Reviews for Rich's High-Tech Business Guide to Silicon Valley and Northern California: 2004-2005 Edition

The average rating for Rich's High-Tech Business Guide to Silicon Valley and Northern California: 2004-2005 Edition based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-10-03 00:00:00 Raeven Harris A four-and-a-HALF-star road trip with 30-something divorced mother-of-one "Emma McChesney, Mrs. (I place it in the background because she generally did)" (Loc. 179), proud 10-year-road-vet representative of T.A. Buck's Featherloom Petticoats, "and her favorite pastime was studying men and women. The two things went well together" (Loc. 352): "'Call 'em weasels. That covers their style, occupation, and character'" (Emma describing a certain desirable element hanging around a department store at Loc. 420). "'Full?' repeated Emma McChesney (and if it weren't for the compositer there'd be an exclamation point after that question mark)" (Loc.487). "Emma McChesney stood on the bottom step, looking up and down Main Street and breathing in great draughts of that unadjectivable air" (Loc. 555). "'When you begin to talk like that...I always feel as though I could take hold in a way to make those famous jobs that Hercules tackled look like little Willie's chores after school'" (Emma's new boss at Loc. 1463). If you enjoyed this sample, hop on the next train through Edna Ferber's early-20th-century Midwest with her plucky warrior, Emma McChesney. Thanks for reading.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-10-04 00:00:00 Vincent Beck Savvy, straight-talking, and self-reliant, Emma McChesney, is as witty and entertaining as the “fast-talking dames” found in old movies, but it’s closer to 1910 than 1930 or 40. Emma’s an early career woman, working as the Midwest sales representative for T.A. Buck’s Featherloom skirts and petticoats, and most of her life is spent on the road--traveling by train, sleeping in hotels, meeting the most interesting people, and outsmarting the male sales reps who are her competition. She’s still stylish and attractive enough to make a man hope, but as a hardworking divorced mother dependant on her income she’s a stickler about her reputation. Roast Beef Medium is the first of three books about the adventures of Emma McChesney. Edna Ferber, also the author of Giant and Show Boat, wrote the McChesney books long enough ago that they’re all in the public domain and ebook copies of them can be downloaded from sites like Project Gutenberg. I listened to a wonderfully narrated Libravox recording, also free, which kept me grinning even when stuck in traffic.