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The story is a classic one, well-told, managing to tread the difficult line between conveying thehorrific crime without salaciousness, and sympathy with the victim and her family.
February 2009 Maxine 2009
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The story is a classic one, well-told, managing to tread the difficult line between conveying thehorrific crime without salaciousness, and sympathy with the victim and her family.
Book review Maxine 2009
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The book is most effective as a collection of well-told parables, but in the end fails to offer any illuminating revelations about a world habitually riveted by the humiliation of others.
Laura Kipnis's "How to Become a Scandal," reviewed by Ellen McCarthy Ellen McCarthy 2010
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And the truth is, a well-told story is just a lot of fun.
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The book is most effective as a collection of well-told parables, but in the end fails to offer any illuminating revelations about a world habitually riveted by the humiliation of others.
Laura Kipnis's "How to Become a Scandal," reviewed by Ellen McCarthy Ellen McCarthy 2010
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The story is a classic one, well-told, managing to tread the difficult line between conveying thehorrific crime without salaciousness, and sympathy with the victim and her family.
City of fear, by Alafair Burke Maxine 2009
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The oligarchical system sustains itself with well-told myths of internal solidarity and well-timed rituals to enhance fellow-feeling.
Anis Shivani: Creative Writing Programs: Is The MFA System Corrupt And Undemocratic? Anis Shivani 2010
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The oligarchical system sustains itself with well-told myths of internal solidarity and well-timed rituals to enhance fellow-feeling.
Anis Shivani: Creative Writing Programs: Is The MFA System Corrupt And Undemocratic? Anis Shivani 2010
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The story is a classic one, well-told, managing to tread the difficult line between conveying thehorrific crime without salaciousness, and sympathy with the victim and her family.
City of fear, by Alafair Burke Maxine 2009
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I love Terry Moore but Runaways doesn't have the edge or the verve that it used to, and Iron Fist too is, y'know, it's a well-told story and it's certainly worth the price tag for it's fan but I don't know that it's really contributing anything urgently unique and exciting to the Marvel Universe like Cornell's book is.
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