As I have remarked before, you should not be put off by the catchpenny title. |
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Indeed, by this time I'd gone off his work in a big way, largely because of his sonnets, which I thought were atrocious and boring, somewhat catchpenny. |
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No conveyor-belt publishing here, no turgid potboiler-sequels, no catchpenny dreadfuls, no ghosted ghastlies, no bored and slapdash editors. |
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It also depends on one's tolerance for the hucksterism of show-barkers outside some catchpenny casinos. |
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Mr. Firode deploys this catchpenny mysticism with a light touch, focusing especially on the petty superstitions that even rational, modern people carry around like tattered rabbits' feet. |
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