It's more that I don't think it means what the reviewer thinks it means. Like I say, it's interesting enough! It's just - it reads like a first draft. I guess I'm a bit of a writing snob. It's a bit like watching a kid try to force the circular block into the square hole. Even if they manage it, you're dying to swoop in and go "oh just give it here, you're doing it all wrong."
That said, I've seen similarly iffy writing in profit publications, so you know! It's no biggie. There's a lot of passion. It's just a bugbear.
Where were you yesterday when I was finishing up an article for a programming magazine? 
I guess it's fair enough to expect a high standard of language even for this. I'm a big ol' grammar nazi at heart, so I sympathize. I personally didn't find it detracted from the review. Or maybe I was just reasonably distracted by his delightful over-enthusiasm.
I was out solving, um, shark-related crimes.
I
do like the exuberance. Positivity is an all-too rare commodity, which is a shame, 'cause it trumps all over cynicism's face and gives it pink-eye. Which does, come to think of it, imbue this post with a twinge of hypocrisy. But yeah - great core to it, absolutely. Love the guy's spirit, but I think I'd like the
article more if it were on a blog, where it wouldn't feel quite so precocious. Or! If it had been through a good editor.
Or, in short, what hefdaddy said.
Topic: A Dramatic Turn of Events - Review Thread (Read 8931 times)
