'In the Shadows of a Newport Mansion'

I found this book at the used book store last week and because it was only around $4, bought it. From the first page it's just one grammatical error after the other and like Joanna said, the sans serif typeface is hard to read. The author, Michael Seggie, also doesn't know how to use apostrophes or commas, which was so irritating that I could read only a few pages at the time. When he's writing about two or more family members, such as the "Bradleys" (plural), he inevitable writes "Bradley's," which is possessive. At one point when he was talking about a tour guide who passed along "anecdotes," to tour groups, he writes "antidotes." Did this man learn nothing in school and why didn't he have someone at least proofread what he wrote? I couldn't believe any reputable publisher would have touched something that reads like it was written by a high school dropout and when I checked, I found that it was self-published by a company called CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. As someone else commented, there isn't much about the "Dark Shadows" mansion and what there is, the author spends badmouthing the Carey family, the current owners of the house. I'm a fast reader but it took me a week to finish this book and I'm still mad at myself for wasting that much of my life reading something so badly written and self-serving.