Wednesday, January 30, 2008

aittr.

i read what i have been assigned. not with pleasure nor finding any form of entertainment but to simply fulfill the requirements.
yet you ask me, with such blatant audacity, to read a truly torturous book. a hideous display of grammar, punctuation, and editing. for though the actual type is dry and unorganized, the disobedience of set language rules is what causes me injury.

even cheap editors charge 25 dollars an hour. i sure hope no one paid this man or staff. and if he's procuring some part of the profits for this book, he just dug himself and these ignorant authors (along with more than a dozen other beneficiaries) into a mighty fine, frozen, earthy, and twofold national hole. for with the exception of the class i am enrolled in, very few will ever purchase this book (especially if they only take the time to note the not one, not two, but over ten errors in chapter 13. i am not sure how i even made it that far). i pity those who do without warning.

disclaimer: i am only titling said authors as "ignorant" because of their employment of a worthless editor, or possibly their lack of an editor altogether (which could have been better off in the long run...or potentially could have been worse. we will never know).

and if you question how i dare spoil such a piece of literature, i must, in defense, claim that the harm had been done long before i submitted my mind and intelligence to this "second edition, revised and expanded" paperback.

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