August 6th 2008 05:44 am
The Path of Least Resistance
Ok, what was up with writers back in the 1970s and 1980s that they felt everything they wrote needed to sound like a text book? Did they think people would take them more seriously if they wrote dry tomes using lots of big (and often made up) words?
There are a lot of books in the “self help” and “pop psychology” genres. If Fritz hadn’t written this one like a psychology textbook or journal submission, I’d recommend it wholeheartedly… he’s got some interesting insights.
If you don’t mind the scholastic type books, it might be worth trying to find this one. There seems to be a revised edition available that was published a few years after this one. I wonder if it reads any easier.
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