This man is too verbose, and I think his verbosity is what makes people just zone out on what he's doing while reading this.

He double-speaks, he contradicts himself, and he treats the whole natural world like it's engaging in capitalistic tendencies. I do not understand the popularity this book has endured because it's so often just ridiculous.

And even on a review purely around his writing style and structure, it's just bad. The editors he thanks so often did him a disservice of not forcing him to write a coherent book, allowing him to drone on and on and on until you've forgotten what the point is.

And he keeps fighting in the notes with people who disagreed with him (especially Stephen J Gould, who he has a particular hate-on for).