The problem is the prose in this novel never actually lives.

BBC: Still Here

North Carolina may have found a novel solution to this ethical problem, according to Nathan Barankin, a spokesman for California's attorney general.

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But the story's visceral appeal presents a problem for those who contend that the novel's poetic language and resonant imagery are merely cloaking devices for what amounts to a thin, lurid storyline that would barely pass muster in a bottom-feeding pulp magazine.

CNN: Why Gatsby gets us in our gut

The movie is in fact remarkably true to the darkness and chafing disgust of the novel, and that fidelity is where the problem lies.

NEWYORKER: Jude

In one study conducted by organizational psychologists Jennifer Mueller, Jack Goncalo, and Dishan Kamdar, 55 employees rated the responses of nearly 300 of their (unidentified) coworkers to a problem-solving task for both creativity (the extent to which their ideas were novel and useful) and as evidence of leadership potential.

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