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mikelnomics t1_jdhtuum wrote

Don't really get the hate. Haven't read it myself, but it seems like an absolute rollercoaster of a book. Did anyone really expect the tell-all memoir of an ex-royal to break new ground in literature?

If you're reading for anything other than gossip, cringe etc., the fault lies with you, not the book.

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Laura9624 t1_jdj400d wrote

Yeah, nobody made anybody read it. What is wrong with people.

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Prothean_Beacon t1_jdk0jgb wrote

It's like when people complain that there are too many sequels, marvel movies and remakes while simultaneously going to see each and every one of them.

Or my favorite clicking and commenting on Reddit posts about how much they don't care about whatever the post is about.

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Mr_Potato_Head1 t1_jdioeyn wrote

From excerpts I've read (not going to subject myself to the full thing), it's an odd book in that it wants to be a profound look at one man escaping a powerful system which has been dragging him down, but the sheer amount of gossip and the dreadful way it's written for the most part means it ends up being really comical in ways that were probably unintentional. Most people will be reading it for the gossip but I don't think he necessarily wanted it to be that when he wrote it.

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