Review of There and Back There Again
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Review of There and Back There Again
[Following is a volunteer review of "There and Back There Again" by Andrew Alsup.]
Have you ever heard voices in your head, voices telling you what to do or how to act? Have you ever been threatened by them? Were you ever scared or intimidated by them? Do you listen to them or do you just ignore them? Do they ever go silent or do you hear them all the time, non-stop? What if those voices are thoughts of actual people, people who actually exist in the real world but you don't know them? What if they were voices of people that you've only heard of or seen on TV wanting to do bad things? What would you do? How would you react? You can't go to the police because no one would believe you. Who would believe the crazy guy who hears voices in his head? This is the plot of There and Back There Again and you should read the book to find out what happens.
I enjoyed the variety of characters and the different issues they embedded in the author. I enjoyed the summary by Edgar Alan Poe. I was even neutral about the part where he mentioned his pets, but that's all that I liked about the book.
The author has failed tremendously in writing this book. He wasn't able to write a coherent, connected story whose paragraphs flowed smoothly into each other, but rather he managed to write a very confusing, poorly edited book. At first, as you start reading the book, you will have a hard time understanding who is talking and about what exactly. If you manage to figure it out, another voice comes out and starts talking about a completely different thing. After that, the repetition starts flowing in, to the point where you actually know what he is going to say. The parts of the book are all over the place; they are not cohesive at all, they don't connect with each other because they are blog posts, but the author could have done a better job of connecting them to each other by adding or removing some ideas.
I would rate this book a 1 out of 4 because of the poor editing and the unprofessionalism of the book. It's like he put together his blog posts into a book and didn't bother to add or remove anything to make it more readable and enjoyable. Plus, the profane language was a little too much, sometimes censored and sometimes not, which I don't understand why.
I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading. The book will definitely ruin your experience no offense to Andrew Alsup.
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There and Back There Again
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Have you ever heard voices in your head, voices telling you what to do or how to act? Have you ever been threatened by them? Were you ever scared or intimidated by them? Do you listen to them or do you just ignore them? Do they ever go silent or do you hear them all the time, non-stop? What if those voices are thoughts of actual people, people who actually exist in the real world but you don't know them? What if they were voices of people that you've only heard of or seen on TV wanting to do bad things? What would you do? How would you react? You can't go to the police because no one would believe you. Who would believe the crazy guy who hears voices in his head? This is the plot of There and Back There Again and you should read the book to find out what happens.
I enjoyed the variety of characters and the different issues they embedded in the author. I enjoyed the summary by Edgar Alan Poe. I was even neutral about the part where he mentioned his pets, but that's all that I liked about the book.
The author has failed tremendously in writing this book. He wasn't able to write a coherent, connected story whose paragraphs flowed smoothly into each other, but rather he managed to write a very confusing, poorly edited book. At first, as you start reading the book, you will have a hard time understanding who is talking and about what exactly. If you manage to figure it out, another voice comes out and starts talking about a completely different thing. After that, the repetition starts flowing in, to the point where you actually know what he is going to say. The parts of the book are all over the place; they are not cohesive at all, they don't connect with each other because they are blog posts, but the author could have done a better job of connecting them to each other by adding or removing some ideas.
I would rate this book a 1 out of 4 because of the poor editing and the unprofessionalism of the book. It's like he put together his blog posts into a book and didn't bother to add or remove anything to make it more readable and enjoyable. Plus, the profane language was a little too much, sometimes censored and sometimes not, which I don't understand why.
I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading. The book will definitely ruin your experience no offense to Andrew Alsup.
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There and Back There Again
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Recite in the name of your Lord who created [*] Created man from a clinging substance [*] Recite, and your Lord is the most Generous [*] Who taught by the pen [*] Taught man that which he knew not.
The Quran. Surah Al Alaq
The Quran. Surah Al Alaq
