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radiantfracture ([personal profile] radiantfracture) wrote2017-11-01 04:10 pm
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Happy Sad Penguin Day

I found another grumpy Penguin book blurb! Or, rather,‏ @vijaykhurana found it and posted it to Twitter, writing:

Take me back to when books cost 85p and the publisher would warn you on the back cover that it might be terrible.


...accompanied by this picture:



Which, while of similar vintage, is superior in cumulative gloominess to the copy of Howards End I mentioned in an earlier post:




...which at least offers up a little hope for a rewarding, if arduous, reading experience.

{rf}
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[personal profile] sovay 2017-11-03 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
It requires starting a formal collection of unenthusiastic blurbs.

Please post any others you find.