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Average rating: 3.64 · 2,555 ratings · 372 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors

	You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama 3.75 avg rating — 1,607 ratings — published 2011 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Coincidence Engine 3.04 avg rating — 365 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading 4.21 avg rating — 194 ratings — published 2024 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Write to the Point How to be Clear, Correct and Persuasive on the Page 3.71 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Going Nowhere: A Life in Six Videogames 3.32 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sod's Law: Why Life Always Lands Butter Side Down 3.47 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead Pets: Stuff Them, Eat Them, Love Them 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Our Times in Rhymes: Being a Prosodical Chronicle of Our Damnable Age 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Being anti-rhetoric is, finally, just another rhetorical strategy. Rhetoric is what the other guy is doing—whereas you, you’re just speaking the plain truth as you see it.”
― Sam Leith, Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama

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“If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, as the old bumper sticker has it, baffle them with bullshit.

"Words Like Loaded Pistols" -- Page 99”
― Sam Leith

tags: public-speaking, rhetoric, writing, writing-advice

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“A publishing acquaintance suggests an analogy with music: jazz is more complex than blues. It’s harder to play and harder to appreciate. That doesn’t mean there isn’t lots of good blues and lots of bad jazz. It doesn’t mean that jazz is an innately superior artform. It simply describes a formal difference between the two…All this is not to say that some difficult novels are not truly ghastly. If hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue, you could say that pretentiousness is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.”
― Sam Leith

tags: difficult-books, literary-criticism, merit

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