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Title: TOO DULL & TOO EXPENSIVE
Review: Why I relied on Amazon readers' reviews [?friends/students of the author?] to the exclusion of the Publishers Weekly criticism, I'll never know.Trying to write this review based on what the book is, as opposed to what I assumed it was, is not easy.This volume is an in depth cultural and sociological study of doormen; a treatise written with the fervor of a tract. There is no need for this subject to be dreary not to mention the inanity of the charts that are incorporated within the text. I stuck through the first 115 pages and then put it aside; far aside.Yes, University Presses are understandably higher priced than mainstream publishing, but the U. of Chicago Press should have staple bound this and distributed it to those libraries that might have a readership interest. That might have amounted to one dozen or so units.I've lived in doorman buildings all of my adult life. This examination of these men is downright ridiclous.Irresponsible publishing and packaging.
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