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Gail Pool

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Average rating: 3.66 · 100 ratings · 23 reviews · 4 distinct works
Faint Praise: The Plight of...

3.45 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions
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Lost Among the Baining: Adv...

4.14 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions
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Other People's Mail: An Ant...

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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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“Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.”
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