[.ca] Origami Sea Life (ISBN 0486267652)

Wonderful:
I got this book a couple of days ago and must say I am truly amazed. The authors Lang and Montroll (who I consider two of today's best folders) say "Sea Life", and mean it. Not only does this book contain models from almost every order of water animals (not only fish and crabs, but also shells, echinoderms, frogs, whales...) but the resulting models truly look alive. I just finished my first Atlantic Purple Sea Urchin and it looks like the real thing. Not for the beginner, though. Most folds in here are as challenging as they are cool.

One of the best:
This book is well written with easy to understand diagrams. The models range from easy to extremly hard, but most of the animals are high intermediate.Most of the diagrams are so specialized that they can't make other models from the base, but the end result is an elegant model that isn't bulky like other models of this difficulty. I have most of Montroll's and Lang's work,and this is one of the best.The deep sea angler fish is my favorite with a full set of teeth. The binding is breaking apart because I've used it so much. Overall this is a book with the best models! (Watch the binding of the Dover books!)

Not Impossible, but a Challenge:
I've owned this book for a number of years and only recently have I been able to fold most of the creatures in it. This book is definitely not for greenhorns, but if you look closely at every single diagramme in the book, and interpret them exactly and are very careful, every model in the book is foldable. The end result is gorgeous paper sea creatures that can impress basically anyone--yourself included. I've been amazed at how beautiful the things I'm folding from this book turn out.

Great Book:
This is one of my favorite Origami books ever. If you are thinking about getting it you should. This book will appeal to any body, from beginner to advanced. I love the models in this book. It contains various models of many genera and cover many of the marine phylums such as variety of gastropods, cephalodops, crustaceans, and many fish from Angler Fish to sharks to Sun fish.

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING..I'M IN AWE!!:
Origami Sea Life is the first book for my boys and I to own. We just won the 'original' version from ebay. This book is by 2 of the VERY BEST folders on the globe, Montroll and Lang. This version is WELL written; Fun reading. Fairly easy to follow gray/white illustrations. Not a lot of written instruction, but with both illustration and instruction, you can pretty much figure things out, with PATIENCE. Very interesting info in the front pages on Sea Life. This book offers a very cool system to help you know the difficulty level of each. *-simple, **-intermediate, ***complex, ****very complex. 38 very cool projects to fold, which include: Tadpole, Tadpole with legs, froglet, frog, walrus, sperm whale, humpback whale, killer whale, dolphin, giant clam, hawk-wing conch, spider conch, murex, chambered nautilus shell, cuttlefish, seahorse, carp, brill, ocean sunfish, triggerfish, angelfish, goldfish, cichlid, sailfish, barracuda, blue shark, angler fish, blackdevil angler, lionfish, starfish, sand dollar, atlantic purple sea urchin, bay barnacle, horseshoe crab, hermit crab, blue crab, fiddler crab, american lobster. At the beginning of each one, there is a nice bit of info. I believe a beginner, intermediate or advanced folder will thoroughly enjoy this book for a long time. Highly recommended!