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Albert Einstein: The Life of a Genius
by Jack Steinberg
by Jack Steinberg
Robert's review
bookshelves: biography, non-fiction, physics, science
Feb 27, 2017
bookshelves: biography, non-fiction, physics, science
Read on February 27, 2017
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DO NOT WASTE TIME OR MONEY ON THIS "BOOK".
This is like a bad wikipedia article written by an non-native English speaker with no training in any form of professional writing. The phrasing is bad. The material is disorganised, unreferenced, superficial and looks as if it has been culled from a bunch of secondary sources without acknowledgement. Every paragraph is followed by an acre of white space to no purpose except, perhaps, a failed attempt to disguise how short the work is. I abandoned it on p11.
A note at the back says, "Printed by Amazon." This book re-enforces all the bad stereotypes about self published works. I am kicking myself for not taking the time to check the nature of this piece properly before purchase. I feel ripped off.
This is like a bad wikipedia article written by an non-native English speaker with no training in any form of professional writing. The phrasing is bad. The material is disorganised, unreferenced, superficial and looks as if it has been culled from a bunch of secondary sources without acknowledgement. Every paragraph is followed by an acre of white space to no purpose except, perhaps, a failed attempt to disguise how short the work is. I abandoned it on p11.
A note at the back says, "Printed by Amazon." This book re-enforces all the bad stereotypes about self published works. I am kicking myself for not taking the time to check the nature of this piece properly before purchase. I feel ripped off.
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Feb 27, 2017 09:33AM
Wow. Just looked at this on amazon. On the first page, you find the following statement: "... even though he was born in Ulm, his family was forced to move to Munich...". Hmm... Do those born in Ulm enjoy immunity from extradition to Munich? :-)
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Mark wrote: "Wow. Just looked at this on amazon. On the first page, you find the following statement: "... even though he was born in Ulm, his family was forced to move to Munich...". Hmm... Do those born in Ul..."It's nonsense - the family moved for business reasons! It's bad beyond words.
".. beyond words". Quite so. Not one I am going to pick up.
Oh dear. But your criticism did raise a wry smile of schadenfreude.
Wow. I just read some of it via Amazon's Look Inside. Middle school essay came to mind. And not even a good one.
Cecily wrote: "Wow. I just read some of it via Amazon's Look Inside. Middle school essay came to mind. And not even a good one."You can see for yourself that actually my criticism was restrained! ;-)
