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Originally Posted by Dexter C. Hinton
My main negative however is in the 'tone' of the document. I read about 990 (kindle locations) 12% of the text immediately when I purchased it. When I finished that portion for the night, I felt that the text was 'extremely depressing'. I completed reading it the next day, and I retained this feeling of depression. I want to emphasize, not depressed by the author or the technical content of the manuscript, but by the 'tone' of how it was presented.
Perhaps it is just me, but after some thirty-five plus years of reading racing and handicapping tomes, I do not remember one that left me with a negative feeling of the game (and obviously our chances) of a long-term positive winning experience. Whether it be Ansile, Quirin, Brohammer, Quinn, Beyer (and many others) their manuscripts were presented to readers with, not a method or process to 'master the game', but with hard work (research, analysis, etc.) a road map to follow to attain some success and profitability.
In summary, hard and difficult, but at the very least 'positive' reads.
This book, as an associate said to me, is very much a glass half empty.
Perhaps it is just me, not a normally depressive individual. Lets hope I am incorrect.
Thank you.
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IMO...the time is ripe for a certain degree of "realism" in the handicapping literature that comes up now, during the "computer-betting" age. If today's handicapper wants a "feel-good" sort of book, then he can always pick up one of Dick Mitchell's tomes...where the much-esteemed author narrates how he was able to turn the country's racetracks into his own personal ATMs.
Speaking for myself...I'd rather have the handicapping expert give it to me straight...even at the risk of depressing me.
