A very damming review of a book studying the writing process. "If you had to boil down Pinker's advice into two main points, they would be: Keep it snappy and keep it simple. Unfortunately he proves wholly incapable of abiding by his own rules. Rather; he's a colossal windbag, never using three words when 35 can be rammed into the breach and frequently writing sentences so tortuous that they seem to be eating themselves.
Mind you the reviewer's odd use of the semicolon is rather unsettling!
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