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Review title: Strange piece of editing
Product review: People who are not sociopaths will all empathize with the tragedy that Terri Jentz had to bare and continues to bare. But this book is a tedious, self-absorbed, page after page rehash of the same events, over and over and over again. I thought I would scream if I had to read another sentence about them there girls gettin' chopped up (I think there is one form or another of chopped on almost every page). This book properly edited would likely have contained under 200 pages, instead of over 500. As my English teacher from 7th grade used to say to the class, "Say it in one word instead of five." Many of the sentences are absolutely painful to read, and unlike a Clifford Gertz sentence/paragraph/page, some really don't make much sense deconstructed. Is this how they write at Yale? Shame on the editors at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, whose job it is to fix broken English.
