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Title: Twenty Pages and I Quit
Review: Kudos to those who managed to get past one hundred pages or, remarkably, actually finished this book. Every paragraph is crammed with ten or twelve ideas, a few worthy, most not, each competing for coherence, none succeeding. I plowed through the first chapter in hopes that it would simmer down thereafter, but the second chapter showed that Mr. Cantor's writing is entirely out of control and that he was ill served by an indulgent editor. How many teachers of freshman writing courses have had to reign in this type of overblown, undisciplined junk? Too bad Mr. Cantor missed that class. The book is simply unreadable.
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