Dave Mandl on Nostr: Have you ever seen a blurb/endorsement for a book that puts you *off* buying the book ...
Have you ever seen a blurb/endorsement for a book that puts you *off* buying the book because of who the endorser is? I may have just encountered that: an endorsement by an academic who writes unreadable sludge, leading me to suspect this book by someone else is unreadable sludge.
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