I recomend the book. Written well. Nice and factual. Fun. Good at putting the reader in the place and time.

An excellent document of a time long-gone, "Sniffin' Glue: The Essential Punk Accessory" takes you back to the days of attitude, spit and projectile pint glasses. In existence for a mere 12 months, the UK fanzine "Sniffin' Glue" rose from humble beginnings (an initial print run numbering just a meager 50 copies) to a circulation into the thousands, just by the third issue. Of course, Mark Perry, S.G.'s creator, urged readers to tear their copies to shreds in reaction to this sudden success. I assume they didn't, and now we've got this handsome and distinguished volume, which is a welcome addition to any self-loathing punk's bookshelf. They're all here, from well-knowns like the Clash, the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, to more obscure but equally excellent bands like Eater and the Adverts. Even the layout and design of the book is spot on: the front half is chock-full of glossy pix of the bands and informative texts to go with them, and the back half is every single issue of the zine, printed authentically on smelly newsprint-ish paper. All in all, this is a gloriously raw and authentic trip back to punk's heyday, and one of the better punk books to come along in a while.

This is the first Star Wars book I've completed. It's good and falls right in place with the rest of the Star Wars trilogy.

Too darn much was happening in Earth Hive to allow it to develop to a really interesting extent. So this book was a relief to read in that it had one basic plotline, and therefore we got a lot more characterization of the main three characters -- old "doc holliday" Colonial Marine Wilks, the guy who isn't afraid to die and feels a need to wipe out the aliens. Then there's billie, who's lived her whole life in a mental institution since she was the sole civilian survivor of an alien attack on her world years ago. And the villian, General Thomas Spears, who thinks he's the messiah and is trying to tame aliens to go back to earth and kill the ones already there.

Unfortunately, spears is insane and paranoid, so anyone he doesn't like is bug food. This book was so much better written than the first it's incredible, but the author still has a problem with semi-colons. The biggest problem with this book, and the reason it doesn't rate very high, is because it really doesn't have anything to do with the aliens or the alien infestation, and nothing is accomplished to that end. It was an interesting sci-fi story to be sure, but it didn't give us anything essential.

This is an ok addition to the Aliens Saga, but don't expect much from it.

The second book of the alien trilogy book series, Aliens:Nightmare Asylem, brings us once again with Wilks, Billie, and Bueller as they land on an unknown planet they read life forms from. This is the Nightmare Asylem. First off, i loved the emotion in this book. It definitely gave me more of that than book 1. Sure, action is great, but love and emotional characters are very touching. That's probably what i like best in this book. Book1:Action, Book2: Emotion. What I didn't like in this book had to be the villian, Thomas Spears, the leader of this "Nightmare Asylem", where he is breeding Aliens to use for his own personal conquest. He was evil, and you didn't like him for it. I found myself saying, "com'on! Die Spears!" And i was rooting for the good guys. That's great talent on the part of Steve Perry who wrote Spears' character so well. But still, in alien books and movies, aren't the main enemy's supposed to be, well, the Aliens? They werent in this book. When they did appear, I would sit more comfortably and get ready for some great action. When they were battling Spears, I found myself leaning down again cause his battle scenes weren't as fun to read as the Alien scenes. You should Buy this book though. It's a great follow up, even though it doesn't quite match up with it's book 1 counterpart. YOU WONT BE DISAPPOINTED!

Another great book written by Perry. In this one, a military glutton has plans to make his own army of Xenomorphs to reclaim earth. On his military installment (the nightmare asylum) the two characters from the first book end up fighting for the lives again. They are not just fighting the aliens that the madman is "making", but also fighting his soilders as well. This was a great book as a sequel to Earth Hive, and should be read by fans of the books.

This book is allright if you have a basic understanding of the C++ language. If not, better take your hands off. Explanations are sometimes a little confusing. Instead of teaching us application of the techniques, he basically puts extracts of programs in there and discusses them shortly. Visual J++ and the two books in HTML on the CD are nice addons though

This book is Okay... A lot I've tried to write with it didn't work and it didn't seem to help very much. If you're looking for a good BEGINNING java book, this isn't for you. Try getting another book like Que's Using Java. I think that would be good. I would rate this book a 5 for average, it's the fourth Java book I have.

Okay, I bought this book because I'm a punk and I thought that this would be highly entertaining to me...wrong. The only story I even like din here was the one by Poppy Z. Brite and it's a gothic story. The stories aren't bad at all they're just not what they say they are. xXx

Then you will love this reactionary tract. If you are an Islamic fundamentalist or an aspiring member of the inquisition, this is your stuff. Alas, pluralists, religious liberals, democrats, lovers of freedom of thought and tolerance need not apply. There is nothing especially new here, just the usual authoritarian blather about the One True Tradition underlying all of humankind's True (read dogmatic) Religions and Best (read repressive) Societies. As another reviewer rightly observes, this is mostly warmed over Schuon, with quotes from religious liberals like Emerson and Thoreau thrown in to mislead the less than wary. And we need this now?

The title is a bit of misnomer and the same for the introduction. As stated by Huston Smith in the intro in the book is political/polemical in nature. It is not a text on awakening, being or dealing with spiritual psychology per se. Nor does it have anything really to do with following in the footsteps of Emerson or Thoreau. Perry merely quotes them because of name recognition. Emerson and Thoreau would have been aghast to be associated with such an antedeluvian like Perry.

What Perry attempts to cover he does well and flows from one topic to another smoothly. Style wise at times his writing reminds me of Schuon's - he has a penchant for being a obscurantist. In essence this work is a political meta-commentary on spirituality as found in Hinduism, Buddhism with a smattering of Islam and Neo-Platonic Christianity(as defined by Erigena not as understood by either the Catholic or Eastern Churches) and Taoism thrown in for good measure. He also tries to find common ground between them all and make the case that they are all talking about the same thing. In addition he tackles modernity and societal issues and lays out the problems as he sees it.

Problems:

Being a Perennialist Perry considers Judaism and Christianity as inferior spiritual paths and promotes Hinduism and Budhhism as superior ones. (Perennialists are generally followers of Sufism and Hinduism or Buddhism as Perennialism implicitly repudiates strict monotheism as understood by Jews and Christians). So if you are a Christian you will be offended by this book.

The book is also marred by Perry's fundamentalist beliefs about society . Perry attacks democracy, human rights as being untraditional and degenerate, churches for being active on social issues and especially Vatican II.(Vatican II is a favorite bugbear of Traditionalists along with Jung). Essentially anything post-reformation is bad. Engaging in historical revisionism and elitism he defends and even supports aristocracy and the divine right of kings as the best form of government! He claims that it is divinely ordained and uses scripture from various wisdom traditions to justify it. He even justifies Attila the Hun and Ghengis Khan as the wrath of god.

There is more than a bit of Manichean world hating stream of thought in his work. For him there is only the via negativa, the path of dealing with the pain of existence in order to gain release from life. There is no via positiva, the path of celebration and thanksgiving, no via creativa, the path of human creativity, no via transformativa, the path of creation renewed and mended. A truly hateful view life and creation to say the least.

His criticism of modernity is third rate(as he is Muslim living in Egypt). Writers like Lewis Mumford, Ellul, Theodore Roszak and Philip Sherrard have penned far better and thought out works than this one.

In Closing:

This book may have value for you if believe that inquistions, reducing women to chattel, theological fanaticism and priest kings are good for the world. Otherwise skip it as it is one of the most odious books written since Ayn Rands Atlas Shrugged or Mein Kampf.

Skip it and get Hossein Nasr's Knowledge of the Sacred. Nasr actually knows what he writes about and neither does he insult the reader.

A reviewer, from Boston, December 26, 2001,
A good introduction to the Perennial Philosophy
If you're interested in the philosophia perennis -- but have found the work of Frithjof Schuon sometimes difficult to penetrate -- this book provides not only a good introduction, but an in-depth discussion of many of the concepts underlying the Perennial Philosophy.

Also recommended: The Essential Writings of Frithjof Schuon, The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Beyond the Post-Modern Mind by Huston Smith