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Roller Coasters: A Thrill Seeker's Guide to the Ultimate Scream Machines

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A Book that makes you love or continue to love rollercoasters. After his successful website ..., Robert Coker returns with a wonderful book that offers detailed ride dessriptions, beautiful pictures and helpful background on construction firms.
A book from a rollercoaster-lover to rollercoaster-lovers.
Those who were familiar with the content of ... will quickly recognize, that Coker has put the coasters he introduced to his website readers in detail into this classic book fomat.
The book is divided into five chapters:
1. coaster history
2. wooden coasters (Shivering Timbers, Cyclone (the master's favourite), GhostRider, Lightning Racer, The Beast,
3. steel coasters (Riddler's Revenge, Alpengeist, Medusa, Batman & Robin: the Chiller, Volcano: the Blast Coaster, Stealth)
4. extreme machínes (Steel Force,Nitro, Goliath, Son of Beast, Millenium Force, Steel Dragon 2000, Oblivion, TA2000, Superman: the Escape, Tower of Terror, Let it Ride High Roller)
5. aftershock (X, ArrowBatic, Deja Vu, Air, Tilting Coasters)
the last chapter is a look into the future (as far as the book was written (it does not contain pictures of the last rides, just giving small introduction of what (at the time of writing the book) is yet to come.
An appendix listing selected coasters and parks worldwide
and a glossary introducing the reader to selected coaster terms.

A Book that makes you love or continue to love rollercoasters. After his successful website ...,
Robert Coker returns with a wonderful book that offers detailed ride dessriptions, beautiful pictures
and helpful background on construction firms.
A book from a rollercoaster-lover to rollercoaster-lovers.
Those who were familiar with the content of ... will quickly recognize, that Coker has put the
coasters he introduced to his website readers in detail into this classic book fomat.
The book is divided into five chapters:
1. coaster history
2. wooden coasters (Shivering Timbers, Cyclone (the master's favourite), GhostRider, Lightning
Racer, The Beast,
3. steel coasters (Riddler's Revenge, Alpengeist, Medusa, Batman & Robin: the Chiller, Volcano:
the Blast Coaster, Stealth)
4. extreme machínes (Steel Force,Nitro, Goliath, Son of Beast, Millenium Force, Steel Dragon
2000, Oblivion, TA2000, Superman: the Escape, Tower of Terror, Let it Ride High Roller)
5. aftershock (X, ArrowBatic, Deja Vu, Air, Tilting Coasters)
the last chapter is a look into the future (as far as the book was written (it does not contain pictures
of the last rides, just giving small introduction of what (at the time of writing the book) is yet to
come.
An appendix listing selected coasters and parks worldwide
and a glossary introducing the reader to selected coaster terms.

This book is awesome!!!! It has HUGE pictures, with GREAT reviews!! This is a MUST for any coaster fan!!!

So I'm not sure why they are selling this book for $125 dollars. Even $48 dollars. Don't get me wrong its a great book but I got it at Barnes & Noble for $20.

This was a excelent book that had great pictures and cool reviews and its worth buying or taking a look at. Chris

I really love rollercoasters and this book is a great guide to them. Rober Coker is the best source a coaster fan can have. This book sets up the different kinds of coasters as well as having great pictures.

This book is filled with a history of roller coasters and lots of great color filled pictures. From Russian ice slides and PA switchback trains to the thrill of Kingda Ka, no style of coaster is left un-done. A great book for the coaster lover's library.

This book is far better than the others out there today, great pictures, it talks about the major coaster designers and builders, both wood and steel. and the lesser one's, like RCCA.
The beginning has a good section of the early days of coasters, with very rare pictures. Like R.Knudsen patent for the Inclined-Plane Railway in 1878.
All in all if your a coaster fan or just interested in them, this is a good reference book.

My nephew was thrilled with this book. It had past and present coasters from all over. Great pictures and history. I ordered it as NEW and it was perfect.

This is a great book for anyone who is interested in roller coasters. It includes history of roller coasters, wooden roller coasters, steel roller coasters, and extreme machienes. It also has great pictures. Take my advice, this book is great!