Repeated itself a LOT!
359228
I absolutely loved the first two books, but this one fell short.  Had I have not read the first two, I would have returned this one after the first chapter.  It seemed to pick up after that, and then I had a hard time finishing it.  I liked the storyline, but it was way to long.  It repeated itself a lot, maybe to make the book longer?  It talked about the past two loves throughout the entire book, and to be honest Jacinda was just to perfect.  She helped everyone, solved their problems, always understanding...just unbelievable. Not sure if I will continue with this series.
3818505
There's a lot of redundant repetition. The whole story could be told nicely in 20 pages, without sacrificing any information. I would not recommend it, and am in fact returning the book, as I could not get myself to read beyond the first few chapters.
2663038
how many ways can an author say the same words over and over and over??? 40% of a book apparently. i couldn't take anymore and had to quit reading before my eye  started to bleed.
4219297
I've heard so much about this book from the media and from friends that I wanted to read it for myself. The ideas Kondo presents are generally sound and helpful, but, my God, this thing is SO repetitive. Feels like she took a Real Simple magazine article and turned it into a book by repeating herself incessantly. Or else it's as though it was transcribed from a seminar where the repetition isn't so annoying. As a book, it's a snore. It also happens to be so girl-y as to be an almost offensive read for a man. She seems to be talking to a tiny group of cutesy-oriented women who can identify with her personal obsessive weirdness.

I do believe "tidying" can be life-changing. I do believe it's valuable to reduce all your clutter and consumption of material goods to things that actually bring you joy. The core ideas work. But this book doesn't bring much joy -- it's pretty tiresome.
4053627
I loved gthe books, the whole series, but a few things bothered me.

There was simply too much repetition! The author says things like "Shyneo, the spell for light", and things like "Mrs. stone knew more spells than of them" or whatever, too many times. I mean, I get it tht there are some forgetful readers out there, but it doesn't need to be sprinkled throughout thw book. Just maybe a few less times would be great for future books.

Another thing. Why the word(s), arcane, arcanery, arcaner, arcanist, and all that? When you look up synonyms for magic online, "arcanery" isn't found there. I get that it is a different word for magic an it sounds cool, but why? Using the word magic is boring because other books use it too, but es tht really mean that you can use a word bacally meaning "old" for the word "magic"?

But problems aside, I hope this author writes more boks beyond this series.
4815559
Prompts with the same questions with slightly different wording over and over again.
2418001
I LOVED the other two books in the series just like many others on here have already stated. My biggest complaint about this book was the repetitiveness of it.  I mean how many times can one person say Hot Cocoa in one paragraph!!! It repeats the same themes as in the other two but I found the repetitiveness of certain words way too much.
6756
The plot is sufficiently interesting that I keep reading, but I get very annoyed at the remarkable redundancy and flat-out repetition of the language.  I skip more and more as the books procedure, to get to the "new" material.  Having muttered and complained my way through the first 3 books in this series, I think I've had enough.
1331106
This is probably the most repetitive book I have ever read. I understand the use of repetition in teaching, but this author takes it too far. Anyone could have gotten the point within a brief magazine article. The analogy of the garbage truck gets old very quickly. The simplicity of this book would be irritating to anyone with an above average I.Q.
2691557
There is much repetition.  His children sound cute as heck but enough is enough about them.  I guess I'm just past the parenting of small children.
150418
The author shared good information, but she repeated the same information over & over. The book would have been 20 pages shorter if it didn't have soany repeats. Plus, it was hard to read at times bevause of sentence fragments, comma splices, and run-on sentences. She says she has written other books; I hope she used an editor on those.
1322666
I think this book is a useful tool for from-scratch beginners, which is pretty much what I was...but the author has a tendancy to repeat the same things over and over and over and over and over and over again from one chapter to the next, and the redundancy got kind of...really annoying.  I guess once you learn how to sift through to find the pertinent information, it's a very useful book.
3347479
Since I've read and enjoyed an earlier book by these authors (Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps) I didn't hesitate to grab this one off the shelves. What a waste of money! They just repeat a lot that was said in the book I already had. Also, of all the "facts" that are stated I know for sure that at least three of them are total fiction or at best hearsay (these are the only three where I'm an expert) which seriously makes me doubt the validity of the remaining facts. I found this book a very irritating read.
269051
There is no way to stop the text to voice it's annoying repeat of words!! It made me completely crazy. I have a VI, so I like using it, but not on this book!! The story was good though.
2934932
Unfortunately this short book was so repetitive ... said the same things over and over!!!  We have cruised several times and really didn't learn anything new ... except all about the parties and requests for "better" tipping or extra tipping.  This could have been condensed to a few pages of interesting material.
1966965
There is too much repeat of information.  By the time you get half way through it feels like jibber- jabber.
2426054
I seriously cannot finish this book.
Either there are a lot more people reading novels now who have attention deficit issues, or this book is the most repetative, nagging dead weight I have ever looked at.  Now, I've read plenty of CP, and this has been clearly forming over the years; the little repeat sentence tags ("A couple of drinks.  A couple of asprin.  Repeat."  Yeah, repeat is right.  Try every paragraph.) are certainly his writing style and his alone, but how much can we take?  How many times can you write the same novel over and over?
I am fairly sure that if you can find the beat rhythm the book was written to, you'll be able to read it back at the same beat, like a limmerick.