no...you're right.

the first printing of 250,000 copies on the 1970's sold out in a matter of days...by the time the 2nd printing was completed, orders for 1 million copies had been made...less than 1 year later, 4 million copies had been sold. and those copies manage to be borrowed and given to friends after reading it...and then they manage to get to me, 35 years later, to read.

no one's ever read it or heard of it, and people don't read it now though, right?...

the only thing that has managed to happen is that you judge the cover, and you've never even read it, even when i provide it, which shows you really aren't interested in even reading it. so you're basically wasting everyone's time.

and now you can judge a person based solely on the city they live in at the time. wow. you are incredibly powerful, living the high life in the belly of the beast. it can't happen here.


this is here for people who want to read the book. in its time, it was one of the fastest selling books in history.