Burnett Books

Unnecessarily confusing and condescending. A good commercial outline will teach you more.

Being someone who is fascinated with America's Special Forces, I bought this book hoping it would enlighten me more on these mysterious Delta Operators. W-R-O-N-G. I waited almost 2 months for this book to come because it was a special order. When it came I was expecting to open it and see pop up pictures. It looks like a childrens pop up book. I read it in literally 12 minutes flat!!! The book is only 56 pages long and written in a 72 font. As for the context of the book, it is extremely vague. ... Save your money and buy Inside Delta force by Eric Haney or Delta Force by Charlie Beckwith if you want to know more about the Delta Force. ...

I bought this book to prepare for a Texas government class credit by exam test. Buy this book and you too can trawl through page after page of crap about the underrepresentation of women and minorities looking for the occasional smidgen of actual information that would be useful on a test. This entire book could be replaced by a few pages of charts and a sentence that says "women and minorities are underrepresented in Texas government". It would have the same effect, be a lot easier to get actual useful information from, and cost a dollar.

Don't waste your time.

I was really looking forward to this CD, because I love Nancy Mitford, and apparently this was a favorite book of hers.

The first problem was that the disks were very scratchy, so much so that the first part of the story was unplayable.

The second, and perhaps worst part, was the person that they picked as the main narrator. I constantly listen to audio books, and admit to being particular as to who is reading, but this narrator drove me up the wall with her interpretation of the story. She had a very odd way of articulating, and her reading of each line was extremly peculiar. I have to say I found her way of reading immpossible to listen to without irritation. Also, although this book is supposed to take place in England, only one of the characters had an English accent! I found this distracting, since I kept wondering about it while attempting to listen to the story.

All in all, I would call it a disaster! Very disapointing.

I did not find this book interesting at all. Too bad it was too late to return it.

I suppose for it's 1977 publication, most of the photographs and information included were relatively recent, but there were photos of Indians walking on their knees to the OLD basilica, which is now in almost complete disuse, the new one having been inaugurated in 1976. It's a shame that the 1984 and 1990 printings did NOTHING to update these images.

I also object to the "Ropa" ("clothing") chapter dealing exclusively with traditional clothing, and never mentioning that Mexicans everywhere wear pretty much what people all over the world are wearing--jeans and tennis shoes. Of COURSE traditional dress predominates in small towns, but Mexico's VAST urban population doesnt' look anything at all like the people depicted in this book. It's as if nothing had changed since the charro movies of the '30s and '40s.

There is a dearth of good, intermediate-level reading materials in Spanish, but... trust me... this is not the answer.

The articles are OK, but there is no overview or structure. Pretty much only buy this book if you need to references a particulalr article in it that you already know about from some other source.