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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...death have been greatly exaggerated; Harold C. ("Rabbit") Angstrom is in awful shape at the end of this novel, the victim of piggy habits and a massive coronary, but Updike has left himself free to have a second opinion. If Rabbit really is finished, in this fourth book, then so too is a luminous, encyclopedic saga of postwar America...
...Lewis: A Biography by A.N. Wilson. Comic novels, essays and biographies waft from Wilson with Mozartean ease. Each book seems better than the last, or at least different in some incomparable way. Such is the case with his approach to Lewis, the British writer and celebrator of Christian thought who delighted both adults (The Screwtape Letters) and children (The Chronicles of Narnia). Fans should be warned that Wilson's portrait of the saintly don contains some fleshy demons...
Bleeder of the Pack American Psycho, the latest novel by brat-pack golden boy Bret Easton Ellis, 26, contained detailed descriptions of female mutilations that outraged women staff members at Simon & Schuster, Ellis' publisher. Did that give S&S second thoughts? Nope. But shortly before the book was to hit the stores, bad press notices finally persuaded the firm to scrap the project and forfeit the reported $300,000 advance...
...about the moral purpose here, I really urge people to read this report. It's going to have a devastating effect. And there are comparisons between this and what happened when ((Hitler's)) Death's Head Regiment went into Poland. I'm about 200 pages into a 950-page book. It's a history of World War II. And the reason I made reference to the Death's Head Regiment is that it was very clearly spelled out what happened. They came in after the original troops and inflicted the same kind of brutality on the people...
...will no longer have to read about Millie, the White House dog. (The book can't be on the best-seller lists much longer...