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# Style: An Anti-Textbook

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    An engaging book on an important topic: modern prose style
  

*by D***E on Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2019*

Of course Richard Lanham's "Style: an Anti-Textbook is a classic. It tackles a prickly subject: why Strunk & White's "Elements of Style" can actually stifle your writing and limit your ability to to write in a personal and artful way. He makes his case with lively writing, well thought out ideas, and engaging examples. It is a read: you'll have to look a word here and there, but that is part of the fun. When you have finished this book, read "Building Great Sentences" by Brooks Landon. This book is a great tutorial on the world of writing beyond Strunk & White.

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    Arrive in good shape
  

*by J***A on Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2022*

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### ⭐ 1.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Tedious and overwrought
  

*by B***Y on Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2011*

I don't think much of the Richard Lanham's writing ability. I first read 
  
Revising Prose (5th Edition)







  
  
     and found it wanting, and I think this book is merely the proto-version of that book.The problem, however, is that he has correct and useful insights into the problems of writing, and, in this book, the writing about writing. He has good things to say. He has good ideas. He just can't write convincingly. This book is the delight of the person who considers himself the thinking sort--everyone else is wrong and the system is rigged. The textbooks are written by hacks, published by bean counting idiots, and assigned by failed writers to cretins fulfilling general education requirements. The thinking person must endure all of this and copes by putting himself above the fray. If you liked 
  
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong







  
  
     or 
  
A People's History of the United States (P.S.)







  
  
    , you'll probably enjoy reading Lanham's evisceration of composition instruction. However, by the time you're in college, you should have already advanced as  reader to questioning and evaluating sources, working with primary sources, and synthesizing ideas. The concept of a "textbook" at the college level is fundamentally wrong unless you think college is really just four more years of high school.Lanham is no better than the textbooks he mocks (collectively as "The Books"). I knew this book was going pear-shaped even in its introduction when he asserted, to no good use, that America is the only nation that cares enough to teach its entire citizenry how to write. He has two unsupported and unbelievable suppositions there: that America is the only nation to do so, and that America is actually doing so. I don't think either are true. Even conceding that point, it's entirely irrelevant. There's no reason to assert anything about America. This isn't a book about post-industrial societies.He then starts a story that leads to him writing this book. He writes "I was sitting in my office at UCLA one sunny spring day ...". Why does it matter what the weather was like? It has nothing to do with the story. It's trite. It's Snoopy typing out "It was a dark and stormy night". Furthermore, what does UCLA have to do with it? There's much he doesn't tell and assumes that we've picked up aside from what he tells us. Why shouldn't he start with "I had been teaching Freshman Composition at UCLA for ten years when ...". In 
  
Revising Prose (5th Edition)







  
  
    , he goes on and on about the Lard Factor, the ratio of needless to useful words in a sentence. He's no better than the people he mocks, filling his pages with fluff.After reading this book, I've come to think that Lanham is merely in love with words, which he'll freely admit, but a bit bewildered by sentences, paragraphs, and chapters. He has good insight, but can't express it. The person who most needs his insight is unlikely to tease it out of this book.

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