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Crime Writers: Ed McBain
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— 6 Mar 2009 Martin Skidmore 3 comments

McBain, writing under that name and Evan Hunter (which he changed his name to in 1952, from Salvatore Lombino), is the only writer by whom I have read over a hundred books, and that is likely to remain true for a long time, maybe permanently. And I&#[…]

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Quite a Lot of Static…
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— 6 Mar 2009 CarsmileSteve 5 comments

FM (Wednesdays, ITV2, yes ITV2) is a very odd little concept, but kind of works, I think?

So you get 20 minutes of him off the IT crowd and her off of teachers doing pretty standard “embarrassment and swearing” comedy set in a thinly-vei[…]

Which is more broken: music criticism or metacritic?
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— 6 Mar 2009 Tom 15 comments

Here’s a post from Hitsville raising an interesting point about Metacritic scores. The case looks pretty clear-cut: movie critics are harsher and more discerning than music ones.
Harsher, yes. More discerning? Well. Allow me to get all research[…]

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