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...worst book I've ever reviewed. Not at all. It's carefully, maybe even elegantly constructed, and it trots along at a highly readable pace (good people at Viking, I would prefer it if you didn't quote that last sentence in an ad). One reader I respect, Stephen King, has even compared it to Catch-22 and The Catcher in the Rye. It's just that This Book Will Save Your Life is more densely packed with earnest twaddle, starting with the title, than any other book I've ever seen...
Devoted Hotspot reader – did you read the headline and go, “buh?” I don’t blame you—we cover performance venues, and the Museum of Fine Arts is known for its, like, paintings. But perhaps instead of greedily devouring the Hotspot and then throwing the rest of Arts away, you should read the other worthy offerings. Then you’d know there’s an ongoing series of concerts at the museum. With music...
...matched by fear. The book is not cheerful in the end, as Marian begins to face the many different kinds of lonely that adults know. But it’s perhaps one of the most moving conclusions to a book I have ever read, leaving the reader alone with Marian in an excruciatingly vivid moment of first loss...
...Junger had a great story to work with; in A Death in Belmont there is no central thread. He's navigating a maze of shadows, and you can see all the more clearly what an enormously skillful prose artist he is. Absent a pulse-pounding narrative, Junger entrances the reader by picking out small details--like the score of the kickball game being played in front of Goldberg's house when she died--that give the events he's describing an enthralling vividness and resonance and clarity...
...recognize that our policy may carry serious ramifications for Harvard students who are arrested on drug charges. As one reader told us in an e-mail: “the stories that you have published are online and free information for anyone competent to run google searches. This means that for your 2 minutes of glory as journalists and editors, students at Harvard have a hugely compromised professional life.” The reader added that “absolutely no good can come from publishing the students’ names...