He pauses and sidetracks and makes you hold your breath, but sometimes, he really sticks the landing.

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He pauses and sidetracks in a way that makes you hold your breath, but sometimes, he really sticks the landing.

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Regrettably, Collison cannot resist the temptation to editorialize about Indonesian politics and sometimes seems to lose the thread of the narrative as he pursues various sidetracks.

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Professional writers, for whom concentration is critical, are often derailed by the double-edged sword of the Internet: they use it to find material, but they often go off on search sidetracks that interrupt their creative process.

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