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Gail Pool

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Average rating: 3.68 · 101 ratings · 23 reviews · 3 distinct worksSimilar authors
Faint Praise: The Plight of...

3.52 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions
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4.07 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions
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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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