Perhaps I am simply not clever
353051
One star for the one thing I think most girls would want to do. Return it. Sorry.
248798
It was just silliness. I absentmindedly enjoyed it. But I bet under different circumstances, it can come off as redundant and unintelligent.
2998137
This to me is ok , not my thing I had to try it to know . I am not knocking it ! Different strokes for different folks .
2916998
Not a real brain teaser, but some clues do require thought.  Not the best I've ever worked, but far from the worst.
1053343
I could see what the author was TRYing to do (the 'layering' via multiple perspectives, multiple points in time, otherwordliness of ghosts existing alongside the living, the philosophical musings on loss, pain, regret, etc.) but it just didn't work for me. Positive reviews of this novel tend to admonish that this is a more intellectual 'mystery' than readers may be used to and suggest that if the reader is upset not to find a 'typical', wrapped-up-with-a-bow ending, they just aren't deep enough to 'get' it. Every story that's a mystery or about a mysterious occurrence doesn't have to  be traditionally structured (murder-->detection-->solution), but I have no idea why the novel ended when/where it did, I didn't have the sense that a resolution of any kind had been reached in the novel's development; I was shocked when I hit the 'next page' button on my Kindle to find there WAS no next page..  It's not that I needed certain characters to 'find peace' or a particular couple to get engaged or married (etc.) but it doesn't seem like anyone figured anything out and the novel's philosophizing didn't lead me to contemplate important topics or learn and grow, etc.  In short, as some other reviewers wrote: I just didn't get it.
2874096
well, maybe I am a moron but I just could not figure out how to apply the protector using the instructions provided. Usually I am able to follow instructions. This was disappointing.
425159
I am just not very crafty I guess. Really wanted to learn how to do this to make my own tree full of lovely birds. The kit and instructions are fine, I am just on a long learning curve.
3818230
I know the author begs us to keep an open mind but I can't get into it. Maybe I'm just not in the right mind frame at this point? I don't know. Wasn't a win for me.
3294377
Nowhere nearly as clever, witty, or snarky as advertised.
3692261
Not as clever as I thought. Also, my friends told me puns are lame.
2362746
Guess I don't appreciate British humor as much as I thought I would.
1705109
I think it's got some good ideas, but I just haven't been able to finish it.  I've picked it up and put it down several times.  Not very effective of me I guess.
1557684
I could not get anything to work with it.  Perhaps it is my fault for expecting it to be simple.
4649112
i wasn't paying attention or the information has leaked out through the trade off for real estate in my fibrous container yearning for relevancy. that is why i need you. to bolster the methods of a successful preparation. but i haven't bought you yet. and here i pronounce indecision. there are just too many. what if i was limited to walking to the local bookshop? i would scoff at the washed up selection of used guidebooks then feel cheated by tweaked reprints of the industry standards. this industry is too big. hypothetically, i walk home, and along the way i am taunted by the satellite dishes i wish i had already reframed (to both my community plus my unknown community) for being a completely obvious art project that sacrifices the aesthetic for the conceptual yet surprises you with anonymous racism.

what if my search terms could have been better. what if the auto completion / auto correction was hindsight itself--imagine it: letters slowly congealing into subliminal idiom. do i keep it general, interrogative, pessimistic? "how to take a good picture" "photography" "light" "portrait" struggle to completion in the same suspense of watching a kid mess up at a spelling bee, going really meditative about their my mistake, sweat stains the only glory.

once i learned through exercises how to appropriately evoke the mood of (wheel's been invented) electrical setups. it was another notebook, seventeen pages in, that i was too lazy to recycle when the storage space let out the air in its balloon. i couldn't read my handwriting anyway.

i really can't stand the artificial much longer. i am planning a purchase by justification of investment. i will be ready now when the mother of some friend of mine contacts me about a reputation i had for training in this skill and therefore she'll want to pass my name on to someone who needs headshots of their niece's aspiring actress daughter. i will agree under the condition that the daughter will probably fail in that competitive industry and it won't be my fault. i will agree under the condition i take them in natural light.

technical hocus pocus may evaporate in the politeness of a first time conversation. so i should be prepared if someone misunderstands me and wants to be portrayed as an indoorsy hermit. discovering a niche is what to sell nowadays.

so what am i going to do when the pop of a flash resting on top the camera, as lazy as a microwave, exerts itself as if it knows how to light my subject?

(i hope to have learned by now) i would plant the flash elsewhere, a coiled wire ready to trip any intruder between me and it's pi&ntilde;ata stronghold. (i hope to have learned by now) i would wrap the palm of a rubber glove around it, the allergic latex fingers brushed back like sturdy hair plugs not to interfere with the consistency of a diffuser. (i hope to have learned by now) you may decide not to pay me in fives tens and twenties because the job was shot on film, handed over in a closed off canister with a prankster smirk that reads: take it to not only walgreens but cvs, duane read and rite-aid when they are closed and shove it through their overnight drop off slot, creative directions on the envelope only--no contact information--scribbled in sharpie marker: turn me into grey scale to satisfy my craving for abstraction. (i hope to have learned by now) to prevent the inevitable of bargaining image quality for lack of knowledge. (i hope to have learned by now) i've been less qualified than others yet hired to team teach this stuff before i even have the time or energy to refresh my memory. (i hope to have learned by now) sunglasses and or a cigarette don't actually make you look cool. (i hope to have learned by now) tell the subject not to stand in front of the sun.

that larger forces in life mess up my light meter is the true search for compensation. while techniques indoctrinate trial and error, you bring me closer to secrets.
1421870
My first attempt failed miserably. It could have been me, my timing off, my method. Have not tried since first attempt.
4038546
Didn't seem to work at all - maybe I just couldn't figure it out, but it really shouldn't be that hard...
3912948
I have tried again and again to figure out how this works but can't seem to do so. Guess I am going to need professional help.  Usually I am pretty good at this, maybe they need more detailed instructions.