The book is a sane and salient interpretation of the mess of junk shots, top kills, ram blocks, boreholes, reamer shoes and blowout preventers.

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Neither book is wholly convincing in its explanation of how America managed to mess things up so consistently for so long.

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Tapping on any page opens a book for editing, and this is where you usually find a cluttered mess of options.

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Even my book cover is schizophrenic: on the front is a woman who is a mess, scowling, with her hair obscuring her face.

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It also comes with a mess of features, some of which are too tablet-like for my book experience.

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Ruddock was more dismissive of criticism in Thomas' book that he had not clamped down on players' personal standards, with dressing rooms left in a mess, bar bills going unpaid and half-full water bottles being discarded.

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