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Dec. 19, 2005 In a recent article, I voiced my opinion that Dennis Siluk had engineered his ‘victory’ in the UK run-off. Most of the writers on this website are backslappers and sycophants and prefer to pretend not to notice the irregularity of this showing. I also noted that I had received laudatory e-mail from Minerva Peñaloza, who pretended not to know Siluk, despite the fact that some of his lame limericks have been translated into Spanish by Nancy Peñaloza. Now an informant tells me that Siluk’s wife is named Rosa Peñaloza. That’s a whole lot of Peñalozas! What I believe is that Siluk’s wife sent me the e-mail, to make it look as if Siluk indeed has his enthusiasts, thereby to defuse my objective criticism. If this supposition is correct, then I don’t hesitate to surmise that ‘Juana Espíritu’ is another alias of Ms. Siluk née Peñaloza. But I have further evidence that Siluk is an arrant charlatan. He wrote a book called ‘A Path to Sobriety, The Inside Passage’. I have not read the book. But I have read enough of Siluk’s articles to know that, unless it was emended exhaustively by the editor, it is probably a nearly-unintelligible nightmare. And why should anyone go to the trouble of correcting his inarticulate banalities and falsehoods in the first place? It would be much easier just to write a new book, committing Siluk’s manuscript to the recycling facility. Anyway, at the website whose URL is listed first below, several so-called readers’ reviews were published. The first review, the one I call the genuine review, criticizes Siluk’s writing in just the way any intelligent, literate person 15 or older would do. This review was followed by half a dozen laudatory reviews hailing Siluk’s book as some sort of masterpiece or really insightful manual. Note that the genuine review voices the suspicions of the reviewer that Siluk fabricated all the laudatory reviews. If you have read many of Siluk’s articles at UK, you will recognize his ‘style’ in the laudatory reviews, all written is the same sort of grammatical nihilism. I have more specific evidence of his charlatanry than just stylistic comparison, however. In the review that I call the fraudulent review, note that the supposed reviewer marginalizes Siluk’s grammatical blunders by asserting that Burroughs, Joyce and Shakespeare also made grammatical errors. That very argument is made in one Siluk’s articles posted at UK and entitled “The Perfectionist: Obsessive Compulsive Behavior Is An Illness”. This leads to the inescapable conclusion that the same perso, namely Dennis Siluk, composed the fradulent review and the UK article. Also note that when someone criticizes Siluk, Siluk doesn’t answer the criticism very gallantly, churl that he is, but resorts to personal vituperation. Thus the reviewer must have been ‘drunk’. The butt of his UK article was ‘obsessive compulsive’. He called me ‘bipolar’. Instead of being magnanimous enough to face the fact that he needs tutoring in English, he will denigrate without a particle of justification someone who is trying to communicate the truth sincerely and frankly. GENUINE REVIEW This is, without question, one of the worst-written books I have ever come across. I don't know if the author is foreign or what, but he cannot write in English. Every page - every single page - was riddled with typos, grammatical errors, run-on sentences, misused words. Honestly, this book is unreadable. We are returning it. Our first return ever with Amazon. If this author does know the subject matter, he is unable to put it to paper. What this book needed was an editor. I have no problem with "vanity press" self-published books if they're useful, but they have to be readable. I am very suspicious that the glowing 5-star reviews here were all written by the same person. And you'll note they've all got their share of spelling mistakes and bad grammar as well. Do not waste your time with this book. FRAUDULENT REVIEW I've just read the book, and the reviews; the one reviewer that gave it a one star must be drunk, I doubt he read the book. I see he gave no name, so I'm pretty sure it was a rival of the writer. I didn't realize it was a vanity book, but then so did Faulkner, Twain and a few others resort to that. For myself, I'm a recovering person, and if there were some mistakes in the book, I guess I didn't notice, nor care, it got the point across, and gave me what I needed, which was not Shakespear, or a professor in English. I suggest he read Edgar Rice Burroghs, or James Joyce's first editions, it took the editors 20-years to get all the erros out of their books; this is a self-help book not a grammar course. http://www.davidahanson.com/bookstore/free2.php?asin=0595263232 THE PERFECTIONIST: OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR IS AN ILLNESS “Matter-of-fact, he had over 50-misspelling in one of his books [first edition], but most writers do; Joyce, with his book: Ulysses, it only took 13-years to correct all the gobbledygook that was wrong with it; and as for fragmented sentences, look at Time Magazine, anyone, if you got the eye you’ll see it. E. R. Burroughs, Mr. Tarzan, if anyone has ever read him, like Robert Howard, both hero writers of mine, wrote, according to the Perfectionist, with no respect for the reader; why, because just read where the tenses are, they both shift from present to third in a clap of an eye, faster than Tarzan can fly...” http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/jan/article162.html ------------ About the author Thomas Keyes: I have written two books: A SOJOURN IN ASIA (non-fiction) and A TALE OF UNG (fiction), neither published so far. I have studied languages for years and traveled extensively on five continents. Email: udikeyes@yahoo.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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