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An Immense Disappointment,
By Keith Otis Edwards "Keith Otis Edwards" (Dearbron, MI United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Diary of H.L. Mencken (Hardcover)
This book should never have been published. In fact, in his will, H. L. Mencken specified that it should never be published. Diaries, the one by Samuel Pepys being the exception, seldom make for marvelous reading, and this is probably the only dull thing Mencken ever wrote. We get to learn of many banquets and meetings with forgotten men, complaints about the neighbors, and an endless litany of physical complaints. (Mencken was a hypochondriac.) What's worse, there are the infamous grumblings and unkind words about Jews which served to ruin Mencken's reputation. Absent is the wit Mencken was celebrated for.
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The Diary of H.L. Mencken by H. L. Mencken (Hardcover - March 26, 1991)
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