I agree with the other reviewers here. I was was growing very impatient while I waited for Kaytano to finally appear in the book. After he did, the love story between Suzette and the half-breed was very disappointing. There was hardly any challenge and before you know it they are madly in love without reason. She looked at him, thought he was a hunk and loved him. Then to top it off the end of this novel was outright dumb! I love Nan Ryan and never read a novel by her taht I disliked. I can not praise her Sun God (MY ALL TIME FAVE BOOK)and my second ever fave novel Dessert Storm enough. Sorry Ms. Ryan, you'll always be my favorite, but this book is not one I would read again, as I did with Sun God 10 years later!

This book was to long winded.By the time the reader even meets "Kaytano" you were connected to Austin Brand.For 3/4's of the book you read about this man and everything he suffered.I felt he should have been the hero of the book.I found the author could have also condensed this book. I wanted to put the book down because it was just to long and boring , however I am not a quiter so I kept reading and suffering.I did not like the author killing Austin .I think she should have found someone else for him to love .In my opinion Suzette was not good enough for him ! Granted he made mistakes, but not as big as robbery.He was honorable , kind , handsome and rich etc. what else can a girl ask for in a man who adores her, and if he treated Suzette like a little girl , maybe she acted like one!

Not being a big fan of romance novels I have read some Nan Ryan. I loved this book and have read it 3 times now. My sister has read it twice and she loaned it to a freind who has also read it. Now the problem is I just have to get it back!! Maybe every once in a while it's okay for the romance to go a little to perfect. Kind of makes me wish I was there!!

Bob Levey claims to care deeply about good writing. But he ignores Strunk and White's admonition that the writer should always keep himself in the background. Indeed, Flaubert once said that the writer "must be like God on the page, present everywhere yet visible nowhere." Unfortunately, Levey inserts himself into nearly every one of the chapters (as he does in his insipid Washington Post columns), when it is clear the book would have been decent if he had stayed out of it.

This book does have some scarce nuggets. The history of Washington is indeed riveting, but not because of any pedestrian rendering by Levey. Unfortunately, Levey is not qualified to handle the material, and the reader is left only to speculate about how good this book could have been in the hands of a more talented writer.

Reviewers sometimes lament that good trees have been felled to publish a lousy book. In this case, I feel sorry for even the ink and glue.

Much like the city described by Bob Levey, this book struggles to find its identity.

The first 155 pages are filled with a brief, but enlightening essay by Washington Post Metro columnist Bob Levey, who paints a picture of Washington as the diverse, vibrant city that it is. Levey's essay is accompanied by a host of beautiful and poignant pictures of the sights and sounds of Washington. My only complaint about this section of the book is that the subjects are, perhaps, a bit too obvious. Although Levey describes Washington as a city with a "strong local heartbeat," the pictures rarely look beyond the Washington most non-locals come to know from family vacations and picture-postcards. Despite this, standing alone, this would be a nearly-ideal coffee table book that captures the feel of Washington, D.C.

But, then it happens.

The last 100 pages of the book are filled with "Profiles in Excellence," which amount to nothing more than glorified advertisements for local businesses that, "have made this book possible." I find it difficult to imagine that a book with a $44.95 cover price would not be possible without selling ad space in the back. This crass commercialism reduced what looked like a beautiful tome on Washington to something with all the glamour of Popular Mechanics. The book left me with a bad taste in my mouth.

What I expected was the classic story of the little engine helping the toys reach their destination, most especially when trying to climb the mountain. Instead, I get a story about hide-and-seek. The impact of the "I think I can"-mantra just doesn't feel the same with a hide-and-seek plot. (No offense to the illustrator and writer.) In the book's defense, the back cover does say that it's about hide-and-seek, but a picture of the back cover was not available here at Amazon. Overall, if you know what you're getting...it's a nice, very short story, probably just right for a preschooler's comprehension when read by an adult.

The book is very short and explains little about spina bifida, although it does address the use of braces and physical therapy. The book is about two kids who meet in PT, one is walking and the other is about to learn how to. It is fine for the preschool age child...they can see there are other kids out there who use braces and walkers to walk. The illustrations are pen and ink sketches. My daughter wasn't very interested in them since they weren't colorful. Books for kids, about kids with spina bifida, are hard to come by, so it is great to own a copy, although, in my opinion, the content isn't "outstanding". For the price, however, a good one to own.

Now where did they get the idea that Zambelli was the first family of fireworks?

This book barely provides the entertainment value of what it costs to purchase. The photos themselves are haphazard with little artistic value. There are some interesting graphic design elements to this book but they are few. Overall, a disappointment...

A collection of 50 photographers taking snaps of the theme of 'Tati', a Paris department store which first opened in 1948. Some of the photos are very "store" related, but others you would never guess they went hand in hand with the retail chain Tati. This book was only $...when new, and for it's size and photographs, it's a bargain. I'd say only about half of the 100+ photos are interesting, but well worth the $5-$6 price you can find this book for used nowadays. This book also contains two Martin Parr photographs of mannequins, and a bunch of employee candids taken by Catherine Deneuve.

It touched such a variety of areas and it was so broad that it was never specific. It contained quoteswhich were not at all insightful or informative. It attempted to address so many topics(eg: nail painting, hair, makeup, neckenlargement, footbinding, tattooing, piercing...) that there was no space for real detail and always talked in general terms(plus its a thin book.)
It was not what I expected to receivefor i had been given the impressionthatit would have a main focus on body piercing and tattooing(in the whole book there were only about 10 pages on these subjects).

This is a short booklet sold in multiple copies. It contains nothing that you cannot get in any number of websites with info on SI. Definitely not worth the price.

The author seems not to understand that *readings* of novels -- by contrast with brief synopses of plot -- require alertness to tone, nuance, subtlety, and genre, which in turn requires some understanding of the literary traditions behind the novel in question. While the legal history recounted in Goodman's book is intelligible, if highly arguable at some points, the literary analysis is nearly vapid. Her arguments generally take the form of announcing that the law of torts concerns itself with anxieties about the relation between cause and effect, and then informing us that the plot of the novel under consideration -s -- surprise -- concerned with precisely that. The idea that such anxieties might be differentiated or qualified on the basis of characterization, or the extent of narrative intrusion or absence, or the novel's negotiation of its relation to other books in the same genre -- all these possibilities go unregistered. One would hope that the benefit of having both a JD and a PhD is that they would enable the author to combine the talents of two different disciplines -- but this does not happen here.