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Monday, July 11 2011

Is 'The Forty Rules of Love' a Turkish Delight? Not Exactly

The problem with The Forty Rules of Love is not that two disparate storylines are interweaved; it's that the present-day narrative is so horrendously clunky in its execution that it jars against the rest of the book.

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