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<\/a><\/p>\nThis is what I found on first searching for the new book Tolkien’s Modern Reading<\/em> on Amazon UK. It’s on the list results too. It’s not a result of an infected Web browser, as it’s the same when seen on a clean browser. Anyway, just one more reason why keyword and title search on Amazon is crap. Their advance\/recent listings are even more abysmal.<\/p>\n I had thought the book Tolkien’s Modern Reading<\/em> wasn’t out yet, but a search reveals Amazon UK has had it in Kindle<\/a> since the end of January 2021. \u00a313.50, which is reasonable for a 580-page book by an academic. It could have gone to an academic libraries publisher and been pushed out at \u00a380. The well-researched book surveys all the various non-medieval authors Tolkien is known to have read or perused at one time or another. He even dipped into James Joyce, fascinated by the complex language-play and allusions, though tended toward interesting genre books. So far as I’m aware he did not read popular magazine fiction. As such the new book also seems to offer a sort of reading guide to pre-1960s books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’ve all suffered from Amazon’s relentless ‘confusion marketing’, but this is a step too far… This is what I found …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n