Review: Lot's of links to recipes, but something seems off
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 31, 2012
I examined a sample of the book,  and learned that the recipes are only available by following a hyper-link, and most seem to go to The Doctor's TV show, where they are free to read and use. On a kindle, that means any one recipe takes a long time to load up, and they are embedded in message board pages, posted by the board members. Of course, using hyper links instead of re-publishing the recipes in this book avoids charges of plagiarism or piracy, but it seems disingenuous to not make this linking clear to potential buyers of the book.There is some usefulness in providing a longish list of hyperlinked recipes, gathered in one place, which is why I gave this book a 3 star rating. I followed a few links just to check out the recipes. They are uneven in quality, some are written with flawed instructions and ingredient lists, and occasionally failed to give the amounts used, as happens with amateur recipes. Most of the recipes I examined sound tasty and should be appropriate for the 17 Day diet, cycle 1, though I didn't check them all out.I read a number of the glowing reviews for the book but noticed that the many of the 5 star ones seem to be written by non-native English language writers, in a similar style, with similar spelling, grammar and syntax  errors. A suspicious person might wonder if they'd been written by the same person, just using different names for each.