Ummmmm....
Talk about snatching an insult from the jaws of a compliment...
My exceedingly mild "criticism" was purely intended constructively, not as a bad reflexion on either the work or its author.
Did anybody, anybody at all bother to read the part where I said, and I quote, "Worth every penny, and a bargain at twice the price. I hope you get a better publisher to re-release this valuable tome!" which just about any other sentient being in this quadrant of the galaxy would successfully interpret it in the vein it was intended, namely "high praise"?
Obviously my English must be very poor - is there some other language I can attempt to convey my praise in where it won't be utterly and completely mis-interpreted? Spanish, German, Russian, Chinese, Swahili, Klingon....? Preferences?
Incredibly frustrating when people go literally thousands of parsecs out of their way to come up with an interpretation that not only is out of this world, but out of this universe in terms of being utterly and completely the opposite of my intent...:banghead:
*** sigh ***