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09:43 UK time, Friday, 3 July 2009

"I will hate you till the day I die" - Alain de Botton responds to a bad review.

Monsieur De Botton is not the first person to respond with feeling to a bad review. Here Philip Hensher writes amusingly of the history of such contretemps. But it's clear De Botton was particularly upset by Caleb Crain's review of The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work.
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