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...ANTI-DEATH LEAGUE, by Kingsley Amis. A sprightly cold war suspense story that keeps the reader looking so long in the wrong direction that he almost forgets the ending is not entirely credible...
...this book much of the elan is gone; it sometimes appears as if Condon is padding to keep from plotting. Besides, he seems to hold his nose in the presence of his desperate snob, and an author's distaste for his own hero can taint a reader's pleasure...
...some undocumented type in nondocumentary films. She was an only child, and Mother and Father kept and treasured every single scrap of paper she ever scribbled on. Probably that was a mistake. In any case, Rona spares no detail of life in grade school and high school, until the reader may well be desperate enough to try that martini, cherry...
...commands LST 1826 as it bobs between Naples and Anzio during World War II, is an easygoing skipper who runs an exceedingly loose and happy ship. All the 99 officers and men aboard could have stepped right out of an old MGM movie. In fact, after a while, the reader begins to wish that a Mr. Roberts would appear to toss the captain's palm tree overboard, or that Skipper Adler would start rolling a couple of ball bearings in his hands...
...carrying Navy supplies to his Italian sweetheart. Lieut. (j.g.) Matthew Barclay falls head over keel with an Army nurse who plays the piano. Finally, there is a chilling climax that shows that Brinkley has not been writing a situation comedy at all but a situation tragedy. Even so, the reader's interest is likely to reach deep six well before the 1826 does...