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The tried and true formula for an 800 word review is to meander on the general topic for three paragraphs, summarize the book in four more, note a flaw in the penultimate paragraph, and close with an upbeat summation on the order of "Still, Moon Over Nova Scotia is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the shifting fortunes of the Atlantic eel fishing industry."
This domain adopts the DPBB fold, in which the signature DbDGD motif, shared by RDRP and DDRP, is ensconced in the insert between the ultimate and penultimate β-strands.
The Runaway Jury , Grisham's penultimate book, was an intelligent and compelling indictment of the tobacco industry that, because it was sold in the fiction aisle, probably reached a thousand times more people than every other tobacco-industry indictment combined.
The drama is spelled out in that lumbering bible, Das Kapital , where in the deepening crises of capitalism, and the sharpening knives of the class struggle, the end of days arrives, as Marx put it in the penultimate chapter of Volume I, when the capitalist "integument" bursts asunder, and the new society, nurtured in the womb of the old, steps forth as social labor, cooperative labor, communal harmony (the transit workers and Giuliani) in a mutual embrace.
Decent reviews for former New York Times executive editor Max Frankel's memoirs: Ward Just calls it a "a smart, tough, scrupulous book" in the New York Times Book Review ; in that fair journal's traditional negative-comment spot (the penultimate paragraph) all Just can come up with is that there's "a whiff of the puritan about Max Frankel, and perhaps also the rustle of score-settling."
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