I was really excited to read this book after hearing someone talk about it. I looked forward to an insight on Bill's struggle with depression and also hearing the guidance he received from Father Dowling. In that way, the book did not disappoint. The letters are great. My complaint is the way this book is written. I am an avid reader, yet this book makes very little sense! I do not understand the authors point, his interpretations, why he even grouped sections of letters together. He doesn't seem to have a theme, that I can see. I still think this book is worth having in your collection, just for the letters.

This is product is nothing more than a way to squeeze a little more money from the pockets of die-hard Star Wars RPG fans. The character sheet is already available in PDF format for FREE from Wizards.com, (which could have easily been done with the vehicle sheet).

Bottom line. Don't waste your money. Download the PDF and print free copies.

I enjoy the new version of Star Wars and play it frequently, but I made a mistake buying these sheets. An option is to instead photocopy the one given to you in the core rules ten times. If you do that, you pretty much have this supplement.

There is a vehicle/starship sheet in here, but let's be honest, you don't like the vehicle/starship rules anyways, and are anxiously awaiting the update this December to see if they address it in any reasonable fashion.

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The sheets for droids, starships and vehicles are nice, but 10 copies of the SAME character sheet?! C'mon!! Why do we need multiple copies if permission is given to photocopy? I think WotC could have spent a little more time on this and produced a separate character sheet for each class (like with D&D 3E).

This book starts out with some good overview chapters of Windows DNA-- relating all the various technologies (SQL Server, Visual Basic COM, MTS, ADO, ASP, and DHTML) in an easy-to-read way. It also promises to guide the reader through creating a DNA application (a simple online banking application) through examples and exercises in each chapter (This walkthrough approach was the main reason I chose this title over the Wrox book).

While the early chapters on system design and data stayed well-focused on relating each new concept to the online bank example, the remaining chapters did not. Instead, the authors presented only very basic code snippets, unrelated to the sample application, and many of which contained typos or were otherwise non-working (as of this date, the publisher's website still does not offer errata or fixed code samples for this book). For this reason, I cannot recommend this title to a beginner or intermediate programmer/analyst. Since the content is focused towards these groups, advanced programmers will likely pass up this book in favor of the Wrox title. I sure wish I had!

Once again, a juvenile book under the guise of science containing dreadful experiments has been published. But why? The so-called figures are silly pen drawings that add absolutely nothing to understanding what little concepts Wood has presented. But it has such a slick cover and wonderful feeling pages that folks will be hard-pressed to pass it up, especially librarians.