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Hillbilly Elegy

If Books Could Kill

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Edge of Tomorrow by Tom Cruise

The book just becomes the training montage from G.I. Jane, he says. He's gawking at how clean the wine glasses are at cocktail receptions. How much silverware there is at nice restaurants. By the end of the book, he's lost any remnants of his folksy charm because he is an elite by every material metric. But he's still trying to do the same shtick.

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