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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Can you give negative stars? Deeply cynical, arrogant, incurious, unoriginal, what was an interesting premise is marred by the writer's complete inability to engage with anyone or anything outside of his own mind. Entire chapters are reasoned back from his conclusion, contrary evidence is ignored, and strawmen are set up and knocked down with the efficiency a Fox News commentator would be impressed by, all of it wrapped in a masturbatory and defensive prose style. This book joins a short list of books, films, and albums that I only finished in order to talk about how much I disliked it. ]]></body>
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