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Newest Review: ... I´ve always had to defend my reading matter, first against my mother, later against friends, husband, colleagues, they always ... more

... thought what I read was ´beneath´ me, embarrassing for an intelligent girl/student/woman, only the fact that I also read high-brow literature saved me from total damnation. I?ll never forget an incident in Italy; once when I was on one of our exchange visits, I had a free afternoon and spent it in the garden of my host family reading a thriller. When an Italian teacher asked me in the evening how I had passed my time and I told her, she was horrified. Only the day before we had had such an intelligent convers...more

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	Hen's Teeth (A Kellen Stewart crime thriller) Pages: 224, Paperback, Women's Last Update 25.12.2009 05:45	£ 0.01
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	Hen's Teeth (A Kellen Stewart crime thriller) Pages: 298, Edition: New edition, Paperback, Women's Press Ltd,Th ... Last Update 25.12.2009 05:45	£ 23.16
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Crime / Thriller: AXE, BLOOD, CORPSE, DEATH . . . (955 words)
by - written on 13/10/04 (Very useful, 512 readings)
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. . . EX, FANG, GORE, HACK, ITCH, JAIL, KILL, LAG, MACE, NOOSE, OATH, PAIN, QUEER, RAT, STOOL, TAIL, UPROAR, VAULT, WELSH, X, YEGG, ZAP* Oh, the power of language! What do you think, which title sells better: ´Axe´ or ´The Mysterious Disappearance Of The Woodcutter´? Silly question, eh? The brain of readers whose native tongue is English is impressed by short, one syllable words (the Germanic heritage), hence ´Kill Bill´ is just perfect as far as titles go. Of course ´The Mysterious Disappearance Of The Woodcutter´ will also find its readers, one-syllable titles attract the lovers of hardcore, brutal, ´noir´ thrillers whereas long titles with long ... Read the complete review

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