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Is it possible to sympathize and agree with everything he says, and yet find the writing insufferably pompous? Because that's where I'm at with The Timeless Way of Building.

I didn't get that in watching him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98LdFA-_zfA

I was picturing someone like Dan Akroyd on SNL as Leonard Pinth Garnell and "Bad Ballet."

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I've recommended his book a lot but I also find the writing itself to be poor. He's very much trying to write like its some (specifically Taoist) mystic text but it comes off as quite cheesy.

I don't disagree that this was a risky bet, and yet now I can't imagine the book being written any other way.

Oh, I can:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1703957/

Thomas Wolfe brought Maxwell Perkins a "book" of over 2,000 pages, and he was still writing furiously. Perkins still said "we mean to publish this" and brought it down to a manageable length.

Alexander just needs some tough love.

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