Book Review
The Crowd
1/5 stars
"Not worth the trouble. Too unreadable."
*******
It is very rare that I do this, but I got about 1/10 of the way into this book and decided that it is just not worth it.

Even though it is only 130 pages, it reads more like it is 520 pages long.

Just from this sample page, it looks like we have (all estimates):

407 words;
12 sentences;
One sentence with 77 words and about 7 clauses;
Another sentence that is 75 words long with 10 commas;
An average of 33.9 words per sentence

The recommended sentence is between 15 and 20 words for readability, and the AVERAGE sentence in this book is almost twice as long as that.

Ain't nobody got time for that.

The author might have had a point to get across, but his writing is so cumbersome that I'm just going to have to skip it.

-->On the one hand, this book has 1,135 reviews on Amazon, so somebody is reading it. (But, then again, "Fifty Shades of Grey" has 112,170 reviews.)

-->On the other, it is on a no-name label. (Had you ever heard of Loki's publishing before today? I had not.)

NOT RECOMMENDED.