The sustaining magic of Defoe's novel is that the reader comes to regard Crusoe's self-sufficient solitude first with pity, and then with grudging envy.

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The emotional force of a novel that has the power to grip a reader through many readings spread across multiple decades just cannot be delivered by a 112-minute movie.

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No, but it gave me the confidence I needed to write my novel with authority and to immerse the reader in a criminal investigation and trial.

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Indeed, when Rees raises the prospect that the atom-smashers may not compact the planet, but instead create a novel vacuum that eliminates our galaxy, the reader can't resist a sci-fi cry of "coool!"

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Where the novel slowly boils the frog, taking the reader through the operative arc of progressive politics, the movie tosses the frog into the pot without laying the groundwork.

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In a mild surprise, "The Reader, " based on the best-selling novel about a postwar German boy who has an affair with an older woman with a Holocaust-related secret, took home nominations for best picture, best actress (Kate Winslet) and best director (Stephen Daldry).

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Now, however, it's available here, and after a second reading for the purposes of writing this month's recommendations, I can assure any reader on the hunt for a powerful and complex crime novel with a social conscience that this is a book that shouldn't be missed.

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But having read her wonderful evocation of Jewish Vitebsk, tsarist St Petersburg and modernist Paris, having lived as in a novel with the Hasidic families of Chagall and Bella Rosenfeld, his first wife, the reader will be hooked.

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