Inherent Vice's Inherent Vice

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Not globally or in general, but this one, sad to say, definitely is. I
mean, I took care of my IV copy as if it was the raw egg outta which the
Saviour would climb after my first read was finished. It never fell down,
me used a zigzag as bookmark and did ev-ry-thing else to keep it PRESERVED.
Yet the GOLDEN FANG of late-late-late-capitalism had --- Surprise, Surprise!
--- no mercy or respect for our author's art. Yes folks, it broke! Between
page 242 and 243. All of it? Well, there is, at the top as well as at the
bottom, as much left that the pages do not start to fall apart now. But I
guess that's just a temporary thing ...

KFL

>> I am not quite halfway through my first reading and my copy is
already falling apart with multiple spinebreaks. I don't mind paying
25-30 dollars for a book these days but is it just me or are books made
really cheaply now? <<