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1.The Virgin's Lover by: Philippa Gregory October 18, 2004
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I was given The Other Boleyn Girl as a gift and devoured it. Since then I have read every other book in the Tudor series. I am patiently awaiting her new book which is to hit the shelves in September. She is one of those authors who makes you not want the book to end. And her talent is consistent in every book. I highly recommend this book to any one who wants history to come alive not just remain a lot of names and dates.

2.Flashman by: George MacDonald Fraser April 04, 2005
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Review of George MacDonald Fraser's "Flashman." As a student and admirer of the Victorian Era and anything Anglophilic I have long awaited the day of purchasing and reading the published "Flashman Papers" from manuscript form. I have seen Fraser's book advertised and critiqued for many years. I set my decision to delve into the book as sort of a guilty pleasure and I was not disappointed. If this genre interests you, then you should be quite pleasantly surprised. The abstract from the book itself clearly tells the prospective purchaser what to expect: "Flashman follows Flashy as he lies, steals, duels, and wenches his way from 1839 England to India to the wilds of Afghanistan. Along the way, he survives military incompetence, ambushes, torture, venomous ... Read More

3.Royal Flash (Flashman Papers) by: George MacDonald Fraser November 21, 2005
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Harry Flashman has always been a character on the periphery of my awareness. I remember seeing the books around and never picked one up, but now that I have, I'll probably read the rest of them. This book was just a lot of fun. This tale of Flashman forced to impersonate Prince Carl Gustaf of Denmark by Otto Von Bismarck after being tricked into coming to Germany by Lola Montez, is one of those combinations of history and farce that are entertaining when well-done. Fraser moves the story along well, with clearly defined and often hilarious characters and an anti-hero who is truly larger than life. Occasionally the story has a tendency to meander, but Fraser always ends up pulling it together with one more scene of Flashman's accidental heroics, generally brought forth by his incredible cowardice, a fault ... Read More

4.Beginning JavaServer Pages by: Vivek Chopra, Jon Eaves, Rupert Jones, Sing Li, John T. Bell February 18, 2005
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The word "Beginning" in the title is optimistic at best. I would not recommend this book for someone new to JSP. I've made it through 14 chapters, and now I'm going to drop this one and find something else. The last several chapters have been extremely frustrating. Too many examples don't work, and many things are not well explained. I've had to find other sources such as java.sun.com to find good explanations for things that are quickly passed over in this book. And I'm a certified J2SE programmer, so I'm not exactly a beginner. The only IDE that has been mentioned so far is NetBeans 3.6. That's hopelessly out of date. The order of the chapters doesn't even make sense. An exercise in chapter 5 wants you to create and deploy an application, but nothing is mentioned about deployment until chapter 16! And ... Read More

5.Apache Tomcat Bible by: Jon Eaves, Warner Godfrey, Rupert Jones July 01, 2003
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In a nutshell, I got more out of the docs available on apache.org. I read the first 4 or 5 chapters, and then even skipped ahead to the chapter on debugging, to see if a later chapter might leave a better impression... To no avail... I found myself so frustrated by the lack of depth and, most importantly, lack of examples and poor writing, that I gave up on it. I simply cannot recommend this book.

6.Card, Cross and Jones by: Sir Rupert Cross July 31, 2001
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In a nutshell, I got more out of the docs available on apache.org. I read the first 4 or 5 chapters, and then even skipped ahead to the chapter on debugging, to see if a later chapter might leave a better impression... To no avail... I found myself so frustrated by the lack of depth and, most importantly, lack of examples and poor writing, that I gave up on it. I simply cannot recommend this book.

7.Blackstone's Guide to the Terrorism Act 2006 (Blackstone's Guide Series) by: Alun Jones, Rupert Bowers, Hugo D. Lodge November 23, 2006
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In a nutshell, I got more out of the docs available on apache.org. I read the first 4 or 5 chapters, and then even skipped ahead to the chapter on debugging, to see if a later chapter might leave a better impression... To no avail... I found myself so frustrated by the lack of depth and, most importantly, lack of examples and poor writing, that I gave up on it. I simply cannot recommend this book.

8.CASES ON CRIMINAL LAW by: PHILIP ASTERLEY JONES (EDITOR) SIR RUPERT CROSS (EDITOR) 1968
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In a nutshell, I got more out of the docs available on apache.org. I read the first 4 or 5 chapters, and then even skipped ahead to the chapter on debugging, to see if a later chapter might leave a better impression... To no avail... I found myself so frustrated by the lack of depth and, most importantly, lack of examples and poor writing, that I gave up on it. I simply cannot recommend this book.

9.Catalogue Of The Fossil Foraminifera In The Collection Of The British Museum, Natural History (1882) by: Thomas Rupert Jones August 18, 2008
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In a nutshell, I got more out of the docs available on apache.org. I read the first 4 or 5 chapters, and then even skipped ahead to the chapter on debugging, to see if a later chapter might leave a better impression... To no avail... I found myself so frustrated by the lack of depth and, most importantly, lack of examples and poor writing, that I gave up on it. I simply cannot recommend this book.

10.IMPORTANCE OF MINUTE THINGS OF LIFE IN PAST AND PRESENT TIMES. by: T Rupert. Jones 1883
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In a nutshell, I got more out of the docs available on apache.org. I read the first 4 or 5 chapters, and then even skipped ahead to the chapter on debugging, to see if a later chapter might leave a better impression... To no avail... I found myself so frustrated by the lack of depth and, most importantly, lack of examples and poor writing, that I gave up on it. I simply cannot recommend this book.

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