Management Information Systems for the Information Age with CD and MISource
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Management Information Systems for the Information Age with CD and MISource
Stephen Haag , Maeve Cummings , and Amy Phillips
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
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Chapters cover what instructors want students to know about MIS while Extended Learning Modules (XLMs) show students what they can do with MIS. A contemporary writing style and a wealth of examples engage students like no other MIS text. Arranged with chapter opening cases that highlight how an organization has successfully implemented many of the chapter’s concepts and chapter closing cases that help students apply what they just learned gives students the hands-on knowledge that is applicable in both their personal and professional experiences.

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5 out of 5 stars Textbook: Management Information Systems for the Information Age with CD and MISource .......2007-09-29

On 8/28/07, I bought the textbook, Management Information Systems for the Information Age with CD and MISource. I am delighted with my purchase as all proved to be just as promised: perfect book's condition, as well as delivery within the time frame stated at the time of my purchase.

1 out of 5 stars Lost Book.......2007-09-10

I've been waiting 25 days for the book and still waiting. Amason was great with trying to resolve the problem and crediting my account.

4 out of 5 stars Management Information Systems.......2007-06-08

This book is easy to read and understand.
The Opening case at the beginning of each chapter deals with companies we are all familiar with which makes it interesting to read.
Cost- Justifying Usability: An Update for an Internet Age (Interactive Technologies)
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    In this completely revised and new edition, Randolph G. Bias (University of Texas at Austin, with 25 years experience as a usability practitioner and manager) and Deborah J. Mayhew (internationally recognized usability consultant and author of two other seminal books including The Usability Engineering Lifecycle) tackle these and many other problems. It has been updated to cover cost-justifying usability for Web sites and intranets, for the complex applications we have today, and for a host of productsoffering techniques, examples, and cases that are unavailable elsewhere. No matter what type of product you build, whether or not you are a cost-benefit expert or a born salesperson, this book has the tools that will enable you to cost-justify the appropriate usability investment.

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    The Official Pokémon Handbook
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    5 out of 5 stars one of my favirtes.......2007-03-10

    This book is great i ve had three copies now i have one in great shape.

    The great description of the book and the charcters and the pokedex.

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    5 out of 5 stars Official Pokemon Handbook.......2007-03-08

    My eight-year-old granddaughter--a big Pokemon fan--loves this handbook and refers to it often. Glad I had it sent to her.

    5 out of 5 stars Great Handbook!.......2007-02-11

    The Official Pokemon Handbook is a great, elaborate way to learn about Pokemon, you can be any age to enjoy this handbook! It teaches you the original 151 Pokemon, that also includes Togepi! What about trainers? Yes! This book also tells you about the trainers and other characters. If you are playing the Kanto rpg games, it tells you the City, leader, and their Pokemon! It's a great handbook, I'm a Pokemon fan myself, I liked this book a whole lot! They have from Bulbasaur all the way to Togepi. If you are looking for a book on Hoenn pokemon, this one won't suit because this one only covers Kanto pokemon! There is even a introduction by Professor Oak in the book as well. This is good for new fans as well, because it shows most of the Pokemon you will be training in the games.

    The book is a great one, and I suggest it to Pokemon fans.

    5 out of 5 stars best pokemon handbook.......2007-01-14

    This book tells you all you need to know about the first 151 pokemon,plus togepei.It also tells you how to beat gym leaders and the elite four.If you buy this book,you won't have any regrets.
    RuneScape: The Official Handbook
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    Book Description

    This helpful handbook includes tips on how to master the free-version of this online adventure game. Includes detailed maps and information on all the characters and creatures contained in the medieval world of RuneScape.

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars Against RuneScape Rules?.......2007-05-23

    First of all, let me state that:
    a) I am an avid RuneScape player, and have played for over 4 years
    b) I do not actually own this book.

    I am writing this in order to register my concern that the age group for this "official handbook" is 9-12, when, *according to the RuneScape terms and conditions*, you have to be 13 to play. I can't comment on the book itself, but I just wanted to point out the double standard JaGEx seems to hold to. As far as I can tell, they don't really care how old you are, but if you are under 13 and give away your identity or something they can just point to that to avoid a costly lawsuit. It doesn't make any sense to me...

    5 out of 5 stars Good guide for the Free Play Worlds.......2007-05-12

    A very good introductory guide to the game for new players. As well it contains a lot of tips to those who are still acquiring new skills, and haven't completed all the quests.

    While experienced players may not find much in this guide that they do not know, it is an attractive book which fans of the game would appreciate. Being able to hold and look at the maps on paper alone will prove an attractive enough feature for some players.

    There are still parts of this guide which may prove entertaining reading, and the locations and map might still prove use at times, even to the most accomplished players.

    I gave the guide as a gift to my nieces and nephews; and for them I think the clearly laid-out sections on Online Safety Guide, the Rules of RuneScape and Basic tips for beginners are written in language they can understand. Given the importance of Online Safety and the necessity of acting as responsible player as part of a much wider community those sections are crucial to anyone fresh off Tutorial Island.

    As a gift it makes and excellent way to pass on the love of the game which avid RuneScape players may wish to give to new players.

    Regards, Fey Warrior

    4 out of 5 stars my latest addiction!@.......2007-05-06

    i learned about this game from my nephews and thought i would give it a try. what a game! this book helps with the basics which i needed. for some reason i am too stubborn to read the manual on the website. this book was helpful to get me started.

    5 out of 5 stars Runescape book rocks!!!!.......2007-03-09

    Even though I knew most of the stuff in it,this guide was very useful,like having all the maps at hand,and having all the lvl guides.A great book and they need to have a member version.lol
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    4 out of 5 stars Runscape - free side only.......2007-03-08

    This gives good coverage of Runescape - free side only. (The members side has lots of features not covered in this book. There seems to be no printed book covering that, altho there are many fan web sites.) The maps are the best part of the book for me; I get tired of using the online map where you have a little "window" into the whole map.
    Managing the Information Technology Resource: Leadership in the Information Age
    Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
    • Poor at best
    • A Big Yawner
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    Jerry N. Luftman
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    This book prepares readers for the challenge of integrating the technology resource. In order to understand the industry today, one must understand the ways companies align, partner, and communicate through technology to grow their business. Managing the Information Technology Resource presents a set of powerful tools to ensure users' understanding of the strategies, tactics, and operational endeavors CIO's employ to assimilate technologies across the firm. "Examples in Action" boxes highlight real-world company examples in each chapter, lending a practical feel to the book so readers can see how this material relates to the actual workforce. Seven sections illustrate the critical topics inherent to IT in today's firm—Alignment, Partnership, Technology, Human Resources, Governance, Communications, and Metrics. Emphasis is placed on the tactical and operational role of the CIO. For anyone involved with IT in a company.

    Customer Reviews:

    1 out of 5 stars Poor at best.......2005-02-09

    I agree with J.Boot's review - it is obvious that another reviewer on this page is completely biased. Maybe it was their way of getting 'brownie points' for a better grade. ;)
    As for the book, the explainations aren't very good, the illustrations confuse the subject, and overall it is a dry, slow read. I think the same regarding the 'Align in the Sand' book, too. The subject matter seems to jump around with little thought to flow, and the overall theme regarding IT/business alignment is a bit too utopian and unrealistic.

    2 out of 5 stars A Big Yawner.......2004-09-20

    The other review of this book is obviously biased, since he studied under the author. This book is dry, poorly formatted, and has terrible illustrations/tables/figures.

    For example, the author's discussion of Strategic Alignment Maturity starts off with a figure describing different levels of maturity (okay), followed by text that repeats what the figure shows (uh, okay), followed by MORE figures that expand on the first figure. ??? This is really poor presentation of information.

    I bought it for $60 (not cover price of $130) and am disappointed. Frankly, Dilbert does a better job of explaining IT management.

    5 out of 5 stars A must read!!.......2004-03-01

    I got a lot out of the book and found it extremly helpful in my career. So many items can be taken directly from the book and applied to your job.

    I was lucky enough to study under Dr. Luftman during the fall of 2003 at Stevens Insititute of Technology in NJ. Dr. Luftman is very insightful and truly understands the needs for aligning Business and IT. Dr. Luftman engages on a regular basis all of the top CIOs in the NYC market. Besides this book, I recommend Dr. Luftmans other book "Align in the Sand". Another great work.

    I guarantee after reading the book you will truly understand what it takes to make your IT group a Value Center rather than a Cost center.
    Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone: A Math Adventure
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      The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
      • optimestic and yet not too far fetched
      • A Book that everybody should read.
      • A half-baked masturbatatory science fiction sourcebook
      • Awesome, megalomaniacal, and fantastic.
      • Judge By The Evidence
      The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
      Ray Kurzweil
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      Amazon.com Reviews

      How much do we humans enjoy our current status as the most intelligent beings on earth? Enough to try to stop our own inventions from surpassing us in smarts? If so, we'd better pull the plug right now, because if Ray Kurzweil is right we've only got until about 2020 before computers outpace the human brain in computational power. Kurzweil, artificial intelligence expert and author of The Age of Intelligent Machines, shows that technological evolution moves at an exponential pace. Further, he asserts, in a sort of swirling postulate, time speeds up as order increases, and vice versa. He calls this the "Law of Time and Chaos," and it means that although entropy is slowing the stream of time down for the universe overall, and thus vastly increasing the amount of time between major events, in the eddy of technological evolution the exact opposite is happening, and events will soon be coming faster and more furiously. This means that we'd better figure out how to deal with conscious machines as soon as possible--they'll soon not only be able to beat us at chess, but also likely demand civil rights, and might at last realize the very human dream of immortality.

      The Age of Spiritual Machines is compelling and accessible, and not necessarily best read from front to back--it's less heavily historical if you jump around (Kurzweil encourages this). Much of the content of the book lays the groundwork to justify Kurzweil's timeline, providing an engaging primer on the philosophical and technological ideas behind the study of consciousness. Instead of being a gee-whiz futurist manifesto, Spiritual Machines reads like a history of the future, without too much science fiction dystopianism. Instead, Kurzweil shows us the logical outgrowths of current trends, with all their attendant possibilities. This is the book we'll turn to when our computers first say "hello." --Therese Littleton

      Book Description

      The national bestseller by the "ultimate thinking machine" (Forbes) whose predictions for the future are startling, provocative--and closer to fruition than you think.

      Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and one of our greatest living visionaries. Now he offers a framework for envisioning the twenty-first century--an age in which the marriage of human sensitivity and artificial intelligence fundamentally alters and improves the way we live. Kurzweil's prophetic blueprint for the future takes us through the advances that inexorably result in computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain by the year 2020 (with human-level capabilities not far behind); in relationships with automated personalities who will be our teachers, companions, and lovers; and in information fed straight into our brains along direct neural pathways. Optimistic and challenging, thought-provoking and engaging, The Age of Spiritual Machines is the ultimate guide on our road into the next century.

      "The Age of Spiritual Machines will blow your mind. . . . Kurzweil lays out a scenario that might seem like science fiction if it weren't coming from a proven entrepreneur."-- San Francisco Chronicle
      The Age of Spiritual Machines appeared on national bestseller lists, including the Boston Globe and the San Francisco Chronicle
      Kurzweil's first book, The Age of Intelligent Machines, won the Association of American Publishers Award for the Most Outstanding Computer Science Book of 1990

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars optimestic and yet not too far fetched.......2007-06-08

      Ray did good inventions and he writes good books too.

      In this book, Ray describes an evolution path that will lead us ( human on earth) to
      a 'digitalized' (not necessarily completely digital) world where humanity transcend
      the universe. Too bold? too big? too crazy? Maybe not. However, I do think he is a bit over optimestic on the time line. We could possibly change our descedant greatly in the next 100 years through our understanding about gene, protein, and cellular interaction. They could be immortal (in general, and live as long as the univese could provide humanily livable space) Nano technology could spring into life (puns intended) in the next 100 years, as for how much change will be made, it's hard to precisely predict but it will definitely fundamentally change human civilization and culture. As for computational intelligence matches human's will happen in mid 2020,
      I think it is a bit early, perhaps, add another five years but who knows, it might just happen that way.

      Is Ray really far fetched? no, but probably optimestic and I don't mean the overly one but hey... that is part of the reason why scientist keeps doing what they are doing and create a good impact to the world.

      Now, whoever has read this perhaps should start reading "The singularity is near".

      5 out of 5 stars A Book that everybody should read........2007-05-15

      Since I get into contact with the Vinge's singularity concept I developed a very great attraction for the matter.
      Ray Kurzweil explains it in a easy, not alarming and optimistic way.
      After reading The Age of Spiritual Machines and his later book the Singularity is near I can not understand how somebody can live without knowing about this potential threat and at the same time potential solution to mankind problems.

      2 out of 5 stars A half-baked masturbatatory science fiction sourcebook.......2006-11-11

      I had this book recomended to me (repeatedly) over the course of my reading of Radical Evolution. I was underimpressed by Ray's endless wanking at the idea of replacing human interaction with computer interaction, and the substition of the mortal coil with the superiortity of the T-800. If you are non-proficient with the subtlety of human mechinations, then the promise of escape via virtual reality, nano-orgasm machines, and techno-immortality can seem like the stuff of dreams. As a list of "bold predictions" this sketchbook of sci-fi cliches lacks the hard science to suggest the wildly optomistic timelines the author suggests.

      As an artifact from the heady, euphoric days before the dot com burst, one can see how this book was published, and subsequently purchased by a great many people. By the time the author was defending previousely made statements about the actualization of his earlier predictions, I saw a pattern of half-truths that paints a techno-eutopia which here, in 2006, hardly exists in the labs of MIT, let alone for purchase as Best Buy, as the author so desperately hopes for.

      This book summarizes a decade's worth of Popular Science articles (that decade being the 1990's) and the most enticing fantasies of the transhumanists, but is not actually fun to read. The dialogues with "Molly," the author's internal dialouge about the future of the toys he wishes will save him, borders on embarrassing.

      There are a dozen books about exactly these subjects, which should be read first.

      5 out of 5 stars Awesome, megalomaniacal, and fantastic........2006-10-29

      Ray Kurzweil is my best writer. I love his books. He writes in a clear way and he is really persuasive. This book is the best book I have read about the future of artificial intelligence. It teaches you so many interesting topics on computational neuroscience and cognitive neuroscience. This book has been written in 1999 and some of its first predictions are about to become true in 2006. I believe in all of the Kurzweil's theories because I am writing and programming my undergraduate thesis on computational neuroscience. I am sure you will enjoy the book. It is worth the price!

      5 out of 5 stars Judge By The Evidence.......2006-08-11

      I read SINGULARITY before SPIRITUAL which, of course, is exactly the wrong order. In the time since this book was published he has had an opportunity (in SINGULARITY) to reflect, confirm and gloat if you will. Unlike Drake, who promised we would receive confirmation of extraterrestrial life by the year 2000, Kurzweil is amazingly accurate. He forecast an extremely short discovery period for the Human Genome (confounding the "experts" who predicted 100s of years). He stated that Big Blue would defeat a human - this after a devestating defeat. He correctly predicted the exponential rate of computer power and all that this implies for our future.

      When he says "spiritual" - a word I am uncomfortable with - he is not assigning theological or mystical characteristics. More accurately he is describing a "human" machine, a machine with its philosophical underpinnings as human but yet it is more than human. The Age of Human Machines would be a more apt title. The book is not straight forward (perhaps by design) making the reader browse, go back, skip, etc.

      Many readers take their eye off the mark and get stuck in local or current events - starvation in Africa, war in the Mideast, ethnic cleansing, ecology, global warming, etc. Yet none of these has had any effect on the rate of the acquisition of knowledge. We have reached a point where progress is almost self-sustaining - the more we discover, the more we know how much we don't know. Like a boulder rolling down a hill, the rush to research, experiment and design shows no sign of slowing. I was less than impressed with the discussion about consciousness and the future of the universe. Does a machine that is aware that it is learning "conscious"? Is consciousness simply a function of having enought nodes operating in parallel? If spiritual machines come to fruition history will veer into new directions we cannot conceive.
      Management Information Systems for the Information Age, Fifth Edition
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      Management Information Systems for the Information Age, Fifth Edition
      Stephen Haag , Maeve Cummings , and Donald J. McCubbrey
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      4 out of 5 stars management information systems for the information Age.......2007-03-09

      Great service by the seller. Book arrived earlier than I expected.. Product was in the condition mentioned by the seller... Very happy with the purchase. I'll buy again in the future form this seller.

      5 out of 5 stars Good condition.......2005-09-24

      It was in the condition the seller had said. It arrived on time.

      1 out of 5 stars No Communication.......2005-09-19

      I was not pleased with the service. My book arrive within the time alloted, 7-14 days it arrived the 13th day without the cd's. By then class had started. Emailed the seller about the issue, I never got a reply. Good thing my instructor had extra's.
      Overall poor communication made this an unpleasurable transaction.

      5 out of 5 stars Best web support.......2003-12-23

      I wish all my books were from McGraw Hill - the support is awesome! A full glossary online and sample tests and key study points all ready to copy and paste into your own study notes!!! Really wonderful company.

      1 out of 5 stars Warning...........2002-08-07

      Be forthwarned.... I ordered the 3rd ed. of this book and received the 2nd ed. instead. The seller was misleading under the comments section of the book he sold me..... a new listing shows that he's selling the 2nd ed. and not the 3rd ed. He changed this comment once he received an email from me stating otherwise. He wouldn't offer me a refund for the book and now I'm stuck with this one for a class which begins in a week.
      Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning
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      • Wonderfully Applicable
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      David H. Rose , and Anne Meyer
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      As a teacher in a typical classroom, there are two things you know for sure: Your students have widely divergent needs, skills, and interests . . . and you're responsible for helping every one attain the same high standards.

      This book is the first comprehensive presentation of the principles and applications of Universal Design for Learning (UDL)--a practical, research-based framework for responding to individual learning differences and a blueprint for the modern redesign of education.

      The first part of Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age lays out the foundation of UDL, including neuroscience research on learner differences, the effective uses of new digital media in the classroom, and how insights about students who do not "fit the mold" can inform the creation of flexible curricula that help everyone learn more effectively. The second part of the book addresses UDL's practical applications--how UDL principles can help you

      *Set appropriate goals for every student.
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      Along with references to digital tools and links to online resources, the authors provide a set of templates to facilitate classroom implementation of UDL, share the experience of a school district already succeeding with UDL, and highlight plans for UDL implementation on a national scale.

      David H. Rose and Anne Meyer are the founders and co-directors of the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST), a not-for-profit organization that uses technology to expand opportunities for all people, including those with disabilities.

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Wonderfully Applicable.......2006-02-23

      This book was required for a Master's class taken at U of I (IL). It will open your eyes as a teacher. I especially enjoyed the section that discusses Universal Design for Learning. The applictions were very practical. For those wanting to incorporate technology into their lesson plans, this book is for you. It focuses on how to do so for students of all learning types. A great reference book for the future.

      5 out of 5 stars A Must-Read.......2004-04-21

      This book is a must-read for teachers and administrators faced with the demands of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation. NCLB requires that all children progress in the general curriculum. Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age lays the theoretical groundwork and offers practical examples and recommendations on how digital technologies can be used to break down barriers to learning that impair the performance of many students.

      Authors Rose and Meyer cite two converging dynamics at play that are helping eliminate such barriers: one is the discoveries of neural science that explain the great diversity in student learning; the other is the growth in digital technologies. As they see it, digitization makes possible a rich array of media that are beginning to match the complex of ways that students learn and express that learning.

      Rose and Meyer urge material developers to follow principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Just as buildings today are designed to be accessible to all, without added ramps, so say the authors, educational materials should be created without barriers to content. If type is a barrier, alternative routes to content (such as audio, enlarged type, or shifts in foreground and background color) can and should be provided.

      As I noted, this book has an excellent balance between theory and practice. It is supported by a rich Web site (http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent) and would make an excellent text for pre-service or in-service programs.
      The Bromeliad Trilogy: Truckers, Diggers, and Wings
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      • A children's book for adults
      • As good as Discworld
      • Great Terry Pratchett!
      • Inventive, endearing, great read-aloud.
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      In a world whose seasons are defined by Christmas sales and Spring Fashions, hundreds of tiny nomes live in the corners and crannies of a human-run department store. They have made their homes beneath the floorboards for generations and no longer remember -- or even believe in -- life beyond the Store walls.

      Until the day a small band of nomes arrives at the Store from the Outside. Led by a young nome named Masklin, the Outsiders carry a mysterious black box (called the Thing), and they deliver devastating news: In twenty-one days, the Store will be destroyed.

      Now all the nomes must learn to work together, and they must learn to think -- and to think BIG.

      Part satire, part parable, and part adventure story par excellence, master storyteller Terry Pratchett's engaging trilogy traces the nomes' flight and search for safety, a search that leads them to discover their own astonishing origins and takes them beyond their wildest dreams.

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      5 out of 5 stars A children's book for adults.......2007-05-15

      These stories have everything. Humor, imagination, satire, an exciting plot, plucky characters, adn philosophical musings. Pratchett gently makes fun of religion and pomposity, making you laugh all the way.

      5 out of 5 stars As good as Discworld.......2007-05-12

      I say this with a caveat. Some discworld novels just are not for kids. Also, I had no idea what these books were about when I bought this anthology so if it seems strange for a 34 year old to burst out laughing at a children's novel, just forgive me.

      The fact that Terry Pratchett was the author was the reason I bought this and by the second page I was in love all over again. It was like finding a new discworld, this "store." Some of the absurdities that we adults take for granted in our crass commercialized world get a good seeing to from a child's point of view.

      Pratchett's wit once again has bowled me over and I would recommend this to any child or adult that I know.

      5 out of 5 stars Great Terry Pratchett!.......2007-03-26

      This book is a great read. Very interesting writing and yet simple enough my 3rd grader could read it too!
      I highly recommend it to those that love sci-fantasy with a lot of humor.

      4 out of 5 stars Inventive, endearing, great read-aloud. .......2006-09-26

      When we finished "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" I read this trilogy to my 11 year old daughter. What fun! The plot is lively, the characters are endearing and Pratchett gets his point about religion across with precise use of analogy. The story drags in places, but never for long. The witty dialogue and thought provoking ideas more than make up for it. I enjoyed it at least as much as my daughter did, if not more.

      2 out of 5 stars Oh my Gosh!.......2006-02-09

      My teacher who has over 3,000 books in her classroom reccomended this book. And I also like Terry Pratchett. bUT THIS WAS A FLAT OUT DISSAPOINTMENT. I quit after the 1st 30 pages. He was very slow in his writings. And he overloads a tad on his British sense of humor.
      If you like it thats great. But it was very dull and boring for me. No offense to all 14 or some 4 or 5 star reviews. But I do reccomend Only You Can Save Mankind ( Terry Pratchet). It it's a great book about a computer game with connections to aliens. I also reccomend any book by Cornelia Funke. Inkheart and The Theif Lord are my personal favorites. And 2 of my most favorite series are A Series of Unfortunate Events and Harry Potter. Reading Rocks. Get off the computer and read a book!

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