Title: Get an English-speaking proofreader!
Product review: I had this book on my Wish List, then found it through my library. I'm very glad I did not pay for it. I am not Iranian, nor is my family. I was interested in learning more about Iran's history and culture as background to some current news headlines. This book is FULL of information to be sure. But much of the "history" is simply chronology strung together, with no academic interpretation. Granted, Persia's history is extremely long and complicated, maybe the author was trying to streamline into one manageable volume. But what made the book unreadable towards the end was the grammatical and typographical errors in the text. Very simple things that for the most part do not obscure the meaning, but make the reading itself halting and mentally exhausting. How hard is it to have a native English speaker proof-read your work?
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