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Remember when novels had short, unpretentious titles? Think Emma, Plumb, The Hobbit. Now names often sprawl across most of the cover, getting more cutesy with each passing word.
But never judge a book by its title, as Fran Lebowitz really meant to say. This(only four words), makes diverting, intermittently didactic yet dramatic-enough reading.