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...this haphazard approach to plot development, the storyline often hinders the progress of the novel instead of providing it with the structure that the book requires. The reader often wonders when characters, presented in detail early in the novel, will return in significant roles. Many of these characters reappear only briefly in largely inadequate attempts to end their presence in the story. Thus, the reader is left hanging in anticipation of a more satisfying conclusion...
...convoluted plot could have been a highly effective means through which to present the chaos that the novel attempts to express in its final scenes. As the story stands, however, this feeling of lack of conclusion, when compounded over the entire work and never finally resolved, prevents the reader from absorbing the novel as a unified whole...
...addition, the reader continually needs background information about new characters and new situations in order to understand what is happening in the novel. In order to provide this information, Sharpe lapses from time to time into somewhat dry expository sections, which, while maintaining the oddity of the story through the description of strange situations, lack activity and direct character involvement...
...reader leaves The Midden with images of a large, wheezing Rottweiler, subdued after an unfortunate encounter with a falling human body, of a startled sheep sent flying by a hallucinating young man on a motorcycle and of a normally staid judge shocked into submission by a strong-willed woman in "what looked like an old tweed skirt with a stain on it. And a scruffy anorak." These images, often skillfully presented and very funny, make the novel worth reading...
...true MTV disciple, the most exciting sections of both The Ultimate Insider's Guide and Passport Abroad are the final pages, in which the reader is offered a chance to apply to the shows. Though 12,234 people applied for the seven spots in the Real World Boston cast, The Ultimate Insider's Guide seems to think you have a pretty good shot. "Just be yourself," the producers advise, and present a seven-page application with such intellectually stimulating questions as "What do you think about people who do drugs?" and "How important is sex to you?" The questionnaire...