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Flicked through it in the bookshop and read through some reviews.

Looked as terrible as I expected.

One of the five star reviewers of this novel quoted the following as an example of the "amazing" writing contained within:

”Mrs. Barbour was from a society family with an old Dutch name, so cool and blonde and monotone that sometimes she seemed partially drained of blood. She was a masterpiece of composure; nothing ever ruffled her or made her upset, and though she was not beautiful her calmness had the magnetic pull of beauty--a stillness so powerful that the molecules realigned themselves around her when she came into a room.”

If this paragraph was a horse, I would shoot it to put it out of its misery and then turn it into glue.

It is all very well to reject "elitism" in an effort to encourage the participation of the majority, but the insurmountable fact remains that the majority of human beings are bloody idiots.
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