People come to the site because it has the most reviews written by readers, and they often stop to write some of their own, attracting even more people.

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It also reminds us that novelists of any earlier time had larger ambitions than they do in our day, when they are often content to write about people who, like themselves, live more in their minds than in the world.

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The banks are so keen to avoid write-offs that they often approve unsound corporate reorganisation plans and unrealistic estimates of profits, according to Yang Sung Tae, a Seoul bankruptcy-court judge.

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More surprisingly, perhaps, they write a thoughtful, nicely paced and often witty narrative.

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