Not a bad little book for what it is. Its main benefit is that Fish collects 30 or 40 fantastic sentences from literature and then shows why they work so well. Downside is that most of Fish's analysis is blubbery.... at least to me. I think anyone with an intuitive grasp of language (which you gain easily enough by reading regularly) can more or less skim his formal critiques of sentences- they are redundant and pedantic.