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Title: A Regretable Failure
Review: Big Beverage (a novel), William Campbell; Tupper & Love (1952)Written by Cot Campbell's loquacious father, Cot later remarked in his excellent memoir that "the story behind the book [Big Beverage] is a sad one." And its instant demise upon publication ensued.Margin note on page 364: "If you had written this, you'd be home by now (65 pages to go)."What would have been a dynamite 300-page novel about the allegedly rapacious executives of the Coca Cola Company in its formative years is, instead, a 429-page excruciatingly self-indulgent soap opera with force fields of limitless adjectives that in outer space could pulverize planets.What a shame that so much writing talent went to waste - doomed by the author's obsessions & resentments. Pulped 10/01/10.
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