Chris Rodell

Liked the content, for the most part. But it is obvious he didn’t utilize a human editor. Even the free online AI editor HemingwayApp would have helped him a great deal. Due to his writing wasn’t tight, it made it harder to follow and enjoy.
The content seems to be more of compiled blog posts than essays. Which, in my opinion, means it probably doesn’t warrant a book.
I sincerely wanted to like it but I get frustrated when I feel like the author doesn’t take sentence structure and other important aspects of writing very seriously. Or even into account at all. It feels like they are wasting my time as a reader that they could not first use the vast amount of free writing sources available to improve their book before hitting the ‘published’ button.… (meer)

On page 273 of "Undaunted Optimist" by Chris Rodell, the author writes: "I… spend hour after sudsy hour in the tavern with my friends." Friends such as those will enjoy this book. It is breezy, irreverent, opinionated, provocative, and, as the title implies, optimistic. The writing is characterized by short essays in which the succession of one and two-sentence paragraphs provides a conversational tone--and amusing one-liners. The editing is good. I found two misprints in 398 pages. There is some gritty language, but bar buddies would laugh at such refined sensibility.
The book is a collection of blogs, and sometimes it shows. Rodell tells us, not once, but four times, that he wrote over 1,000 articles for the "National Enquirer," and since the order of the essays is not chronological, the ages of his children and the dates of his anecdotes bounce about as he moves from topic to topic. I read the whole book the day I received a review copy, but I think picking it up from time to time is a better way to enjoy it.… (meer)