Jarrod Kimber
Auteur de Test Cricket: The Unauthorised Biography
Œuvres de Jarrod Kimber
Australian Autopsy: The Gory Details of How England Dissected Australia in the 2010/11 Ashes (2011) 8 exemplaires
Cricket sadists' quarterly #3 1 exemplaire
When Freddie Became Jesus 1 exemplaire
The Lillee of Campbellfield 1 exemplaire
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- Œuvres
- 7
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- 33
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Perhaps even more irritating than the confusing sentences was the author's addiction to interspersing a workable sentence with additional full stops and capital letters. I just opened the book at random and my eyes alighted on:
"Now Australia only needed 186. To win the test. To win the series."
Flipping to another page at random, I see:
"It just hadn't been done well. Or consistently. Or been well practiced."
Perhaps the author thinks that sentences of more than a dozen words would exceed the reader's attention span. In any case, in combination with his ambiguous sentences (and sentences that flat-out say something different than what the author evidently intended) this practice makes reading this book bad for the blood pressure.
It's such a pity, because there was plenty of good material in the book. I did make it to the end, but never again will I read anything by this author without checking first to see if it's been subjected to the pencil of a competent editor. (Or, as the author would probably have written it: subjected to the pencil. Of a competent. Editor.)… (plus d'informations)