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Summary: Uninformative and Painful to Read
Review: Having recently entered the business of analyzing drug discovery and drug development opportunities, and seeking an exposé of the overall process to serve as a checklist, I did some searching on Amazon.com and purchased this book. The content was very disappoining, as what I learned was little more than a series of platitudes and definitions of words. I can forgive this, and attribute it to my failure to assess the target audience of the book. The content likely would be informative to a person who knows nothing about the drug discovery process. What motivates me to write this review is that this book contains the worse pros I have ever seen in print. The abuse of the English language is so severe that the text is painful to read. The editing is atrocious. Every third clause is redundant, and the author never hesitates to use ten words where three would do. Whole paragraphs could be removed without diminishing the information content. Randomly chosen example: "Another function that specialized computer experts handle, in conjunction with their colleagues in the chemistry department, is the computational chemistry operation for the design of new molecules." How about: "Computer experts also work with chemists to design new molecules by computation." The author or his editor appeared to be consciously trying to make the book longer. Technical writing is rarely elegant, but there is no excuse for such writing.
Rating:
Summary: Uninformative and Painful to Read
Review: Having recently entered the business of analyzing drug discovery and drug development opportunities, and seeking an exposé of the overall process to serve as a checklist, I did some searching on Amazon.com and purchased this book. The content was very disappoining, as what I learned was little more than a series of platitudes and definitions of words. I can forgive this, and attribute it to my failure to assess the target audience of the book. The content likely would be informative to a person who knows nothing about the drug discovery process. What motivates me to write this review is that this book contains the worse pros I have ever seen in print. The abuse of the English language is so severe that the text is painful to read. The editing is atrocious. Every third clause is redundant, and the author never hesitates to use ten words where three would do. Whole paragraphs could be removed without diminishing the information content. Randomly chosen example: "Another function that specialized computer experts handle, in conjunction with their colleagues in the chemistry department, is the computational chemistry operation for the design of new molecules." How about: "Computer experts also work with chemists to design new molecules by computation." The author or his editor appeared to be consciously trying to make the book longer. Technical writing is rarely elegant, but there is no excuse for such writing.
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