A series of engineering problems make up the backbone of the book, and each part of the deployment process is explained via text and calculations. For example, in the discussion on planning a radio network for WCDMA service provision, the book explains precisely how to take into account requirements (for quality of service, user capacity, and coverage) and conditions (such as terrain). Readers get formulas into which they can plug relative traffic predictions for voice, real-time data, non-real-time data, and overhead. There's also an explanation of how to interpret the formula output for deploying antennae. This is a serious engineering handbook for those who are involved in deploying WCDMA. --David Wall
By providing a deep understanding of the WCDMA air interface, the practical approach of this third edition will continue to appeal to operators, network and terminal manufacturers, service providers, university students and frequency regulators.
- Covers the main 3GPP Release 6 updates
- Further enhances High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) chapter with a number of new simulation results
- Explains High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) study item
- Introduces the new services including their performance analysis : Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC), streaming, See What I See (SWIS) and multiplayer games
- Presents a number of new WCDMA field measurement results: capacity, end-to-end performance and handovers
- Includes completely updated antenna beamforming and multiuser detection sections featuring new simulation results
- Introduces TD-SCDMA and compares it to Release TDD
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Written by leading experts in the field, the first edition of WCDMA for UMTS quickly became established as the best-selling and most highly respected book on the air interface of 3G cellular systems
Customer Reviews:
improving mobile communications.......2007-01-07
The content is highly technical. Enough "meat" for the practising communications engineer who needs to know this topic well enough to actually develop devices. The book starts off with chapters that give a good general introduction to WCDMA. Explaining in broad terms how it works and the business applications. Where the emphasis is on improving mobile communications, in no small part by permitting higher bandwidth content to be delivered to cellphones.
However, there are implications for the entire network. While the layman just sees her cellphone, the engineer also has to account for changes to the basestation and various radio controllers. Much of the book revolves around explaining what changes are needed.
Read "a different" book before this one........2003-02-07
Otherwise it might be somehow confusing. This book is a must for professionals as another reviewer stated but it is not very suitable as the first book on UMTS technologies. This book serves best as supplementary reading. For example new-beginner readers might get confused talkink about SIP at the first chapter before explaining W-CDMA and core-network layout. Anyway, this book contains wealth of information on UMTS technologies and warmly recommended for serious readers.
Useful compilation of standards, if you need them.......2001-06-16
If you like to read standards or have to in the course of your work, this book offers a useful and succinct compilation. Other than that, there is nothing to recommend this book as it does not help improve your understanding. Then again, this is not the kind of book which people who do not have to work with standards will want to read.
There is a short chapter on cdma2000 at the end.
Not for newbies, must for pros.......2001-06-04
This book delivers exactly what it promises: a profound, compact and clear description of WCDMA for UMTS. The reader is expected to understand quite advanced concepts of mobile communications, hence it is not a good book for managers who want to know what 3G is all about nor for undergraduate students who want to learn cellular system basics. It is an excellent book for experienced network planners, protocol designers or research engineers, for example, who want to move from 2G to 3G. Simple test: if you don't know what are Erlang-B, orthogonal codes or layered protocol architecture, you want to study them first from another book.
umts.......2001-05-29
With UMTS you must read what you can get - unfortunately what you can get is not aleays what you want - so with this book. Although the authors seem well informed, they are not god communicators - their explanations are alternatively trivial or incomprehensible, their diagrams, in most cases copied slavishly from the specifications, explain nothing. Perhaps this book is useful as a reference after the subject is comprehended. Comprehension does not lie here.
Book Description
The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS): Merging the Internet and the Cellular Worlds, Second Edition is an updated version of the best-selling guide to this exciting technology that will merge the Internet with the cellular world, ensuring the availability of Internet technologies such as the web, email, instant messaging, presence and videoconferencing nearly everywhere. In this thoroughly revised overview of the IMS and its technologies, goals, history, vision, the organizations involved in its standardization and architecture, the authors first describe how each technology works on the Internet and then explain how the same technology is adapted to work in the IMS, enabling readers to take advantage of any current and future Internet service.
Key features of the Second Edition include:
- New chapter on Next Generation Networks, including an overview on standardization, the architecture, and PSTN/ISDN simulation services.
- Fully updated chapter on the Push-to-talk over Cellular (PoC) service, covering the standardization in the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), architecture, PoC session types, user plane, and the Talk Burst Control Protocol.
- Several expanded sections, including discussion of the role of the Open Mobile Alliance in the standardization process, IPv4 support in IMS, a description of the IMS Application Layer Gateway and the Transition Gateway, and a description of the presence data model.
- Updated material on the presence service, session-based instant messages with the Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP), and the XML Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP).
- Supported by a companion website on which instructors and lecturers can find electronic versions of the figures.
Engineers, programmers, business managers, marketing representatives, and technically aware users will all find this to be an indispensable guide to IMS and the business model behind it.
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If you need to know the IMS vision you need to read this book....
The IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) is the exciting new technology that will merge the Internet with the cellular world. It will make Internet technologies such as the web, email, instant messaging, presence, and videoconferencing available nearly everywhere.
The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) provides a thorough overview of the IMS and its technologies. Throughout, the authors first describe how each technology works on the Internet and then explain how the same technology is adapted to work in the IMS, enabling readers to take advantage of any current and future Internet service.
- Presents an introduction to the IMS - its goals, history, vision, the organizations involved in its standardization and architecture
- Discusses the signalling plane of the IMS including protocols, such as SIP and Diameter, used between the IMS architectural entities. Also describes how the IETF developed these protocols and how they are used in the IMS architecture
- Describes the media plane of the IMS and discusses Internet protocols that are not currently used in the IMS but may be in the future
- Provides SIP-based service examples such as presence, instant messaging and Push-to-Talk
Engineers, programmers, business managers, marketing representatives, and technically aware users will all find this book invaluable as it will help them to understand how the IMS works and the business model behind it. "
Customer Reviews:
A must have if you start with IMS.......2007-07-11
Possibly the best technical book I've ever read.
I work with IMS technology and we use the book in our department to introduce IMS to newcomers. But I also work in European projects on IMS and the book is the main reference for most of the other teams involved.
You just need this book and the 3GPP specifications for anything you want to do with IMS.
Very Good Book.......2006-11-18
This is a very good book on SIP-based Internet Multimedia Subsystem. The book nicely depicts both the Internet and the IMS architecture implementation of SIP, AAA, VoIP centric security and policy, QoS, presence service, media encoding and transport, and instant messaging. By reviewing this book, a reader will acquire comprehensive knowledge of emerging VoIP and Video Telephony Layer 5 architecture in wireless network. The book can be used as a senior or master-level text book, a useful review guide for the provider engineers, architects, technology strategist, product managers, and technical managers. SIP programmers, implementers, and standard engineers may find the book "not detailed enough". Since technology described in this book and their standards are rapidly changing, authors need to keep the book regularly updated.
Sohel Khan, Principal Technology Strategist, Sprint-Nextel
A mixed bag.......2006-08-23
This book intends to be the de facto handbook for IMS, but it ends up being mostly reference material.
While it has some fairly detailed descriptions of the standards and protocols involved, it does not go beyond the specifications already publicly available, or the methods that some vendors already use. Some chapters read like a translation of technical drafts, while others concerning less defined areas are very high level.
The authors, while doing a good job assembling useful information, probably set out to write this book too early, when IMS was still only a reference framework, without widespread service provider adoption. Furthermore, the corresponding expertise across the industry is missing, thus making this a less elaborate view on the services that IMS would provide, compared to what the book's subtitle would suggest.
If you need a book on IMS right now, and are not happy with the abundance of online materials, buy this book. If you are looking for a comprehensive guide on what IMS means for providers and customers, I personally have not read such a book yet - but even if it has not been released, it is only a matter of time. Keep your eyes peeled for snippets of information coming out of service providers and infrastructure vendors, and for the ongoing debates in the industry around the evolution of the service delivery platform.
Good book but bad index..........2006-02-23
The book is good, expensive but good.
However I'm very disappointed about the index (the alphabetical word list place at the end of the book). Lots of important key words are not listed in the index, which makes the reading difficult. Camarillo, please improve the index!!!
I've also noticed some mis-writings , spelling errors (not mayor issues)
Of course a basic background in telecommunications is needed in order to follow the book, if you do not have that basic knowledge then I do recommend to have the books "Understanding Telecommunications 1 and 2" (Ericsson) by the side when reading Camarillo's book.
IMS - Revealed From the Inside.......2005-10-03
The 3G IMS book provides a look at IMS organization and SIP signaling from one of the people who were there while the protocols were being established. Since this is an emerging and still developing technology, the little insights like "this is what we intended to do here", and "this is where we want this eventually to go" will be emminently helpful in choosing equipment and network organizations.
I have to describe to customers how they might use IMS equipment and integratit into their networks. While this is no engineering level document, it is solid at describing the interfaces they will have to support. I think they will be assured by the information I now have to give them.
This is a bit pricey and the editing a bit sloppy, but then I find that the rule rather than exception with a lot of the inside information manuals.
This will be of great use and I hope it will arm me to be able to comfort customers that this architecture just might work.
Book Description
The Perfect Reference for the Multitasked System Administrators
The new version of Exchange is an ambitious overhaul that tries to balance the growing needs for performance, cost effectiveness, and security. For the average system administrator, it will present a difficult migration path from earlier versions and a vexing number of new features. How to Cheat will help you get Exchange Server 2007 up and running as quickly and safely as possible.
Understand Exchange 2007 Prerequisites
Review hardware and software requirements, Active Directory requirements, and more.
Manage Recipient Filtering
Create a custom MMC that contains the Exchange 2007 Recipients work center, which can be used, for example, by the helpdesk staff in your organization.
Manage Outlook Anywhere
Outlook Anywhere makes it possible for your end users to remotely access their mailboxes from the Internet using their full Outlook clients.
Manage Outlook Web Access 2007
See how Outlook Web Access 2007 was completely rewritten in managed code to make it scale even better.
Use the Exchange 2007 Queue Viewer
You can now view information about queues and examine the messages held within them.
Master Powerful Out-of-the-Box Spam Protection
The Edge Transport server supports SMTP, provides several antispam filtering agents, and supports antivirus extensibility.
Manage a Single-Copy Cluster-Based Setup
SCC-based cluster provides service failover and still has a single point of failure when it comes to the databases.
Recover Mailbox Databases
Use the improved database portability feature to port and recover a Mailbox database to any server in the Exchange 2007 organization.
* Essential information for the multi-tasked System Administrator charged perform everyday tasks
* Includes the latest coverage of the major new release of Exchange Server
* Emphasizes best-practice security measures for all areas and in particular the area of remote access via Outlook
Customer Reviews:
Best Installation Guide .......2007-10-03
Having worked with Exchange since 5.0 I have read many installation guides and administrator's handbooks and I would rate this one as the best. I acquired this book after teaching how to configure and install Exchange 2007 to corporate clients and I have since done away with delivering them my own notes and simply recommend that they purchase this book. It is the ultimate guide to installing and configuring Exchange from a technical perspective. Way to go!
Great technical content, poor editing.......2007-07-17
By page 4, the editing annoyed me and I picked up the unleashed book. I read all 1000 pages and returned unleashed for this book due to the deeper technical information.
If you like to "read" your technical books, this can get tiring. If you want a great reference with lots of info on the issues you will run into on a 2007 deployment, pick this up.
Great Resource for Exchange 2007!!.......2007-06-12
I haven't sat down and read the entire book, I have mainly used it as a reference, but it has been a big help so far. The other day I was online reading some documentation on certificates with Exchange 2007, and I was about to print the article because it was so detailed and helpful, when I realized it was an excerpt from this book that I already owned. So I took out the book and read it there instead. I've got a pocket guide and one other reference guide, but this is the one I use most often.
Henriks Efforts are Welcome.......2007-05-31
Henrik has provided the Exchange community with plenty of wisdom over the years. This book is just another example of his treatise of this complicated subject. Out of all the Exchange 2007 references in book format, his is on tops. For anyone needing to learn how to install/upgrade and configure Exchange 2007, this reference will provide welcome guidance. Well-done Henrick. (And, who is the hack with the bad evaluation....maybe he needs the pop-up version of the book to make it more clear to him!)
Exelent.......2007-05-30
Was able to configure Exchange server very eaisly with the help of this book.
Book Description
A wide range of real-world examples illustrates the theoretical aspects of this tutorial introduction to digital mobile wireless networks. In particular, 2.5G and 3G packet-switched systems are discussed in detail, as are wireless LANs and personal-area networks. Many worked examples and homework exercises are provided, and a solutions manual is available for instructors. The book is an ideal text for electrical engineering and computer science students taking courses in wireless communications. It will also be an invaluable reference for practicing engineers.
Customer Reviews:
many problems for the student.......2005-04-20
This is not really a book big on theory. Instead, its main merit is a focused, problem-based approach. For long established subjects like calculus, say, the usefulness of having extensive problem sets for a student to tackle is apparent. And thus there are indeed plenty of texts to supply those problems.
But for the mobile wireless field, most standards and implementations are still so new. There has been little time for some author to come up with a suitable and indepth suite of problems, until this text. The comprehensive nature of these may be very attractive to a lecturer. Plus, the author also offers an adjunct solutions book.
Customer Reviews:
Good Refernce book.......2005-11-12
Good reference book. It provids concepts and material important for graduate studies and industry. I recommand it.
Little bit disappoint.......2005-05-15
This has many typos, which can be frustrating in following the context. And I found out that the typos are different to other 2nd editions. Little bit disappointing.
A very technical book.......2005-04-21
I recommend this book for anyone pursuing a Certification like CWNA, CWNP or other wireless certifications. The technical concepts which are at the core of design, implementation, research, and invention of wireless communication systems are presented in an order that is conducive to understanding the general concepts, as well as those specific to current and evolving wireless communication systems and standards.
The Author has done a great job of explaining Radio wave propagation which has historically been the most difficult problem to analyze and design for, since unlike a wired communication system which has a constant, stationary transmission channel (i.e., a wired path), radio channels are random and undergo shadowing and multipath fading, particularly when one of the terminals is in motion. I particularly liked the chapter on modeling spatial-temporal channels, which is vital for the development of smart antennas and position location systems.
The appendices contain hundreds of mathematical formulas and identities for general engineering work.
The compilation of the major wireless standards makes this book particularly useful as a single source of information for a wide range of wireless systems that are commercially deployed today.
I gave this book 4 stars as I feel that the problems included in the book should have the answers as well.
Niloufer Tamboly, CISSP
One of the Best Book.......2005-04-14
This is one of the best book for this field!
Unorganized textbook.......2003-02-24
this book is not good for the beginner in wireless communication. I have to use this textbook, because it's the requirement form my instructor.
the author didn't organize this book as well as he should. All equations are not well explained...Sometime the students need to guess where this variable stands for or what parameter's meaning is. He wrote like the literature or drama.....no space for equation's explanation...all of them are in the same paragrah.
i really don't recommend this textbook and i still don't understand why my instructor uses this text
Book Description
The IMS: IP Multimedia Concepts and Services in the Mobile Domain, Second Edition, builds on the success of the previous best-selling edition, providing comprehensive coverage of IMS – its concepts, architecture, protocols and functionalities with a wealth of new and updated material.
Mobile telephony with the current technology has been hugely successful and demonstrates the immense value of communicating with peers while being mobile, and with increasingly available smarter multimedia terminals, the communication experience will be something more than just exchanging voice. These multimedia terminals need IP multimedia networks. Hence the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has developed a standard for SIP-based IP multimedia service machinery known as ‘The IMS’ (IP Multimedia Subsystem). This completely up-to-date and informative guide explains everything you need to know about it...
Key features of the Second Edition include:
- Two new chapters on push-to-talk over cellular and group management.
- Additional new material includes: fixed and mobile convergence, interworking between IPv4 and IPv6 in the IMS, combined circuit-switched and IMS services (combinational services), IMS security and alternative session establishment procedures.
- More coverage of the benefits of IMS, particularly with regard to its role in fixed-mobile convergence.
- Special emphasis on services, featuring more detailed descriptions of presence, messaging, group management and push-to-talk over cellular (conferencing).
- Updates on Third Generation Partnership Project Agreement (3GPP) Release 6 level.
- New examples and case studies, including a variety of scenarios, how to handle multiple terminals and end-user preferences.
Written in a manner that allows readers to choose the level of knowledge and understanding they need to gain about the IMS, this volume will have instant appeal to a wide ranging audience including marketing managers, research and development engineers, network engineers, developes, test engineers and university students.
Customer Reviews:
Good IMS Book.......2007-08-05
Good IMS book with satisfactory beginner to advanced content. Can benefit from some format enhancements and a better hierarchical approach to the IMS. Otherwise, I definitely recommend.
The IMS: IP Multimedia Concepts and Services.......2007-03-17
This book stands out amongst the limited titles on IMS,which are really comprehensive in nature and would specially seem very well structured in terms of flow of information to those who have tried to go through endless revisions of 3GPP standards.But where this book disappoints is that it has only and only reffered to 3GPP standards and have got no referrence to 3GPP2 and some delta specifications by Cablelabs for cable service providers.
Average customer rating:
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Book Description
This book offers a quantitative and design-oriented presentation of the analog RF aspects of modern wireless telecommunications and data transmission systems from the antenna to the baseband level. It takes an integrated approach to topics such as antennas and proagation, microwave systems and circuits and communication systems.
Customer Reviews:
Exceptional presentation.......2007-04-01
A very interesting and very well written book. A great deal of examples give a good feel about useful implementations and the limitations of concepts.
Good for principiants.......2006-11-10
The book it is very simple, to them than are beginig to wireless or microwave systems. Easy to understood and not make a deep mathematical analysis.
Introductory Material. Little Technical Details.......2002-01-19
This book gives brief introduction to many important aspects of RF and uW engineering. There are very little mathematical derivations and technical explainations. I'd suggest buying Microwave Engineering by the same author (David Pozar) which is an excellent book on the subject
Great RF book.......2001-01-01
This book covers a wide range of knowledge needed to get started on RF engineering field. It covers background theories in wireless technology, transmission lines, antennas, filters, amplifiers, mixers, oscillators, some modern modulation techniques, and also transceiver architecture.
Although this book does not provide in depth coverage on those topics, it still provides enough background for begineers to get started in radio design with discrete components. Many practical examples are given including low noise amplifier design and practical filter transformation (Kuroda transformation) into microstrips.
One great thing about this book is its completeness from transmitting end to receiving end, which provide readers with better overall picture on what is needed in RF design.
Book Description
This comprehensive reference provides developers with the information they need to develop new applications or move existing applications to handheld devices and other resource-constrained hardware. It offers specific techniques for writing mobile applications, including developing GUI elements using Web Forms, transferring data using XML Web services, working with local and remote data sources, and developing applications that can operate in a disconnected state from the wireless network. The book illustrates each technique with working code samples in Visual Basic .NET and Visual C# .NET. It also includes a quick reference appendix showing the differences between the .NET Compact Framework and the full .NET Framework.
Customer Reviews:
The first and definitely one of the best books on the Compact Framework.......2005-09-06
As the first Compact Framework book on the market, it helped light the way for all that followed. As a mobile developer, this book has helped me tremendously and I refer to it all the time. This book belongs in the collection of anyone who has to tackle the nuances of embedded development on the Windows Mobile platform.
Great book!.......2005-07-19
I have learned a lot about the .NET compact framework. It has been a great first-book to begin my understanding of this topic. The examples in the book really help to advance my understanding. I highly recommend it for anyone looking to begin a project on the .NET compact framework.
If this book's so great, why won't the code run?.......2004-11-15
Chapter 17, UsingSQLCESample. First, the buttonAdd_Click() event wasn't added to the button, so you click away and nothing happens, until you figure it out yourself & fix it. Then, the section in the book dealing with parameters is missing from the sample code, and the DataGrid never does fill with data. This job is difficult enough without having to spend time debugging some "expert's" sample code!
Best of the best.......2004-04-26
This is definatley the most comprhencive and infomative book about pocket pc out there.
Buy this book first, you will not regret it.
Great book.......2004-04-15
I have some .NET C# experience, and this book is great. If you were new to C# it would probably be difficult, but for those with some .NET experience this book is perfect.
I expected the book would come with a CD containing code samples, but you have to download them from Microsoft.
http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/companion/5960.asp
<-, then click on Companion Content.
-Matt
Listening to: 'God Fearing Man' from 'Fight For Your Mind' by 'Ben Harper' on Media Center 9.1
Book Description
Israel Armstrong is a passionate soul, lured to Ireland by the promise of an exciting new career. Alas, the job that awaits him is not quite what he had in mind. Still, Israel is not one to dwell on disappointment, as he prepares to drive a mobile library around a small, damp Irish town. After all, the scenery is lovely, the people are charming—but where are the books? The rolling library's 15,000 volumes have mysteriously gone missing, and it's up to Israel to discover who would steal them . . . and why. And perhaps, after that, he will tackle other bizarre and perplexing local mysteries—like, where does one go to find a proper cappuccino and a decent newspaper?
Customer Reviews:
Quirky mystery about books and libraries.......2007-09-23
The first of the "Mobile Library Mysteries" series is an easy and entertaining read, filled with quotes and literary trivia from famous and not so famous books and poetry. It also features the lead character, a bumbling 29-year-old Jewish librarian from London, using tomes like a Harry Potter novel and Yann Martel's Life of Pi as objects in his sleuthing rather than as works of literature. Case in point - the occasionally intrepid Israel Armstrong uses the Harry Potter novel to break a window in a noteworthy breaking-and-entering scene. I wonder if Mr. Sansom, like Mr. Armstrong, dislikes these titles.
The plots or mysteries - missing books and persons - aren't the main draw of the books. No, it's the witty writing, the hilarious scenes, and the roundabout thoughts of Israel that made me blaze through the book. I love his love of books and libraries. And it tickled me how he described driving a mobile library as the absolute low point of a librarian's career.
Sansom has a wonderful ear for conversation, sets a great scene, and often fills it with hilarity.
A "keeper".......2007-08-19
There are many books I don't mind giving away or swapping when I'm done reading them. "The Case of the Missing Books" is one I'd like to keep in my collection, however, and it surprised me when I finished it that I felt this way.
When I began the book, I was amused, interested, and didn't mind the storyline, yet I wasn't completely enthralled or won over. Some of the humor in the beginning felt a little too much - and kind of slapstick. At first I thought, "Oh no! Poor Israel!" and then I started thinking, "OK, this is a little much." I almost stopped reading it, but in spite of myself, I continued and as the story progressed, and I couldn't even tell you exactly where in the book it was, but I got hooked, and the clumsy misfortunes of Israel began to be balanced with one good thing happening here... another two good things happening there... and the whole story seemed to improve, too - by the end, I understood more why the book began as it did - Israel, a "Highly Sensitive Person," undergoes a slow, but sure, transformation. Characters (including Israel, to a point) I didn't particularly like in the beginning change, evolve, and become empathetic and likable.
As for the mystery - it does begin laughably, but remember - Israel isn't a detective and doesn't claim to be one. He's pushed into this, and so I think it makes sense that some of his hypotheses are silly or funny. And one of his mistakes brings about something quite good, as a matter of fact. I love how the mystery is resolved - but that could be because I quite value books and having access to them (and I'm also one of those people who has a bookcase in every room of my home!) ... someone who doesn't mind having a good book to read but who's not really upset if he/she does NOT have a book, either, may be neutral about the whole missing books mystery idea.
A 'laugh out loud' book!.......2007-08-03
My Book Club will be reading this later this year. I'm not sure there's a lot to 'discuss' but it was really fun to read. My husband is now reading it - he couldn't wait to do so because I was constantly laughing as I read it. It is a rather improbable story but the British humor is a riot.
This Book will Make you Smile!.......2007-05-26
Israel Armstrong is a Jewish vegetarian from London who takes a job in rural Northern Ireland as librarian of a mobile library. It is a laugh-a-minute as Israel goes from one disaster to another but even this can't keep him from his job. The one thing that does keep him from doing his job is the fact that all 15,000 library books are missing. Israel must find the books. He blunders around the countryside looking for them, wrecking havoc and making enemies as he goes.
The locals in the book are all charmingly eccentric. There's his boss Linda Wei a large Chinese lady who loves to eat and will not take no for an answer. Next we meet Ted who runs Ted's Cabs and initially seems like an idiot but turns out to be a very intelligent, well read, lovable guy. The character of George is played by a beautiful woman who runs a farm and the list goes on and on. It is truly a delightful set of characters that Sansom brings to life and one can only hope they all return in the next book.
The storyline is fast paced and very amusing. There are many twists and turns as Israel stumbles his way about Ireland. Israel is irreverent and silly and you will be amazed by the things he does and says. If you are looking for a refreshing, light-hearted, comical read then this is the book for you.
the annoying protagonist.......2007-05-24
The main character is highly annoying- a squishy bookdweller who has no concept of how to interact with other human beings. Despite this- I found I couldn't put the book down. The plot is compelling, the setting and characters are amusing and interesting. The resolution is a bit anticlimactic, but leaves room for the series to continue. The author wets your whistle for the next book with a teaser at the end of this novel. I enjoyed the book, and really hope that the protagonist develops along with the series.
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