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Each chapter is a character study of some person known to the owner of the diner the Savoy, which the writer tells in a workmanlike fashion, but the writing is below average. The chapetrs seem to have been written some time apart, as there is a lot of unnecessary repetition. A native of Glasgow might find fond memories in the tales, but in terms of background study for a trip to Glasgow, or for just interesting reading, this falls way short.

This is a must-read for anyone who grew up in Glasgow or "Doon the Watter" in the 1940's and 50's when Tally shops sold the best fish 'n' chips and ice-cream! What a trip down memory lane - the characters are all so familiar.

This is a good introduction to Cafe. I would have liked more detailed treatment on Beans.

Certainly not up there with the other great Courtney books, such as Jessica. Smokey Joe's Cafe, after reading it a year ago, does not stand out in my mind. A small and quick reading book set in a small rural town in Australia. Thommo, the main character, lives a depressed life, riddled with physcial and mental problems, reminents of the Vietnam war. He runs the local cafe with his wife and daughter. I do not recall how, but Thommo is reunited with his old 'Nam buddies and discoveres that they are all a bunch of old washed up misfits, drifting through life. It takes Thommo's little girl to get cancer, to kick these old boys into shape and fight for a good cause. The stories and plotting are all conducted in Thommo's little cafe. They need to raise money and awareness for the girl to travel and get treatment in the big city. They resort to growing contrabands in a hidden location and then distrubiting it through whatever means and connections they have, including bicycle gangs. In the end they get a lot more then these 'hardened' men bargained for.

I too wished I'd read the reviews first. I have 3.0c and this book might as well be for another product for all the good it does me. It's amazingly basic - if you have used VC for more than a couple of hours, you could have written it yourself.

I wish I'd read the reviews here before I bought this book elsewhere. I recently bought Visual Cafe 3.0a, and this book is so out of date it useless. I agree with the other reviewers who ask that books about products reveal the version they use. It wasn't until I saw the sentence "the next version of Windows 95 should..." that I realized I was in trouble.

If you are fascinated by the obvious, buy this book. The author seems to feel that telling us that the ImageButton is a button displaying an image is more useful than explaining how to use it, when or why. Entire chapters are devoted to listing the options you can see for yourself on screen without telling what they actually do. It spends a great deal of time and space describing how wonderful visual development is (over and over again, actually), but there are only a very few actual exercises in the book and the interesting one's require you to enter pages of code by hand! The icing on the cake is that nowhere in the book does the author mention that his coverage is limited to the Windows version or acknowledge the existence of the Mac version (in which the screens look quite different). He also doesn't mention up front that the most interesting exercise requires Visual Cafe Pro (which costs a lot more than Visual Cafe. I've got to agree with others who've written to say that this book is a waste of time -- even for beginners.

I do not appreciate you making comments about our food in such a way. So many of the recipes that are such a raving success now are still made from old recipes from the old dirt roads of Santa Fe. The recipes that are new don't taste the same way our native food is made. People that don't know any better go for it because of all the hyp on it. Native Santa Feans and their decendants know the difference of today's foods and the originals. Please don't make such a comment that until these chefs came along that no one knew how to cook...we are the ones that taught the likes of them.

First, I really enjoyed reading this book, with all of the history she included about each restaurant, cafe, market or bakery. It was published in 1997 and most of the establishments are still there. We just returned from visting in Sante Fe and used the book everytime we were going out to eat. It was fun to read her explaination before entering the door. She was correct with her rates on every one we frequented.I recommend reading this before your vist and using it while you are there.

I found this book to be very boring and most of the time it went slow and hardly had a plot. The characters were boring and not dynamic. This book was on a reading list or I would not have read it not to mention almost all the bookstores in my area did not have this book. I had to order it.

I liked this book. You should read this book if you like to hear people talk. It it had great fire seens, but lacked action.

This book seem to cover most of the topics about Visual Cafe 2.0,but most of the important details were left out. The author tried to attract the buyers with the fancy content and introduction.

This is the first book that tied together the "Visual" tools (like Visual Basic, Visual RPG, etc.) with the Java language & Cafe. The UC Irvine instructor did not draw the parallel because he did not use Visual Basic, and did not like HTML -- the UCI instructor could not run a Cafe project! This book does it in step-by-step chapters with practical exercises. You finally see the connection between the "Visual" tools and the java code -- and it makes java easier to learn. So I like it. I just bought an upgrade to Visual Cafe (2.0 to 3.0 database) (Oracle Light), and I need a PC-to-AS400 tool. Cafe will be it. I use Visual Basic 6.0, Visual RPG, Visual J++ I am an RPG pgmr and thus have other paradigms to "overcome" in using OOP. This beats a college course if you don't mind reading.

I find that the book is good but only if u skip the first few chapters and head straight to where u start using the Java AWT classes. That was where i started rocking and rolling with Java, whereas i was still in a daze in the first few chapters. Good examples too. One note is to use the correct version of VCafe, I used the version 2.5 and there was no problem at all with the example codes. One grouse is the lack of client/server examples. Otherwise, this is a good buy.

i read this book for a child lit class. It was a poorly written book. The plot of this story should be suspenseful because it is a mystery. Unfortunately I found this story too confusing and poorly worded to be suspenseful. The plot line makes little sense. Children readers especially will have a hard time following the illogical story line and the many characters. There are many turns of plot in the story that are explained very poorly. For example, Minnie is at one point pushed into a shack by a small boy. Then an off duty police officer falls into the shack as well. Later this situation is quickly explained, but the situation still makes no logical sense. I liked the idea the seaside setting of this book, but it was explained in so little detail that it was not interesting. The characters should be interesting, but it seems that the author was trying to hard to make the characters quirky. For example, the main character's brother owns a restaurant where he serves peaches and walnut shells as his main ingredients. The author includes many of these types of off the wall descriptions, but not of them seems believable. These sorts of details may work in a book that is better written. Riff is not able to pull this off. I think Riff also was trying to make this book funny, but it was not.

this book is a desperate one. made for children maybe up to 6 yrs. old this book was boring and not planned out.

Kidnap at the Catfish Cafe is a must read for those who like cliffhangers. Minnie, a soon to be ten girl has a new detective agency.Her first case is find a home for a cat and stop a thief that will steel anything. Minnie with the help of her two friends will try to stop the thief. When Minnie's boat and cat get stolen, Minnie follows to find out who it is or will she get cought in the act? Find out when you read this book.

The documentation for Visual Cafe leaves so many questions unanswered. This book was no help whatsoever! It could be useful to newbees learning java, but if you want deeper understanding of the application DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!

This book seems to assume you know some Java, and is a good resource for an overview of the features of Visual Cafe. It _does_ have an overview of Java, but not to the detail that I, a new learner, need. To learn Java itself, read Dietel & Deitel's book. Now THATS detail! ......Im glad I bought Visual Cafe Frontrunner.

Discover Visual Cafe... because you certainly won't be "taught' anything by this book. This book appeals to two groups, those looking for help in creating Java Applets, and those wanting a reference for Symantec's Visual Cafe. Unfortunately, it won't benefit either one. It says, "Teach Yourself" on the front cover... this is the only beneficial advice the book has to offer... (They should have written, "so why get this book" underneath). Overall, I want a refund!!!

A lightweight introductory text with insufficient detail. The "Tear-out Card" and "Discovery Center" are a complete waste of paper. This book is of no use to anyone with programming experience if they've already spent an hour or two playing around with Visual Cafe.

I bought a used copy of this book, read half way through it in one day, and have just ordered a new copy just to get the CDROM that was missing from the used copy. Will give my second copy to a friend, sharing the CD, because it is just what we both need. I have done some C projects, but was unable to make the transition to the Object Oriented C++. For me, this book is just what the doctor ordered.