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Okay, it's subjective you say. It's opinion. Yes. But his reasons for dismissing these filmmakers feels like rationalization, not sound reasoning. Shipman comes off as someone resistant to change, to evolution, and it makes his book a somewhat annoying endeavor.
That said, any book this big on cinema is not bad to have around the house, if only to flip through for fun now and then.
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This piece of filth has many facts completely wrong! What is it with English writers hating Judy Garland?! This book even dares to state that Judy was bisexual! She may have had two bisexual husbands, and father, but Judy was normal! Yes, Judy was by no means perfect! She was a smoker, but she was no alcoholic! She did have problems with perscrption drugs, but that wasn't her falt! She was given drugs by her mother before she could talk, to wake up, to sleep, whatevr she felt they needed them for. Yes, Judy Garland was addicted to "pep-up" pills, and "downers", but she did try various times in her life to get off them, but she never quite could, her body needing more and more of them.
contray to manys' beliefs, Judy did not commit suicide, or intentionally overdose on sleeping pills. She had said herself in life that sometimes it was hard to remember what pills she had taken when, and would on occasion accidently overdose, which is what happened on the night/morning she died.
This book, should be titled "The Totally False Rumors of Judy Garland", becouse that is what it is! This book is not the truth anymore than is the fact we live on Pluto! It is not worth the paper it is printed on!
If you want the truth of Judy Garland's life, I recommend "Judy" by Gerold Frank or "Me and My Shadows: Living with the Legacy of Judy Garland" by Judy's daughter Lorna Luft. By one of those!
Don't waste your time with this trash!
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1. It's funny because when you open it up to the cover page, it lists all these PHD's and all, and you're thinking, well, these people know what they're talking about, right? Wrong. The whole book reminded me of myself, trying to b.s. my way through an essay on a topic that I had absolutely no clue on. Seriously, these people use like this language that is so frustrating that not only does it take forever to read a single page, but I'd catch myself going, "what?" Other times, I'd seriously feel like throwing the book across my room.
2. The information covered in the book has absolutely nothing to do with the actual test. Well, it talks about C++ and all, but it's too short where it needs to be longer and too long where it needs to be shorter. And all in all, the topics were just totally off.
3. The questions are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from the ones on the real test. And I mean it too. The questions on the test are totally different from the questions in this book.
4. The case study is wrong!
It's a good thing that I decided to get this book earlier because I had time to get a different book. I know someone in my class who did some last minute studying with this book and was basically screwed for the test. Don't let this happen to you! Stay away from this book! It was a complete waste of time and money. Buy Maria Litvin's 'Be Prepared for the AP Computer Science Exam'. Now THAT was a good book.
Oh yeah, I've been telling you all this, but you're probably wondering who's telling you all this. I had a horrible teacher that didn't teach us anything(we did nothing for like 2 months before the test and we never reviewed) so like I tried to study on my own with this book. Bad idea. I didn't get Maria Litvin's book until a week before the test and basically I tought myself everything I was supposed to learn during the year in a week(without sleeping, of course). I ended up with a four, which is pretty good, since just a week before, I basically knew nothing. But I'm telling you, if I had started with Maria Litvin's book instead of this stupid book, I probably could have gotten a five.
It could also be expected to do more than mention that there is a College Board case study and then phrase its study as something *optional*. (The case study is the subject of at least one of the four extended response questions, and a good handful of the multiple choice.)
In glancing at the book, I was shocked to find that, although it gives a thorough-but-terse overview of theory, it seems to have little actual relation to the exam itself.
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