I am reading David N. Schwartz, "The last man who knew everything" (on Enrico Fermi) and I am starting to suspect that what I thought was an exception is now the rule in non-fiction books.
Why on Earth is no sentence ever longer than ten words? All the recent non-fiction books I have read in the past year have this annoying hyper-simple English structure which drives me absolutely mad. Ironically, the quotes of other physicists in the Schwartz book are far more elaborate even though they are from mostly immigrant scientists: Hans Bethe writes better English than Schwartz, how sad.
I should qualify that: books by US authors have this.
I read both P. Caddick-Adams, "Monte Cassino: Ten armies in Hell" and S. Plohky, "Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis", neither of them suffer from the short, simple sentences disease.
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