This is a must reference book for any aspiring gynaecological surgeon. The step-by-step guide in the various operative technique are clear and easy to follow. The diagrams have been superbly drawn to add clarity to each of the steps.

This book does quite well for teaching someone the basics of playing the organ, for which purpose I'm reviewing it today. It also could practically serve as a reference for how to service an organ, which I didn't really need to know, but wasn't too annoying. I came from a long piano background before I started organ, and I found it a very difficult to transition. This book recognizes that for many, the new fingering that is required by organ is harder than the challenge of pedaling. I certainly found it that way, having to keep my hands legato while reading three lines, playing pedal, and pulling stops. Good comprehensive beginning tool.

Quite a useful adjunct for Respiratory Science students in Australia. Difficult to obtain!

I usually love John Irving's novels because of their quirkiness and imaginative characters. The characters in this one didn't live up to expectations. The only character that enhanced the story was the hand doctor and he was dropped half-way through the book. Patrick's relationship with Mrs. Clausen was slow, silly, boring and pretty pathetic. What woman in her right mind would want a man like this in their lives.

It seemed that Mr. Irving was contracted to write 300 pages and ran out of ideas at about 150. Did we need to know every detail of feeding a baby, changing diapers and swimming in the lake? If I wanted to know so much about Stuart Little I would read the book myself. I couldn't wait for it to be over at that point. A few reviewers complained about the description of all of Patrick's sex acts but at least the book was interesting then.

If you liked "The Cider House Rules", "The World According to Garp" and "A Prayer for Owen Meaney" you will not like this one. What a great disappointment.

I've enjoyed John Irving before (Owen Meany, Water-Method Man), but this is the book that finally alters my classification of him from important author to hack popular novelist. This is a dull, meandering story with no believable characters or interesting ideas. The prose style is equally unmemorable. I just don't know why he wrote this.

Irving does it again! What a wonderful story, being from Wisconsin I especially enjoyed the Green Bay Packers role in the book. Irving has a wonderful sense of humor and a great talent for spinning a yarn.

While the volume presents a very well documented history of the American Theater organ and it's artists, there is simply not enough meat to the book to warrant the ... price. You surely have access to a computer or you would not be able to read this review. Save your money and spend more time researching the web. You will find most of the information in this book on the web.