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Common Sense Steaminess Rating

Exactly how steamy is this story?

G

You're not going to find anything in this book that even remotely resembles sexytimes. Thomas Paine is way too interested in laying out the costs of wooden ships and the reasons for fighting Britain to care about sweet, sweet lovin'.

If, however, steaminess refers to the figurative anger-steam pouring out of Paine's ears in a huge cartoonish explosion of "I hate the British!" Common Sense deserves a triple-X rating.

Paine is mad, and he's not going to take it anymore.