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The Holistic book recommendation thread
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<blockquote data-quote="Macsky" data-source="post: 6684178" data-attributes="member: 44120"><p>I’ve done it! ? </p><p>Finally finished Call Of The Reed Warbler by Charles Massey late last night.</p><p>I found it a very frustrating read. I would say, without agreeing with everything he says, that it is an important book, with a strong message that needs to be told far and wide, but a lot of the impact is lost in his obsession with boring tangents, big words and complex language(sesquipidalian is perhaps the only word he missed out?). It’s not a very practical book either, which it probably wasn’t meant to be so maybe that’s fair enough. It was a real effort at times to get through a couple of pages, especially when you thought the chapter was winding up, only to flick through another half dozen pages before the next. A good editor would have halved the content and kept, if not increased the impact.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps his style was deliberate and constructed to reflect the complexity of his subject matter, who knows?</p><p></p><p>As it stands, it’s a book that I would struggle to recommend, which is a shame.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Macsky, post: 6684178, member: 44120"] I’ve done it! ? Finally finished Call Of The Reed Warbler by Charles Massey late last night. I found it a very frustrating read. I would say, without agreeing with everything he says, that it is an important book, with a strong message that needs to be told far and wide, but a lot of the impact is lost in his obsession with boring tangents, big words and complex language(sesquipidalian is perhaps the only word he missed out?). It’s not a very practical book either, which it probably wasn’t meant to be so maybe that’s fair enough. It was a real effort at times to get through a couple of pages, especially when you thought the chapter was winding up, only to flick through another half dozen pages before the next. A good editor would have halved the content and kept, if not increased the impact. Perhaps his style was deliberate and constructed to reflect the complexity of his subject matter, who knows? As it stands, it’s a book that I would struggle to recommend, which is a shame. [/QUOTE]
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