Word: lacayo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...effects, but none that make this lengthy book as much brainy fun as The Name of the Rose, his wizardly first novel. "I'll tell you more about him," Baudolino promises at one point about Prester John. "Maybe even too much." Now that observation is indisputably true. --By Richard Lacayo...
...over Kashmir will remain, posing a constant threat of war between two nations with nuclear arms. Weaver, a foreign correspondent for the New Yorker, is a lucid and compelling guide through the nasty predicament that is Pakistan. Just don't expect her to be a comforting one. --By Richard Lacayo...
...foxy cowgirl outfits of JonBenet Ramsey isn't a stretch. While Prose doubts that Carroll was an active pedophile, she does not deny the erotic longing in his pictures. "Where do we draw the line between the sacred and the carnal?" she asks. The answer is shivery. --By Richard Lacayo...
...first attempt at a thriller. Anybody looking for chills in the Stephen King mode is going to wonder when the shivers are supposed to start. Readers looking for another of Palahniuk's funny anti-valentines to modern life will know where they are from page 1. --By Richard Lacayo...
...pages about his parents and grandparents (who are brother and sister; it's a complicated clan), the burning of Smyrna, the Detroit riots of 1967 and the Greek-American embrace of the beckoning American scene. Some of this footloose book is charming. Most of it is middling. --By Richard Lacayo...