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Not in the Mood: Essays

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Of course I'm biased. Entertaining concept and many quotable one-liners. The monologues near the end knocked off the rest of the half star for me.

If you don't want to read an entire book, enjoy this slightly adapted excerpt of a poem from Richard Si
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