I have been a fan of Mr Howard for nearly 12 years now, which in my opinion, makes me a bit of a connoisseur, and frankly this book was a bit of a disappointment. Undoubtedly the contributing writers are well-respected and immensely able but their writing lacked the Howardian flavour I have come to love. Ghor's sudden personality shifts are hard to follow and the various ideas in the story lack sufficient depth. This book is not the way Mr Howard would have written it. Nevertheless, this should be read because the original idea belonged to the great REH.

Ghor is a nice blend of Conan and the Cthulhu Mythos together. Abandoned as a child because of a deformity, Ghor is adopted by a pack of wolves. Raised by them, he adopts the ways of the wolf, yet when he meets up with humanity joins them. Constantly struggling with his wolf upbringing and his human surroundings, Ghor becomes a mighty war hero wherever he goes.

This is an excellent adventure book that takes a Conan like hero and plots him against all sorts of evil (and good), including some Cthulhu creations as well.

Originally Ghor was an unfinished story by Conan creator Robert Howard. Upon finding this unfinished story, a magazine decided to finish it. What they did was have a different chapter every month written by a different top fantasy writer. It made the reading interesting.

While most of the chapters were great. Some were excellent. Unfortunately there were a couple chapters that I just wanted to get through to reach the next writers' chapter. Overall a really good read.

I WAS VERY SUPRISED ABOUT HOW WELL THIS STORY CAME OFF. THE VARIUOS WRITERS DID AN EXCELLENT JOB IN WRITING AN EXCITING BOOK THAT FLOWED SMOOTHLY. IT DID NOT COME OFF AS A SERIES OF SHORT STORIES. THIS IS AN EXCELLENT BOOK FOR ROBERT E. HOWARD FANS, AND FANS OF FANTASY IN GENERAL.

Author has included some email and web site information for ski area accomodations, tourist offices, etc, but it just touches the tip of the iceberg.

Verbier, Switzerland, one of the top ski areas in Europe, only gets 5 pages in the book. Does not provide any commentary on accommodations in Verbier other than number of stars in rating and prices. Some other large ski areas get better treatment. The Arlberg region gets 9 pages of coverage.

Book lacks maps of Europe and of ski areas.

Overall the book is a good starting place for researching a trip, but descriptive information is brief and basic. Still this book is the most recently published on the topic as of 10/98, so the currency of the information should be decent.

I live in Munich and use this book often as a reference. It contains very accurate information on lodging, prices, and qualities of the resorts. Very accurately summarizes the differences in the ski experience between the different countries.

Needs more detailed maps of the resorts and slopes with hotels, restaurants, etc. clearly marked. Needs to be more critical of some resorts so the reader can make a better decision about which one to visit.

Ski Europe was a great book for my winter stay in europe. The thing i liked most about it was that it was the only book i needed. It offered all the skiing info i needed for each resort (even a scection in each resort on snowboarding!), but it didn't stop there. Its an all around guide with info on the night life, hotels, and restaurants. it gave concice information about all the aspects of a skiing vacation, which made my off the slope hours much more productive. i strongly recomend this book for any skier or snowboarder, any level.
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As stated in the title, this book is about a French and Indian War Soldier. In this case it is a French soldier, which is different in that one usually doesn't get an account of military actions unless it is from an officer, nor does one usually get to hear things from the French side; usually we only can gather information from those presenting accounts from the British point of view.
The memoir covers the years 1751 through 1761. The soldier in question was with the French at George Washington's defeat at Fort Necessity, and at Braddock's defeat--along with other military action. The soldier, Jolicoeur Charles Bonin, gives us many tales of military actions and also a chapter on his views of Indian lives and customs. All of this is very interesting. There is also a bibliography of the sources used by the editor for the memoirs and for his notes. There is also an index which is always useful to those using the book for reference.
As stated by the editor of this edition of the book (published by Heritage), this account was first published by Abee Casgrain, then by the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, and finally by the present editor, Andrew Gallup. The good thing about this is that the present editor of this edition uses all the explanatory notes from all editions to explain what Bonin is talking about when things get confusing. Also, since Bonin didn't write his memoirs until about 50 years after the fact, he makes a lot of mistakes. For instance, he places Braddock's defeat in 1756, when in fact it was in 1755. However, Gallup in his notes straightens things out when errors such as this occur.
While most of history of the time has been covered by others, it is still enjoyable to read an account from the French point of view and from a common soldier. Every once in a while, however, Bonin sheds some light on a dark situation. For example, during the Battle of Braddock's Defeat, I have read many authors trying to figure out whether the French and Indians "flanked" the British on an early command or whether this happened later at the command of another, or whether the Indians just took it upon themselves. Bonin writes that it was the French plan to flank the British right from the beginning (of course, none of this makes any sense if one doesn't have a knowledge of Braddock's Defeat in 1755). Anyway, it is information like this that make the book interesting.
However, since Bonin writes nearly 50 years after he took part in all this action, and he makes so many mistakes, it also makes one wonder how much he has just plain forgotten and is wrong about. But, in any case, the memoirs are enjoyable and informative to read.
The production of the book, however, is poor. I have read many books published by Heritage Books, Inc. before and they were good quality publications, but his one is just bad. It looks like they simply took the editor's original typed pages, copied them and shrunk them down to size to fit in the book. The type is bad. If one remembers back when typewriters used to have "ribbons," and one remembers what it looked liked when someone kept typing when the ribbon was going bad, then you can visualize what the type looks like in this book. Besides that, the text isn't even "justified." That is, the right margin of the text is not even-the lines of test end at various points just like when one types a letter on an old typewriter. This raggedy appearance along with the poor type doesn't make this a pretty looking book. This books selling price puts it in the hardback price range, but it is only a softback book, and with bad type besides.
This is an entertaining and enjoyable book to read, and the editor of the book did a good job on his part, but the book costs too much for a softback book with the quality of the printing this one exhibits. I rated this book low only because of the price and the poor quality of the book-makers work. Note, however, that this is not a condemnation of Heritage books in general, as every other book I have seen of theirs is of good quality. I just wonder what happened to this one. And in the end, if Heritage hadn't published it again, then we couldn't read it to begin with, so I guess one just as to take the good with the bad.

This is an annotated transcription of the account of an old soldier. It has 240 pages, an index, maps, bibliography, and list of Indian tribal names.

Accounts from this period are not common. French and enlisted accounts are extremely rare. "Jolicoeur" Charles Bonin's tale is loaded with detail and insight. A REAL TREAT!

The author, Andrew Gallup, provides helpful points of information gleaned from extensive knowledge and experience as a reenactor.

I was a bit disappointed in this book. It would seem that these guys had an old A-C day on a farm, then got a camera and decided to take pictures and make a book. There are alot of colorful pictures of reconditioned tractors, but I was looking for a more data based and historical account of A-C.

brief narrative,uses same picture over and over,would not reccomend!!!

This book covers the whole spectrum of Allis Chalmers farm equipment from the Roto-Baler to the newest four-wheel-drive models introduced before the AGCO takeover. It provides interesting facts about failures of some of the tractors and successes with technological advances that were made by AC. I found it a very fascinating book with wonderful pictures that are the signature of the Enthusiast Color Series.

My only complaint about this book is the way the pictures of the same tractor are repeated again and again at different angles. The captions are written in such a way that the intention of the authors appears to be to make the reader believe they are different tractors. Close inspection shows that they are shots of the same tractor taken on the same day. (For example, the same AC 6-12 is shown on pages 10, 11, and 12).

I am writing a final paper on this book at the moment. Chestnutt is an important writer, but not one of the best of the period. I don't think he ever got the chance to fully mature as a writer. This book leaves me with a lot of what-ifs and whys. For example, he introduces a nephew to the heroine who appears as though he will be important, but simply drops out of the picture. The book leaves me wondering what he meant to do, and didn't have time for. It is a good read, but rather frustrating.

If you only have time to read one African American classic, I would turn you instead to Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Are Watching God" which is truly amazing!

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If you like to see the English language --- the Queen's English, that is to say --- subjected to the most vicious of butcherings and prententious, pedantic doodeling, than I think this books will be right up your alley. I, however, prefer such masters of Her Majesty's language as Judith Butler, Gayatri Spivak, Hobi Baba, ann Michael Hardt. Not.

. . . and completely dishonest--these folks affect a vague anti-capitalist stance, but really. Charles Bernstein was the star of a commercial for the Yellow Pages broadcast during the Super Bowl. How much did you get for that, Chuck? Gave the money to the masses, did you? Ah, but his poetics of interference is busily subverting the established economic order! What arrogant, smirking, privileged garbage. If you fall for this crap, it's because you long to believe you're stupid and this grade-school nonsense is deep.

Bernstein is one of the great poets in the world today and this is a brilliant insight into the poetics of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E "school". If you have any serious interest in poetry and poetics, you should read this book.

A Dickens Christmas story is meant to be read in front of the fire with children gathered 'round. As configured in this particular ebook format you cannot do anything but sit in front of your screen and read ninety pages of nineteenth century prose. Not useful at all! This ebook would be far more usefull if, for example, you could copy or print it onto holiday paper. Since this story is in the public domain, blocking those options in this ebook is silly.

When Dickens was good, he was very very good. When he was bad, he was wordy and sappy and boring. Did you ever wonder why you never heard of the three stories in this book? Because they're so unremarkable! The title story is the best; i.e. it's the only one that's even readable. Do yourself a favor, don't read this book

The book has hair ideas that only a child would wear from age 5-8yrs. All the hairstyles are hair that sticks straight up or is unnatural looking. I HATE THIS BOOK