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                                              August    4, 2002

  Why finish readng a book you hate?

  Presumably you did it so you'd have the
  right to complain about it.

  Me, I just finished reading a Charlie
  Chan novel written in 1926 ("The Chinese
  Parrot" by Earl Derr Biggers), even
  though I found it a huge drag.

  The broad outline of the solution to
  the "mystery" was pretty clear in the
  first few chapters; after which the
  main characters begin stalling
  around, stubbornly refusing to
  consider what is really a pretty
  obvious possiblity.


  At the outset of the story,
  there were a few points of       Some remarks about
  interest:                        San Francisco:

      Charlie Chan's character:         ((fill in?))
      we're used to thinking of
      him as a burlesque, but
      Biggers clearly took him
      seriously.


                           But I'd say the main reason
                           that I finished reading this
                           is to secure my rights to
                           complain about it.


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