DC Washington Books

I think this book is great, however the delivery was so slow from the bookseller, I had to purchase a second book. the book finally arrived, so now I have two similar gardeniing books.

I really like the information in this book. However instead of being organized by Month as the title suggests, It is organized by Plant type (perennial, annual,etc.) I find it time consuming and frustrating to have to continually flip from one section to another just to find out what to do for a specific month.

This book is the perfect tool for me, as I'm always wondering what I should be doing when to get the best results. It's unique in the way it's written and I don't believe it's meant to be your only resource for gardening information. It's very good at what it does and I actually like the way it's broken down, it works well for me.

I like the idea behind this book a lot. It has a lot of good tips, but it needs to be reorganized. There are January - December sections for annuals, perennials, bulbs, etc. I don't like having to have to go to several different sections for each month. It would be a nicer book if it was better organized.

I just moved to Maryland from a quite different climate and was unsure how to deal with the changing seasons in this part of the country. It's very helpful to be able to look under a particular month and plant type and figure out what I'm supposed to be doing this time of year. Should I still be pruning my flowers? Is it okay to plant ANYTHING this time of year? What about preparing my garden for the winter? How do I deal with humid summers? My new home has a long-untended yard and garden, so I will pretty much be starting from scratch, and it's great to have some idea what can be planted, when it can be planted, and how to care for it.

It took 4 weeks to receive the book from the time I ordered it- almost too late to get it before my trip departure date. The shipping label appeared to defective and maybe that was the problem in the delivery time. Also, the book was missing the tear out map and many pages contained someone's underlining. That isn't a big deal but it wasn't described that way.

Needed the book in a hurry and they turned it around in no time.

The Index is very poor. I tried looking up the Spy Museum and Holocaust Museum. Nothing under Spy or Holocaust. I looked under Museum, and then looked for Spy and Holocaust. I also looked for National ... museum.

I went to the internet, and found that the full names are:

International Spy Museum and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

To my way of thinking, Spy and Holocaust should have been in the index. When I have to use Google to find something in a book's index, I think that the index is useless.

I've been fortunate enough to have used Lonely Planet books throughout Europe, Australia and parts of North America and have always found them reliable and accurate. However, the Washington DC edition falls quite short of the LP standard that I have become used to.

First of all, of course the information on attractions and especially security is vastly out of date, but more importantly, there were more than a couple recommendations that I followed in the guide that led me to a closed bar (twice), a bad place to eat (three times), and a REALLY BAD hostel recommendation. What was said in the guide to be the best hostel around turned out to be the worst one I've ever stayed in.

There were far more popular guides with the people I met, the Let's Go being the guide of choice. Having used the LP to some frustration, I would recommend using an alternate source of info for your trip to the Capital.

I have been living in DC for the past 2 years and bought the LP as a gift for a friend. As a resident, let me tell you ... this guide falls MUCH below expectations. Published in 2001 Feb, it does not take into account any of the new security regulations, road closures, etc. Futhermore, the listings for restaurants, bars and clubs is not only prehistoric, but also very "old-school" ... none of the hip DC places are included. I would supplement this by checking Washington Post's website - they are much better. Cheers,

This is my second summer living in Washington, DC during an internship and about my fifth time here. I have visited just about every major site that is accessible by public transportation, and some that aren't. I bought this book because it includes a blurb about the history of some of the major sites, sidetrips into Maryland and Virginia and lots of decent restaurants for a student on a budget. Perhaps it includes a bit too much info on traveling to DC (how to get there, visa info, etc. etc.) but it's a guidebook for the outsider primarily.

This is only a reference list!

My dong was sagging. It was so un-clintonesque that I was ashamed to let it wander at refined parties. This was a case of peyroneism at its worst -- a leftward deviation unparalleled in recent decades. Then I got the book. I read it and began to understand. Then I started to apply its wise, experience-driven, user-friendly stratagems. For the first few days, not much happened. Still the same old problem: a leftward-leading pencil, an embarrassment at party-time each Saturday night. THEN it worked. Things got better.... much better! The result? A perfect porker, the pride of the neighborhood. And, no longer a source of wry amusement for all the gang in class and at mass. How good is it? Folks, it's so good..... So awfully good.................. That I'm actually thinking of running for President! -- Blickstein

For those of you who are looking for a book that will give you a lot of information about this condition this is not it. I found more information on the internet myself. It is just a lising of articles about peyronie's disease. I ordered the book and was disappointed, so I sent it back for a refund.

We found this book very useful with a lot of trivia info that was very helpful. Tour information, transportation information, hours of operation, etc.

Buy another "kids in DC" book. The prices are way off and Leaf doesn't appear to know much about traveling with children. The hotel reviews look they were used for an adult travel book and then cut-n-pasted into this book. Lots of talk about elegant and extravagant... Hotels in terrible neighborhoods are recommended without any warning of safety issues.

It baffles the mind how anyone can read this brilliant literary tome from former police chief Charles A. Moose, and not come away inspired. Charles Moose's story is a "Horatio Alger" tale of our times - with one major difference - Mr. Moose's story is no tale! This book details his humble beginnings: his birth in New York in 1953, his "Oliver Twist like" string of odd jobs in his youth - chimney sweep, coal miner, and tailor's assistant in the Lower East Side. Mr. Moose endured racial taunts and oppression on a daily basis, yet always kept his "eyes on the prize". He perservered, and completed his degree in U.S. History in 1975 at UNC Chapel Hill. Shortly after, his meteoric career in law enforcement commenced - patrol officer in Portland, Oregon, rising to chief of police. He later was police chief of Montgomery County, Maryland, where we learn the details of how he single-handedly solved the "DC Sniper" case using brilliant police work and Sherlock Holmes style "gum shoe" tactics!

Charles Moose is a definite inspiration to all, and I highly recommend this true-life literary masterpiece to all my associates and confreres in academia!

It's always irritating when someone in a position of authority uses their involvement in an event of this nature to sell their own story, which is exactly what Charles Moose has done with this book.

It's like calling a movie Titanic, then basing the story around the dramas of just two people when the bigger picture carries so much more gravity than can be expressed through the story of individuals.

It's true that the racial identities of the perps in the case of the Washington Snipers was a key element (profiling would've suggested white men, when in fact the guilty men were of African descent) and that Charles Moose is a black man who has struggled against the prejudice of others, but at least half the book is a very poorly written autobiography which has little relevance to the killings. Without his involvement in the case, it's unlikely his story would've interested anyone enough to be published and whether that's right or wrong, it's most certainly wrong to use the case as a vehicle to sell his own biography.

Also it's a difficult read: the first few chapters are written in a frustratingly concise prose made up of lots of short disconnected sentences with no cohesion to the rules of grammar, making for sloppy story telling. It does improve, but you have to battle with the first few chapters. Far be it from me to postulate, but it's as if two separate minds wrote this book. Ghost writers pay heed - either do it all yourself, or consult with the subject more closely.

Where the story of the Washington Snipers is positioned between the chapters about the author and his experiences, it IS quite well detailed and described objectively (Mr. Gost Writer, take a bow.) This part of the book is riveting and makes for very interesting reading. But there's so much about Moose (it's like trying to watch a film on American TV, you just get fed up with adverts and lose interest in the film) screaming "ME ME MEEEEE." Here lyeth the need for humility and the recognition that this story is not about one man and his struggles. It is, or rather SHOULD be, about - as the title refers - the hunt for the Washington sniper(s).

On the whole this book had a lot of potential but was marred by the self indulgent nature of the biography which is at least half (if not more) of the book when the author's personal story could've been dealt with in one chapter or less. I'm no literary agent, but am sure that had it not been for the position Moose held in this investigation he wouldn't have got away without having at least a third of the book being edited out.
I've read this book twice now, but on the second go round just skipped each chapter about the author's life and found the book to be much more edifying.

I was really looking foward to reading this book. Yet having been glued to the media like everyone else during these three weeks, there was never more I learned about the investigation, profile etc of the snipers. This was more like an autobiography of Chief Moose. At times how he became Chief was interesting but mostly very dry and hard to keep focus jumping back and forth between topics about himself then back to the investigation.

Initially this novel will take you into the fear and complexity that surrounded the case of the killing spree caused by the Beltway sniper attacks in 2002. I was intrigued to read about how tough it was for the police to tackle a "serial killer" that ultimately did not leave any kind of pattern in regards to victims' backgrounds or relations for which the police could build a case on. Although some vilified Moose after the case was wrapped up, The book does not portray Charles A. Moose in a poor light in regards to the wild goose chase over leads such as the white box van, because at the time that was really all they had to go on.

The problem with this inexpensive book that is centered on a modern day high profile crime is that it ultimately drowns in an accolade ridden biography of Moose himself. Charles Moose was the Montgomery County, Maryland Police Chief who headed the investigation when the killings first happened. The book lightly touches on the locales and victims, skimming over them in a consecutive and timely manner to constantly go back to what Moose was "going through". The book spends way to much time going back into his history and background, and we ultimately learn more about his own family than the victims, or the eventual backgrounds and cause when the two men who are responsible for the deaths are apprehended and identified.

I just felt that this book was much more of a biography and "pat on the back" of Moose than of the overall case itself. It doesn't do a good job of delving into the other agencies and people involved in researching the case, and does little to show the leads that really led to the capture. If you want to know what was going through Moose's mind during all of this, then by all means get the book. If you would rather learn more about the overall case and the other people who worked around the clock besides Moose to help bring justice to those involved, then I would recommend looking elsewhere. Ultimately a disappointing read about this recent high profile crime in our country.

I've been wanting to read this book for a long time, and finally did. I got very interested in this subject because I followed the story very closely in the news at the time. Then, during about a week and half during the time of many of the shootings, my mother and I were on a road trip from Rhode Island to Arkansas. I remember getting into the Maryland/northern Virginia area and thinking I'd better have plenty of gas so we wouldn't have to stop in those areas. We actually stayed at a hotel in the northern Virginia area one night. We decided, because of the snipers on the loose, to just go to the Wendy's drive thru across the street, and bring dinner back to the hotel. At the hotel, I had the news on, and the shooting that had occurred that day was only about 45 minutes from where we were staying that night. The next morning, we repacked the car hurriedly and got back on the highway - without stopping for breakfast. We remember looking suspiciously at every white box van we saw on the drive. Reading this book brought back a lot of those memories for me; but in general, this book was problematic for me. Although it was intersting to learn more about Chief Moose's life and background - it was heavily a story about him, with the story of the sniper ordeal added in. Every other chapter was literally an autobiography about Moose - some details more intersting than others. There's one chapter in the middle of the book that is huge - about 40 pages in the paperback version, and it's all about Chief Moose's life. I thought I would never get through some parts of this book. What annoyed me a lot is that at least in the edition I read, there are typos or other errors. For one, there is a reference to the ill-blamed Richard Jewel from the Atlanta Olympic Park bombings. The Olympics is referred to as the 1998 Olympics, when I know it was the 1996 Olympics. I found at least two sentence strung together with no period in between. There are countless fragmented sentences in this book. Also, I found a sentence that had "at at" in it. Did anyone proofread this text, I wonder? Besides this nitty-gritty stuff, I was a little disappointed that this book really didn't shed too much more light on this crime that the public might have already gotten from news reports. There were a few insights here and there, but they come really late in the book, when I was already decided that this book was 'just ok'. I feel that it is still worthwhile to read, but if you're interested in it, be prepared to learn more about Chief Moose than you intended, and not as much about the crime at hand than you thought you would learn. In the end, I thought maybe this was his way of dealing with this whole ordeal - to talk more about himself and to have some closure in this chapter in his life - I don't know. I guess it's easy for me to say ... I've never walked in his shoes.

I was very disappointed after purchasing this street map book. Apparently majority of Montgomery County isn't considered Metro Washington, DC. Don't expect to see any streets north of Bethesda - Whiteflint, Rockville, etc. are all missing. This definitely isn't a map street finder for someone living in the MD suburbs

While knowledge of the scientific benefits and risks of circumcision is desirable, and a guide to sources is needed, this publication is little more than overpriced MEDLINE search, limited to a few short years, and printed in a low-quality format. One can obtain far more by searching the National Library of Medicine's on-line version of MEDLINE, known as PUBMED, from 1960 to 1999. Moreover, PUBMED costs nothing!

The bright side is the durable material this map is made from, which guarantees no wrinkles and easy folding.
However, when it comes to the information presented, then I was disapointed. After my visit to DC it was obvious to me that the Metro stations and Metro lines are not clearly shown. Also,the map does not show the route and stops of threCirculator bus, which is a rather new and usefull mean of transporation for visitors.
Finaly, I ended up using the free tourist map that I took from the hotel lobby.

I recently moved to Seattle from a larger city where the street layout followed an erratic and spiraling design. Upon arriving in Seattle, I was nonplussed by the sheer geometry of it's urban organization.
I became quickly disorientated by so much regularity that I decided to buy myself a small guide...thinking that maybe I'd get some good restaurant tips in the bargain.
Think again.
Sure, the cover is a laminated map. However, it's a focalized map of downtown Seattle, so it's handy...when you're in downtown Seattle.
As to the info inside, it hasn't served me once...
Overall: not much useful info, not many useful street plans.
My advice: Save your money on this one, buy a big 8x11 book of street plans, get the commercial info you need online and try out the restos in the Seattle Zagat.