loganjb's review against another edition
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You’re better off going with Elements of Style, which presents its material with better clarity, structure, and efficiency. This work feels disorganized and as a by-product unhelpful in providing advice on writing. I would say that it is a mark of it’s time as seen in the writing style, but Dickens, who died over 40 years before, was much more understandable than these supposed grammar experts.
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