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Out of fairness, I destroy my favorite genre: thrillers
Top Ten Thriller Clichés Act I: A wealthy, disfigured foreigner toils late into the night; also, HE MAKES SNACKS 1. The Villain of the Week is a wealthy, disfigured foreigner who (a) steals a nuclear...
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Why every man MUST read a romance – and every woman a thriller
In college, wise men with Einstein hair stood in front of lecture halls to tell you literature isn’t really about verbs, adverbs and dangling modifiers. No. Beneath the surface, lit-rah-sure asks a...
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ONE SHOT by Lee Child
The library in my secret lair contains Every Thriller Known to Man, including every Lee Child thriller, so reviewing his novels is like riding a bicycle for me. A bicycle with two seats and training...
View ArticleWhy does MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: FALLOUT work so well?
I’m no fan of Tom Cruise, so it takes a lot to (a) part with hard currency to to watch a Cruise film and (b) publicly admit how much that film rocks. He did it with EDGE OF TOMORROW, one of the best...
View ArticleWhy every man must read a romance – and every woman a thriller
In college, wise men with Einstein hair stood in front of lecture halls to tell you literature isn’t really about verbs, adverbs and dangling modifiers. No. Beneath the surface, lit-rah-sure asks a...
View ArticleCheck out ONE SMALL SACRIFICE by Hilary Davidson
It can be impossible to ever know the full truth about a crime. Eyewitnesses don’t have perfect recall, and fingerprints and DNA evidence aren’t the magical solutions that shows like CSI would have you...
View ArticleCheck out ONE SMALL SACRIFICE by Hilary Davidson
It can be impossible to ever know the full truth about a crime. Eyewitnesses don’t have perfect recall, and fingerprints and DNA evidence aren’t the magical solutions that shows like CSI would have you...
View ArticleCheck out ONE SMALL SACRIFICE by Hilary Davidson
It can be impossible to ever know the full truth about a crime. Eyewitnesses don’t have perfect recall, and fingerprints and DNA evidence aren’t the magical solutions that shows like CSI would have you...
View ArticleBest song ever for Halloween? WEREWOLVES OF LONDON
Yes, you can make a case for THRILLER, which is epic and famous and spawned 6,459 videos of people doing the dance moves. Yet this scrappy underdog of a song by Warren Zevon is the rightful king of...
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