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Johnson got his way and then some, and he eventually published a memoir, Vantage Point, that was characteristically misleading and almost unreadably dull.

From Slate • May 19, 2025

At one point, Heti thought she’d publish the diaries online, as one 500,000-word document, “I was like, maybe it should be unreadably long, but amazing for what it contains.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2024

However, the public document is heavily redacted, almost unreadably so, and Dolenz seeks the full, uncensored one.

From Salon • Sep. 1, 2022

They hold me up as an example but I am not an example of publishers or bookstores extracting value because without an editor my first novel, Looking for Alaska, would have been unreadably self-indulgent.

From The Guardian • Jun. 6, 2013

His first two volumes are almost unreadably garrulous and dull, but the third and fourth contain an interesting account of various phases through which love has passed in literature.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus