Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: pretty not bad, for what is intended.

This book stressed being one with your environment, and I feel the author did a great job of explaining the windows environment in which you will need to use to program Direct3D. The first half of the book really just details Windows and how it works with programs. The book then goes over some more complicated topics later, and for once it does not use the microsoft cookie cutter framework when dealing with direct3D apps. There are a few easy to catch errors in this book, and it looked rather rushed through editing, other than those things this book is a great starter. You will need more than this to make a decent game though, but it was the best starter book I've ever read.