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“Never pray to the gods who answer at night.”
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
An excellent piece of investigate journalism.
Hitchens is no doubt motivated by his antagonism towards organised religion, but the sources included in this brief analysis of Mother Teresa support a view that - at the very least - we should all judge people on their actions and not their reputation.
Well worth a read.
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I wanted to love The Thursday Murder Club. I really did.
Like most people, I was drawn to it because of the author. I love Richard Osman; he's smart, witty, and possibly one of the most pleasant people on television.
So I'm sorry to say that I found The Thursday Murder Club to be a very poor novel.
The idea of a group of elderly people coming together to get to the bottom of unsolved crimes is a brilliant idea. It should be funny and perhaps even a little moving. And very occasionally, it is.
However, the plot is plodding and disinteresting and the characters are, on the whole, thinly-veiled stereotypes. We have the fraudulent priest; the supercapitalist property mogul; the socialist rabble-rouser; the hardworking Polish builder; the mid-life crisis policeman... I could go on.
If The Thursday Murder Club was a pastiche of sorts, you could maybe forgive the characterisation as a nod to the genre. But it isn't, and whilst it's probably unfair to say that it's lazy, I think the characters needed to have something more original about them.
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