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Several recent reviews buck the critical consensus and deride the book, the story of a Confederate deserter, for being too self-consciously novelistic (James Gardner, National Review ). Like "a literary approximation of an already literary idea of reality," says Slate's James Wood.
Yet it is fashionable to deride this nation-builder as a drunk autocrat.
The complex and fluid developments in the European Community, between English and eight other languages, have been labeled in at least four ingeniously pejorative ways, as Eurolish, Eurospeak, Desperanto, and Minglish (the first two also used to denote and deride Common Market bureaucratese, the third to catch the confusion that can arise among simultaneous translators).
And while it may be foolish to deride secularism as hollow, it's not particularly risky--not in a nation of Indians.
Which of the following are actual prewritten questions from G.W.'s official list, and which are merely crude attempts to mock and deride him?