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Title: Inaccessible Text makes for Agonizing Reading
Review: "A Colorado History" [9th ed.] by Ubbelohde/Benson/Smith is burdened by a reader-unfriendly text as inaccessible as an anchor sunk in sand at the bottom of an ocean. The book's subject may be interesting; its scope may be admirably comprehensive; its facts and figures may be derived from the most thorough research; but the authors' presentation of the material is pedantic, plodding, unduly fastidious, and dull, dull, dull. The authors' writing style is worse than merely wooden--it's petrified wooden. Try hacking through 490 pages of that stiff &@#*! Not even the sharpest axe is worth wasting on the effort.My heartiest recommendation: put every copy (including yours, if applicable) in a box, tie it with a ribbon, and throw it in the ever-lovin' deep blue sea.
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