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Complete coverage of this widespread technology
This is the only book available to offer in-depth, practical details for implementing an RFID project from start to finish. From Wal-Mart and beyond, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is in use everywhere--enabling superior supply-chain management by tracking inventory via microchip-tagged products. RFID Implementation delivers step-by-step instructions for initiating, installing, and managing an RFID rollout.
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By Valdir P. M. Junior (Brazil - Recife)
Very good, lot's of interest tips...
I recommend this book to any one that want to learn about how to depoly RFID in your own business.
Very helpfull...
By Arjun Kansiawala (Vienna, VA USA)
This book is excellent for Managers as it provides high level introduction to RFID, also recommended for beginners who are new to RFID. This book provides a good insight on how to conduct a RFID pilot/project.
It is not a technical persons or engineers book. The book briefly covers all the important aspects of RFID from Physics to Middleware integration and therefore making it a great first RFID book.
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Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries, with a new preface (Harvard Studies in Business History)
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Consumer electronics and computers redefined life and work in the twentieth century. In Inventing the Electronic Century, Pulitzer Prize-winning business historian Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. traces their origins and worldwide development. From electronics prime mover RCA in the 1920s to Sony and Matsushita's dramatic rise in the 1970s; from IBM's dominance in computer technology in the 1950s to Microsoft's stunning example of the creation of competitive advantage, this masterful analysis is essential reading for every manager and student of technology.
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As a new century starts, Chandler gives a summary of how consumer electronics and computing grew in the last century and indeed shaped many of the trends in the latter half. He starts by pointing out that consumer electronics is older than modern computing. It was the radio industry of the 20s and 30s. Which propelled Motorola and others to prominence.
After World War 2 arose electronic computers. As opposed to earlier electromechnical gizmos. Chandler goes over the crucial inventions - the transistor, integrated circuit and microprocessor. And how decades of Moore's Law have driven these industries into everyday life.
But sections of his book are jarring. These concern the growth of the Japanese electronics and computer companies. They purport to show how these companies grew to dominance in various market sectors, like memory. There is a distinct tone that they outdid their US counterparts, with deeper strategy and Japanese government assistance. While this book is printed in 2005, the tone completely neglects the 16 year stagnation in the Japanese economy. Including their technology companies.
The book gives a few pages to describing Korean and Taiwanese companies, up to around 2000. There is no update to 2004-5. Which would say that the Koreans (Samsung) have grown hugely in memory. Certainly more so than the Japanese. Yes, in the 80s, Japan forced most US companies out of memory. But memory has proven to be a very fickle boom and bust market. Low profit margins over time. Chandler sees the Japanese "takeover" of memory as evidence of good planning and national industrial policy. But if anything, it is evidence of the contrary.
While in consumer electronics, Samsung has also grown far stronger than Sony or Hitachi or ...
In the important area of microprocessors, there is little emphasis that the US has not lost ground to Japan. If anything, it is Japan that has done so, with respect to other countries.
The sections of the text that describe Japan have the feel of books written in the 80s, warning of a coming Japanese industrial supremacy. Never happened.
By Jose Ernesto Passos (São Paulo, SP Brazil)
Alfred Chandler has organized the factual information of the key companies in the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries during the second half of the XX century. The title of my review is a suggestion of another apropriate subtitle of this book.
The subject is very complex, specially if we look at the technology involved. My major comment is: the author has a limited technical knowledge and this has limited the depth of his analyses, comments and conclusions. This does not invalidate the major conclusions that he has presented in this book.
I think that it would be interesting to expand the story told in this book by studying/describing the evolution of the whole envinronment around these industries, including the engineering schools and research institutes that supply the brains to develop all the technology involved.
The history of the electronics industry carry an important lesson, about concentration of skills and economic power in only one company (RCA). It was a good thing, while RCA was leading, but when it started to make major strategic mistakes it brought down the whole American Industry. The Japanese Industry used several companies to compete against American and European Companies, this created a whole envinronment, that included engineering schools, research facilities, several different companies where one could make a career and different ideas being tested and pursued at the same time. When you look at the capacity of inovation and development of new technologies of the japanese companies and their envinronment they were a lot more competitive. They created a competitive envinronment so agressive in Japan that western rivals were later decimated by them.
The way American companies have managed the development of technologies should be better understood than is explored in this book. There is a pattern to be investigated, for it was in America that several technologies started, but there is a problem in the way this headstart is kept. Examples to be looked into: IBM dominance in computers, Xerox dominance in copiers, RCA in television (well discussed in this book). I think that is missing a description of who were the major brains and decision makers that lead those companies throughout this fast paced period. I would suggest that if we look at who are the persons making the decisions we would find important answers to the success of the Japanese. Example: what is the power and influence of the teams developing a new technology or products, what is the academic and technical background of the top managers in those companies, how do they handled investment decisions regarding product development, what is the philosophy pursued by them ...
The lesson hidden in the history of the electronics industry is very important, when we look at the industrial policy in America in other industries, like Automobiles, where there is only two American Manufacturers, it is easy to see why Japanese companies are doing much better, they are following the same type of competitive organization in this industry... Ford and GM are going in the same direction of RCA... This will raise a very important question, in what industries does America plans to remain competitive in the future??? This will determine the long term stability of the American Democracy.
One may have some points to criticize in this book, but the history told in this book should be better understood and deserves attention.
One aspect related to the industries studied that should be brought to attention is the availability of information about the japanese industry due to the language barrier.
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- Many companies have asked suppliers to begin using RFID (radio frequency identification) tags by 2006
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By Daniel M. Edwards (Albany, GA USA)
If you have ever had to sit through meetings listening to some electrical engineer or other 10 pound brain make you want to gouge out your own eyes to make them shut up, this book is for you. All of the stuff that didn't make any sense in those meetings becomes a little more clear. In all seriousness, if you are not an engineer, I'm a Marine Corps Supply guy, this book lays a great foundation for you to understand what you don't know. This book and the Wiley CompTIA Study Guide helped me not only score an 800 on my RFID+ exam, but actually understand 90% of stuff the folks at the RFID Live! Conference were trying to sell me.
By Shalom Yariv (Yavne, Israel)
It is a very good book and pretty well written.
Do not be fooled by the 'For Dummies' title.
However, the book is outdated (2005!!!!) and I would not recommend buying one until an update for 2008 is released.
Otherwise I would give it 5 stars.
By Larkin Moly
This is a good book on RFID. Lots of useful stuff in there. However, do not use it as yuor first RFID book. The material is quite advance at places.
By Markus (Finland)
This book was a HUGE dissapointment for me. I have plenty of "For Dummies" series books and this is the only one that really let me down.
The whole book is written by a person who works for the RFID industry. He does not spend any time explaining the security and privacy issues involved with RFID. He makes a childish remark that "RFID is like credit card, it can be tracked"...BUT FORGETS TO MENTION that RFID can be tracked wireless every time everywhere, while your credit card can only be tracker where YOU CHOOSE TO USE IT.
Concidering the recent issues of RFID read/copy/forgery with even latest "high security passports" (like the ones used in EU), this book is really a HUGE thumbsdown. Dont buy it.
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The EPC global Network and RFID technology, initially developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and licensed in October 2003 to Global Standards I (GS1), holds great promise for transforming business through the use of low-cost, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to improve information flow and productivity. Through the placement of tags on individual items, cases, and pallets, RFID Technology will provide instant two-way communication within supply chains by merging information with physical goods. The EPC global Network uses the Internet to transmit data gathered from RFID tags as well as a sophisticated information infrastructure designed at MIT. This book explores the essentials of RFID and the EPC global Network from the perspective of a practitioner that needs to make business decisions concerning the adoption of the technology. The perspective is from the supply chain management standpoint with emphasis on case studies and new thinking about the subject.
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Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Science Industries
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No industries had greater impact on everyday life and work in the second half of the twentieth century than consumer electronics and computers. Yet the epic story of the founding of the Information Age remains almost completely unknown. Now Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alfred D. Chandler Jr. systematically records for the first time from a global perspective the origins and evolution of these transforming industries. In this marvelous chronicle of the trailblazing high-technology companies and products that laid the foundation for the Electronic Century, Chandler shows with unerring command of fact and data precisely where, when, how, and by whom technical knowledge was initially commercialized.
In richly textured magisterial prose, Chandler describes how Radio Corporation of America shaped the consumer electronics industry from its beginnings in the 1920s to the 1960s. He explains how catastrophic management decisions that brought about the collapse of RCA opened the door to Sony and Matsushita and ultimately to Japan's worldwide conquest of consumer electronics markets. At the same time, Chandler shows that the computer industry has been a strikingly American triumph. Readers will discover a wealth of penetrating insights in Chandler's riveting account of the rise of the mainframe, the minicomputer, and the microprocessor. What is more, Chandler documents the surprising and little-known fact that first mover IBM dominated the computer industry from the 1950s to the 1990s and that the Japanese, first by making IBM plug-compatibles and later with their large systems and servers, became its major competitors.
Only by following the history of firms that commercialized these new technologies and knowing the details of competitive success and failure can managers truly understand their industries. Inventing the Electronic Century is timely and essential reading for every manager and student of high technology.
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Alfred Chandler has organized the factual information of the key companies in the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries during the second half of the XX century. The title of my review is a suggestion of another apropriate subtitle of this book.
The subject is very complex, specially if we look at the technology involved. My major comment is: the author has a limited technical knowledge and this has limited the depth of his analyses, comments and conclusions. This does not invalidate the major conclusions that he has presented in this book.
I think that it would be interesting to expand the story told in this book by studying/describing the evolution of the whole envinronment around these industries, including the engineering schools and research institutes that supply the brains to develop all the technology involved.
The history of the electronics industry carry an important lesson, about concentration of skills and economic power in only one company (RCA). It was a good thing, while RCA was leading, but when it started to make major strategic mistakes it brought down the whole American Industry. The Japanese Industry used several companies to compete against American and European Companies, this created a whole envinronment, that included engineering schools, research facilities, several different companies where one could make a career and different ideas being tested and pursued at the same time. When you look at the capacity of inovation and development of new technologies of the japanese companies and their envinronment they were a lot more competitive. They created a competitive envinronment so agressive in Japan that western rivals were later decimated by them.
The lesson hidden in the history of the electronics industry is very important, when we look at the industrial policy in America in other industries, like Automobiles, where there is only two American Manufacturers, it is easy to see why Japanese companies are doing much better, they are following the same type of competitive organization in this industry... Ford and GM are going in the same direction of RCA... This will raise a very important question, in what industries does America plans to remain competitive in the future??? This will determine the long term stability of the American Democracy.
One may criticize the quality of this book, but the history told in this book should be understood and deserves attention.
One aspect related to the industries studied that should be brought to attention is the availability of information about the japanese industry due to the language barrier.
By Howard Aldrich (Chapel Hill, NC USA)
In earlier books by Chandler that I liked very much, such as Strategy & Structure and The Visible Hand, historical narrative took precedence over facts and figures. Epic stories were told, and individual biography was subordinated to broader historical developments. In this book, I felt the balance tilted the other way: I found myself fighting to concentrate on the story, while wading through very specific details that I quickly forgot as I moved onto the next company history.
Chandler has certainly done his homework. In the Preface, he notes his limited technical knowledge of the consumer electronics and computer industries, but one would never guess that from the adept way he handles technical terms and explains the significance of various innovations. With many tables in the text and more in the appendix, Chandler convincingly documents his story.
It is a simple one: firms that came to dominate their industries did so by being first movers that established integrated learning bases, based on technical, functional or managerial knowledge. They thus gained economies of scale and scope (another concept that Chandler has contributed to the business history literature), obtained a critical head start, and successfully beat back most entrepreneurial startups. In consumer electronics, a handful of Japanese firms built on their initial advantages to not only dominate world markets but also to destroy domestic producers in the U.S. In computers, however, IBM built a lead it never relinquished, even though it was repeatedly challenged by European and Japanese firms.
Chandler noted, with obvious relish, that top executives in many firms engaged in short-sighted strategies that eventually brought them down. For example, RCA created many innovations that it licensed to the Japanese firms that ultimately destroyed it. Indeed, perhaps the major benefit of including so many detailed company histories is that they remind us of just how wrong so many excutives have been!
If you know little about the history of these two industries, Chandler's book will give you an excellent overview. If you are familiar with them, you can still appreciate Chandler's skill in conveying the international comparative context for their evolution in the 20th century. In his provocative conclusion, Chandler asks whether the Japanese firms, with their strong integrated learning bases and dominance of consumer electronics, will ultimately triumph in the struggle for control of the world's information technology industries.
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Without sensors most electronic applications would not exist-they perform a vital function, namely providing an interface to the real world. The importance of sensors, however, contrasts with the limited information available on them. Today's smart sensors, wireless sensors, and microtechnologies are revolutionizing sensor design and applications. This volume is an up-to-date and comprehensive sensor reference guide to be used by engineers and scientists in industry, research, and academia to help with their sensor selection and system design. It is filled with hard-to-find information, contributed by noted engineers and companies working in the field today. The book will offer guidance on selecting, specifying, and using the optimum sensor for any given application. The editor-in-chief, Jon Wilson, has years of experience in the sensor industry and leads workshops and seminars on sensor-related topics.
In addition to background information on sensor technology, measurement, and data acquisition, the handbook provides detailed information on each type of sensor technology, covering:
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· interfacing information, with hardware and software info
· design techniques and tips, with design examples
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The handbook also contains information on the latest MEMS and nanotechnology sensor applications. In addition, a CD-ROM will accompany the volume containing a fully searchable pdf version of the text, along with various design tools and useful software.
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I bought this for the pressure section. I needed mechanical / manufacturing detail on a piezoresistive diaphragm type, but it wasn't detailed enough for my needs. I haven't found a book that is new within the last 15 years, and has more than 10 pages on pressure sensors. For a general sensor book, it is modern and seems like it will be a useful reference.
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A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the novel's unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant.
An enchanting debut and a spellbinding tale of fate and belief in the bonds of love, The Time Traveler's Wife is destined to captivate readers for years to come.
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Henry Detamble has problems with time - without warning he is dragged through time and is dropped into different decades regardless of what he happens to be doing! With paradoxes that are sure to twist the mind, Henry often encounters himself and will help himself out of a problem - huh?! Clare has seen Henry pop into her life since he first arrived in a meadow naked but for his smile. The inevitable love story is sweet and wonderful and with a brand new movie, interest in this book is at its height.
While the movie is good, it really doesn't do a good job of exploring the feelings of the main characters especially when Henry disappears. I'd suggest reading the book first before seeing the movie.
By K. R. Maynard (MCBH, Hawaii)
I loved the book. It has enough of every genre to keep attention. I tend to get bored easily, not with this one. It has a funky science-fiction tint love story, with out too much of one or the other. But there is action and mystery, and never did I feel one over power the others. Very well writen.
By Mycatsandme (Salt Lake City, Utah United States)
The movie promos looked good so I decided to read the book first. I could not get through this. I got half way through and finally gave up. There is NO plot. Nothing happens. Characters come and go with no real purpose. I feel i wasted a week trying to plough through this.
By Christian Rubinstein (Michigan)
I picked up two books about a week ago. One was terrible (gawd awful) and the other was The Time Traveler's Wife which I was hard pressed to put it down until tonight, when I finished it. Yes, the first couple of chapters have a distinct 'sci-fi' feel to them, as you try to figure out what is going on. But, it becomes this incredible story. It doesn't fit into any genre. It's just there. The author does an incredible job just reeling you in with the first couple of pages. You immediate fall for these characters. You feel as you know them. The author has this wonderful ability to imagine this very robust universe. I could very easily imagine the locals, the places, the hangouts. It wasn't difficult at all. The prose style was wonderful, too. It shifted back and forth, taking place from the point of view of either of the two main characters the entire novel. You feel the characters growing, changing. They become *real* very quickly. I love this book. I was sad when it was over, because I didn't want it to be over. I couldn't recommend this book more. A great read, and maybe, just maybe, it might make you rethink some priorities in your life.
By USC KAT (LA, CA)
The book was only readable when Henry lost his feet. I was so tired of all the French phrases, quotes, vocabulary throughout the book. Sure you know French, or at least researched it but as a reader, I just want to know what the characters are talking about. I don't have time to look up those foreign words.
Also, I dislike so much when the author spent lines describing one action. Like the part she went to a store to buy Henry an album for his birthday. She went on and on and on and on name dropping. Really? What's the whole purpose of this? Maybe she wanted us to know she's done her homework.
I bought the book because of the movie. I have not got to see the movie(since it will not be released for another two weeks) but I am sad to say I have lost some interest. The book was tedious and at times boring. I was bored by Clare's papermaking and tired of their endless sex. Things did not make sense, like how Kimy who was probably 80+ years old toward the end and was still babysitting Henry or Clare.
Last but not least, I find the part when Henry performed oral sex on himself and the part when he time traveled and had sex with Clare while the other Henry was sleeping next to her just plain creepy. I dont think many men out there would love to do the same thing if they could time travel.
Over all, read this book if you know how to skip paragraphs.
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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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All of the numeric entries in the text are garbled, so if you don't care whether they're referring to 20 pounds or 3000, you'll be fine. of course it's a free download, so I'm not complaining.
By Karen Ann Angleterre (Brewer, Maine)
English history is served up along with the amazing mystery stories. I enjoy the pictures of daily life...the maid bringing in lunch to Holmes on a pre-arranged schedule, passing the street vendors and beggars, imagining the opium den frequented by addicts, vivid descriptions of period clothing, transportation and commerce slipped seamlessly into the tales. I read this often to refresh the imagery in my mind.
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Not only is it FREE, but these stories completely hold up over time. Wonderfully sectionalized in tasty bite size short stories, the adventures of sherlock holmes is awesome. Cocaine injecting, boxing, female-agnostic to remain as logical as possible - these stories are enthralling and fun!
By Austin Somlo (Vincentown, NJ)
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the third book of the series, consisting of twelve sensational cases. Actually, I found two of these cases (The Red-Headed League and A Case of Identity) to be quite simplistic that I am totally surprised at Dr. Watson for not making a good educated guess from the outset. It was that moment in each case that I began to suspect of Dr. Watson's intelligence. Once again, in each of the cases, the story is thrilling, and the writing of Arthur Conan Doyle is beautiful. However, each of the progressing case has a distinctively formulaic feel: some small talk or business from either or both of the main characters, a random character appears with a shocking tale, Sherlock's tendency to say, "It's the most interesting case I've heard in months," the campaign of sleuthing without knowing the full details, the apprehension, and finally the details of how the mystery was solved with extra analysis from Sherlock. I won't say that the formulaic feel of each case is increasingly tired but rather, I had hoped the author would just mix things up a little bit. Meanwhile, in the case The Adventure of the Speckled Band, when Sherlock Holmes identified the creature as the Swamp Adder, there is no such thing as one although I thought it was a cobra based on the description of its distinctive head. All in all, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a can't-miss and easily beats out most mystery books in existence.
By Gregory Kennedy (Fayetteville, AR USA)
Listened to this one on Librivox audio recording (it's public domain now, since it was published before 1923). The book is really a collection of twelve short stories that Doyle wrote for a magazine. It's just a plain fun read - quick stories, occasional action sequences, easy reading material.
The plot is pretty straightforward: Sherlock Holmes is a clever and somewhat eccentric man who runs his own detective agency in London. He takes in cases which strike his curiosity and uses his brilliant powers of deduction to outwit everyone and arrive at the only proper conclusion. Accompanying him is Dr. Watson, his close friend, who has taken it upon himself to be Holmes' biographer, and is thus the narrator of each story (which incidentally Holmes takes some offense to, as Watson plays up Holmes-the-man while Holmes would prefer the focus to be on the logic of each case). Each story runs roughly the same course: a case is presented to Holmes, Watson accompanies him on some clue-gathering exercises or interviews with witnesses, and then Holmes arrives at his conclusion which undoubtedly surprises and shocks his observers.
Of course Doyle spices it up a bit by throwing in some extra characters (Holmes has a brother, there's another bumbling police investigator who gets in the way, Holmes even has a bit of a romantic interest at one point). Throughout the book readers get a nice glimpse into the characters Holmes and Watson - Holmes as a very intellectual man, skilled in both the arts and sciences, educating Watson in his methods as he solves crimes, and a drug addict to boot. Watson has his own past too, and though it isn't nearly so interesting, it makes him so very regular that you can't help but like him. There were some laugh out loud moments as I heard this story, particularly Watson's 'scientific assessment' of Holmes's skills and knowledge I thought was pretty funny.
The entire point of the book, of course, is the focus on Holmes' deductions. They're brilliant - at times seemingly TOO brilliant, because in a couple of cases Holmes pulls clues out at the last minute to draw his conclusions, and so the reader doesn't get a chance to try to figure it out for themselves. But in the stories where there is enough information to guess at the conclusion, it's an enjoyable exercise to try to work out the ending before the big reveal. I only got it right once, but it made me feel pretty clever. : ) Holmes's cases range over a wide variety of subjects - murders, thefts, missing persons, and a lost goose. Every story is pulled along by the mystery, though sometimes the action gets a little tense.
If you're looking for a book to help you understand the deeper meaning of life and unlock the mysteries of the Universe, look elsewhere. If you want an excellent collection of easily digestible stories, give Sherlock Holmes a shot. Highly recommended.
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Every good girl longs for a chance to be a little naughty.
Raw from an ugly divorce and wrung out from her demanding job, Haley Thorne needs a break. When Haley?s doctor urges her to take a vacation, she heads to her secret cabin in the woods.
The very first night, Haley dreams of an erotic threesome that leaves her panting and aroused. When sexy police detective Jeremy Pickett shows up at her door, she?s shocked: He looks like the man in her midnight fantasy! Levelheaded Haley unleashes her inner seductress and has a little fun-handcuffs and all!
Warning: this title contains hot, explicit sex, graphic language and m?nage a trois.
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Beginning was just poorly written porn. The rest was just your typical predictable romance. I got it for free, but I wouldn't spend any money on it.
By Midlothian Mrs. (Richmond, VA)
I feel sad that this is considered a romance novel. It's poorly written and slutty.
By Nadine Keilholz (Lakeland, FL)
I like a good sexy book, when the sex advances a story with some depth. Unfortunately this book has very little story to it. I got it as a free book, and thought it was worth what I paid for it.
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...because that's more than this novel is worth. It's ineptly executed porn. Cardboard characters spouting porn cliches that make the stories on EMMMANUELLE IN SPACE seem richly textured by comparison. The instruction manual for Norton Anti-Virus is more erotically charged than this poor excuse for a novel...and has a better plot and more believable characters. I'm giving it one star for the cover because that's as far as most people will get anyway.
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Recently divorced Haley Thorne was working 16 hours days and her doctor told her she needed to get away or she was going to have an emotional meltdown. So she was reading her newest romance novel in her private hideaway when there was a knock on the door. There were to strangers at the door, they needed to use the phone. She invite them in, offers them coffee, and they introduce themselves (Jay and Marissa). But instead of coffee the couple has other ideas.
Jeremy Pickett is a detective with the Columbus, OH police and he was stressed out. So Jeremy's brother, Brad French, convinced him he needed to take a break. His rental car broken down and he was walking when he came upon a cabin...Haley's cabin.
This was a free kindle book but, I would have paid a buck or 2 for it. The plot is a little slim but, it set a background for the characters to come together.
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