The book is a way to "fish money from the pockets of the angry youth and angry elderly," wrote one critic in the China youth Daily.

《中国青年报》的一位评论家写到：这本书是“从愤怒青年和愤怒的老人口袋中赚钱”的一种方法。

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As Peter Ackroyd, novelist, critic and biographer of Charles Dickens and Sir Thomas More, asserts in his new book: “The English see more ghosts than anyone else.”

彼得•阿克罗伊德是小说家、评论家暨查尔斯•狄更斯和托马斯•莫尔爵士的传记作者，正如他在新书中的断言：“英国人比别人看见更多的鬼魂。”

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The critic cried down the book.

那位评论家贬低那本书。

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It became very popular. One critic said it described the poetry of flight as no other book on flying had ever done.

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Ms. Messud, 46, is married to the book critic James Wood.

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The book was last made into a movie in 2006 and Amanda Craig, children's book critic for The Times, told BBC News that it has been massively influential for generations.

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The author fled Vietnam in 1990 (although he insists in the book that he did not really defect) and became a powerful critic of the communist regime from the safety of the U.S. The book has a personal, regretful tone, and includes a particularly ironic photograph of the author standing at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.

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