A paid reviewer who writes “this book should have been shorter” is like a prostitute complaining that her client is taking too long.

[Now adding APHORISMS.

I am having some fun translating book reviewer jargon, particularly from my experience with TBS. A real book should elicit a complaint about lack of immediately visible structure; so “messy” translates into “I don’t see the junk food equivalent (cliff note)”, hence this is a reading experience with surprises & atmosphere, not a textbook. Note that I intentionally made the INCERTO Trilogy completely impossible to speed-read by scanning & following subtitles. I caught a few cheaters (Tyler Cowen and Gregg Easterbrook) speedreading TBS. Remember the agency problem: the buyer doesn’t speedread; he wants to consume the product.]

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