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Title: Life is Too Short
Review: I remembered liking this book when I was 20. I bought it recently at a library sale and was excited to re-read it after more than 2 decades of (cough, cough) wisdom. Usually when I have read books that made an impression on me in my earlier years (I'm thinking "The Good Earth", "Atlas Shrugged"), I still enjoy it, although maybe in a different way. A classic is a classic no matter where you are in life or how it speaks to you. This book, however, just left me thinking "What WAS I thinking?" I can not fathom how it spoke to me or why I liked it. The underlying plot was just a thinly disguised means of rambling about the author's self-important ideas. It didn't take me long to get bored with both the plot and the philosophy. My personal philosophy of quality led me to abandon this book before the end.
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