Original sentence: " A review in Choice magazine highly recommended the guide, arguing that it functions superbly as a read for spontaneous pleasure and a reference to rock's "major and minor classics" while highlighting the last section for librarians assembling a rock record collection."[Christgau's Record Guide] is a bit too cantankerously opinionated to deserve an ," Palmer wrote, "but it certainly repays reading and rereading.Palmer found qualities of maturity, intelligence, and humor in Christgau's music criticism, and recommended the book as a valuable resource for those with a serious interest in contemporary rock, even if some of his opinions may prove divisive.Reviewing Christgau's book in 1982 for The New York Times, Robert Palmer found the guide notable among the recent slew of rock reference publications "because it is both obsessively complete and caustically outspoken"
Edited sentence: " Choice magazine highly recommended the guide, arguing that it functions superbly as a read for spontaneous pleasure and a reference to rock's "major and minor classics" while highlighting the last section for librarians assembling a rock record collection.Palmer acknowledged Christgau's maturity, intelligence, and humor as a rock critic and summed the book up as a valuable resource for those who are seriously interested in contemporary rock, even though some of his opinions may prove divisive: "It's a bit too cantankerously opinionated to deserve an , but it certainly repays reading and rereading.Reviewing the guide in 1982 for The New York Times, Robert Palmer found it notable in the recent slew of rock reference publications "because it is both obsessively complete and caustically outspoken"