Do-it-yourself Brain Surgery presents itself from the get go as an implausible dead pan trip into the maddening and insane world of self discovery and home project work. The illustrations are varied from simple to complex, with the writing taking itself very seriously as well it's readers. It may sound rather off but I had been expecting...less serious subjects?
DIYBS has a variety of crazy sounding and mind numbing " projects " by title alone however the serious text and informational process takes itself so seriously that any point of humor is disregarded in the wake of more comprehensive and distinguished methods. Every now and then you might get a little taste of humor but in the matter of relevance it is, for all intents and purposes, a textbook of multiple subjects.
Lord help me I felt we were getting somewhere in the Taxidermy section however the straight faced bits of madness are again few and far between the serious instructions. This however is again my own expectations of a more abstractly, perhaps humorously intellectual kind of book.
You will learn a lot from this book, and it is quick to stab at the complexities of many lessor examined area's of intrigue. However I just suppose I was looking forward to some nonsense and maybe some mind numbing in the alternative sense. I am disappointed to remark there is little humor than in the chapter titles or now and again subject matters. I am however delighted to have a book that is otherwise insightful in the most abstract of sense.
DIYBS has a variety of crazy sounding and mind numbing " projects " by title alone however the serious text and informational process takes itself so seriously that any point of humor is disregarded in the wake of more comprehensive and distinguished methods. Every now and then you might get a little taste of humor but in the matter of relevance it is, for all intents and purposes, a textbook of multiple subjects.
Lord help me I felt we were getting somewhere in the Taxidermy section however the straight faced bits of madness are again few and far between the serious instructions. This however is again my own expectations of a more abstractly, perhaps humorously intellectual kind of book.
You will learn a lot from this book, and it is quick to stab at the complexities of many lessor examined area's of intrigue. However I just suppose I was looking forward to some nonsense and maybe some mind numbing in the alternative sense. I am disappointed to remark there is little humor than in the chapter titles or now and again subject matters. I am however delighted to have a book that is otherwise insightful in the most abstract of sense.
