Mr. T. Pace

Immediately engaging and digestible for non-reader, Mar 8 2012

I am not a fiction reader, and I especially laughed at one of the characters in this book, described as never reading a novel in his life, "why waste time on lies?". I'm not that harsh, but this book gets off to a great start, lots of great imagery and easy-to-understand characters.

It starts with a gritty face-to-face foiled assassination attempt, that lead further to heated confrontations, and then mysterious notes and innocent people dodging bullets.

Having been recommended this book by a work colleague, I'm looking forward to getting to some historical adventures too, but haven't got there yet.

So this is the first novel I've read in maybe 5 or more… Read more

A very great way to learn ActionScript 3 from scratch., July 21 2008

I did not buy this book from Amazon, but I do have the book and am wanting to write a review.

I am also a novice when it comes to Actionscript. I know Javascript reasonably well, though a lot of the strong variable typing is a bit to get used to for a javascript user. Also, it's good to have a bit of experience with designing things with Flash before trying to learn any Actionscript- understanding of the timeline and basic shapes and drawing etc.

A lot of Actionscript 3 books will tie the language into Flex and AIR... Two areas of Adobe's product suite that I have no concept or experience with.
So, this part from the book's "What Is- and Isn't- In This Book:… Read more

A *very* great souvineer book, Sep 17 2006

I saw this book for sale in the Columbia Icefield gift shop, after having gone on the tour of the Athabasca glacier.

For 2 months in Summer 2006 I visited/worked in Alberta, and got some small but quality hiking and exploring the Rocky Mountains. But I'm a practical person, not wanting much for souvineers, and this book, among only a few other things through the two months made a great impression on me.

There are dozens of photograph books with beautiful pictures, but very few stand out above the group. This is one, and this would be a great buy for anyone who is out in the Rockies, or has been there, or just want to see great pictures of the mountains. This is an… Read more