content: I've never actually thrown a book away before. Not until this one. I took it to the doctor's office to read while waiting, and after my appointment I had to pull over and find a Dumpster because I didn't even want the thing in the car. My personal beef: Queenan includes all horror fiction in his definition of "trash" without appearing to have read any of it very carefully. I read a lot of horror fiction (and sometimes write it), and I'll be the first to admit that a lot of it is idiotic crap -- but I don't believe that Peter Straub, Dan Simmons, and Clive Barker deserve to be mindlessly included in that definition. In his attempt to show how smart and above-it-all he is, Queenan comes off looking stupider than the stuff he means to skewer.