Chris Everett
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Awful - Phoenix is a cardboard cutout instead of a character, mumbling his way through most of the words, and the dialogue is apalling, crass and unbelievable. The rest is just an endless cacophony of cannons and muskets and its visual counterpart of the slaughter of horses and men. History makes an occasional cameo appearance.
Napoleon
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This is one of the nastiest books I’ve ever read. The casual vacancy in the council is a flimsy peg on which to hang a plethora of violence, sex and extremely foul language as well as a cast of cliched, dysfunctional, mean, scheming characters, linked in very contrived fashion. I nearly stopped reading it several times, but the book, (all overblown 568 pages of it), has some of the same fascination as a slow-motion car crash – will anyone survive? Rowling takes every opportunity to lower the bar of taste. The vacancy is filled anti-climactically well before the end and the book limps to a dull end with a melodramatic tragedy and a belated attempt to rehabilitate one of the victims.
The Casual Vacancy
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