Kevin Dillon Books

I had never heard of this movie when I stumbled across it on TV years ago and it really moved me. I have recommended it to dozens of people over the years. It is very well done and very poignant.

Loved this movie! It has some great humor and very tender moments with a great ending! You'll laugh, cry and be touched by these "real people".

This is an entertaining and touching film. It is at times very predictable, and the movie takes a condescending and stereotypical approach to teen birthmothers, but ultimately it is a good film, well worth seeing, and certainly entertaining.

I believe this video portrays what a young mother goes through about the tough desicion of what she should do for her baby. I believe any one who watches this video will be touch.

Immediate Family is about a wealthy couple who have every thing they ever dreamed except...a baby. After several failed attempts a getting pregnant the couple find an unmarried teen couple who are about to have a baby but know they cannot support it. This is a mixture of drama and suspense and a film that the whole family would enjoy. Rent it today!

This is awesome! I've used Director for 2 years and was really excited about the new 3D features in 8.5 but thought I'd have to spend months learning how to use the engine. In 1 week of reading this I made my first user activated 3D projector that plays sound relational to my world.

I know why this book is so good: I looked at these guys sites in the front of the book for these authors - these guys really know how to create. Examples are inspirations!

This is the juice. I want more. Give me more.

PG Juice.

I've used Director for 5 years and i found this book full of good examples. I found the Object Oriented Programming chapter so exciting...Probably one of the best book on Director i've read (i'm waiting for Gary's new Book - Using Macromedia Director 8.5).
Buy it, non ve ne pentirete !
ciao

The best thing that can be said about this book is it's a confused ramble though Oracle. The book tries to cover Java, PL/SQL and XML, and fails to cover any depth in any of these subjects.

Some other reviewers have stated that this book is uneven in quality. I agree with that assessment but argue that is unavoidable. I cannot think of any one person who possesses the knowledge to write intelligently about all of this material in the depth this book has.

In a few areas it is dated (obviously 9i is out NOW, but wasn't when this book was published), but it is still overall extremely valuable. I have had my copy for about a year now and have read it almost completely once (you can't read a 1200 page tech book cover to cover) and have referred to it in a pinch more times than I can remember.

In short, a must have for any serious Oracle developer.

Good book, but goes more detail into
tools provided by Oracle. If you will be using
only oracle tools, this is a good book.

This is an excellent book as it covers a lot of ground in one volume. If you work in a organisation that has Oracle as the engine for their web based applications, you must have this book.
Many books cover Java or XML or SQL and the like; but this is one of the few books that delves into HOW to put all of these together to make it work! As this book is released in newer additions, I shall be buying it as soon as it is available.

To produce this book, Wrox took twenty expert Oracle developers and had each of them write about their area of expertise. The result is that whether you are a manager, a developer, or a DBA, if you are working with Oracle 8i this book should be on your desk. This book covers virtually every topic that you need to understand about the Oracle 8i development platform. It does not cover each topic completely but it provides a thorough and in most cases sufficient introduction on each topic. For a particular topic of interest you may need an additional book but to get all the information found in this book you would need ten volumes at least. The book opens with an introduction to Oracle 8i and some of its components including Net8 (Oracle's network solution) and Designer 6i (Oracle's development environment). The next section covers PL/SQL and PSP (this is similar to JSP). This is followed by an extensive section covering Java. This section covers JDBC, SQLJ, EJB, and interMedia (Oracle's powerful search tool). The last section covers XML and includes information on DOM and SAX parsers, SOAP, XSL, XSQL, and more. Extensive case studies are scattered throughout the book. Examples show how to use Oracle tools such as BC4J to develop enterprise applications. The book even includes primers on Java and XML. As a tour of all the features of Oracle 8i, this book is without competition.

I found this book to be highly enjoyable from beginning to end though it only confirmed what I already believed to be true in the black man's pursuit of/relationship with the white woman.

I was very conflicted as how to rate this book because if you are reading this book in order to gain an indepth sociological perspective of interracial relationships than this is definetly not the book to read.The author is too immature and uneducated to be able to look at his relationship in the clutural historical and psychological perspective that many readers would like.While the author would like his reader to think that his relationship is symbolic of all interracial relationships we as readers know that there are many happy functunal interracial couples who are very happy. The only reason I give this book three stars is that it had a certain Jerry Springer quaility to it. I mean all the drama in this man life with women bordered on absurdity. There were some points where I was laughing out loud when he would make one of his stereotypical statements about Black Women or White Women. It was so hilarous that at the grand old age of twenty three this man who has lived in one city all his life is suddenly a bigger expert on white women than Jane Goodall is on Chimps.So I give it the three stars for its sheer hilarity of which I think the author had no intent.

Kevin spent 214 pages and 21 chapters to let us know that he is a very self-absorbed, immature, whining, blaming fool who can't make up his mind about his feelings for the women in his life, let alone what he wants in a woman/partner. I suppose its because he does most of his thinking with that part of his male anatomy that has neither a brain nor sensibility.
I hope that in the five years since the book was written he has grown up, made some decisions about the direction he wants to go, and commitments to stand by his beliefs. If not, I'm sorry for the women, black and white, that come into his life. This book does NOT examine the social and psychological elements of interracial relationships, it only examines the author's slanted experience with it. Kevin, stop blaming the mores of our society for your inability to make a committment and stick to it.

I think that any time a man is being open, honest and no holds barred about his feelings, women need to listen. This book wasn't meant to be entertaining...it's a true story. The man cheated, repented and in the end still lost the best woman for the job! That had to be a blow. I found the book interesting, lies and deceit uncovered...it's a relationship manual ladies! Read this book.

I read an excerpt from this book about two or three years ago in Essence magazine. I remember at the time I was curious about what kind of book Mr. Luttery could write about involving the regret and demise of an interracial relationship. He went into the relationship willingly , right, so why the sob story? Well, I see now that the excerpt didn't begin to tell the story.

The author very tenderly and methodically tells his story of entering into an interracial relationship with a young white woman. He tells of the pain and guilt and miscommunication that led to this relationship coming out of a relationship with a black woman he deeply cared for. He tells of the reluctance, the shame, the misgivings, but also of the deep feelings and satisfaction of this union. Some reviewers have criticized the author as generalizing blacks and white women. In his defense I will say that at the time he was involved with this young woman he was only twenty-three and twenty-four years old, not long out of college, beginning his manhood although he was very mature for his age. He had goals in his personal and career lives and seemed to know what he wanted in a relationship. However, I think because of his age that some of the anguish he went through may have been handled better had he been say about thirty years old. Going to purchase his first new car at twenty-three and all the drama that went with that was a turning point in his relationship. That is not to take away from his anger or pain at finding out his love could not and did not want to share his pain. The feelings are very real and perhaps too many interracial couples feel that because of the prolific nature of interracial relationships and the tolerance of such, that race is notan issue and needs not be addressed in the relationship. The catch-all, "but we're just people, I don't see color" is like being the ostrich with his head in the sand. It has to be acknowleged and addressed.

This book is well-written with beautiful detail and word painting that gives a nonfiction work a novel approach. But remember, this is one black man's story of his coming to grips of what an interracial relationship cost him and for him the price was too high. To be able to express these feelings, looking into his inner self, to write and show the world his shortcomings and imperfections is to be applauded. I love his writing and eagerly await his next work.