. The most enlightening character here is Jinx, a young girl who found a home beneath the city after running away from her mother's abusive boyfriend; despite the bad luck life has sent her way, she retains her dignity and bravely seeks to do the right thing when she does not have to get involved at all.

One is struck by the fact that much of this story could in fact be true to life. There are people living the kind of life described herein, but John Saul would seem to have done such unfortunate folks a great service. He brings out the humanity of these people, making the point that they are not all druggies and addicts but are all too often very human characters forced to live as best they can. Perhaps the motivation fueling some of the true villains here, the members of "the club," is not strongly enough developed, and the character of Jeff's deeply religious mother is somehow forgotten along the way, but The Manhattan Hunt Club is an increasingly compelling read that will take you into the filthy subterranean tunnels alongside its characters and very likely change you in some way by the time you finally manage to find the light at the end of the tunnel.

When I finished "The Manhattan Hunt Club," I had to check to make sure it was really written by John Saul. I've always been a fan of Saul's novels, although many of them were so similar in theme and characterization, it's hard to tell them apart. However, with this shocker, Saul demonstrates his gift for characterization and riveting suspense.
Jeff Converse's fate is one of those "I Can't believe these idiots think this man is guilty." Once the seemingly impossible plot emerges (sort of a twisted "The Deadliest Game"), we follow Jeff's horrifying entrapment in the massive tunnels of New York. Add some really strong supporting characters such as his estranged parents, his undoubting girlfriend, and a heinous bunch of villains, you have quite a story here. Jagger, the ruthless killer, who becomes a friend to Jeff, is also a great character---couldn't help seeing Vin Diesel in the movie role. The real stars though are the homeless people. Particularly, the teenage Jinx. She's a really well-developed, fleshed-out character, whose bravery and perseverance, help Jeff immensely.
This, undoubtedly, is Saul's best book yet. His departure from a true "horror" novel to psychological suspense is welcoming, and one can only hope he keeps up the good work. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

David Hunt, pen name of "Janek" novels creator William Bayer, has given us another dark tale of San Francisco photographer Kay Farrow. Farrow is grief-stricken by the hit-and-run death of her friend and mentor, Maddy Yamada. But she also wants to know what her mostly-homebound friend was doing in one of San Francisco's seedier neighborhoods in the middle of the night. Thus begins her quest which leads to a tony Mendocino gun club and also leads her forty years into her mentor's past.

As with all of William Bayer's novels, the writing is tight and the characterization is rich. Kay is a strong but caring woman. She has the ability to be violent and the means (she is an-almost black-belt in Akido and during the novel she learns combat-shooting) but to Bayer's credit he never uses this to advance the story.

I liked the book and would recommend it to anyone who wants to read a thoughtful, well-written thriller. It is way above the usual cliche-ridden mystery stories that seem to abound today. And, miracle of miracles, it doesn't even have a serial killer.

I loved "The Magician's Tale." I read it this summer in paperback and couldn't put it down. So I was thrilled when I learned that David Hunt had written a second novel featuring colorblind photographer, Kay Farrow. In fact, "Trick Of Light" is if anything better than the first book...and that's saying something! This time Kay tracks the death of her mentor, world-famous photojournalist Maddy Yamada, who appeared briefly in the earlier novel. Here, after Kay unravels Maddy's past, her life is explicated in all its magnificent strangeness and mystery. And here again Hunt captures the essence of my hometown, San Francisco, like no other novelist before. In both books you can literally feel the fog, smell the streets, delight in the shimmering Pacific Coast light. And as before Kay Farrow's noir vision of the city (for she is totally colorblind) distills it down to a special essence. A terrific tale beautifully told by a highly gifted writer. Suspense, mystery, memorable characters, a stunning tour de force. I can't recommend this book enough!

I think this is a briliant book, beautifully written, with a strong female protagonist who rings absolutely true to life. It is so superior to the standard run of mysteries that it's not funny! The story is compelling, the way it's developed is fascinating and the outcome is deliciously gratifying to the reader. Hunt has written in the voice of this character before in his terrific earlier book THE MAGICIAN'S TALE. Though the earlier book was permeated with a darker sexuality, this new Kay Farrow novel is perhaps more enticing. I found it almost Hitchcockian (if there is such a word!)and the San Francisco setting also reminded me of Hitchcock at his best (i.e. "VERTIGO"). A great read!

"the prophet who prophesies will be recognized as one truly sent by the Lord ONLY IF HIS PREDICTION COMES TRUE."(Jer.28:9)

This is the inerrant litmus test of Bible prophecy: 100% Definitive Factuality in ADVANCE of freely chosen agent decisions, 0% error rate. Openism is DOA,AWOL,Mene-Mene-Tekel-Uparsin at this point! The handwriting is on the wall!

"Hear the Word of the Lord all you exiles in Babylon. This is what the Lord Almighty says about Ahab and Zedekiah who are prophesying lies to you in My Name. 'I will hand them over to King Neb. and he will put them to death before your very eyes. Because of them, all the exiles from Judah in Babylon will use this curse: The Lord treat you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon burned in the fire.'"

An irrefutable case of EXHAUSTIVE DEFINITIVE DIVINE FOREKNOWN FACTUALITY about the future free decisions of Ahab; Zedekiah; King of Babylon specifically using fire for execution; and all exiles using the exact, precisely predicted curse based on the free decisions of Ahab, Zedekiah, King (all inextricably interlinked) in the OMNI-Mind of God, freely played out in time

Openism's 'extensive indefinite forecasting' cannot account for such prophecies. (Too many to list here - see separate reviews for 'Beyond the Bounds'; 'God Under Fire'; 'Bound Only Once'.)

Why must Gregory Boyd set up a hyper-Calvinist view as straw antagonist, then make his 'case' for why his Open Theory is the 'most Biblical' (compared to what??)? Ajarism (Free Futures are seen by God as through an ajar door darkly) can't help but seem more palatable by comparison with the ultra-Calvinist
'Closed door known but to God' or Liberal Process 'Wide-Open door unknown to God'.

The nebulous argument for 'Infinite Intelligence' to compensate for 'Non-infinite knowledge of free futures' (known as Divine Nescience,i.e Ignorance) is verbal legerdemain for denial of genuine, meaningful OMNI-science as the Bible teaches.

God is, according to Boydian theory, MULTI-scient or MAXIMI-scient (God knows a lot, more than anyone, the maximum logically knowable, but not quite EVERYTHING as the Bible says).

Instead, Gregory makes God out to be of such great intellect to work around His deemed lack of Infinite Foreknowledge of all future mortal free Shalls and Shall nots, Wills and Will nots. Boyd invents a new sub-Attribute to compensate for eviscerating another Attribute to allow God to come out O.K. in the end.

But it backfires. It only creates a deity in a limited human's intellectual image. In exchange for the Biblical Jesus of Infinite awareness, foresight, prescience and precise knowledge of all Space-Time events/decisions from Eternity Past to Eternity Future and all in between, we are left with a supreme weather forecaster or chess grandmaster. However as we all know, weathermen are often surprised, wrong, erroneous and mistaken. Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue have both lost against each other. Is this the sort of Jesus that Gregory Boyd sincerely believes in, trying to persuade others to accept,too?

'Infinite Intelligence' is woeful consolation for 'knowing' free agent futures as predominantly possibles, maybes, contingents, risky what-ifs, potentials, probables, likelihoods,
projections, indeterminates, variables, random chance, unpredictabilities, uncertainties that may after all not materialize to divine expectations/forecasts.

It is here that the equally nebulous Boydian concept of 'Theo-Repentism' must be triggered to explain how Jesus handles free futures that don't work out as anticipated. When confronted with new information, or in relating to free decision makers, the Eternal Lord Jesus then changes the divine mind, repents (of wrong-doing, wrong-guessing,wrong-imagining, wrong-thinking,wrong-prognosticating, wrong-speaking,wrong-predicting, wrong-prophesying, etc.) or regrets, rues prior decisions based on incomplete data, wishing they could be do-overs or in need of retraction or repair. Infinite Intelligence kicks in at this stage for 'divine damage control' to salvage a draw and prevent checkmate from all the free-ranging opponents who act/decide contrary to the limits of divine predictability in the chaotic chessgame/meteorology of life.

Sound puzzling? It is. Especially when you read the seminal book by Gregory Boyd that started it all: 'Trinity & Process' (see separate review), based on Hartshorne's 'Omnipotence & Other Theological Mistakes' (see review where you discover that Boyd's Omnipotence is no less limited than his Omniscience).

It seems OMNI (Latin for All) cannot mean OMNI anymore, at least for Open Theorists. What then becomes of OMNI-presence? Infiniteness? Eternality?
Transcendence? OMNI-sapience (ALL-Wise)? What happens to all the Historic-Evangelically understood Trinitarian Attributes? How are they Openistly redefined/updated for modern consumption? Only God knows (or, maybe He doesn't? Stay tuned!)

Most unfortunate that books like this which incorporate non-evangelical 'theology' alongside historic Christianity are distributed for uncritical consumption by a non-discerning readership. Seeking wider respectability, Openism/Ajar Theory merely shows with every published page how far Boyd-Pinnock-Sanders have headed AWAY from the Bible and TOWARD a vivid, free agent imagination a la borrowed elements of Hartshorne's Processistic, non-Scriptural philosophic fabrications.

The LORD said it best in Job 42:7 "I am angry with you..because you have not spoken of Me what is right."

This book rates 3 stars for including 3 Biblical/Evangelical views, but subtract stars for Gregory's use of contemporary philosophic presuppositions applied to selective misinterpreted Bible texts to provide a marginal audience the latest heterodox option to counter the straw antagonist of hyper-Calvinism.

Ultimately can't persuade in any cogent, balanced, unbiased way.

The OMNITrue One Who has Eternal Exhaustively Divine Definitive Foreknown Factuality of ALL Free Futures, Infinitely Uninformable ,Unrepentable,Inerrant, Incorrectible, Infallible, OMNI-Present (Ever-Present I AM in ALL point-moments of space-time: Length-Width-Height-Past-Present-Future), Eternal, Limitlessly Aware,OMNI-Relational,Interactive LORD Jesus said,

"Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?"

Just one Scripture from Jesus settles the Foreknowledge Issue once for all:

"I AM TELLING YOU NOW BEFORE IT HAPPENS SO THAT WHEN IT DOES HAPPEN YOU WILL BELIEVE THAT I AM HE." (John 13:19)
Not forecasting, possibilizing, but TELLING. Not if, but WHEN.
Not may,might,could,perhaps should, but DOES happen. 0% Uncertain. 100% definite. That's genuine Omniscience. Amen.

Interesting that this book would present as one of the "evangelical" options of what God knows and when He can know it:
the curious notion that God possesses EXTENSIVE INDEFINITE FORECASTING (a la weather prognosticator or chess grandmaster) subject to all the iffiness and unknowable randomness of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Chaos Theory working themselves out in a fallen world unbeknownst in advance to the Creator! Boyd's presupposition is THE FUTURE DOES NOT EXIST YET, EVEN FOR THE OMNISCIENT/ETERNAL CREATOR GOD, except as mere possibilities yet to be freely actualized.
Therefore He is the deity of what is humanly,logically possible.

Boyd's Neo-Processistic philosophical theorizing becomes more incoherent with each book. How can God know how He will definitely act in the future if He doesn't know how sinners and demons will definitely behave? If our decisions don't exist until we freely make them, how can God's decisions exist until He freely makes His in response to ours in response to others in response to the devil's in response to... ad infinitum?? If all God can know are ultimately possibles (not actuals, definites), then ALL He can know about future agency is INDEFINITE (MAYBE). Thus Boyd teaches EXTENSIVE INDEFINITE FORECASTING - which he calls Omniscience! Talk about verbal legerdemain! God can only know what is humanly,finitely knowable

A careful study of the Bible shows rather the truth that there is NO LIMIT to the extent (past,present,future) of God's knowledge. It is ETERNALLY EXHAUSTIVE DIVINE DEFINITIVE FOREKNOWN FACTUALITY OF ALL FREE FUTURES-OMNIPRESCIENCE
His understanding is INFINITE. That God definitely knows in advance precisely what sinners and demons WILL/WILL NOT do doesn't mean therefore that they are thus forced to, or thereby lose their agency/moral responsibility. Neither is God to blame for the foreknown exercise of their agency. He retains full final say, ultimate control and awareness as definite in advance of ALL they will choose to do. Because some mortal minds can't reconcile this profundity, Open Theory (Ajarism) is the misbegotten result. With all due respect to sincere but sincerely wrong Gregory Boyd, there is little about Neo-processism or EIF (EXTENSIVE INDEFINITE FORECASTING) that can be understood in any sense as Biblical or Orthodox Truth about God's Attributes such as OMNISCIENCE/OMNIPRESENCE. God is ever PRESENT at every point/moment of space/time, including ALL the FUTURE. The I AM is ALREADY THERE/THEN waiting for us just as He IS with us HERE/NOW.

Otherwise well-written. 1 star for attempting to resurrect the long-discredited 'Nescience' pseudo-theology of the late 19th Century (with some elements of 16th Cent. Socinianism) via a self-refuting misunderstanding of how God interacts with ALL FUTURE MORTAL AGENCY: Comprehensively, and for Open Theorists, Incomprehendible.

Most of the reviews on this page miss the boat entirely. Rather than actually reviewing or recommending DF the reviewers are merely venting their anger because their particular view is challenged.

Pay them no mind. DF is an excellent book. Buy it and read all the views with as much of an open humble mind as you can. It's better than the alternative spoon feeding that is rampant in many circles of Evangelicalism today.

The glossary is a great idea more publishers should follow.

Keep em coming Eddy, Beilby, Gannsle ....etc.

I purchased this book because my stepson harvested some acorns recently and I scoured my large cookbook collection, to no avail, for any information on how to process them or use them in cooking. This book contains information on that and so much more.

This would be an excellent resource for a hunter because game and fish of many kinds are covered here. There are recipes for venison curry, venison meatloaf, rabbit pot roast, wild duck with orange sauce and cornbread stuffed trout. There is also a section on edible wild plants and berries, with recipes. Nutritional information is given for many of the food items listed in the book. Did you know that deer meat is loaded with B vitamins, for instance?

To me, one of the best things about the book is that 100% of royalties go to Native charities. In the foreword it says that the royalties have helped to support scholarships, a children's camp and substance abuse programs. So you can give a little back, and you get a great source for Native North American foods.

In the editor's introduction to "A Time Far Past," we are encouraged to read this novel as a North Vietnamese perspective on the American Wars. Don't come here for such a story. Le Luu weaves a simple, heroic love story around life of a villager who refusal to submit to the fate of his childhood, arranged marriage. Going off to war to escape his wife, he still lacks the ability to define his sense of self. We watch his late-blooming after many failed relationships through the eyes of a somewhat moralizing and acutely critical narrator whose portrayal of shifting cultural values in Viet Nam is intimate and human. While this experimental, multiperspective narrative is sometimes unconvincing, I found I could not put it down. Among the few novels mentioned in the plot is Jane Eyre. My opinion is that if you like a good romance you will enjoy this.