Poor book all the way around!
358373
I will not set here and say I am a Joomla master by any means. I will tell you I have a dozen or so books on the subject and this book is not only poorly written, but the author has no real understanding of Joomla.

With the size of the font, you would think it was written for a 5 year old. It is obvious it was written to just take up space and make it look like a bigger book than its content is worth.

One third of the book just shows html code that is incomplete and left me wondering why the author thought it would work in Joomla or a browser for that matter?

He rambles on and on in the topics with no direction, constantly repeating his words and in the end left me with more questions than answers. There is very little relevance to show this writer even has an understanding of Web 2.0 let alone the ability to write about it.

If you don't believe me just go to his web site [...]. What you see is exactly what he calls a Web 2.0 web site, because the shady examples in the book are this web site. The book tells me to go to the site and I can download the code used in the book. As of this comment there is no link anywhere on the site.

Folks there are a ton of great books on Amazon to help you build with Joomla, this is without a doubt the most useless book I have ever read. It took my two and a half hours to go from cover to cover. I learned absolutely nothing! Jackley Cesar Shame on you for this worthless book! It may be worth 2 dollars not a penny more! If there was a negative position on the star rating you would still rank below that! Sadly enough I have to give you at least one star just to be able to warn people of the mistake they are about to make!
617653
This book is just plain bad! I don't like be overly harsh in my reviews but the complete absence of genuinely useful information in this book is nearly enough to make it an out and out 'rip-off'.

The book purports to be a guide to particular hobby-farming topics but does little more than introduce certain things and then suggest the reader research the topic more fully elsewhere. Topics that fill whole books by other authors are dealt with in no more than a handful of paragraphs. I appreciate that the book is supposed to be an 'overview' of hobby-farming, but that particular characterization does not excuse the woefully inadequate quality of the information provided. To be honest, I would say that just about anyone with enough interest in hobby-farming to buy books on the subject is likely to have more general knowledge than they could possibly find in these pages. Conversely, those who could actually find something of genuine use in this book would probably actually have to be Dummies!
1452401
This is the first book I have actually thrown away in years.  I love to read, read probably 5 to 6 novels a month, but this book was awful!  I kept thinking that surely I was missing something (after all, it did win the Man Booker,) but page after page of disconnected, harsh dialogue does not a novel make.  I kept reading thinking the story would eventually redeem itself, but about two-thirds of the way through, I just threw it in the trash.  And the disgusting, hate-filled references to sexual acts...way too many to count and way out there.  If you love completely over the top books which are notable only because they shock, this is the book for you.  Otherwise, there are too many great books out there to waste your time on this one.
1639296
This was one of the worst books I have ever read!  I have read the early books about Eve et al, and this was a cross between a bodice buster and a re-warmed print-by the numbers crappy book.  I will never read one of her books again.  After reading it, and I skimmed a lot of the obnoxiously bloated prose, I wondered if this was really written by Iris Johansen or just some hack that the publisher hires to write books under her name so they can all make money??  Why else would they have Quinn and Bonnie following so quickly?  This book was TERRIBLE.  Shame on the author for selling-out her good name.
3575585
This book is just horrible all around. First of all he jumps around from one musician to the next without sometimes giving even any small details about them, their songs or albums would be nice!
He jumps around too much from one genre to the next, it is frustrating.
My next problem was that for the price you pay for this skinny book you should at least get a CD with the songs he gives details about. All he does is recommend you go to ITunes!! Why not just tell people to go to Project Playlist, at least that's free.
The most annoying thing is that I love music and this book made me hate the class, I kept wanting to rip it to pieces it is written so badly!!
Don't buy this book if you can avoid it.
4780907
Actually I would give this book no stars if it were an option.  I will not try to re-sell this book or pass it on, as I considered it a huge waste of time.  A guest at my house handed the book back to me after reading only 100 pages.  I then began reading it and kept reading thinking there had to be some merit to this award winning book other than some well structured sentences.

There is nothing positive I can think to say about this book, no character development, historical or cultural information of any value and seemingly no point to the story.  I liked the cover?

WARNING:  Do not throw away your money and especially your time by buying this book.
4652222
This is one of the worst books I have ever read. I only finished it (and it was a real pensum to do so!) as I think that it is not fair to review books without finishing them. The book is presented as romantic suspense and fails on all grounds:
- The suspense is completely gone after the first 5 pages as the action is incredibly predictable. In addition the police procedure description is abysmally bad
- The romance part is even worse, from the completely unrealistic falling in love of the two (traumatised and scarred!) head characters at literally first glance to the very predictable and clichd cycles of misunderstandings that follow. The last scene is so utterly ridiculous that it made me laugh aloud!
Writing style is at best mediocre. Definitively not a book to recommend!
2018092
This "book" is a JOKE!! It is poorly written and has just 24 pages (and that includes the title page!). I regret buying it and will be very careful about buying any self-published books in the future. Additionally, this author must have flunked English 101; he doesn't know the proper use of possessives and is a lousy writer. Here's an example: ". . . you might want to consider spending $40 or so dollars . . ." Really?! I want my money back!!
507543
After reading through this book, I was so thoroughly disgusted that I took the time to print out a new title, "XML Complete CRAP", and tape it to the spine of this book.  I even matched the color and the font exactly!  Why did I spend an hour of my time doing this?  Because I wanted to save my co-workers the effort of pulling this ridiculous book off our bookshelf and opening it.  This book is a "complete" joke.  The writing is muddled, the layout and font are awful, and the examples are repeatedly copied and pasted to fluff up the book and make it look respectable.  I would be astonished if there was a worse book out there.
3365074
I wish Amazon had negative stars; this book would rightfully earn them! A total waste of time and money. I finally tore up the pages to save the next sucker from futilely searching for anything humorous contained within this offensive and lame excuse for a book. Unfortunately airport bookstores don't have reviews or I'd be $15 richer. Don't make the same mistake!
1948368
If I could leave a zero star I would! This book had the bones to be a great story! Unfortunately it was poorly written. The author was constantly repeating herself over and over and the story line jumped around so that you thought you had skipped a few pages or something. The author also used a variety of repetitive discriptive words in the same thought and though the sex parts were thorough the body parts were never called by their proper names or even their raunchy names and in each instance they were called different names. I skimmed most of this book praying for it to end. This author is also a rambler and uses lots of run on sentences. The main male role is not very manly either. All in all I wish I hadn't waisted .99
629886
Are you kidding me?!  I bought this "book" because it was chosen for my book club.  I sincerely wish I could get back all the time I spent reading this pure drivel!  The writing is amateurish at best, the story was filled to capacity with cliches and the editing was nonexistent (Bart vs. Billy and it's 'bridle' not 'bridal'). The characters were just stupid beyond compare, especially Eric and very one dimensional with no depth at all and yet the author stated in a blurb at the end that it took him 6 months to write!  Why?!

I hate that I spent money, let alone time on this mess.  I can't believe all the 5-star ratings; did we read the same thing?!  I will never read another book by this "author".
1881353
Let's make this short and sweet,shall we?  This book was so poorly researched that it clearly shows just how much work was put into this novel.  It reads like it was written in two or three days, and for that I'm sorry I even gave this book a chance.  Pure and simple crap is what this book stands for.  As someone said before, "the trees used to print this book have died in vain"...  It's sad, but it's true.  Pass this one up for sure guys!
2806091
This book was such a waste of time. When I finished the last page, I kept looking for more pages, and said out loud, "Well that was a stupid book." No conclusion, no hints at how things turned out, no explanation about what the heck Mid was into, no grand lesson or overall theme, the main character was TOTALLY annoying, and the conversations were bumpy and not written well. I think I stuck with it thinking it would get better and everything would be explained in the end, but the main characters just ended up at some fair that I guess was supposed to be symbolic in some way, but the author was either trying so hard to make a connection, that it wasn't made, or, more likely, he just got tired of his own story or was about to not make his publisher's deadline, and just smashed on an ending that leaves the reader unfulfilled, frustrated, and grumpy, much like a bad one night stand. Don't read it, it is NOT worth your time!!
3753971
Probably one of the worst books I ever read in my life, if not the very worst!  I got it as a gift and threw it in the garbage after reading it.  The author tries to write about a topic she does not even know about!!  It is an offensive book to us Masons!  If you want to know about our Order, try some knowledgeable authors like Christopher Hodapp.
3264073
Like everybody else I was hoping for some good chick lit to pass the time. This book is so poorly written its a chore to get through it! Where were the editors?!  Who does she know, that this book was even published in the first place? The writing is straight out of a high school creative writing class. At one point a character "groans audibly" - is there any other way to groan? Another character inexplicably appears every now and then and speaks entirely in CAPITALS! The characters don't know what they're supposed to be. Andrea is ostensibly a talented writer, but nothing whatsoever in the story supports any kind of intellectual ability or writing ability or interest. Its embarrassing that this was even published, let alone a best seller. Great concept, but so, so poorly developed. Not worth your time unless you like to laugh at terrible writing.
4514664
I'm glad this was free! I would have been very angry if I had paid for this book. This book is very poorly written, as if by a high school student. I tried a sample and thought "Okay, this will be decent." Wrong! I read maybe the first third before I gave up as a complete waste of time. No believable world building, characters who are inconsistent one-dimensional cartoons, many many examples of "tell, don't show" writing. Don't waste your time!