Poor English, missing details, sloppy layout, and a FREE alternative available!
920510
BradyGames are notorious for the production of poor strategy guides, and unfortunately, their latest Tomb Raider strategy guide is no exception. While casual gamers will be able to make their way through the game with it (or without it, truly, for that matter), collecting all optional items such as food caches, salvage and fruit is going to be one hell of a search, since this guide details none of those items. Sure, it details the items you can also find (mostly) on your in-game map, but these items just mentioned don't show up on your map, and one will still want to find them to purchase skills early on, as well as upgrade gear.

Other than missing items, there are numerous goofups I will not all detail here. Tables are missing details and the English is - at times, I mean, just read the foreword - way sub par. The layout uses gigantic screenshots without any underlying strategy whatsoever; they're just there as filler. There's some art in the book, but you're better off buying the artbook if that's what you're after. The paper also isn't from any certified source, so it's ironic the guide depicts beautiful natural environments while its own paper source is rather shady.

A full, free strategy guide for Tomb Raider can be found here anyway, so there's no need whatsoever to purchase this book.

gamefaqs.com/xbox360/615698-tomb-raider/faqs/66589
2279270
I fall for it every time: I see an interesting title that was translated from a German original, I buy it, and proceed to be totally ticked off at the miserable quality produced by quickie book publishers. The typos, poor spelling, and downright mistranslation of this book ruins it for me. I lay the blame at the feet of the publisher (Schiffer, in Pennsylvania) rather than the author; after all, the author wrote it in German and didn't have responsibility for the English-language product. The publisher farmed out the translation and apparently accepted whatever came over the transom, typesetting it without review or, for that matter, the slightest application of some common sense.

So for example (picking a page at random) we see tech specs such as "Valves: side mounted on camshaft dive wheels to the front." I have no idea what that means, even if I insert "drive" for dive. Oh, here's a beauty: "Transmission: Parge-Wilson tarpaulin power drive with 5 forward gears." Tarpaulin power drive? What the hey? Then I figured it out. It's a totally boogered translation of "Vorgelege-Getriebe" -- the old Wilson preselector gearbox. Parge is supposed to be Praga. And the list goes on. I see another use of "dive wheel" for running gear, so it's not an isolated typo. Who does this sort of work anyway? MS Spell Czecher?

Picking another page at random. "Steering and break system: ...break-steering operated by 2 levers."

The translator is obviously unfamiliar with the technical jargon. Another example is found in the repeated use of the word "mantle" for "mantlet," the cast shroud where the gun barrel exits the hull. Small point? What if your only source of knowledge on a subject is books of this sort, and you get the words wrong? How will you communicate, or for that matter avoid looking like a dolt, when talking to people who know the subject?

I'm not even going to start on punctuation errors. Doesn't anybody know how to rite gud Inglesh no more?

In my professional opinion (I translate German engineering and technical books -- not military, so there's no conflict of interest here), a translated book should if anything be BETTER than the original; there is more time for errors of fact to be weeded out, more eyeballs see the copy, there is time to check with the author if he really meant to say this instead of that, etc. Unfortunately there are too many in the publishing industry that don't see it that way and just use the generated text to fill the white space between the photos. I am fortunate in working with technical publishers on both sides of the pond who take quality seriously; unfortunately, sometimes I become a consumer of books not done to the same standard.

So does this book have anything to recommend it? Well, it's hard to booger up photos; for modellers, there's plenty of detail in these images. But the English translation, proofreading, and typsetting are an amateur effort not worthy of a high school newspaper.

This coulda been a contendah. Squadron/Signal does a far better job on books in this format. They also had a book on the Hetzer, and it's an infinitely better production, but appears to be out of print at present (they reissue these from time to time). I see Amazon also lists another publisher's book, ISBN 1841761354. I will probably order that. Hopefully that (apparently British) production did a better job of it. But I'm becoming accustomed to disappointment in translated military history...
482940
Rarely do I review but this was a complete disappointment. If you are savvy enough to want the Echo, absolutely everything in this book (which is more of a pamphlet really) is likely common sense or can be found using "help." It only cost me a couple of bucks but having to translate the poor English and typos left me feeling like they should have paid me. And it only took me about 10 minutes to read the whole thing! If it wasn't digital perhaps there would be value as toilet paper.

I'd like to add that this claims to be 157 pages....I think it is more like 10 pages. Who do I file a complaint with?
4844802
Grammar and English was so bad that I couldn't even follow it! Even though it was free, not even worth the download.
3427652
This is not so much a book, nor even an article, but a small piece of writing giving four rules for language learning which you could make up yourself.  There are many typos and the writer is obviously not a native English speaker.  The work stops short before its end, going by the numbers underneath, and gives a link to a Chinese teaching website, which seems to be the real raison d'etre of the piece.  When you follow the link to this supposedly-free site, there are indeed lessons which you can access, but on the top of the page it tells you if you are not satisfied you can have your money back, so I would be suspicious of the use of the word 'free' in the link.

Basically, this seems to be an advertisement for the above-mentioned website, and is not worth buying, believe me.  Steer clear unless you just want to spend money for the sake of it.
4504610
A random word list with many useless duplications e.g. abans, agradable, banc, bany, barat, bossa, cervell, and on and on. For example, the second word is repeated as "agradable: nice" and "agradable: pleasant; nice". And this covers just the first three letters of the alphabet. A simple proof reading would have ameliorated some of its flaws. Of these words, abans, banc and bany are not found in Nicolato's equally poor effort. To be useful a dictionary must be reasonably comprehensive; this book does not meet this requirement. It and Nicolato's attempt together suggest there is a tendency on the part of some to hastily create a book and see if it sells, without even bothering to reread it. "Caveat emptor."
4597822
This book may provide some insight into gaining freebies, but the spelling, grammar, and formatting is atrocious. I got the book for free. It isn't worth paying more than that. Similar information is available on tabloid websites.
3324385
I downloaded this yesterday. To my dismay I found out that the many footnote markers in the text are not clickable. I searched through the ebook for the actual footnotes, and could not find them.

There are also numerous text formatting issues, missing words and corrupted text after the portion you can view through "Look Inside" or the free sample.

Thirdly, it does not say which translation this is, either on the Amazon page, or in the ebook itself.  I believe it is the Seidensticker, based on the comparison of chapter titles in the Wikipedia article.

I am very disappointed in Amazon!
2168241
The thing that stands out for me with this book is poor content editing, badly conceived page layout (extra space between paragraphs AND indentation? C'mon!), and sloppy copy editing (at one point we read "buy to a beer" instead of "buy you a beer").
431181
Wow... the translation to English is awful!!!! Really bad, they miss very key words and the true meaning of so many sentences! I.e. in one of the poems Neruda means "surrender" and the translator writes "giving", in another one Neruda talks about a lover being "distant, aloof, absentminded" and translator writes "you look as if you are far".
That isn't it,, several, numerous errors which causes the English reader to miss the true content of his poems...what a shame! It's the reader's right to be aware of these important flaws.
They should take this book off the shelves, review the English version, edit and have translation re-assigned to a different publisher.
1393000
I wish that I could recommend this book, but I cannot. It is too flawed, and I have found (at least) one better alternative -- one that I do recommend.

I read this book from cover to cover. The formatting is amateurish, and it distracts in a material way from the message of the text (details below). There appears to have been no editing of the text either, as there are sentences that make no sense, and there are numerous grammatical errors. Finally, the text itself is in places confusing where it does not need to be. I have no doubt that the author is an expert in her material. She would be advised to take on an editor to help her create a much more useful next edition.

The book that I recommend is, "It's Your Money!: Simple Strategies to Maximize Your Social Security Income" by Deppe and Deppe. This book provides a more straightforward and more readable treatment of the same topics.

For the author - or reader who is interested in more detail than my summary statements above - following are some additional details to support my criticisms.

The formatting is, well, awful. When a writer wishes to emphasize information, the preferred ways to do so are to use EITHER bold OR italic style to set off the emphasized material. This author uses 3 stylistic changes simultaneously: bold, italic, and a substantial increase in the point size of the font. The emphasis is lost in the confusion over what the organization of the page is supposed to be, and how in the world the reader is to interpret this assault on the visual layout of the page.

There are many, many editing mistakes. Here's an example: "... the value of the survivor's insurance you have under Social Security is probably has more value of your individual life insurance."
3264343
Obviously converted from Archive.org, not a good convertion.....
1715975
Garbage! Full of typos and grammatical errors. I'm pretty sure English is not the author's first language, and they didn't bother to get it checked by anyone who spoke English. The material is covered in a haphazard manner, barely skimming the surface of the material. I know it's a cheap book, but even so, it's a waste of your money. Buy elsewhere!!!
1173359
First of all: Do not order the Kindle edition (vol. 2)even if it is for free!! It is just illegible! There is no way you can enlarge any page (they are just small microfilms!!) although you may use the index (vol 1) to save some money if you are to use it along the book. As for the context, the author has done to the best of his knowledge (which is appreciable with respect to the scattered etymological works done in this field). Anyhow, inclusion of loanwords (e.g. so many Arabic words introduced into New Persian after the occupation of Persian Empire by Arabs) and exclusion of so many obscure Persian words would not create a breakthrough. The Indo-European roots of the Persian words are a MUST in a Persian Etymological work, but the author refers to such roots only and only if they are already addressed by others. So if for example you need to know the IE root of a simple Persian word such as "barg" (leaf) you are referred back to the Middle Persian "varg" or its Avestan form, with no IE cognates which would have required a deeper research by the author. And if you are after the etymology of a less known/ obsolete words such as kAsmu (bristle, coarse hair) "zhikAse" (porcupine) you find no entry (N.B. by the way both these compound nouns are from Soghdian kAs ="hog",the former just mean "hog-hair" and the latter: "spiked hog" cf. "porcupine). This criticism is not however aimed at the painstaking work done by the Iranian author who has collected whatever possible from the scattered sources. All in all it is not a perfect IE etymological work but good enough as a simplified compiled data (although in a very weird chart format), especially with respect to little etymological work done by Iranian linguists in the field of Iranian/Persian lexes and especially in relation to Proto-Indo-European etyma.
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1. Text has errors and has missing steps.

2. Doesn't show how to correct errors until Unit 4.

3. Confusing instructions mixed with paragraph information.

4. Relies on previous material data entry to move forward. Make a data entry mistake and it is miserable. However, there is an instructor "save my butt" disk!

5. Too much printing--you'll go through reams of paper in  a small class, never my large classes.

6. Thanks for listening. If publishers want to charge big $$$ for texts, the texts need to be 100% perfect and easy to use. This text doesn't fit the criteria.
473286
Id read the Kindle copy...and like other reviewers and commentors, I was confused as to WTF he was talking about half the time. If you're a Grammar Nazi, you'll Blitzkrieg over the broken english and terrible mistakes in this book. I don't think he'd actually interviewed the corps he was talking about, as some aren't around (and zero of some of them even play EVE any more) and he seems to be talking about the Russians a lot, according to him are disbanding but sticking together at the same time. Three intros into the book, you have no idea whats going on. Everyone complains about bent/smashed corners in the book, so I got the Kindle copy. Some pictures are nice, but I'd found a lot of them online anyways. At $50, this is NOT the book you're looking for
4889046
OK, so this book only cost me $2.99 on my kindle ... still, I want my money back.  I'm a fairly experienced programmer, so perhaps that's the problem.  Or it just may be my complete lack of tolerance for poorly written English and a certain expectation that a book I by won't be rife with spelling errors, tortured sentences and so on ... no offense Ryan, I'm sure you're a swell fellow, but this isn't helpful.  People would be far better to just run through the Python tutorial online.