What books don\'t you want to see?

[Nathan Ross]

(someone we know?)

Fraid so. I really wanted to like this one more than I did - but it had to be another of those 'adds little' type reviews of the sort Ian mentioned in his first post. It's not a bad book (mistakes excepted), but could have been better.

Bill Leadbetter's Galerius and the Will of Diocletian is actually a lot more thorough on the earlier tetrarchic military campaigns, but suffers badly from the worst proofreading and editing job I've ever seen - near-identical sentences in the same paragraph, that sort of thing. As it costs over fifty quid, this is pretty unforgiveable.

So, another thing for the 'don't want to see' list: books that seem to have been published in a hurry, with little or no editorial or proofreading work, full of errors and typos!