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Good Start!
Great start for the Win 2k MCSE's. I would recommend also buying the Exam prep Series along with this.Also the ExamCram series and the Test!Yourself Books create a well rounded four pronged assault of the MCSE's.If you need labs try the LabSim series.
Don't buy these Books!!!
Poorly written and filled with errors. It is a huge waste of money to buy these books. The guides from the Microsoft press are much better and what I would recommend.
Good take on the classics
Paul Motian assembles a talented group of mostly younger (at the time) players to tackle jazz classics. There may be a thousand other jazzmen who've had the same idea, but the interesting thing about this one is the use of two guitar players. Kurt Rosenwinkel's profile has gotten higher recently, and I've not heard anything about Wolfgang Muthspiel, but he plays well here. Chris Cheek and Chris Potter play sax, & Steve Swallow & Don Alias round out the rhythm section. The three originals aren't very notable, but this group does nice work on songs by Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Dizzy Gillespie.
I should have stopped at Sunwing. . .
I read this one because I fell in love with Shade in Marina when I first read Silverwing. I read Sunwing too, and was still impressed. But Firewing was horrible! I was an extra to the two books before it. Shade found his father, Goth is suppoedly dead, Zotz is gone and Shade and Marina are together. So what's left??Oppal threw in this thing with the UnderWorld and Griffen. I didn't expect this one to end with a mini cliffhanger. I won't give it away because it would ruin reading the thing, but come on!
Dissapointing
I read Firewing because Sunwing and Silverwing were great. I loved the characters of Shade and Marina, and even Goth. But Firewing is definately not worth buying. Sunwing has a satisfying ending, and you don't need to waste your time reading a story that's hard to keep track of, doesn't add up, and has the most dissapointing ending of any book I ever read. Please, take my advice and pick a different book.
Firewing
Firewing by David Oppel is a great book there is nonstop action and has a very exitingplot. This is a story has love and adventure and the consequences of a lifetime. When a young bat is sucked into the underworld he has to make decisions of who and who not to trust. He is faced with grueling tasks and long journeys so he can escape with his life. The characters a so exiting Griffin, a young bat that is not very brave and thinks way to much. Luna, is brave, daring, strong, and does not think at all before she plunges into any wild ideas she comes up with. Shade is Griffins father who is like Luna a lot but he is very famous and is known all over the forest. This is a book that will really keep you on the edge of your set. It has a lot of adventure that will entertain you even if you hate toread. The author has also written these must reads Silverwing and Sunwing. This book is intended for ages 10-15 it is pretty easy to read but is about 270 pages long.