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Romantic novels are a lot like okra: you either like them or you don't. There isn't much in-between. I detest romantic novels -- and okra -- with a...
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Since Edgar Allen Poe's 1841 nail-biter The Murders in the Rue Morgue fathered the modern mystery genre, the classic mystery -- especially the classic...
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Last time, we explored the scourge that is sweeping the classic British mystery genre -- the Sensitive Inspector Syndrome. (Take a look at the...
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Which novel won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 12 years after the author's failure to get the book published? Which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...
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As an unrepentant and highly enthusiastic bookish movie fiend, I can only view the box office stampede of book-to-movie adaptations from 2009 and the...
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Missed the Sherlock Holmes book to movie adaptation dissection? Eyeball it, here. Think you know what separates the men from the boys when it comes to...
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Alan Moore's Watchmen has been one of my favorite books (#22 in my top 50, to be Dr. Manhattan-exact) since I first read it at the behest of a friend...
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Just as May 25th is Towel Day, the high holy day for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fans to honor their beloved Douglas Adams, June 16th is a day...
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When a book critic is tired of end-of-year best book lists he (or she) is tired of life. Which is why I pity the Chicago Tribune's Julia Keller, who,...
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After successfully avoiding Jonathan Franzen's book, The Corrections, for, lo, these 8 long years, I've finally broken down and decided to just read...
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