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    <body><![CDATA[Elitist whining about why/how people are stupid. Does not age well.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not really different enough from &quot;Class&quot; to merit a higher ranking, but different enough to be worth reading even if you have read &quot;Class.&quot;<br/><br/>But &quot;Class&quot; is far superior.<br/><br/>Fussell manages to complain about the same things that Allan Bloom (Closing of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18896549">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think of this book every time a waiter tells me how an item is 'presented.' Fussell's theory is that there's bad (things that are not good) and then there's BAD (things that are overly pretentious and bad).  The book is a series of funny and curmudgeonly essays on particular instances of BAD in Am...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29056614">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fussell's book is really just a collection of short, cranky essays on prole drift and the increasingly frustrating character of life in America, but his insightful observations and cool, deadly prose make this work reading.]]></body>
    
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