It looses a star for being too wordy and overly technical sounding (kill the adverbs, Wolf). Learning to play guitar is not complicated, nor does it take a music degree to be a Stevie Ray Vaughan (just lots of hard work, dedication, love of music and talent!). Like myself, many guitar players (SRV included) never took time to learn to read music. Just remember, the riffs are in the chords. If you want to learn to play like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Hendrix, or other guitar greats, this book will help. I think Stevie would have been flattered by the nice tributes Wolf gives him.

The Solar Food Dryer book is well organized. The blueprints and cutting diagrams are excellant. The pouch within the book that holds the blueprints after they are detached from the book has meant that my copy, more than 15 years old, is still intact.

The faults lie in the suggested glazing materials for the solar collector. The book was published in 1981, and after a thorough search I have not been able to locate any of the plastic films in the materials list. Feel free to e-mail me with glazing suggestions.

Its villain is a pint- sized minor lawman,Henry Decket,whose aspiration to bigger and better things becomes more realistic when he captures a notorious outlaw Shotgun Travers,who ,however,manages to escape.Decket is nothing if not tresourceful however and when he encounters the hero of the tale ,Clay Santel,a man bearing a close resemblance to Travers he palns to substitute him for the outlaw and shoot him "while trying to escape".Santell,displaying an understandable reluctance to go along with this notion flees with Decket and the posse in pursuit.
The plot movess swiftly to its conclusion taking in a romance between Santell and the chaste Melissa all being told in a clear uncluttered prose which conveys a sense of pace and intelligence
Its a variant on the old "Chase"plot and enjoyable unpretentious writing