Title: Did the author have no editor?
Product review: On a subject that could be really fascinating, this book drowns in its own smarmy prose. What else could explain the trite colloqualisms, the coy alliterations, and the irrational quotations from highbrow sources. By far the most infuriating touch is the hollow overuse of grand words where simple clarity would have worked wonders. I was on an airplane with this for seven hours, and it was still unreadable. Because it's written in the pally voice of a op-ed columnist, even the most factual paragraphs feel uncomfortably like demagoguery. I now realize why there were a full seventeen used copies of this book at Powell's in Portland.
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