Pat Parish
Autor de Pattern Cutting: The Architecture of Fashion (Required Reading Range)
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- Obras
- 2
- Miembros
- 12
- Popularidad
- #813,248
- Valoración
- 5.0
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 6
The book reads like a thriller and the author's ability to tell a story of adventure and intrigue is uncanny. Among treasure stories--not a genre I read often, but not one that I avoid deliberately--I can think only of Treasure Island and Tom Sawyer as superior. There is little wasted space. I would not hesitate to buy other books from this author, nor to recommend her, and I believe there is much that is teachable in this one, were my programs ever to succeed. It is clearly a five-star work.
The book is not perfect, however, and in the interest of helping the author proceed from very good to great, I have two major criticisms.
The first of these is that towards the end of the book the author begins to be sexually explicit in a way that she had not been before and that I do not believe was necessary to make the book more intriguing, since the story is littered with intrigue as it is. While I understand that sex sells and that this is more true in our degenerate culture than in almost any other, I believe that the addition of this sexually explicit material subtracted from, rather than added to, the value of this book. If the extraneous material did not subtract value from it, it certainly did nothing to contribute to the content and substance of it.
The second criticism I have is that the book was not copy-edited. Several typographical and formatting errors remain in the text, including confusion between two main characters, Waltz and Weiser, on two occasions. This is a big deal, and a cost-effective editing service like mine, covering not just contents but also copy-editing, would be a good investment for not just this author but any author looking to publish.
With that said, I believe this story--whether nonfiction or fiction, and it probably has claims to both--is as well-written by Mrs. Parish as it can possibly be, and I send my deepest congratulations to her on a job well-done.… (más)