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Title: Tediously repetitive hyperbole
Review: Reading between the lines, I would guess that the author was unable to unearth enough material to really make William Smith come to life, in a narrative sense. So instead he substituted continual breathless assertion of the brilliance and audacity of Smith's accomplishment as though leading a cheering section, and repeatedly related those aspects of Smith's history which he *did* possess, in slightly different format, over and over again throughout the book. In other words, what could've been a fascinating magazine article was instead inflated into an exceedingly dull book, with a muddled timeline and so much hyperbole that I have come to dislike William Smith.Pass this one by.
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