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The following is a review of this spicy little bombshell written by Leticia Marquez of Magical Blend Magazine:

Robert Anton Wilson says of "Taboo"...

"I assure you that what you are about to read is obscene, lewd, blasphemous, subversive, and very interesting, and that all right-thinking people will agree that it should be banned, bowdlerized, censored, suppressed, and burned by the public hangman...I think it is safe to predict that almost every organized group of idiots in this country will regard this book as extremely dangerous."

Wilson is probably right, Taboo's challenge to unite sexual and religious practices probably won't go over well with the New Right. But for the rest of us, the authors present a roller-coaster of a read complete with case histories, theories, and secret sex rituals of interest to both "adepts' of esoteric sex cult societies as well as "ordinary" people. Full of interesting quotations and anecdotes from alchemists, sex magicians, and vampires--not to mention old Yawey himself--this is a fascinating a colorful work that seems predestined to upset many people in our sex-negative society. Those who believe that taboos are made to be broken, however, should find Taboo and enjoyable and entertaining read.

a delightfully insurgent work that reminds those of us who live in basic freedom what is so good about it.

Taboo really dabbles in the realm of exploring your inherent right to use your body as you see fit (in gentle consensuality with chosen others). This is not for the NFL/Lonestar beer set that just wants to get their groove on. This work is for those who consider sex to be a highly sacred, enlightening experience worthy of the most assiduous effort and unbridled, maximum joy.

Intelligence and ritual do play an intrinsic role in fits of ecstasy. This book deftly bridges the gap between "Masters and Johnson clinical" and "in your face indulgence" rendering a delightful and accessible (not to mention highly mystical) middle ground available to those with the proper focus and stamina.

If anything, the book provides keys to becoming more sensitive to the finer nuances of human beings' favorite pastime.

Enjoy!

This book has it ALL! David Cherubim and Robert Anton Wilson contribute to this book by both DuQuette and Hyatt! It doesn't get any better!

Not only is it comprehensible, but the theory makes sense and the exercises are practical!

This book is a real winner!

I got this book out of curiosity as a fan of both Duquette and Hyatt that it came with a warning how shocking it was. It is about the "blasphemous" concept of merging sex with religion. Why this is controversial is because the Christian church teaches sex for any other purpose than procreation is sinful and all sinners of course go to hell. Well now that I've almost gotten Christianity completely out of my life I'm not scared of the thought that I could very possibly go to hell and rot for all eternity nor do I fear that I will not go to heaven. Christianity is gradually losing its stranglehold on American society and I've been a practicing occultist long enough where the "shocking nature" alegedly of the book's contents just seemed like typical Crowleyesque teachings. I credit Duquette and Hyatt with much needed originality in the field of occult literature and also give thanks to Crowley for having an almost unending depth to his own teachings and character. Get this book if you've seen almost everything to the point where nothing really shocks you and you want an original book on esoteric subject matter. I tried other forms of the occult and the Satanism of Anton LaVey was too stuck in Christianity to the point where they almost pigeonholed themselves into the belief system to the point where after all was said and done Satanism was just another religion. Wicca/Witchcraft were actually the same thing and a really bad watered down ripoff of Aleister Crowley and with almost all Wicca 101 books being basically the same as well as more obscure stuff like candle magick it was all the same too. I like the originality of Crowleyesque literature while at the same time being almost stereotypical/cliche but also disturbing. Crowley, etc. didn't act like everything was such a big deal unlike Satanism.

This book would be really good for someone who has never been exposed to the writings of Hyatt and DuQuette before. It has a lot of good info on sex magick and the psychology of sexuality. The problem I had with it is that it really doesn't contain much information that isn't available in their other books. If you're a big fan of the two authors, look it over, but it's basically a rehash of older material.

Practical ideas to utilize in therapy make working with children and adolescents so much easier for therapists who are uncertain how to work effectively with young people. This book helps therapists understand children's needs within a variety of family circumstances and to work effectively with parents to facilitate their parenting skills. Chock full of useful ideas; a wonderful resource! Nancy Nickell

THE BOOK WAS VERY INFORMATIVE AND SEVERAL RESOURCES THAT I WAS ABLE TO USE IMMEDIATELY. IT'S WORTH THE MONEY.

This is a wonderful resource for children's mental health practitioners. It includes art and play techniques on a wide variety of treatment issues. Highly recommended.

This great book is for the therapist working with children and adolescents, where the therapist can use the material as homework, handouts and activities in therapy. The editors, Catherine Ford Sori, professor of psychology and counseling at Governors State University, Illinois and Lorna L Hecker, professor of marriage and family therapy at Purdue University in Indiana, have together with 36 professionals compiled a very important tool for the therapist.
It is divided into eight sections: childrenýs feelings, play in therapy, specific childhood problems, illenes, trauma and bereavement, adolescents, interventions, family and parent education with a total of 46 chapters.
This is a very resourceful book with plenty of ideas, plans and suggestions for use in the encounter with children, adolescents and their families......

Great, user-friendly treatment planner with lots of different activities for both children/adolescents and their families. Great explanations for each topic.

This book is a comprehensive look at the anatomy of a guitar. It does not give enough details to use as a guide to building your own guitar. The color pictures are limited to 12 pages inside center of the book. The rest of the pictures are black and white. There is plenty of discussion of the dreadnaught style, but after reading everything I still didn't have a good idea how it differed from the standard guitar. This book's strong point is the history discussion. If you are looking to build a guitar I recommend "Classical Guitar Making: A Modern Approach to Traditional Design" by John S. Bogdanovich.

There isn't much that the authors don't cover about what goes into a guitar, except for the actual methods of construction (for which you have to go to the Kinkead or Cumpiano books). In this book, you'll learn more than you'll ever need to know about woods, strings, and microphones, and the basics of how to optimize the adjustable bits for your style of playing. The authors know their stuff cold, and it shows.

To get the sort of knowldege this book offers, you have two choices. You could hang around guitar shops for years and years talking with salesmen, customers, repair people, and performers, and learning from them what they consider important in a guitar. Or, if you have a real job, you could read this book instead.

I already have many books on the acoustic guitar, describing technical information, history or concentrating on just one brand.
This book is the most detailed technical book as meant for acoustic guitar owners so far. Each and every part of the guitar is described. Things like fretboard radius or different lacquer types, maintenance, storage, wood with all their aspects. Too many things to mention.

Even a specialist will find some new interesting info.

There are a few color photo's to brighten up the book. I would have preferred a bigger size book (the pages are a little small), but the text is very well written and a pleasure to read. A bigger size plus hard cover and a few more pictures would make it a ***** book for me.

For me, this has been one of the best books i've read in a long time.. It is hard for me to put down.. I have been interested in music as long as I can remember and have played guitar and been interested in the dynamics of sound structure as long.. I know alot of laymen things about the guitar but this book has broken down this incredible instrument and went through each part, step by step in easy to read and understand writing. I am now getting into the art of being a Luthier and this book is full of helpful ideas and terminology.

I can't wait to read more of John Ford's work. Bonk on the Head was a riveting read that succeeded in doing what all great literature should do......make one think!

Reviewed by Sondra Fowler for Reader Views (2/06)

John James Ford writes poetically, brutally, and yet almost lyrically, about the struggles of a young man searching for himself and his place in his family and the world. Herbert "Verbal" Kempt is the son of a military Colonel and his shell shocked wife. Verbal struggles to reconcile himself with a family that is fraught with eccentricity, dysfunction and trepidation.

After his wild yet lovable younger sister runs away, Verbal is left to float adrift with no true purpose in sight. He finds direction and unexpected confidence in the form of Reserve Military Service. Yet amidst all of the success Verbal can not seem to keep from sabotaging himself.

Much of this story is set at the Royal Military College of Canada. It was a very colorful depiction of life in a military setting. The situations and characters were beautifully and fully written. You felt that you were a fly on the wall through all the torments and achievements experienced by the cadets of November Flight.

While the outside world played a large role in the torment of Verbal Kempt the war inside his head was as challenging. He was a young man with much to learn, much to overcome and much to reconcile.

While some of the military and Canadian terminology was alien to me I found I lost nothing of the story. I feel that "Bonk on the Head" would be enjoyable to those interested in the military tales but equally enjoyable to those who prefer tales of the psyche. It was well written and a pleasure to read.

I'm no critic, but this read is well worth it. Take it from Jim Bartley of The Globe & Mail:

Freaks like us
By JIM BARTLEY
Saturday, August 20, 2005

You've heard of army brats. Gertie Kempt takes the figurative out of the brat. Throbbing along the back roads of the Ottawa Valley in her dad's muscle car, she's a brash and reckless mentor to her malleable younger brother, Herb.

In John-James Ford's assured, often disturbing debut -- a boot-camp bildungsroman -- Herb's journey toward a soldier's manhood is impelled largely by deep and ambivalent love for his rebel sister.

Their father (the "Kernel") is a coiled spring, unwound nightly by gin. Tense after a long day at National Defence Headquarters, he erupts in upper-case during dinner: "THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO REASON YOU NEED TO USE SO MUCH MILK ON A DAILY BASIS." Alternatively, he's quiet and menacing: "I'm always at the ready... I can see through the bullcrap, my son."

Gertie is the family peacenik. Rejecting meat, she describes slaughterhouse techniques at dinner. One day she comes home with some liberated chickens. Within days, dad has blown them to red mist with his shotgun. When Gertie checks out, heading to a B.C. commune, Herb loses his anchor on sanity. One night, on the edge, he cranks up the volume on a recording of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.

"I was no longer Ottawa Valley Irish, but came from hard Russian stock... I had no time to stop for fallen comrades... [and] there was Gertie, waiting for me, torn and ravaged and ragged, but weeping tears of joy at this reunion with her brother, her comrade, her poet-warrior."

Tension builds until, late one night, burned toast and too much gin push dad over the edge. Herb stands up to his father's bullying with eloquent indignation and earns a head-first flight into the kitchen drywall. As the crisis builds and explodes, Ford negotiates the labyrinth of emotions with prose that enters the mind, not like fine writing but simply and powerfully, like all the things it evokes: volcanic anger, sorrow, aching regret.

"Our house was a goddamn freakshow," Herb tells us. It's impossible not to agree. What Ford does, with great sensitivity, is to make the freaks recognizable, and their life sentence an extension of the one we know. The book is filled with hyperbole and dark comedy, but not a hint of the cartoonish. Ford couldn't be more attuned to the tragic potential in petty resentments and the inability to express love.

Absurdly, and completely convincingly, Herb attempts to escape his father by embracing the ironclad certainties of the military. After he's accepted at boot camp for officers, the Royal Military College in Kingston, the real nightmare begins.

Things happen at Ford's RMC that, had they been reported from Abu Ghraib, would only have magnified the scandal. But these lost boys are fellow warriors and the shocks have a purpose: the making of unquestioning killers. Can it be as brutal at RMC as Ford implies? Ford makes it seem plausible. He was also a student there. Only graduates -- and those who fled -- will know where his imagination takes over.

Jim Bartley is The Globe and Mail's first-fiction reviewer.

"Bonk on the Head" is a book that I can't believe wasn't written before now. Canada's Royal Military College (RMC) is an amazing setting for a novel, packed with hilarious and sometimes scary characters and a pressure-cooker of a place where people are put through almost unbelievable demonstrations of their loyalty. John-James Ford uses this backdrop to full effect, and with startling honesty, as he presents the trials of his main character, Verbal Kempt. Whether it's the demands of conforming to the rigorous and insular school society, thinking about sex and how to deal with his girlfriend, or Verbal's thoughts about where he belongs in his messed up family life, Ford delivers an internal monologue and external dialogue that rings true. Ford is also great at evoking atmosphere-places like the no-privacy room Verbal has to share with his roommate Mack, and the colourful daydreams of victory and revenge Verbal has to cope with life. What I especially liked about the book was that Verbal Kempt is not sure of his motivations or where he wants to go, either at home or at military college. This is not a heroic novel. Rather, it's one that I think is that much harder to write but more compelling-the story of a guy who just isn't sure where he belongs. Many of the chapters (whose headings are fantastic in and of themselves) read like short stories, which means the book is a good one for road trips or grabbing a few chapters on your lunch break. I'd also recommend this book to every college or university-level student, if for nothing else so that you say "at least my life isn't that hard, no one was hazing me at 3 a.m. during my first week away from home". I should warn you that the writing is sometimes graphic, so if you have a weak stomach for things like what a men's rugby team may get up to on the road, or what gross obstacles might be set in the path of new military recruits, this book may not be for you. Ford is also brutally honest about just how difficult life at the military college is for women, so don't expect any candy-coating. Overall, a fun and compelling read. I hope this becomes a new coming of age classic.

As a long time fan of T. Novan's various stories, I am thrilled to see this one published. It is an exciting story that introduces its readers to the possibility of a better world of the future, one that is willing to accept variations in lifestyle without judgement. But also a world still wrought with age old issues of jealousy, greed and revenge, and the struggles of two young lovers trying to make it through it all. This is one you will want to read again and again! Bravo, TN! This reader looks forward with anticipation to your next adventure!

As a long time fan of T. Novan's various stories, I am thrilled to see this one published. It is an exciting story that introduces its readers to the possibility of a better world of the future, one that is willing to accept variations in lifestyle without judgement. But also a world still wrought with age old issues of jealousy, greed and revenge, and the struggles of two young lovers trying to make it through it all. This is one you will want to read again and again! Bravo, TN! This reader looks forward with anticipation to your next adventure!

I have always loved anything written by T. Novan, but wasn't sure what to expect when I picked up this sci-fi novel. I don't think it's very well-known and it is very different from anything else she's written.

Novan introduces Garron Ford Kurrathian, a ship commander and head of the second most powerful family in her society. Ford is emotionally distant and a very hard-driving leader. No one expects her to adopt a slave and let her into her heart. Ford's new slave is Marra, a woman with a few undiscovered secrets of her own. Their relationship develops very quickly and becomes intense beyond measure.

Ford and Marra are only part of the gift that is this book. The imagination required to create a complex, non-Earth society shines through the author's words. There are slaves, state-endorsed polygamy, laws against adultery, strange animals, and much more. The author throws in a lot of humor and `Earth mythology' throughout the book too.

My only real complaint about the book is the last page mentions a sequel. As far as I can tell, that sequel never happened. Unfortunately for me, I would have loved to read it because the characters are great and the story seems unfinished.

I like all I read of T's stuff online. This is not nearly so good as her online versions. For some reason, Ford and Mara have less lifeliness in published version than they did online. I have to say now I like Nyeta and Phoenix better than most of the main people (and Nyeta and Phoenix are the dragons!). Part of the problem is the book ends abrupt--why not have the whole book as one? Make no sense. Also, who checked for mistakes? There is so many mistakes even I can tell and I am bad at spelling and typos. I was real disappointed on this one. The love scene seemed shorter and less written well than the online version. Maybe I remembering it badly, but I just was disappointed. This is not up to T's regalar standards.

This is an average book. The specifics and detailed photos I was looking for in the book weren't there. What was was a bunch of info already pasted over the internet, including photos and dialog.

An excellent book. Does exactly what it says on the cover. Detailed and informative text, with lots of entertaining and well written information. Well illustrated throughout with both monochrome and full colour pictures. Including period ads and photos and recent photos of restored and customised examples of Ford trucks. Highly recommended

Great book, tons of pictures. Good value, would purchase again.

The photography was excellent and the stories and details on Ford collectable trucks were quite interesting. If you are into old car or truck history or collecting, this is a great addition to your library. Buy it!

For all that this book rambles on about such "interesting" topics as the discussion on how to this book (not your book, but this book!), I found it better than the original volume in the series. There is once again wasted space, i.e. chapters about writing short stories, that don't fit well and are covered much better in other book on writing. Some somewhat useful sections on combining genres.

What makes this book shine is two of the sections are quite good. There is a detailed section on Asian culture (though I wish it had a reference section) and an intruiging chapter on government.

To summarize my thoughts on these books: I was looking for something that would overview a lot of information (which these do) in enough detail (which these sometimes do) and with good references (the references were spotty at best. Some chapters ended with suggestions on how to do an internet search.) If there were a better set of books that covered this information, I would recommend it, but I have yet to find any such thing.

Unless you want a detailed discussion on Asian culture, I recommend purchasing "The Writer's Complete Fantasy Reference" instead.

The greatest compliment I can give this book is that I've owned it for less than a week and it's been borrowed four times. The first volume goes over general character and world generation--anyone with access to roleplaying reference materials knows general character and world generation--but this book won my heart because it describes other areas of fantasy fiction. High notes are Tony Ruggerio's chapter on horror fantasy and Tee Morris' chapter on Asian-based fantasy, and a few chapters concern editing and publishing specifically for the fantasy writing market. However, the rest of the book rehashes the same information laid out in the first volume, albeit with a few tweaks (like a full-blown "sex in fantasy" chapter instead of a few hints).

All in all, it's one of the better fantasy resources I've found in print. If you've got the cash to spare and you write offbeat fantasy, it's worth owning.

I have to say that Vol. 2 is just as complete as the first book in the series. However, the first book was printed in the US, and the second book in Canada, so the second book is a little smaller (metric I guess), and the book was cut with a unsharpened blade, so the pages are not even and have blade patterns cut in them. Other, than the asthetics, the book is great. The publisher needs better QC, that's all.

This is a must-have for anyone trying to write fantasy. The book is an easy, entertaining read. Kudos to all who contributed

I really enjoyed this book and was tempted to read some of it again."The Vampire Stone" by Timothy Ridge is by far the best written. It's filled with great details about the locations and characters.
So descript, you actually feel like you're right there in this sleepy Hudson River village. Articulate and exciting, the Vampire Stone's character Roceres, is devilish and sometimes frightening to the point of feeling real chills. The wooden box's contents keep you reading and the sex leaves you wondering, who is this guy and where did he learn to do that?...Mr. Ridge is an accomplished writer and I'll be looking out for him in bookstores more. The other stories were also great reads, which is why I gave Midnight Thirsts 2 fangs up!

I haven't read many vampire stories beyond Anne Rice (and one of the characters in this collection jokingly gives his name as "Lestat" in tribute to the quintessential vampire). Each of these novellas offers a new twist on vampire lore and takes Rice's homoerotic vampire theme to a new level.

Herren's concept of the "nightwatcher" is a fresh look at vampires who protect mortals even as they feed on them. The story provides a delicious sexual tension and could easily be developed into an entire vampire book with its three protagonists. The New Orleans setting itself is almost a character in the story and Herren uses it well.

Ford's story, well-written as it is, is less about vampires and more about being an "other," as it presents the lives of people who live outside the boundaries of normalcy and acceptance in its Midwestern 1940s setting. The exploitative villain truly is one and deserves his fate at the hands of Ford's vampire.

Ridge's story is the most densely textured of the four. The shifts in time provide the origin of vampires, and this story's vampire in particular, without the vampire having to tell the tale to the modern-day protagonist. Ridge provides plenty of vampire sex (indeed, the vampires in all of these stories are capable of doing much more than drinking blood, and they do a lot of it). Again, this is a story that could be developed into a full-length novel and offers a couple of unexpected twists in the art of vampire deception.

I'd have enjoyed Wolfe's story more if his vampire's lost love hadn't been glossed over. I like a haunted vampire (Rice is a genius at providing this), and the vampire here acts out of rage and heartbreak, but it's often directed in unnecessarily cruel ways toward undeserving victims. Wolfe redeems him in the end, when he grants one important victim's request, but in getting to that point, the story was less erotic than violent.

The collection should offer something for anyone who's interested in gay vampires--plenty of sex, plenty of blood, and all of the stories have benefited from good editing.

I'll admit I first added this book to my Amazon "wish list" shortly after its announcement, thinking it was the latest in Herren's mystery tales. Since I am not usually a fan of the "vampire" fiction genre, I usually would not have chosen this book, a 321-page compilation of four erotic short stories about gay vampires. In retrospect, I'm glad I did.

Of the four stories, my least favorite was Timothy Ridge's "The Vampire Stone," simply because it had a rather convoluted plot, bouncing back and forth between modern and ancient times It is, however, a well written tale about an antiques dealer who comes across a mysterious wooden box from the 16th century, which changes his life forever.

I enjoyed Herren's "The Nightwatchers", which, like his novels, is based in New Orleans. Phillip is a 20-something would-be-actor working as a waiter and moonlighting as a male escort. After Phillip first spots the aluring and seductive Kevin Lockhart in a contest at a gay bar, his best friend Rachel finds herself working with a mysterious old man to save him from the consequences of his lust.

Michael Thomas Ford's "Carnival" brings us to the dark side of the lives of those who left their rural homes to tour with the carnival, as reclusive lifetime midway handyman Joe Flanagan finds his soulmate in Derry, a young man who is a new addition to their traveling show. He is warned to stay away from Derry by Mr. Star, the curator of the "freak show" wing of the carnival, and he finds himself caught up in a coverup of a series of murders.

My favorite out of the four was the very creative and entertaining "Vampire, Inc." by Sean Wolfe, which brings a "Vampires are people too!"-type vibe to the book. We meet notorious vampire Christo, still bitter over the death of his lover centuries ago, as he arrives in Denver CO, and takes in the local bar scene looking to "feed." Having been to Denver, I know at least two of the bars mentioned are real, as is his description of the gay scene there. But we learn of a "private club" that caters to kind of a gay circuit crowd into vampires, and we learn that politics and backbiting (taken a bit more literal in the context of vampires) is pretty much universal even in such circles.

All four are generally gay-positive, well written and quite erotic, and recommended for those who want "something different" in their reading.

I imagine it must be hard to be a "gay fiction" author. You seem to have to force yourself into one of four sub categories to be successful: Horror (Read: Vampire) Novel, Trashy General Fiction (featuring some faceless torso on the cover), Erotic (featuring some young blond Romanian on the cover), or some kind of Medieval Sci-Fi affair.

There doesn't seem to be much success if you deviate from the norm with "gay fiction". I can hardly blame the contributors to the Short story collection "Midnight Kisses" for trying to mix things up a bit and blend the Horror/Erotic sub genres together, creating something perhaps a little more interesting than the standard fair, but their efforts have fallen a bit short.

First off: A very simple request. To who ever wrote the summaries of the stories on the back of the book: Please read the book. The summaries for the stories are off, expecially the summary for the story "The Nightwatchers" by Greg Herren. Phillip is not an actor, he's a hooker. Er...I'm sorry, escort. There is no one named Kevin in the story, unless by Kevin, you meant Gunther. (I'm sure Kevin would have made a very interesting character though.) This leads me to wonder how much the publishing company really cares about this short story collection if they can't even be bothered to have the correct information on the book.

"The Nightwatchers," first of the four stories seems to have some trouble finding pacing. I enjoyed Greg Herren sneaking in a lesbian character to the story, and I found her plot to be much more interesting than the main character Phillip's. Phillip, as a character, never amounts too much more than a blithering stereotype. Phillip is every character in every erotic story that ISN'T a character, right down to the explicit moans and sexual thoughts. The worst part is the story finds its footing just as it ends. It seems to me like Mr. Herren could have done better writing a novel on his own so he could flesh things out a bit. Maybe give Phillip the escort/coffee guy a personality to go with his sex drive.

The second story, "Carnival " suffers from the same symptoms as the first. The story finally finds it's mark just as it's ending. It's as if the author, Michael Thomas Ford, didn't realize that his story was going to have to end so quickly. He wrote the story as if he was anticipating a grander finish...he wrote as if he was hoping to be given another ten chapters to fill if he made his given pages interesting enough. In honesty, if he did add another ten chapters to the story of Joe, Derry, Emma, and Mr. Star, I would be curious to see what he did with the characters. I was able to stomach Mr. Ford's story in one sitting, which is more than I can say for the others.

Next up? "The Vampire Stone," by Timothy Ridge. Confusing characters that act with out logic in their intentions marred the story, but I will give Mr. Ridge credit for actually writing eroticism that was arousing. In the end, the stories main character left me with one important question: Just how many times can a guy get off in one session? Three? Four? There was a three page session where every page featured protaganist Roland "bursting" in a new position or location. Go Roland.

At least the last story pulls it together marginally. "Vampire Inc." by Sean Wolfe had enough bite to keep me interested, but lacked punch in the end. I'm not going to go into details as to exactly how his story ends, but it's about as far fetched and out of place as me in a dress. Mr. Wolfe's characters were at least genuine characters, and his story had a great flow. Five less pages Mr. Wolfe, and the story would have been flawless. If this story is any indication of Mr. Wolfe's writing style, I would recommend investigating his solo efforts.

So, what's left to say? A bunch of unsatisfying stories that I had to push myself to finish didn't leave me feeling satisfied. It left me hungry for a more wholesome experience.
Why couldn't Kurt Vonnegut have written us a collection of homoerotic vampire stories before he stopped writing? Now that would have been an interesting read.

After checking out this book from the Library and reading it once I knew it would be perfect for my dad, who loves everything about cars. It was his Christmas present this year and while I was wrapping it I opened it up and couldn't put it down and ended up reading it through for a second time. It's a beautifully written hommage to the Model T, and to a time that now feels like ancient history, though it was only 80 or so years ago. My dad loved it and has read it twice himself now. It's the perfect size to pick up and read through instead of watching some worthless sitcom.

I bought this for my husband for Valentine's since he owns a Model T. He said he really enjoyed reading it. He had heard about the book a while back but had never read it until now. It must have been good for him to read it instead of his car magazines!

This edition ranks only a "3" -- not because of any flaw in E. B. White's prose, but because it lacks appropriate editing. The essay "Farewell to Model T" was not solely written by White, but this fact is found on Google, not in the book. A few minutes to write a brief introduction would have been a better editorial choice.

If you are only familiar with E.B.White from his children's books, this pair of essays is a great way to treat yourself to the genius of his beautifully simple yet brilliant essays. Several others have been published in small book form in recent years, notably This Is New York. Find out why Mr. White was the mainstay of The New Yorker for 50 years. Elements of Style is still being taught in high schools and colleges today, despite a plethora of new and more elaborate books on writing. He is the master!

A great reprint that looks original because it has little in the way of reproduction markings. Just a bar code on the back cover and on the last page, and the republishers info added to the bottom of the first page. Nothing bold and huge like with Jim Osborn reprinted stuff. Way cheaper on Amazon than the same thing sold on eBay too!

Not a bad book of esoteric specifications, but generallly not something that I need either. Wish I would have spent my money on something else.

I was very happy to get this book through [...]. The service was excellent. This handbook had been out of print for many years and it was a treat to have this hard to find book offered for sale by Amazon.
Thank you
Ray & Joanne Touchette

Ford guy's don't miss this one if you are working with V-8 engines thru 1971. MC