Review of Colorado: An Explorer’s Guide

November 26th, 2009 No comments
Colorado: An Explorer

This little travel book is well written and totally worth the money. The easy, conversational style is accessible and compelling. The thing that sets this guide apart from others is the attention to smaller details about what is unique to Colorado travel. For instance the Durango Rail Camp entry.
Buy this book and you won’t be [...]

Review of The Orvis Guide to Beginning Fly Fishing

November 25th, 2009 No comments
The Orvis Guide to Beginning Fly Fishing: 101 Tips for the Absolute Beginner

For $10, this is an OK book.Lots of little tidbits of fly fishing information that would only be considered an additive to a good introductory book like the LL Bean Guide (which I review under it’s title).
Product Description“Rosenbauer enables the weekend warriorto fish more insightfully.” —Booklist
This book, by America’s oldest fishing tackle business, offers beginners [...]

Review of The Michelin Green Guide To USA West

November 24th, 2009 No comments
The Michelin Green Guide To USA West (Michelin Green Guide: USA West)

This is the same review I wrote for the Michelin Green Guide USA East.To cover the entire USA, one must buy 2 books. I have been using green (and often red) Michelin guides for almost 50 years. For any area in the world they cover, they are clearly the best guide books available, with some [...]

Review of The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame

November 23rd, 2009 No comments
The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Heels (Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame series)

Finally there’s a book on the over-flowing wrestling literature market dedicated to the wrestlers that we, the enthusiastic legion of marks, absolutely love to hate. We call them bad guys, villains, or evil-doers, but in the carnival world of professional wrestling, they are known as “HEELS.” The purpose of a wrestling heel is to create [...]

Review of Real Life at the White House

November 22nd, 2009 No comments
Real Life at the White House: 200 Years of Daily Life at America

I read almost every book on the White House and First Families and this truly is one of the best!A wonderful history of how our First families lived and worked in that most historic home!So very many pictures in this book are never before seen! The authors have truly done homework, talked to all the [...]