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...SETUP Alison is ruthlessly smart, terribly funny and totally neurotic. And the fact that her boyfriend Tom went out to buy mustard, then called to say he wasn't coming back, isn't making her any more stable. At 32 Alison has only ever slept with two people in her life, in part because she was raised an evangelical Christian, which has given her a kind of spiritual-sexual hangover she's still trying to get over. She has a lot of catching up to do. Oh, and she's a newspaper columnist--not the most original plot device...
...SETUP Pretty songbird Mimi is plucked from an Ohio-based go-nowhere girl group by Lamont Jackson, music impresario extraordinaire. Lamont, who's filthy rich and something of a control freak, grooms Mimi for pop stardom--this book is makeover heaven--and introduces her to life in the cutthroat, Cristal-quaffing world of Manhattan's high-rolling hip-hoperati. Mimi starts out a hick but learns fast. Kennedy knows whereof she writes: she used to roll with Russell Simmons' posse, so she's been in all those clubs that would never...
...good do the headphones sound? We found they compare positively with even a medium-price surround-sound setup. In our tests (listening to Finding Nemo), we discerned no difference between the five-speaker system and the new Sony and Pioneer models. The only times we missed real speakers were in scenes with lots of bass. The headphones were no match for the rumble of a good subwoofer. But with the headphones you're able to find Nemo without neighbors wondering what you're looking...
...Littleby case is not in Fandorin's jurisdiction, but he becomes entangled in it aboard the Leviathan, a massive luxury liner cruising to Calcutta; Littleby's killer is known to be aboard, as is the Parisian inspector following his or her trail. All that is the setup for a ravishing jewel box of a mystery--the lock of which Fandorin gingerly, joyfully picks--and an homage to Christie, whose Death on the Nile is the mother ship of all nautical mysteries. Akunin also knows his Arthur Conan Doyle, and his Fandorin likes to indulge in showy displays of Holmesian observation...
...least so far. None of the supporting characters show signs of interest yet, and they'll need to in order to draw more dimensions of a character who mainly provided comic relief for 10 years. This may not be fair to say, but I missed the six-person setup that bounced one-liners off one another like pinballs. And, perhaps for that reason, the script occasionally makes Joey, well, smarter than we remember him being. At one point, his sister - who has a 20-year-old son - mentions how great it is she got pregnant at 16, because she looks...