Word: romanticizers
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Most rock climbers get enough adrenaline from the challenge of ascending a cliff with just a harness and rope in case of a fall. Michael Reardon, a global star in the extreme sport of "free solo" climbing, donned only sticky-soled shoes and a bag of chalk to keep his...
Then, says Kennedy, came "my 15 minutes of fame." He got successive $1 million advances for his next two books and was heralded as the next John Grisham. But they weren't big hits. "I was 41," he says. "I decided I was going off to write what I wanted...
The story begins in 2004 when a polished Malaysian think-tank director named Abdul Razak Baginda met the comely Shaariibuu at a party in Hong Kong. A married father, Abdul Razak, now 47, had been educated in Britain, had written several books on Malaysia's political economy, and was known...
Some feel women are on an impossible search for the perfect man, the one who not only makes you feel, as Julia Roberts said of meeting Benjamin Bratt, "hit in the head with a bat," but also better for it. "Marriage is not what it used to be, getting stability...
They should read his books. Kennedy has the gift - or perhaps curse - of transcending genres. His thrillers are romantic, his romances thrilling, and all of them bristle with literary references and big questions about love and life. Consider The Woman in the Fifth. Harry Ricks, an American academic, loses his...