Title: Struts, smuts Review: Book is kind of simplistic, but it reflects an 'API' that is overly complicated for what it does. Abstraction is a good thing - as long as it conceptually simplifies an interface. Struts is abstraction for the sake of abstraction. It is a complex abstraction over a set of complex APIs. It seems to me that the designers of Structs just wanted to write an abstraction layer for the sake of writing one. There are lots of complicated things that I normally program that Structs can't even begin to do. And, all the objects that Structs creates makes it perform slowly. Is this product review negative?

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Title: Not what I really wanted Review: Given the subject matter of germs that cause horrible diseases and death, they could have written it above [...]level. I bought it to read to my [..]hoping it would have more science to reinforce the necessity of hand washing and general good hygiene. If I had looked through it first I would not have purchased it. I guess I should have known by the title that it was not what I really wanted. Is this product review negative?

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Title: Complexity and Dead End Review: The book combines elements of different philosophies: post-modernism, structuralism, and deconstruction. It is a meeting of vague philosophical generalizations and scientific terminology (e.g., neural networks), and as such, it muddles things instead of making them clear. The hope being that, if things look complex and muddled, people will consider the book profound.I have to say that stylistically the book is fairly well written, yet this is not something one would read for entertainment. Bottom line: this is an attempt at some sort of philsophical synthesis which, in reality, is an intellectual dead end. Is this product review negative?

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