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In My Own Words:
5 stars: You should own this. 4 stars: If it sounds as though it is your thing, then it definitely is: Get it! 3 stars: Get it only if you are a true fan of the genre, group, or item. 2 stars: Other people may have reasons for liking this, but not very good ones. 1 thin star: What was I thinking? Don't make the same mistake. Admittedly, I dole out too many five star ratings influenced, I thi… Read more5 stars: You should own this.
4 stars: If it sounds as though it is your thing, then it definitely is: Get it!
3 stars: Get it only if you are a true fan of the genre, group, or item.
2 stars: Other people may have reasons for liking this, but not very good ones.
1 thin star: What was I thinking? Don't make the same mistake.
Admittedly, I dole out too many five star ratings influenced, I think, by the wildly inflated star ratings characteristic of amazon's reviews. My reviews are directed at stuff that has little or no feedback, and the otherwise mediocre which is praised to the high heavens. Reviews are done freestyle with minimal editing thus the odd spelling and sentence structure. I do go back in and edit the most egregious errors when I find 'em but this ain't my day job.
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Wow!, I wish I'd had this reference guide when I read the Lord of the Rings Trilogy for it is a quick and easy way to learn about or, more likely, remind oneself of a specific Character, Thing, Location, or just about anything contained in the books. It is structured as an Encyclopedia and the entries are as concise as possible while at the same time giving all of the crucial information that the reader needs to know to get genned up it. When I read the series, I found myself flipping back and forth within and between the books whenever I got stumped on a topic. This became a rather tedious and frustrating exercise so that, by the last part of the third volume, I hardly ever bothered to… Read more
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This massive, oversize, extremely weighty and well-made (Made In Italy) book is a very broad survey of so-called Oceanic Art. This genre may be defined geographically as that area surrounding and surrounded by the Southern Pacific Ocean stretching from Irian Jaya (Indonesian Half of New Guinea), the Northern and Eastern coast of Australia stretching down to New Zealand, as far East as the Easter Islands and up North and West to the Sandwich Islands, and all of the vast number of islands that dot the surface of the ocean in between. This is then, obviously, a huge undertaking and explains the sheer mass of this publication (along with the fact that the book's text is printed in the… Read more
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Look, I would have bought this book no matter what because it is a topic that fascinates me. Still, I admit that this book wasn't an easy read, mostly because this is more like a history as written by an engineer, if you can imagine that. The book is written by a fellow who was primarily responsible for the making of a reproduction of the Mayflower from plans made through his research on what the Mayflower might have been. Yes, that's right, and who knew it, there is no historical record that definitively describes the technical specifications of this hallowed vessel, nor is there even certainty about the pedigree and fate of the ship? Thus the need to do extensive research about ships… Read more
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