Title: Over-rated and under-edited
Product review: The popularity of this book is a testament to the madness of crowds. It would be flattery to say that it is merely tedious. It is repetitive (one or two weak examples come up again and again) and is poorly edited (many paragraphs contain several unrelated ideas).This book is no substitute for learning how to write well. Indeed, although the author may know her punctuation (or at least she knows what she likes) the book is unreadable. The following sentence is an exemplar of what passes for prose in this book: "To me a subordinate clause will for ever (sic) be (since I heard the actor Martin Jarvis describe it thus) one of Santa's little helpers." Eh?This is the sort of book that someone pretentious is likely to give you as a gift. Plan to "re-gift" it to someone you don't like.
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