Review: Master of the Run-On sentence
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 29, 2013
Sentare had it right with his/her one-star review - just wish it had been posted before I purchased this book.  As I have stated in several previous reviews, I normally will not post a review unless I have completed a book.  I want to give an author every chance to win me over.  There are a number of books I've read and quit before finishing because they were so bad; and I did not post a review.  But, I feel the need to warn others who are making decisions by reading reviews like I do that this book is a disaster.  I only completed 17% on my Kindle, and just cannot continue - it's too painful.I am really perplexed by this author.  On the positive side, he clearly is quite knowledgeable about health organizations, pandemic protocol, etc.  I would not be surprised to learn that he works in the field of epidemiology.  His language level is also quite good.  You don't find too many misspelled words either.  BUT, this author has no idea how to construct a proper sentence.  He just runs on and on and on, adding commas and other punctuation where they don't belong.  It is not uncommon to find what is written as one sentence that actually should be three, four or more sentences.If Henley is operating under the assumption that his run-on sentence style is an acceptable writing format, he is badly mistaken.  This consistent pattern of extremely annoying sentence structures is not only unacceptable in writing, it would be intolerable listening to someone talk like that.I don't care how smart an author is, or how knowledgeable they are in the field being written about, IF they fail to communicate with proper sentence structure.  It's just not worth the agony.  Mr. Henley has just become the 81st member on my list of "Don't Read/Unworthy Authors" in the TEOTWAWKI/SHTF genre.  Fortunately, the "Excellent" list now has 15 on it.