Complex sentence: The book received a mostly favourable reception in the media, praising Dalrymple for carrying out a thought-provoking and shrewd analysis of a recently emerged cultural phenomenon which sees reason substituted with emotion.
Split into simpler sentences: The book received a mostly favourable reception in the media. Dalrymple was praised for carrying out a thought-provoking and convincing analysis of a recently emerged cultural phenomenon which sees reason substituted with emotion.