Here's a thing I don't like: people who write the same book over and over.
Talking to you, Dan Brown. Da Vinci Code = Angels and Demons = isn't there a new one?
You know who didn't do that, despite the fact that they totally could have and we probably wouldn't have cared? Ian Fleming. Or John LeCarre. Shit, even Tom Clancy and John Grisham switched it up a little bit.
So we expect this from spy novels, supermarket paperbacks, and Dan Brown.
But it pisses me off from someone who calls herself a scientist. Ahem, Alison Gopnik. I bought your second book, The Philosophical Baby, because I liked your first book, The Scientist in the Crib, except your second book is exactly like your first book, only you've stripped the other two authors of any credit. And that makes me like your second book not at all.
I don't have a boatload of time on my hands to read, lady. This is not a cool trick. I paid money for this shit, hardback even, and all I got was something I already read.
Lame.
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