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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
Get an Editor....please, August 4, 2007
Being a diehard Styx fan all my life, I enjoyed Whitaker's behind the scenes look into the history of this great band. But if you are going to publish a book like this, why in the world would you not get an editor? Though there are many good things about the book, it was very amateurish in its publication. Extra spaces EVERYWHERE, some typos, and redundancies galore (for example, he starts a new chapter by saying the same thing found at the end of the previous one and with every album, he states that song X "was the obvious choice" for the radio single). I thought I was going to scream if I had to read "By the time..." one more time.
If he would have given this to an editor who could have given him some feedback, the publication could have been so much better.
That being said, Whitaker did an outstanding job of compiling and arranging quotes from others to tell the story. He did leave some questions unanswered and didn't include some things I would have like to have seen. However, I read it from cover to cover and enjoyed it as would any serious fan of the band. Just know going in that you'll have to overlook some of the problems I outlined above and you will enjoy the book.
One side note, the binding of the book isn't that great as one of my pages fell out.
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 The Grand Delusion: The Unauthorized True Story of Styx 1419653539
Sterling Whitaker
BookSurge Publishing
The Grand Delusion: The Unauthorized True Story of Styx
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Get an Editor....please
Being a diehard Styx fan all my life, I enjoyed Whitaker's behind the scenes look into the history of this great band. But if you are going to publish a book like this, why in the world would you not get an editor? Though there are many good things about the book, it was very amateurish in its publication. Extra spaces EVERYWHERE, some typos, and redundancies galore (for example, he starts a new chapter by saying the same thing found at the end of the previous one and with every album, he states that song X "was the obvious choice" for the radio single). I thought I was going to scream if I had to read "By the time..." one more time.
If he would have given this to an editor who could have given him some feedback, the publication could have been so much better.
That being said, Whitaker did an outstanding job of compiling and arranging quotes from others to tell the story. He did leave some questions unanswered and didn't include some things I would have like to have seen. However, I read it from cover to cover and enjoyed it as would any serious fan of the band. Just know going in that you'll have to overlook some of the problems I outlined above and you will enjoy the book.
One side note, the binding of the book isn't that great as one of my pages fell out.
Robert Young
August 4, 2007
- Overall: 5
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