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Summary: Worth reading, even if you don't care about electricity!
Review: I started out as a confused electronics student, and my high school electronics teacher gave me a copy of this book. It didn't bore me, and it straightned up everything I had questions about. Now, I think it's a must-read for anyone interested in electricity, engineering, physics, computers, or anything of the sort! 2 thumbs up!
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Summary: Seeing electricity from the perspective of the electrons
Review: I'm a Professional Engineer with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and 15 years experience in the field. As a result, I was living under the delusional assumption that electronics had something to do with electrons. Fortunate for me, Ken came along and set me free of this silly idea. After all those years of math, physics, and chemistry, I've never been very comfortable with electric shock therapy, or electricity in general. Ken's book has changed my outlook entirely. Now I get up in the morning and can't wait to turn on all the electrical gadgets in my house. I recommend this book to anyone trying to understand electrical theory. Ken's book is entertaining and very memorable. He takes one of the most complex topics in modern science and reduces it down to a level that even an engineer like me can understand.... Now that's an accomplishment!
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Summary: So That's How It Works!
Review: I'm a Professional Engineer with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and 15 years experience in the field. As a result, I was living under the delusional assumption that electronics had something to do with electrons. Fortunate for me, Ken came along and set me free of this silly idea. After all those years of math, physics, and chemistry, I've never been very comfortable with electric shock therapy, or electricity in general. Ken's book has changed my outlook entirely. Now I get up in the morning and can't wait to turn on all the electrical gadgets in my house. I strongle recommend this book to anyone trying to understand electrical theory. Ken's book is entertaining and very memorable. He takes one of the most complex topics in modern science and reduces it down to a level that even an engineer like me can understand.... Now that's an accomplishment!
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: If you thought electricity was boring, you may want to give it another chance by reading this book. Kenn Amdahl is so inventive in his writing. It's not a text book, but it explains electricity in a way that even if you have a short attention span, you will learn and be very entertained while reading it. I just wish the author would put out another book or two.
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Summary: An off-the-wall approach to learning electronics
Review: Nothing dull here, catches your attention or that of a young adult and uses quantum ideas and practical experience to end up teaching a lot about electricity and electronics in a way that is just plain hard to get bored with. A very different technical book, conversational writing.
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Summary: There are no other books to teach a beginner about electrons
Review: Oops did I say electrons I meant Greenies. Want to know what a Greenie is? Well a Greenie is a brilliant teaching method used in this book by a very gifted author. It doesn't stop there though. This book is like reading a script for a really good episode of "X-Files", but the whole time you are learning about electronics. If you want to start learning electronics, let Kenn Amdahl be your Yoda. However, the book may scare you out of ever fishing again ;).
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Summary: Good, but not great.
Review: Some of the fiction should have been dropped. I eventually started skipping pages in order to get to the real meat, but I did end up with a layman's knowledge of electronics.
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Summary: A good, very basic primer
Review: The author goes to a lot of trouble explaining that "there are no electrons," pointing out that the current scientific models we use to explain electricity are flawed and incomplete at best. I appreciate this, but I guess I was hoping for some better theories. Amdahl likes to shout that the emperor has no clothes, but Amdahl has no clothes to give. Instead, the author is forced at times to pause from his comic book rendition of analogies in order to present a traditional basic primer. Actually, Amdahl's zany analogue of "greenies" serves the useful purpose of illustrating just how arbitrary scientific theories can be, and it is good to keep this in mind whether a theory purports to explain electricity or anything else. Think of this as a Dummies book with more text devoted to humor than to hard information.
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Summary: A good, very basic primer
Review: The author goes to a lot of trouble explaining that "there are no electrons," pointing out that the current scientific models we use to explain electricity are flawed and incomplete at best. I appreciate this, but I guess I was hoping for some better theories. Amdahl likes to shout that the emperor has no clothes, but Amdahl has no clothes to give. Instead, the author is forced at times to pause from his comic book rendition of analogies in order to present a traditional basic primer. Actually, Amdahl's zany analogue of "greenies" serves the useful purpose of illustrating just how arbitrary scientific theories can be, and it is good to keep this in mind whether a theory purports to explain electricity or anything else. Think of this as a Dummies book with more text devoted to humor than to hard information.
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Summary: Stupid, boring, cutesy and confusing
Review: The local library was nice enough to find this book for me. I'm finding the author's style annoying. I'm glad my experience with the book hasn't cost me any dollars. Only my time has been wasted. The thing that bothers me is that there is so much silly clutter. "Greenies"! (*rolls eyes*)
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