Review: Ringo: With a Little Help

Ringo: With a Little Help by Michael Starr
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Here is a case of the value of information vs the presentation: I have read plenty of Beatle books, but never much about Ringo himself. They always focus on the songwriters, leaving Ringo quite underrepresented. This book seeks to tell Ringo's story.

But holy cow, the editing is just awful. Frequently whole sentences and paragraphs are repeated, slightly reworded but with otherwise identical content. It's almost like the author wrote a couple of versions of a particular thought with the intention of deleting it but then forgot to remove the alternate version. And it happens all the time. It makes for a very sloppy book.

I don't blame the author here, though. The publisher, editor, and copyeditor should have caught this.

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