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	The Northern Elements 4.75 avg rating — 24 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Martin by Ian Thomson (Goodreads Author), Catherine Servonat-Blanc (Illustrator) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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1. It was a mistake to hack the text about in order to get into the psychological back story of four of the characters. It just isn’t relevant. The pace of the relentless descent into savagery which drives the book and Peter Brook’s matchless film is lost. This strategy led to the need for added material which was often padding, particularl

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The publicity for this delightful book is at pains to point out that its intended reader is not the cloistered academic, nor the aspiring literary critic, but one whom Virginia Woolf refereed to as ‘the common reader’, in a collection of essays with ...more
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‘My name is Jake Hadley and I am a writer.’ This is how Reidy’s narrator introduces himself in The Markov Affair, the fifth novel about the commercial art world in his Unvarnished Truths series. Immediately Hadley begins to qualify the statement: ‘ad ...more
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