however, for 35 pages of large type, using one side of each page,... and at $20 a pop, THAT was an terrible rip-off!! Discribed as a 'pamphlet' I was extremely disappointed with the price I paid for the equivalent of a comic book. Content worthy of better presentation? - certainly!

The book is interesting to read because it offers a generous dosage of second person pronouns. But it is only 34 pages long and contains very little information in those 34 pages.

21 x 28 cm (approx A4 size), 27 single-sided pages, text only (no pictures or illustrations).

I was quite disappointed with this book, especially for its price. Its 27 pages contain just text that has come from someone's laser printer, complete with a few typos and formatting problems. Ok, the reproduction of those laser printouts is high; I have no complaint with the quality of the reproduction. But it contains no illustrations or pictures of any sort, although the front and back covers are colorful and cheery (although irrelevant to the subject matter).

The actual text of the book is noticably straight-forward and open, more so than other straight-forward and open books. I like the way that it makes it clear upfront that there are two objectives of contraception, to prevent (1) pregnancy, and (2) disease. The remainder of the book generally discusses prevention of pregnancy only, though; discussing the various types of contraceptives.

The content of the text is very well written, but the text doesn't deserve to be sold alone, unillustrated, at such a high price. The title of this book is a bit misleading too; it's not specifically about the condom, but rather about contraceptives generally. Discussion about condoms takes up two pages of the text.

I found this rather dull and simplistic for 9-12 year olds.

The book appears a muddle of information and recipes. Some of the recipes use particular brands of products which means they cannot be transfered to non-US environments. I tried one of the recipes which did not work at all. The poorest cooking resource book I have seen yet.

The book is actually only 36 pages. 13 of those pages are dedicated to an identical form that is repeated 4 times. The rest of the book was dedicated to listing the author's accomplishments. Oh by the way, the instructions are: 1)List your areas of interest. 2)List possible formats 3)List possible titles. The author is obviously an excellent marketer and may have other good information, but this one sucks big!

As a Christian and teacher (in a public school) I have never seen anything like this compiled and passed off as a book, much less one to be used in a classroom. It is filled with references of ghosts, aliens, monsters, goonies, magic, Ouija board use, drugs & alchol use, violence and basically useless trvia, most not even pertinent to Georgia. Also, some of the trivia that is pertinant to Georgia is not complete. There is no way this book would be found on my class room shelf nor would I use it in my lesson plans. I can deem no redeemable quality(s) from this book.

This book title sounds very enticing for Atocha fans, however, the description fails to inform the reader that this book is written at a 4th grade level and is really a Teacher's guide, not a book for adults.

If this is a book about Illinois, the author left out the main ingredient. The cookbook contains little, if any, real facts about the state or Illinois foods. In fact, the bulk of the food facts are history relating to other states (there is a small nod to Chicago/Wrigley and chewing gum). Statements like "watermelon has long been popular in Illinois" shows little research was done to show just how popular. What a disappointment when the author could have helped children celebrate Illinois corn, soy or the fact that more pumpkins grow here than any other state. While hardcover, the pages appear to be spit from an ink jet printer with virtually no illustrations--not exactly what one expects for the price tag.

This "book" consists of approximately 25 pages of actual content, self-published by someone with a marginal grasp of good page layout and an amateurish mastery of their word processing program. The navy blue low-quality hardbound cover is embellished with a white Avery label printed with a color printer and stuck on to the book cover.

It is a collection of pages with such incoherent titles as "Time Out of Mind: The early exploration and discovery and settlement of Massachusetts," (accompanied by a line drawing of a frantic looking grimacing human face) which is the author's chosen description for a 9-point list of the following events: Year 1500s-Algonquian tribes living in Massachusetts include the Massachusett, Nauset, Nipmuc, Pennacook, Pocomtuc and Wampanoag; 1602-English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold first visits Massachusetts; 1620-Pilgrims arriving on the Mayflower found Plymouth Colony; 1621-Pilgrims celebrate the first Thanksgiving; 1630-Puritans found the Massachusetts Bay Colony at Boston; 1684-Massachusetts' charter is revoked; 1691-The state charter is restored; 1776-Massachusetts' leaders approve the Declaration of Independence; 1788-Massachusetts becomes the sixth state of the United States. I do not understand why this page has a grimacing face graphic, nor why it is titled "Time Out of Mind".

The page listing the governors of Massachusetts from 1911 to 1999 is inexplicably titled "The Best Times of our Lives: A list of the Massachusetts governors since 1911". There is no indication of why 1911 is the chosen starting point. Also, the last governor listed (1999) is "Paul Paul Celluci". His first name is Argeo, which perhaps the author will correct in later editions of this book.

Other difficult to comprehend page titles include "Tick Tock Trivia: Historic Trivia about our State", which has a line drawing of an alarm clock, but lists things that are unrelated to time or timepieces.

Another page is titled "Counter Clockwise: Miscellaneous Massachusetts Facts". This list begins by listing the birth years of John Hancock, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Lloyd Garrison, Emily Dickinson, and W.E.B. DuBois, and then goes on to list the year that Arthur Fiedler becaue the conductor of the Pops, the year that Felix Frankfurter received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the year that John Cheever won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the year that George Bush became Vice President, and then the year he became President, and ends by listing the 1990s as a time during which "Massachusetts works to protect endangered species".

Rather than expounding at length with specific examples, I would say that my major criticism of this book is that the titles and content never seem to bear any relationship to one another. Beginning with the title of the book, "Massachusetts Timeline: A chronology of our state's history, mystery, trivia, legend, lore and more!", which is not at all representative of what the book contains. "Chronology" would suggest an actual "start-to-finish" look at events. What the book does contain is, in fact, a random collection of randomly grouped events on randomly named lists with randomly selected dingbats for page graphics.

As an aid to teaching children this book gets an "F". How are they to benefit from seeing lists of facts grouped under descriptions that bear no relationship to the list of facts, and further to have those items selected to appear in the lists bear little relationship to one another?

To say that I am disappointed would be a tremendous understatement. ...