Title: Awful.
Review: This could have been a good book. However, the author failed to explain his ideas well enough, and thus came off sounding pretentious and dictatorial when he probably meant to sound friendly. However, the reason I ended up pitching this book across the room in disgust is that the author never failed to take an opportunity to slam another author or to play up his own works. In particular, he liked to put down Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels in such a way that made it painfully clear he had never read one. Don't bother buying this book. You can get the same advice elsewhere, without the attacks on other authors and thinly-disguised advertisements for his own books.
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