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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

The author - whose searchable name will not appear here - was once good at writing absolute trash. And fiction too.

Irony: when we lost everything in house fire, I'd borrowed a hard-cover copy of that famous nonfiction work, and then couldn't return it. I paid SO much to have it replaced with a good hard-cover copy that I must be on some watchlist now.