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Beyond Belief
Helen Pearson,
Princeton University Press
Often, when I read a non-fiction book, I think “this could have been an essay”. An argument that could have been made in 10,000 words gets dragged out to 100,000 with filler anecdotes, repetition and, worst-case, bad extrapolations into topics the writer isn’t qualified to discuss. I won’t name names – we’ve all read the books.
