Re: [tied] Worth purchasing?

From: Petusek
Message: 38394
Date: 2005-06-06

Me:
> > I've got an opportunity to purchase "The Laws of Indo-European" by N.E.
> > Collinge and I'd like to ask if it's worth buying at all - has anyone
read
> > it? Thank you for your kind advice.

Mate:
> I wouldn't if it's not very very cheap. It gets cited a lot and is widely
> known but in my opinion it's not a very good book. The author writes very
> unclearly and the book is useful only because of the literature or becose
> all the laws are written down there in the same place. According to my
> experience with the book, if you already do not know what some law is, you
> will have hard time finding that out from the book itself.

Thank you, Mate.