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Title: Using satire as an excuse to not actually write a book
Review: Having read, re read and completely enjoyed Joseph Epstein's "envy", I was looking forward to another book from the series. Get that and skip this.I downloaded the sample to my kindle first- the introduction was a witty description of the self-help industry and the treadmill of self improvement. What I failed to understand was that was not merely an introduction to the topic, that was the book. I kept turning the pages waiting for an actual sociological discussion of sloth and was utterly dissapointed. This was a similar experience to the discomfort and annoyance one feels when a Saturday night live sketch goes on way too long, completely killing any initial humor by beating the dead no longer funny horse.Waste of money. I suppose the intent may have been to repulse me with the product of laziness, to show what sloth truly is. It worked.
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