An overall excellent book.
350774
Gripping, deeply enlightening, immensely readable, and exceptionally powerful.  An overall excellent book.
2730605
Amazing book- very fascinating, lots of concepts and ideas are well portrayed. The only reason it's is four stars is I think the book material and covering could be a bit more solid, would buy again though.
19069
This is a long book, 30 chapters and about 1000 pages.  I'm on chapter 28, but I think I can safely say this is an excellent book on the subject of WPF.  After reading this book I now have a much greater understanding of WPF and XAML.  One important point though, is that it does NOT cover 3D.  This isn't really an issue for me because the applications I'm writing near-term will not be using 3D, but it is an interesting omission.
2938387
An excellent book, well worth reading. It has: mystery and suspense; a well crafted plot; interesting characters that develop in realistic ways; good dialog; realistic action - I could go on. I've only got a few minor quibbles. One is how rapidly Julia takes a dislike to Kate, it's immediate, and for no apparent reason. Another is that Ryan tends to flip back and forth between rational and irrational conversation, e.g. Chapter 8 when he blames Kate for events that are completely out of her control. I was worried that the dialog was going to deteriorate at that point. Thankfully, the author pulled it back together. If you read this book, you won't be disappointed.
992777
An excellent book, with innovative perspectives. At times, evalution  of past societies results too extensive. Overall, very good reading
3107444
This is, a whole, an excellent book. Much of the material was covered in my graduate work in medical school, so it was, for me, not new. The book was, though, a good refresher. Most people, including me, bought the book to read the material on Intelligent Design. After I read the chapters on ID, I read the rest of the book and found it better than I had expected. The chapters I have concerns over include the chapter on biodiversity and the chapter on cancer (I spent some time doing cancer research at the previous University where I was a faculty). Although the chapter on cancer contains useful information, it is well established that p53 and other tumor suppressor genes, plus oncogenes, do play a role in cancer, although the story may well be more complex than we understand now. Mutated p53 is found in over half of all cancers and we understand in some detail why and the role it plays in cancer. As to the chapter on biodiversity, it is in fact a real concern today (especially for animal lovers such as myself). These chapters should have been more balanced. The chapter on nuclear energy was excellent and could have come, word for word, out of my chemistry textbook, which came to the exact same conclusions: we need to build new nuclear plants now! Likewise, the chapter on hormesis was excellent. The chapter on Aids in Africa was also excellent. I now am skeptical about the claims about a pandemic of Aids in Africa, and understand why the pandemic claim is made. These chapters are not controversial among most informed persons in the field. Nor, in my judgement, are the chapters on ID. I think that reviewers who bring up Dr. Well's putative religion and the statements he made when he was involved in this church as a youth are playing on ignorance of this church and prejudice. Moon was a Presbyterian minister and a Korean, and blended the two, plus he added some new ideas. I do not agree with him on theology, but then I am neither a Korean nor a Presbyterian. Few Americans understand Unification theology, and condemn it without understanding it. The Unificationists today are in the same position as Mormons were a century ago. And Unificationists, I predict, will in time be as respected as Mormons are today (I have studied both in detail and, even though I disagree with them, I understand where they are coming from). I too made some foolish statements as a young man and to dig these up to discredit someone is irresponsible. Attack the ideas, not the person.
2875555
It's more technical than I expected, but still an excellent book.
1236815
This book was quite good.  For most chapters, I literally couldn't put it down. I was facinated by the straight-forwardness of it all.  The author makes few apologies for his actions and I think it made the book a better read (after all, how do you apologize for causing so much misery to so many people).  The only part that became tiresome was the "kill whitey" theme in the latter chapters.  I certainly respect his opinion and his perspective, but this theme was a little overdone (in my opinion).  It took away from quality of the story.  I would definitely recommend this book to anyone.  I always think that you can measure the quality of a book by how much you think about it when you are done.  I think about this book quite a bit.
4245778
Overall this is a good book to learn C with.  I had tried many ways, and this book was the best of them.  I do have a small complaint in that the exercises at the end of every chapter are occasionally not well thought out.  Rarely, they do seem to expect knowledge of C beyond what has been covered up to that point.  Sometimes the suggested approach to solving a problem is more complex than the simple way which seems apparent.

In most chapters though is included a section designed to encourage politically conscientiousness in the reader.  I suppose most of my grievances are aimed at this last point.  Not all of the text made it into the printing of the book, yet the authors seem to have decided to exclude programming lessons so they can have exercises about researching global warming or other such topics.

The only other negative thing I have to say about this book is that half of it is C++.  I already have their C++ book, so half of this book is wasted on that.

Overall though, I needed this book to learn C, and I feel that it has done this better than any other learning source.
1979665
First of, this is an excellent book.  Although not really a life-changer it will probably do a lot to dispel the idea that fantasy books are boring.  As a person who isn't a particular fan of the genre, I personally loved this book.  The story is a follow up from the first novel in the set, 'The Fellowship Of The Rings'.  Split into two sections it mostly concerns the aftermath of the dismemberment of the fellowship.  In the first half Merry and Pippin are hobbit-napped by orcs, and Strider, Legolas and Gimli follow in pursuit, on the way meeting battle and an old friend.  The second half is mostly taken up by the character Sam, as Frodo feels the weight of his task ever more, becoming ever more weary as they come closer to their destination.  On the journey they find help from an unwanted ally - Gollum.
Obviously there are several problems with the story, such as characters like Treebeard that are dull and often unneeded.  However, despite this it can be very exciting in parts and brings a whole new dimension to the 'journey' story.  All of the characters are drawn exceptionally well, even if some are clearly more interesting than others.  In addition, the fight scenes are a lot more than the usual hacking and chopping but include some surprising light humour that really helps dispel the possibility of boredom.  Even if the homoerotic overtones between Frodo and Sam are a little on-the-nose then at least you've got Shalob the giant spider at the end to give a pounding finale with a great cliffhanger.  Plus, it's certainly a plus that Tolkien can write in a giant spider without his reader questioning it for a moment and just enjoying the moment.
This is a great book, although I'm worried as to how they'll transfer characters such as Shalob onto the big screen later this year.
4338369
Fighting Hitler's Jets is a good solid book that I both enjoyed and learned quite a bit from.  As some of the other reviewers have noted, there are places where the editing could have been tighter, but Mr Dorr is not the only author who has had that happen to him, particularly when rushing to meet a production deadline (Stephen Ambrose's last couple of books even working with major publishers had a few issues in this regard.  Quibbles aside, Bob gets both the overall narrative and the details right and that is a lot harder than it looks.

Im glad I bought the book, and have already cited to it. I am looking forward to sharing it with my family and friends, and would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone interesting in the history and development of aircraft and airpower.  I don't think it is one Mr Dorrs best works, but his average is very good.  It reminds of when I got a change to see Willie Mays play at the end of his career. It was just an exhibition game against the Triple A affiliate at the end of spring training, and he only played the first few innings, but the experience was well worth the price of admission.
4721840
This is a very good book, well worth the money and time spent reading it.

To my mind the only legitimate criticism is that the illustrations are few and very simple. That said, I found the text to be very descriptive and easy to understand.

I would recommend this book to anyone interested in learning the basics of boxing for unarmed combat and possibly those with boxing experience who wish to make their skills more street ready. The author strikes me as a gung-ho, all American type and this may be off-putting to some of the kinder, gentler types, but if that is the case, why would you be reading a book on streetfighting?

The author covers punches, combinations, defensive skills, fouls(blows that would be illegal in the ring), conditioning and more. Interspersed throughout the book are references to the champions of the past and the skills they used. These were always interesting and good at emphasizing certain points.

Lastly, I would highly recommend two of the authors other books, The Savage Science of Streetfighting and Kill-As-Catch-Can. As the author acknowledges, no one fighting "art" is complete in the skills it teaches. People who have "been there and done that" often say, "most fights go to the ground" and "most fights are decided by punches to the head". These two statements are not, as contradictory, as they might seem. In short, you need to know both striking and grappling; this book can teach you the former.
465671
I enjoyed this book quite a bit.  I would recommend this book to anyone, but the only downside is that I fear some may get distracted by the computational concepts in the book.
500658
The book is quite excellent in breadth and depth. I wasn't expecting the Excel section to be as entertaining and useful as it was; I'm not exactly a Microsoft fan, but the tools presented in that section could come in handy at work at some point. While not the author's fault, the section on PDF manipulation is of rather limited usefulness, since not much can be achieved with the presented module.

There are only a few typos in the code, which the reader should be able to spot quite easily. The reason for not giving this book five stars is the quality of the book binding. I've never had a book which fell apart in the middle of the first read-through, but this one came undone without much handling on my end.
1288242
this is a surprisingly good book. one of it's strengths is it's length. it's quite short which makes it easy to work through. there really isn't much new informarion here, however the
 author has a very personal, unique way of presenting ideas. i enjoyed her writing stlye a lot. it's refreshing. i would give this book 5 stars except for one minor detail which seems like a quibble but actually affects the way the content is perceived.the overuse of exclamation points takes what is very relevant, valauble information and weakens it. i found one page that had at least 6.  i think none at all would raise this book to a higher level of seriousness.
4923999
This is a very good book, a bit general, but covers a lot of inportant topics, such as sections of major OSs and a large meaty portion on urls, and lists of various kinds.
Don't get me wrong this is a very good book, but in order to get the best out of it you really must use the links in it. And there are thousands of them. Just reading the book will not make you an expert, or a hacker. For this reason it is a excellent starting book on security, giving a whole host of information, abeit some sections are outdated, for instance VAX/VMS systems (or that may just be my ignorance).
Overral yes, I would heartily reccomend this book to any aspiring hacker, systems administrator, or security professional, but you will have to use your own iniative to get the best out of this book.
2118323
The content is excellent, and I recommend it highly, though the formatting and consistency in style could be improved.