![]() ![]() Is the book about the mayor, city council, firefighters, factories, or what? He is too scared to even delve into the real economics of the collapse of Detroit's car industry. The details of the book are told in a head spinning back and forth manner that epitomizes the poor edit quality. It's like the publisher came back and said you need another twenty pages and he decided to go ahead and fill it with his story. LeDuff skips around, sprinkling in autobiographical details here and there, then finally decides to tell his autobiography at the end of the book. Trying to follow the narrative of the story is worse and you come out feeling there was no editor. As the reader fumbled over these literary gaffs you think, gosh, where was the editor. First, LeDuff uses similes that seem picked at random from a quote book with little thought as to their appropriateness and or clarity. LeDuff's clunky writing style with horribly placed similes, disjointed narrative, and poor choice of main characters make this a really tough read. ![]() It is frustrating when a fascinating topic falls into the hands of an incapable writer. ![]()
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