Incredible number of typos...
345822
I know everyone who has rated this book had mentioned the typos. But, isn't this a major problem? This is a teaching book. If the examples won't work without the reader having to edit the copy as they are trying to learn, it seems to defeat the purpose of book.
Also, the exercises are a bit monotonous. How about some varied content with a wider range of examples. After a while, examples started bleeding together when I went back to review previous lessons.
I've purchased Sam's books in the past and been pleased. However, this one I should have skipped.
3048038
The actual topic and information was good.  I got a headache trying to decipher all the horribly incorrect words.  Had to try to figure out what they meant. Example; ^love, obligJ lion, half-6nancier, livTCs.  Also footnotes were inserted in the text, no numbering.  Sentences would end in the middle of one page...the rest of the sentence might be in the beginning or middle of the next page. Looks like a cheap copying job.  Who put in all those typos?
1009964
The reading of the Kindle version is highly disturbed by a number of typographical errors, typically uncorrected scanning mistakes. Just a few  examples  "Fie" for "He"; "excess of  loyally" for "excess of loyalty"; "layer alter layer" for "layer after layer"; "He would have gladly lain down" for  "He would have gladly laid down" and many many more: unbearable.
1233639
I have read Hard I, Ii and now reading III... The storyline kept me intrigued this far however, I must agree with a reader's review that that editing is POOR, tremendous amount of typos .... Would have given a 5-star rating but the editing is horrific!!!
1142651
Thoroughly enjoyed this book except for one thing.  There are so many typos that it's hard to believe anyone proofread it at all.  I hope the author writes another book, and I hope she hires a good copyeditor for at least one run-through before it gets published.
532081
I was excited to pick up this book and very much wanted to like it.  However, after noticing that the Acknowledgment had typographical errors, I knew that it might be difficult to do so. I lasted 40 pages before I could not deal with the sloppiness any longer.  It seemed as if not one page went by without at least one glaring typographical error or grammatical mistake.  It is as though nobody proofread the book before it was published.  I think that it was creative and had good potential, especially in the area of character development.  However, it is a bit insulting to the consumer to put out a product that is so rife with the sort of mistakes a simple review could have corrected. I hope that the author keeps writing.  He is, clearly, quite talented.  Just watch the simple stuff!
3047511
I was so excited that someone was writing a book on this topic - it is such a needed conversation in the church. However, I was very disappointed with the incredible numbers of typos (spelling, spacing, grammar mistakes) littered throughout the book. It is so frequent as to be distracting.

The other issue was that the content was not particularly deep, especially in terms of the theological underpinnings of the important topics discussed. This book is ok, but the title suggested a much broader exploration of these issues. The book is written from a perspective of a person who fully expects to get married and resume an active sexual life. The idea of lifelong celibacy for folks that had hoped (or do hope) to get married is not really addressed. Lastly, the book is clearly written by a man...although he acknowledges his inability to fully understand a woman's perspective, he still writes about it as if he does!

Overall - not a bad book, simply a very different book than the title might have implied. Definitely a good voice in the conversation, and hopefully the second edition will be a collaborative effort with more diverse voices, more theological heft, and less typos!
1631063
This book has some solid information in many of its sections. Many of them are written very well and explain the information very clearly. However, there are so many typos with this book that it ranks with the most primitive of websites from 1998 for quality. You can expect to find critical equations with incorrect variables, urea and sodium switched in the middle of a paragraph, O2 switched for Qz, HCCV switched with bicarbonate etc. The typos are numerous enough to be extremely distracting. It is the equivalent in cinema of the boom mic intruding on the shot every 5 minutes, and occasionally taking out the main character. These typos are the sort that a cursory reading done by some random undergrad paid 5.15 an hour would have resolved. It's just plain sloppy. The worst infractions are in the kidney and GI sections. The person writing them might as well have been doing it inbetween rounds of beer pong it is so terrible.  If you want a quality book go somewhere else. You will easily spend a large amount of time trying to correct the numerous errors to make sense out of the jumbled mess. If I were correcting papers in a class and someone handed in one of the chapters of this book, I would flunk them straight up. Not because they plagiarized, not because of style, but simply because they couldn't be bothered to correct all of the errors that appear every 100 words. Don't buy this book. Get any book besides this. Guyton and hall is one for starters. Don't get this piece of s--t.
4093212
I like the format of this book - going through album-by-album with some backstory on the time frame of making the album, and then song-by-song on the album, and there are some good photos.

However...boy, did she need an editor.  Loads of typos - from printing "Mesta" instead of Nesta (more than once!) or "bock" instead of back, to quotations that start but never end, to superfluous or missing punctuation, to partial sentences, to sentence structure that just makes no sense.  Some of the typos were such that they changed the entire meaning of the sentence ("I was..." instead of "It was...").  Just frustrating and distracting.

Names are often mixed up and frequently misused, with name changes unexplained and unacknowledged (in one paragraph she refers to Bob's mom in one sentence as Cedella Marley, and as Mrs. Booker in the very next sentence).  For someone who doesn't already know all the relationships of people to one another, remarriages, name changes, etc. it would be nearly impossible to follow who is who and their relationships to each other.  She starts referring to and quoting Cindy Breakspeare long before she bothers to explain who Cindy even is.  Again, if you know all this already, I guess not a big deal, just poor writing, but if you don't already know...well, the author isn't giving you any help here.

She also *gets the date of Bob Marley's death wrong*!!!!!!!  In the text of the book where she talks about his return to Miami after failed treatment, and his subsequent passing, she says that he died on May 11, 19...82!!!  She later gets it correct in a caption, but it's too late.  This is an unforgivable error.

There is some interesting stuff here - although I hesitate to put much stock in her interpretations, and I don't know how much I trust her accuracy in relating stories and history.

Overall, I can't recommend this one.  I was really looking for some interesting insight into all the songs, what they mean, and how they came to be.  This did not live up to that expectation.  Maybe check it out if you can get it from the library, but don't spend good money on it.  I would feel bad re-selling it - like I was pawning off a lemon on some poor unsuspecting fan.  :(
3519699
Man, I should have become a professional proofreader.  So many typos...which detracts from the content.  You know they shouldn't be there, and wouldn't have been had someone done a careful job of proofreading. Now I get why HR people throw away a resume with a typo in it.  Just one. There are so many in this book it became somewhat of a laugh every page. Come on, people.  Legit info here.  Present it professionally, at least.
191369
I don't normally criticize, especially as the author clearly went far in some places to actually contact some of the event creators, but holy crap the errors. How a published book gets all the way through editing, especially in what appears to be a second edition, with so many typos, grammatical and spelling errors I have no idea. I haven't even finished the book and were I an English teacher I'd give a C- just on the errors alone. Then there's the factual errors such as incorrect, sometimes internally inconsistent house locations and names of characters. Then there's glaring omissions of major parts of certain years. Some parts Wikipedia has more information on. I knew in advance I would likely already know 99% of what the book could possibly tell me, but I purchased it for one promise: It claimed to give walkthroughs of every house and scarezine in HHN history. I already know, from memory, the names and locations of every house, but in many cases do not have a clear understanding of the details inside many earlier houses. What did I get? "This house had a room with a vampire doing a thing." Paraphrasing of course, but that's about the level of detail it gave for many of the houses. I'm tempted to take a red pen and edit this sucker myself and send it back to the author, or at least the editor, who was apparently asleep, if he bothered to read the book at all.
1800380
An incredible amount of typos, inaccurate diagrams, and wrong references. I was very excited to use this study guide since it has a nice format and the information is more digestible but I end up spending more time referencing the BABOK to verify/correct he info in the study guide. Every chapter has isssues. Its hard to believe the author, with his credentials, would publish such poor quality work.
2184889
Excellent book but filled with numerous typos.

Some are merely misspelled words that don't matter too much other than being annoying (edit or proofread maybe?) but a couple refer to certain sections you are supposed to go to and not only do those sections not exist but the section they probably meant was numbered completely different. Leading me to basically have to read and reread it several times and try to figure out what manner/order they intended things to go and then write the corrections into the book itself.

example:  If this happens go to section 6c.  There is no 6c in the book and what they likely meant was 5b, which itself is sort of left all by itself with no explanation of why it's there since the "If this or that" section never mentions it and sends you past it no matter what.

Anyhow, the material is good, just be prepared to decipher it before you run a game using it.
2869720
Warning: I don't think this e-book has ever been proofed by a human editor. There are typos on every single page, most often the transposition of "m" for "th". So every time you come across a weirdly placed "man" "men" "me" and "pam" (sometimes twice in the same paragraph), you'll have to stop and think to yourself, this is supposed to be a "than" "then" "the" and "path". It's really annoying since this seems to be a pretty cool story, and the poor quality conversion to e-book makes it difficult to read smoothly.
2082754
I consider myself a novice programmer.  I have taken just enough classes to get myself into trouble.  I was very excited to find this book since I really enjoy the "hands-on" approach.

My disappointment quickly surfaced when I started seeing all of the typos!!  They are everywhere in the text.  The book starts a c++ project using two constants, minPositions and maxPositions and then, in the next chapter they are changed to minPos and maxPos without any warning. The author also jumps back and forth between using #include iostream.h and #include iostream with little regard for the surrounding context.

This book is ONLY good if you already know how to write c++, because you can't learn the correct syntax when it changes randomly throughout the book.

Another reviewer pointed out that chapter 6 is labeled as chapter 1...this is the point that i started shaking my head and decided to post this review.
1413094
I glanced over the book after it arrived this afternoon and right away I noticed a handful of typos, one being right on the back. I haven't even started actually reading it and honestly I think I will be returning it. If 20 women worked together on this book and didn't catch the errors then it makes me wonder about the actual information they are providing. Ill just look things up elsewhere.
357364
I have just finished reading the Kindle edition of "Last Words" and it's brilliant and funny and well worth reading. However, I was struck by how awful the copy editing and production is. The book is so full of typos it's like reading a blog or something. Words are run together, and many proper names are uncapitalized. The title of chapter 18 is written as "BWING, DOING, GETTING", for instance (it's correctly written as "BEING", not "BWING", in the TOC). The photo at the head of Chapter 15, identified as "George and Patrick Carlin", is in fact a photo of Carlin performing, repeated from the previous chapter. And so on. Really, this is shockingly bad. I hope the print edition is better.

Still, great book!