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'Stationary Bike' is just about everything you can expect from a traditional Stephen King story. It's not remarkable, but it's a tale well-told of an essentially ordinary guy who experiences something decidedly out of the ordinary. This is where King's strength lies, in exploring worlds and possibilities and how everyday people would react to them. He uses it to good advantage here.

It's the story of a man who discovers he's not as healthy as he used to be, and who buys a stationary bike to help get himself into better shape. Unlike many people, he actually put it to use. He's an artist by trade, and he paints himself a road and a forest to ride through. As he rides, he begins to imagine he's there, and more, he starts to feel it, and he starts to think that he's being followed.

A reader can make or break a story like this, and fortunately, Ron McLarty's reading is pitch-perfect. He reads the text with feeling and has a great ear for dialogue. His reading is natural and well-suited to the story. It's hard to imagine a better reading for this story.

'Stationary Bike' is about 90 minutes long, about the length of a short movie. For this one, though, you can close your eyes and let the voice paint a picture with words. It's a simple, uncomplicated story told in a simple, uncomplicated way. In other words, a good King story, and a great way to pass an hour and a half.

Richard Sifkitz is overweight. Giving into his doctor's encouragement to get in shape, Sifkitz purchases a STATIONARY BIKE. Sifkitz is an artist and begins painting an imaginary scene in which to pretend he's traveling while riding his bike. Soon, his fantasy and reality begin merging together as Sifkitz can't stop riding his STATIONARY BIKE.

I expected better from Stephen King. The story meandered almost meaningless along the imaginary roads in a world populated with imaginary people... for no real purpose that I could discern. Sifkitz envisions the work crew that has been cleaning his system of all the junk he has eaten over the years, a work crew that is becoming increasingly disgruntled as Sifkitz is living and eating healthier now that he regularly rides his STATIONARY BIKE. We learn the identities of this imaginary work crew, but for what reason?

STATIONARY BIKE is a short audio to listen to but one I found myself struggling to stay engaged in the story. I didn't care about Richard Sifkitz's dilemma at all. He wasn't necessarily unlikable; he just didn't have much of a personality at all. In fact, the entirety of his character development focuses mostly on his weight and his efforts to lose that weight. Even the imaginary work crew is more likable and well developed than Sifkitz!

STATIONARY BIKE is not Stephen King at his best. Die hard King fans like myself with probably struggle through it and there may even be some who will insist that Stephen King cannot write a bad story. For me, however, STATIONARY BIKE is a major disappointment.

COURTESY OF CK2S KWIPS AND KRITIQUES

I loved Stationary Bike. Ron McLarty could read the phone book and I would listen -- intently.

Stationary Bike was a lot of fun. In the story we follow Siftkits (spelling?) as he takes a metaphoric journey down his metabolic path. The characters, the reality and the settings were all fun.

It wasn't too long or too short, it was just right. And did I meantion Ron McLarty is a great reader?

You don't have to be an SK fan to like this one.

- Dan.

I am a Stephen King fan and have to read anything he writes. This was an auto book. It was okay but not that interesting. I prefer to read his books and not have them on audio.

I'm a Stephen King fan, but I was disappointed with this audio book. I've never purchased an audio book before, but this was the only format for this "novel." I'm not sure if I just couldn't really get into the story because I listened to it while I was driving (and, therefore, was too busy concentrating on driving), or because the story itself just wasn't all that interesting. It is a 2-disc set, and the story seemed very short. I am giving the audio book to my brother, who is blind. Maybe he will like it better than I did.

This book is pretty good for its small size. It discusses layers, filters, transparent gif's, and much more. Don't expect this book to make you a graphics whiz but it deffinately will teach you some new tricks! My only one complaint about this book is its constant endorsment of Paint Shop Pro as opposed to those oh so expensive over done complicated (CaOdUoGbHe) programs that fall short to PSP "superiorority" LOL =) Good Book Though...

It took me a little over 24 hours to get through the book. Chap. 1-5 were a breeze, 6-8 not to bad, 9-14 I needed to re-read somethings. I love the way the book explains the topic before diving into the actual practices. The author(s) refer back to previous chapters to save space and to build the readers knowledge. I really appreciate the numerous resources in the appendicies. Although the book is basic in most of its areas it does rebuild the foundations needed for improvement. For those of you who feel you wasted your money, give it to a newbie, you'll feel a lot better.

Now in a fully updated and expanded second edition, Andy Shafran's Creating Paint Shop Pro Web Graphics is the definitive "how to" manual for using Paint Shop Pro 5 to produce and editing outstanding website graphics including banners, backgrounds, icons, and photographs. Hundreds of pages of full color examples illustrate the various aspects of Paint Shop Pro. Following clear, concise instructions the reader will rapidly be able to create vivid buttons, headlines, and icons using interactive techniques. How to use PSP Picture Tubes, deformation, and special effects in developing graphics is covered in detail, as is the use of the latest in scanner and digital camera technology to edit and customize photos. Creating Paint Shop Pro Web Graphics is a totally "user friendly" manual that belongs on the personal or professional Paint Shop Pro 5 reference shelf.

Buy this book only if you have never done web graphics before. While I thought it would be a comprehensive look at web graphic techniques using PSP, it is really just a basics how-to kind of book. PSP has so much to offer yet this book falls short.

Dispite a couple bad rewiews, I purchased the book anyway. My mistake! This book is for people wanting to make cute little home pages with pics of their kitty, just like the author. It shows how to crop and paint a little but not much more than that. I learned as much just tinkering with the PSP prog as I did from the book. He promotes his website like it is some type of dynamic creation. It in fact is a lousy little site with pics of his kitty. The author uses it merely to try to sell more books. Unbelievable! Don't be another sucker and buy this pittiful excuse for a manual. (The PSP manual is almost as good.) Purchase something with some guts to it!

I understand everyone has his or her own definition of great writing and a great book. I thought this book was quite well-written and I enjoyed that it was not limited to merely a biography of William Perkin or the chronological format. As far as explaining my definition of a well-written book, I would say that this qualifies mostly because it captures interest quickly and maintains it. It is a non-fiction page-turner! Additionally, the author does not make grammatical errors or use language or style which is difficult to understand. In my opinion, that is a well-written book.

As far as content is concerned, there is so much that can be gleaned from reading this quite fun as well as informative book. I especially liked the parts on Germany and WWII. As a graduate student, I would almost certainly assign this to a History of Science class. It would be great for a topics class focusing on discoveries/inventions or chemistry. I read this purely for pleasure and as such would recommend it to any general reader interested in the history of science, invention or world history.

I found this book often interesting and often confusing. People entered and exited frequently, and the insertion of some modern information about color broke the continuity of the author's message. I wished for more descriptions of the chemistry involved, what the various chemical reactions did, and how other chemists adapted Perkin's synthetic route to create new dyes. But the most descriptive information comes from Perkin's patent application, which sounds so general as to provide little useful information. So, this book gets three stars because it provided an easy summer read, but it lacked in scientific substance.

It could have been a great book. I'm always looking for good books about chemistry and chemists so I had high hopes for this one. The story of William Perkin discovering mauve as an 18-year-old student and then starting the synthetic dye industry in Britain is inspirational for chemistry students everywhere. However, the author races through the biography of Perkin in the first half of the book, barely hinting at his family or other aspects of the young man's life and personality. The second half of the book is all jumbled together: Perkin, fashion, natural dyes, World War II, malaria, etc. The author attempts to show that many different fields were affected by the synthesis of mauve from coal tar, but he really doesn't make a clear case for any of them, and the reader is left with a pile of disjointed factoids and unrelated characters. I was disappointed. It is still worth reading, for someone interested in the chemistry of color, but don't expect to be wowed.

I really wanted to like this book. And, yes, it has a fascinating tale to tell. But there was something lacking in the writing that me entirely unable to 'get' what the writer was trying to say. It IS an interesting story about the origins of dyes, about the effect of dyes on other industries, the industrial surge of technology of the age, and so on. But I couldn't ever quite figure out what made the chemical composition about this particular mauve so unique and important, and what about it was pushing the world into the future. I'm not usually this lost when I read, so, officially, I'm blaming the author! Sorry Simon.

This is a fantastic accounting of a too little glorified period in the development of organic chemistry. The story will be inspiring to anyone who has an interest in chemistry and/or business. The latter because the story demonstrates the importance of recognizing and capitalizing on an unexpected invention (vs. more target-oriented discovery).

Unlike, most other popular science-related books that this is likely to be lumped with, it is enjoyably written, well researched and full of fascinating facts.

This book is a must have for curious young minds! We have purchased several of the Kid Concoctions Books from Amazon.com and my kids are never bored!

I (and my kids)were very dissapointed by most of the ideas in this book. It did not live up to our expectations created by the commercial on PBS. For example, the dryer lint clay looked great on TV, but it was DISGUSTING...the kids wouldn't even touch it because it smelled so bad.
I am sorry that I bought it.

I love the second book in the series. All new ideas using household items. Very creative!

Theree wasn't anything I thought that was really great but a couple things I could use with the kids. If I had a choice I would have not bought it.

This is a fun concept for a book. However, if you live somewhere warm or plan to do these activities during the summer, many of them contain sugar or some kind of food. It screams "ant magnet" to me and for that reason I have not made anything except the spaghetti sculpture which never dried!

Another great book from Debbie Travis. I followed the directions to the letter and have the most incredible floor. Everyone that sees it is amazed at how beautiful and durable it is!

So, anyhow, we are thinking about building a new house and towards that goal we started doing three things this summer. First, we put up three poster boards on the wall in the kitchen where we could jot down ideas for each room of the house. Second, on Sunday afternoon we go looking at open houses in the area. Third, we made HGTV our default television channel; if we are not watching anything else that is what we watch, which means that most days we get a double dose of Debbie Travis. Specifically that would be the half-hour "Debbie Travis' Painted House" and the full-hour "Debbie Travis' Facelift." Now, the second and third points are some of the ways we come up with things to put down on the posters, along with correcting aspects of our current living situation and memories of homes past. But I also have to admit that I got to the point where if I did not hear Debbie Travis each day, my day was not complete. It is not just the accent, but the unique cadence to her way of talking that we call "Debbie speak" around the house.

The first thing you need to know about Debbie Travis is that she wants to paint pretty much everything (but first, you want to put on a good coat of primer). Understand that and you can appreciate "Debbie Travis' Decorating Solutions: More than 65 Paint and Plaster Finishes for Every Room in Your Home," which is co-written with Barbara Dingle with photographs by George Ross. As Travis explains in her introduction, "Just as the windows are the eyes of a house, the walls, floors, and ceilings are the soul." The point of this book is to convince you that it does not take much to make them beautiful and to give you a wide range of options along those lines.

"Part One: Before I Start Painting" is a reminder to do appropriate preparation before you begin decorating. In detailing the preparation and tools of the trade for decorating, Travis provides specific tips and tools for painted finishes, stenciling, plaster finishes, and other techniques covered in the book. There is also a section devoted to choosing color, which along with pattern and texture are the principal elements of any decorating scheme. Here you will learn the basic shades of yellow, blue, green, and red, along with terra cotta, white, neutral colors, brown, and black. You will also pick up tips as to where and how to use each, because the whole point here is to come up with ideas for solving your decorating problems.

The bulk of the book is devoted to "Part Two: Decorating with Paint and Plaster." Within this unit there are five sections, each of which is divided into more specific techniques: (1) Walls offers a wide variety of techniques: color washed walls, graffiti, weathered wallboards, tinted Venetian plaster, leather walls, feathering and parchment. Then Travis moves on to decorative wall panels (strie, faux linen, pastel metallic, and frescoed), an innovative dado that divides a room (brushed steel, fantasy marble, faux denim, country tartan, and anaglypta), and building a border (gesso, French country, Casablanca tile, lincrusta borders along with stenciled silhouettes). The key thing here is that you are going to find something that catches your eye, and then the big question is whether you think you can follow the instructions well enough to actually do some of these yourself. I fully admit that stenciled wall paneling scares me, but I actually think I could do the leather walls and/or the parchment for my study and maybe even the frescoed panels for the master bathroom (where I want to try a warmer style).

Obviously the emphasis in this "Painted House" volume is on walls, but Travis goes on to talk about the other parts of the wall as well: (2) Floors covers (ha-ha) honeycomb floor, clip art border, block painting and cottage floor; (3) Ceilings involves bronze moldings, gold leaf ceiling, distressed stucco ceiling, leopard ceiling, and the one I find most interesting, cloudy sky; (4) Kitchens and Bathrooms involves quick fixes for kitchens when renovating is not an option, such as backsplashes along with fantasy wood graining, crackle finish, and heritage kitchen cabinets. For bathrooms the focus is on eye-catching ways of making the most of a small space; and (5) Stairways, Doors, and Fireplaces, which are just touched on in terms of dressing up doors with easy painted finishes and fast fix-ups for fireplaces.

Those last couple of sections only touch on what all can be done in such areas, and you can track down "Debbie Travis' Kitchens and Baths" or other volumes in the "Painted House" series that go into more detail on those or other rooms of the house. The bottom line here is to show you that you can make your home stylish without spending a whole lot of money. That is why this volume has over 400 photographs and step-by-step instructions for each specific section. After all, when it is your house you do not have to do with some safe shade of white on your walls. Picking a color is only part of your decision and even if you are intimidated by pattern, at the very least you can add texture into the equation.

This book is for people who like lots of color, and the shabby chic cottage type of look (painted furniture, painted hardwood floor, etc). I was hoping she would offer paint ideas for a wide array of decorating styles which she does not.
Check it out from your local library instead.

This book is great, especially to those willing to experiment and try new adventures with color. Color can change the entire look and feel and energy of your home and living spaces and Debbie really brings that out with helping you choose color based on the mood you want for a space.

Have fun! Go crazy! and enjoy :)

I Enjoy watching Debbie on Painted Houses and Facelift. She is not afraid of color and seems to be able to decorate in various styles. I bought her Living Rooms book and think it is one of the best. This one is not up to par. Many of the projects use garish wall colors. I am not adverse to color - I have it all through my house, but I think many of her choices don't blend well and don't seem to complement each other.

This book might be okay for you if you like a funky/hip kind of decor, which a lot of the designs seemed to cover. There are some more sedate choices like the "leather walls" and the "colorwashed walls" which are quite beautiful. I would recommend her Facelift book and her Painted House Living and Dining Rooms.

Save your money. This book is a disappointment. Very poorly written. Black and White (only) illustrations are a serious problem.

The 24 lessons are generally very helpful and specific. The very detailed step-by-step tutorials makes it easy to duplicate the author's results each time. However, I did wish for more expository detail in some of the topics. Overall this is a worthwhile book for beginners and the price for value received is excellent.

I found this book very good in unlocking many of the features of, and helping me realize some of PSP's potential. Never having had a course or read a tutorial on a graphical program like this, I wasn't aware of how much was "hidden" in such programs. I really felt after reading this book that I could make much more use of the program. And also found many more ways of using my (ah.. hum) creativity when exploring the program on my own, finding new ways to manipulate the pictures I have made. I can definitely recommend it, especially to people new to learning PSP. Or who has not yet read any books on PSP. The only minus is the black and white pictures illustrating the sections on color adjusting.

I found this book to be very helpful. If you are new to Paint Shop Pro, this is the book to start out with. Mr. Clark's assumes no prior knowledge of this paint program so he takes you through each step clearly. I understood every point he was trying to get across and I had no problems. If you take the time to do the excercises the way he instructs then you will be on your way to Paint Shop Pro success.

I bought this book almost a year ago. If I had rated it then, I would have said it was worthless. I thought I needed a reference manual, so I could look up specific tasks. I bought the book because I was too busy for the program manual (also a tutorial).

Now I know why good manuals for Paint Shop Pro are tutorials! You have NO IDEA of the power of this program , unless you go through these educational steps (that you don't think you need). I learned so many powerful tools and effects, when I wasn't even looking for them.

I've had Paint Shop Pro (and this book) for over a year and had NO IDEA of the many powerful tools available. The tutorials taught me many things that have made web graphics a million times easier.

It was well worth the couple hours of learning ... compared to endless ENDLESS hours of frustration! I wish I had just worked through the tutorials in the first place! It would have saved me so many hours of trial and error.

It took me a year to finally read this book, fully. I wish I had done so a long time ago. I realize now, that it was well worth the investment of a few hours. Buy the book and REALLY work your way through it ... you will learn a lot.

Take the Tutorial! Even if you think you are beyond it!

Real price for this book should be $0.99,touch only the basic information.author claim to be technical writer,I doubt this.

This book is a wonderful source of information for Corel. My only complaint was in the actual procedure for layering which produces the same affects as 35mm multi-exposures. It just needs an example and a step by step method (on combining two images)which I later found on the internet. This and other manuals never assume that you don't know you have to right click on certain layers to make them work. This is a simple thing that can leave you totally perplexed since a wrong click can really mess you up. If this had just been there I would have rated it a 5 star.

Arrived next day, very helpful if you work with corel paint shop Pro 2. -

A huge benefit, particularly for those who downloaded their program, although experience tells me it's also much clearer than the packaged manual. Well written and takes alot of the mystery out of using Paint Shop Pro.

I have been into digital photography for the past couple of years and have been using both PSP Photo X2 and Photoshop Elements 5. Through experimentation, I had figured out how to brighten, sharpen, soften, clone, straighten, crop, etc. I had tried using masks and layers but failed miserably. I was looking for a book that would walk me through the creation and application of masks and layers and hopefully guide me through the more sophisticated tools such as curves. What a disappointment. The first chapter takes roughly 30 pages to list the tools, e.g., "Red-Eye tool" duh! It finally gets down to an example at the end of the chapter, taking 2 full pages to show how STRAIGHTEN AN IMAGE!

Chapter 2 nicely covers "Simple Picture Manipulation", with a thorough explanation of the "Smart Photo Fix". It also covers the use of Histogram Adjustment and tools like "High Pass Sharpen". Unfortunately, it only touches on "Soft Focus", which is actually quite complicated, i.e., requires a lot of playing around, and skims past Curves with 9 short sentences and nary an example.

Chapter 3 "Moving Past the Basics" is an understatement. Suddenly I was seeing "tips" like, "For an interesting effect use a Hue/Saturation/Lightness Adjustment layer in colorize mode to apply a tint, then reduce the layer opacity to blend it with the original color." Right. It reminds me of the proverbial ski trip where the "expert" skier lets everyone take one warm-up run down the bunny hill and then takes them to the top of an "easy" black diamond trail. At that point, he drops over the edge and vanishes from sight, expecting his novice charges to follow - forgetting that it took him years to perfect his technique.

First impression from the book - is that all pictures are black and white and it does not help (cmon - this is a book about paint!). I will update the review once I finish reading the book.

I have a shop for selling the car paints and other related facilities.

Sure the book have been helping me. But, I would like to be more simple and direct.

Regards

This book covered everthing except installation of the kitchen sink!! Very nice how the author explained the painting techniques over the years and how things have changed. I also enjoyed the section on inspecting a car for hidden repairs.
Would have liked the book better in color but very nicely illustrated.

The description and a review or two state the book is "revised and updated" but the last revision was in 1998. I bit on this line, a mistake, since I wanted to know about current methods.
Techniques change, materials and tools evolve. If you want info on the latest technology, pass on this one

I was disappointed when reading this DIY paint book. While it does provide some background on paint, spray guns, techniques, tools, and painting, it lacks depth in any of these areas. Seems each chapter is really a high level view, but reading the author's background, he could have put more detail in the book.

If you're an experienced Paint Shop Pro user, this might be a good reference book. But as a novice, I found the book to be confusing, just a collection of Paint Shop Pro facts and procedures. It would have been nice to have some examples, where an image is edited from start to finish, step by step. Also, I couldn't help but notice that the authors did not give an address or email address where they could be contacted with questions, comments, errors in the book, etc. I have put this book back on the shelf and I'm using the manual that came with Paint Shop Pro.

I found this book very confusing. It is the worst book I have ever had. I don't know for whom this book was written, who would find it useful? I can give just one star for this book, because at least it has text and pictures. Don't spend your money, you will find user's guide for this program more useful and for free.

Well written for what it is. If you're trying to understand graphics concepts - buy another book. It tells you what commands/buttons to click on without explaining why. Severly lacking in discussion of subjects. More like a 300 page cheat sheet!

The Peachpit press Visual Quickstart Guides are absolutely the best tutorial guides on the market for computer users today. They use fast clearly worded directions, great photo examples and clear definitions to enable you to quickly get a firm handle on using PSP 5. and all the other Software and Programming media out there today, for the advanced to novice user. Great Value and Updates available online make these the "Must Have's" of computer tutorials

Good book if you have a bit of hands on with this program. I would not say it is a good book for the total beginner...some of the examples are a bit hard to follow. It is a REFERENCE book not a insparational book. You should have some idea of what you want to do. It is organized in logical sections and subjects were easy to find. Even with the programs manual, this is a good book to have handy. I think it should have been spiral bound to lay flat tho, I hate having to set something on it to keep it flat while I work. The book is not in color but there are center pages that have color examples. Yes I would buy it again if I lost it.

Very helpful with easier and more detailed instructions than the user manuals. Gave me the confidence to experiment and design my own website with Paint Shop Pro and to use animation shop. Good appendix for graphics and other websites.

I found a lot of the explanations to be too brief or dificult to follow. Many of the questions I have are not cover at all and when I needed help with roll-over techniques, the section is completely missing from my copy. I realize this is not the author's fault but it was the preverbial straw.

This is truly a great book if you want to get up to speed fast. It doesn't cover everything, but that's a GOOD thing --- no sense getting confused ahead of time! It will give you a sound base upon which you can build by reading the PSP manual or any of a number of Web resources. I think it deserves at least five stars.

I read the reviews here and bought this book hoping to learn to use PSP7 to make exciting Web graphics. Aside from a couple of useful chapters, I found the book lacking in substantial information. The writing is very dry, like a text book. Further, the graphic samples used to illustrate this book are amateurish and...well, just awful.

The tutorials in the Getting Started book that came with PSP7 are much more useful than what is found in this book. I was hoping that Paint Shop Pro Web Graphics would serve as a great supplement to the documents that came with PSP. Unfortunately, I was disappointed.

I'm a web developer by trade, but I've mostly coded back-end stuff. When I found myself needing to create some minimal imagery for a site, I turned to PaintShop. The price tag compared to PhotoShop was the difference maker and I had heard I could do 90% of what PhotoShop did with PaintShop.

I quickly found that I needed some extra help in using the software. Having never before used graphics software I found myself in serious need of help. This book was an excellent introduction, and I was quickly able to accomplish what needed to be done. I had to start from square one. After reading the first couple of chapters, I felt I had a good grasp of questions like what is a layer, how to flatten images, number of colors on the palette, and how to manipulate the tool in basic ways.

I'll look at each of the sections of the book in greater detail:

Part I Making Great Images -
This section of the book is 83 pages long and covers the fundamentals of how to use PSP. It covered all the nuts and bolts about how to do things like draw a line to rotate and resize your image. It does a pretty good job in this task. Having never used a graphics software package before I totally needed this chapter. More advanced users will probably be able to skip it.

Part II Marrying PSP to the Web -
I was a little disappointed in this part of the book. There is a chapter on basic graphic HTML. What really would have been useful would have been some CSS help here. There is a chapter on creating transparent images. Even with little graphics experience, I didn't really get anything out of the book on that topic that wasn't obvious in the tool. There is a chapter on why using small images is good and how to compress and crop. Simple stuff. There is a chapter on coordinating your graphics. Wonderful advice like picking colors that look good together abounds. How to create buttons and spacers and the like is also covered. Finally, there is a chapter on backgrounds. This one is actually pretty good if you use backgrounds in your design, but they usually look tacky to me.

Part III Accelerating Your Images -
This is the meat and potatoes of the book. Topics like layers, vectors, putting text on a curving line, etc are covered. You have to have some kind of help to figure this stuff out if you haven't used a graphics package before, and this book did a descent job. Although I must say that I used it more to learn how to ask the PSP help the right question more than I used the book to answer it. There simply is not enough detail here for you to get everything. But, you will at least have the vocabulary necessary to find an answer in the help, and you usually have some kind of idea what you are going to be doing.

Part IV Image Mapping and Slicing -
PSP does have a pretty cool tool that lets you take a big image and slice it up into smaller images and then it puts those images into an HTML table. All you have to do is take the generated HTML and paste it into your site. It's pretty slick and the explanation in the book is adequate. Topics like creating rollover menus and image maps are also covered. (Please resist the temptation to create mystery-meat navigation. The book doesn't warn against it.)

There is also quite a bit on animation, but as I have done no animation using PSP, I guess I shouldn't comment.

Appendices -
This is a total waste of space and a pad to book size (which is only 311 pages of a lot of pictures). There is actually a list of "Cool Sites." The list of keyboard shortcuts is nice I guess.

All in all, this book did a descent job teaching me how to use PSP. From what I've seen, it's the best on the market. Unfortunately, that doesn't say much. This book will certainly get you started, but after a few hours of use, you'll spend more time looking in the PSP help.

Three Stars -
HawkeyeGK