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The Game of Logic by Lewis Carroll is a great brain teaser for readers of all ages. The ebook allows you to learn the basics of logic in a funny and natural way.
Rating: 5 / 5
Very interesting and informative, but the diagrams are not included, making it a little hard to interpret, as it leans heavily on the diagrams for explanation. Some can be reconstructed from the description, but it makes it difficult to know if you have understood correctly. But hey – it’s free so who can complain!
Rating: 4 / 5
It might be the copy I got or something, but all it was was ones and twos. Every time I click on the book, I get something different. One time it is numbers and another time it is just a whole bunch of words that don’t make sense the way they were put together.
Rating: 1 / 5
The Kindle version is a great disappointment, due to the flagrant abuse of the formating that is essential to Carrol’s presentation. My “for fee” Kindle books do respect formatting and they are a joy. Indeed, when color is not an issue, I prefer Kindle to print (variable font, auto dictionary, search, etc.). Perhaps I am old fashioned, but for me, “for free” does not excuse sloppy performance. This sloppiness carries over to many of the “for free” poetry books as well, rendering them worthless as well.
In my mind, this tarnishes the whole Kindle experience. What is worse, the Amazon reviews (usually a powerful guide to quality or lack thereof) are dragged in as co-conspirators. To wit: The Game of Logic is a delightful book and the print edition certainly deserves several stars. The Kindle edition is a mess, as I and others have explained. Averaging the star ratings for the book with the star ratings for this Kindle edition provides deceptive guidance. I refrain from judging if this deception is intentional or just further sloppiness. I had come to have higher expectations of Amazon and of Kindle Books. This experience is a bit of a thud.
This is a short little text Carroll wrote to introduce children to logical reasoning, specifically set logic of the “Some Cretans are Liars” variety. At the time, it was probably an excellent work for this purpose. There are two reasons why it’s not that great a text for that today, though, at least not in this kindle edition.
The first is that Carroll’s tone here has aged pretty badly. To begin with, his overall tone is at times painfully precious, in a way that would probably put off any modern child reading this text; beyond that, the examples he chooses are. . curious by modern standards — for example, the second set of extended examples centers around the two propositions “”All Dragons are uncanny” and “all Scotchmen are canny.”
The bigger problem is that the whole mechanism of the book revolves around a square grid diagram that simply doesn’t translate in this kindle edition — it just appears as a set of ||||’s next to each other. Which makes the book’s arguments comparatively difficult to follow, for all Carroll’s wit and charm.
Those two issues aside, Carroll’s text does a good job of explaining basic logical theory in a way that children can understand. But, unfortunately, this edition is more a historical curiosity than it is anything else.
Rating: 3 / 5
#1 by Kelly Kovalsky on June 24, 2010 - 7:58 pm
The Game of Logic by Lewis Carroll
The Game of Logic by Lewis Carroll is a great brain teaser for readers of all ages. The ebook allows you to learn the basics of logic in a funny and natural way.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Ann Warner on June 24, 2010 - 9:14 pm
Very interesting and informative, but the diagrams are not included, making it a little hard to interpret, as it leans heavily on the diagrams for explanation. Some can be reconstructed from the description, but it makes it difficult to know if you have understood correctly. But hey – it’s free so who can complain!
Rating: 4 / 5
#3 by J. Littleton on June 24, 2010 - 9:16 pm
It might be the copy I got or something, but all it was was ones and twos. Every time I click on the book, I get something different. One time it is numbers and another time it is just a whole bunch of words that don’t make sense the way they were put together.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Wes Wilson on June 24, 2010 - 10:33 pm
The Kindle version is a great disappointment, due to the flagrant abuse of the formating that is essential to Carrol’s presentation. My “for fee” Kindle books do respect formatting and they are a joy. Indeed, when color is not an issue, I prefer Kindle to print (variable font, auto dictionary, search, etc.). Perhaps I am old fashioned, but for me, “for free” does not excuse sloppy performance. This sloppiness carries over to many of the “for free” poetry books as well, rendering them worthless as well.
In my mind, this tarnishes the whole Kindle experience. What is worse, the Amazon reviews (usually a powerful guide to quality or lack thereof) are dragged in as co-conspirators. To wit: The Game of Logic is a delightful book and the print edition certainly deserves several stars. The Kindle edition is a mess, as I and others have explained. Averaging the star ratings for the book with the star ratings for this Kindle edition provides deceptive guidance. I refrain from judging if this deception is intentional or just further sloppiness. I had come to have higher expectations of Amazon and of Kindle Books. This experience is a bit of a thud.
Rating: 2 / 5
#5 by T. Simons on June 24, 2010 - 10:34 pm
This is a short little text Carroll wrote to introduce children to logical reasoning, specifically set logic of the “Some Cretans are Liars” variety. At the time, it was probably an excellent work for this purpose. There are two reasons why it’s not that great a text for that today, though, at least not in this kindle edition.
The first is that Carroll’s tone here has aged pretty badly. To begin with, his overall tone is at times painfully precious, in a way that would probably put off any modern child reading this text; beyond that, the examples he chooses are. . curious by modern standards — for example, the second set of extended examples centers around the two propositions “”All Dragons are uncanny” and “all Scotchmen are canny.”
The bigger problem is that the whole mechanism of the book revolves around a square grid diagram that simply doesn’t translate in this kindle edition — it just appears as a set of ||||’s next to each other. Which makes the book’s arguments comparatively difficult to follow, for all Carroll’s wit and charm.
Those two issues aside, Carroll’s text does a good job of explaining basic logical theory in a way that children can understand. But, unfortunately, this edition is more a historical curiosity than it is anything else.
Rating: 3 / 5