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Uniformly first-rate reviews for this memoir of two brothers, both professors of English, who become obsessed with gambling after their parents' deaths: "superb and horrifying" (Tom De Haven, Entertainment Weekly ); "an exquisitely crafted memoir of their three years in the grips of Mississippi casinos" (Lisa Gubernick, the Wall Street Journal ). Not only is their story surprising, but the ending is a real doozy: They are charged with conspiring to cheat at blackjack, even though they have managed to lose their entire $250,000 inheritance in just three years.
A horrifying article describes the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, a guerrilla force of kidnapped children.
The whole witless genre of the celebrity confessional undergoes a horrifying self-disembowelment.
As the dentist (or assistant) navigates this horrifying little gadget through the graveyard of your mouth, a color television magnifies the florid pustulance of your gums and the puke-yellow dinge of your smile.
Children were routinely told horrifying tales about gruesome creatures lurking nearby, ready to devour them if they so much as left their beds.