Ichiro Sasaki
April, 16,2002
Humanities
Make four million dollars by next Thursday

I choused this story because I looked at this title and I thought this book might be fun and also when I reading this book I feel I want to know what will happen next so it is very interesting book.
Jason Nozzle wanted to be a multimillionaire. One day he saw a book called "Make four million dollars by next Thursday" He wanted to be multimillionaire so he followed the instructions of what book said. He followed instructions but all instruction were so crazy but Jason didn't give up. But this book didn't make him multimillionaire but this book tells him that you have more important things then money.
In conclusion I learned that we have more important things then money and also I learned that we could buy things by money but we couldn't by other peoples feelings.

Jason Nozzle wanted to be a multmillionaire. One day he saw a book called "Make four million dollars by next Thursday"He wanted to be multmillionaire so he followed the instructionof what book said.But this book dosn't make him multimillionaire but his book tells him that you have more important things then money.
In my oppinion this book is easy to read and also it tells me that money is not the best thing in the world.

I first read this book in the third grade and still love it!!! I am in the eighth grade now and still enjoy it. It is very funny,and easy to read. One of my favorites!!!

This book is funny and interesting. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves a wacky story. This book is about a boy who broke his crazy inventor cousin's 4,000 something dollar camera. He ends up entering a chicken-eating contest to try to win the grand prize. The grand prize will help him pay off the money he owes his cousin. This book will have you laughing the whole way through. If you happen to see this book in a library you should really pick it up and read it!

This book is just great. You have to read it. Very interesting and fun.

Hi, this is Mr. Garden. I would like to say that this is the best book ever for young adults. It was very good and it is the best humorous book since Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn." I have read this book almost 14 times and I think this book is better than the well-known kids book Harry Potter. Don't buy this book in paperback. It deserves hard cover. --Mr. Garden

If there was any book that should never have gone out of print it was this one. Just thinking about it makes me laugh. Definitely one of the best books ever written. It is perfect for teenagers and those of us older who like to pretend we aren't and just need a good laugh. It captures the high school perfectly and lets us have fun with it.

It's a shame this book is out of print. It captured high school perfectly. I still check it out of the library when I need a good laugh.

This book is one of the better ones that I have read. In fact, it's one of the best. Okay. The story is about these guys who call themselves the Obnoxious Jerks, (if you read the book, you'll see why). They are at this school where there's all these rules and regulations. They just try to change the rules or tell what they think of the rules by doing protests and stuff. They called them jerk-outs, and woah, are they funny. At one point, actually the beginning starts at this point but then backtracks to show how they got to this time, they wear skirts to school to protest the no shorts rule. Remember, these are guys we are talking about here! There are also lots of conflicts within the story, of course without a conflict, what do you have? Nothing. One of the biggest conflicts is between Leslie "The Iceberg" Freeze and Back's best friend Joe. All I can say is that you need to read this great book. It shows the smart people with the imagination and perseverance to get things done. This book should go to all the weirdo's out there. The smart ones that are a little offbeat, not the same as everybody else. As a weirdo myself, I can identify with this book. It's a good book that everybody should read. I give this book three thumbs up.

In this book you'll read about a silly family. Annie, Andy, and Candy Banana made a hilarious mess out of their apartment. They did not like the mess they made. Everybody refused to clean up. So of course they had to find another solution to the problem. In the strangest ways, the Banana family tried to defy gravity by living on the ceiling. This book will keep young readers giggling until the last page. We used to have a copy of itt, but we lost it. I would dearly love to acquire a replacement. Please ask the publisher to print more.

This book has been one of my favorites for about eight years now. It has become a yearly tradition to read this book during Thanksgiving. It's very funny and children (and adults) of all ages will really enjoy it!

Oh, why o' why is all the good stuff out of print?!

Stephen Manes, author of the extremely popular "Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!" has written a fantastically funny and poignant tale in "It's New..."

Our hero, Arnold Schlemp, is a typical kid. Like many typical kids, he's obsessed with how he looks, and he's convinced that a pair of Helicopter Shoes (promoted by the famous basketball player, Ralph "Helicopter" Jones) will make his life complete. Doors will open for him, the heavens will part and a ray of light will shine down on him if ONLY he could get a pair of those shoes!! One small problem: Helicopter Shoes are ridiculously expensive (is this starting to sound familiar?? Any parent dealt with this same problem??)

Well, he DOES get his shoes after much fussing n' fighting and hint dropping, only to find out that they hurt his feet. In a fit of frustration, he hurls one of his poorly-made, expensive shoes at the very TV commercial selling the shoes only to have one of the characters from the commercial COME OUT OF THE TELEVISION!! What happens next is simply hysterical, fast-paced, odd and 100% pure Manes.

It's a shame that this book is out of print, because it's as relevant now in 2001 as it was when it was first published in 1989 at the beginning of the Nike shoe craze. The boy who comes out of the TV commercial comes from a world where everyone sells a product, your personal worth is based entirely on the stuff you own and everyone is ecstatically happy about the things they can get. One (of many) small problem: people in the TV commercial world never use money, their stuff is just given to them!

As a piece of social satire for young folk, "It's New..." is simply fantastic. It's message of "you are more than the sum of your possessions" is neither overly subtle nor obvious. Just because you see some grinning idiot on TV selling you WhizzoPops doesn't mean A) you need them or B) they're any good for you. This is an important lesson that I think many of our young people are missing today: commercials are brainwashing our children into becoming possession-grubbing little Perfect Consumers. If we all had to deal with some wild commercial person for a few days, I think we too would be a bit more dubious of the claims made on commercials!!

"it's New..." is a fast read, weighing in at just under 100 pages. The story is fast-paced and draws the reader in right away. While it's not illustrated like some of Manes's other works and a bit more text heavy, it's still an excellent choice for intermediate readers. Read aloud to younger or less skilled readers, it's a fine example of why one shouldn't believe everything one sees on TV!! Definitely worth the time and energy to track this one down!!

It never ceases to amaze me how little attention this book recieved from the public eye. This children's book is rich with wit, humor, and a lesson that everyone, young and old, needs to learn: that life is no fair! The artwork is great and adds to hilarity of the scenes, and is sometimes the explanation of the joke all on its own. The message of the book is given in such a funny and outrageous way that people of all ages can enjoy it. I recommend this book for anyone with a sense of humor!

This is a fun book and nicely dates the 80s, like a book version of "The Breakfast Club." (However, since there's no soundtrack, and no one's using valley-speak or anything, it's not hopelessly forever pinned to 1983.) A boy's mother, who doesn't like the amount of time he spends in a local arcade, works with her boyfriend, a city councilman, to ban arcade games from a New Jersey town. He and some other high school students form a group to fight the measure. The characters are original and there is more going on than your typical plot advancing events. It's not made to teach any huge lessons or to tug at your heart, so none of it feels contrived or forced. (If I was supposed to learn something, other than the obvious, I apologize to Mr. Manes.)

This is an in-depth account of Microsoft's "early" (i.e., pre-1995) days. First, let me say that I wish the authors had updated the book, since the computer business has gotten VERY fascinating since the launch of Windows 95, as the Internet seized the day and also as an intrusive DOJ started an effort to dismantle a 20-year-old company that had suddenly become America's Public Enemy No. 1.

That said, this book provides excellent accounts of Bill Gates as a person and Bill Gates as Microsoft. The emphasis is on how Bill Gates ran Microsoft as a business, how he interfacted with his employees, business allies and competitors. If you are looking for information on how Windows 3.0 or Flight Simulator was designed, this is not the place. But if you want to know how Microsoft really got started, how Gates allegedly "screwed" Apple, or how Gates started dating Melinda French, you'll find it right here.

Stephen Manes has been a long-time critic of Microsoft's producty quality (and rightly so, IMHO), and the book comes across as quite critical of Gates' business tactics ("bullying", "anti-competitive", etc.) and personal idiosyncracies (both selfish and selfless, intolerant, etc.). At the same time the authors show admiration for the Gator as a technical and business genius. But because the authors evidently believe that Microsoft has done lots of evil, every conflict Microsoft had with a competitor would be Microsoft's fault.

In summary, this book is easy to read, generally objective (Gates was interviewed extensive for this "unauthorized" biography), and informative. I highly recommend it to anyone fascinated by Bill Gates and Microsoft.

This is one of my favorite books of all time - I have read it through twice, and I'm reading it again. It's so worn out that soon I will have to order a new one from amazon.com! Seriously, this really is a great book. It's mind-boggling to think of what it took to get all the information contained in it. The book not only gives a complete history of the life of Bill Gates but also contains most of the history of the entire computer industry. I reccomend this book to anyone who has any interest in computers at all

I first read "Gates" back in 1993. Many books about Bill Gates have been written since. But "Gates" by Stephen Manes and
Paul Andrews is still by far the best book about Bill Gates.

Be a Perfect Person in Just 3 days!

Would you ever listen to a book that told you to wear broccoli around your neck at school?
This book is about a boy that wants to be a perfect person. So one day he went to the library. A book fell on his head. He got it and did everything that he was told.
If you want to find out what happens, read the book.

I think that it was a very good book. I loved it. Because it was funny.

I recommend that this book would be for ages 6 to 14.

Milo, the main character, gets hit by a book, Be a perfect person in just three days, at the public library. This very imperfect professer actually talks interactively, from the book! Milo will do anything to be perfect, from wearing broccoli around his neck to doing absolutely nothing! This book is wonderful! I recommend this book to comedians, or people that are just looking for a good laugh!!

Who says that nobody's perfect? Certainly not Dr. K Pinkerton Silverfish, the clown-nosed, messy-hotdog-eating author of the book "Be a Perfect Person In Just Three Days!" that mysteriously falls on our hero's head!

Meet Milo. He's your average kid, flawed like the rest of us, and just trying to find a good book on scary monsters at the library when "Be a Perfect Person...!!" flies from the shelf and beans him a good one. The author, Dr. S, is a very strange looking character in his author photo, dressed in a half-tie and Hawaiian shirt with that messy hotdog, but something about his eyes and what may be a smirk on his lips makes Milo want to check the book out. After all, who WOULDN'T want to be perfect?

He takes it home to read and immediately finds out that the road to being perfect is paved with strange tasks. Wearing a stalk of broccoli around your neck for one day and night, and not eating anything, for example. It's enough to make people wonder if you've lost your marbles. Still, if broccoli-wearing brings Milo perfection (kinda' like fasting brings inner awareness), then so be it! Bring on the green stuff!

B.A.P.P.I.J.T.D. is a quick, fast-paced read that will entertain and draw in even the most reluctant readers. It's short, weighing in at under 100 pages, so the length won't intimidate beginning readers. It is funny, ridiculous and clips along at a pace where you can't help but keep reading to find out what could possibly happen next. The language is easy to read but not condescending to young audiences. I teach reading to a group of normally reluctant, low-level readers, and within the first page everyone was hooked! Many of my students even asked if they could read THE WHOLE THING by the next day's class. Lo and behold, most of them *DID*!! This was not my doing; this was the ease and engagement of the book itself. Don't just take MY word for it, take it from the students who normally hate reading: this is a fine, fun book!