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Title: Disappointing
Review: An interesting story, but terrible writing. Disjointed, jumps around chronologically like a kid with ADD, and generally writes like a modern academic. Interspersed with politically correct garbage projecting 21st century anxieties about Halley's attitude to the poor and everything else. A particularly egregious anachronism is the author's reference to the position of Astronomer Royal as Halley's "dream job" - a grating reminder of the author's inappropriate use of flip modernisms at every opportunity.Worth plowing through if you are interested in the era - just hold your nose and ignore the clumsy and graceless writing. The author seems to have done the necessary research - unfortunately the facts are sprayed around randomly like the stuff on the walls of a casual restaurant. The editor and the people who read the book before publication should all go into another line of work.
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