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...irrepressible Junie B. Jones, America's most famous first grader, has been on the New York Times children's bestsellers list for more than a year. Jingle Bells, Batman Smells! (P.S. So Does May), Barbara Park's hilarious new book, is the 25th in the Junie B. series. The plot: It's the week before winter break, and Room One is atwitter with the holiday spirit. But May, the class tattletale, is driving Junie B. crazy with her snooping. As usual, the heroine is in such a hurry to talk that she makes grammatical mistakes, like "stoled" and "bestest." Galley...
...five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus’ arrival), Christopher reconstructs the web of romances and hatreds, schemes and coincidences that caused his conception and will shape his destiny. He begins, naturally, with his parents, but their tumultuous relationship and checkered pasts necessitate layer upon layer of plot that eventually include everyone from an anarchistic hippie-rock band to Mexico’s top echelons of political and social power. The reasons Christopher cites for his omniscience are hopelessly muddled and one of the story’s weaknesses, ranging from a collective memory stored in one’s genes...
...plot is both extremely complex and devoid of logic: while fleeing from the cops in New York, Harry stumbles into a film audition and pretends to try out for the part. They like him and fly him to L.A., where he’s introduced to Perry as training for his role. Somehow, Harry gets drawn into a mess involving a couple of hit men and a lot of killing...
Downey often talks directly to the audience about the strangeness of his situation. Having the main character point out plot holes doesn’t make them any less annoying, and Downey’s chatter goes from funny to tiresome...
...ridiculous plot is another source of boredom, since Black doesn’t seem to care about it anyway; he just uses it as a vehicle for a bunch of “that’s so Hollywood!” jokes, most of which involve dead women. In one of the few genuinely funny scenes, Downey shoots a thug while hanging from the arm of a dead girl whose coffin is stuck on an L.A. overpass sign...