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A review by gatofish
The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time by Jeff Deck
3.0
I didn't expect this book to be a treatise on grammar and its socio-political implications. I thought it would be a fun read about two friends that fixed typos around the US.
I learned a lot of new words reading this but Jeff Deck's use of some of them seemed heavy handed. By his own narrative, he says he is not an in your face kind of editor, but the entire theme of the book seems to contradict this. It kinda felt he was using them to prove how smart he was. Not a terribly appealing trait, but that might be only my own personal foible.
I think he got the short stick when it came to the Grand Canyon sign debacle and his bitterness over it is clear. I also commiserate over his feelings to how he was treated during his short stop in Mobile, AL, where I lived for some time. The uneducated apathy is rampant there.
I learned a lot of new words reading this but Jeff Deck's use of some of them seemed heavy handed. By his own narrative, he says he is not an in your face kind of editor, but the entire theme of the book seems to contradict this. It kinda felt he was using them to prove how smart he was. Not a terribly appealing trait, but that might be only my own personal foible.
I think he got the short stick when it came to the Grand Canyon sign debacle and his bitterness over it is clear. I also commiserate over his feelings to how he was treated during his short stop in Mobile, AL, where I lived for some time. The uneducated apathy is rampant there.