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Title: Pure Drivel
Review: I buy books like this for the ideas and insights they they might provide me about people. I got absolutely nothing out of this one. Eric Hoffer over-uses flowery vocabulary which causes his writing to have poor flow. This makes the book unpleasant to read despite its short length.The entire book is a list of pontifications, and I found no eye-opening revelations in any of them. It's a book that leaves you feeling like you could have written it better yourself. I can imagine no point in the history of mankind where this book would have been considered insightful, useful, or necessary. Pure drivel.To be fair, the title does say "thoughts", and that is all it is; a collection of thoughts that could as easily have been yours as Hoffer's. The references used are good for little more than allowing you to cock your head, raise an eyebrow, rest an index finger across your lips, and say, "Hmmm".
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