A boring book is not proof that a robot wrote it
I have disliked books written by people. This is an awkward fact for the fashionable argument that a flat sentence must have emerged from a machine.
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Words by Imogen Vale
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I hated this book. Years later, I was the problem.
I wrote a severe little note inside the back cover: too slow, too much description, nobody doing anything. The novel then spent several years on a shelf while I became someone with a rather different
Your reading list has become another damn job
The list had categories, deadlines and a count at the top. It also contained several books I no longer wanted to read. They remained there because removing them felt suspiciously like abandoning a commitment, although
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