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Title: Delillo's exhausted themes Review: I was disappointed in this work. Like Whitenoise and Endzone(not to mention his other novels), Dellilo is still writing about the same problems of our American culture, that is, we are too much of a "consumer culture", everything is a "simulacrum", and we live in an age of crisis or apocalypse. Dellilo needs to move on and write about something else; Postmodernism is dead, if it ever really existed, and perhaps Dellilo could write something less formulaic and something with a little more heart. Is the review positive or negative?
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Title: At least it got me to read Austen Review: The best I can say about this book is that it got me to read Jane Austen. Karen Fowler can write well, but this story falls flat and goes nowhere. It is a kind of chick lit light. Even readers who like this book admit it lacks a plot, and I'll add that it lacks any likable, interesting, or understandable characters. We get snippets of background on each of the six members of the book club, but that doesn't help our understanding of their present circumstances or behavior. All of the discussions of Austen's books are superficial - the discussion questions at the back, as bad as they are, are better than anything in the story. Fowler also makes a strange tie-in to science fiction, presumably because she is also a science fiction writer? All of the characters are confused about life and love, but not in an interesting and insightful way. If Fowler was trying to write a modern parody of a generic Jane Austen book, then I would say it is too generic. Is the review positive or negative?
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Title: something borrowed Review: i am really surprised this book has such good reviews. the characters have no depth and the story just kept getting sillier and less fulfilling. rachels pathetic nature grew tiresome. it was easy to read though felt a bit like watching a reality show...entertaining at times but very little substance. Is the review positive or negative?
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