Bonds Books

There are a lot of books on investing in the markets. This one is just average. Personally, I found the layout of the book to be very 'busy' and disorganized. I think there are a number of other books that would help the beginning/novice investor more than this one. Look at my other reviews for suggestions.

There are those who are very comfortable investing in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and a host of other vehicles that can earn lots of money . . . or not. Then there are those who are chicken-afraid of making the wrong decision, losing their shirts, and suffering the ridicule of everyone who knows them. This book is written for chickens.

Fred Siegel is president of an investment management firm in New Orleans, widely respected for knowing the investment field very well. In addition to running his advisory firm, Siegel also runs The Siegel Group International, providing financial news analysis to broadcast media in the United States and other countries. He has been on the air continually since 1984, broadcasting from WWL-TV and WWL radio in New Orleans. His advice is heard far and wide-and can now be read in a fun sort of book.

Fun? Investing? Chickens? Scary. The book is written in a light vein so it's easy to move through. The type is large, so that readers don't have to squint to get his message. There are several unusual features in the book-like red and black ink on the pages. Illustrations of chickens abound. There are lots of call-outs and sidebars, including testimonial quotes from his clients. The book is almost too self-serving in that regard, but one might expect a talk-show personality to be a bit self-promoting.

The book is organized into twelve chapters, dealing with the stock market, jargon, and then the focus on chicken stocks. Siegel makes his point that buying particular types of stocks is wiser than buying others, and explains. He doesn't like mutual funds, but talks about them, trusts, bonds, and annuities. Even on-line investing is covered for the reader.

As you might suspect, this book is going to give you a "once over lightly." It's not really deep, nor does it need to be. It meets its design of giving chicken investors enough knowledge to feel comfortable looking more deeply into the opportunities. As with any investment advisor, it's smart to take the advice carefully and understand that biases are present and influential. Whether you agree with everything Siegel says or not, you will have a broader understanding of the world of investing after reading this book.

This book is for the reader who is new to investing. If you are interested in investing in the stock market, but are worried about the outcome, then this books provides some good advice. The investment approach recommended is truly for very conservative types - but the truth is, that the author's recommendations have worked well in the past and are worth consideration by all investors. Reviewed by the author of THE SHORT BOOK ON OPTIONS.

As a veteran financial broadcaster, Fred Siegel loses nothing when shifting to the print media. He is just as clear in these pages as he is on his talk show on WWL. He believes that profits drive value, and the investor must look for them, not some hot Dot Com or 2020 high tech product that is unproven and unnecessary. As much as there is good advice on what an investor should do, the really valuable advice is on what not to do, and who not to do it with. This book is a real eye-opener for the average investor.

the rendition of casino royale is very close to the original even in the torture scene. there is nothing explicit but you know what's happening. this is a visual companion to the novel and great for Bond purists.

For Bond fans who can't get enough, this book is a pleasing and thrilling way to look at the character the way Fleming wished him to look. I came across scans of some of these strips on an excellent "Art of James Bond" site, and decided immediately that I must give it a look. It's a different way to experience Bond than the novels and the movies, and is terrifically enjoyable. Highly recommended. Put on a 007 soundtrack cd or two, lean back in your chair with a frosty martini, and travel back into adventure!

I grew up reading these strips in the newspaper when I was a little kid in the 60s and the 70s. I bought this book when it was first published by Titan Books in 1989. It was a wonderful presentation by Titan in high quality paper and a beautifully painted cover. The stories are engrossing and the artwork by McLusky is superb. I would recommend this book highly to any James Bond fan.

So why do I award only one star to this book? Titan decided to include Moonraker in this book. People like me who have already purchased the earlier edition of this book have to buy it again just to get the extra Moonraker story.

This book is actually really great for comic and 007 lovers alikes.


i can not belive this guy gives this book a one star rating just because it gives you extra stories last time i checked extra is BETTER and i thought this guy already has the stories so why is he buying... to collect but if so why is he complaining i dont now.

The guide is very detailed and informative. It tells step by step how to play each stage and how to obtain all the 007 moves. I highly recommend this guide to the serious Bond player.

You can always trust Prima when it comes to game guides, and you can still trust them. This guide has everything for someone playing through EoN for their first time. Maps that layout entire levels, pointing out important things like weapon pick ups and bond moments. And the walkthrough itself will get you through any level, single player and co-op. It isn't whats in the guide that made me shy of giving it five stars or calling it a must-buy, but what they left out. First off, there are three difficulty levels, operative, agent, and 00agent. this guide is for agent only. It points out armor locations and objectives for agent. It doesn't point out which objectives are left out in operative, or which armor locations aren't there in 00agent. Sometimes htere will be another person here or there on 00 that there isn't on agent, but it still gets left out. Another thing that's missing, a section on how to get the gold awards. If you cant quite get 450,000 points on the last mission, it will take more than the listed bond moments to get you there. Another problem is that there really isn't a guide for getting platinum medals on the levels. There are paragrpah long tips at the end of a mission walkthrough on how to get platinum, but no real guide. The largest problem I had with this guide was that it was either too vague or nonchalant about how to obtain the gold and platinum medals throughout the game, and basically left you guessing once you tried to unlock them. This guide is only good (but very good) for getting to the last level on agent, and ignores helping you unlocking the awards.

This is great! The guide offers the ultimate walk through of 007: everything or nothing! If you are having trouble locating an objective, or just want a basic overview of the game this is for you. There are sections on multiplayer strategy, and general sigle player stratgey. The guide has detailed maps of each level. If I was you I would get out and buy this guide and the game also because they are gonna go quick!

This is not a bad guide at all, but first of all, it's a universal guide, covering all three consoles. This is fine, except that I prefer a guide tailored to my own system, so that instead of the guide saying, "press Action to...whatever," it says, "press X or Circle..."

Also, the guide assumes you'll play the game at the second difficulty level and doesn't account for the fact that some people, me included, play at the easy level at first. The guide is then very confusing, because it tells you to do stuff that the game doesn't want you to. There really should have been two sections, detailing the Easy and the Hard walkthroughs separately.

Though it can be tricky, the game itself is awesome. The guide on the other hand could have been better.

The previous reviewer of this title appears to have taken it much too seriously. Ignore such sticks-in-the-mud and enjoy Grant Morrison's anarchic humour and Philip Bond's fantastic artwork for the disposable pop fun that it is.

As with all Morrison's work there is subtext to be gleaned here - the boy can be seen to represent Dionysus and the girl is one of the Maenads, and the subtle hints of a secret incestuous union also suggests Greek divinities.

Some previous reviewers seem appalled that the violence is portrayed as sexy and cool, and that the satire is directed at the victims and not at the killers. Ever heard of "wish fulfillment," darling?

So forget the mealy-mouthed moralists and grab this slice of teenage pop anarchy - if you can find it, that is; like most good comics, it's out of print.

Grant Morrison is a wildly inventive, wildly prolific, wildly inconsistent writer. He's produced a lot of comics over the last twenty years, some of them instant classics, some of them just very good genre pieces, and some of them ranging from the utterly forgettable to the simply wretched. "Kill Your Boyfriend" lies somewhere beneath the bottom of the pile.

Written shortly after the time of "Natural Born Killers" and "True Romance," "Kill Your Boyfriend" is probably best considered as a product of its era: yet another in a long line of "sexy teen killers on the run" stories. The plot is simple: Disaffected Girl meets Disaffected Boy and is attracted by his "bad boy" rebellious streak. Boy kills Girl's unlovable old boyfriend, Girl finds this outrageously sexy (breaking out the old chestnut that Sex Equals Death), and the two go on a killing spree which somehow manages to be far more glamorous than it would in real life. This plot, such as it is, meanders along explicitly as a love story, fetishizing the couple's various murders and repeatedly making the point that this cool, attractive young couple feels absolutely no remorse for killing their victims - who are all ugly and nasty anyway - but instead are brought closer together by the wild youthful abandon of breaking open a random passerby's head.

We are, of course, encouraged to feel less than no sympathy for the pair's victims. The girl's old boyfriend is conveniently a short, fat, ugly nerd with an acne-riddled face; the next man they kill is a balding, overweight transvestite who never gets so much as a line out before his head gets bashed in with a bottle. His death means so little that it's never brought up again. Other victims are turned into corpses so quickly we never have a chance to identify with them; they're just accessories for the protagonists' personal pursuit of pleasure. Most are killed off-panel, or have their bodies shown as briefly as possible, to allow the reader to focus on the pleasure our attractive young heroes are experiencing, instead of on the death they're dishing out. All of this amounts to a book that assumes that life has no inherent value and that atrocities are justified if they're sufficiently sexy. It's nihilism with lip gloss. If only Himmler had worn high heels and fishnets!

I suppose Morrison might say this is all meant in jest, perhaps as some comment on the glorification of violence in modern culture or some similar wankery, but that all sounds a bit crap, because while there certainly is humor employed in this book, none of it is targeting our killer-protagonists. Every joke is used to justify their actions, either by ridiculing and dehumanizing one of their targets, or by making light of the big bad authority figures who would stop them having their fun. By making the killers glamorous and sexy while making their victims and pursuers ridiculous, Morrison tries to make mass murder an exemplar of youthful rebellion. He even goes so far as to deride a bunch of art school students for being poseurs - for talking about destruction, but not having the purity of purpose to go out and actually kill people.

Morrison also has a deeply disturbing view of women tucked away in here, in that the girl happily realizes her entire life and identity has been subsumed in the boy's masochistic fantasy, and loves every minute of it. At no point is the option raised that maybe she can live her own life, much less one that doesn't involve randomly killing people for fun.

The book ends winkingly with yet another murder in progress, the sole purpose of which is to indicate that our heroine is still strong and vital and youthful (she MUST be staying true to herself, because she's killing someone). We know nothing of the victim, and never even see or hear him - he's just another corpse tossed on the pile to make Morrison's disaffected teenager archetype feel good.

If I could've given this zero stars, I would have. This is perhaps the ultimate example of all the worst elements of mainstream comic books together in one place: it's shallow, stupid, pointless, violent, derivative and dull.

A short (56 pages) Grant Morrison story that contains neither superheroes nor science fiction. The plot is similar to that of NATURAL BORN KILLERS, where 2 youngsters run off to take drugs and kill people. Like that film, this story is also a dark comedy, although this one takes a more aloof and antiseptic tone than the film did. The tale gets much of its energy from its complete and matter-of-fact disregard of any ethics or morality.

Philip Bond's colorful artwork contibutes a lot toward the dry humor in this story. He draws people's faces and their expressions quite well, which is particularly useful in the numerous asides to the reader, where the girl looks directly out of the page and talks to you. It reminds me of some movies that have used this device.

Although not the greatest Grant Morrison story ever written, it's a malignant little comic with a certain charm, and worth reading if you can find a copy somewhere.

A lovely short story from Grant Morrison, the genius reinventor of Doom Patrol and the current chronicler of The Invisibles. A sulky schoolgirl somewhere in suburban Britain meets a cheeky delinquent boy on the bus one day, and before your jaw can drop they've gone on a killing spree, hooked up with a bunch of anarcho-hippies on a bus, experimented wildly with their respective sexualities and found themselves halway up Blackpool Tower with a live grenade while the Police shout threats at them through a bullhorn.

Love story, irresponsible celebration of violence and Dionysus myth, this is a highly cheeky piece of work from the irrepressible Mr. Morrison. Always a man to take the phrase "For Mature Readers" to the absolute limit, Morrison respects not a single taboo. I forget who the artist is and I'm not proud of having done so, as the art is appropriately wacky and witty, as befitting the, well, Dionysian tone of explosive release. Great fun, even if you're glad it didn't happen to anyone you know, and a slap in the face to boring journalists who claim that British fiction is dead. (Why don't those idiots read comics?)

Jill Bond's done it again! As one of the premier practitioners of bulk cooking, Jill's easy to follow recipes, instructions and tips are what got me started originally with her first book. This is beautifully done with tons more ideas and recipes! Absolutely deserves front place on my bulk cooking shelf!

Jill Bond does an extraordinary job in this book of explaining exactly how to Mega-Cook. I have read many books on this subject and this book by far puts me at ease with this somewhat intimidating process. I'm thankful for the tips she gives on page 103 about making up multiple batches. She gives an example of this method so those of us who need to "see" things can grasp the idea. This is a wonderful way to get started by understanding the whole process of this type of cooking and food preservation. The tips she sprinkles throughout as well as the test family responses gives everyone a great variety of recipes and ideas to choose from. Jill makes me feel that I know her family with the personal touches she puts in the pages. I waited quite a while for this book to be released and it has not disappointed me. I have tried some of the recipes and my family has enjoyed each one. I am looking forward to this method becoming a very welcomed way of life for me and my family.

While the book covers much of the same material as Dinner, it's updated and expanded to include breakfast and lunch. It's definitely a different book. There's more information about regional produce markets, and a recipe index. I'm disappointed that there aren't forms to photocopy like there are in "Dinner."

If you've never cooked in quantity, this book will take you by the hand and make it easy.

Now, to be picky, the math in the benefits section leaves much to be desired (waaay overstating the value of buying in bulk), and an appendix that was promised in the bulk buying section wasn't included. Both of those bugged me, but it's worth the effort to go beyond these and other editing errors to get to the information.

If you need to regularly cook for a camp, church gathering or a shelter this is the book. But for a small family that wants to save time and still eat interesting and healthy food this is not the book. I was very disappointed.

I read Casino Royale awhile ago when I learned that Daniel Craig had been tagged to play Bond. I found the book interesting and altho it was dated a bit, it was entertaining. It was also fascinating in how it shed some light on Bond's personality.
This one was frankly boring from the first part and the female
he picks up just too true to the boring babes of past films including
her name. What really finally finished me off was the hostage scenario.
Bond would need a hostage????
The only thing more ridiculous than that is he not only takes her along, but he picks up her girlfriend?????
HUH???
When that happened I dropped the book back in the library slot, along with three others I had planned to read.
I just hope Bond 22 is not based on something from Gardner.

This is one of the better John Gardner Bond novels. It has a novel plot: Bond not on assignment, but instead the target of a global manhunt. It features some memorable and vicious villains, and a nice amount of plot twists.

Gardner's writing is taut, and we're reminded here that the Bond of the novels may be as suave as the Bond of film, but is considerably more ruthless. He repeats Ian Fleming's classic description of Bond's features as containing a hint of cruelty. Bond's ordeal in this book brings the trait more fully out of him than in other novels.

The first half of the book is particularly good in establishing tension. There are, perhaps, a few plot contrivances, but nothing especially blatant. I've read most of Gardner's Bond novels and would rate this very highly among them.

I HAVE SEEN EVERY JAMES BOND MOVIE THERE IS TO SEE. I HAVE READ EVERY book by John Gardner! His Bond outings keeps the Bond Flag alive! Nail biting suspense! Great storytelling at its best in this great adventure!

The suspense is a mile a minute in this novel that sets Bond against SPECTRE for the last time. It has two women for oo7 to womanize and features him at his most efficient and ruthless. It also has a sexy double cross that makes it even more exciting to read.

My toddler has loved this book since he was six-months old. He loves the pictures and rhymes on each page. It has been a constant favorite and we have read it together over and over and over again. A must have for any toddler's collection.

My 1 year old loves this book, and so do I. It's simple, short, and rhymes--perfect for both of us! If you love Paddington Bear, you will want to get your littlest ones started with this book.

The illustrations are not very cute, the text is a bit too simple and the book is over before you know it. Unless you are a die hard paddingtion fan - just move on.

A book for Babies and Toddlers, Paddington Bear Goes to Market gives a short story that catches the excitement of Paddington Bear's morning shopping. Good uses of repetition and rhyme makes this book very appealing to a younger audience. This was used in a toddler storyhour and the children enjoyed this book. The illustrations, done in watercolors, give great detail which allows for more discussion on the book.

This guide has a complete listing of the books and movies up to "The World is Not Enough." It's a light and entertaining read for casual Bond fans or for people who don't know much about the older Bond movies, like myself. However, I can't imagine that hardcore Bond fans could enjoy this. Probably those fans know more about Bond than is included in this book. The listings for the books are about a page each, and for the movies rarely exceeds two pages. So if you've seen all the movies or read all the books, then I don't recommend it for you. However, if you'd like to have an introduction into the world of Bond, it's an excellent book. I thouroughly enjoyed it from cover to cover.

I knew practically everything in this book being a 007 veteran.
I could imagine it being very useful fro people beginning the bond craze. GOOD READ.

I've been a James Bond fan my entire life (I was born one year after DR. NO was released), and I found this to be a fun little volume that takes quick looks into Bond's origins, the novels, the films and the phenomenon.

But I really had to wonder how the authors could rate THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN better than ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE and THE SPY WHO LOVED ME. I found a few other errors, but this, to me, is the most glaring mistake in the book.
In "The Girls" chapter, both ladies from YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE are missing.
In the middle of page 170, a quote from Tiger Tanaka is mistakenly attributed to FOR YOUR EYES ONLY.
Bottom of page 246: "sene" instead of "sense."
On page 259, a sentence reads "Bond also appears there to visit the grave of his dead wife Tracy in ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE," which is very odd since Tracy expires in the final seconds of that film!

I also wondered why there was no mention of Sydney Reilly, the World War I British spy of whom Fleming said, "Bond is just an imaginary figure--but he's no Sydney Reilly."
(There are books and a mini-series with Sam Neill called REILLY: ACE OF SPIES available).

These quibbles aside, this is definitely a handy little volume for the James Bond fan.
It's on my Swinging Sixties Spy shelf at home.

This is one of those books for someone who wants to know as much about James Bond as possible in just a short amount of time. It gives you just what it promises, a rough history about Bond. If you truly want to impress people with your knowledge about 007 you need to research more. But if you want to just get by in a conversation about Bond this is the book for you. So I recommend this for anyone who needs to know about the most famous secret agent out there in just 007 minutes.

Surprisingly,this book is enjoyable and easy to read. It contains information, I have not found anywhere else, that is vital to know before investing in savings bonds. If you already own savings bonds, you will benefit from reading this book before you sell them. Savings bonds are not the simple investment most people believe they are. I checked this book out from the library, but found it so valuable I am purchasing a copy for myself.

This book contains more in-depth information than theinformation available from government publications or the website. Use that information and thatwebsite, but also get this book. I use the free downloadable SavingsBond Wizard from the government website, and also set up an Excelspreadsheet to keep up bond statements as outlined in this book--whichis a more effective statement to aid decision-making. Some of theissues covered in this book: don't trust your bank to know whatthey're doing / understanding interest rates / timing issues re:redemption and maturity / organizing your bonds and keeping records /recovering lost bonds / tracking your investment (using the wizardand/or a statement you develop yourself or purchase from a service) /deciding to hold or fold -- evaluating performance of your bonds /comparing savings bonds to other investment options / taxation issuesinluding estate/gift/inheritance tax issues / using savings bonds forretirement / exchanging for HH current-income bonds / purchasing /reissuing / redeeming / tax-free for higher education feature / bondsas gifts / the new I bond / forms of ownership / bonds for minors /resources. Highly recommend. END

This is a completly thorough book on every type of US Savings Bonds with good advice on how to purchase them, when to purchase them, and when to redeem them as well as how to redeem them. It has good structural content, with easy to follow guidelines. It also contains addresses to send to for more information. Like any book in this field, by the time an author has it published, it has some obsolete material, but I must say I still found it very useful. The reason for my most current purchase is that I have purchesed two other copies and have given them each away as gifts.

This book should not be sold any longer. Since it was published back in 1999 - and is now close to 5 years old - it contains a lot of mis-information. The U S Treasury Department has changed many of the rules and regulations concerning savings bonds - most notably over the past 18 months. A person purchasing this book to learn more about U S Savings Bonds will get good information, and bad information. The problem is that he/she will not know what information is good, and what information is bad. Thus, by not buying the book, the savings bond owner is probably better off. I do not challenge the idea that it is important for savings bond owners to learn all about their own collection of savings bonds. They need to know the rules and regulations, so that they can make informed, intelligent decisions about keeping or cashing in bonds - and the proper time to do it. But any printed book is not the place to find it: the information becomes obsolete too quickly. The internet is the place to find accurate, up-to-date information about savings bonds. Because any web site can be updated quickly and easily, the information presented there is more likely to be current. Because it takes the author so long to prepare the book, and then the time it takes to get it printed (published) and then put into the distribution piepline, I suggest that any book about savings bonds is already obsolete the day it becomes available for sale to the public. Furthermore, according to reliable sources who work for the Savings Bond Division of the U S Treasury Department, numerous additional changes will be forthcoming during the next 2 years. For my money, the internet is the ONLY place to find all the information that you could possibly need to know about U S Savings Bonds. Just type in "savings bonds" in any search engine.

I found this book to be a vast waste of time. There is very little of practical use to the trader. The author spends the majority of the book on his "Triple Crown" of reducing taxes. None of which you can do without a CPA. You would be better off visiting this book at your local bookstore, jotting down the "Triple Crown" and then hiring a CPA to explain it to you. The writing is poor and difficult to follow -- not because of the technical difficulty, but, because the sentences and paragraphs are so poorly constructed. Save the $( ) and look elsewhere.

I just received this book this week after some publishing delays and I'm glad I didn't decide to cancel the pre-publication order. This book is well worth the wait. It's much better than Tesser's previous book. There are lots of examples and even goes into details on estate planning in addition to the tax advantages of trader's status. This book will definitely give you something to think about how to plan and do your taxes!

The Trader's Tax Solution is a must for any investor who wants to minimize his/her taxes. Mr. Tesser also provides wonderful insight into retirement and estate planning. Well worth the price! If you are interested in legally reducing your tax bite, then this is the book for you.

I own this update and his last book. Basically concepts are good and prose somewhat entertaining. However, here is the catcher. If you are going to use a CPA for doing all this stuff be prepared to hock your house and your family. What the CPA'S do not get the lawyers will when they charge you for setting up your FLP. I saw one bit of communication where the authors states that refiling was not worthwhile when his fees were factored in !!!!. That should tell you something. You do not believe me just call his office for a quote. This guy's has found the hoy grail of relieving most investors...opps ! i mean us traders from our profits !

WHY THE HELL THE GOVT DID NOT MAKE TAXES SIMPLER IS BEYOND ME...!. trust the feds to complicate anythin they touch...!

PROBABLY BECAUSE THE CPA LOBBY LIKE THE TRIAL LAWYERS AND THE NRA HAVE DEEP POCKETS TO KEEP THINGS THERE WAY.