Holiday Lights!: Brilliant Displays to Inspire Your Christmas Celebration

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Summary: Author is insulting
Review: I was happy to find a book about my favorite thing- Christmas lights, and ordered it right away. When I settled down to read it, I didn't like the tone the author took in his writing. Most of his verbal descriptions of the people who like to go the extra mile to beautify their homes for the holidays were offensive. He called them kooky or nuts and belittled their efforts by making everyone sound "quirky" or "obsessive". It was obvious that he felt that lighting your house in an original way was stupid.
I am glad that someone focused an entire book on the beauty of Christmas lights and the talented and clever people who decorate with them, but I wish someone else had written the book! Buy it for the pictures, and ignore the critical text.

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Summary: For what it is - a little gem
Review: If you want something that will make you smile and shake your head in amazement and disbelief and you love a sparkly Christmas, this book is for you. Some of the decorations are beautiful, some staggering in scope and some just so much plain fun. From the ridiculous to the sublime, you can hardly get more entertainment value from the mere ten bucks or so you will pay for this book.

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Summary: DAZZLING AND EYE POPPING
Review: Someone said the author belittled people in the book by calling them obsessive on the way they decorate their homes. I hate to say but the author is right. But not in a bad way.

yes, you have to be a little obsessed at decking your home with so many thousands of lights that the electric meter whizzes around like a top out of control. I know people like this...they begin their planning for their outdoor decor in the early fall...even drawing layouts of where things go.

It is obsessive but its and obsessive love of the holidays. This book has some absolutely eye-popping displays and really gives more novice decorators like myself some fantastic ideas for my own home.

I'm not going to buy a computer to control eveything, but you'll be awed by some of the elaborate displays of lights and technology that some people have.

Wonderful book!

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Summary: Holiday Lights! Awesome!!
Review: This book makes me want to decorate my apartment.