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So, I'm reading this book on how to be a butler/personal assistant, mostly because it has a lot of checklists and instructions that I think might help me yank my life back into gear. (I cling to the fantasy that I can get my life to run on automatic.)
It's not that it's vanity-pubbed that's making me twitch. It's not even the occasional "we had no editor" typo, even though it was a hell of an expensive book to be solely edited by an automatic spellchecker.
It's that the author turns out to be a Scientologist, and thus peppers advice on how to accomplish jobs and deal with tricky people with references to Scientologist web pages and references to L Ron Hubbard that's making me twitch. (And no, I wouldn't be any happier if the author was flogging a more mainstream belief. Just talk about BEING A BUTLER and STFU about evangelizing!)
It's not that it's vanity-pubbed that's making me twitch. It's not even the occasional "we had no editor" typo, even though it was a hell of an expensive book to be solely edited by an automatic spellchecker.
It's that the author turns out to be a Scientologist, and thus peppers advice on how to accomplish jobs and deal with tricky people with references to Scientologist web pages and references to L Ron Hubbard that's making me twitch. (And no, I wouldn't be any happier if the author was flogging a more mainstream belief. Just talk about BEING A BUTLER and STFU about evangelizing!)
