I received the first negative review of my book. All publicity is good publicity, so I’m not heart-broken over it. The review is very poorly written, and I’m having trouble figuring out what it is that the reviewer is objecting to. Take this statement, for instance: “Although the purpose of this book does not go deep into this debate, these questions are evoked from the pages.” I have no idea what this means, but I’m glad the reviewer who commands such linguistic prowess doesn’t criticize my writing style at least.
The reviewer criticizes my suggestion that we all engage in “communal living.” As anybody who read my blog even for a week knows, words “communal living” terrify the bejesus out of me, so it’s kind of odd to assume that I would ask anybody to engage in it “to combat neoliberalism.” So yeah, let’s definitely not do any communal living, whatever that is. What is it, by the way? Living in hippie-style communes?
“Although the purpose of this book does not go deep into this debate, these questions are evoked from the pages.”
The main questions about this debate are clearly identified, but a deep analysis of this debate is not the purpose of this book.
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Brilliant translation, I truly admire you for figuring this out.
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If you’re really serious, thank you!
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I am really serious!
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So another thank you!
It’s poorly written but those words don’t seem to be much complicated for me.
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Did someone write them in another language and then put them in a translator? It seems like that to me.
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I hope so.
In a more active voice:
« Although a deep analysis of this debate is not the purpose of this book, the author identifies clearly the main questions about this debate. »
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I would have no quarrel whatsoever with this sentence because it’s perfect. Your English has become really amazing. You rock.
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Yeah, it’s better.
I’m more bilingual now, not teaching-ready bilingual, but almost.
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https://www.lifeadvancer.com/communal-living
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I swear to God I didn’t encourage anybody to move to college dorms and retirement homes in the book.
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Off-topic
I’ll have a Russian professor in a math class next semester. (He’s no longer in Russia since his M. Sc.)
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Well, you look like a 1960’s hippie girl in some of the pictures you post, with your beautiful long red hair and with your colorful dresses that would have been considered “counter-culture” (and thus hip) by some young people fifty years ago. 🙂
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Thank you but this clumsy reviewer has never seen me. Or so I hope.
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My personality is very anti-hippie, by the way. And I really don’t like them.
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They don’t like you either. They’re offended when you use four-letter words like “work” and “soap.”
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You guessed, I’m a huge fan of both. 🙂
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At least you didn’t get a rejection letter reading, “Your writing lacks grace but is serviceable” like I once did.
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