Viking Books
In The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker applies insights from the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, coherent, and stylish prose.
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Audio needs cleaning….
My top shelf is populated by books by Steven Pinker, Richard Posner and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Sometimes I think they're really the same person (a kind of Trinity, perhaps?).
A geometer with a straightedge couldn't draft a manlier jawline.
Fix the audio please. I always enjoy the thoughts of Professor Pinker but listening to this is quite frankly unpleasant.
I have been eagerly anticipating this book since he alluded to it on his last book tour. w00t ☺lols
I'll probably check this out but it might be a misfire. Pinker is the best synthesizer/thinker alive but his "style" doesn't do much for me in the abstract, aside from sheer clarity. I find it's a bit lacking in personality compared to Bertrand Russell, Chris Hitchens, George Orwell or H.L. Mencken. Mencken said a man's prose style (like his guitar soloing style, presumably,) is faintly "demoniacal," but Pinker feels too entrenched in the tedious academy to traffic too freely with demons of any sort. You could get expelled.
I love your books, especially the Better Angels, I am definitely gonna get this one! 🙂
"The thing is, of course, that bad writing has always been with us, and good writing has always been hard."
Well said, sir.
No sense of style in sound quality?!
I'm looking forward to this book very much, I purchased another Steven Pinker book last night.
I think there is way too much compression on this audio, you can hear every movement he makes. That being said, can't wait to pick this up once it's out in paperback.
While listening to the audio I feel like i'm performing tracheal surgery on Steven Pinker.
Where's the audio? This has to be filmed again. Get someone with good mics to rerecord this … or just make an audiobook excerpt overdub of a slideshow.
Terrible audio! Please, clean it NOW! I can see that people complained about this a year ago! Wake up, over there at Viking books!…
Very amateur video production from someone that should know better. And ahhhhhhhh! Who's messing with the mic?