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The updates follow edits made to books by Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming to remove offensive references to gender and race in a bid to preserve their relevance to modern readers. Don’t be fooled by the terrorist theme in the summary, this is all about the character of Michael and his many faults and sometimes psychopathic behaviours, these revealed as he increasingly tells us his inner truths. He writes a lot of this diary to his therapist, so withholds some information in these parts, which is contained in his personal section of the diary. There is a great dynamic between the therapist and Michael, this working relationship appears to come on in stilted spurts and bounds, although it doesn’t come across as truly authentic, there is a solid contrast between the characters, but we see some similar flaws in each of their character unfurl. It was often hard to find myself caring too much for Michael despite what he'd been through, I had more compassion for his daughter who was also struggling to deal with the loss of her mother, but he seemed to disregard her feelings. He always finds a way to justify his behaviour and responses which shows a lot about his state of mind - this is a man who is very angry at the world and having a plan of revenge allows him to have a routine and distraction from dealing with his own grief in a rational way. Sensitivity readers are a comparatively recent phenomenon in publishing that have gained widespread attention in the past two years. They vet both new publications and older works for potentially offensive language and descriptions, and aim to improve diversity in the publishing industry – though some are paid extremely low wages.

Whether you're a romance lover, a werewolf enthusiast, a fantasy fanatic, or just looking for something fun to do, there's always a story for you to read and enjoy on Readict. And we're adding new books every day. At the end of 2005, the NSA released a report giving recommendations on how to safely sanitize a Microsoft Word document. [6] The last words I said to my wife: Please don't leave. I said to my wife please don't leave, while we were arguing and she said she was going to be late and so she had to leave, and she did and on her journey she was killed by an explosion on the Underground"What felt like humorous cautionary tale highlighting the ridiculousness and potential danger of whitewashing the past now feels like a depressing conversation compromising the substance of art.

Yes, there are still holes in the narrative, and leaps of faith required for the plausibility of the preparation part, but in the end the book delivers. In The Book of Redacted Paintings, the narrative arc follows a boy in search of his father's painting, but it is unclear whether the painting exists or not. The book, a poetry collection, is also populated by a series of paintings. Some are real, incomplete, and/or missing, while most are redacted from reality. The withdrawn paintings concept is the emotional arc of the book, a combination of wishing one could paint the pieces he/she/they envision and the feeling of something torn out of a person due to a traumatic upbringing. A sort of erasure ekphrasis, to foresee artwork that was never painted. I went on a journey with Micheal though this book. I experienced his grief and anger and his decline as he becomes solely fixated on the murder of a politician. To read how Micheal rationalises his thought process and how he squares away with himself that was he is doing is morally right was actually terrifying.

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However Kill [redacted] isn’t a predictable action thriller, and Michael isn’t quite the usual gung-ho vigilante. He’s a rather pedantic retired headmaster. As the novel develops, we learn, through a series of disjointed notes apparently prepared by Michael for his therapist, about his life, his family and the events that shaped his decision. In the end, this reminded me of Andy Weir's "The Martian" in terms of character-building, attention to (most) detail(s), and excitement. It's more of a 'Young Adult' view of a revenge-killing story, but set in the real world with adult themes. He never delves too deeply into them, but provides just enough tidbits and details to wet the appetite.

At the heart of the novel is a clever dissection of power and responsibility, in politics, in the classroom, in the home. Kill [redacted] is an original and smart literary thriller. It's not fair of the reader to judge a book for it's failure to match their high hopes but, I think it's a little fair if the writer contributes in the building of the reader's expectations. Anthony Good writes well, he builds a sharp, bullet-proof narrative but the outcome of all his efforts was quite disappointing. Now, if you've read the book yourself, you might tell me that was the whole point of it. And it may very well be but, I think ending the book with your reader feeling disappointed is a risk that is not without consequence. In response to criticism, Dahl’s publisher Puffin UK said it would release the original versions as well as the new edited texts to cater for modern sensitivities. Readers will therefore be given the option to choose between the two versions. As I have already stated, this book is raw and there are a lot of emotions flying about. I felt that I had a real emotional connection with the plot however I could not connect to any of the person. I felt like all of them irritated me in some way and there wasn't a person in the book that I could connect with. Although they were learning about different religious beliefs, they did not learn about all the categories of people covered in equality law. “Pupils are not taught about gender identity, or the legal rights given to LGBT people,” Ofsted said.

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maybe the book does itself a disservice by leaning so heavily into its own premise and 'thriller' aspect when it was marketed, and so it's attracted audiences who wanted more of a thrill from it. with this one, to each their own - if you want a fast-paced political thriller, if you want to be driven by the possibility of /what/ might happen, look in a different direction. this is 70% character study and 30% crime novel which, again, good literary crime is. Battered, abused, and broken, Sophia Alden is resigned to living the rest of her life as a slave to Alexander, a powerful Alpha who considers her his property and is dangerously obsessed with her. Method: The subject was transported to a broken world where the anima manifests as spiritual essence. Subject was restrained and these anima forms were harvested with the aid of one of the native priests who believed me to be an emissary of the spirits for some reason. Large numbers of the spirits were then transferred into the subject. The most egregious for me was the use of the cell phone at the end of the book. Given that this wasn't a burner phone, and that he had received calls from someone who was planning to turn him in just shortly before embarking on his 'mission', the police would've been able to trace the signal via cell phone towers, etc. They might've lost the signal once he entered the tunnels, but as he claims to be able to receive slow signals here too, then my point stands. And unless he's tapping into wifi, then he would've been unlikely to be able to receive cell phone signals, let alone usable video once he went into the tunnels and/or underground. Hypothesis: If the link is anima based, then it is reasonable to assume that it should be possible to overload it with an extreme application of anima.

Michael is at times rigid and authoritarian, at others extremely open to new ideas and learning, particularly in furtherance of his planned assassination. There is bleak humour as we see the odd places this takes him, and the unlikely allies he enlists. Beneath it all is an insistent rise in the tension as he closes in on his target. I have an appreciation for how gifted the author is. There is no doubt that as a debut novel he has a bright future but I ended up finding it just a little too much of a chore rather than a pleasure to get through. Ian Fleming's novel Live and Let Die has been heavily redacted Penguin - Pan Censorship leading to revisionism Amanda Stevens thought her problems were over when she got to college. No longer the shy, awkward teen she was in high school, Amanda felt this was her chance at making new friends and experiencing life. That was until she found out her high school Bully was attending the same college she was. Hudson Harlow.Sadly it has failed in my eyes for the principle reason that the main character was such a mixed bag that it’s difficult to have any empathy for him. This is one of those books where I’m really glad I did carry on reading as once I was in the mindset of the main character Micheal I became fully immersed with the story that was being told. I had to keep reminding myself that this is a work of fiction because the thoughts and feelings of Micheal are so intense it’s almost as if I actually was reading the private thoughts of an actual person. The James Bond books are antiquated but there is an argument to be made that the writing needs to be appreciated within its context and seen as a reflection of past values. Hypothesis: The curse works by driving the kin into a rage due to the application of extreme pain. Removal of higher brain functions should alleviate the curse.