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OK, so maybe you CAN stop the reading list.

But when the reading list stops, the thesis gets moving, so you understand.

Anyway, CATCH-UP TIME.  Where was I?  Ah, yes.

16. William Golding, The Inheritors

This product description is from one of the book’s many print runs, I’d guess.  Book descriptions tend to come out at night, so this one was the most suitable I could find at this hour (from Amazon).

Eight Neanderthals encounter another race of beings like themselves, yet strangely different. This new race, Homo sapiens—fascinating in their skills and sophistication, terrifying in their cruelty, sense of guilt, and incipient corruption—spell doom for the more gentle folk whose world they will inherit.

I fell into this book in David Hoover’s Computer-Aided Literary Studies class several years ago.  Talk about a guy who knows linguistics.