Have all the editors been stranded on the tarmac?

Eliott Hes­ter strikes me as the sort of guy who has dumb­ed him­self down for so long that he does­n’t even real­ize it. He clear­ly has a func­tion­ing brain, but his writ­ing is all flash with very lit­tle sub­stance. He uses two-bit vocab­u­lary words as though to pro­vide the impres­sion of great lit­er­a­ture, but I rarely saw good rea­son for either his use of uncom­mon words or his overuse of over­ly clever phras­es. Sure, this book exists only to tit­il­late … Read the rest