Review: Are all the reviewers wrong?
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 2, 2013
It is very rare that I do not make it all the way through a book even if it turns out that the book is not very interesting or if some of the errors in it make me cringe.  I read the first few pages of this book and gave up.  I had high hopes because I love books about cowboys and this was an entire series about cowboys.  I looked forward to reading all the books in this series.  Obviously, I will NOT be doing that.The author's criticizing people who cannot tolerate all the errors by saying they are "playing English teacher" is extremely childish. One doesn't have to "play English teacher" in order to attempt to speak and write correctly and expect "professional" authors to do the same.  I expect that when I read a book, presumably written by a professional, that the author will know the difference between "passed" and "past", between "to" and "too", and between "then" and "than".  I expect that there will be a minimum number of errors in punctuation and spelling, minimum occurrences of tense conflict, few misspelled words and few commas that seem to just be scattered somewhat randomly throughout the text.Calling someone who cannot wade through all the errors a "Grammar Nazi" is pathetic!  (No, the author did not call anyone a Grammar Nazi.  On her website she just quoted what her "supporters" called people who can't stand all the errors.)  Before she attacks those who mention all the errors in this book she might want to take a look at what a large percentage of reviewers are doing so.  There were 18 reviews on the page I looked at in Amazon and of those 18 reviews only 1 did NOT mention the many mistakes in this book.  Surely the author is not implying that all those reviewers (almost 95%) are Grammar Nazis who are "playing English teacher".She goes on to defend herself by saying that she is not an English major.  That is a really lame excuse! I am reminded of William Hung's excruciatingly bad rendition of "She Bangs" on American Idol a few years ago and then his excusing his poor performance by saying, "I have no professional training in music." I'm not going to cut a record and then defend my poor singing by saying, "I'm not a music major".  If you can't sing, don't.  Likewise, if you can't write, don't!