Review: good book, immense grammatical problems
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2012
This work reminds me a bit of Jane Austin in terms of style and plot lines.  In fact, not much happened throughout the entire book, yet it was reasonably entertaining.I'd give this a 4-star except for the immense grammar issues.I gave up annotating at around 60+, but if the author wants those listed out, I can probably transcribe them.Here's an example, such that those who might be concerned can get a clear taste of the problems which permeate this book:Location ~ 4628:"He'd always figured that he'd get married if he could someday, and while he wanted to get through school so he could properly support a family that wasn't totally impossible if he was married now or in a few years."What I think the author is trying to say here is:"He'd always figured that he'd get married if he could someday.  And while he wanted to get through school so he could properly support a family, that wouldn't be totally impossible if his marriage was either now or within a few years."That's not what I would consider *good* wording, but the line as presented in the book is pretty much unreadable.  Once the reader is part way through the line, he/she much backtrack to see where a comma should be, what it is that wasn't going to be 'totally impossible' and how the 'now or in a few years' implicated the rest of the sentence.Anyways, this issue is systemic throughout the book, with most such sentences being vaguely understandable if punctuation is added implicitly by the reader.  That makes it an extremely tough read, making my 3-star rating generous (in my opinion).