The guide was pretty much perfect! What can I say? Probably what could've helped it was that it could have been in color (I know its a pocket guide but still...), but in the end I know it would make no difference. But some of the maps would've been clearer if the guide was in color.

What I like about the maps is that they are taken straight from the game and not handdrawn. Oh well, the guide was good, giving a great walkthrough. It also covers the classic super mario bros game so its great when you have to go somewhere and yout can't bring in this huge book (ie. Versus Books and Prima) when you can easily put it in your pocket and then take it out whenever you need it.

Okay, as much as the next person I like maps too, and while this guide didn't have any, that doesn't matter cuz the level of detail in the walkthrough was good enough for me!

The amount of time they took to put this guide together makes this a very good guide. They were very content on helping you get started in a section dedicated to completely helping you learn the basics. They explain the use of items. The explain all the enemies and ways to defeat them.

The walkthrough was very good. While it didn't have maps who cares? The other two guides had maps and they weren't even the best! What made the walkthrough good was that they had a quick reference guide in the back and that was only to help you find mushrooms, ace coins, and yoshi eggs if you wanted to get through the level in a hurry. Crystal clear screenshots basically dominated.

The secrets were well done while I still was able to find some tricks that I was stupidly trying out to see if they worked (and did but hey they were stupid), they actually told me what would happen if I got all the Ace coins in the game, they actually TOLD me what would happen if I collected all the yoshi eggs too.

They completely covered the Super Mario Bros. classic very easily. The guide was so detailed. I have to recommend this guide out to anyone there is. While it still isn't the best its better than the other two I saw. Keep this in mind because the guide is very decent and well put together.

this game is undoubtitly cool and i dont know any that would'nt like this game.but i know my brotheronly,game over every 30 sec.

it thought it was really good and all people who play nintendo should get this book

This is a very short but sweet book about a city cat who moves to the country and discovers the "wildness" that is his birthright. It is written from the cat's point of view. The author seems to get right inside the mind of a cat as if he were one in an other life! This book is a must for true cat lovers. I can't wait for any forthcoming volumes!!

The Top 7000 Corporations is an indispensable Business tool. A comprehensive guide to the "Movers and shakers" of Philippine Business. Every office in the Philippines should have one.

Mario Bunge gives us some creative solutions for the semantic problems in science. He shows that we cannot discuss scientific realism without a good theory of reference. If we believe that scientific theories talk about the world we live in, we should solve an enormous amount of semantic problems.Bunge has some interesting answers.

This book was recommended to me several times by bonairenses when I asked them: "Who are the great Argentine authors?" Nevermind that Benedetti is Uruguayo, only residing in Buenos Aires, this book is a phenomenal work of prose and I would recommend it to any one.

Benedetti narrates the final months of a man's working life. When he falls in love with a younger woman he must come to terms with the loss of his wife many years prior, the estrangement of his children, the antics of a colleague, and mortality.

The writing is honest and crisp, non-judgemental and refreshing. It's also an excellent introduction to Benedetti as it's incredibly short.

I admit that I have not read this book in English, and in castellano Benedetti uses slang unique to Uruguay (similar to Argentina). Certainly some of the flavour of the book will be lost in the translation, though with a good translator its rich emotions ought be lost on no one.

Cheers!

As you can easily guess from the title of this seventh Mario Balzic mystery, Christmas is threatening Rocksburg, Pennsylvania and it becomes obvious fairly quickly in "Upon Some Midnights Clear" that Balzic has good reason for dreading the holidays. Ed Sitko, the chief of the city's volunteer firefighters calls to tell Balzic about Mrs. Gabin, who was mugged of...in Christmas money and demands to know what the chief of police is going to do about it. But before Balzic can get around to investigating the case Sitko has his men out collecting money for the victim and the more Balzic looks into what happened, the less he likes it. However, Balzic's life is nothing if not extremely complicated and in trying to clean up this mess he has to deal not only with the bigoted fire chief but a newspaper columnist who has little regard for the truth unless it suits her needs, an alienated Vietnam vet and his friends who are tired of being blamed for losing the war, and a small time criminal who always manages to worm his way out of trouble. When Balzic finds himself in Musconi's listening to the old crime boss give him advice, he knows that Christmas is going to be anything but merry.

"Upon Some Midnights Clear" is the Mario Balzic mystery that K.C. Constantine needed to write at this point in the series because the character had been dangerously close to wallowing in self-pity. Certainly he has been ignoring his family way too much in the last few novels, whose plot lines have threatened to consume his soul. When you have a character who able to enforce his sense of justice on those around him not just because of his personality but because of his position of power it becomes important for the reader to feel such a person is connected to the real world and not off rambling around their own little kingdom. Being nice to the wife and kids is important because of the grounding it provides Balzic.

Constantine's approach remains the same. Balzic engages in a series of conversations in order to work his way to the truth of a given situation. This time around he is haunted by more than his usual share of doubts, which compels him to several key moments of self-reflection. Maybe just writing about Christmas was enough to get Constantine to lighten up a bit with regards to both Balzic and what happens in Rocksburg, because I certainly did not have the sense of wallowing in dirt and filth like I had after some of these novels, especially the previous effort, "Always a Body to Trade." Something approaching a happy ending, even if it means justice comes in the form of a man getting away with a crime for which he is guilty being punished for one in which he is innocent, is definitely a welcome relief. Balzic will almost certainly be back in the trenches, but at least this time around he gets the most important thing right.