Amateurish is exactly what it is. His illustrations and examples are all the most basic defaults in Poser. He shows no talent in them. I really hate to criticize anyone, but if he really knew his way around Poser, his examples would have been much more polished. As it is, it looks like a 7 year old child did the images. He shows no imagination or creativity in them. Every one of the illustrations he put into the book probably took him two minutes to create. There was no time or effort put into them. Unfortunately, I bought two of them and I think I ended up giving one of them away. The other one is collecting dust somewhere. What I'm curious about is where he even discovered Poser and why he thought he was good enough at it to write books about it. Any of us here could do that. How did he convince a publisher that his was worth publishing? I don't think it's necessary to boycott the books, just inform new Poser users that they are not the best and that they would be better off saving their money and learning from other users who really know what they're doing. Melanie