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Great Escape!Review Date: 2007-07-27
Love these booksReview Date: 2007-04-06
For looking and thinkingReview Date: 2007-01-04
Can you see what I seeReview Date: 2005-07-29
We love this book....!Review Date: 2003-06-26
Another hidden puzzle we found within the book -- on every page spread in the book, the little yellow-and-red "bead boy" (clearly visible on the title page) appears somewhere. The only place we HAVEN'T been able to find him is the "Magic Tricks" page....if someone spots him there, give us a shout out, OK?

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Beautiful Art - Fun For KidsReview Date: 2008-01-14
Fabulous book for young and old.Review Date: 2008-01-13
Fun for kids and adultsReview Date: 2007-12-05
Gorgeous - Can You See?Review Date: 2007-05-08
Highly recommendReview Date: 2007-01-10


Great addition to the Carcassone familyReview Date: 2008-01-25
In relation to the other Carcassonne games, the original is nice as it can be changed around using one or more expansions to keep it interesting. The City is my least favorite, and I can't even really put my finger on why. I think it just has too much going on.
fun gameReview Date: 2006-03-09
Wow! This is my favorite Carcassonne game by far!Review Date: 2007-12-15
Enjoy, Bob
p.s. Another way to stay even more involved in the game is to pre-pick your tile, so that you're ready to play when it's your turn. This really keeps the game moving, and we can finish the game in almost 30-45 min.
Carcassonne Hunters and GatherersReview Date: 2006-11-10
Great gateway game, great for 2 playersReview Date: 2007-04-20
We have enjoyed all of those games to varying degrees. This game has risen to the top of our list, though. It's not overly complicated, and so is accessible to beginner-level board gamers. It's meatier, though, than a Lost Cities or Ingenious. Our plays have been about 75 minutes, which is a nice length.
The instruction manual seems a little hefty, but please don't be deterred. If we can play this game and understand it, anyone can. I highly encourage any new gamers to use this as a gateway game. It's really fun and quite easy to get your arms around. Please give it a try -- it's completely renewed our interest in board gaming.

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Catch a Rising Star: The Adult Game of YouthReview Date: 2007-07-14
Anyone who has participated in sports or has children who participate in sports has probably met a man like Tom Anderson. He's not an evil man who purposefully pushes his child beyond his limits. Instead, he just sort of got caught up in the dream of his son attaining something he never had the chance to accomplish. Somewhere along the line, he just forgot to ask his son if it was his dream too.
A new genre: youth sports eroticaReview Date: 2006-12-13
What would you do? - What did you do?Review Date: 2006-05-03
I enjoyed the book.
The pages turned rapidly and I had that air flight moment where the taxi to the gate didn't take long enough and I had to be chased off the plane. It was a fun read. The characters have depth and complexities - not all good or bad. How do you know when it is time to step in and defy "the authority" and when do you continue to trust "the authority?" The story made me ask, "What would I do if I saw this happening?"
I played youth sports with my eight siblings in a small town and I now coach my daughters' teams. I recognize in the characters in the story, the personality of many parents that interfere, support, encourage and discourage young children in their pursuit of fun. At times the book brought knots to my stomach where parents knew what was "best" for their child-- whom was the "best" and was going to see to IT. What do you do if you were that kid? He knew he wasn't. I don't remember any parent stepping in to mitigate the trouble created by a misguided parent. My classmate suffered. Look around the stands, sidelines, and field, What do you see?
The book highlights and focuses the light on some of the most egregious actions that parents take in the guise of doing what is best. I would suggest these parents read the book and see if they recognize themselves. Opps - there is no time for those parents in the long-term plan for idling reading good practice time away.
In the book's case, I want the next book to explore what happens to Marc and his Dad's relationship if Marc becomes the second stringer? Tom (Marc's Dad) couldn't handle it. Knowing what he was willing to do so far to get his soon the "right," the "best," opportunity, what would he do and how would he justify it? That is just one of the many untold stories the books sets-up. Marc's twin sister Katie has her own issues with her Dad's misguided help. Why does Katie always have to help and Marc gets to skip the household chores? I want to know more.
I recommend the book to anyone who has ever watched a youth's game. I am looking forward to the next book.
A Real Eye-OpenerReview Date: 2006-01-24
From the beginning of Marc's life Tom pruned him to be a football star, but Tom never considered the factors of life that would play into his decision for the future of his son.
As life progressed, Marc indeed was superior to other children in this game, but Marc lacked the spark that was required to take it to the limit and Tom almost destroyed his son and family by foolishly trying to light the spark that was not there.
In this book our author explores the unrealistic expectations that many parents pile upon their children in sports and the destruction these actions can cause. The storyline pulls you in and craft-fully the author illuminates the part over zealous parents with an agenda of their own play in the life of our children's sports. Often to their destruction.
This is an eye-opening read done in an entertaining way and one that all parents, couches and those who overshadow our children in any competitive area should read.
Shirley Johnson
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MidWest Book Review
Catch a Rising StarReview Date: 2006-02-03


EXCELLENT!Review Date: 2005-02-06
A truly touching story.Review Date: 1999-05-11
This book was really great!!Review Date: 1999-06-06
About two skaters who have followed their dreams.Review Date: 1999-04-24
You don't want to put it down!Review Date: 1999-11-15

The Best Thorough Intro Anywhere, But Not The Easiest or Most ModernReview Date: 2006-04-17
This is *not* a book for the casual beginner or the dabbler. It is for someone who, from the outset, is going to be serious about chess, perhaps someone who has played a few games with serious players in informal settings and now wants to learn "real" chess.
The book is not easy. Information is densely packed and requires care and attention in study. There are some drawbacks; the age of the original edition (now approaching 65 years) means that the opening lines are very dated (though the principles are not), and the book uses descriptive notation (I don't see this as a problem, but the beginning reader will have to learn algebraic at some point from a different source).
Still, the presentation of ideas is in a class not to be found elsewhere. Fine gives 10 rules for the opening, mid-game, and ending; and practicing and following these rules, and the rest of the material in the book, if done diligently will over time probably lead the reader to the 1700 or better play class. That's pretty darn good for a single 185 page book which assumes no prior knowledge.
As expected from Fine, the endgame chapter is superb.
One especially useful feature is the presence of numerous practical problems to test mastery of the material.
The reader must take this book seriously and study diligently to benefit. This is no "royal road" to chess. It is a pathway to success paved with quality stepping stones composed of old-fashioned hard work. Not so amazingly, that method continues to pay off better than any other!
It is fortunate that this book is easily and inexpensively available on the used market, and you can have a copy delivered to your door for well under $10. It's a fantastic investment.
Four stars instead of five simply because, as mentioned above, the age of the book makes the opening lines very dated.
The Definitive Intro Chess BookReview Date: 2000-07-18
chess the easy way.....reuben fineReview Date: 1999-12-03
THE best book for beginner to intermediate playersReview Date: 2003-04-26
Unusually valuable text which urgently deserves re-printingReview Date: 1999-09-08

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One of the most useful tools TSR has ever produced . . .Review Date: 2000-02-09
Good way to get some VillansReview Date: 2000-02-06
Good for ANY Gaming systemReview Date: 2000-01-16
If you want a campaign with villains that just suck your players right in and get them seriously wanting to take on the villain for his own evil rather than the rewards they can get, you should buy this book.
oh yeah babyReview Date: 1999-09-18
Marvelous resourse to jump-start one's creativity!Review Date: 2000-01-04

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The Best Since Oscar Wilde? Review Date: 2005-06-04
Orton: Without ApologyReview Date: 2001-07-31
Satirical and full of quick wit, Orton's plays attack British culture and spit on everything that the "respectable person," would hold dear.
Orton does not hold back anything and could come on a bit strong for a conservative reader, but my suggestion is that any lover of drama and theater should own and read these plays.
Joe Orton: Forever ReleventReview Date: 2001-07-09
The Great Master Of Brutal ComedyReview Date: 2005-10-05
THE COMPLETE PLAYS is not as complete as the title implies, for the text leaves out several titles that never received any production during Orton's lifetime. Still, it does collect the major titles, and that in itself is enough to earn it a place on any serious play-reader's shelf.
Originally presented as a BBC radio program, THE RUFFIAN ON THE STAIR presents the story of Joyce, an unmarried woman of dubious background who is now under the control of Mike, an older man who has mysterious assignations that lead to a fateful encounter with a boy hairdresser named Wilson--whose lover (or brother, depending on how you think about it) may have been a victim of one of Mike's covert operations. It got Orton noticed, and his next effort would truly put him on the map: ENTERTAINING MR. SLOANE was and is one of the salaciously funny comedies ever brought to the stage, the wickedly funny tale of an aging sex-crazed woman and her homosexual brother who use their father's murder as a means of blackmailing a young thug into their respective beds.
THE GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT, THE ERPINGHAM CAMP, and FUNERAL GAMES have much to offer but are actually minor titles in comparison with the two plays that critics consider great masterpieces: LOOT, a bitterly savage farce concerning a robbery, a death in the family, and the uses to which you can put Mother's coffin (not to mention false teeth) in a pinch; and WHAT THE BUTLER SAW, set in a psychiatrist's office in which everyone has truly gone round the bend.
Orton was a master of language that forces you to laugh even as it cuts you like a straight-edged razor across the throat; you can't help but laugh even as you collapse bleeding to the floor. Even so, it is worth pointing out that plays are really written to be performed rather than read, and this particularly true of Orton; unless you have a very strong background in theatre you may do better to wait for your local rep company to take up the challenge.
GFT, Amazon Reviewer
Droll plays with no redeeming value whatsoever.Review Date: 2002-04-18
The last one, "What The Butler Saw", got a little bit too ridiculously farcical for my taste and went on too long, but it has its moments; and otherwise they're all pretty good to read.
I can also recommend the introduction. Joe Orton lived his own life very much like the people in his plays (which makes you wonder how much of his material was supposed to be comedy). Even his death was true to form: his envious lover, actor Kenneth Halliwell, bashed in Orton's brains with a hammer just prior to doing himself in with 22 sleeping tablets.

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Good bookReview Date: 2008-04-26
BlackjackReview Date: 2008-02-10
One on OneReview Date: 2008-01-26
Casino thrill ride!Review Date: 2008-01-23
The Counting Game is the "must-have" blackjack counting book for anyone seeking to make money at casino tablesReview Date: 2008-04-03


Good Book!Review Date: 2008-01-17
Don has some interesting strategies and ideas that even after reading a number of books on Craps had never heard of. I like his style of play and the book really does give some great insight in how to play the game at a lower betting level and giving yourself a better chance at winning. We all know there's no way to beat Craps, but there are some effective ideas that Don presents that can give you fighting hope on a regular basis!
Overall, good book, good ideas, worth the money, and 4 stars instead of 5 because of lousy editing.
finally understood crapsReview Date: 2006-12-14
Excellent guide on CrapsReview Date: 2006-07-13
This book is awesome!!!!Review Date: 2006-05-23
Disorganized, but a good readReview Date: 2007-01-10
The book's only downside is the editing, or lack thereof. There are typface inconsistencies that are kind of jarring, and serious copyediting errors. Also, the book is poorly organized. For example, the primer on craps rules and betting is at the end, but terms from that chapter are used in the preceding chapters. Some of Don's personal stories within the strategy chapters are humorous, but often are non sequiturs to the lessons themselves and break up the book's flow.
Granted, I'm in the publishing business by trade, so I'm OCD about some of these editing details that others won't care about. On the whole, Mr. Favero has done an exceptional job of getting logical craps strategies into the hands of casual players like me. I'm looking forward to applying his lessons in a few weeks in upstate New York.
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If you are a doctor or work in a doctor's office, with patients of any age, this would be a fabulous idea to have instead of yucky magazines.
We have all of the "I Spy" books and it looks like we'll be starting to collect these too.