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...rarely find this sort of balladry in dispatches from the front. Kashmir may be beautiful, but war is sickeningly ugly and any seasoned journalist knows he'll only confuse the reader if he writes: "Rebels today slaughtered 31 women and children in a savage attack beside a babbling brook in a meadow of wild irises, daisies and tiny pink anemones...
...arts questioning what they're doing, every person questioning the world we live in, this book reminded me of why it all matters." Kirkus agrees, giving the book a starred review. "A brilliantly constructed historical novel...This imposingly intricate novel begins slowly, makes heavy demands on the reader, and rises to a stunningly dramatic crescendo. Pears has leapt to a new level, creating a novel of ideas even more suspenseful and revelatory than his just acclaimed mysteries...
During his six terms, the city that was once the joke of New England has made MONEY magazine's lists of both the best places to live and the best places to retire. National Geographic Traveler has called it "a place you can't help but like." Utne Reader deemed it one of America's 10 most enlightened towns. Swing ranked it the best place to be an artist, and Girlfriends called it one of the best places to be a lesbian. Cianci is particularly proud of a renovation that saved a Colonial Revival mansion called the Casino from demolition...
...bomb Baghdad to get that kind of approval ratings.) People have always liked Spider-Man: compared with the ultrasquare alien Superman and the brooding millionaire Batman, Spidey's an accidental superhero, a geeky and self-doubting teen, a comic-book character who seems a lot like a comic-book reader. Forty years after Spider-Man's birth, Marvel is still selling four different monthly Spider-Man titles that together add up to about 500,000 copies. "Everybody identifies with him," says Amy Pascal, chairwoman of Sony's Columbia Pictures. "Lucky...
...friend hopes the book will provide a kind of "cultural prism." The Promised Land doesn't quite live up to that billing, but it does deliver a light, breezy narrative with some astute snapshots of international dope meccas, more than a few chuckles, and an ending that leaves the reader coming down like the end of a good, night-long buzz. (Too bad the manuscript didn't have a better editor?or a decent fact-checker. Note to Decca: Spike Lee directed the film Malcolm X, not Oliver Stone...