W. Frederick Zimmerman reviewed:  | |  Five dead fishes to Oxford U. Press: book printed upside down!, February 28, 2010 When my copy arrived, I discovered it is literally printed upside down. The text on the binding points one way, the text on the interior pages points the other way.
Nice in a way to know that even the boffins at Oxford University Press can miss an enormous book-sized typo. Makes the rest of us feel a little better.
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W. Frederick Zimmerman reviewed:  | | 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:  Essential? No. "Long", yes., February 16, 2010 These are most of the Wodehouse works published before 1922 which, sadly, leaves out most of his best stuff and includes primarily juvenilia.
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W. Frederick Zimmerman reviewed:  | |  Hitherto unpublished Keller novella, February 16, 2010 I was thrilled to find this novella, which is not available in printed form, at all, on the Kindle.
the Kindle formatting needs a careful proofing.
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W. Frederick Zimmerman reviewed:
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An unexpected gem from Westlake’s early years, February 8, 2010
This early Westlake novel has been reissued from the terrific Hard Case Crime imprint. Flashes of Westlake’s LOL-funny style shine through more frequently than I expected. Up to the standard of some of the Dortmunder novels.
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W. Frederick Zimmerman reviewed:
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An unexpected gem from Westlake’s early years, February 8, 2010
This early Westlake novel has been reissued from the terrific Hard Case Crime imprint. Flashes of Westlake’s LOL-funny style shine through more frequently than I expected. Up to the standard of some of the Dortmunder novels.
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W. Frederick Zimmerman reviewed:
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beautiful book design, good “access journalism”, February 1, 2010
As a professional book designer, I love the cover.
The book is a classic example of “access journalism”: unattributed “he was thinking that …” accounts of VIP meetings. If you believe it, great. Personally, I’d like to see an end to unattributed stories.
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W. Frederick Zimmerman reviewed:
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beautiful book design, good “access journalism”, February 1, 2010
As a professional book designer, I love the cover.
The book is a classic example of “access journalism”: unattributed “he was thinking that …” accounts of VIP meetings. If you believe it, great. Personally, I’d like to see an end to unattributed stories.
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W. Frederick Zimmerman reviewed:  | | 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:  Inexcusably shoddy binding; budget in rebinding it, February 1, 2010 The two stars are for the binding, which is inexcusably shoddy, especially in a $90 set.
The pages had become detached from the binding in volume I when I opened the box. I sent the whole set back, which was a nuisance and is the first time I have ever returned a book to Amazon as defective.
Now, with the second set, it is a month later and the pages have become detached from the binding again. Obviously, the fault on this is the publisher's, not Amazon's.
The content of the books, of course, is marvelous. Bill Watterson is a great artist and the Calvin and Hobbes collection is an artistic masterwork of the 20th Century that will be read and enjoyed for decades if not centuries to come.
It's ironic that I write this review at the fiery outset of the e-book war between Amazon and, well, everyone else, because this book is a magnificent example of 1) a p-book that would never, never, never work on the Kindle and 2) should never, never, never be priced at only $9.99. Indeed, I would argue that the e-book price should probably be higher than the price of the printed version, since there are so many new uses that become feasible on an e-reader with a high-res, landscape-capable color display.
Recommendation: either a) wait for the color e-book version or b) buy this set, but plan on having it rebound.
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W. Frederick Zimmerman reviewed:  | | What is there to say? It's a pencil sharpener, January 7, 2010 My wife bought this pencil sharpener for our son for Christmas. It cost $20. I think that's a lot of money for a pencil sharpener, don't you? But it seems sturdy enough, and it doesn't spill shavings all over the place when you open it, like our last one did.
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W. Frederick Zimmerman reviewed:  | | 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: Churchill as Bertie Wooster -- a tour de force, December 13, 2009 It was a national tragedy (at least in the UK) when Barack Obama removed the bust of Churchill from the Oval Office. This book reminds us of everything Churchill was that "Dr. Utopia" is not: heroic *and* funny.
Certainly the only book about Winston Churchill I have ever seen that portrays him as a charming boulevardier a la Bertie Wooster. A must for every Churchill aficionado.
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