Reading this book from the first to the last page is... perhaps not what I would call fun. It is, however, very informative and there are very many exciting chapters in it. Some are outright boring, and in general there is a lot of repetition on these (almost) 400 pages. The book could have been shortened considerably. Since the style of writing is very formal I don't really think this is a book for just anybody, but rather for hobby linguists, really advanced learners of Swedish, writers, journalists, teachers, etc. At least most of these should already be pretty familiar with a lot of the material presented in detail here, like basic grammar and syntax. Therefore it feels like this book is kind of overdoing it vis-à-vis the people who may be interested in it by adopting explanations meant for people who can't be bothered to even learn how to spell. In addition, the Recommendation part often just repeats half of what has been said in the Discussion. A final thought is that Swedish linguistics seem rather underdeveloped and the system of the Swedish language, as it is understood today, comes across as rather messy...
