THE BRAIN PICKERS (319 pp.)Hallie BurnettMessner ($3.95).
"The novel the whole publishing world is buzzing about! . . . Exposes the commercial snake pit of the book world where power-hungry men and love-hungry women struggle for survival and fulfillment." So say the ads. Actually, The Brain Pickers is a shoddy novel by Hallie Burnett, wife of Author Whit Burnett, that reveals very little about the publishing business, although it may start a sort of human Tangle Towns contest as to the possible identity of its leading, characters.
Kevin Roller is a fat, lowborn lecher who has piled up a smelly fortune publishing obscene...
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