Good content terrible English
922968
Interesting content but very poorly written.  For this reasons I would not recommend it.  I suggest it is re-written.
4233773
Might be a bad translation, but sad sentence structure and too many obvious, unnecessary comments. Need a decent editor.
2421482
The translation of this book is absolutely unacceptable, childish and amateur. In some places I couldn't even understand the majority of the text. About 80% of the longer sentences are faulty with bad word structure and bad word order.
I really love Mr. Nemere's work and respect him. I've been reading his sci-fi novels since my childhood.
This is why this translated version was so disappointing.  :(
3039851
I loved the content in the book, but the lack of attention to detail killed me. Overall I am extremely grateful for the material inside the book and am really looking forward to hosting my first webinar, I'm just surprised that most of the grammar mistakes were not fixed prior to publishing. Biggest problem was the wrong utilization of "your". Numerous time Lewis meant "you're" but said "your". Just my inner grammar Natzi coming out.
3201415
The content is great, but the formatting of this edition is pretty terrible.  The type is tiny and faded, and the pictures are small and grainy.  It makes me think someone put it together who didn't really know what they were doing, and then tried to save money on printing costs.  I would recommend the edition from Greenleaf Press, as the main content is virtually identical and much easier to read.
104252
I needed it for class, I'm an International Business student...the theory in the books were very interesting but the language that it was written sucks. It used to many fancy words to say something simple- unnecessary. The context was great, but I had to reread it many times, just to try to understand what the hack the author wanted me to understand. Or I am the one the is stupid and the class was just kicking my butt, also, english is my second language so...but great stuff, the stuff that I understood.
1245434
The content is good, and will be useful to anyone who studies the book carefully and takes the time to do the exercises. This, however, will not be easy, because the exposition is poor. It is often difficult to tell what the instructions intend for you to do, and hard to tell what constitutes a recommended routine. These difficulties can be overcome if you study it patiently, have an alternative source for description or presentation of Tai Chi movements, and use your imagination. But it's tiresome.
988917
Excellent content. You just need to ignore the poor writing. A good editor should fix the problem...
3069095
I just started the book, but it's clear that Springer should have sprung for an English editor. It's very appealing science writing, but peppered with clumsy "Germanisms" in the translation, e.g. on page 4 where instead of,  "This is because the visual information from the sun..." we are treated to, " This can be as the visual information from the sun..." So often the translation does achieve a delightful flowing popular style, but then one of these bits of dreck wrecks the flow. I expected better from a $40 paperback.
4447291
Content is great, the book itself is terrible.  Many pages are starting to fall out of the book.
3202732
Good content, BUT WOULD SOMEONE TELL THE PUBLISHER TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT FONT!!!  The margins are wide for nothing only to have a tiny oppressive font.
1137247
The content is, of course, excellent, and deserves 5 stars.  The editing, however, is shoddy and annoying.  It's a pity Fitch couldn't see a professional copy of his classic work before he died.
There are misspelled words: "ideed" vs. "indeed," p 13; "pressence" vs. "presence," p 55;  "centure" vs. "century," p247; "Sienna" vs. "Siena," p 329, and others).  Wrong dates are given: "...completely reconstructed to an assumed date of 1976" vs. 1776, p 275.  Different information is given regarding the same process: ("flourescent dyes had to be added," p 338 vs. "had to be stamped with a metal die," p 342).  LeMoyne is referred to as "LeMoyne" and as "Lemoyne," pp 17 & 18; Anne Cunningham is referred to as both "Anne" and "Ann," pp ix, x, 89, 90.  Comma and semicolon use is weak, the use of italics with foreign words is inconsistent.
882544
The book in general is good with great information and content, but the language used to bring the point across is sadly very basic. I understand the desire to communicate more complex ideas in an easy to understand and accessible way, but the constant repetitions, the "now here is how it works", "now why do we care about this" and almost elementary school style sentences are simply annoying. If you can stand the language, good book though!
4055152
I kinda like the setting for this book and the plot is pretty good.  The problem is that it reads as if it were poorly translated from another language.
3892044
Unfortunately, this translation is filled with "thee," "thou," "leadeth" and like terms.  It makes it less than ideal.  I have not been able to find a Kindle version that uses 21st century American English.
800619
Hello, I am Russian. And English is not my first language. I know this book in Russian and then I had to come back for some ideas, for his (Zeland) expression of those ideas for my own work, and... I found that the book is translated terribly. I bet it was translated by some Russian company and by Russian speaking interpreters...  The idea is great. But they couldn't convey it. They make idiotic grammar mistakes, that even me, never studied English professionally, see them immediately. For example, about neighbor's  dog, 'is waking him up always... every morning'... How to explain that if 'always', it makes 'wakes me up', and all book is full of that rubbish. They were lazy to hire some English speaking editor (it needs a serious  editing) And price... Are you serious? Parallel universes and Quantum jumping are not that really fresh idea... That is why  I give it 2 stars, but ... there was an idea...
742219
The content is good but soooo many grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors that I felt like it was a puzzle to figure out what was being sai .  I still liked though.