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Author of Trashy Wal-Mart Novels Laments America’s ‘Wal-Mart Mentality’

“The sense of entitlement of the American consumer is absolutely astonishing,” said Douglas Preston, whose novel Impact reached as high as No. 4 on the New York Times’ hardcover-fiction best-seller list earlier this month.”It’s the Wal-Mart mentality, which in my view is very unhealthy for our country. It’s this notion of not wanting to pay the real price of something.” [NYT via Marginal Revolution]

Author of Trashy Wal-Mart Novels Laments America’s ‘Wal-Mart Mentality’