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	Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America 3.52 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost Among the Baining: Adventure, Marriage, and Other Fieldwork 4.07 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Other People's Mail: An Anthology of Letter Stories 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Review: The Socrates Express

The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers

By Eric Weiner. Avid Reader Press, 2020, 330 pp.

As Eric Weiner observes in his introduction to The Socrates Express, "In the literary world, how-to books are an embarrassment, the successful but uncouth cousin. Serious writers don't write how-to books, and serious readers don't read them.

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