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...over-complicated, oroverwrought; it isn’t slow or boring; itisn’t bad.The trouble is, it isn’t particularlygood, either. And if not for its compellingsource material—the story of EmpressMichiko, the first commoner to marryinto the Japanese royal family—thenovel would be much worse. Despite itsvivid subject, Schwartz’s bland executionproduces a book that is curiously unremarkable,even memorably forgettable.“The Commoner” tells the story ofEmpress Haruko, Schwartz’s fictionalizedvision of Empress Michiko. The basicplot is one that?...
Alfred then said that if he had been honest thefirst time, Osborn would never have finished thenovel...
...turns out, both Rusoff and Goldenhave gotten far more than their 15 minutes offame, and with the huge popular appeal of thenovel--ranging from Madonna to local book clubs toGaultier--one can hardly help wondering what it isabout this 428 page novel that has generated sucha fervor. The answer is simple, and Golden himselfarticulated it best when he said "I read because Iwant to live other lives."Photo Courtesy of Vintage BooksThe man behind the madness: Arthur Golden...
...William Alfred said thedepartment's deliberations last week centered on"what the department needed at this particulartime in the way of coverage." Alfred, who said thevote on Boone was divided but not close, addedthat "some particular people thought he didn'tcover a wide enough range" within the field of thenovel...
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