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Title: Design Patterns: for Dummies....
Review: Any time I read books that claim to be the product of epiphanies I get worried. In this case, it's more than justified. I bought this book because of the good reviews here, thinking that it might be a good way to get some of the junior programmers in our group into patterns. Instead, it's ultimately a very shallow revelation delivered in a style that eventually makes me think the writers are slipping back into the same stories over and over again between bouts of polident and fibercon, repeating themselves ad nauseum. There are many good, important points made in the book, unfortunately they are all lifted from other books. The original material here, when you strip away the bowdlerized, readers digest sendup of the gang of four, Meyer, and Alexander, boils down to how the authors solved one silly problem with a legacy CAD app (zzz....zzzz....). Save your money.
