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★★★★★
Great edition except for the 50 page garbage commentary in the "introduction"
Pros: Nicely put together. The book is a quality print.
Cons: Only slight irritation with this Edition is the introduction by Junot Diaz. The dude is a flaming liberal and he had to make his flaming liberal commentary about the story. He went way overboard wrote a 50-page introduction complete with profanity, which I skimmed. He went on about Homo-erotic themes in the book and modern race issues. First off, I didn't see anything homo-erotic about the story to say the least. Also the book was written in the early 1900s. Yeah there's going to be material we consider racist stuff nowadays...it wasn't written in the modern age. He goes on to say Burroughs promotes white supremacist ideals in the book also...Yeah the guy is just another annoying over-thinking overeducated blowhard who apparently likes to hear himself run his mouth. I wish they hadn't included this garbage as an introduction to a classic work and in an otherwise really nice printing of the book.
Burroughs doesn't need to be introduced by this hack. The fact that he is still read 100 years later is all the intro that the author needs.
