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guy sold a genuinely insane number of books and yet it feels like his only impact on culture is through himself becoming an archetype of a particular kind of sleaze

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Author and disgraced politician Jeffrey Archer dies aged 86

bbc.co.ukAuthor and disgraced politician Jeffrey Archer dies aged 86His last book, Adam and Eve, is set to release this month.

Tom Phillips

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lol reading his wiki page and it's incredible how almost every paragraph is just "a thing happened and he lied about it", I'd forgotten quite how dedicated he was to the untruthful arts

en.wikipedia.orgJeffrey Archer - Wikipedia

Chris Applegate

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He was before his time - the fake it till you make it, constant pathological liar, who shot up the social ladder (until it all went wrong), blazing a trail as a pioneer for today's modern grifters

Tom Phillips

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yeah I was just saying similar, a few decades later and I'm not sure his downfalls would have even downfelled him, even at the time he had that thing of realising that notoriety was currency

Tom Phillips@tom-phillips.com

it does slightly feel like he was born in the wrong age, yes he sold staggering numbers of novels and became incomprehensibly rich, but at heart he was surely a podcaster

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Chris Applegate

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If he was around these days he'd be Britain's George Santos. We've been cruelly denied