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Failing a real hardwood blowpipe, you can buy the handsome quiver of stout rattan-bound bamboo with the poison darts (minus the poison), both authentic, and a shorter pipe of bamboo that does a perfectly serviceable job of blowing darts into your cork dartboard at home.
That leaves a few slightly more anodyne but serviceable (sorry) entries.
The album itself is deemed passable musically--Martin has a "serviceable" voice (Ethan Brown, New York ) and a set of reasonably catchy tunes.
One wonders what goes on in publishers' minds: it seems quite obvious to me that if this were a good and serviceable inexpensive version of the dictionary on which it is said to be based, Cassell's English Dictionary , then the publisher might well expect that after a time the user would feel himself ready for the larger book and would buy the larger Cassell's . In the event, it seems unlikely that such an event would take place, for this book is a sad disappointment.
In the context of the large number of dictionaries available (including all their different editions), the CCE is a serviceable work provided that one is satisfied with brief definitions of no great depth, and, essentially, a dictionary than can be used as a spelling checker.
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