3 comments about Giacomo Agostini: Champion of Champions.

1. I watched Agostini run many times at Brands Hatch and Silverstone in the early 70's , he is a real gentleman as well as a great competitor and artist.



2. I purchased this book with great anticipation; as a new convert to motorcycle road racing, I was eager to learn as much as possible about the lives and careers of some of history's most daring athletes, including the great Giacomo Agostini, who ruled the European Grand Prix circuits in the 1960s and 1970s aboard the fearsome MV Agusta bikes. So when I first saw Mick Walker's series on the great motorcycle champions, I was thrilled. Sadly, this book does not ever come to close to living up to my expectations. Mick Walker's biography is little more than a pasting together of magazine accounts from Agostini's career. What little there is of Mr. Walker's writing is flat, dull, and repetitive. The book's sole redemption is the selection of photographs--the dozens of photos are the reason I (generously) rate this book 2 stars.
   
   Beyond the disappointment of spending money on a book that is not worth reading, the truly massive disappointment of this book is that it wasted a brilliant opportunity to provide English-language readers a biography of one of the world's greatest racers. Here's hoping that the failures of this book do not deter others from trying to record the lives of Agostini and his peers with the respect and effort they and their admirers deserve.



3. By about page 65 I discovered the first of 16 blank pages. 8 places where the facing pages were blank. maybe mine is the only one but beware.

5 comments about Internet Law and Business Handbook: A Practical Guide.

1. I found this book to be packed with useful information on how to determine who has rights for what content on the internet, and how you can avoid getting yourself in trouble if you would like to use another party's content. Packed with examples of copyright, trademark and patent information, it lays out a sound approach. Also there are several templates on the accompanying disk that are great, including confidential disclosure agreements. A must-read for anyone "doing" internet content publishing and management.



2. In an environment where technology has made change commonplace, one can still look to the rule of law to engender a stable foundation upon which business can be conducted. The "Internet Law and Business Handbook" cogently weaves time-tested laws with the new demands that technological progress has exacted on modern organizations. This is an indispensable reference for the conduct of business in a tech-driven marketplace. It is thoroughly researched and handily crafted to make the arcana of law accessible to the layperson.



3. This comprehensive guide to Internet legal and business issues provides an important key to understanding the law as it relates to online products, internet development, and copyrights. From lawful use of Internet materials and privacy policies to email and linking legalities and service provider issues, Internet Law and Business Handbook goes into quite some depth on the latest issues and law.



4. The forms needed a lot of tweaking, there were parts that referred incorrectly to other parts. And it is heavily client-centric, I think the book was written much more for the person looking to hire a developer than for the developer.



5. I ordered this for a class only to find out on the estimated delivery day that it is not available from any sources. This happened at 2 separate and different sellers, one being amazon and the other being a college bookstore. Apparantly it is a difficult book to obtain. If you need this book for a class I highly recommend you buy it from one of the used book resellers and not amazon.com as a new book or anyone else who sells it new and gives a future shipment date. Be sure that it is actually 'in stock' before you order it and check that it is the correct edition.

No comments about 60 Years of MotoGP.

1 comments about The Official MotoGP Season Review 2005: Official Licensed Product (Motogp).

1. This book is full of colorful pictures and info that you would never find online or in other publications. Will be buying the 2006 edition also..

3 comments about Suzuki GSX-R.

1. Rehashed text (from Suzuki brochures), amateurish and out-of-focus photos, a true waste of money. Two excellent alternatives: Suzuki GSX-R750 by Rob Simmonds and Suzuki Gsx-R750 by Gary Pinchin are the only books to buy.



2. If you ride a motorcycle, you've no doubt been passed by one of the wickedly-fast, brightly-colored imported sportbikes. Mike Seate's history of Suzuki's GSX-R series explains in vivid, corner-blistering detail, how the whole world of race replica motorcycles came to be. It's easy to forget troday in the world of 160 horsepower Kawasaki ZX-10s and Ducati 999s that a few decades ago, anyone wanting a motorcycle offering the precise handling and gut-wrenching power of a race bike had to build it themselves at great expense. Suzuki, as this book lays out, changed all that by creating a fully-faired, sharp-handling motorcycle for the masses. There's plenty of cool factory drawings here as well as a highly detailed chronicle of the relentless technology race to keep the four-cylinder GSX-R family at the top of the highly competetive race replice heap. And if you haven't seen the shots of Daytona 200 winner Mat Mladin crashing and burning his machine at the 2001 Virginia International raceway meet, you haven't lived the Gixxer experience!



3. I used to road race motorcycles and I have developed a deep respect for Suzuki's GSX-R series. This book treats the subject with the same respect. I am too old to ride bikes like this on the street, but I could see buying one as a track-day toy someday. Great book.

No comments about Mann of His Time.

1 comments about Motocourse 2002-2003 The World's Leading Grand Prix and Superbike Annual.

1. Without a doubt its the BEST yearly Motorcycle Grand Prix, Superbike and Isle of Man review. There is nothing else that even comes vaguely close.

1 comments about Superbikes: Street Racers: Design and Technology.

1. In terms of Motorcycles there's not much choise when it comes to recent models. But this book as some of the most recente models with nice pics and a very decent description of the most importante specs in each one. A must have if you like bikes.

3 comments about Mario Andretti: A Driving Passion.

1. Mario Andretti was the best race car driver of 20th century - bar none! Gordon Kirby is one of the best auto racing authors. When you get Gordon Kirby writing about Mario Andretti, you get an excellent book. The photographs in this book are "awesome!!!". Your money will not be wasted when you buy this book.



2. A totally comprehensive account of Mario Andretti's racing career and the machinery that took him to the top of world-wide motorsport. Completely unvarnished and truthful about the ups and downs of a racing driver's life, this is a must-have book for the boomer-generation racing fan.



3. This book is awesome in every way. The text is entertaining and informative. The photos are first rate, as well as abundant. This is my favorite book! Mario Andretti is the man, and this book gives a clear and very close-up look at his life and career.

5 comments about Evel Knievel: An American Hero.

1. Evel Knevel has written a lively and engaging book that tells about his halcyon days stealing money from people cracking safes in the 1960s.The cops knew I did it, he says, but never caught him. Now he and his son charge the culturally deprived a lot of money to see motorcycle stunts. What a country! What a hero!



2. Nobody's demanding Boswell's Life of Johnson here, but Collins has fashioned a hazily-remembered, lazily-written biography of one of the 1970s most singular public figures. Where's the index or bibliography? Where's the list of sources? Who proofread this book (the word "athlete" is misspelled -- on the back cover, yet!)? I never thought I'd utter this phrase in public, but: Evel Knievel deserves better.



3. I can't say the writing is bad, just the subject. An American Hero ? A womenizing, boozing, petty thief and con-man a hero, I don't think so, probably a fun guy to hang out with.. but no hero.



4. I agree with a previous reviewer who said this was a completely lazily-written book. Whether or not you approve of Evel's behavior, his life was anything but boring. Yet the tedious and poor writing style of this author tells Knievel's story in a way that's about as interesting as reading the White Pages upside down. It's unbelievable that a national publisher would print a book this sloppy. In addition to being poorly-written, it appears as though no one even proofread it. Repetition and typos abound. And it seems to be based on not much more than re-hashed facts from a few feature articles written about Knievel in big magazines in the 1970s (and maybe the foggy recollection of the hokey Evel Knievel biopic from 1971). Grammatically, this is possibly the most poorly-written book I have read in my adult life. As far as telling a story in general, it gets even worse marks. I can't believe someone got paid to write this. It really is THAT bad. And I LIKE Evel Knievel!



5. The biography is detailed, interesting, and there are many pictures. I don't know what "lazy writing" means, but my focus was on the man, not the author.
   
   Clearly Evel knew his faults, but he found a way to make a living knowing his physical health would suffer and he'd be in pain for the rest of his life. His last stunt was taking a baseball bat to his promoter, who was also his lawyer, a mistake he would regret for the rest of his life. (The lawyer is going after what remains of Evel's estate.)