Title: Painful reading - disjointed and stilted language
Product review: I bought this book with great enthusiasm due to the reviews I read here. It has taken me three weeks to literaly "plow" through this disjointed and just plain difficult to follow narrative. The attemps at literary fluorish are constant distraction and hinder the reader's progress. This book is written as if someone simply took various accounts from other sources and cobbled them together with no idea how to make truly fascinating events into a readable story. There are areas where there is given painfully intricate detail in non-essential minutae and then where there could be benefit from detail there is only the briefest passing mention of important events. There has to be a better book on this.
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