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NPR's Book of the Day

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Is There a Movie Like This?

There's sort of easter eggs and jokes about tech throughout, including even the length of the book write. I wanted there, you know, there's all these things that are determined by algarithms. There like what's the ideal type of movie? So i said at some point ideal length for a book is 577 pages, which is the length of this book. We're in this time where we're so comically addicted to numerical assessments of things.

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