Mr. Roberts continues the strong story about the story of a land in turmoil and the journey of a young man.
The story continues as the evil antagonist from the first two novels continues towards his goal as king of the world.
This time, the hero is one of the young sons of Hael, King and Hero from the first two books. Roberts keeps the theme of self-discovery going with personal insights to the young Prince, his companion and a brief look into the mind of Hael's enemy.
Again, Roberts' theme of self-discovery is the core of the book. The action and descriptives are wonderful, and I particularly enjoy all the touches of primitive technology and the implementations of technology, new and lost in a primitive society.

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I'm kind of an idiot, so something like tightning the alternator belt needs to be explained pretty clearly for me. This book shrugs that type of basic adjustment off. It spends a lot of time on things (like rebuilding the transmission) which I am never likely to do. .

Hint for publishers: Maybe what we need is better description of the basic things people might actually do: change belts, tighten belts, change and gap plugs, change rotors, charge batteries and so forth. Think of the Reader's Digest car guide, but focus on specific details of a given model.

I bought this manual for my 98 Accord. I wanted to remove steering column covers. The instruction said, remove three screws which I did & take out upper half & lower half. But it is not that simple, I ended up breaking my ignition key light.
This book assumes many things. If you are novice like me, it won't help you at all.

I bought this book from you guys about a month ago for my '99 accord. Just two days ago I did a brake job myself with the help of this book and it helped me greatly. It had detailed, step-by-step pictures and instructions for the entire procedure. My only gripe is that the instructions for removing the lower panel(to replace AC Filter) on the passenger side dash was a little vague and I ended up breaking it.. but its okay though, I put the panel back and the breakage is not noticeable. Great tips and everything for a person who wants to work on their own car and save some money while doing it.(I've already saved...in labor from doing my AC Filter and brakes myself) Overall a great book. =)

I picked this book up from the library and read it over the holidays since I didn't have anything else to do. While I do enjoy some science fiction, this one was remarkably boring. The authors simply don't have the talent necessary to create real suspense. In addition, this book doesn't feature any of the scientific creativity that marks any good SF works.

The Island Worlds is set a few hundred years in the future, when some humans have established colonies in the asteroid belt. The Earth, meanwhile, is controlled by one government, and a group of bureaucrats is trying to shut down the space exploration industry, leading to a war between the "good guys" in space and the "bad guys" from Earth. The ending of the book is entirely predictable, and there aren't any major plot events that you can't see coming well in advance. Overall, this book just doesn't stand out from the thousands of other SF titles out there.

I hoped this book would help me perform basic maintenance, make very minor repairs and have some idea of what the problem is when I have to take the car to the mechanic. Unfortunately, the book is very hard to understand and information is hard to find in it. Maybe a professional mechanic could understand it, but then a professional mechanic would be probably have official information from GM. The information may be accurate (I have no way of knowing), but this book makes little attempt to help out the beginner.