Title: Japanese engineers write better English prose
Product review: This book is, without doubt, the worst example of English prose I have ever read. The gentleman is probably an outstanding scholar. But one must diagram each and every sentence to force his ideas into some sort of order. (But as a caveat, I only got half-way through it before my patience ran out.)Then again, I'm not a historian, my Ph.D. is in applied psychology. In my career(Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University), I've had many opportunities to see what engineers, psychologists, and especially engineers for whom English is a third for fourth language do to mangle English prose. This gentleman's writing style is worse than anything I've ever seen. His English prose is worse than that of a Japanese engineer.Was it Dorothy Parker who said, "This is not a book to be lightly put down. It is a book to be thrown away with vehemence"? Or some such.
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