You seem to have an idiosyncratic writing style. But I guess using the right words is half the battle.
Nah, he just accidentally a word out. 
This sentence no verb?
Or exact [is] your verb.
The bible for growing trees and shrubs:
Some pathologists would disagree, but there is no surgical pathology text better than Sternberg, even if Ackerman is the holy of holies.
Strunk and White: “Elements of Style.”
In my job: The Statistical Analysis of Experimental Data (great for filtering the categories: lies, damned lies, and statistics)
When I was actively playing: The Art of Sacrifice in Chess (The book that got me from B player to Expert)
Beyond Good and Evil
“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower.”
Fight Club
“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
“I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
“Only after disaster can we be resurrected."