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Q: Title: More of an attaboy for the author than good info for the new artist Review: I was looking for a book that demonstrated BASICS on painting techniques such as palette selection, brush loading and stroke techniques. All he showed or described were single photos and one short paragraph on the topics I wanted. This was certainly not sufficient to launch me confidently into the area of landscape art. Painting and drawing skills are acquired by practice, and no book will make you an instant success, but the book was boldly listed as BASICS and one would think that it should thoroughly demonstrate or describe very basic methods and techniques. This book was a big disappointment. The topics and techniques discussed are repeated in other Yerry Yarnell books. That makes it seem that his series is just a cut and paste reprint of a basic framework where he substitutes landscapes in one book with sea and water in another. I won't buy another Yarnell book. There are others that cover what I need much better. Is this product review negative?
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Q: Title: Too wide for normal headstocks Review: I bought four of these a few years ago to hang three acoustics and an electric on the walls of my home studio. My only complaint about them happens to be a pretty big one: The horseshoe-shaped part that holds the guitar is too wide for the headstock on all the guitars. So all four of the guitars are actually hanging with the weight of the entire guitar on the tuners (machine heads) instead of the headstock. At the very least, this results in the guitars going out of tune every time they are put away. At the worst, it will damage the guitars. The guitars are each made by different manufacturers and are standard sizes, so it's not a guitar-size issue. I tried to improve these hangers by bending both sides in toward each other. It helped a little bit but not enough to solve the problem. Aside from this problem, the hangers are fine. They seem solidly built and the materials seem reasonably good. But that width problem is somewhat of a deal-killer. Is this product review negative?
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Q: Title: Good application of faith to life Review: The mystery of this novel was intriging, but the draw of the book for me was the way the author wove the faith of the characters with the crises in their lives. Blackstock pulls no punches as she shows us Christians and non-Christians living out their lives, "warts and all." It's not just a mystery that has been "christianized" with "god-words," it is an look at believable characters who struggle with their faith, yet perservere. Bad things do happen to Christians, yet the promise of Romans 8:28 is evident throughout the book. If, like me, you are used to Patricia Cornwell novels, you will find that Blackstock is not as developed, but her characters still have a depth that makes them believable. I approached the novel with a bit of skepticism because I'm used to the likes of Cornwell; however, I came away with my spirit lifted in a way that I've never gotten from secular mysteries. Is this product review negative?
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