Word: seriality
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...snowball by year's end, when prices on some videocams drop to $100. Predicts David Farber, one of the Net's founding fathers: "Every kid with a Mac and an Internet connection is going to buy [a camera] and plug it into his serial port." With results as yet undreamed...
...title refers to a research unit where the decomposition of bodies is studied. Scarpetta uses its grisly expertise to track a serial killer whose latest victim is an 11-year-old girl. What she finds is chilling, unexpected and nearly fatal. The author uses the momentum that a good series develops: an evil presence from an earlier book lurks in the background, and Scarpetta's love affair foreshadows trouble in Book Six. In the messy present, a running squabble with a neurotic, self-absorbed sister is fine family comedy...
...tries arrogantly to throw the movie at you and sneeringly demands that you acknowledge the Art he thinks he has created. But in fact, with his disjointed plot structure and blatantly flexing, self-indulgent film-making techniques, Stone ironically fails to create a satire of America's love of serial killers. Instead, he commits the crime he is trying to satirize: he numbs the audience's senses senselessly...
This plot-centered approach can hurt the novel in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. The Alienist, Caleb Carr's best seller about a serial killer on the loose in 1890s New York City (read by Edward Herrmann), makes an engrossing 4 1/2-hour tape. What is left out, however, is a good deal of the historical atmosphere, as well as many details of the laborious murder investigation. As a result, catching this serial killer seems as easy as a jog around Central Park...
...very sites designated for wildlife's preservation are becoming its abattoir, almost as if someone had let a serial killer into Noah's ark. Poachers haunt nearly half of America's 366 park areas, supplying animal parts to illegal traffickers who operate in at least 17 states. They supply bear paws as culinary delicacies and bear gallbladders as medicinal ingredients. Rare butterflies are netted for collectors around the world. Deer are decapitated to decorate homes. The illegal killing of animals is a $200 million-a-year business, with as much as $100 million of that amount for medicinal purposes...