Review: An Unmitigated Rip-Off
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 18, 2012
"Vertical Gardening" by Nina Greene seems more like an outline for a book, than an actual book. The information given is very superficial and each "chapter" is about one and a half pages. For example, the "chapter", and I use that word loosely, on various types of structures for climbing plants, gives little more than the dictionary meaning of the words. If I want to know what a trellis is, I can look it up in the dictionary for free. If I am really diligent, I can probably find pictures of various examples of trellises and climbing plants, with little effort.Oh, did I forget to mention the photos? There are no photographs, other than one on the cover and one on the title page. Now I don't know about other readers, but if I were a novice gardener and I bought a "Beginner's Series" book on vertical gardening, I would expect some illustrations to accompany  the text.I try to give an author the benefit of the doubt. In this case, however, the book seems to be little more than a rip-off. It was free today, but the normal price of $4.99 is an insult to anyone who truly wants to learn about vertical gardening and unsuspectingly buys it. Actually, free is too expensive, given the contents. If I could give it zero stars, I would, and even that would be more than it deserved.