I have to agree. The Meinertzhagen manuscript should never have been published.
I wouldn't blame Capstick for it, however. The blame has to sit squarely on his estate and his publisher.
It looks like a first draft. Probably half of a first draft. Containing far too much irrelevant, personal material that should have been tossed and wasn't because there was barely enough text to call it book-length.
I'd have to agree with you here. Capstick isn't the only author whose family/heirs/estate tried to capitalize on his writing after his death by releasing unfinished material.
Ernest Hemingway and J.R.R. Tolkien are two literary greats whose families peddled utter trash after their deaths. It's a shame to have that crap out there tarnishing the legacy of such fine writers.
"I'm gonna have to science the schit out of this." Mark Watney, Sol 59, Mars
