American Taboo : A Murder in the Peace Corps

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Summary: Dreadful hack job of writing.
Review: Poor writing & a pointless, meandering narration that's overly focused on the author himself, make this a book to AVOID.

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Summary: interesting story badly told
Review: the author obviously did extensive research into this true story of murder in Tonga in 1976, but he appeared to have felt compelled to include every detail anyone ever told him, including hundreds of details that are completely and totally irrelevant to the story. it is difficult to imagine that this book had an editor of any skill. the author's "style" was extremely annoying, and i finished the book wishing that a better journalist had undertaken this effort.

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Summary: A Murder in the PC and also of the English language
Review: The grammatical errors and flip flop narration style of the book were extremely distracting to me. (I've never seen as many run-on sentences in one place.)
As I was a PC volunteer in Tonga, the story was very interesting and so made the book worthwhile. I wish the author had listened to his English teacher if indeed he went to class.