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Title: Not his best work
Review: I love Macaulay - The Way THings Work, Castle, Unbuilding, etc. My dad's an architect and I've always appreciated DM's drawing style and sense of humor. The story and humor of this book are severely lacking. It's just not funny. It's an artifact of the 80's, but not a cool one like Ferris Bueller's Day Off or a centerfold from a dusty 1983 Playboy at a garage sale. It's the part of the 80's where maybe everyone was all coked out and you didn't really need to be that funny for people to think you were great. I'm planning on giving this away to a child, and then I will secretly be pretty disappointed in them if they like it very much. On the other hand, every other Macaulay book they read will be much better, so I'm making a positive difference.
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