Morrison Books

I-slept-with-a-rock-star stories are a dime a dozen in the rock bio world, and it takes something unusual to make the storyteller seem like anything but a groupie. Patricia Kennealy-Morrison has something all right, but her obnoxious attitude and sketchy details make it hard to regard "Strange Days: My Life With And Without Jim Morrison" as much more than a curiosity.

Kennealy-Morrison was a journalist/editor working for Jazz'n'Pop magazine in the late 1960s. She was sent in to interview legendary rock bad boy Jim Morrison of the Doors, and was immediately impressed by him (the feeling was mutual, she says). They soon struck up a friendship, then became lovers while remaining on opposite sides of the United States.

Morrison and Kennealy-Morrison wed in a witch handfasting some months later, despite the fact that Morrison was still with his longtime lover Pamela Courson. Kennealy-Morrison chronicles the remainder of their increasingly volatile relationship, her abortion, Morrison's mysterious death in Paris, and the production of the distorted movie adaptation by Oliver Stone.

Never has so much been written over so little. Not very often, anyway. Morrison's brief involvement with Kennealy-Morrison is blown up into an affair to rival Guinevere and Lancelot -- and yes, that's her own comparison. What an unbiased reader sees is a rather average rock romance, full of the necessary sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. And lots and lots of Kennealy-Morrison's everyday life.

Kennealy-Morrison has a curiously self-centered view of the world: whenever anybody is less than friendly to her, they must be upset over her gender, brains, religion or relationship with Morrison. Her attitude (a bull getting ready to charge at a matador) wears thin quickly. She heaps scorn on almost all rock'n'roll stars, on any girl who slept (or wanted to) with Jim, on any friend of Pamela Courson's, on Doors fans, on rock audiences... pretty much everybody. Special vitriol is reserved for Pam. Rather than take Morrison to task for his behavior, Kennealy-Morrison vents on the pleasant, clueless Courson.

While Kennealy-Morrison is clearly knowledgeable, she seems to use her IQ solely to set herself above the groupies. She lacks the class, wisdom and vibrance of other rock paramours like Marianne Faithfull, or the sweetness of Bebe Buell. If this book is anything to go by, her intellect is stagnant and unsophisticated, and her personality is childish (she beats a groupie for coming on to Jim). In fact, her claims that she's a strong, decisive, take-no-guff woman becomes funny when you see that she was allowing a ridiculous amount of guff from Morrison.

There's no denying that Kennealy-Morrison is a talented writer. At times her lyrical, detailed writing makes this seem almost like a novel. It's especially vibrant during scenes like Doors concerts and the famous Woodstock. But too often her words are used as arrows rather than paintbrushes.

"Strange Days: My Life With And Without Jim Morrison" is a weird read. In the end, it's hard to see it as anything but Kennealy-Morrison's side of the story, but without any wisdom brought by time and thought. This is not the place to look for the "real" Jim Morrison.

While i found this book worth reading (thus 3 stars) i also felt that Ms. Kennealy was more than a little in denial and maybe even a little delussional. Of course the book is "her" version of her relationship with Morrison and we will never know the whole truth. However, i found it quite annoying that while she tries so hard to convince the reader what a strong independant woman she is, she simultaneously told story after story of being walked all over by Morrison. She tells of what she and Morrison had as a sacred and everlasting bond, yet the story she tells of their "relationship"(or times together) says something very different.I think the story she tells in this book is likely very true, and therefore worth reading. There are some great stories, glimpses at the real Jim Morrison, and alot of history there. It's simply her "interpretations" of the things that happened that i found (likely to be) far from the truth.

Included in this book is some of Micah Morrison's finest work, covering material that has yet to reach the full comprehension of the public, but which someday will seem like the writing on the wall for believers in the American ideals of integrity and individual freedom.

Outrageous, implausible and utterly unsupported by evidence of any kind, the allegations outlined in this risible tome where long ago dismissed by all credible news sources.
Why the publishers of the Wall Street Journal allow the reputation of their first rate news writers to be dragged through the slime by the troglodites of their editorial pages is an enduring mystery of journalism.
This book is not recommended to members of the reality based community.

Dr. Morrison, if she is in fact an MD, seems to skip over the blindingly obvious in her assessment of these killers. I mean does she honestly belive that relentless phsyical and mental abuse from childhood and rape at 16 would have NO IMPACT on a serial killer? Is she serious? Does she actually still retain a license for practising medicine/psychiatry or, hopefully, has she been disbarred?


It seems hard to tell as she veers from a fruedian perspective wherein all physiological inputs are null and void to a purely frightened and judgemental one, that the killers did it soley because they wished to where in fact she bases her judgements. Frankly, as a former defense attorney, I would run a mile before I let her get her hands on my client.

This book is written by a claimed profiler. However, there is no profiling in the book. My favorite book by a profiler is Mind Hunter by John Douglas. In that book (plus Obsession), he goes into details of the crime scene and what things mean. You learn what it means if the killer covered the face of the viction (they knew them and were ashamed), young versus old crimminals, etc. Helen's book has very little details about crime scenes (we like to figure it out, that is why CSI is a popular TV show). No profiling information on the clues in the scene to help investigators find the UNSUB (unknown subject, I learned this from the Mind Hunter book), etc. Helen spends more time on her personal thoughts, thanksgiving dinner, her children shouldn't watch her TV appearances about killers, tea in the afternoon, going to Brazil, etc. and too little on crimes. She also is all over the place with her theories. At the end of the book she claims that DNA is encoded to make a serial killer, and with a stretch relates this to Minority Report, etc. However, there is a compelling arguement from other profilers that some event triggered the change. Ted Bundy was social until his long time girlfriend dumped him. Ted switched and targeted young girls with long dark hair (just like his ex had), and many of the others have abusive households. Helen talks about tv appearances and helping in the insanity defense for crimminels - I get the feeling that she is all about feelings, not a fact based person (John Douglas says that once the monster is created - it cannot be reversed - done). This book does touch on Ed Gein (leatherface from Texas Chainsaw masacre, Norman Bates, and others), John Wayne Gacy (the clown who rape/murdered young buys), and Bobby Joe Long (brutal rape and death of women). However, even a short TV special on Bobby Joe Long had many more details of the tracking and catching of him than this book. Helen claims it was seeing a missing person report on TV that led Long to let her go (he felt sorry for her?). But from other reports it seems that she talked to him and told him that she wanted to be his girlfriend - this threw off his circuitry. This second explanation makes more sense in the literature. Helen also discusses hypnosis (a relaxing state where both parties agree to participate) as a scientific method, acts as if satan worship killings did happen (this media hoax was uncovered), throws in Freud psychology (just about all scientists today believe he was just a weird guy with an infactuation for women). Helen seems to be touchy feeling through the whole book, I felt he was this, or that. She constantly talks about how the men treated her with disrespect because she is a woman - it really sounds like she is trying to prove something with this book. Detailed, insightful profiling and crime description rather than fluffed up theories that DNA can pinpoint all future serial killers would go a long way towards gaining respect in the community. This is my least favorite of this type of book, and I LOVE these types of books. I recommend you instead read Mind Hunter by John Douglas, Obsession by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker, or The Evil that Men Do by Roy Hazelwood. You will learn details and how the profiler's mind and experience work. The last book by Hazelwood even has a crime scene in the back that you try to apply what you've learned about profiling in. I did pretty well, because I read about profiling by Douglas, Olshaker and Hazelwood, not anything from this fluff piece by Dr. Helen (note: beware of someone that constantly reminds you that they have a PhD rather than presuade you through knowledge and facts - Helen, this means you! The only positive for this book, given the others, is that it had some non-US serial killers like a French guy (Gilles de Rais) from the 1400s. But not enough to warrant purchase. Get Mind Hunter instead!

Her 'life' among the serial killers? Her life is among children and she will occasionally go get to visit the lesser known serial killers. What a pathetic attempt to capitalize on the 'serial killer' phenomenon...and to advance her own silly theories. Oh, and her *epiphany* that serial killers are addicted to killing? DUH! I think I figured that out when I was about 17 and had just begun studying serial killers.
Do NOT waste your money.
If you want a real expert, watch Dr. Michael Stone on "Most Evil"

Unfortunately Dr. Morrison reveals herself in this book and in her various TV interviews/documentary appearances as far too emotional, self rightous, and just plain in error when it comes to certain facts regarding serial killers.

If I were to list all of these erroneous comments, this review would fill the computer screen. Let me just point out one error. Pg 24 of the paperback version...."No serial murderers are addicted to drugs, drink or even smoking"

Interesting....tell that to Jeffrey Dahmer who used alcohol heavily in order to facilitate his killings. He was an alcoholic even in high school and would drink to the point of blacking out.

This is just ONE brief example of heavy alcohol use by a serial murderer indicating an addiction versus normal social drinking. So how can Dr. Morrison make such an erroneous blanket statement as "NO serial murderer is addicted to........."?

Just by nature alone, serial murderers are addictive...they are addicted to murder for one. It's not a stretch that, aside from killing compulsively, certain of these indivduals may also demonstrate other compulsive behavior such as addiction to drugs, alcohol, sex, smoking, etc.

Bottom line...don't confuse yourself with glaring errors by reading this book. Instead turn to those written by more learned & practical minds such as Robert Ressler, Dr. Park Dietz and others.

No need to repeat many of the negative comments made by other reviewers. The main problem is the book succeeds neither as investigation nor as theory nor does it serve well as an introduction to serial murder for the general reader. The result amounts to a disjointed and often pointless text, despite Dr. Morrison's evident sincerity. As an admitted layperson, I'd still like to offer several background points that might be kept in mind when discussing the serial phenomenon.

First, for good methodological reasons, researchers look for commonalities among the various case histories, as does Morrison. Such commonalities may then lay the basis for theory develoment and the possibility of devising more effective means of detecting and controlling this societal menace. Thus, there's good reason for Morrison's type of approach. However, I have yet to encounter a researcher or commentator who raises the possibility that there may be in point of fact no single factor or combination of factors that explain all the cases, that is, no so-called magic bullet.

Morrison's genetic theory represents a reductive approach to a single physiological factor that would then account for all the cases. There are other magic bullets proposed by other researchers. However, the best we may be able to scientifically accomplish are separate groups of causal factors that explain some cases but not all, such as an "abused as a child" category or a "necrophilia" category or a "just plain sudden urge to kill" category, with no further reduction possible. Or, put another way, why must there be a single explanatory factor or group of factors to explain this wide-ranging phenomenon. After all, the world and the human mind are pretty complex and dynamic factors to deal with. Again, I'm not saying that research must not continue to look for a universal causal explanation. I am saying research must be prepared for the eventuality that there is none.

Another point relevant to Morrison's text. Men certainly seem more prone to serial murder than women. Maybe that's just the result of the slanted coverage having to do with decades of reporting on "the weaker sex", or maybe the disproportionality results from women being more covert and less physically brutal than men. But in terms of the public record, serial murder appears almost exclusively a male preserve. Now, I don't know much about brain chemistry or its topography, or how men's and women's brain make-up may differ in that regard. Still, it appears that Morrison's physiological (genetic) theory must explain why this disparity exists. I wish she had at least mentioned this leading fact somewhere in the text and dealt with it in some fashion.

A final point. Suppose Morrison's correct and researchers locate a common physiological factor (say, a certain chemical imbalance) present in all serial case histories. Now, it's not clear to me from the text whether Morrison would hold the presence as a predisposing factor or a determining one. If the former, which certainly seems the more likely of the two, then resarchers would still have to search for additional factors as to why some with that chemical imbalance become serial killers, while others wth that same factor do not. On the other hand, if the chemical factor is held as a determining one, then its presence would guarantee that the possessor becomes a serial perpetrator-- a pretty extreme and seeming highly improbable possibility. Nonetheless, if the imbalance merely predisposes, then additional factors such as something within the person's life experience will need to be ferreted out in order to provide a fuller explanation than a mere "predisposes" provides. I wish Morrison had dealt more explicitly with this pivotal question.

My own belief, for whatever its worth, is that many (if not all) instances of serial murder result from male sexuality and difficulties in dealing with this basic drive. Of course, that may not be the magic bullet so many researchers seek, but problems with sexual release does appear to characterize a dynamic at play in many cases (e.g. Bundy, Gacy, Corll). Be that as it may, serial murder remains a fascinating topic for public speculation. Too bad Morrison's is not a better book on the subject.

I purchased an older copy of this book at the half-price store and found it to be incredibly useful. I didn't buy it for the ratings - there's no way a print book could keep up with the changing products - but for the suggestions of what to look for in a quality product, what to watch out for, things to think about, and even whether a particular type of product is even worth bothering about.

I loved it, and found Baby Bargains to be disappointing.

Not impressed at all. If you are the type of person who thoroughly researches things before you buy them, you will probably know just about everything that is in this Consumer Reports book (yes I am a first time mom-to-be). Don't let the first 10 chapters fool you not a single product is actually rated. I was especially disappointed to find that a meager 10 pages in the back of the book were actually dedicated to rating products which is really what you want from Consumer Reports. If you are looking for comprehensive ratings don't buy this book!! The only things rated are: Car Seats, Boosters, travel systems, play yards and soft carriers all in a meager 10 pages so that should give you an idea that this book barely scratches the surface of rating baby products.

If you want a book really worth the money buy "Baby Bargains" by Denise & Alan Fields. It is more comprehensive in the comparisons and ratings and even compares their results to Consumer Reports. "Baby Bargains" is worth every penny.

Consumer Reports baby book left me feeling like a new mom swindled into yet another worthless baby book!!

This book was not informative at all. I started to read the reviews after I bought the book just to make sure I was not the only one who was not impressed with the book. I took the suggestion of other readers and bought Baby Bargain. Now this is a wonderful book. I can't put it down, originally when I bought I was planning to just skim though and read what I thought was important but the advice was so good that I had to start reading the book from the beginning to make sure I wasn't missing out on any good tips.

This book did not give the info promised. It does not rate each product. Only gives a review of what something is. I was very disappointed with this book & do not recommend. Go get Baby bargains. It's been my bible!!

The only reason I wanted this book to see the comparison for safety of car seats, strollers, play pens, etc. Instead, what I found was a shopping list of infinite length, and almost no ratings. Only 5 car seats were rated, 2 of which are no longer made. This, after at least 15 styles of car seats were discussed as "potential options" in the body of the book. I am very disappointed, and plan on returning this book. Don't bother with it... you can find the shopping lists that the book provides at Amazon.com's lists, and this adds no value at all.

I was looking through this in a bookstore to see if it would be a good recommendation for a friend wanting to learn java. Save your money. Lemay turns simple concepts into convoluted blather. There are better books with fewer errors.

1. This book contains too many erors. most examples do not work. 2. It has NO JAVA 1.1 in it. 3.How it got published is a mystery. Anyone wants to learn JAVA needs to look elsewhere. this one SUCKS! To Laura (the author) Do this world a favor,write about things you really know and write less. T.I.A

I'll start off by saying this book is terrible! This book doesn't cover Java 1.1 as the title reads. Instead, it covers Java 1.02, which is very old at this time (Java 1.1.6 is the current release). I'm the kind of person who can pick up a typo or spelling error very easily. This book made me sick because it contains so many errors! In some chapters, it's hard to understand what's going on due to the inconsistencies in spelling. Besides the spelling errors, there are many more problems I found. I had to read the book twice in order to understand it (look out beginners!), but on the second round, I understood all of the material up to the chapter on streams. Lemay and Perkins (I believe) talk about what streams are (which is good), but all of a sudden drop you into many code examples and method definitions that make no sense if you're a beginner to programming. Although this book talks about many advanced features, they don't belong in this book. I didn't understand most of the later chapters (esp. Chap. 17+). After graduating from this book, I found myself not even being able to put together a simple notepad program! The only valid reason for purchasing this book is to waste money. Try purchasing something else such as Core Java 1.1 by Cay S. Horstmann and Gary Cornell. It is published by SunSoft Press.

I'm not sure what 1.1 the cover is talking about, but it sure as heck has nothing to do with Java. The online exercises on AWT are also 1.0 code.
I wonder what exactly Marquette University got for endorsing this book. Besides Laura Lemay, this "certification" has now earned that school a black flag, too.
Get the Simon/Heller book or maybe the Boone book. This dog can't even stand up, let alone hunt.

This is an excellent book for those who are new in programming in java. It helps me a lot in learning java. I will recomand this book anyone who like to learn java. Thanks to author.

The is a terrific way for children to express their anger and fears about people who frustrate, control, threaten, tease, or ignore them - all with a sense of humor. I am a child/family psychologist and often provide this journal to my young clients as we work to process negative emotions.

I am sadly dissapointed by this book. Toni Morrison is one of my favorite authors--for adults. As a children's librarian, I think this book has missed the mark. My experience with the intended audience for this book, is they will miss the point and take it very literally. The ending appears to quickly close a book that seems to have had no real point from it's inception.

I bought this book for my 5 year old daughter hoping it would help with the bully issue, but after reading it, I hid it. I showed the book to three other adults who also thought it was somewhat frightening and depressing for a child. An adult might think the book is somewhat humorous as to how a child labels people who set limits, babies who pull hair, teachers who correct homework etc. all as being mean. A child sees this book as justification that mom is mean if she makes me eat vegetables. It seems to say to the child that everyone in the whole world is mean. A somewhat pessimistic and dark look at humanity. Not cool for kids! Save your money!!!(...)

The book conveys that teachers, parents and other people who try to help you learn the way of things are just as mean as people who yell for no reason. This self-indulgent bit of writing by Toni Morrison's son may be an excellent example of how blind a mother's love can be. She supported him in this publishing effort. We should not.

I can certainly see why some would disagree with the portrayl of parents, teachers, etc. as mean but I agreee with some of the other positive reviews. I think the Morrision's give children validation for their experience of these expectations as "mean". As a parent it reminds me to not take it so personally or explain why it's not mean to make my son eat his breakfast but instead to acknowledge that in his experience it is mean. That doesn't make me change my decision but it does let me honor his feelings too. As a family therapist I think it can be a nice opening for parents and children to talk about how our feelings don't always match others intentions. And even more importantly it can be a chance to encourage children to talk about how to deal with feeling like they are being treated unfairly (a common complaint among children of almost any age). I would say that you should give it a chance, if nothing else it's a cute little book that gives your kid someone (even if they're fictional) who really understands their feelings.

My new job required me to write a feature rich MFC application with no previous Windows programming experience. I got this book after having a fantastic expirence with Sam's "Teach Yourself HTML 4.0 in 24 Hours" a few years ago. It simply covers MFC architecture and introduces a wide range of topics including doument/view, printing, Multiple Document Interface and UI topics, and creating DLLS and wizards.

This book might not be the only book you'll need, but it helped to smooth out the VERY steep MFC learning curve for me. Between this and the comprehensive documentation that comes with Microsoft Visual Studio, you should be able to start banging out feature rich MFC programs after a few hours of honest, dedicated effort.

I bought this book last September 1999. This book covers almost all area of MFC programming and is really good for just giving you the very basic idea. Once you start doing programs this is highly not recommended and will just waste your time.

It gives an example app called skeleton, and explains very little of how it actually works.

Very disappointing.

I just read couple of pages and it dosen't attract me at all. It watsed me much more than 24 hours learned nothing about how to master MFC! As the title indicates, it should give you a easy way to learn some basic skill about MFC, but it just explain some code the App Wizard generated. You cann't learn how to add your code in it.

You will not learn MFC from this book in 24 hours, even in 24 days. I thought this book will be easy for you to read to grap basic skill about MFC. After I strugled more than 24 hours with this book, I realize that this book just explain some Wizard-generated code, neither teach you the structure of FMC nor write your own code using MFC.

I can understand other VC MFC books before reading this book, this book suppose be easier to read, but still confuses me.

So, I give 2 stars because it's not very expansive, but wastes my time.

As is often a problem with books from SAMS publishing this book contains too much talk and to little serious information. In other words - if you are serious buy Addison-Wesley or Prentice-Hall books - do not buy SAMS!

The book attempt to do two things at once: 1. To introduce gaming to the amateur. 2. To introduce DirectX 1.0 (presently at version 7.0)

For the amateur the book is not appropriate, because it is assumed that the reader knows MFC and windows programming beforehand. It is not good for the professional either, because a lot of pages is used telling how to use painting and sound utilities that come for free. Everybody knows that.

It *does* introduce directX, but only fairly briefly and in conjunction with lengthly code examples and a code library supplied in the book. Much of the directX introduction is merely a alphabetical listing of API functions that is just as clearly written in the on-line help.

I *could* run the code examples (at least those that I tried), although this required some minor editing. I ran them under DirectX using Watcom 11.0. It is not fair to expect code to compile directly out of a book as C++ is not entirely portable. All non-portable code should have been left out of the book, though.

The code doesn't run well and the games only run full-screen, 8 bit. Don't buy this book.

This book does not explain the basics, like what files to include, and is vague on where to put your code. If you have ever gone through the code generated by AppWizard, you know this could be very daunting. For programmers who are very familiar with DirectX implementation, I would recommend it. If you are not, keep looking.

I found the book to be helpful for programming in sdk, but it is outdated. The code does not work unless you use direct 2.0 or less. With a little practice,which helps,you can get everything to work. I would not recommend for 1st timers.

This book was designed for use with DirectX 1.0 (GameSDK), not the later versions. Any attempt to get the sample code to work with DirectX 2.0 or higher leads to miserable results. Like many other people, I could not get the samples from the CD to work, and when they did compile they GPF'd. The book does, however, give a good foundation for game programming and has a decent section on sound and music. A more updated version, with better compatibility, would be nice.

This book will help you if you received no manual with your Pocket PC or if you're a beginner with computers, and if you share the author's fawning adoration of Microsoft. If you have any understanding of how to make Windows work, though, the manual that came with your Pocket PC and some experimentation will get you farther than spending money on this book would. If I could figure out how, I'd get my money back for this feature-length Microsoft advertising brochure.

The book offers no insights for the advanced user...it offers no information on the countless resources available everywhere *but* Redmond, Washington. The book doesn't answer basic questions, such as "Does shutting down programs decrease the drain on the battery charge?", for example, and it offers nowhere to get answers, except, of course, the Microsoft web site (where I've been unable to unearth the answer to that question).

The book extols the virtues of the Microsoft eBook Reader, for example, but neglects to tell the reader about how MS configures it to strip away historical fair use rights for published works, mentions that one must "activate" the Reader by getting a .Net Passport, but "forgets" to mention that Microsoft reserves the right (in its privacy policy) to share any information it obtains (such as book purchases) with any commercial "partner" it chooses.

If you have the ability to explore, spend the time exploring your Pocket PC and its manual and spend some time exploring the web to find all the sites devoted to Pocket PCs. You'll learn much more and save the price of this book.

This book is only for beginners. Advanced user will not find this book intresting.

This book will help you if you received no manual with your Pocket PC or if you're a beginner with computers, and if you share the author's fawning adoration of Microsoft. If you have any understanding of how to make Windows work, though, the manual that came with your Pocket PC and some experimentation will get you farther than spending money on this book would. If I could figure out how, I'd get my money back for this feature-length Microsoft advertising brochure.

The book offers no insights for the advanced user, and since the author is a shameless shill for Microsoft, it offers no information on the countless resources available everywhere *but* Redmond, Washington. The book doesn't answer basic questions, such as "Does shutting down programs decrease the drain on the battery charge?", for example, and it offers nowhere to get answers, except, of course, the Microsoft web site (where I've been unable to unearth the answer to that question).

The book extols the virtues of the Microsoft eBook Reader, for example, but neglects to tell the reader about how MS configures it to strip away historical fair use rights for published works, mentions that one must "activate" the Reader by getting a .Net Passport, but "forgets" to mention that Microsoft reserves the right (in its privacy policy) to share any information it obtains (such as book purchases) with any commercial "partner" it chooses.

If you have the ability to explore, spend the time exploring your Pocket PC and its manual and spend some time exploring the web to find all the sites devoted to Pocket PCs. You'll learn much more and save the price of this book.

This is a well-written, really useful book. There is plenty of information about all sorts of aspects of Pocket PC and using your handheld, and it is all done in a very well-organized manner with a good index (always helpful for trying to find answers to "that question"). Personally, I find this book much more useful than some of the "competators" such as Dummies, PC Handbook (HP Edition), etc. because it spans from basic to more detailed issues, but does all well. Unlike the description above, I do not think that the book focused on networks. Happy reading!

Templar history, the real history not the fervid imaginings regarding the Holy Grail and such, is a truly fascinating tale worthy of sustained study. But as the previous reviewer has observed, however, all of the tales in this collection are instantly forgetable as they are trite in conception and poorly written. They have the collective depth of creative writing exercises in a first year class. I threw my copy away.

I've been a fan of Katherine Kurtz's work for a long time now and look forward to each of her books as they come out. I enjoyed most of the stories in the first two Templar anthologies, but I'm afraid I can't say the same about this one. The stories were well written, but just didn't seem to catch my attention. Twenty-four hours after reading the book, I can't really remember any of the stories that I read in any amount of detail.

For those who read all of Ms. Kurtz's books, I would suggest getting it out of a library or buying a used copy, if you must own it. I hope that if she does any more of these anthologies that the stories are better.