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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such excessively poetic descriptions soon become tiresome, the moreso because Naipaul keeps on repeating them. In one paragraph, for example, he tells us three times that hay is warm and golden...

Author: By Vindu P. Goel, | Title: Oxford Blues | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

...essential flaw in Different Seasons lies not in any inherent lack of ability on King's part, but moreso in his insecurity. He has been typed as a mass-market horror writer, and is experiencing the fatal pangs of self-doubt. King has been convinced that in order to establish himself as a serious writer, he must abandon his ghost stories. He does so, not realizing that horror is, in fact, the most effective vehicle for his creative sense...

Author: By Denna GALT Breussard, | Title: King's Abdication | 10/23/1982 | See Source »

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