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24-OCT-2025 | Excerpt from Neil French’s “This book is a rip-off” Open Letter


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Excerpt from Neil French’s “This book is a rip-off” Open Letter

This book is a rip-off.
A headline, I agree, utterly devoid of wit.
But then, I’m not very amused.
The book on the right would be totally illegal in any country in the world… in any other country in the world except China, apparently.
It has my name on the cover, it has my picture on the cover, and I wrote the entire contents. But I had nothing to do with the publishing of the damn thing, and you should have nothing to do with it either.
If it were an unauthorized biography, and scurrilous just to the edge of actionable, I wouldn’t give a toss. I’d probably enjoy it, to tell the truth. But that’s not it at all. 🏁

Scurrilous…

I probably wouldn’t make scurrilous your go-to. Not the most accessible choice of words. But does it make it pop? Yes it do.
Everything else is smooth and written at a Grade 3 level (Hemingway App). Note the subtle repetition (or structural “rhyming”, if you will) throughout.
