Is there a preview anywhere? One of the biggest factors for me in buying any book is writing style ; if it isn’t compatible with how my brain parses things, or is unpleasant somehow, there’s no point. Generally to evaluate whether I want to give a book a chance I just open to somewhere in the middle and read a couple paragraphs or even just a couple lines in the case of fiction (believe it or not, this has yielded fantastic results for me on a large sample size). Thirty bucks is too much for me sight unseen.
Is there a preview anywhere? One of the biggest factors for me in buying any book is writing style ; if it isn’t compatible with how my brain parses things, or is unpleasant somehow, there’s no point. Generally to evaluate whether I want to give a book a chance I just open to somewhere in the middle and read a couple paragraphs or even just a couple lines in the case of fiction (believe it or not, this has yielded fantastic results for me on a large sample size). Thirty bucks is too much for me sight unseen.
You may be interested in the preview available for Will’s last book.*
* Last non-academic book