>I have been lucky enough to read Brett Clark's book cover-to-cover, not once but several times<

Gnaeus was sent a review copy, as were many, many others. Not I, Trimalchio.

What was Xi fear't of? A true and unsychophantic appraisal of his work?
Or the untrammeled opinion of the man universally acknowledged to be the most intelligent creature at AncientWorlds (see my HomePage: this claim endorsed by Aelius Stilo)??

There have been scandals in Academic Circles aplenty over the decades, but this is what you Americans apparently call a "real humdinger".

Disappointed to be censored thus,
Trimalchio
(Laureated as 'Easily Most Intelligent' on the Rome Board, 2003)