Since there are not many guides on Korea and Seoul in particular, there isn't much competition and it shows. This book, relative to Frommers (which doesn't have a Korea guide), has some very brief descriptions of hotels and places to eat. The most unsatisfying part of the book is the outdated/mis-placed view of the Korean people. For example, the author has a brief section called "Macho Posturing" in which he states, "Watch out for aggressive locals [at night]...Some Korean men (like their western counterparts) can get very cocky after a few beers.' Well, if they are like their western counterparts, then why mention it? I doubt you will find a section like this in a guidebook to Canada. Very unfortunate.

While I usually never go anywhere without an LP guide in my pack, this one really disappoints. Detailed descriptions and directions are totally lacking. I was able to find out more from my own exploring and using the Korea National Tourist info, than from this guide. If you go to Korea, buy the Insight Guide to Korea for a very informative introduction, and not to mention a great read.

I have been to Seoul several times, so my primary interest in using this book was to find places I haven't seen. For that, it was no help whatsoever. In the "places to see" section, it missed a number of interesting sights such as Tongmyo shrine, the Royal Tombs, and a number of others. It also gave threadbare descriptions of excursions outside Seoul. For example, I wanted to know how to get to nearby Kanghwa island. The book gives a few directions but then tells us to "ask how to get to such and such place." Why buy a guidebook with that advice? Even more infuriating, I noticed in the map section that it shows exactly how to get there, but the author failed to refer to his own map. I think this book needs to be fattened-up and re-edited.

Why do I have to wait 4 to 6 weeks before my book is in stock? I fear my swimming pool will be assimilated as part of the Florida Everglades by the time I get my book and figure out what to do. Please respond

Charlie Taylor uses cartoons and light, easy prose to make the process of learning swimming pool chemistry and maintenance fun and amusing. He mastered his subject in the 70's and 80's, yet his advice holds remarkably true some 20 years later in an industry that has made huge intellectual and technical progress. This book is for first time pool owners who wish to tend their own pool without floundering in a mire of detail.

It was sooo Long and boring, and for the first 10-20 pages you had not a clue what was happening.

Hyde wasn't so bad. I thought the story could have been more of a story and less of a correspondence. It could have had more adventures of Hyde and less letters.

When I brought this book, I expect to read about the modern pro and con of actions of Robert E. Lee. Instead, what I got was a superifical biography on Lee and some summary judgement of his actions based on the author's say so. So where is that debate of Lee's critics?? Many people like to dismissed Lee's critics as revisionists but they got it backward. While Lee was alive, he was soundly critized in many circles by veterans of Confederacy and by his foes. It was only after Lee's death did this mythology of Lee's greatness took on a godly scale as the reconstruction period was ending. This period of Lee's mythology is the true period of revisionism which did not really end until Thomas Connelly came out with the Marble Man which brought Lee back to Earth and where author critized without merit. This book lack any depth and appears to be pretty shallow work. If the author wanted to back up Lee, do with so with evidence and logic. Just saying so don't mean much. This book will probably go back to the used book store soon......

Taylor's book is a satisfactory survey of Lee's life. Unfortunately, that is not how the book is billed. Taylor purports to answer Lee's critics. I'm squarely in his camp; I find much of the criticism of Lee to be scholarly opportunism: an attempt to make a name through iconoclasm. Taylor is right when he notes that the attempt to puncture the Lee myth went too far, but he fails to convincingly demonstrate why. He brings up specific criticisms infrequently, inadequately lays out the critic's argument, and often dismisses the criticism without having made a convincing case of his own. His arguments concerning Lee's attitudes toward slavery are never fully convincing, for example. This is particularly distressing when one can see that, in most cases, the convincing counterargument is there, waiting to be made. By constructing his book in the format of a chronological narrative, Taylor lost the opportunity to level a blast at academic graverobbers. A book aimed at answering Lee's critics needs to spend a great deal more time and effort on the critics and their arguments. To Taylor's credit, he never attempts to whitewash information damaging to one of his points. He tries to be complete in his portrayal, and that alone makes this a worthwhile read.

If you think this book details the divurgence of American culture in the 1800s, you will be disappointed. Author spends too much time encapsulating the plots of dozens of novels, some of them rather obscure. His main point of the south as a declining culture and thus a culture winding its way to secession out of frustration is dubious. Author spends a lot of time detailing the decline of Virginia's worn out tobacco plantations but chooses not to discuss the spectacular economic growth of the South's western cotton plantations.

I challenge you Mr. Will Wong to a duel. Ill slice you and dice you with my knife.

In this world of endless struggle and crisis, you need a book that would get you along in the world of accounting. Unfortunately, this book is a disappointment to the GAAP. Like my good buddies said, the author did not organize the topics well...this and that mumbo-jumbo. I have to teach it to my students my own way. Right now we only use the book for the questions. The questions are so hard too for my students. Everytime the homeworks are due, people come to me and bug me. People like...well..I don't wanna mention names here. In conclusion, people of the world unite to overthrow this book from academic acceptance it currently enjoys and on to the pile of rubble.

This book talks about accounting in a limited way. Whereas it says that it aims to present accounting to the reader regardless of his/her background, the book certainly fails to do so. Organization of information is poorly executed, and lack of depth and non-randomization of scenarios make the readers' perspective quite limited.