Reviewed by: The Blind Monkey

As all the Monkies know, I await a new Kellerman novel with bated breath.. and the thrill of acquiring Monster, was no different.

That’s right, the master of the psychological thriller is back with the thirteenth installment in the Alex Delaware series, and another chance to delve into the minds of the deranged. This time, Dr. Alex and Detective Milo Sturgis find themselves at Starkweather State Hospital for the Criminally Insane after a psychologist is brutally murdered. To add to the mystery, her demise is startlingly similar to the mutilation of a wanna-be actor 8 months before.. a case that’s never been solved.

But things don’t really get interesting until they find that one of the patient’s incoherent mumblings may have predicted the murder.

As with most Kellerman novels, you’ll find that the real action happens off stage… which suits me just fine. His talent for extrapolating motivations and predicting future behavior from external clues is positively mesmorizing, and you will quickly find yourself getting into the act. It’s a definite reason for curling by the fire for this uncommonly fun tale of woe.

The second reason, of course, is the slightly tarnished co-co-star of all Kellerman’s novels, the City of Angels. A long-time Angelino himself, he knows every seedy corner and nebulous nook and cranny the city has to offer. He uses the location itself to drive the plot… and I’ll give you a hint… pay attention to the descriptive phrasing for a clue. =)

Monster is a great read, and it does take an interesting perspective on the finer points of psychosis.. but take heed, this story is for entertainment purposes only.

Hardcover- 416 pages (December 7, 1999) Random House; ISBN: 067945960X ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.35 x 9.58 x 6.55

Reviewed by: The Blind Monkey
Wednesday, August 25, 1999

Your favorite Blind Monkey has a friend who makes a living as a big hoo-ha consultant. CEOs and CIOs pay money hand over fist to hear this sexy simian spout corporate buzzwords about relationship building in the splintered Internet age.

Now, I must first admit, spending a day listening to some slick spindoctor purge out the latest big money phlegm and phrases is NOT my idea of a good time. Honestly, I’ve been wondering what in the world this pal of mine is doing with her life. But my curiosity got the better of me and, on a recent trip to my favorite haunt; I picked up one of the books published by this company to find out what it was all about.

Alright, so I’m a cynic — as anyone who suffered through The Disney Way would be. Too many B-rags these days are just glorified self-help pushers trying to convince gullible fools they can motivate themselves into better managers and employees. HA! HA I SAY!!

But, I hate to say it… but The One-to-One Fieldbook is something completely different. A step-by-step guide on implementing the marketing principles that made Don Peppers and Martha Rogers powerhouses in corporate America..

HEY! Come back!! Yes, I said ‘marketing!’ I know it’s a dirty word to my fellow techies out there, but the fact of the matter is.. there is too often a HUGE disconnect between the people who understand the technology, and the people who know how to appeal to customers.

The genius of the this guide (they call it a ‘toolkit’), is that it is filled with step-by-step project plans, checklists, benchmarking tests, and brainstorming activities that help managers optimize technology and intellectual investments to build closer relationships with customers. VERY cool concept.

So how does it do this? It starts at the beginning: ‘Harvest the Low-Hanging Fruit.’ Building one-to-one relationships by increasing cross-selling, reducing processing or transaction costs and customer attrition, and making faster cycle times for processing purchases and other transactions.

All concepts you’ve heard before, but the Fieldbook includes worksheets (also available to download as pdf files via a Website accessed by a password you get when you buy the book) that step you through the actions you need to take to get you there.

It’s amazing how you can be aware of concepts, but when you step back and look with a critical eye, you realize that you’re not actually practicing most of them. Take the section on Information Systems and Data Integrity.

A strong believer in using the power of data to bring an organization better understanding of customers, I am often overwhelmed by the sheer volume of it all. What the Fieldbook does is help you step back and ask the smart questions, like:

- What dialogue data elements will you need to collect on each customer?
- How can you use the data to predict behaviors of individual customers and prospects?
- Can you use transactional history or any other data elements to eliminate customers or prospects from selected promotions?
- Should you use third-party data-mining tools to analyze your data or should it be built into the functionality of the database?

Well, you get the idea. Now I’m not saying that there aren’t any motivational type rah-rahs in this puppy, but there’s enough stuff you can actually use to make you not mind so much.

If you’re a technology manager, you should read this book. Trust me, I need all the help I can get.

Paperback - 288 pages 1 Ed edition (January 5, 1999) Bantam Books; ISBN: 038549369X; Dimensions (in inches): 1.11 x 9.02 x 7.415

Reviewed By: The Blind Monkey

My love affair with military fiction began in college. My first peek (yes, there were many to follow) was in my junior year with ‘United States Military Strategy and Weaponry Tactics’. As one of our MANY reading assignments, we were given an amazing fictional paperback on Pickett’s Charge and the battle of Gettysburg… I’ve actually spent the entire morning going through my files trying to find the title to share with you, but I’m just not THAT organized (it’s been a LONG time).

Anyhoo, that was the start of my love/hate affair with military strategy. I progressed along both non-fiction and alternate history lines, starting from the times of the Roman phalanx all the way up to modern tactical warfare. Eventually, I found myself where many do, in the modern world of fiction influenced by and centered around the military. Authors like Tom Clancy or Stephen Hunter, and of course, my favorite, Stephen Coonts.

If you can’t quite place the name, think Flight of the Intruder (No, not the pathetic excuse for a movie starring Rosanna Arquette as Callie, the book).

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And that brings us to today’s review. Although it’s good to learn from history, nowadays I enjoy the excitement that modern technology and a dangerous political climate adds to a story.

Stephen Coonts’ latest novel presents us with a thoroughly modern dilemma. The U.S. is prepared to annihilate an enemy with nuclear weapons in a conventional war. Billions are spent on precision weapons, guided missile systems, communications, and on armed forces that are the best equipped, trained, and led on earth. So well in fact, that no sane enemy would confront the United States in a conventional or nuclear battlefield. Which means that guerrilla warfare and terror weapons are the only alternatives.

Historically, nations have used chemical or biological weapons against an enemy only when the enemy lacked the means to retaliate. It was this threat that deterred Saddam Hussein from using chemical and biological weapons against allied troops in the Gulf War… but these days deterrence has fallen out of favor with the ‘politically correct’ American public. As such, the United States signed the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1993, thereby agreeing to remove chemical and biological weapons from its stockpiles.

But what’s to make third-world countries decide not to build biological and chemical weapons? In fact, the real question is.. doesn’t the treaty actually force major world powers to rid themselves of the very weapons that deter others from using them?

That’s right — this book is about Mutually Assured Destruction. And exploring the possibilities if chemical and biological weapons got into the wrong hands. It goes something like this:

A quick 90 miles from Florida, Fidel Castro lies dying. The power struggle for control of Cuba has begun. Meanwhile, the U.S. is engaged in an arms-control race in Paris and has finally decided to take care of the CBW warheads it has squirreled away at Guantanamo Bay.

Enter Rear Admiral Jake Grafton, a.k.a. ‘Cool Hand.’

The carrier United States is stationed off the southeast coast of Cuba, and has been ordered by the White House to ‘monitor’ the cargo ship secretly removing the warheads. But the ship mysteriously disappears under cloud cover and isn’t caught by the NSA’s sat photos. It’s up to Jake recover the warheads, and eliminate the threat from Cuba’s own weapons facilities and the powers that control them.

Veteran naval aviator ‘Cool Hand’ is one of the Blind Monkey’s ALL TIME favorite fictional characters, and a crucial one in this book. But only one. It also introduces a host of others, including an ailing Fidel Castro, Secret Police Chief Alejo Vargas, Jesuit priest and visionary Hector Sedano, and CIA safe-cracker Tommy Carmellini (you can BET we’ll see him again!).

This book has one of the most exciting campaigns I’ve ever followed. I kept wishing I had a map of the area so I could follow along better!! And it also has one of my favorite lines, ever.. “This guy is either Hector’s brother, or a liar of Clintonian dimensions!!” HAHAHAHA!

Oh, and two FABULOUS twists that I can’t believe I didn’t figure out, but there was so much going on I was totally floored!

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Now, the other Monkies keep giving me a hard time because they say my reviews are too positive. You’d think it was a CRIME to find really good books and want to tell others about them! Truth is, I haven’t read a Coonts novel in a few years and figured that, by this tenth book, he was just phoning it in. I even expected to stop everyone’s whining with a wicked rant of a review!

Unfortunately for them (but good for you), there’s not much to rant about in this one. I may be just a hack, but I loved it!! And I think you will to.

Hardcover - 384 pages 1 edition (August 1999) St Martins Pr (Trade); ISBN: 031220521X ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.44 x 9.60 x 6.50

Reviewed by: The Blind Monkey
Saturday, August 7, 1999

Well, it’s happened again. In a space of 24 hours, I have torn through Patricia Cornwell’s latest creation — and now it’s over. *SIGH*

It wouldn’t be so tormenting if she didn’t have such a unique talent for pulling you in. You race through her novels like a dying man gulping his first drink out of the desert, and then the canteen runs dry and you’re immediately thirsty again.

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Black Notice is no different. A sadistic mesh of old faces and startling new personalities, the tenth Scarpetta novel introduces a bleak political climate and puzzling string of grisly murders. Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, Pete Marino, and neice Lucy are unsuccessfully struggling to cope with Benton Wesley’s untimely death. Scarpetta faces the destruction of her career, Lucy is a ticking time bomb of rage and angst, and Marino is back in uniform. Introduced into this grim setting, Benton visits from the grave through a personal letter written before his death with instructions to be delivered to Kay exactly one year post-mortem.

But enough of that!!! What you want to hear about is death! HAHAHA!!! (ooohh - BM’s evil laugh!)

Well I’m happy to say (is that wrong?) that Black Notice has some of the darkest clues and grim forensic discoveries to date. The first body (there’s always a first) is discovered at the Richmond international port locked in a container where it’s been steadily decomposing for weeks. The sorry state of the body leads to the most graphic detecting yet… you know, the kind of stuff where Quincy always cut to a commercial! A clue written in blood near the body in odd blocky letters, “Le Loup-garou,” leads Dr. Scarpetta and Captain Marino on a whirlwind journey to Interpol where Kay actually breaks the law to subvert a corrupted system.

It’s facinating stuff, and will make you wonder what’s wrong with you that you’re so enthralled by the gore.

There’s no denying that this is Cornwell’s best work. And I admit, I do feel guilty that I reveled in the ugly underbelly (and the fact that I was just dying to use that phase in a sentence) of the police department and the macabre tone… especially when one of the most prominent themes deals with grief and the message that the dead have to tell.

Just another reason this book was riveting. Yes, RIVETING. Big word. Totally true. Just read it yourself and then tell us what you think!

Hardcover - 368 pages (August 02, 1999) Putnam Pub Group; ISBN: 0399145087 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.56 x 9.57 x 6.55

Reviewed by: The Blind Monkey
Sunday, July 25, 1999

Waiting impatiently for a recent delayed flight to Seattle, the Monkey decides to venture into that deep abyss of mass market media: the airport book store. Yada, yada, yada, grip ‘em and rip ‘em Romance junket… yada, yada, yada, true crime psycho thriller… yada, yada, yada, special issue Time… then I see The Pied Piper. Hmmm… according to the jacket, it’s “A thinking man’s Robert Ludlum.” Thinking man?? Whatever. I hate any review that says if you liked this book or that author you must be stupid. NEXT!

Immediately moving to put the book back, part of the text suddenly catches my eye, “…featuring Seattle detective Lou Bolt.” After all, I AM on my way to Seattle, so I reconsider. Condescending review or not, Ridley Pearson it is, and the Monkey is set for a 4 1/2 hour flight wedged between a large smelly man and a chatty, giggly pre-teen in an overstuffed, sold-out flight to the Pacific Northwest.

Okay, let’s start by pointing out that I couldn’t find a single similarity between Ludlum and Pearson. Cromwell, Connelly, or Baldacci yes, but not Ludlum. Not even close. So Kirkus Reviews, if you’re reading, go buy a Ludlum and figure out what the hell you’re talking about.

But other than Ludlum, the similarities to those others are unmistakable. Never have I read a character so completely modelled after another!! Lt. Lou Bolt is a thin version of Connelly’s Harry Bosch — and I’m NOT referring to his emanciated profile. Come on, not only does he copy Bosch’s style for crying out loud, he even listens to the same music!! VERY annoying.

Alright, but to get right down to it, the story’s not bad. In fact, Pearson’s got a knack for leading you along. I hate to say it, but I ended up enjoying this one. Bolt is the typical likeable rouge, and the supporting characters are colorful, biting, and well developed. He even threw in a surprise or two that I didn’t anticipate.

But the truth is that he doesn’t break any new ground. You’d be better off to pick up a Connelly or an older Kellerman. I give this book three bananas for good writing — but I penalize him two for trying to con us into thinking this is original material.

Mass Market Paperback - 372 pages (July 1999) Hyperion Press; ISBN: 0786889551; Dimensions (in inches): 1.10 x 6.73 x 4.23

Reviewed by: the Blind Monkey

For those of you biligaanna not lucky enough to grow up in the desert Southwest, I highly recommend letting Tony Hillerman take you there. In his 21st masterful attempt at bringing this magnificient landscape to life, Hillerman sets up the barren beauty of Arizona and the four corners like only a native can. But wait - this isn’t a travel brochure — it’s murder.

Whoa! Was that cheesy, or what!! HAHAHAHA!

But seriously, the story goes like this: When Navajo Tribal Policeman Benny Kinsman is killed while trying to apprehend a suspect on remote Yells Back Butte, Jim Chee is there to apprehend a blood soaked hopi poacher. It’s an open and shut case - until his former boss, now retired Lt. Joe Leaphorn, blows it wide open.

The First Eagle is yet another wonderfully simplistic Hillerman tale. This review is directed mostly at you monkies who have not yet discovered his work - for I must admit, all of his books follow the same formula. Someone gets killed, Chee or Leaphorn tries to find the killer, get crucial information from local skinwalker gossip, follow the wrong trail, drive all over New Mexico and Arizona, and then well, you know.

I was first introduced to Hillerman by my grandfather in New Mexico. A voracious reader himself, he’s the original master Monkey. Facinated by Navajo and Hopi lore, he loves the way Hillerman captures the stillness and frightening mythology of Native Americana in a way that only someone raised in the desert can.

I’ll admit I was skeptical at first. I mean, the Navajo Tribal Police setup doesn’t exactly lend itself to the high-tech methods, jet-setting global intrigue, or mind-bending plot layers that usually get me. Hell, Chee can barely pull his sidearm without being reminded of how he barely passed his last shooting exam. But just the same, Hillerman has a way of keeping you right at the edge of your seat.

I think it’s this ‘back to basics’ approach that makes these books a true intellectual treat. Leaphorn and Chee chase the bad guys the old fashioned way - they follow the clues and anticipate the moves of their opponent.

The First Eagle is the latest in a long list of satisfying Hillerman thrillers. From one Monkey to many, I highly recommend it!

Mass Market Paperback - 319 pages (July 1999) Harper Mass ISBN Market Paperbacks;: 0061097853 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.18 x 6.68 x 4.42

Reviewed By: The Goose

The thing about good writing, and a good story is that it never goes out of style. Good writing is as fresh today as it was - say 400 years ago. Just look at Shakespeare. Good writing, good stories. Another thing about a good story is that it allows for expansion, and embellishment. The writer can go back and fill in gaps in the story or create new threads and it all fits together.

Now I am by no means suggesting that McCaffrey is another Shakespeare. For while she clearly expresses her opinions on culture and society in her books they are not on the level of Shakespeare’s plays. BUT, she does tell a damn good story, the best of these are the Pern stories. The first of which (Dragon Flight) was written over twenty years ago. The latest of which is Masterharper of Pern.

McCaffrey’s genius lies not in her insight into the human condition (although she does have such vision) but in the strength and depth of her characters. Their utter reality. In this business she creates the most true people. No, no that they don’t lie, but that they are most like ourselves: the people we wish we were, are scared that we are, and those that we know ourselves to be. You might expect to meet Robinton on the street someday the way he is realized in this book and others.

Her characters have life-like depth as well as shallowness, and foibles, and irks, and pet peeves. They are driven out of real emotions like you and I experience every day. The situations that these characters often find themselves easily strike a cord with our own lives. They are ordinary people who can accomplish extraordinary things - just like all us monkies wish to and sometimes do achieve.

In this latest installment Anne gives us the story of Robinton, Master Harper of Pern, from the time of his birth to the opening events of Dragon Flight. Robinton is one of the pivotal figures in the original Pern series (Dragon Flight, Dragon Quest, and The White Dragon). A man of such good heart and faith that the best of us might feel like our hearts are black on the inside. Yet, we cannot help but identify with him.

While this book is about Robinton and the events of his early life ultimately it is about love, and it’s myriad incarnations, even the lack of it. It’s about the impact has on lives: the characters lives, our lives. Anne explores this most peculiar human emotion and in some ways comes to terms with it, exults in it, lauds it.

Along the way, she shapes the world so familiar to her fans. Still, this story stands on its own. If you haven’t read any of the other Pern novels you don’t have to in order to “get” this one. Although those who have read the others will have a different appreciation for the plot (if it can be said to have a plot). The PEOPLE are what drive this story.

If you like watching people’s lives unfold and their interaction with each other this is the book for you and there’s enough action for those of you that enjoy good plot to definitely keep your attention.

Mass Market Paperback - 422 pages 1 Mass mkt edition (January 1999) Del Rey; ISBN: 0345424603 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.11 x 6.85 x 4.22

Reviewed by: Slappy

Sometimes, you are surprised at just how enjoyable some authors are. Dean R. Koontz, one of my earliest favorite authors from back when I was only a teenage monkey (no offense to the current ruling Teen Monkey) has maintained
a place in my bookcases despite my changing tastes in fiction. Koontz writes plainly yet vividly and completely enthralling. I have never started a Koontz novel and not finished, which says quite a bit for old Dean ’cause I have this thing where if a book doesn’t grab me by at least the first hundred pages, it gets set aside for me to return to later, which of course most times I never do.

Dean R. Koontz has written numerous novels spanning the better part of two decades and still remains one of the most under appreciated authors. Granted, his style of writing and subject matter is more “easy read” than most horror or sci-fi authors, but just pick up one of his books. You’ll see. He is entertaining and interesting and intelligent and insightful (ooohhh … phonetic alliteration! gotta love that!) and his books generally end with the good guys stomping the crap out of the bad guys. Most Koontz novels are horror/sci-fi, yet there are a few in his portfolio of prose (hee hee … I’m on drugs right now) which center around psychological threats to the main characters as well as just plain old mean bad guys trying to make things horrible for the good guys.

My favorite Koontz novel … Strangers. Probably his most epic, the story involves several people from across the country who are inexplicably drawn to a particular town where they all find they are not strangers, no, they know each other, yet HOW they know each other is only marginally revealed. That is, until the novel’s climax. I was totally engrossed in reading this
book. A priest, a doctor, a professional thief, an author and several other individuals try and uncover the particulars of their shared pasts, though they know not what that past entails. And let me just tell you this … you will not expect the answers Koontz gives.

Read Dean R. Koontz. You will not be disappointed in his work, just don’t go expecting Ayn Rand.

Koontz is much more enjoyable.!!!!

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Other Koontz novels Slappy recommends…

The Bad Place
Midnight
Night Chills
Phantoms
Twilight Eyes**
Watchers
Whispers

**Twilight Eyes is my second favorite Koontz novel. A story about a circus, a psychically ` gifted young man and demonic activity from ages ago planning to conquer the human race.

Mass Market Paperback - 688 pages Reprint edition (May 1996) Berkley Pub Group; ISBN: 0425119920; Dimensions (in inches): 1.50 x 6.84 x 4.17

Reviewed by: The Goose
Wednesday, June 30, 1999

Let me start off by saying that I wrote another draft of this review and after talking with Blind Monkey about it I tossed it in the proverbial circular file. It was choppy and didn’t create any interest in the book. Bad monkey! So I am starting over. And before he can cry foul, let me say that Blind Monkey suggested that I discuss the ‘original monster board’.

So that said, let’s talk about this creepy book. It’s full of mystery and horror. Both genres which I have little experience with. I don’t know if you have noticed, but I’m pretty much Sci-Fi and Fantasy kind of monkey. Stepping out of those genres is difficult at best for me. On the other hand, this story is absolutely fantastic. I think I read it over the course of two days whenever I had a free moment or two I was reading this thing. If I had had the time I wouldn’t have stopped reading until I was done!

Whew! I hope that’s a resounding endorsement.

The premise here is that three friends, a journalist, a recently appointed Police Commissioner, and an Alienist are trying to solve a series of murders in turn of the century New York. One of those three is a young Teddy Roosevelt.

Now Teddy is on top of things and sets up what amounts to a secret cabal to solve these murders. The leader of which is Dr. Lazlo Kreizler - an Alienist. John Moore is the journalist and is included in the investigation more or less by association, the two having gone to Yale together. Rather ironically, Moore had recently returned from England where he had been reporting on ‘The Ripper’ murders.

The ‘monster board’ is a huge blackboard set up by Kreizler to track the murders using what is known, unknown, and the assumptions the team is making. It becomes a fine example of a ‘living document’ that changes as the team learns new things or must discard old assumptions. This is what the master Monkey meant by ‘The Original Monster Board’. A tool which is used by brain-storming teams everywhere and as a concept has found its way onto the internet.

Tracking a serial killer in the city of goth would be hard enough as it is. People disappear, die, and are murdered with frightening frequency. Usually with no rhyme or reason! But, because Roosevelt is the newly appointed chief of police and has been charged with cleaning up NYPD and the streets, he can hardly afford a misstep. If he is somehow embarrassed on this case, all the bad cops and underworld bosses will be on him like white on rice! And they’re not the only problem — the city’s elite don’t want the investigation continued either. Out of site, out of mind. Who cares if some little boys get killed? They were just scum working the streets for money, right?

This story has more weird turns than an Escher drawing. All of which are against a seething backdrop of political and social turmoil which threatens to swallow it before the case is solved. Throw in some bizarre Native American warpath rituals and our stage is set for a very gruesome but interesting story.

The characters are rich and fully developed-if a little dark. Teddy is the only really bright character. Then again, how else could you paint him? The feeling of macabre is like an itch between your shoulder blades, it’s there, you can’t reach it and it seems to grow worse with every passing minute. This story is like that it just builds, and builds, and builds until finally…

Oh! And what about the title? What is an Alienist? Well let me answer that indirectly with a quotation from the very beginning of the book:

Prior to the twentieth century, persons suffering from mental illness were thought to be “alienated,” not only from the rest of society but from their own true natures. Those experts who studied mental pathologies were therefore known as alienists.

Absolutely fascinating, and definitely worthy of its place on Blind Monkey’s Top Ten List!

Hardcover - 496 pages 1 Ed edition (April 1994) Random House; ISBN: 0679417796 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.54 x 9.53 x 6.65

Reviewed by: The Blind Monkey

I often get questions about how to get started in Web design and development, and more importantly, how to do it well. Obviously, these questions aren’t from colleagues, who know that I don’t actually have a clue… but that’s another story. Today I’d like to tell you about one of the few books I’ve found that does a fantastic job of teaching how to blend artistry and functionality. And because it focuses on HTML, it wasn’t out of date before it hit the stands. In fact, it’s been almost a year since it was published and it still has more relevant content than most of the stuff you’ll see on Webmonkey or DevEdge.

Penned by Ardith Ibanez and Natalie Zee, these designers have created some of the sharpest sites on the Net, with Web content and design for Macromedia, Visa, Sony Pictures Entertainment, PhotoDisc, MGM, and more.

Now most HTML books focus on guidance that presents only the most basic dev topics in the driest, coldest language possible. This is most likely due to the fact that techies usually write these books — and that nowadays real designers tend to look down their noses at simple HTML. But HTML Artistry is hands-on Web design guide that step-by-step illustrates all aspects of HTML design, from the simple table layout to full animation with Dynamic HTML. Case studies and inspirational design models will teach you a variety of design principles and how to apply them to your site design. It also does an exceptional job of discussing cross-browser issues and discrepancies, along with alternative means of dealing with each.

Here are some of the great topics you’ll take on:

Designing Intuitive Navigation
Adding Sophistication and Interactivity with HTML and JavaScript
Pushing Your Design with Dynamic HTML
Cascading Style Sheets: Typography Made Simple
Creating the Animations of Your Dreams

These pieces are all fantastic, but my favorite thing about this book is the support. It has a companion Web site where you can download all the code from the book as well as step-by-step tutorials. Tutorials that cover typography, interactivity, navigation, animation, color, and graphics. It’s like getting one-on-one instruction from some of the most talented designers in the business. Now I’d send you to the URL, but to get to the cool stuff, you’ve got to have a password that comes from the book.

So check it out for yourself! It’s got 5 STAR Reviews from everyone who’s visited it on Amazon.com… and more importantly, from the Blind Monkey as well. =)

Paperback - 286 Pages (May 1998) Hayden Books; ISBN: 1568304544 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.67 x 10.00 x 8.06