Status Updates From Devil's Contract: The Histo...

Will I ever finish? Will the author ever stay on topic? I really don’t know anymore, but the latter seems especially unlikely.

Am I actually 60% through yet? I'm not sure. Are my notes all still things like "SHUT UP" and "NO"? They are. Does this book just need to stop already? It sure does!

Most of my notes say something like “SHUT. UP.”

So yeah, it’s going great.

I don’t know if I can finish this. It needed editorial attention it did not receive (this book would be at least a third shorter without all the poor phrasing and unnecessary words). It is also not quite what it says on the tin. Furthermore, like many nonfiction authors, this writer strays from the subject of his expertise and makes enthusiastic, grandiose, and completely wrong pronouncements. Sigh.