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The Best Books in Golf
There are a lot of books out there on the wonderful game of golf but not too many are worth keeping and reading again. You will notice there are no instruction manuals in our list, because trying to learn how to play golf from a book is like trying to become a great lover by reading an illustrated magazine on self-abuse. Also, ?best? means most enjoyable ? either because of their excellence or excrescence.
The Rub of the Green, William Hallberg
Often mysteriously overlooked but, with the exception of PG Wodehouse, the only good novel featuring golf ever written. Its hero goes to gaol but dreams of turning the prison swamp into a great two-hole course ? trouble is, he needs the help of the frankly mad and disordered ground staff to realise the dream.
?I laughed until I wet myself.? Her Majesty the Queen.
The greatest Game Ever Played, Mark Frost.
The story of how an unknown American amateur, Francis Ouimet, took on two of the game?s greats ? Harry Vardon and Ted Ray ? in the US Open; matched them for 72 holes and then beat them in the playoff. So well-written (by a man who really knows his craft) and absorbing that you forget you know the ending.
?An achingly beautiful and yet powerful homage to the indomnitable spirit of the down-trodden lumpen proletariat, evoked in a lyrical paean of sensitivity, encapsulating all that is esoteric but vibrantly alive in the unending quest of the individual to rise above the circumstances of his birth.? Lee Westwood.
My autobiography, Bernhard Langer
The title is the most original thing about it and it takes true genius to make a life as rich and interesting as Langer?s read like a recipe for beans on toast. Ghost-written by a man described as a ?writer and a director of Christians in Sport.? The second part of the description may be true, the first definitely isn?t. It starts with the words: ?I was born in Anhausen, near Augsberg in Southern Germany on 27 August 1957,? and then gets really dull.
?The world is full of books, and this is one of them.? Arnold Palmer.
Four-iron in the Soul, Lawrence Donnegan
A season as a Tour caddie (to Ross Drummond, and whatever happened to him?) The idea?s been done before, but not by someone with Donnegan?s eye for detail, sharp observation and wit. Full of great anecdotes ? did you know that Al Capone cheated at golf ? and greater characters.
?Say that about me again and I?ll deck you.? Blind-boy, Pirate, Dustbin-Legs, Road-Runner McGhee, caddie to the stars.
Tarbuck on Golf, Jimmy Tarbuck
No, of course not ? just wanted to make sure you were paying attention.
?Shome mishtake shurely,? Sean Connery.
Nice Jumper, Tom Cox
As Neil Sedaka almost said, growing up is hard to do. But if you become obsessed by a nerdy game, which means that everyone else at school thinks you?re the un-coolest thing since permed hair for boys, adolescence becomes a torturous journey in which all you do is play with your balls. The difference is, all your mates are doing it in the privacy of their bedroom while you?re out in public, striding the fairways.
?He could have my babies any time.? Laura Davies.
Bud, Sweat and Tees, Alan Shipnuck
The story of the 2002 US PGA champion Rich Beem, never knowingly confused with a mild-mannered, teetotal, sexual hermit, and his even more outrageous caddie, Steve Duplantis. It?s Tin Cup made real but without the irritation of Kevin Costner.
?He could have my babies any time.? John Daly.
Strokes of Genius, Thomas Boswell
Thoughtful, beautifully-written essays on the enduring and eternal appeal of golf, the landscapes over which it is played and the people who play it at the highest level. What more do you want?
?I liked the bit where the big shark ate all the tourists.? Sandy Lyle.
Fairways and Greens, Dan Jenkins
An anthology (that means ?collection? Lee) by the best golf journalist still working. Jenkins is American, old, irascible, bad-tempered and very funny. He cut his teeth writing about Ben Hogan for a local Texas newspaper and followed the miserable bastard for the rest of his glorious career, taking in every Major and big star since. No respecter of reputation, he tells the truth and can be forgiven anything ? including his love of playing golf from a motorised buggy.
?It?s got a lot of words, hasn?t it?? Robbie Williams.
The Modern Fundamentals of Golf, Ben Hogan
Okay, we?ll break our own rules on ?no instruction books? because this is, simply, the best ever written, by one of the greatest players to squint into the sun trying to decide if it?s a 6 or 7-iron to the green. Hogan was plagued in his early years by a vicious hook and learnt almost all he knew about golf by hitting balls and thinking about the results before hitting some more ? his practice routine made Vijay Singh look like a layabout. Larry Nelson was one of many to learn the game entirely from this book and went on to win three Majors and his first nine Ryder Cup matches on the bounce. And even if you never read the thing, you should have a copy on your bookshelves.
a) to suggest you know something about the game
b) in homage to the great man.
?I wouldn?t touch it with a bargepole,? Randy Huckenputz, 53 handicap.
In Search of the perfect golf club, Tom Wishon (with Tom Grundner)
Let?s face it, golf equipment is too technical, we?re all baffled by bullshit and manufacturers shovel it towards us by the bucketful. The net result is that we spend far too much money on clubs that are ill-suited to our swing and game, persisting in the delusional belief that we can buy better scores. That?s the bad news. The good news is that you can improve with the right equipment (but rarely with ?off the shelf? clubs), and this book tells you exactly how to find it. The author has credentials and inside knowledge up to here but most importantly, never forgets that he?s talking to technical morons, and therefore makes the study of equipment easy and understandable. You should never spend more than ?10 on a piece of golf equipment without first reading this book.
?My coefficient of restitution has never been better.? Tiger Woods
Decisions on the Rules of Golf, The R&A and USGA
No, really, this is truly an excellent book and one that will give you hours of harmless fun. We all find the Rules incomprehensible but this at least helps understand not only the laws themselves but the rationale behind some of the dafter things we can and cannot do on the golf course. It is astonishing the sort of questions that people ask our legislators. For example, someone enquired: ?If an opponent or fellow competitor is asked to attend the flagstick and refuses, do I have any redress?? (which we interpret to mean: ?Can I thump him??) and was told ?No?. It conjures up all sorts of images of feuding golfers having a bad tempered match to the point where one rejects the suggestion that he should hold the flag and the other gets so het up about it that he asks his club secretary to write to the R&A.
?Doh!? Homer Simpson.
The Golf Omnibus, PG Wodehouse
The master of all humourous golf writers, Wodehouse has been oft imitated but never bettered. He has introduced us all to the idea of a golfer being disturbed by the uproar of butterflies in an adjoining meadow; that a man can hold in contempt only three things ? slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups; and of another folding his beloved into his arms, using an interlocking grip. The language is a delight and this is a rarity among golf books in that it can be dipped into and re-read time and again with no loss of pleasure, to be reminded, among other things, of the group of golfing rabbits who held another player in high esteem because he once broke 90.
?it ws nt rlly my srt of thng if u no wot I mean? (via text), Michelle Wie
Getting? to the Dance Floor, Al Barkow
The past is a different country and they did things differently there, as this enjoyable book so vividly tells us. It describes the earliest days of the US PGA Tour, where it was a struggle for even the best to simply survive, by the simple expedient of talking to them. Many ? such as Sam Snead, Byron Nelson and Gene Sarazen ? will be familiar but many others ? Bill Spiller, Errie Ball and Leo Fraser, less so. Nevertheless, they all have fascinating stories to tell about life on Tour before endorsements, sponsorship deals, courtesy cars and golf groupies had been invented.
?Grrr,? Tommy ?Thunder? Bolt
Martin Vousden is a freelance golf writer, a former editor of Today?s Golfer and launch editor of Golf Buyer and Swing magazines. His book: With Friends Like These; A selective history of the Ryder Cup, was published in 2006 by Time Warner. He edits the website http://www.rarebirdie.com |
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3.5 stars
This was a follow-up to their #1 album, Long Distance Voyager, and I think these guys climbed such heights with LDV that they set themselves up to fail on this one. At least, that was my initial impression. If memory serves correctly, I gave this a try a couple of times when it was initially released, and then set it aside and started listening to LDV again.
With the iPod revolution, I've started listening to some of my older music again, and I thought I'd give this another shot. What I discovered was that *I* had been expecting The Moody Blues to produce another LDV, and so was disappointed to get The Present. That was most unfortunate, because while The Present doesn't stand up head-to-head with LDV, there's a lot of worthy music here.
I'll admit, though, that I still found Blue World and Meet Me Halfway lacking and disappointing - bland music that doesn't really go anywhere. I'd always loved Sitting at the Wheel from the first time I heard it, and found that to be the same again. With different lyrics, it might have been a bigger hit for them. What I discovered was that Going Nowhere, It's Cold Outside of Your Heart, and Sorry (and perhaps I Am) were very notable songs. In fact, I've listened to Sorry by itself about eight times in the last two weeks alone.
The lesson, if there is one, is this: don't expect your favorite bands to give you exactly what they gave you before. You might miss out on some good music.
That said, many bands, when they release an album that becomes their "biggest hit ever" do try and duplicate that success. I think that Journey did it (unsuccessfully) - every song they released from Frontiers had a parallel on Escape.
I'm glad I gave this another go.
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Wilton Cupcake Fun Book
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This new book from Wilton features 128 pages of over 150 new ideas for cupcakes, petit fours, mini-cakes and other individual desserts. It contains an extensive collection of projects and recipes featuring step-by-step decorating instructions, along with a delicious assortment of recipes for these individual treats, including fillings and icings for special occasions and holidays as well as day-to-day treats. Patterns are included in the book for creative cupcakes as well as a complete product listing from Wilton to complete your designs. Softcover, 8-1/4 x 10-3/4 with beautiful photographs.
Customer Review: we love this cupcake book
My husband and I love this cupcake book so much that we have bought it numerous time to give to our grown up children so that they can have the fun of making spectacularly whimsical cupcakes for their friends and children. The recipes for muffins and cakes are great. Every year wilton updates the creative aspects of a cake form and this one is just spectacular. The designs are doable by those with almost no coordination or cake decorating experience. The key is always to make your own frosting so it is thick enought to hold shapes, or add a LOT of powdered sugar to commercial frostings to thicken them. Anyway, there are literally 150 full color cupcakes. There are your hilarious farm animals, awesome swimmers for whom the cupcakes are inflatable innertubes, wedding cupcakes, floral, clowns, fruits, bunnies, seasonal and more. You will need to get some tips you may not normally have, but the ones you need are in the directions. I highly recommend the 24 cupcake stand Wilton makes for displaying your cupcakes. I use a 3 tiered dessert rack that is also a carousel that spins because I already have it for cakes. But there are some beautiful cupcakes that look awesome displayed on the top of any stemed goblet that has been turned upside down so the base become a litte table for the cupcake. The angel, penguin, and Christmas themes are just adorable, but there are sophisticate cupcakes too. If you buy the silicon cupcake holders you will be thrilled. Thoughful almost effortless fun for a loved ones special occassion.
Customer Review: Typical Wilton adverbook
I was a little disappointed in this book when I first got it. Since all you see on the cover is some "clown" cupcakes using the silly-feet baking cups (which I also purchased) I was expecting more uses of the silly-feet (I counted five), but it really covers whimsical cupcakes of all sorts, many of which would be suitable to make with children (easy to make).
It's really just an idea book and a catalog of Wilton products and what you can do with them. There is a helpful section called "The Perfect Cupcakes; How to bake, ice and decorate", and there are about six pages of recipes. Most cupcake instructions are from 1/8 to 1/2 page long, right next to a big, clear picture.
After getting over the "it wasn't what I expected" part of receiving this book, and seeing that my boyfriend seems rather enthusiastic about making really whimsical cupcakes and loves the silly-feet, I like this book more and more. Just don't expect anything sophisticated looking in it OR that many silly-feet ideas. If you are familiar with the typical adverbook that Wilton puts out, you shouldn't find any surprises here, and some of the recipes, which are a blend of from-a-mix and from-scratch, for the most part look very tempting.
There are six pages of really cute Halloween cupcakes, including a vampire in a coffin, and some skeletons/ghosts/tombstones.
How to Rebuild Small-Block Chevy Lt1/Lt4 Engines Hp1393
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DeWalt Electricista, Referencia Professional/Dewalt Electrical Professional Reference (Dewalt Trade Reference Series)
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Western Digital My Book World Edition 1 TB Network Storage System - WDG1NC10000N
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The Best Books in Golf
There are a lot of books out there on the wonderful game of golf but not too many are worth keeping and reading again. You will notice there are no instruction manuals in our list, because trying to learn how to play golf from a book is like trying to become a great lover by reading an illustrated magazine on self-abuse. Also, ?best? means most enjoyable ? either because of their excellence or excrescence.
The Rub of the Green, William Hallberg
Often mysteriously overlooked but, with the exception of PG Wodehouse, the only good novel featuring golf ever written. Its hero goes to gaol but dreams of turning the prison swamp into a great two-hole course ? trouble is, he needs the help of the frankly mad and disordered ground staff to realise the dream.
?I laughed until I wet myself.? Her Majesty the Queen.
The greatest Game Ever Played, Mark Frost.
The story of how an unknown American amateur, Francis Ouimet, took on two of the game?s greats ? Harry Vardon and Ted Ray ? in the US Open; matched them for 72 holes and then beat them in the playoff. So well-written (by a man who really knows his craft) and absorbing that you forget you know the ending.
?An achingly beautiful and yet powerful homage to the indomnitable spirit of the down-trodden lumpen proletariat, evoked in a lyrical paean of sensitivity, encapsulating all that is esoteric but vibrantly alive in the unending quest of the individual to rise above the circumstances of his birth.? Lee Westwood.
My autobiography, Bernhard Langer
The title is the most original thing about it and it takes true genius to make a life as rich and interesting as Langer?s read like a recipe for beans on toast. Ghost-written by a man described as a ?writer and a director of Christians in Sport.? The second part of the description may be true, the first definitely isn?t. It starts with the words: ?I was born in Anhausen, near Augsberg in Southern Germany on 27 August 1957,? and then gets really dull.
?The world is full of books, and this is one of them.? Arnold Palmer.
Four-iron in the Soul, Lawrence Donnegan
A season as a Tour caddie (to Ross Drummond, and whatever happened to him?) The idea?s been done before, but not by someone with Donnegan?s eye for detail, sharp observation and wit. Full of great anecdotes ? did you know that Al Capone cheated at golf ? and greater characters.
?Say that about me again and I?ll deck you.? Blind-boy, Pirate, Dustbin-Legs, Road-Runner McGhee, caddie to the stars.
Tarbuck on Golf, Jimmy Tarbuck
No, of course not ? just wanted to make sure you were paying attention.
?Shome mishtake shurely,? Sean Connery.
Nice Jumper, Tom Cox
As Neil Sedaka almost said, growing up is hard to do. But if you become obsessed by a nerdy game, which means that everyone else at school thinks you?re the un-coolest thing since permed hair for boys, adolescence becomes a torturous journey in which all you do is play with your balls. The difference is, all your mates are doing it in the privacy of their bedroom while you?re out in public, striding the fairways.
?He could have my babies any time.? Laura Davies.
Bud, Sweat and Tees, Alan Shipnuck
The story of the 2002 US PGA champion Rich Beem, never knowingly confused with a mild-mannered, teetotal, sexual hermit, and his even more outrageous caddie, Steve Duplantis. It?s Tin Cup made real but without the irritation of Kevin Costner.
?He could have my babies any time.? John Daly.
Strokes of Genius, Thomas Boswell
Thoughtful, beautifully-written essays on the enduring and eternal appeal of golf, the landscapes over which it is played and the people who play it at the highest level. What more do you want?
?I liked the bit where the big shark ate all the tourists.? Sandy Lyle.
Fairways and Greens, Dan Jenkins
An anthology (that means ?collection? Lee) by the best golf journalist still working. Jenkins is American, old, irascible, bad-tempered and very funny. He cut his teeth writing about Ben Hogan for a local Texas newspaper and followed the miserable bastard for the rest of his glorious career, taking in every Major and big star since. No respecter of reputation, he tells the truth and can be forgiven anything ? including his love of playing golf from a motorised buggy.
?It?s got a lot of words, hasn?t it?? Robbie Williams.
The Modern Fundamentals of Golf, Ben Hogan
Okay, we?ll break our own rules on ?no instruction books? because this is, simply, the best ever written, by one of the greatest players to squint into the sun trying to decide if it?s a 6 or 7-iron to the green. Hogan was plagued in his early years by a vicious hook and learnt almost all he knew about golf by hitting balls and thinking about the results before hitting some more ? his practice routine made Vijay Singh look like a layabout. Larry Nelson was one of many to learn the game entirely from this book and went on to win three Majors and his first nine Ryder Cup matches on the bounce. And even if you never read the thing, you should have a copy on your bookshelves.
a) to suggest you know something about the game
b) in homage to the great man.
?I wouldn?t touch it with a bargepole,? Randy Huckenputz, 53 handicap.
In Search of the perfect golf club, Tom Wishon (with Tom Grundner)
Let?s face it, golf equipment is too technical, we?re all baffled by bullshit and manufacturers shovel it towards us by the bucketful. The net result is that we spend far too much money on clubs that are ill-suited to our swing and game, persisting in the delusional belief that we can buy better scores. That?s the bad news. The good news is that you can improve with the right equipment (but rarely with ?off the shelf? clubs), and this book tells you exactly how to find it. The author has credentials and inside knowledge up to here but most importantly, never forgets that he?s talking to technical morons, and therefore makes the study of equipment easy and understandable. You should never spend more than ?10 on a piece of golf equipment without first reading this book.
?My coefficient of restitution has never been better.? Tiger Woods
Decisions on the Rules of Golf, The R&A and USGA
No, really, this is truly an excellent book and one that will give you hours of harmless fun. We all find the Rules incomprehensible but this at least helps understand not only the laws themselves but the rationale behind some of the dafter things we can and cannot do on the golf course. It is astonishing the sort of questions that people ask our legislators. For example, someone enquired: ?If an opponent or fellow competitor is asked to attend the flagstick and refuses, do I have any redress?? (which we interpret to mean: ?Can I thump him??) and was told ?No?. It conjures up all sorts of images of feuding golfers having a bad tempered match to the point where one rejects the suggestion that he should hold the flag and the other gets so het up about it that he asks his club secretary to write to the R&A.
?Doh!? Homer Simpson.
The Golf Omnibus, PG Wodehouse
The master of all humourous golf writers, Wodehouse has been oft imitated but never bettered. He has introduced us all to the idea of a golfer being disturbed by the uproar of butterflies in an adjoining meadow; that a man can hold in contempt only three things ? slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups; and of another folding his beloved into his arms, using an interlocking grip. The language is a delight and this is a rarity among golf books in that it can be dipped into and re-read time and again with no loss of pleasure, to be reminded, among other things, of the group of golfing rabbits who held another player in high esteem because he once broke 90.
?it ws nt rlly my srt of thng if u no wot I mean? (via text), Michelle Wie
Getting? to the Dance Floor, Al Barkow
The past is a different country and they did things differently there, as this enjoyable book so vividly tells us. It describes the earliest days of the US PGA Tour, where it was a struggle for even the best to simply survive, by the simple expedient of talking to them. Many ? such as Sam Snead, Byron Nelson and Gene Sarazen ? will be familiar but many others ? Bill Spiller, Errie Ball and Leo Fraser, less so. Nevertheless, they all have fascinating stories to tell about life on Tour before endorsements, sponsorship deals, courtesy cars and golf groupies had been invented.
?Grrr,? Tommy ?Thunder? Bolt
Martin Vousden is a freelance golf writer, a former editor of Today?s Golfer and launch editor of Golf Buyer and Swing magazines. His book: With Friends Like These; A selective history of the Ryder Cup, was published in 2006 by Time Warner. He edits the website http://www.rarebirdie.com |
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3.5 stars
This was a follow-up to their #1 album, Long Distance Voyager, and I think these guys climbed such heights with LDV that they set themselves up to fail on this one. At least, that was my initial impression. If memory serves correctly, I gave this a try a couple of times when it was initially released, and then set it aside and started listening to LDV again.
With the iPod revolution, I've started listening to some of my older music again, and I thought I'd give this another shot. What I discovered was that *I* had been expecting The Moody Blues to produce another LDV, and so was disappointed to get The Present. That was most unfortunate, because while The Present doesn't stand up head-to-head with LDV, there's a lot of worthy music here.
I'll admit, though, that I still found Blue World and Meet Me Halfway lacking and disappointing - bland music that doesn't really go anywhere. I'd always loved Sitting at the Wheel from the first time I heard it, and found that to be the same again. With different lyrics, it might have been a bigger hit for them. What I discovered was that Going Nowhere, It's Cold Outside of Your Heart, and Sorry (and perhaps I Am) were very notable songs. In fact, I've listened to Sorry by itself about eight times in the last two weeks alone.
The lesson, if there is one, is this: don't expect your favorite bands to give you exactly what they gave you before. You might miss out on some good music.
That said, many bands, when they release an album that becomes their "biggest hit ever" do try and duplicate that success. I think that Journey did it (unsuccessfully) - every song they released from Frontiers had a parallel on Escape.
I'm glad I gave this another go.
Teton Bookbag Backpack
Teton Bookbag Backpack
Customer Review: good backpack
This is a very good backpack, and you can't beat the price. It's sturdy, good quality. The only way it could be improved would be to add a mesh to hold water bottles. I am very pleased with this purchase.
Customer Review: Great Backpack
Excellent quality bag. Bought this for my 6th grader. She absolutely loves it . Lots of room for all the things she has to carry to school. This is an excellent buy for the price
HP 21 Black Inkjet Print Cartridge (C9351AN#140)
HP 21 Black Inkjet Print Cartridge (C9351AN#140)
Give your black-and-white documents a polished, professional look. The HP 21 cartridge is perfect for low-volume users who want laser-quality text and graphics. Features include:
- Print professional-looking documents with laser-quality black text.
- Reliable—print crisp text every time with your HP printer.
- Simple to install and easy to use.
Initial HP printer compatibility:
- HP Deskjet 3910
- HP Deskjet 3930
- HP Deskjet 3940
- HP Printer/Scanner/Copier 1410
One HP 21 Black Inkjet Print Cartridge
Customer Review: HP 21
I purchased this ink cartridge as a package of 2... it was a better per unit price. It arrived quickly and was packaged well.
Customer Review: HP Stinks! I use a cartridge a week
Way over priced. Too little ink. Did I say that HP stinks? :-)
Wilton Cupcake Fun Book
Wilton Cupcake Fun Book
This new book from Wilton features 128 pages of over 150 new ideas for cupcakes, petit fours, mini-cakes and other individual desserts. It contains an extensive collection of projects and recipes featuring step-by-step decorating instructions, along with a delicious assortment of recipes for these individual treats, including fillings and icings for special occasions and holidays as well as day-to-day treats. Patterns are included in the book for creative cupcakes as well as a complete product listing from Wilton to complete your designs. Softcover, 8-1/4 x 10-3/4 with beautiful photographs.
Customer Review: we love this cupcake book
My husband and I love this cupcake book so much that we have bought it numerous time to give to our grown up children so that they can have the fun of making spectacularly whimsical cupcakes for their friends and children. The recipes for muffins and cakes are great. Every year wilton updates the creative aspects of a cake form and this one is just spectacular. The designs are doable by those with almost no coordination or cake decorating experience. The key is always to make your own frosting so it is thick enought to hold shapes, or add a LOT of powdered sugar to commercial frostings to thicken them. Anyway, there are literally 150 full color cupcakes. There are your hilarious farm animals, awesome swimmers for whom the cupcakes are inflatable innertubes, wedding cupcakes, floral, clowns, fruits, bunnies, seasonal and more. You will need to get some tips you may not normally have, but the ones you need are in the directions. I highly recommend the 24 cupcake stand Wilton makes for displaying your cupcakes. I use a 3 tiered dessert rack that is also a carousel that spins because I already have it for cakes. But there are some beautiful cupcakes that look awesome displayed on the top of any stemed goblet that has been turned upside down so the base become a litte table for the cupcake. The angel, penguin, and Christmas themes are just adorable, but there are sophisticate cupcakes too. If you buy the silicon cupcake holders you will be thrilled. Thoughful almost effortless fun for a loved ones special occassion.
Customer Review: Typical Wilton adverbook
I was a little disappointed in this book when I first got it. Since all you see on the cover is some "clown" cupcakes using the silly-feet baking cups (which I also purchased) I was expecting more uses of the silly-feet (I counted five), but it really covers whimsical cupcakes of all sorts, many of which would be suitable to make with children (easy to make).
It's really just an idea book and a catalog of Wilton products and what you can do with them. There is a helpful section called "The Perfect Cupcakes; How to bake, ice and decorate", and there are about six pages of recipes. Most cupcake instructions are from 1/8 to 1/2 page long, right next to a big, clear picture.
After getting over the "it wasn't what I expected" part of receiving this book, and seeing that my boyfriend seems rather enthusiastic about making really whimsical cupcakes and loves the silly-feet, I like this book more and more. Just don't expect anything sophisticated looking in it OR that many silly-feet ideas. If you are familiar with the typical adverbook that Wilton puts out, you shouldn't find any surprises here, and some of the recipes, which are a blend of from-a-mix and from-scratch, for the most part look very tempting.
There are six pages of really cute Halloween cupcakes, including a vampire in a coffin, and some skeletons/ghosts/tombstones.
How to Rebuild Small-Block Chevy Lt1/Lt4 Engines Hp1393
How to Rebuild Small-Block Chevy Lt1/Lt4 Engines Hp1393
A complete and comprehensive look at the Chevy small block LT-1/LT-4. Gives tips and tricks from disassembly through reconditioning of the cylinder heads, block, fuel injection system and exhaust.
Customer Review: Engine Rebuild
Very Well Written. Images are very helpful. Step by step rebuild with pictures and every single piece showing what you need to do with what's also of the most importance to seals and etc. I would highly recommend this book to any LT1 or LT4 enthusiast rebuilding a motor.
Customer Review: Rebuilding Lt1/Lt4 Engines
A good how on the LT1 and LT4 motors. There are a few differences then the standard SBC. plenty of images of the whole rebuild process. Would been better if they were in color.
DeWalt Electricista, Referencia Professional/Dewalt Electrical Professional Reference (Dewalt Trade Reference Series)
DeWalt Electricista, Referencia Professional/Dewalt Electrical Professional Reference (Dewalt Trade Reference Series)
Find answers in Espanol quickly and easily with this on-the-job reference guide! Updated to the 2005 NEC®, the DEWALT® Spanish Electrical Professional Reference is the standard reference tool for any Spanish-speaking professional working in the electrical industry. It's packed with charts, diagrams, formulas, tables, and current code standards on many aspects of designing and installing electrical services. It also includes valuable information on ampacity, motors, controllers, circuits, overload protection, raceways, wiring, voltage, lighting, and more!
Western Digital My Book World Edition 1 TB Network Storage System - WDG1NC10000N
Western Digital My Book World Edition 1 TB Network Storage System - WDG1NC10000N
Add this unique remote-access storage system to your wired or wireless network and you'll have a surprisingly simple and secure way to access and share data and photos, at home, in the office, and anywhere in the world even when your local computer is off. The WD Anywhere Access storage system and all the files on it are always accessible when you need them. From any PC, use Windows Explorer to securely browse through folders on My Book World Edition. Open, edit and save files as though they are right there with you. An efficient convection cooling system and a thermostatically controlled fan keep this unit reliably cool and remarkably quiet Easily access and edit your files on any computer Securely share photos with your friends anywhere in the world without uploading them to the web Back up your laptop data to your home computer while you're traveling Offer your clients an easy way to access business documents, designs and artwork Eliminates the need for a separate FTP server Back up critical files to a remote drive for the ultimate protection from loss Simplify your home network and access data from any computer or external hard drive in the house Automatically back up all your PCs to one central location Gain peace of mind with a mirrored back up of important documents and images Network setup is a breeze with our unique, powerful remote access software System Requirements - Available 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet connection (network adapter, router, switch or hub port), Broadband Internet connection, 512MB RAM, Pentium III class, 500 MHz, Windows 2000, XP Home, Pro, Web browser (Internet Explorer 6.0 or later, Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 or later) and CD-ROM drive
Customer Review: Don't believe everything you READ
This product is probably the most controversial electronic product out there !
With all the reviews I read: "self policing, etc" I was very hesitant to buy the drive.
BUT, I am sooooo happy I did.
The drive installed in 3 minutes. Since I have Windows Vista, I had to download the new Minionet software from the WD support site.
Once, I did the rest was easy. I saved a bunch of mp3 and backup of my DVDs. I was able to access these files (when logged in through my account) from several anywhere.. from work, from a friends house.
Now for couple of cons:
1) Wireless transfers can be very slow for large files (4-5GB files)
2) If you log in yourself, you can access the media files from any computer with internet connection. If you send an "invite" to someone else, you can cannot share the media files.
Hope this helps with your purchase decision. I'm glad I bought it.
Customer Review: Avoid Unless You're a Masochist
I was a fairly loyal WD customer until this piece of junk drove me up the wall. All of the other complaints here are true:
The Mionet software is useless
The much-touted remote access feature requires a monthly subscription --blatant false advertising
It is unbelievably slow
And most important, it is just horribly unstable, throwing up all kinds of erratic behavior which will have you wasting hours to try and correct.
Avoid like the plague and shame on WD for subjecting an unsuspecting and (formerly) loyal customer to this abuse!!!
Lion King
Lion King
Not an ideal choice for younger kids, this hip and violent animated feature from Disney was nevertheless a huge smash in theaters and on video, and it continues to enjoy life in an acclaimed Broadway production. The story finds a lion cub, son of a king, sent into exile after his father is sabotaged by a rivalrous uncle. The little hero finds his way into the "circle of life" with some new friends and eventually comes back to reclaim his proper place. Characters are very strong, vocal performances by the likes of Jeremy Irons, Nathan Lane, and Whoopi Goldberg are terrific, the jokes are aimed as much (if not more) at adults than kids, the animation is sometimes breathtaking, and the music is more palatable than in many Disney features. But be cautious: this is too intense for the Rugrat crowd. --Tom Keogh
Customer Review: Disney...Greedy Genius
Ok, I love Disney. I am a 22 year-old male. I have no shame about the fact that I love these movies. They were a part of my childhood, so now I am buying them. It's just too bad I can't buy the Lion King brand-new because of that STUPID vault!!! Sure, Disney has some genius minds that realize if they withhold something, people will pay more for it. But do they really need to? If my company had the money and assets like Disney does (considering they own ESPN) i believe that i would not lock up my greatest films just so I can sell them for 30 or 40 dollars five years from now. True, it's a smart move but it makes some of the fans resent them. I just wanna buy The Lion King.
Customer Review: Lion King
I recently purchased this item from gassga568105 and not only did the product arrive promptly, but the quality of the movie was great. The Lion King is a Disney classic with memorable characters and art. I recommend this movie for anyone with children or adults interested in Disney cartoons.
Headlines on romance books
Winner and “If I were rich, I’d…”
Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:28:45 -0700
Yep, I’m late again posting last week’s book winner, which was…Monica McCabe! Up for grabs this week: Prince Charming in Dress Blues by Maureen Child Her Galahad by Melissa James Mistress by Amanda Quick I’m also blogging over at Romance Bandits today about what I’d do if I were suddenly and fabulously wealthy. Come by and join the fun!
The Women Behind the Wind - The Santa Barbara Independent
Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:46:34 GMT
The Women Behind the Wind The Santa Barbara Independent, CA - Bedridden after breaking an ankle, she began reading historical books her second husband brought home from the public library. After she’d read them all, ... |
Water for Elephants: A Novel (Paperback)Sara Gruen (Author)$6.86
Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:40:32 GMT
"Gruen skillfully humanizes the midgets, drunks, rubes and freaks who populate her book." "For pure story, this colorful, headlong tale of Depression-era circus simply can't be beat.
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