"Rex Barlow, Montana Marshal" is a very well written western novel in the tradition of Larry McMurtry, Louis L'Amour, J. Frank Dobie and other authors of this caliber. John A. Robinson is one of those story tellers who has the unique ability to literally take the reader's mind to some specific place and time as his story dictates. He makes the reader feel as if they are present in his story. I have had the pleasure of actually meeting Mr. Robinson in a 'just by chance' situation. I have the feeling that John A. Robinson could just as well have been Rex Barlow had he been born a couple of generations earlier.

My kindergartner son checked this book out from his school library because the cover is exciting and appealing (that's my interpretation, not his.) We read it every other night for the week and then had to get it for him. The objections I read from the book reviewers I find ridiculous. The book's intended audience doesn't get the "Gilligan's Island", "Flipper" or "Lassie" references. They don't think Grandpa is dead. And they don't care if the illustrations are what an adult would call "lurid." So there are things off kilter that sink into adult minds, they don't sink into five year olds. My son just thought the book was cool, and, you know what, I tend to agree.

As someone who is trying to learn how to program on their own, the hardest thing to find is practical examples of how things might be done. Most authors are either too lazy to provide complete code, seem to have a problem with providing it, or are way out of touch with the needs of their audience. This book provides a wealth of very interesting ideas and applied examples. And the examples are complete, they are not just snippets where you have to guess how to fill in the rest of the blanks.

This book has allowed me to step to a new level of understanding; however, the quality of the implementation is appalling. These boys should be smacked for such shoddy editing. As the previous commentor remarked, it is an exercise in debugging. But in a strange way this hasn't been without its benefits. To get the programs to work, I was forced to really understand what the authors were trying to achieve, and as a result gained a better understanding of the programs; it even made think about how I might do things differently.

This is not a book for people who don't want to think who want it to work off the shelf. But from a learning point of view it has been extremely worthwhile to me; I have not seen another book out there with such large and engaging examples.

If you want to learn how to implement the LZW algorithm in your code, or do other commmon algorithms in C this book is for you. I found it very useful. As for the other 1-star reviews, I think that they did not review the title correctly. This is a book for experianced programmers looking to improve their code. I give this book 5-stars.

This is an excellent reference for all programmers of C. Not only are the authors well versed in their subject matter they convey their ideas and concepts well also. The date and time functions I found to be worth the price of the book itself. This is a must have for any serious C programmer!

Everyone knows that DK books are of the highest quality and standard when compared with other books. DK's Amazing Pop-up Pull out series ( The titles, which you might like to check it out, are: Body in a Book, Space Shuttle, TimeScape, Mummy and the Millenium Dome ) has been highly recommanded by teachers , parents, book reviewers and children who have enjoyed the book series. Unfortunately, the latest offering from DK, Amazing Pop-Up Pull-Out Trex book, does not show all of DK's high standards,
but it still is, a fun book to look at.

The first blunder of the book is that it doesn't gives what it promises at the back cover of the book, or what is stated in the sypnosis that you see above on Amazon.com. The book promises:'Flip the flaps to reveal its body parts; pull back the layers to see its skeleton.' When I examined the Pop-up, I found no flaps, no layers to flip or pull whatsoever. I couldn't even find a hint of T-Rex's interior in the giant Pop-up. What has happened to the flaps and layers? If it so not included why even mention it in the sypnosis of the book?

The second blunder of the book that it makes too much references to the movie: Jurassic Park, that you may think that this giant Pop-up poster is an ad for the movie itself. Though the author tries to use the movie as an analogy to describe T-Rex's way of life, in many instances, it is absolutely unneccesary.For example, while referring to the movie, the author mentioned that the characters in Jurassic Park attracts T-rex's attention. I see no relevance to T-Rex's way of life with this snippet. It seems that the author was trying to fill the book up with 'facts' about T-Rex.

However, with these two major blunders the good is still good fun, although it cannot match up to previous titles in the series. The book does give you not only a 4-foot tall T-Rex, but also a Pop up Trodon that is 1 foot long, which altogether makes an exciting 5-foot long Pop up to hang on the wall.

The book is also cramp full of facts. Other than the Jurassic Park snippets, it also gives reader an insight of fossils and dinosaurs related to the Tyrant king. Young children who read this book will be able to comprehen the facts easily as it is presented in a clear, distinct manner.

It is no lie when I say that the pop-up is simply enjoyable to look at,it features T-rex attacking a Trodon. And exciting hanging piece!

Overall, despite its blunders that was avoidable, Amazing Pop-Up Pull-Out T-Rex Book will make a great teaching tool for children of ages 5-12. It will also make a great present to anyone who loves dinosaur as this giant pop-up will definately thrill them to the core!

Yes, indeed, there are times when reading an early, possibly previously unknown or unpublished work by a favorite established author can be a joyous reading experience. Not so in this particular case, however. This one should have died aborning.

To be sure, anything written by Rex Stout cannot be other than gracefully written, while exhibiting a thorough knowledge of the setting and any other details necessary to the plot. This IS well-written, and as far as I can tell, an accurate recreation of the period of 1914, just before the outbreak of World War I, when there were still myriad little princedoms scattered about Europe, each with their own Prince. Or Duke, perhaps, although here we have a prince.

We have also a Mata Hari type who quite defies description! And a TSTL male lead character. (That means 'too stupid to live' for the uninitiated.) There is an ingenue, and a quite nice young diplomat and a villain who isn't really, plus the aforementioned prince.

Richard Stetton, a wealthy young American afflicted with wanderlust happens on a riot in Fasilica, wherever that is in middle Europe, somewhere, more near the Orient and Asia than the continental areas with which we're more familiar, such as France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and so forth. When he sees the out-of-control troops attack a convent, he rushes to assist anyone he can find. Thus he meets up with a devastatingly beautiful blonde, Aline Solini and her younger, orphaned friend, Vivi Janvour. Better he had run in the opposite direction several hours earlier. But he didn't, and for the next 300+ pages, the reader is treated to the impossible, the improbable, and the unbelievable.

Frankly, I cannot believe that Rex Stout approved this venture--having the 25 chapters put into book form, rather than being spread out over several months in the telling. Perhaps if one were to read it, one chapter per week, it would be more palatable and less laughable. It won't tarnish Stout's brilliant reputation, except to those who've never read the Nero Wolfe books. What a pity if it should discourage anyone from reading those books or the short stories or novellas about Nero and Archie and their cohorts, which are entirely splendid.

This effort, however, reeks of an attempt by someone to generate income using the defenseless author who died several years ago, and is no longer able to defend himself from such nefarious schemes.

Predictable. Non-satisfying climax. There are a couple of characters that are so positively dumb, you just want to slap the sh** out of them. Don't base your opinion of Rex Stout on this book. It reads fast but you'll just end up frustrated with the events.