The Speckled Monster
The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox is a book written by Jennifer Lee Carrell. [1]
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| Author | Jennifer Lee Carrell |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | historical fiction |
| ISBN | 978-0452285071 |
In 2015 Senator Rand Paul praised the book during the Republican presidential debate[2]
Reception
Publishers Weekly called the book "engaging" but criticized all the dialog for slowing down the action. [3]
Kirkus Reviews complained that the "narrative that runs on far too long". [4]
gollark: There's a big table of insults/negative words, things which generally separate clauses, and things which imply they don't mean the real potatOS.
gollark: ```luafunction _G.is_blasphemous(message) local clauses = {message:lower()} for _, sep in pairs(clause_separators) do local out = {} for _, x in pairs(clauses) do for _, y in pairs(string.split(x, sep)) do table.insert(out, y) end end clauses = out end for _, clause in pairs(clauses) do for _, word in pairs(negative_words) do if clause:match(word) and clause:match "potatos" then for _, iword in pairs(ignore_if_present_words) do if clause:match(iword) then return false, iword, clause end end return true, word, clause end end end return falseend```
gollark: It has a surprisingly good algorithm for guessing whether people *intended* to blaspheme potatOS.
gollark: https://pastebin.com/W1NrsnQe
gollark: --choice 16 lyricly gollark
References
- "Journal of the Plague Years". Smithsonian. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
- Star, Ann Brown Arizona Daily. "Tucson author gets shout-out at presidential debate". Arizona Daily Star. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
- "Nonfiction Book Review: THE SPECKLED MONSTER: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox by Jennifer Lee Carrell, Author . Dutton $24.95 (474p) ISBN 978-0-525-94736-3". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
- THE SPECKLED MONSTER by Jennifer Lee Carrell | Kirkus Reviews.
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