I began Vanity Dies Hard with the working hypothesis that Ruth Rendell was infallibly brilliant, and that even if her books were not as emotionally satisfying as Anna’s Book, they would always have satisfying and elegant plots like Anna’s Book did. I was most disappointed. Vanity Dies Hard had an ending that was the biggest let-down since the ending of The Machinist. (Did you see The Machinist? I already didn’t like Christian Bale, but my God, even for a movie containing Christian Bale, The Machinist was awful.) Anyway, I had to create a new hypothesis based on my new data. …
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