Re: Book recommendation?

Joachim Pense wrote:

One of my biggest complaints with Fortson's book, after I leafed through it in Blackwell's having heard so much about it, was how he
simply 'taught' things which to my slightly conservative mind
certainly need to be very well argued and defended, being as
peripheral as those views are. That's a big part of the reason why
I wouldn't recommend his book to anybody.

I think this might apply if you expect research level criticism. To outsiders (like me) who want a survey, I feel this book is very fine.
The author's project is presenting the mainstream of the PIE
research; and if an aspect is under discussion among specialists, he
says so. What he doesn't do is go into detail about those
discussions.

I don't think that Neeraj was complaining about that - though it is
debatable if that's a very paedagogic approach. I think Neeraj is
talking against useless simplification and presenting as mainstream
things that are not clearly so.
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