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The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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All good books are praiseworthy, but each bad book is bad in its own special way. Some falter through sheer ineptitude, a lack of talent that shines forth on every page. Others are written by those with genuine skills, but who earn our obloquy by pouring out hackwork, or sacrificing honesty to advance ideology, or writing novelizations of doltish hit mo…

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