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With this as inspiration i may change my whole style:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/cm/member-reviews/-/A2168UCFEG07S0
I loved his review of "Effective Java".
 
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Originally posted by Thomas Paul:
With this as inspiration i may change my whole style:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/cm/member-reviews/-/A2168UCFEG07S0
I loved his review of "Effective Java".


Has anyone yet written a book consisting of book reviews? This guy would deserve a chapter with his reviews. I enjoyed the French Legionnaire one the best...
 
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"For years it was said that the road to modern riches lay in a mastery of Java. This once inspired me to contact the Starbucks Corporation about acquiring a franchise with the remaining wisps in our trust fund (true story: an ill-starred thrice-great grandfather of mine set sail for Santiago in 1849, having misheard the talk about gold in San Francisco. This sort of thing runs in families). The chatter was of course about computers, not coffee, and years later I finally acted on this revised intelligence and sat down before my PC with this outstanding manual, determined to learn the new language of commerce..."
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a book consisting of book reviews
-- This is a good idea. It is said that "Majority Of Human Discourse Now Occurring In Online Product Reviews" so what the heck...
There will be a chapter about reviews for "Algorithms in Java, Third Edition", which were also found by Tom.

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Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
There will be a chapter about reviews for "Algorithms in Java, Third Edition", which were also found by Tom.


Michael "The Creator" Schidlowsky has well endowed the new version of this book with Java code obviously fondled by God himself.
 
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Sounds like a fun exercise.
It may even be possible to review a book without actually refering to the book...
 
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Originally posted by Thomas Paul:
With this as inspiration i may change my whole style:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/cm/member-reviews/-/A2168UCFEG07S0
I loved his review of "Effective Java".



My god :roll: :roll: no wonder his first wife left him. I could continue to question his sexuality but my post would probably get deleted. Once his kids start school, they're gonna have a hard time...
 
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Funny stuff. The Sally Struthers one was my favourite (or was it just mean?)
 
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Great stuff, really. Thanks Tom!
The Sally Struthers one was my favourite (or was it just mean?)
Well yes. But if you're going to be mean, do it in style, right? His review of a Michael Moorcock's biography has a similar style, though wholly different topic (Which may have fueled Simon's comment above). "...so one expects that he no longer has to tolerate oafish wits making infantile cracks about his surname." Well, one might expect, if one hadn't read any of the preceding review. There's a Bach book review in much the same style, but not as funny.
Let's see... favorites...
[for Effective Java]: "For weeks I felt inept and hopelessly outmoded, until one day I had the good fortune of hailing a taxicab whose driver was the author of one of this book's rivals"
"However after hard personal experience I have concluded that those who have virtually no facility with their hands should never, ever attempt to splice a High Energy Discharge tamp to inbound wiring that has even the remotest chance of linking back to the main city grid. Casting a third of Beacon Hill into darkness can generate a certain heady sense of power. However if this feat is accomplished inadvertently, and in the company of a brilliant shower of sparks followed by impenetrable darkness in one's basement, one instead tends to reflect soberly and humbly on one's own mortality. "
"You see Carlotta is far younger than me, and occasionally hatches little pranks that play on my relative ignorance of popular culture (true story: I almost consented to naming our slightly pudgy infant son "Cartman" after she persuaded me that this was the name of a faded but celebrated aristocratic family from Maine)."
"Your inner Homer will be thrilled with this book and its lessons. And at just over 200 pages, it's the ideal length for a day-long sentence to traffic school at which attention must be periodically feigned."
Many other favorites can't be really extracted from their contexts without significantly reducing their impact. You've really got to read the whole review to appreciate these. Examples are the reviews for Life in the French Foreign Legion, Senco A9 Palm Nailer, Fast Food Nation, (hey, three in a row), The Advocate, Women For Afghan Women, and, finally, the linked reviews for Storm 3000 and Student Drum Set. Whew! Added to my Amazon "favorite people" list; I'll eagerly await further entries.
 
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Originally posted by Thomas Paul:
With this as inspiration i may change my whole style:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/cm/member-reviews/-/A2168UCFEG07S0
I loved his review of "Effective Java".


Unfortunately this guy seems to give damn near every book 5 out of 5 stars. It makes his reviews less than helpful, though they are entertaining. Then again maybe he only reviews masterpieces... :roll:
 
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It makes me wonder if he has a book review generator program (sort of like the Dilbert Mission Statement generator).
BTW, Thomas - How exactly did you run across these reviews?
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Originally posted by John Wetherbie:
BTW, Thomas - How exactly did you run across these reviews?


He is an Amazon Review Junkie.
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Ah, I see! Maybe I should post this review on Amazon and see if I can be a top reviewer!
 
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Originally posted by Chris Mathews:

He is an Amazon Review Junkie.

Yes, this is absolutley true. I am also a top 100 reviewer in the UK.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/cm/member-glance/-/A1ST9PG26FSN2H/
I found Mr. Higgensworth because of his review of "Effective Java". That led me back to his review page.
 
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