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Review of Mega Red 5th Edition

Humongous! Gargantuan! Big words for a giant book. I’m referring to my 2019 edition of Whitman’s Mega Red, the “Expanded Deluxe Edition of the Best-Selling Red Book.” If you need further evidence of its enormous size, Mega Red weighs six pounds and 10 ounces, about the same as a full-term human infant. Fortunately, Mega Red doesn’t need to wear a diaper!

Okay, enough of the nonsense. You’re undoubtedly familiar with the saying about not judging a book by its cover, but in this case, you can get a lot of information about this book from its back cover. You can readily see, for example, that Mega Red, like its predecessors, is, or Red Book.

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