Official Review: Offended by Nicholas andrew stewart

[kayla1080]

[Following is the official OnlineBookClub.org review of "Offended" by Nicholas andrew stewart.]

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1 out of 4 stars

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I’m not going to lie, Offended was pretty hard to read. It’s only 18 pages long and has one-line, run-on sentences with huge paragraph breaks that are hard to follow. The subheader is titled, “A blog to book on the topic of communication”, but there are no references to the blog where it came from.

From what I could gather, this is a guide blog on how to not get offended, and dealing with offensive people. This is for people who care about their own well-being.

When I was reading Offended, I was actually around a couple of offensive people, so it was nice to take some of the ideas in this book and apply them immediately. But I read a line or two aloud, and found that while there are some good points, the way that it’s written make them hard to internalize. I re-read sentences several times to get it, trying to not be distracted by the lack of punctuation.

An example is, “Offensive people are said to be insecure and act offensively to feel that they have some control in who gets offended- if their the one being offensive then there less chance of them being offended by someone else!” As you can see, “their” should’ve been “they’re”, and it should’ve said, “...there IS A lessER chance…”, and maybe this thought should've been broken up into two sentences.

There were also phrases that I just didn’t get, like, “think about something right, do something right, say something right and feel something right makes you feel good.” Or “offended people feel more good than bad.” I’ve never been in a situation where I’ve felt good being offended, so I wish the author would’ve elaborated on that.

I also found parenthesis and quotes that don’t close, sentences that needed periods, weird space breaks, and an annoying repetition of the words “offended”, “offensive”, “communicate”, and “communication”.

Author Nicholas Andrew Stewart also made a couple of references to offensive people as portraying themselves as being “mentally retarded”, which I think is not only an offensive term itself, but inappropriate regarding the subject matter of this book.

I noticed that there are no examples of positive self-talk or examples of how to handle people in these difficult situations.

I couldn’t really find and information on the author, and it ended with a sentence about communication and then a bullet point: “The book author retains sole copyright to his or her contributions to this book.” However, the author never referenced anyone else’s point in the book and as mentioned in the beginning, there was no reference to the blog in which this book originated from.

I liked the cover art, but since this book is too short and poorly written, I rate it 1 out of 4 stars.

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[zeldas_lullaby]

Wow. This book seems like a mind-bender. Great review.

[kayla1080]

Thank you! Yes, even though it was only 18 pages long (probably 10 if you take out all of the double line breaks) it was a bit tough to get through.

[bookowlie]

Great review! I could feel your frustration with the book. It sounds strange that an 18-page book would be hard to get through, but I've also read very short books that took a relatively long time to finish.