This is an excellent book if you're looking to bring a westie into your life. It's full of health care information and explains the feisty personality of these wonderful dogs. If you're not an active person a westie is not for you

The book is a sweet tale of a retired pirate who befriends alittle boy. The text reads smooth and fast and the illustrations arebeautifully done. The tale shows how people are different from how they apprear on the outside. The boy (6 years old) is determined to befriend the old pirate by leaving him gifts. My children love the book...

Although I consider myself a cat lover, I thought this book went a little overboard. The author makes you feel guilty if you let your cat go outside, or if you don't clean the litterbox every single day. She even advocates feeding your cat vegan food. The book does have some useful tips, but I didn't think it was very realistic.

This book taught me how to understand the language that cats use in communicating with each other and with humans. Although I've shared my home with cats nearly all my life, I've been oblivious to the body language that is now so obvious, once I knew what to look for.

I also found the book to be a good guide to health-related topics. So many people take risks with their cats' health by choosing the wrong kinds of food, litter, etc., or by not knowing how to choose the right vet, and they also miss a lot of opportunities to help their cats enjoy life more and to have a bit of intellectual stimulation, if I can put it that way. This book is the first one I've seen that deals with these topics in such a practical way.

Her writing style is also very funny. I really like the stories she includes and her turn of phrase. I hope to see more from her.

This was a great book. It really lets you see it from the cat's perspective. I read it last night and my cat is more respontive. It gave clues about cat's body language and how to talk to them. I strongly recommend this book. :)

This was going to be the only book I was going to buy after Diana's death, since I have been collecting books, etc. written about her since 1981. I bought it, read it, and found it to be so incredibly out-dated and full of lies (pre-Andrew Morton bulemia confession, etc.) that I returned it to the store to get my money back.

This is the best book on Diana ever written.There are a lot of great "picture books", but this tells great details about her life(as we all thought it was)If my house was on fire,and I could only grab one of my MANY Diana books,this would be it.7,000 stars,five does not do it justice!!

This book has pictures that I've not seen elsewhere. It also has interesting descriptions of Diana's home, indepth information about her working day, and insights on her personality.

The most pleasing thing about this book is that it is unbiased. I am also glad that it is straight-forward with no mud-slinging and no sensationalism. Unlike Princess Diana books coming into bookstores in the near future, this book does not cheapen her memory.

I didn't like Maurice's Room because the book had absolutely no excitement. The descriptions were very good but the story had no meaning to it. The book was very boring. I had to force myself to read this book because it was so boring. I could see that there was no point in reading a story without excitement, adventure and without any point. Maurice's Room had no problem or solution, which made it very boring, but everything was pretty good.
I DO NOT recommend Maurice's Room to anybody. I'd rate this book from one to five, five being the best, a two and a half.

I thought the story Maurice's Room should be rated a 3.5. It was good, but it just didn't catch my attention.
I liked the story because it was about a boy who had a different hobby from most boys. Maurice collected everything. When somebody collects something and keeps adding and adding to his or her collection, in the end it pays off. When someone in a book collects something, that character usually has a very different point of view about the objects he or she is collecting, and that makes the story interesting.
I disliked the book because Maurice didn't have a very busy schedule. He played trumpet, but that was a disaster. There also wasn't any excitement because he had a really boring life. I think he should have gone on some adventures; it might have made the story more exciting.

Maurice is a young boy who lives in a city. He loves to collect anything and everything. Maurice's parents don't approve of his collecting. The janitor of his apartment building, Mr. Klenk, finds stuff for Maurice to add to his collections. Because Maurice's parents are getting fed up of not being able to walk into his room thanks to the mess, they think about moving to the country, where they hope Maurice will have less things to collect. Will they move or will Maurice out grow his love for collecting? Read the book and find out.
On a scale from one to five, five being the highest, I'd give the book a four. The plot was good, but it was a bit confusing in parts. For example, it took me a while to figure out that Maurice was a boy. I also had to re-read a couple of other parts before they made sense.
The author, Paula Fox, used good descriptive words. She makes the reader actually feel like they were there, not just reading about it. I would reccomend "Maurice's Room" to kids ages 9 to 12.

I am a HUGE Donna Karan fan and could not wait for this book to be releases, but I was extremely disappointed when I recieved it. The first few pages are an interview with Karan. Every question asked is answered in her press release and is talked about in just about every magazine article ever written about her. The other 65 or 70 pages are old pictures of her clothes. Most of the pictures are old ads and if you follow her collections, you have already seen them. My advise is to call Patti Cohen's office and ask for a press release or to start reading magazine articles about Karan. It is a lot less expensive and is more informative.

I would highly recommend this book for Donna Karan fans. The interview portion of the book is excellent - Donna tells how she revolutionized the fashion world by designing clothes for REAL women with REAL figures, not runway models. As a male, I appreciated it greatly when she branched out into menswear in the early 90's. I have a number of DKNY and Donna Karan New York Jackets, Shirts, Jeans, Sweaters, Vests, Athletic Gear, etc. and now I have a great coffee table book on Donna, America's #1 Fashion Designer!

I wish publishers would stop saying Anne Rice is the 'queen of vampire literature'. She is not an author I care to read. Also, I'm not crazy about Tanith Lee. I always feel like I've missed the point of her stories. Halfway through this book I had to struggle to finish the stories. The first half of the book (other than the Anne Rice story) was fine, then the stories got weird/uncomfortable. That being said, if you like the vampire myth, there are a lot of good/great stories in this book. My favorite is Jack by Connie Willis. Oh, and how come Laurel K Hamilton didn't have a story in this collection?

In my quest to read all things vampire, I had purchased this book some few months ago. I kept putting off starting to read it, daunted not only by its size (624 pages) but also by the fact that all the stories were written by women and I feared the majority of them would be nothing more than "bodice rippers." The back cover of the book said there were stories by some of my favorite authors, some of those being Poppy Z. Brite, Nancy A. Collins, and Nancy Kilpatrick; and though I also like Anne Rice's works, I bristled at the publisher's reference to her as "the undisputed queen of vampire literature," which reference only gave me further pause in making a decision to read the book. If they considered her writing to be the epitome, then how could I possibly trust their judgment as to the rest of the stories contained in the anthology? Nevertheless, I decided to read it, at the very least thus decreasing my "to be read" book pile by 624 pages!

Was I ever pleasantly surprised, especially after opening it up only to discover that Anne Rice's "The Master of Rampling Gate" was the first one in the book! Of the 34 stories in this anthology, only two or three failed to hold my full interest; and several presented very enjoyable, unique twists on the meaning of vampire. If asked to name my favorites, it would be difficult, but they would probably be "Services Rendered" by Louise Cooper (a story with an ending you can't help but figure out and yet it made me mentally shout, "No! No! No! Don't do it!" and enjoy it just the same); "Butternut and Blood" by Kathryn Ptacek (a story set in a makeshift field hospital during the Civil War and a bedridden soldier helplessly watching Death come closer each night); "Venus Rising on Water" by Tanith Lee (about something that comes to earth through a portal opened by an astrologer's telescope, and a really creepy painting!); "A North Light" by Gwyneth Jones (it's hard to figure out if there's really two or three vampires in this tale that takes place in an out-of-the-way B&B in Ireland!); and "Jack" by Connie Willis (an unforgettable, rather sad story set during the London Blitzkrieg). Overall, I found all the stories to be haunting more than horrifying, ethereal more than erotic. It struck me as a book I might give to friends to read as a way of introducing them to the vampire genre; there is so much more to it than Dracula, and I am so often ridiculed and misunderstood for my interest in it. I gave the book 4 stars because I enjoyed almost all of the stories in this anthology, and will most likely read several of them a second time or more.

I gave up on this novel on page 17. The writing is muddled and the plot is unclear: the characters are gathered in Denver for a high school reunion, and one of our heroine's friends is murdered. Our heroine is not a suspect because she was caught on videotape at Mile High Statium at the time of the crime, but she seems to be being questioned like a suspect anyway. Why? The her lover vanishes shortly after the murder. Why?--she wonders. Why, indeed?

The author seems to affect a disjointed writing style in order to reflect the ditzy personality of her main character, Ingrid. It doesn't work. Punt.

I enjoyed Ms. Dietz's Beat Up a Cookie and eagerly read this title, only to be disappointed by a story and writing I thought lackluster compared to the other title. I thought it clever to include a supporting player from the other book (Lt. Miller), thus connecting the two series, but I'm sorry to say this book did not enthrall me. I thought some of the dialogue silly and unbelievable at times, and the relationship between Ingrid and her boyfriend odd.

Maybe it's just me, but I found it strange that a former couple who had not seen each other in years could resume a sexual relationship like nothing had happened. Also, I would like to have seen more of Hitchcock the dog. The "co-starring" line on the book cover misled me a bit -- I was expecting something along the lines of Rita Mae's Mrs. Murphy stories where the pets have a larger role in the mystery.

I would recommend to anyone interested in reading Ms. Dietz to read her Ellie Bernstein mysteries. They are well-written.

This book is full of interesting, grainy characters, one of which is a dog named Hitchcock. The storyline is good, there is a neat puzzle to be solved. The book is funny, gritty, intelligent and a good book to "read in one gulp." I am looking forward to more books by this author.

You can always debate whether this book is "art" or not, but the fact is I am worried about what happened to some of the subjects. Helmut? Are you okay? I think Mapplethorpe wanted to shock, and he did, but I found the pictures had too much pain in them to be appreciated. I was deadened to what Mapplethorpe wanted to say, if he wanted to say anything at all. Ouch, ouch, ouch.

This collection of pictures is bound in a good quality cover and printed on a glossy paper of reasonable quality.

The images themselves are, in the main, sex pictures; S&M pictures; and a few portraits. The sex pictures are quite grotesque, concentrating as they do on the pain, blood, urine, bondage and so on. Whether you'll enjoy these depends on your view of the subject. Personally, I didn't find them uplifting or illuminating. The models were sullen, looked unhappy, or downright sad: but then I suppose if your... has been nailed to a plank you're entitled to be a little shaken!

The few portraits included in this volume were entirely unpleasing, and not representative of Mapplethorpe's better work. They offered no real insight ot the subjects, who remained cold and aloof, detached it seems from the process of making art.

This is a collection of many of Mapplethorpe's more 'sensational' and 'shocking' images. Whether you are affronted or not they do deserve inspection, if only to see what the 'conservatives' tried to ban. You might actually feel repulsed and agree that these pictures are not art but pornography.

artistic and powerful, i recommend it

I normally love books and I love getting into them. But this good got you into it but it left you hanging at the end it just finish and you never had any questions answered. You don't know if anyone goes to jail, if the little girl gets better or other MAJOR details. I have to be honest, this is one of the worst books I have ever read. I know that's harsh, but it's true. If you really want to read this book don't waste your money to get it. Get it from a library.

Webber Freegy is a fifteen year old star runner on his high school track team. While sprinting home from school one afternoon, his grandfather pulls up along side him and offers him a ride to the mall. He also promises young Webber a new pair of running shoes. Webb is the apple of his grandpa's eye and on the ride to the mall, he convinces Grandpa to allow him to drive on a lonely stretch of road. The story flashes forward with Webber waking up in a hospital room with a badly shattered leg. He is told that Grandpa hit a little girl on the road and that she is in extremely bad condition. Webber is dazed and confused about the specifics, but slowly he regains his memory and realizes that he was driving the car when it hit the little girl. Grandpa tells Webber that he(Grandpa) is going to take the blame for the accident and that Webber should try to put it behind him. Instead, the rest of the book examines Webber's personal battle with trying to keep this horrible secret. He is devastated by what he has done and takes a deep look inside himself for answers about his father's death, his own worthiness to be alive, his future as a runner, and his relationship with Grandpa. Webber Freegy is a refreshing fifteen year old who desires to take responsibility for his actions. He deals with some very adult issues, much like many young people do today. Very realistic material! Good classroom reading!

I think the book was very good because it felt like you were in the book with Webber. He went through many challenges but he made it through them. The story is sad and also at the same time exciting. Anyone who reads my review should check out this book.