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A Nun and the Genius.......2000-04-06
Yvonne Fern a former Nun, spent months with Gene and his wife Majel whom the book is dedicated to. I am not a Trekie and originally bought the book for my son who is a major Star Trek fan. But I opened the book and read a few pages, then a few more pages. Then within days I was 3/4 thru the book and had gained such respect for the man Gene Roddenberry and realized he was much more than the man behind Star Trek. On page 2 I see my Father speaking, thru MsFern/Mr Roddenberry: "Gene Roddenberry did not believe in time. He never spoke of the future in the future tense, to me. It was always, "the future is", not "the future will be".
The book is wonderful because it also covers the marriage he had, and the uniqueness of his personaility. On page 95 Ms Fern notes: "Like many writers he carries a population sround inside of him-ideas, fancies,noions,characters,theories,possibilities,dreams. They buzz constantly with opposing suggestions,contraditory philosphies, conflicting needs. They make demands on him that they begiven life." This is why he was a genius. An eccentric of sorts. So many people live "safe" lives. People like Mr Roddenberry take risks and lead the lives they are meant to live. Interetsing that people admire men/women like him, yet how few people are have that spirit of adventure. Mr Roddenberry didn't see race, religion, gender, but LIFE in its fullest form. The book covers his feelings on these subjects as well as sex.
This book is a modern day Homer. Everyone should buy it ! I bought copies for my local library.
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- Irreverant and hilarious!
- Gave as gift and was enjoyed by recipient
- Fun...good gift for moms
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Irreverant and hilarious!.......2007-05-07
For the independent female (who has a good sense of humor), you won't find a better gift!
This book sits in my powder room and not only do I still pick it up and get a giggle now and then, but my guests always emerge from the loo with a smile, too!
Gave as gift and was enjoyed by recipient.......2007-03-09
I love Anne Taintor's humor. This collection is not quite as funny as her other ones, but was a hit with the person I gave it to as a gift. Enjoy!
Fun...good gift for moms.......2006-06-30
I got this book for my mother, along with the other one recommended by Amazon to buy together, and it's very funny. I was looking for something that would give her a lift and it definitely did; she enjoys them quite a bit.
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This book is a very humorous one just to leave laying around for a random, quick giggle.
Change your shoes, change your life!.......2004-02-29
Absolutely hilarious. I'm obsessed with Anne Taintor material and this book did not dissapoint. In fact I cut out a few and put them on my wall and even used one as a lining for a coffee thermos.
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Chess Rules of Thumb gives you the winning principles of chess in clear, short statements. Three-time US Champion Lev Alburt and World Chess Hall of Fame Curator Al Lawrence have put together three centuries of insights from the masters. Fun to browse or to read from cover-to-cover, it's a book that all chess players—from beginners to grandmasters—lwiull enjoy for a lifetime.
Like life, chess has its rules. The difference that your parents probably didn't tell you about chess.
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Backed up with diagrams and illustrations to help you remember key principles, a glossary of essential chess terms and a rundown on all major openings, Chess Rules of Thumb will improve your chess play. And it's great fun to read!
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Useful ideas, notwithstanding repetition and contradictions.......2005-06-19
I'm not sure why this book has been maligned so much by previous reviewers. Some of the ideas in this book are very worthwhile guidelines for the tournament player. I especially like the suggestions regarding modified piece values in various situations. My chief criticism of this work involves the unnecessary repetition of ideas that have been merely reworded from one "rule" to another. For example, once the author has stated that "a knight on the rim is dim," there's no need to mention other rules that cover poor knight placement on the edge of the board.
Further, a few rules have contradictory rules elsewhere in the book. For instance, Alburt lists the rule "don't exchange pieces with a patzer." Yet another rule states that beating a patzer becomes easier if you bring the game down to an endgame. How does one move into the endgame without exchanging pieces?
Finally, a few of the chess maxims are little too rudimentary; they resemble Fred Reinfeld comments (e.g., "develop your pieces quickly"). I think these detract from a perception of the book as one for advanced players.
Since I consider a book worth the purchase as long as I glean one or two good ideas from it, I still recommend this book -- just if it's purchased at a bargain price, not the list price.
Bad.......2004-06-10
This book is crap.
Waste less time on it than I have here.
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This would be a decent (but not great) book for 20 cents. I don't see how it's worth twenty dollars.
It's full of large-print, pithy advice. Sometimes, the advice is quoted from a well-known master, and those few quotations are easily the best parts of the book.
Normally, there are 2 of these per page, but sometimes (at chapter boundaries) none.
The last several pages do not even have this much. Instead, they show diagrams of many different openings, with a brief comment. Typically, the diagrams show only a single move; sometimes 2 or 3. I have no idea how this could be valuable to anyone.
I would say one star, but I save that for truly horrible books. This book exudes quality in its pages, its binding, its printing, etc. All the advice that I read (and you can read the whole thing standing at the bookstore) was sound, but none of it was supported by example. (Well, maybe a few rare examples.) It does not actually require any thinking by the reader. It is similar to some pretty pop philosophy gift-books I've seen in the bargain bins.
I think the book would be most valuable for a chess coach to clip the pages and pin them to a bulletin board. It has absolutely no other value. The author and publisher are certifiably insane if they imagine someone could learn from this.
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International Business, 9th edition.......2004-03-23
As a first time instructor using this book, I was floored by the amount of useless data in the book that students must dig through to get to the important points of each chapter. Since the power point slides provided with the book only did an outline of the chapters, they were not of much help in giving a lecture. It was also absolutely amazing that a book that bills itself as being published in 2004 (but I received in 2003) is behind the times in a significant number of topics (e.g. it still refers to the G7 - not even mentioning the G8 even though I think it was about 1997 that the G8 became official). The section on religion was a perfect example of how to offend someone in another culture. The author needs to attend a diversity training course! A majority of the questions in the sample tests did not deal with topics that were significant in the chapters, but rather minor insignificant points. It may be the best book out there for an international business class but it shouldn't be priced the way it is for what is clearly an outdated edition.
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