After reading more, it would be more accurate to say “errors in virtually every paragraph.” The editing and copyediting are pretty bad.
Having read some documents that fit this description myself, I feel your pain. I'm thinking of a placeholder name that one of my professors at CSU Long Beach used (he taught second-semester Freshman English): "Jeffrey Benderverben." And as I recall, he said in so many words that it was a name intended to suggest somebody who would inflict what you describe on defenseless readers.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I'm now past Apollo 17, Skylab, and the beginnings of the Shuttle. The next chapter is titled, “The Boldest Test Flight in History.” You can probably guess what it's about.
I'm now up to the beginning of the chapter on the Challenger Disaster. And it's a long one. Over the past chapter or so, there's been a lot of hindsight about leaky SRB o-rings.
I've started seeing stories I'm more familiar with in my Poe collection: I just finished The Murders in the Rue Morgue this afternoon. It's been an eye-opening experience so far. I grew up with the standard doom-and-gloom view of Poe's writing. Of course, I knew he wrote detective stories, but I've been pleasantly surprised finding out just how wide his literary range was.
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