All fair criticisms, but I was recollecting on reading Boyce & DiPrima where the Laplace was relegated to IVP. I was left with feeling that I had only learned

All fair criticisms, but I was recollecting on reading Boyce & DiPrima where the Laplace was relegated to IVP. I was left with feeling that I had only learned yet another trick until I read Churchill & Brown's Complex Variables and Applications.