I really appreciate the way Mr. James has broken down the Principles of Kwanzaa. It is very comprehensive and easy to understand. It has helped me in my yearly celebration and my daily application of the principles. I have been looking for something like this for years. Thank you, Mr. James.

A little book with a BIG impact. After reading this book, I look forward to celebrating Kwanzaa this year. Mr. James does an excellent job of explaing the seven principles of Kwanzaa, and how African Americans can benefit by implementing these principles into our lives. The examples he uses in each chapter is the icing on the cake. This book inspires you to be a better person, and forces you to look at the world around you in a different light. I look forward to reading more work by G.W.James. Peace and Blessings my brother.

The Paradox of Power has actually transformed the ideas about a leader. Pat has mentioned of seven paradoxes, most important of which are certainly absolute love for your followers as Jesus had for his twelve non-schooled disciples, a vision and preparedness to 'accept inaction as the best form of action' and 'silence as the most powerful speech' at the appropriate time.His examples selected from the life of John F. Kennedy (talking to a mines worker), Robert Lee make his musings on desirable traits of a true leader as given in the book, more acceptable and laudable,

At a time when America can use it most comes a perspective on leadership delivered by someone who has lived his own words and succeeded. While many influential leaders throughout the ages are cited as examples and role models in this book's 230+ pages, the central figure is a man who would not be seen as power figure by today's definition. Yet his methods, when sought with sincerity and applied as though part of our reasonable responsibility, always work. The author has spent his professional life in the world of professional sports, but this book is not just for sports fans or corporate leaders (although that latter can and will certainly benefit from the wisdom of Mr. Williams). Anyone in a position of influence over others (who doesn't qualify there?) will find life-changing advice from time well spent in this book. Read slowly for more effective processing!

I always enjoy James's work for its entertaining readability and good humor; he is a scholar and a gentleman even to the opponents he slices up in his books and lectures. I did tire of the endless-seeming arguments against the rationalists who think in terms of a unified universe, however; I know that giving them a bad time was the point of James's book, but about halfway through his arguments began to seem polemical to me and I almost got bored. Nevertheless, I do recommend this, especially if you're looking into the radically empirical and pluralistic side of the philosophical house.

William James again proves himself the champion of the average man. James' Fideististic approach to religion and the nature of existence is displayed in full form here as he attacks the intellectualist foundation of modern philosophy.

A lot of people have been talking about this book, so I had to check it out and now I realize why. William James Austin takes you to places that you'd never think of or want to go to. He caters to that voyeur in all of us. Basically, the man makes us feel dirty and like it. When reading this book there were so many moments that I felt like I was in the scene he created. It made me want to go back to traveling New York City's streets. And I never thought I'd like poetry!!!!!!

This isn't poetry. Underworld 3 & 4 is a mental journey through the most vulgar and sadistic aspects of existence and somehow, along the way, William Austin's words make you accept and appreciate them for what they are.

This man's command is sensational. Austin can take one from a simple narrative as "Ghost Story" right into such avant garde works like "Symphony," without allowing the reader to lose a beat of his visual style.

The last piece "Aenas in Hell" is perhaps the most successful work of experimental poetry that I've ever read. Here, Austin shows just how masterful he is. It's a thirty page piece that starting off as a narrative travels into every other poetic style, including a dialogue, and draws you in to a point where you're feeling the storms and artificial sense of safety that is being portrayed. It's as moving as a top notch quality performance.

Since reading this prized book, I've been trying to find out if Austin has been promoting it in any way. I can just imagine what such visual work would sound like coming from the mouth of its creator.

The Folger Library series are your best Shakespeare source. They specialize in Shakespeares' greatest plays and are quality books that are perfect companion and translator to Shakespeare. It is loaded with page after page of translation from the Old English expressions that are no longer in use to our modern talk, and pictures as well as historic background information on th Elizabethan era and Shakespeares' life. Hamlet is without question Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, remaining in our theatrical culture to this very day. It has become a conversation piece for English professors, dramatists and screen actors (Mel Gibson tackled the role in 1991) and even psychologists, who claim that Hamlet had the Oedipal complex, especially when they read the scene in which Hamlet is in his mother's bedroom. What makes Hamlet so great ? Why does this old play still come alive when performed on the stage in the hands of the right actors ?

Shakespeare, believe it or not, was a people's person and knew about the human condition perhaps more than anyone in his day. Hamlet deals principally with obscession for revenge. Hamlet is a prince whose father has been murdered under the evil conspiracy from his uncle Claudius and even the support of his mother, Queen Gertrude. Depressed, wearing black all the time, and very much as solitary as any "Goth" would be in our day, Hamlet laments his situation, until his father's ghost appears and urges him to avenge his death. The mystery still remains, is this ghost real ? Is it, as many in Elizabetheans thought, a demon in disguise ? Or is it simply a figment of Hamlet's own emotions and desire for revenge. At any rate, Hamlet's father appears twice and Hamlet spends most of the play planning his revenge. His most striking line that reveals this consuming need is "The play's the thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king!".

Pretending to be mad, he scorns even the love of the woman he genuinely loves, Ophelia, whose mind is shattered and heart is broken and who has an impressive mad scene. The deaths of Hamlet's friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, are also in Hamle'ts hands and a consequence of his revenge. The famous soliloquy in the play, is of course, "To be or not to be", taken on by such great actors as Lawrence Olivier and Orson Welles. Hamlet muses on the brevity of life and the suffering which can only cease through death, as he holds a skull and is evidently suicidal. Finally, the last scenes are the most dramatic. Hamlet duels with Laertes, Ophelia's brother, and with Claudius himself. The deaths of the main cast, including the Queen, goes to show how tragic the human desire for greed and revenge is.

This is Shakespeare's finest tragedy, and quality drama, best seen in a live stage performance, but that also works as a film. As for this book, as I said before, this is the Hamlet to have. You will become more acquianted with Hamlet and Shakespeare even more than taking a year's course with a teacher. This book itself is the teacher.

If you could read only one thing in your lifetime Hamlet should be that one thing. It is Shakespeare's best work by far, and within its pages is more meaning than you could find within the pages of an entire library full of books, or plays as the case may be. A mere review, a couple words, cannot do Hamlet justice. At times I realize that the language of Shakespeare can be difficult that is why I recommend the Folger version because it helps to make the images expressed by Shakespeare's characters clear to the reader, and allows them to get their own deep personal meaning from Hamlet, Shakespeare's greatest work, with out being bogged down in trying to decipher and interpret his antiquarian English. Don't just listen to what I say, or read what I write, read the play on your own outside the cumbersome restraints of a classroom and see for yourself what I mean.

Ah, yes. Hailed by many as Shakespeare's Magnum Opus (is that right?), this is certainly one of his most significant dramatic works. Hamlet is an atmosperic story of internalization - of feelings (guilt, love, hatred), of people, thoughts, and actions. Marked by indecision and a strong sense of self-pity and self-consciousness, Hamlet makes the slow transition from fear to determination in his quest to avenge his father's death. Oedipal complex, supernatural powers, royal incest, revenge - these are all explored in the play. Several famous questions are posed and thoughts explored - of existence, suicide, meaning, value. Hamlet is just packed with philosophy, psychology, and humanity. A must-read in which you will find many of the most famous soliloquies in all of Shakespeare. Thrown in Yorick's skull, poor Ophelia, good Horatio, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, you've got yourself one awesome play.

I had to read this book in school and at first I thought: "I believe in love and all, but how will I understand it?" Well, luckily, we had an updated version that put it in words we knew. And I must say, it really does deserve all the tv references it's gotten over the decades. Not only did I feel my heart break when Romeo died with tears running abundantly down his cheek, and when Juliet awoke hoping to be reunited with her love and instead finding his body on the floor, but I also felt crushed when Mercutio died. He was the one character I felt most similar to. Shakespeare knew how to break your heart right open. Each time I go back to that paragraph where Mercutio refers to Queen Mab and the way she makes dreams and when he talks about reputations being the determining factor of someone's character instead of personalities, I feel even more attached to Mercutio. I'm sure everyone can find someone with similar personality traits if they read Shakespeare. But this truly is one of the greatest love stories and anyone who's lonely and finds themselves wishing for love should read this. Romeo was that same sort of person until he met Juliet. But one has to wonder, was it simply an intense infatuation? This question has been posed before and I'm not so sure it's a wrong question. But perhaps it really was love. Only Shakespeare knows...And he took secrets like those to his grave...I also recommend this to people who have already found love as it is a chilling reminder that love can surpass anything and anyone in love should do anything in their power to make sure that the flame never goes out, even if it means death.

What would you do if you fell in love with the wrong person? Well Romeo and Juliet are in this same situation. The scene is set in Verona where two household families share the same social status. From the birth of these two enemies come Romeo and Juliet....P>This book was amazing. Once I started reading, I couldn't put the book down. I felt as if I wanted to get in the story and try to fix all their problems. Shakespeare is a creative writer. He put in true life problems that teenagers deal with today. Shakespeare taught me never to give up and to accomplish my goals. In this book, Romeo and Juliet are not allowed to fall in love. Their parents band them from seeing each other and they wouldn't allow them to following their hearts. But they did it anyway. This book taught me to follow what I believe in and to think for myself, not to listen to what other people want me to do. If I did, then my life would have been miserable. The only thing I didn't like with this book was that it was so hard to understand because it was written in Old English.

I recommend the book, Romeo and Juliet, to anyone who loves to read tragic love stories, who is interested in reading Shakespeare's writings, or who is interested in reading an outstanding book.

Romeo and Juliet is a great tragic romance. The story is full of love, violence, passion and hate. It's an excellent epic poem in which Shakespeare tells this tragic story using a beautiful language, very poetic and lyrical. Try it, you'll never forget it.
This story is about a pair of two star-crossed lovers, which take their life in Verona. For years, the feuding of the Montagues and the Capulets has disturbed the peace of Verona.
It all began in a party in the Capulet's house in which Romeo and Juliet made their love vows, and Romeo proposed marriage to Juliet. After this marriage, everything was tragic.
Deaths and fights were constantly a problem in the two houses. So Romeo and Juliet would leave Verona to stop the quarrels, but this plan failed when Lord Capulet told Juliet to marry Paris.
Friar Laurence would make a new plan, to skip this ceremony. Juliet would pretend to be dead and afterwards, when wake up, leave Verona with her love.
This plan also failed because Romeo didn't get to know about this and killed himself when he saw Juliet lying on her grave. Juliet did the same when she saw Romeo lying beside her.
After these deaths, both families realised that hate between them caused lots of deaths. Capulet and Montague made up their quarrel. They promised not to fight again and make a golden statue about the two beautiful star-crossed lovers.

Safire writes an entertaining, educational piece of fiction. The lengths to which he goes to separate fact from fiction only highlights what I believe to be the true weakness of the book, that Safire is himself scandalmongering. By dragging us through the human frailaties of Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Hamilton and Burr, Safire's inuendo is that there is little difference between politics and personalities then and now. Also, there is little difference between partisan press then and now.

I don't buy his argument. The ideologues of the early 19th century were fighting to shape the character of an infant nation. History has lionized these men as the Founding Fathers. The truth that they were far from perfect humans and driven by common impulses of humanity does not detract from what these men on both sides accomplished.

Throughout the book there is an undercurrent that today's scandals actually pale by comparison to these early issues. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Today's scandals do not occur on a backdrop of a nation stuggling to define itself. Rather they showcase an individual possessed with more power than anyone else on earth abusing the charisma of his office for self gradification.

I'll give the book 5 stars for accuracy, subtract one for duplicity and one for his own scandalmongering.

William Safire's novel Scandalmonger brings to life the clash between the press and politicians two centuries ago, and in doing so holds up a mirror to our own times. It is not likely to be a surprise to readers that the Founding Fathers were as subject to human failures as politicians in our own time or that the press, then as now, was more concerned with sales than with truth. What is fresh and novel about this book is the focus on James Callender, the "scandalmonger" whose writings break the stories that impact the political fortunes of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, and Maria Reynolds, who was central to both one of the scandals (having had affairs with both Hamilton and Burr) as well as becoming central to Callender's bleak life. What fascinated me was how unbelievable, yet demonstrably true, this story is. Relying heavily on letters, journals and published documents of the time, Safire recreates a story of clashing political ambitions, illicit sex, corruption in high places, coverup, deception and murder.

Callender, a refugee from press persecution in Scotland and down on his luck, is selected to break the story of Alexander Hamilton's supposed financial impropriaties at the Treasury Department. This becomes a fascinating story when the "facts" of the case intersect with Hamilton's secret sexual relationship with the wife of his supposed accomplice and he allows the sexual scandal to be used to coverup (and "explain") the financial one. To oversimplify the book's complex story lines, Callender goes from success with his Hamilton expose to being the subject of government pressure to silence him. The Sedition laws are passed. He is charged, tried and imprisoned, but this just makes him more popular and his writings, secreted out of prison by visitors, are published and republished across the country. He believes that when Jefferson is elected President, due in no small part to Callender's efforts at embarrasing the party then in power, that he will be rewarded and has even picked out a modest post that would grant him and his young children a predictable income. But that is not to be, and believing himself abandoned by those he had worked so hard for, he turns his pen against them. The result is the Sally Hemings revelations that charge Jefferson with having a black mistress with whom he fathered many children. That story, of course, continues to this day. The story of James Callender ended shortly after and until this book was forgotten except for historians.

Unlike one of Gore Vidal's historical novels that lavish attention on character and place, this book is long on talk and short on description. But the talk, because it is based so often on the character's actual words from letters or diaries, is often quite good. The overall style is somewhat stiffer than I would have expected but perhaps Safire felt he had to try and match the tone of the character's conversations. The portaits of both Hamilton and Burr that emerge are fascinating, but Jefferson and Washington both come off seeming rather cool and remote, perhaps both, in their own ways, rather Machiavellian.

This is a book I expect to reread from time to time. For anyone interested in the history of American politics, or in seeing a more human side of our Founding Fathers, I highly recommend this book.

I vaguely recall reading some articles by Mr. Safire, but I've never read any of his books before. Well, I shall certainly remedy that. If Scandalmonger is any sign, William Safire might just be one of the most able writers in the US today.

Seriously, it must have been six months since I've last enjoyed a novel as much as I have enjoyed this one. Written with clear, powerful and well thought of prose (In the afterwords, Safire reveals some of the tricks that he used in order to convey the atmosphere without falling into the use of anarchonisms), this book is always thrilling and often witty, for those of us who enjoy subtle, sharp irony.

You don't have to reach the appendixes in order to realise the width of Safire's knowledge of the topic. Safire is clearly very well versed with the history of the period, and it shows. Not a very descriptive writer, Safire clearly knows alot about the personality of each and evry character in the novel. Writing with a Historian's dedicacy, even Safire's lies are rarely more than half truths.

The Pacing and prose of Scandlemonger are perfect. It is a page turner, very well written and planned. Safire never lets his grip loose, and every word counts.

The parallels between the US of the 1790s-1800s and the US of the 1990s-2000s are overwhelming, and surprisingly, you feel some appreciation to the history of journalism. I think it is impossible to read Scandalmonger without thinking about Monica Lewinski, but the novel will still be every bit as good when Lewiski, like Sally Hemmins, will be left as no more than an ancedote in US history.

I can not recommand Scandalmonger enough. In each and every aspect it is a masterpiece of fiction. In one word: TRIUMPH.

This childrens book by William Howard Armstrong digs into the life of a young black boy, his father and their dog, Sounder. It is set in the old south and details the struggles of an African American family of this time. The usual struggles for this family are getting food and staying warm until one terriable night that changes the family forever. The father is taken to jail and Sounder is wounded in the struggle. From that night on the boys life is faced with even more struggles to survive, as he is hoisted to the head of the house. He worries about his fathers well being, which sends him onn many adventures looking for him. Through all of the bad the boy does manage to find the good in all occasions.
This would be a great read for fourth to eighth grade students. It is a truthful and detailed insight into the history of the African-American race.

I read the book Sounder by William H. Armstrong. This novel is about a poor dad who has to steal to feed his family and he gets caught and sent to jail. It is also the story of the coon dog named Sounder who loves his master. This book takes place in the South a long time ago. It is about a poor family of farmers. The main theme is that the family must go on without the father and they are very poor. The father is sent to do hard labor and they don't know where he has been sent. The boy tries to find his dad for many years.

The boy is sad that his dad is in jail. He goes to town to bring him a cake. The jailers squish the cake. The dad says, "tell her not to send you no more". He doesn't want his boy to come and see him in jail because he doesn't want his son to see him in this environment.

The main characters are Sounder, a young boy, his mother and his father. Sounder is a dog. He is white with brown dots, and he is a coon dog. He is good at hunting. The boy is black. He is about11, and he likes to hunt with his dad. The dad is a farmer, until he goes to jail. The family is very poor. The dad works very hard to get food so that the family does not starve to death.

This book is a great book. The characters were very neat. It is a sad book. It is an adventure book. The part I like the best was when the boy and the dad go off hunting. It was funny when the dog was chasing the animals around. I also like when the boy brought the cake to his when it the cake to his dad when it was his birthday. The police smashed up the cake and the dad got only a little piece. The part did not like was when they were shooting the animals.

The ending was kind of sad. The dad has wanted to have a happy life when he was young. I think he should have tried to have a little fun before he died.

I think the book, Sounder, by William H. Armstrong, was very good. The story is about a boy who has a dog named Sounder. The family is poor so the father must steal to feed his family. His father is taken to jail and Sounder tries to protect him but gets hurt. What I thought was interesting about this book is the story is based upon William Armstrong's teacher's life experience of this. I enjoyed the way it made me think about the story in different ways. I enjoyed the characters because they had distinct personalities. For instance, the boy was very determined to find his father, and the other characters thoughts and emotions were very well described. All of the story elements together helped me picture the story as if I had witnessed it. The setting was described in great detail just like the plot and the characters were also. It was amazing that everything about the book could seem so real. The thing I enjoyed most in the story was the way the dog's bark was described. It was described with beautifully written similes and metaphors to portray how it sounded. The dog, Sounder, was named for it's bark because people could hear the bark louder and richer than any other dog's bark. For all of these reasons I will highly recommend this book with five out of five stars. There were only two things in this story I did not like very much. One is the abruptness of the time periods. In one paragraph it went from seasons to years. Another is that not very much detail about the boy when he was searching for his father was given. Overall though, I felt this book was one that should be read more than once.

Naked Lunch was the book whose landmark 1965 obscenity trial ensured literary freedom in the United States. Released shortly after its author, William S. Burroughs, regained control of his life after a fifteen-year addiction to opiates, Naked Lunch reads like a junky's account of a small, incredible period of time full of the extreme and incredible and told in a rambling, sometimes incoherent stream of conscious as if the author's mental health could produce nothing concrete. Feeling threatened by sadistic U.S. law enforcement, drug pusher and habitual user, Bill Lee, flees to Interzone a surrealist netherworld in Mexico filled with extremes of brutality, poverty, politics and madness. The book presents such unforgettable characters as sadistic medical artist, Dr. Benway; crude, international prankster, AJ and moraless drug dealer, Fats Terminal. In the forward of another novel, Queer, Burroughs states that his actual time in Mexico was made more enjoyable by the primitive nature of the citizens which Burroughs found oddly humorous, stating simple disputes ending in savagery and all types of what Americans would consider lewdness. Approach Naked Lunch as you would the account in Queer's foreword: An incredible account from a not-to-dependable source who has been to places and mindsets you will never experience and you will be strangely compelled to think how much of this savage book was based on an actual experiences or actual truths concerning cruelty Burroughs experienced. I think it was meant to be read as such considering the book of first released under the pseudonym of its main character. Of coarse being based in a fictional area of Mexico does not mean Naked Lunch has no parallel to life in the states. I can't help but see satire of America's social structure during the scenes portraying Interzone's political parties and scenes portraying its class stratification. Written superbly with beatnik-style lyricism, Naked Lunch presents wonderful satire and a confrontational nature destined to appeal to those of us with more extreme senses of humor.

What else can I say, other than that this is "the" book that has brought William S. Burroughs the most fame(infamy?) and glory. Most people interested in Beat Literature choose Kerouac for insight, but I feel that Burroughs gets to the root of the Beatniks' most defining element: Drug use/abuse. His style is unrelenting. His prose harsh and ragged, not unlike himslef for some 15 odd years of his life in which he lived as a junky. I urge the reader to not read this book in sequence from beginning to end as a traditional novel. Instead, read a chapter or two at a time. Then, set it down and leave it alone for a day. The next day, return and continue reading. Each pargraph; each page is a message unto itself. Burroughs uses a rehab center in a place called Interzone, the character William Lee, and a sadistic orgy to help convey the over-all idea that the junky is a sad and tragic individual. But, what makes the junky so tragic is not his position in life. It is the sad fact that he put himself there in the first place. And, to spite himself, the junky's body must continue this act even though his mind says no. It is sad that this book has not been given the credit that it is due. Only at the end of his life did Mr. Burroughs begin to reap the rewards of his, and his comrades' work. As though he couldn't stand another minute in the world of the straight and narrow without a friend(Allen Ginsberg, the last Beat), he died after a life of extreme hardships and bittersweet success. Needless to say, this book sums up Burroughs' early life on the streets before any real intimations of success. It is not for the faint of heart, nor is it for those of you who prefer "popular" literature. It is for those of us who seek the truth, and read books about certain topics for an element of reality.

As other reviewers have complained, this book is lacking a plot and doesn't have much of a structure. A reader looking for a a more clear and simplistic Burroughs should try out his pulpish but entertaining _Junkie_ and _Queer_. These books use an autobiographical format to show the author falling into a life of drugs and homosexual dependence, which the author clearly viewed as entrapping and morally wrong, even as he fell into them and maintained a objective viewpoint.

Naked Lunch takes these themes and greatly improves them. After starting with a scene of the protaganist fleeing the law, it's broken into vaguely related scenes of several pages each. These scenes are often bizarre or disgusting, but are always intriguing. Taken together, they give an impressionistic look into the life of an addict. They are often extremely funny, and the writing is very impressive. I enjoy pulp fiction, and Burrough's take at pulp fiction at the end, with Hauser & O'Brien, is perhaps the strongest piece of hard-boiled detective writing I've ever read.

Drugs are central to Burrough's vision, but this isn't really a drug book, either, and is more about Burrough's compelling if slightly twisted philosophies. Heroin is used as a central metaphor for systems of control that Burroughs sees elsewhere - in domineering characters, in 50's politics, in modern science, in patriarchies. If the reader can get past the initial shock of the book, it's extremely readable and I'd recommend it highly

If you think Kirk is the ultimate captain, if you think Kirk IS Trek -- you're going to love this book. On the other hand, if you've always thought that Kirk was a bit of a jerk, and two decades of tell-all autobiographies have confirmed this attitude, better skip this one. This is particularly true of the audio version, which is narrated by Shatner, himself. The book is certainly well-written. But the plot was contrived and self-serving, a mish-mash of threads from various TV episodes, tied together without regard to the integrity of the rest of Trek universe and totally devoted to ensuring sequels. It is certainly the weakest of the Shatner Trek trilogy. "Ashes of Eden" was surprisingly good. "The Return" was campy and funny to read in the context of the actors in real life. But by the time it came to "Avenger", Shatner carries this plot line way to far. A 200 year old man, never the smartest or strongest, out-thinks Data, out-maneuvers Riker, displays better judgment than Picard, out-fights nearly everyone, and is a better son to Sarek than Spock. All the while spewing his brand of philosophy. It's just not cute anymore. As the good doctor would say, "YOU'RE DEAD, JIM!"

Shatner did it again! "Avenger" is a good book, but is isn't as good as "The Return". (But if you want to split hairs, I think you would be hard pressed to find a Star Trek novel better than "The Return") Although it features the Next Generation cast, this story is mainly about Kirk and Spock on their respective missions. Kirk to find the cure to the virus that has Starfleet placing entire star systems under quarantine. Spock searching for proof that his father Sarek was murdered. They intertwine with the Enterprise-E crew to make a story that will have you guessing until the end. It also does one heck of a job explaining Kirk's survival from the Borg Homeworld. "Avenger" also sets up the next novel in the series, "Spectre". A must read if you love Star Trek!

The way Shatner and Reeves-Stevens tied into the story lines from episodes of the original series was excellent. They provided a new way to look at the motives behind characters who in 1968 were considered one-dimensional villains. The added depth leaves the reader to question the definition of what is evil. The mixing in of the Next Generation Cast will also be pleasing for ST:TNG fans as well. While reading this well-written book my imagination was more satisfying than any television movie or film sequel could ever be. The only reason I give it a 9 is because of Shatner's petulance towards some of the characters of ST:TNG. So far in three novels, Kirk has beaten-up Worf, out-smarted Data, beaten-up Riker, and now decked Picard. Are you trying to tell us something Bill? My final word is buy it! You'll want to read it more than once.