Bond Reviews

This book really sux. If u want to get it, then u r a idiot!

TRUST ME, I KNOW!!

I couldn't allow Jeff Rovin's ADVENTURE HEROES to be represented by only one derogatory review. In this book, Mr. Rovin continues his ongoing quest to familiarize his readers with the wide range of science fiction and fantasy characters that have been presented throughout history. I might quarrel with some aspects of Mr. Rovin's alphabetical system (The tv show wasn't called "Lt. Columbo," so why should the entry have been under the "L"s?), and, of course, Mr. Rovin's selection process is, as always, occasionally questionable (Where were the kids from the tv show "Dungeons and Dragons"? Where was Kolchak? Why give space to a one-shot parody of Sgt.s Fury and Rock? If you're going to include Rama, then why not delve further into various other religions? How do some golden-age comic book adventurers rate inclusion while others do not? And will we ever be treated to more than casual glances at the literatures and popular cultures of other countries?), but this book remains an excellent example of its type; with so many characters to choose from, we can't expect Mr. Rovin to get to them all, and he does pretty well by the ones he includes. Aside from the above, the only real complaint I can offer about this book is that the cover features Doc Savage so prominently, but, since Doc was covered in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SUPER-HEROES, the book does not discuss him at all. As noted, no book of this type can ever hope to be all-inclusive, but for a look at several American adventure characters of the first half of this century, most of whom Mr. Rovin had no space for, I strongly recommend Robert Sampson's six-volume series YESTERDAY'S FACES.

False assumptions leads one to false conclusions. The author has not done their homework in researching exactly what happened.
To say Milken precipitated the S&L crisis is simply not true and ignores the facts. But then again, authors need to sell books.
Less fodder and more critical thinking would have been appreciative.

A loose account of innuendos woven together haphazardly without illuminating the reader with anything even remotely substantive or factual. To say Milken caused, or had anything to do with the S&L crisis, is not only wrong, it is insulting to anyone who has taken the time to study the events and understand the facts. The author has evidently decided to rely on hearsay evidence to back up pre-assumed (and ultimately false) conclusions.

The back of the book highlights are the tip of the iceberg to a great book... and is right on:

"The world of Michael Milken--a world in which he could:

*Orchestrate the creation of a whole network of federally insured saving & loans to which he could sell vastly overvalued Drexel junk bonds--at a cost of billions of dollars to depositors and taxpayers;

*Pump up from nothing an insurance company network, induce it to buy his junk bonds, and then watch it fail, throwing hundreds of thousands of policyholders into panic;

*Own a powerful stake in a prestigious bond-rating house that actually rated his own bonds;

*Take a well-regarded national chain of daycare centers and make it a captive of the Drexel machine, force-feeding it junk until it collapsed;

*Command a national network of journalists who would write that Milken was doing good works even after he was in prison.

This is the world of Michael Milken, a financial manipulator so powerful that he was, in the words of the author, Benjamin J. Stein, "...almost a force of nature." " This is a great book! Get it.

Other suberb, outstanding must reads on the Milken subject: "Den of Thieves" by James B. Stewart; and "The Predators's Ball" by Connie Bruck. Three great reads on Michael Milken. Any other recommended good books on the subject?

Ask anyone who has (1) a working knowledge of explosives (or more accurately, pyrotechnics) and (2) gone through the wheat and the chaff of pyrotechnics literature what they think of Kurt Saxon's body of work, and you'll doubtlessly receive a litany of 4-letter words I can't write here. He does not know what he's talking about, and he has done very little of what writes about. One of the few times he put his own life on the line--rather than his readers'--he lost part of his hand.

Please, read it for the entertainment value, but nothing else.

This travesty is filled with useless and inaccurate misinformation which could quite easily result in an experimenter being maimed, blinded or killed. The illustrations are so crudely rendered they might as well have been drawn with a crayon. Only the first twenty-or-so pages are original material -- the remainder of the book consists of nearly illegible photocopies of obsolete pyrotechnics and ballistics patents and similar filler material. A disgusting waste of paper!

This is the ultimate "how-to" book. If u got any interests in the survival movement this is a must. Read it and understand why Kurt Saxon is the greatest author/publisher of survival works

If you want to read a good book, do not read this. All James Bond does in it is walk around Russia wearing Mukluks. The book could have been made a lot better if it had some decent action scenes in it to sustain it, but all it has is a part where James Bond rolls over the bonnet of a car and stuffs up his shoulder, a short gun battle at a chalet in Russia which is hardly worth mentioning and a final skirmish in my home town of Baku, which is at least some violent relief for us. The plot makes no sense, as do some characters that change sides later on in the story. Why? Why?

This book is a departure that I think failed. It is a Bond story with very littl action and lots and lots of boring dialog. If this was your first exposure to a Bond novel, don't give up. Read some of the original Ian Fleming books and have a ball.

Amazing! THE MAN FROM BARBAROSSA is full of wild action-packed stunts and action. James Bond is forced to fight against a secret group called The Scales of Justice who want to control Russia and wish to film an legal trial of a spy. If you're searching for thrills, this is the book for you. It is fulled of action, and the besat part is when James Bond fights the men in the house. Disagree with the one and two stars and go for the five, You will be happy with results if you read John Gardner's best. Others best include the action-fulled ICEBREAKER, NO DWEALKS MR BOND and COLD FALL and BROKEN CLAWS.

Forced to read this for a project - couldn't. I made up stuff rather than finishing this. Not too pleasant experience. go buy a parot instead. Its probably less anoying.

As a naturalist and native of New Zealand, I was eager to purchase this book about one of my favorite New Zealand creatures, the kea. I must, however, express my disappointment. This book is not only flawed in places (especially concerning the kea's behavior), but it is also exceedingly dry.

The kea may be an interesting bird, but this book is not. As painfully tedious as a college textbook, this book lacks personality. If you need information on the kea, stick to your internet browser and spare yourself the time.

Listen to this advice from an hardcore Christie fan: don't read this book. It's such a painful experience to see one of the greatest mystery writers ever getting into - I can't use another word - complete senility. The story (I can't call it a plot) goes nowhere. Characters are wooden, and some excerpts are merely ludicrous. If you really like Christie, be charitable and forget about that sad final opus. She wrote so many excellent things in her earlier years.

Postern of Fate, published in 1973, was the last book ever written by the incomparable Agatha Christie. My vote for her worst book ever was Passenger to Frankfurt.Christie's health was in sharp decline when writing Postern of Fate and unfortunately it shows. The plot involves Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, now in their retirement, investigating a murder in retrospect. The story is very unfocused and many elements of the story just don't make sense. Considering all the great books she wrote over her career and the countless hours of pleasure she provided to readers all over the world for several generations, Christie can certainly be forgiven for a few clunkers later in the life. I's actually give her two stars for execution, three stars for effort

Although "Curtain" and "Sleeping Murder" were both published after this one, they had been written in the mid-1940's, so this is the final novel that Agatha Christie actually wrote.

She once again takes us into the world of Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, the dynamic duo of the twenties who are now elderly grandparents.

The Beresfords have bought a cottage in a small retirement village and discover that the previous owners left behind many children's books. Tuppence is sorting them out and reading through one of them when she discovers underlined letters and a child's simple cipher. Naturally, Tuppence decodes the message which reads "Mary Jordan did not die naturally. It was one of us." The naturally inquisitive Tuppence is once again off to discover who Mary Jordan is, when she lived in the village, and how she really died.

Though this book has been criticized quite strongly by many readers, I found it to be another most enjoyable brain-teaser from Agatha Christie. It was also very satisfying to see how Tommy and Tuppence lived out their adventurous lives. Thank you, Mrs. Christie, for giving us closure to this exciting couple.

The book: Well, it is very poorly written. The author has taken great pains to use a dictionary and thesaurus to locate an abundance of large words, I suppose to make the book more appealing to the intellectually oriented. All he has managed to compose is a book largely unfathomable by those possessed of even the most massive vocabularies.

The message: Deeply buried beneath the obfuscation of a typical argument one might find on alt.fan.art-bell, there is no spirituality to be found. The very message is condescending, essentially instructing it's target readership as to their "inertness" and "ignorance" as they manuveur down the road of life. He offers to his patron, the assertion that "thought is satanic" and all that kept this reader going, was the promise of some profound spirtual climax. For my efforts, all I received was a migraine.

The author: It is important to look at the background of the author, so that one can judge for themselves if he is qualified to advise others of how to seek spiritual enlightenment. A man who is in and out of jail is not someone to teach spiritual growth. He either needs to practice what he preaches, or if he already does, the sermon is not one that I recommend.

Anyone wanting a sample of his "message" should google for him in the google archives. This should give you a far more accurate appraisal than any critique an indivual could ever write.

This is one of the most difficult works I have ever read through. I was interested in a book on spiritual enlightenment, but the author seems more concerned with advertising his large vocabulary, than he does providing any true insight to anyone.

Considering that this book is only 80 some pages long, it took a week and 6 sessions with a dictionary to complete, and I found myself toward the end, forcing myself to read it, just on principal. I'm afraid that I cannot recommend this book to anyone, it will only serve to confuse those seeking the human truth.

The mangled meanderings of the author are so verbally confused as to loose all meaning within the excess verbage. The abuse and over use of adjectives and adverbs would leave a college linguistics professor, dizzied from the experience and the only thing to be gained from this piece of 'literature' is a migraine. What little discernable information is present, is 'borrowed' from popular literature, and is simply an overworded version of something you might find on a religious pamphlet.

Whoever this publisher is, Ark Enterprises, they did a terrible disservice to the author by not hiring a qualified editor or literary consultant to screen the text prior to press.

I only bought this book because it was marked down 70% at the bookshop in Perth. Even then, I have found the book an absolute waste of money. The examples are poor, the CD contains small snippets of code already in the book (would have been easier typing it in)and it starts from very basic 3 GL programming concepts and jumps straight into Object Orientated Code without providing a reasonable grounding in Object Orientated Concepts. The examples are difficult to follow as there seems to be no logical flow from one section to another. I was mainly interested in server side Javascript (which I was told was well covered in the book) but lost all the fizz and excitement even before I got to those chapters!!

I am certainly not buying any books written by Bercik and Bond!!

I guess it's books such as this that made the phrase "Never judge a book by it's cover" famous. It focuses mostly on the Netscape Livewire, so you're limited to that feature if you want to use it to create something useful. As a reference I may look at it in future, not because it's any good! but because I spent money on it.

You won't find good exampels that illustrate the concepts, it is mainly for netscape users and too old to buy in 1999!!!

In my opinion, since 1 Star is the lowest Rating that can be given, then I find a 1 Star Rating appropriate, because I personally find the introduction by Julian Bond to be demeaning to the principles of the Nation of Isalm because the Nation believes in PURE BLACK BLOOD. From the appearance of Julian Bond, in my opinion, it sure be a looking like a he be a having "some crackers in there somewhere".

As his title suggests, Magida structures his account around the biography of Farrakhan, telling about his growing up in Boston, succeeding as an entertainer, joining the NOI, competing with Malcolm X, involving himself in Malcolm's murder, and, to his disappointment, not succeeding to the leadership of the NOI upon Elijah Muhammad's death in February 1975. Farrakhan then felt increasingly alienated as the movement moved rapidly toward Sunni Islam; in November 1977, he finally announced the resurrection of the NOI. Since then, he has been the organization's top theologian, administrator, and spokesman. Magida reviews some of Farrakhan's record over the subsequent years (for example, his efforts to court mainstream black leaders), but focuses mostly on his complex relations with Jews. In addition to the well-known anti-Semitic comments (Judaism is a "dirty religion"), Farrakhan also shows the typical anti-Semite's fascination with things Jewish (for example, structuring the Million Man March along the lines of a Yom Kippur atonement).

Middle East Quarterly, March 1997

Prophet Of Rage by Arthur J. Magida, Julian Bond presents as rare and exclusive into the life and leadership of Louis Farrakhan. Louis Muhammed Farrakhan, was born in New York, to a West Indian mother. His birth name was Louis Euegene Walcott. As a child and an young man he was a track star, musician, and college student in North Carolina.

Arthur J. magida, and Julian Bond tells the readers how Farrakhan went from being "The Charmer" to being the National represenative of Elijah Muhammed's Nation Of Islam. After the bitter split between Malcolm X and Mr. Muhammed, Louis Farrakhan became Elijah's biggest supporter. Farrakhan charged with being a hypocrite. He is noted for saying in his speeches that Malcolm X was "A triator worthy of death, and would have meet his death if it was not for the Honorable Elijah Muhammed".

From Malcolm death (Febuary 21, 1965) and before the death of Elijah Muhammed in 1975, Farrakhan became the National represenative of the NOI. Mr. Muhammed praised Farrakhan for his faithfulness, and appointed him as the New York Minister. Louis Farrakhan in a sense was the "new Malcolm", and there is no doubt the he patterned his talking style to his former mentor.

The death of Elijah Muhammed lead Farrakhan to evaluate his direction and purpose, then build a new nation based on the teachings of Elijah Muhammed. On Febuary 26, 1975 the Nation of Islam celebrated it's Savior's Day Celebration. "Master" Farad Muhammed birthday ( Febuary 26) is celebrated as Saviors Day. On Savior's Day 1975, the Nation of Islam announced Wallace D. Muhammed as it's new leader. Farrakhan vowed his loyality to the new Leader. Inspite of his plague of devotion to Wallace, the new leader made far to many changes for Farrakhan to handle. Wallace Muhammed had rapidly moved the Nation of Islam to Orthodox Islam. Wallace also denounced his father, and refuse to reconize Farad as "G-d in person". Wallace also destroyed the Nations race based policy. He changed the organizations name twice first it was the "World Community of Al-Islam in the West", and the "American Muslim Mission". It is clear that Wallace's decision proved to be heavy for Farrakhan. Farrakhan left Wallace's leadership to seek his own platform.

Louis Farrakhan with fellow Muslims who also left Wallace Muhammed, built the "Nation of Islam". The Nation of Islam, headed by Farrakhan was based on the old mystical teaching of Elijah Muhammed. Farrakhan brought back the Fruit of Islam army, the Muslim girls trianing, dress code, and everything that was first created by his Mr. Muhammed.

The wild, crasy, and unorthodox speeches and positions of Louis Farrakhan made him the controversal leader that he is today. In the late 1980's Farrakhan began to attack the Jewish community. He charged them as the "Most powerful people in the World". He has even denounced fellow black leaders as cowards, who are always bowing down the the white man. He has also called himself the "only freed Black man in America". He is also one of the most complex, and has proven to be the most complex.

The arthurs have done an excellent job in there presenation of Louis Farrakhan. It should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand him, and the Nation of Islam.