>>>I read it (would it not be strange to recommend a book one has not actually read? :).
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>>Not strange. People do that all the time, when paid sufficiently. That's called critique, when published as an article.
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>Have you read any reviews lately that made you think the critic hadn't read the book?

Not lately, but then I don't read them much here. - I don't read magazines much nowadays anyway. I've got a stack of Harpers' from mid-07 that I still want to go through ;).