I own Mr Mortiers first book. I stand by my original post (On Amazon.com) that I would rather have Mortiers book then none at all, as for his repeat sales I am at a loss to explain this, the opinions on his book come from varied sources from very different perspectives, one can see that by the writing styles, but the facts are the facts,

1. His book had many animals not included in the program, a bear, a deer a monkey and so on.
2. His rendering advice consited of telling people to buy other software packages, this was prior to pro-pack and therefore it is doubtfull animated scenes could have been rendered in this way.
3. His tutorials were beyond the scope of common reason or sanity, I give these examples: A sharks head on a skeleton, human heads on fingers, a squashed cat (cat haters, no doubt, found this helpfull) a mangled hourse and on and on. It is his right to make such abominations, but to put them out as a tutorial, to have a project that, in essance, would be a mistake if made properly, a dogs head totem pole, yes you read correctly. 4. His many, many inacurate and outdated refrences to orphaned or non existant software, he says that "posemation" cames with a leatehr bound two disk set, this is horse hockey and the Posemation people told me this themselves (granted they had a promotional item a long time ago, but it is long gone. Hid advice from the "poser masters" consisted of "buy 3D studio max" for the most part. Regarldess of how hard he worked, others have clearly worked harder and deserve our hard earned money more then this man, Susan Kitchens comes to mind. It is not complaining when warns a prospective buyer, one on a budget, that they need not spend $50. to learn that one can make a jaw really really long by turning a knob (one of his many tutorials). I do not wish him ill but he is not a good example of a Poser auther, chck out the pro-pack book instead.