Using the book as a conscious tool of image-building is a more recent phenomenon, however, leading critic Jaime Fuller to lament the banality of such tomes in his 2019 Literary Hub article.
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Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
4 Feb. 2026
The other 19% constitute freaks at the far end, who read 10 or more tomes.
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