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Alex Robinson's "Box Office Poison," (Top Shelf Productions; 602 pg.; $29.95), has nothing to do with Hollywood, but is instead a phone-book-sized story of friends and lovers in their twenties living and working in New York City. The central character, Sherman, slaves away at a Manhattan bookstore while struggling with aspirations of being a writer and coping with his self-destructive girlfriend. Meanwhile his best-friend, Ed, employed as the assistant to an old-time comicbook "legend," begins a crusade to earn his craggy boss compensation for the lucrative characters he signed away fifty years...
...thematic, artistic goal. The book works much better as a smartly depicted character study of the post-graduate, middle-class, suburban types that spend several years in the city before getting married and moving out. The six hundred pages give Robinson room to flash back on important events like Sherman's struggle with his mom's cancer and Ed's tale of retribution against an abusive uncle. Every fifty pages or so he makes the characters answer a get-to-know-you question like, "What is your secret talent...
...help in that quest, Price and search consultant Chris Sherman have written The Invisible Web (Information Today; 399 pages), a comprehensive attempt at mapping the invisible Web. It details how current search technology works or, more to the point, why it often doesn't: search engines are expensive and cumbersome to maintain, often taking four to six weeks to revisit and reindex a website. Even then they'll probably not burrow beyond the first level or two of data, especially if they're in a large corporate or academic site. And a crawler is often stymied by complicated offerings like...
...could be called the most successful Everest expedition ever, and not just because of Erik's participation. A record 19 climbers from the N.F.B. team summited, including the oldest man ever to climb Everest--64-year-old Sherman Bull--and the second father-and-son team ever to do so--Bull and his son Brad...
...could be called the most successful Everest expedition ever, and not just because of Erik's participation. A record 19 climbers from the N.F.B. team summited, including the oldest man ever to climb Everest?64-year-old Sherman Bull?and the second father-and-son team ever to do so?Bull and his son Brad...