Burnett Books

This was a disappointment. Guess I was expecting more of a cookbook and less of a history of Spam.

WINTER"S GOLD is my first Heffernan effort, and I would like to read TARNISHED BLUE To see what he is capable of. This book didn't impress or hold my interest.

WINTER"S GOLD" started with the interesting premise of a handicapped, former Olympic female athlete being found in a bathtub as an apparent suicide. There was no suspense whatsoever before we were led into what quickly became a 'murder' scene. We were given too much information about the detecting Devlin wanted his people to do. Why so much f...ing language? The word can be effective when not overused. The police surely can't talk that way in every conversation, but if they do I don't want to read every bleeping word.

I managed to finish the book, but lost interest in who actually did the murder because the author didn't make me care that much about his characters nor his protagonist.

Lately many authors insert gay and/or lesbian characters which is certainly appropriate. The problem I find with that, as in WINTER'S GOLD, is that the character is not handled very well. Levy, the lesbian cop, was a good idea in this book due to the tastes of Winter himself, who used lesbians to arouse himself, but I didn't get a good feeling what Levy was about other than her snappy comebacks at Boom Boom, the stereotyped racist, ethic slurring and homophobic cop.

Enjoyed the tactics used in the morgue on the germophobic killer to force him to reveal information. However, I found it unbelievable that as busy as medical examiners and their staffs are, they would take the time to set up this charade for one cop.

The Agatha Christie twist at the end was a good idea, but...again, I was just glad to finish the book and even that finish was an anticlimax for me.

I felt this was a creative, fly by the seat of your pants theory, that was just as good as anyone else's guess. It's great!

I checked this book out, and found it to be of little worth. It is hard for me to believe that such an apparently emminent psychologist could possibly believe the preposterous theory he attempts to advance. Abrahamsen even quotes his own books as source material to back up his theories. It seems he takes great pride in having interviewed David Berkowitz (convicted "Son of Sam" killer) extensively, as he can't help but drop the name and details of that case incessantly throughout his writing; from what I've been able to gather, there's little similar between both cases. (I would hardly call the "Son of Sam" murders a "textbook" case of serial murder, though.) On the whole, a disappointing book. Read Sugden's "The Complete History of Jack the Ripper" instead...

This is by far the silliest Jack the Ripper book I have ever read (then again, I haven't read Richard Wallace's _Light-Hearted Friend_).

Dr. Abrahamsen purports to psychoanalyze the Ripper based on his crimes, and decides that the Ripper is really two men: HRH Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward and his tutor, James Kenneth Stephen.

His evidence? None. Really. Not even a little bit. This is hardly surprising, since research has shown that Prince Albert Victor _could not_ have committed the crimes; his movements are accounted for on every one of the murder nights.

With this piece of nonsense, Dr. Abrahamsen forfeits his right to be taken seriously, either as a psychiatrist or as an author

This book provides more data for a basic premise already familiar to many of us, that exclusive enclaves of people who run corporations, government and quasi-governmental bodies, and others secretive, manipulate the world to their own ends and much to the harm of millions innocent. It does so through a would-be collage of illustrations that don't connect well to each other nor combine to build a whole greater than the sum of its parts. The presentation suggests someone wanting to capitalize on their career experiences more than a scholarly work that advances our collective understanding of critical topics.

For eminently more worthwhile investments of study effort, refer to works by Klare, Gelbspan, Chomsky, and J. Kunstler.

Safely bypass this book. Can be somewhat intriguing to someone without a glance of critical thinking. This book doesn't even answer the question in the title. A collection of well-known facts, some minor factoids of the tabloid level ("Bush executive order # 12345"), just overview of publicly available information, generous use of word "conspiracy" - all this without a strong plot, jumping from topic to topic, and absence of quality argumentation or intriguing facts. Not a single reference to other documents or research in the end of the book - that alone tells you it is an exercise in futility. Zero stars.

Betty Burnett's book is nothing more than a compilation of weekly news magazine articles available after the bombing. This is a book that belongs on a middle school shelf. I realize now that Rosen publishing does scholastic books. There are only 65 pages in the book from forward to appendix. There is only one first person account of the bombing. The heroic work of the crew is not discussed in any detail. There was a fantastic opportunity to discuss the challenge faced by the female chief engineer Deborah Courtney to save the ship; a first I believe in the anals of naval lore.Many of the pictures do not belong in the book as they are not of the Cole.I will donate the book I bought to my local middle school library.

Not much of a book - more of a phamphlet.
It is for the 1st grade learner on colon health.
Small information on a large subject.

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.