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Comment author: Emile 31 December 2011 05:41:48PM 11 points [-]

Then I'm not sure I understood the second part of:

Nearly 200 books have been written about the Lincoln assassination, including some by professional Lincoln scholars. So the odds seemed good that at least one of these was better than a book written by a TV talk show host.

But I was wrong. This was not a believable conclusion.

... I expected the following to show that you were wrong, and that the O'Reilly book was indeed better than those written by Lincoln scholars.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 31 December 2011 06:02:00PM 2 points [-]

Oh. I meant there were many people to whom it was not believable. I'll clarify that.

Comment author: [deleted] 31 December 2011 07:30:11PM 7 points [-]

To me, it still reads like "I was wrong" means "I was wrong about thinking that at least one of these was a better book". Perhaps you could get rid of the sentence "I was wrong" entirely, and say something like "To my surprise, it turned out that for many people, this was not a believable conclusion."

Comment author: Louie 03 January 2012 12:54:17AM 2 points [-]

I also thought you meant that Bill O'Reilly had (surprisingly) written the best book ever on the Lincoln shooting when you said "But I was wrong."

Comment author: waveman 31 December 2011 09:17:27PM 0 points [-]

Presumably "but I was wrong" was meant to be ironic. But there is no way to know that. Maybe say "But I was wrong according to O'Reilly fanboyz".

Comment author: Sniffnoy 31 December 2011 07:55:12PM 0 points [-]

The "but I was wrong" part is still unclear (consider what it appears to refer to).

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