O'Neal Books

I am not not going to type out very much so anyways what I will say is that is was so-so compared to other books. I will also say that the author should have described more to her enth degree.

Be warned western history buffs - this is a children's storybook. I ordered it based on the title & author - luckily I have a nephew with a birthday coming up, so it's not a total loss. As an intro to the subject for kids, it is well written & informative - but nowhere is it mentioned that this is "juvenile literature."

Many of these restaurants have closed over the last 20 years! I wish there was a NEW version! Anybody out there adventurous?

Following on the heals (??) of Captain Underpants, The Stink Squad uses the humor most loved by middle readers and the much-beloved path of adventure.

Cute, witty writing: The snotmobile runs on a secret ingredient "discovered during a head cold;" the action takes place in the "OlFactory."

So why only 3 stars?

How, in 2004 did the female writer come up with an adventure story with only male main characters? You've got the boy Gilbreath, his uncle, Dr. Sniffen Shroeder, and a dog (also male) named "Whiff." On page 4 the first female shows up, an adult secretary to Dr. Shroeder, who whimpers to the nine year old boy that he must save her. I honestly don't know what happened after that. I get the idea.

In 1857, Rose was described by a jealous Northern woman as "she looked fity or seventy." That's me sometimes. She was on trial in San Francisco where her husband was a lawyer. She might have passed for thirty-five. She was asked "How old are you?" She answered with dignified finality -- "Of sufficient age to testify." She was the Ethel Rosenberg of the Civil War on the Southern side, of course.

Her Oriental Hotel on Market Street was a noted gathering place for the Southerners. Among the generals she met there were Johnston, Sherman, Scott and McDowell. Some of their graves are includedat at Shiloh in southwest Tennessee. There in San Francisco, there were polka cotillions and the Southerners lived akin to the way they did in Washington, D.C. She made trips back and forth, carrying messages, and became known as a Confederate spy. She was ambitious and wend a bit wild after the death of her husband in a tragic accident. She found her Waterloo on the ocean.

Seven years later, in 1864, she looked years younger in looks as she sailed on the Condor from England to the Confederate States. Rose had often said she would glady die for the Confederacy, and she drown in the ship wreck in a storm. Ishbel Ross was no kin to my buddy, William Charles Ross who was in Knoxville from 1956-62. He was a vast influence on my life. Ross wrote biographies about many famous people, so I am surprised to see REBEL ROSE as one of them.

This book is very interesting and tells you a lot about Shaq and his life as a top basketball player. Even though it is not one of the best Shaq biographies I have read it is still very well written and very enjoyable. I would reccommend it to all Laker and Shaq fans. Happy reading!

Shaquille O'Neal is a unique famous basketball player who came into the NBA playing for the Orlando Magic, but he is now playing for the LA Lakers. He is 7''1' and weighs 303 pounds, and size 20 shoes. He loves kids and that is probably one of the reasons that basketball has become so popular in America. If you like basketball or Shaquille O'Neal this is the book for you. But for me, it's only okay because the book didn't tell me anything I didn't already know except for some of the players' statistics.

This book about the big man still has him in an Orlando jersey on the cover. It is okay for a school library, but otherwise isn't.

Auby C. Strickland (1895-1969) liked to describe himself as "a dashing young aviator from Kelly Field." At the Advanced Flying School he instructed Charles Lindbergh and a generation of future Air Force leaders. He dazzled crowds at air shows in the 1930s. As a brigadier general in World War II, he led the Ninth Fighter Command in North Africa. During the Berlin crisis, he commanded an airlift wing.

Mary Strickland O'Neal inherited her father's gift for storytelling, and she produced an entertaining biography based on reminiscences, newspaper articles, and letters. The book leaves strong impressions. One is that Auby Strickland was a rare flyer and leader of men in the old "brown shoe" Air Force. Another is the overwhelming love and affection he had for his family, his men, and his country.

This book provides fine material for "hangar flying," but airpower historians may find it less valuable. First-hand stories of men now little remembered -- Horace Hickam, Joe Cannon, Charles Howard -- are wonderful, lively sketches of life in the Army Air Corps, but there is little of their efforts to create an independent air arm. Many letters quoted by the author convey her father's personality and his simple, forthright belief in the nation's cause in World War II. They reveal less, however, about the actual conduct of air operations. This book, then, is not for air power historians. It is a book for airmen who want to recapture the spirit of their predecessors and convey it to new generations.

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As the previous user Chris Weber said, Green Arrow is the only character that appears throughout the story. I won't bother going into the details of the story because that has already been done. Green Lantern and Green Arrow appear in part one while Batman and Green Arrow appear in part two. I guess the misleading title was the major turnoff for most readers but give this book a chance anyway. I found it to be a good read. Cover price is $19.95 but you can get it for less even though it's out of print. It seems that Dennis O'Neil loves to write about ruthless foreign dictators(Nightwing: Ties that Bind) and I happen to like those kind of stories.

You need to ignore the title of this book. Batman is the featured character only in the second part. Green Arrow is the continuing character in the whole collection.

This trade paperback was put together from 3 issues of "Legends of the DC Universe" and a 5-issue run of "Legends of the Dark Knight."

In the first storyline, test pilot Hal Jordan (Green Latern) and wealthy industrialist Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) investigate a rebellion in a fictitious far-eastern nation. It takes us back to the first meeting of these two heroes, early in their careers. They discover the ruler of the nation may be friends with the U.S., but has only his personal interest at heart. We get lots of Hal being heroic and stolid. Ollie moves from a go-for-the-gusto kind of adventurer to realizing there's more to the world than beating bad guys. The green heroes eventually side with the rebels and take down the dictator.

In the second and longer story, we finally get to Batman, though not till the end of Part I. Oliver Queen is completely disenchanted with the corruption he finds in his rounds as Green Arrow. He literally heads for the hills, dumping his multi-million dollar businesses. An attempted assasination draws him into a mystery and another first meeting -- with Bruce Wayne.

Green Arrow and Batman uncover a coup attempt in another fictional far-eastern nation. We get a brief return of the petty dictator from the first story (now as a flunky). Then we meet the three real villains, a Fu Manchu-like prime minister, intent on rule, the powerful leader of an assassins-for-hire cult, and a Joker-like parody of Green Arrow.

Batman investigates and Green Arrow loses his nerve. Finally, Batman faces down the ultimate assasin; Green Arrow gets back his bow-slinging chops, and justice is served.

The collection is not great, but does have a lot of strong points. Writer Dennis O'Neal focuses on character, with nice insights on the three leads and some very good secondary players. Artists Land, Cariello, Giordano and Ryan give us some great layouts, powerful poses and flashy explosions.

Though from the late-nineties, the sensibilites of these tales are neo-seventies. G.L. and G.A. begin the social consciousness trip that writer O'Neil first took them through in that era.

The best point of this book is the retro-history of the three heroes. Besides setting the stories early in their career, O'Neil gives a nice intro and afterword on the life and times of the Emerald Archer.

Overall, Batman fans will be disappointed by his limited role. This is really a book for Green Arrow followers and afficianados of the work of Dennis O'Neil.

The story in this book is predictable, unexciting and is simply not worth the time or money. The first part is a story about how Green Arrow and Green Lantern try to beat a very colorful and prdictable and rather cheesy villain. The second story is where Green Arrow teams up with Batman in order to defeat the same cheesy villain who have accumulated more wickedness (rather cheesiness) over the years. The writing is very dated and more suited for comics from the 80's. For the modern reader, it is ill-suited and they will not enjoy it, especially when compared to the quality of recent stories. It is simply not a good Batman, Green Arrow or Green Lantern story.

The first thing that a person notices when seeing the book is that it has Batman's name written on the cover when in fact he does not appear until later in the book.

The book is a collection of two stories, both appearing in previous issues of Green Lantern and Legends of the Dark Knight in comic book form. The first has Greena Arrow teaming up with Green Lantern and the second one has the Green Arrow teaming up with the legendary Dark Knight, Batman. The stories have nothing to do with one another, so it would seem strange that a book has the mantle of the Bat on it, when in fact, the main character through both of them is Green Arrow. This is the main misleading theme in this and one can wonder why would DC do such a thing, excepy knowing full well that a book with Green Arrow is not going to sell as much than having the Bat on the cover and in the book.

How about the stories? Both feature the Green Arrow, an extremely arrogant and obnoxious character that is extremely self conceited, you sometimes root for the villain to beat the heck out of him. He resembles Marvel's character Hawkeye in terms of having those same character flaws, but in the latter, you understand where he comes from and you can never go wrong with Hawkeye as he is considered the spirit of the Avengers where Captain America is the hear.

In the first story, he teams up with the original Green Lantern, Hal Jordan and the story is a mundane one where they have to save a nation from utter destruction from the clutches of a tyrant general.

The second one has him team up with Batman and the story still has the same tyrant in it, but now he's living in asylum in another rogue nation. Both stories are truly not worth the read and are very poor compared to the rich texture of how Batman has evolved through the years and what he is right now.

In all, the book is not worth reading as other great works that feature the Dark Knight. Batman simply is too dark and foreboding to work with Green Arrow.