Word: raves
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Patricio finally gets his quesadillas. He is impressed, telling me that “it is unlikely you’ll find anything like this north of the border.” I think he is talking about the Mexican border, but I am not sure. Patricio continues to rave about the quesadillas, praising the quality of the pork meat in particular. It is no small wonder, he tells me, that the owner, the chef and the exquisite counter-girls all recommend quesadillas above everything else on the menu...
...Tartt, "patiently" is the operative word. As the precocious 28-year-old author of 1992's The Secret History, about a murder by a clique of college intellectuals, she won rave reviews, media adulation and a welcome-wagon of advance and movie-rights money. Then she withdrew to complete a novel that was to be finished in a few years, then a few more years. The lit-world gossips nattered: Was she a one-hit wonder? In hiding? Sophomore-slumped...
...morality...'The Little Friend' flowers with emotional insight, a gift for comedy and a sure sense of pacing. Wisely, this novel eschews a feel-good resolution. What it does provide is an immensely satisfying reading experience. FORECAST: Bestsellerdom is writ large for this novel, sure to be greeted with rave reviews. The soft-spoken, diminutive Tartt, who looks more like a Southern belle than a writer with a dark imagination, should be an asset on talk shows." 300,000 first printing...
...gossip, sex and drugs since 'The Andy Warhol Diaries'...FORECAST: Little, Brown editor Geoff Shandler got the buzz going on this book at BookExpo in May, and a first serial in this month's issue of Vanity Fair has heightened the buzz to a roar. Ubiquitous media coverage and rave reviews should rocket this one onto bestseller lists...
...candle guttered in its paper cup and dripped hot wax all over my shoes. Most people had green glowsticks, and, solemn and eerily illuminated, we all encircled a bagpiper who was squeezing out an asthmatic rendition of “Amazing Grace.” It looked like a rave party staged by Fellini...