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I agree this is overpriced, but because it’s dreadful, not because it’s short. If you’d like to read 75 pages of Lee Child blathering on about the Paleolithic storyteller with inaccurate dating (and Homer was certainly not the first Western written story), then the price is fine. Most of all, there’s no point. He just goes on and on about a subject he finds interesting, but which is far more accurately described elsewhere. He claims to be not so much interested in the scientific question “how did language evolve?” as in the question of the novelist, “what were they saying?” But far more expert opinions than his have been written on the subject. He just likes talking. He also directly contradicts what he said in his absolutely excellent essay on the creation of Jack Reacher (introduction to the anniversary edition of Killing Floor). In the old one, he describes how he sat down and thought out his character very deliberately, and in this version he says that "I wrote based on instinct" and that "overthinking his specification would beat the life out of him.” Which was it? If Amazon would let me return a Kindle book I finished, I would have.