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user-inactivated  ·  3778 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 17, 2014

    I think a whole bunch of people bought it because it was "groundbreaking" and then lied to their friends that they read it.

But why this book? Plenty of "groundbreaking" books come out all the time. This one happens to actually be groundbreaking, but that's more coincidence than anything else. Very few of the journalists who said it was groundbreaking read the damn thing, so what do they know.