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Title: Why the World Needs Editors
Review: The author clearly has great knowledge of a fairly arcane subject on which there are few books. Unfortunately, he is an atrocious writer. The text is rife with bad punctuation, mangled syntax, subject-verb disagreements, and words utterly and egregiously misused. Reading it -- or trying to -- is a painful and punishing experience.I don't expect the author of a book of this type to write like Tom Wolfe. But his failure to enlist the aid of an editor who could bring the text up to minimal standards of literacy is a major act of contempt toward readers. Prose this bad should never, ever be committed to print.
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