Title: What's the big hoopla?
Product review: Based on the ravingly good reviews I bought this book as a present and was incredibly disappointed. Makes me pledge to never buy a book based solely on on-line reviews ever again. He politely flipped through the book, gave a polite thanks and then "forgot" to bring it home. I found it mostly uninspired, making up for lack of quality with quantity that then only confirmed the toss-off that made up most of the pages. Printing wasn't great. Illustrations weren't great. Writing wasn't great. And what design? Waste of money. I expected it to have the looseness of "Speck" but this book brings none of the sense of wonder, play, reflection I found in that great book.
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