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A real book "not worth the paper it's written on" simply falls out of print and is not reviewed; it does not generate twenty more pages of overpretentious liter
by Invictus0 7y ago
A real book "not worth the paper it's written on" simply falls out of print and is not reviewed; it does not generate twenty more pages of overpretentious literary diatribe decades later. Readers are advised to skip this article.
- stupidcar 7y agoThe article is a contemporary review.
- apotatopot 7y agoThat's exactly the point of the comment you're replying to.
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- quakingaspen 7y agoIt's not a contemporary review. It's from "Vol. 18 No. 14 · 18 July 1996" of the London Review of Books, so it came out contemporaneously with Infinite Jest
- infradig 7y agoMaking it a contemporary review.
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- throwaway2048 7y agoPopularity is a poor proxy for quality.
- justincredible 7y agoBut a great proxy for value.