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The Dud Avocado, by Elaine Dundy
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- reviewed by pcontino
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Where the Truth Lies, by Rosemary Ingham
Hmm. Not sure that I approve of this one, in principle. The problem is, you see, that I have always considered it bad policy to write a novel about an institution in which you have yourself spent tim...
 
 
 
The Skeleton Man, by Jim Kelly
Jim Kelly first turned up about five years ago with The Water Clock, a crime novel which was reviewed here on...
 
 
 
I just finished Wide Sargasso Sea for the second time; this book stands up to countless readings.  I don't know if Jean Rhys was the first novelist to tell "the other side of the stor...
 
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I just finished Wide Sargasso Sea for the second time; this book stands up to countless readings.  I don't know if Jean Rhys was the first novelist to tell "the other side of the stor...
 
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The China Lover, by Ian Burma
The one job qualification necessary for becoming celebrity is reinvention. Part this has to do with the reality and economics of the business: Marlon Brando had to audition for The Godfather because ...
reviewed by pcontino
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Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Many great minds throughout history have commented on the invisible war waged between the written word and technology. Kafka referred to the dawn of motion picture as the...
reviewed by BLNicholas
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American Wife , by Curtis Sittenfeld
It seemed like a good idea: a sexed-up, fictionalized autobiography of Laura Bush. For eight years the First Lady has been the "silent partner" in a White House that can boast that it changed the cou...
reviewed by pcontino
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The Ha-Ha, by Dave King
This is Dave King's debut fictional novel, and it is superb. It is centered around Howie, a Vietnam Vet. He became disabled in the war and has been trying to rebuild his life ever since. His disabi...
reviewed by sbarranca
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the novel that took this series to a whole new level. Not only is it more complicated, dramatic, and suspenseful than the first three, but it is also the found...
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