O'Neal Books

After a long time Katherine O' Neal releases anothe erotic historical and it is unfortunately a snore. I just could not see a connection between Mason and Richard. I read the entire book because it was an expensive trade, but that was quite a trial since I kept getting sleppy after reading half a page. I cannot even give a synopsis because I've forgotten the plot right after finishing the book. I hope the next O'Neal book will be better, just skip this one.

For the most part the art world ignored the work of American artist Mason Caldwell; that is when they were not trashing her efforts as garbage. Upset and angry Mason vows to prove the hypocrisy of her harsh critics by committing suicide. In death she becomes in as suddenly her sister Amy unveils her paintings, these same fools who disregarded her as a nothing are now claiming she was a rare talent.

As Amy reaps the benefit of her late sibling's masterpieces, art expert Richard Garrett feels something is off kilter with the grieving relative who does not act like she mourns a loss as she enters the most closed galleries in the world. Richard also has issues with Amy's seemingly endless supply of the late Mason's works. He plans to learn the truth behind the meteoric rise of the dead artist and this suddenly surfaced sibling, but he finds himself in a chess game with a master while his heart betrays him.

Mindful of the Dick van Dyke-James Garner 1960s movie The Art of Love, THE ART OF SEDUCTION is a delightful erotic charmer starring two antagonists falling in love. The story line is a fast-paced cat and mouse game mostly overlooking the Seine as Richard tries to prove that Mason's death is a sham while Amy attempts to thwart his advances. Readers will enjoy their gender war, but to know who is right requires reading about the garret in the artist not the artist in the garret.

Harriet Klausner

The setting and the plot excited me--Victorian Paris is a setting rarely seen within the romance genre, and the advertised "cat-and-mouse" game is a sexy set-up for a historical romance. Unfortunately, TAoS did not live up to its hype.

First disappointment? This is supposed to be a romance--eg; the novel is to chronicle the developing romantic relationship of the h/h from first meeting to "HEA". Mason and Richard supposedly fell in love with one another between their first two trysts. From then on, the story is taken over not by a sensual cat-and-mouse game between the liar, Mason, and the secretive Richard, but by a series a scenes that consist of Mason snooping around to find out who Richard is and keeping her pretense alive despite the suspicions of the police.

Which would be fine plotting in and of itself had both Mason and Richard possesed their own POV--with the exception of two small chapters, the entire book is through Mason's POV, and since she spends most of her time covering her tracks, living her life, etc, etc, (and many scenes do not feature Richard.) Combine that with the over-the-top secondary characters, the very awkward dialogue, the vague setting of 1889 Paris, and lack of true character development, and you've got this very disappointing novel.

While O'Neal is well-known for her sexually adventurous heroines, exotic settings and high-action/adventure quotient, The Art of Seduction falls flat. For the best (IMO) of O'Neal, try The Last Highwayman and Princess of Thieves.

Having been a young gay man in New York during the era covered in these photos, I found myself a bit bemused by this book. A large number of the photos are of skinny lads with their shirts off or grimacing drag queens, whereas my own memories are of more varied crowds. The photos themselves are very much alike, and soon begin to blur one into the other. The photographer was not blessed with an artistic or selective eye. Nevertheless, the photos are a historical record, if a partial one.

The picture captions, however, are nothing short of awful. Written by the gay poet and Beatnik icon, Allan Ginsberg, they read like the giddy outpourings of a junior high school glue sniffer. The publisher has seen fit to print each caption twice, once in type and once in Ginsberg's handwriting - a dubious bonus. They have no real relation to the pictures, which might have been made more interesting with some focused comment.

The cover has been tarted up with art work that suggests Day-Glo flower stickers.

not much to say- a bunch of pics from back in the day- the hot pants and hair and moustaches are interesting to view-

I bought this book on the premise of showing me some of the little known facts of Walt Disney World. For example: The secrets about the names on the windows of mainstreet; the mysterious hoof prints leading to the Haunted Mansion; or hidden details that I know nothing about.

Unfortunately, after going on our trip, I found it was a water-down version of the far-superior Birnbaum's Guide to Disney World.

My suggestion? Stick with Mr. Birnbaum...I know I will.

This book was very helpful during our recent trip. I packed it in the backpack to carry in the theme park. I found it highly superior to the Birnbaum book on Disney because this one will tell which rides are worth missing and which are must see's. The Birnbaum book, being the "official" Disney book is just a little too rosy about everything. Hidden Orlando gives the real scoop. I loved the section on Sea World too.

I haven't finished this book yet but, with less than a hundred pages to go, I've read enough to get a very good sense of what its like.

While this book has got the basis for a good story, I think Linda O'Neal should have left the telling of it to someone with better writing skills than her. Not to mention someone who could tell it a little more objectively than she. I don't know if I can completely blame her for this book, seeing as how she's just one of its three writers. What I do know is that her sections (which I assume were at least partially written by her, if not completely) are sloppily written. The narrative moves back and forth between the missing girls case and various unrelated events that occur in her day to day life. I don't know why all that info about her mother was included. Not that it was boring or anything. It could have been an interesting story if placed in the right book. It just didn't have anything to do with this one.

This case is certainly interesting. And it's definitely a tragic story that deserves to be told. I bought this book so that I could read more about what went on in this case and I'm not really disappointed in that regard. I knew the very basics of this case but there was more that I wanted to know. And I did learn more about the case from this book, assuming that what I was told was fairly accurate. I realize that it's morbid curiousity that prompted me to buy this, not a desire for great literature. But still, this material could have been handled so much better. When the book goes out of Linda's head and into a sort of neutral perspective, it's better. In those sections, the story remains on track and doesn't veer off into reflections on food and mothers and cars named Marilyn and so on. This is why I feel it should have been written more objectively.

Check this book out if you're looking for some more info on this 2002 case, but keep in mind that it's quite frustrating to get through. It could have easily been a hundred or so pages shorter. And even then, it would have still needed some heavy editing.

You know, I got the feeling that there were times in the book when Linda O'Neal was trying to turn this into her own story when, really, the story is supposed to be about the crimes committed against those two little girls. Everything comes back to them and the way society failed them. It's not about Linda blowing her own horn about her hard work on the case, it's not about her loving husband or how she's related to Ashley Pond through her husband's ex-wife. The point is that what happened to Ashley and Miranda should never have happened in the first place. Linda does make this clear but that's really what she should have focused on when telling this story. She should have cut all the other stuff out. The whole idea behind this book just rubs me the wrong way. It just seems wrong to me that someone would help write a book about how her tireless efforts and fearless hard work saved the day. Yeah, I know that Ashley and Miranda are still dead, but anyone who reads this book can't deny that it feels like it's a celebration of Linda's work. I do think there are things to admire about her but I think that when a person writes about her own adventures in a flattering way, it's a recipe for disaster, especially if this woman doesn't seem to have much experience when it comes to writing well. It would have been best if the book had taken a more objective approach to the whole thing.

This book was well-written and it gave good insight into the whole case of the murder of these two young girls,Miranda and Ashley. I read true crime often and I believe the best true crime stories present a solid background that explain things like family dynamics,environment,different types of social behaviors and things like that.

The reason I say the book is disturbing is, of course the nature of the crime against these two children and how this evil man could do the things he did to them. Especially Ashley-someone needs to explain to me how her mother allowed her to go and live with this man, a man who eventually raped her and took her life. I also do NOT believe that a man as depraved as Weaver did not ever assault/molest his own daughter. I think she was scared to tell the truth-but it's either tell the truth and get counseling for what she endured-or suffer with the nightmares for the rest of her life. I just really hope the daughter got help, and as for Weaver I hope he got hell in prison.

The entire narrative concentrates on how the author was the "only" one who was capable of finding the truth. In some deluded wanna be V. I. Warshawski way, writing with hind sight being 20/20, she was obviously correct and always on the right trail... Or maybe just cashing in on the fact that she lived in the area at the time that it occurred and therefore can claim some fame. It is a poorly written recap of news articles available to everyone.

I tackled this book with relish, but found that it was too drawn out alot of time, and should have been condensed a little. Ms. O'Neal, while to be admired for her efforts, did seem to overplay her role in this case. Also, being a family member, she was very "soft" on her comments on Ashley's mother, who should've never allowed her daughter to be near that man. At least the man was found and convicted, so the family has some closure. A recommended read if a true crime fan, but not for the reader just looking for a good story.

I picked this book up because I remembered the story of the two missing girls, but I never knew the outcome. I was very interested in what happened. Unfortunately this book is so poorly written I don't think I can finish it. Whoever was the editor/ghost writer for this book was either blind or an idiot. Don't waste your money or your time. I really hope a talented person or even semi-talented person decides to write this story over, anything would have to be better than this book.

I thought I was buying a paperback book. (That's how its listed) But for $1.96 plus $3.95 shipping, I received a pamphlet, just a few pages long. The info was ok, but not worth nearly $6.00!!

I've been searching for NEW books by author Linda O'Neal. This is where I end up. Linda and Amazon, can you provide some search information for NEW books by Ms. O'Neal, Private Investigator? I apologize for 2-stars when I really cannot locate the materials to be evaluated. I will remove them once I find what I'm looking for.

This book is a poorly edited, mediocre attempt at describing the Colonel and his relationship to Elvis. While the book presents many interesting facts about the Colonel, it fails to put any perspective on the relationship between the most infamous manager and an American icon. Somewhere there is an interesting book to be written about the pull mediocre management has on great artists (ask the Beatles, Willie Nelson, and Billy Joel, among others). This ain't it.

There's no decent alternatives for "Bucky" fans - shell out the extra $10 to $20 for the hardcover, colorized edition or be stuck with the flimsy, black & white version.

I discovered "Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Menace" earlier in the year in the form of the TV show, and upon realizing that it started out as a comic book, I had to have it. Foolishly, I tried to save some money and went for the 2006-released "manga" format, hoping that it might replicate the experience of the full-sized hardback edition. I was wrong: I was astounded by how un-fun the paperback made the story and its illustrations.

Michael Golden's artwork - so intricately detailed - looks positively squished in 7×5 inch format, to the point that I had to lean in and squint to try and identify what was what, who was who, and from where the voice bubbles were coming from. While I'm sure that an experienced manga-reader with sharper eyes than mine would find this less of a problem, I don't think that a minimized format is the best way to introduce our heroes to a new generation of casual readers. In addition, the quality of production is rather poor: the book feels like a slightly-thicker "Archie" digest, and probably wouldn't last two trips in a crammed backpack before beginning to fall apart.

Since the physical reading of the book won't be your best experience, it's thus easy to note some of the storyline's and formatting faults...

For starters, the book contains two arcs: the original tale leading up to the draining of the mouse planetoid and the shorter story done by Peter Stone, Andre Coates, and Joel Adams to tie-in with the TV show. The lapse in continuity is only second to the notable lapse in art style. Also, even after having read the whole book, I still had no idea of what the characters were like: Willy Duwitt's personality is explored the most, but the rest of the crew - Bucky, Jenny, Dead-Eye, and Blinky - rely on stereotypes to the point that any genuine emotion from them seems very much out of place.
Finally, there's the "just accept it"-clause. Example: 70 pages in, we find out that Jenny possesses some kind of supernatural power. Thirteen pages later, we find out that she's a witch and psychically connected to a secret order of witches. This never has any other relevance to the story nor is it ever explained. Hmm.

Alas, fans, there really is no other way to go than to try and track down that ever-elusive hardcover print. If you absolutely need your "Bucky" fix, then I suppose this will do...but rest assured, the crew most certainly has looked better. Poor funding was an issue in the story - it's an even bigger one with Vanguard Productions!

This thin, superficial book isn't *bad*, but it doesn't tell you anything you don't already know. This book is a waste of time and money if your common sense alone tells you to relax and be prepared with questions during the interview and to do your apps and essays neatly and carefully. Look elsewhere for *really* helpful insights.

This thin, superficial book isn't *bad*, but it doesn't tell you anything you don't already know. This book is a waste of time and money if your common sense alone tells you to relax and be prepared with questions during the interview and to do your apps and essays neatly and carefully. Look elsewhere for *really* helpful insights.

Dr. Turner's book is nothing but an attempt to get published. It lacks any innovative steps to getting into college. The sole purpose of the book is to state the obvious. Instead of spending money on this book, ask yourself the question: "How do I get into college?" When you answer yourself, you will have the content of this book.

It's really an adult book for reading, but won't hold the interest of listening children. So I don't know what it's good for! For little kids they ask why is this person & another angry, or looks upset. Basically with bad writing & awful artwork this book a total loss. Please don't bother