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Summary: Subjective Skating Evaluation....
Review: I am a huge fan of figure skating and I have alot of skating books. This one is great. It is loaded with photos AND information. It has chapters on skating's past, where it is going and has info on many recent stars. I loved this book! Very well written and worth every penny. Buy this book if you love skating.
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Summary: Subjective and very BIG waste of money!
Review: I bought this book because of the beautiful photo of Ms. Kwan on the cover, and I wish I had saved my money. The book is dreadful. Any educated skating fan will be bored beyond belief at the subjective ramblings in its pages. Unless you are interested in an extremely biased book interspersed often with unsubstantiated arguments for and against certain skaters, I would heartily recommend you pass this one by.
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Summary: Great pictures, terrible writing
Review: It's a shame that such beautiful pictures are wasted on this book. The author is very unprofessional in displaying her dislikes of certain skaters, especially Paul Wylie. I should note that while I am not a fan of some of the skaters she seem to disfavor, I am very surprised at the poor writing skills and the research she tried to pass off as facts and the disrespectful biases she choose to present as journalism. Very shody work and hopefully the editor will pay more attention next time. Alina Sivorinovsky makes Christine Brennen look legit! Because of the pictures I agonized whether or not to buy the book and after spending four lunch hours at B. Dalton reading the book, I ultimately decided not to. My score is 5 stars for the pictures and 10 black holes for the text.
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Summary: A book for a skating fans
Review: Sure, the book is filled with some nice photographs, but the photos do not make this book worth it. I found many errors. I felt like I knew more about figure skating than the author and could have done a better job. Don't waste your money!
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Summary: Don't Waste Your Money!
Review: Sure, the book is filled with some nice photographs, but the photos do not make this book worth it. I found many errors. I felt like I knew more about figure skating than the author and could have done a better job. Don't waste your money!
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Summary: A book for a skating fans
Review: Technical Merit 5.5/5.4/5.6/5.5/5.7/5.6/5.6/5.4/5.5
Artistic Merit 5.9/6.0/5.9/5.9/5.9/6.0/5.9/6.0/5.9 Great photography!!! But it for that alone! The writing is decent. I would imagine Kwan fans will not like the treatment she gets in the Nagano section. Alina covers a lot ground in the book. She keps the pace moving. A decent short history of recent skating without the tabloid style of a Christine Brennan. A good addition to the library of any skating fan.
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Summary: The pictures are beautiful, the author is biased
Review: The pictures in this book are gloriously rich and beautiful. The cover shot of Michelle Kwan is breathtaking...however, I find it funny how the author uses this lyrical, mesmerizing skater on the cover of this book, and inside uses it's pages to bash her, for some unknown reason. I find this author biased and totally out of the real world in terms of her inferring things about skaters, like how they feel, what they think, etc. This book also contains several factual errors , and mis identified skaters with photos. Very poor detective work on this book. I rate it highly for the pictures. This book would have been a much better picture book, than an informative book. The author's biases and the numerous errors make it a joke as an informative resource. Buy only for the pictures, and then,only on the discount rack.
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