Posted on 03/23/2002 4:50:39 AM PST by xzins
This is the 2nd month of a recently approved continuing topic for Free Republic. The purpose is to tap the reading experiences of the countless Free Republic readers. Your mission is to post recommendations and brief summaries of current books which you've recently read. They need not be on anyone's bestseller list, but preferably they will be current (roughly two/three years from publication,) although this is not a hard and fast rule. Don't worry about repetitious reviews: a different take over time by different people on the same book is a good thing. If someone wishes a link to a bestseller list, this one is for Publisher's Weekly Bestsellers Lists:
1. Give name of Book, author, and classification (fiction/non-fiction)
2. Give a very brief summary. (Unless you feel bold and want to post a review.)
3. Give a rating and a reason. Scale = 1 to 5 Freeps, five being the best possible. A 5 Freep book would delight the CONSERVATIVE, FREEDOM LOVING folks who frequent our beloved Free Republic. A one Freep book would probably be trash anyplace, but maybe acceptable just in some liberal haven like DemUnderground.
Finally, Thanks Admin Moderator 8 and thanks Jim Robinson.
February, 2002, thread: click, Feb 02
Non-fiction
Full of interesting characters...at a time when America's hero was an "underdog" thoroughbred........I grew up with horses and people who loved them and people who made their living around them and this book just brought all that back. There were similarities to people I knew in just about every person in Seabiscuit's story, and it's a little-known but fascinating account....if you like horses or if you like thoroughbred racing and want to read a really good true-life story about all it involves, read this book!
I'm embarrassed to admit I'm reading one of the books I bought for my daughter. LOL It's out of the "Dear America" series, called Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie. These books are short, written in diary form, filled with history. I've read a few of them and it gives me a chance to discuss history with my daughter.
We'll try.
1. The Indwelling - 3, mostly for the entertainent/story line value.
2. The Life You've Always Wanted. - 4
3. When Character Was King - 5
I'm not far along enough in the other two to give a rating yet.
5 freeps
Did you ever want a real understnding as to how the balance of these two "wings" lifted the founders of our republic? THIS IS the book, IMHO.
It is, perhaps, the saddest book I have ever read, but it is a MUST read.
Five freeps and a bump
This book, while originally published in the 1880's, is a good overview of the various campaigns. IT is intersting to note, that there are many references to God, and how the soldiers were regulars at praying, etc.
So, to the revisionist crowd, it is rather tough to refute writings from 115 years ago.
3 Freeps
Ronald Reagan, How an Ordinary Man became an extraordinary leader. D'Nesh D'Souza (sp?)
This is an oldie, but reading it for the first time. Too early to tell, but it appears to be a good one.
The Final Days. Barbara Olson. This one needs no recap.
In the queue:
The Closing of the American Mind. Bloom
The Spirit of the Laws. Montiesquieu
Democracy in America. Tocqueville
Whatever else I come across that looks interesting.
The link above actually takes you to a page describing the 5th Edition
By Paul Mcfedries.
I innocently agreed to put up a web page for our Sportsmen’s club knowing nothing of HTML. Luckily, I found this little gem at a discount/closeout store for three bucks and grabbed it. Referring constantly to this book I did get the page up. It wasn’t a work of coding art but it worked.
For the beginner (me) it’s very good. The style is conversational and lighthearted. Think HTML boot camp without all the yelling and screaming and pushups! Just kidding, MICHIGANDER! J The concepts are presented clearly and the examples, also available for copy/paste from the CD, are simple enough to be easily tried out and results seen. There’s even a selection of clip art and animated GIF’s to get you started with graphics.
Contents (for 3rd Edition)
Part 1 Creating Your First HTML Web Page
1 A Brief HTML Web Page Primer
2 The Basic Structure of a Web Page
3 Dressing up your page (formatting, special characters, etc.)
4 A Fistful of List Grist…
5 Adding Links
6 Working with Images
7 Publishing Your Page on the Web
Part 2 A Grab Bag of Web Page Wonders
8 Images can be links, too
9 Netscape and Internet Explorer HTML Estensions (a little dated now)
10 Adding Tables to Your Page
11 Making Your Web Pages Dance and Sing (animated gif’s, sound, video)
12 Create a Form
13 Fooling Around With Frames
14 Style Sheets
15 Java Applets & Java Scripts
16 HTML and IE 4.0
17 Elements of Web Page Style
18 Some HTML Resources on the Web (many now defunct URL’s)
19 Using Personal Web Server
Part 3 Painless Page Production: Easier Ways to Do the HTML Thing
20 Netscape Composer
21 Office 97 HTML Tools
22 All Aboard Front Page Express
23 Assorted Other Ways to Create HTML Documents
Appendices
A Glossary
B Browser Basics (for NS & IE)
C HTML Codes for Cool Characters
D Webmaster’s Toolkit
Last, but not least, the index is excellent! You know how sometimes you know what you want to do and you know you saw it SOMEWHERE in that darn book? Well, if you can come up with one or two words of your object you’ll likely find it in this index.
Five Freeps
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