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rivetingly 51 feminist critique 51 razor sharp satire 51 Harlequin romances 51 lush romanticism 51 deconstructive 51 Pietro Aretino 51 parodic 51 serio comic 51 immensely watchable 51 postmodern 51 poetic imagery 51 satirises 51 elegaic 51 Commedia dell'Arte 51 pastiches 51 mordant humor 51 absurdist farce 51 witty prose 51 rigorously researched 51 raucously funny 51 satirizes 51 evocative imagery 51 vulgarization 51 beautifully wrought 51 visually ravishing 51 recherché 51 childlike whimsy 50 sentimentalized 50 morality tales 50 veddy British 50 Shakesperean 50 meta theatrical 50 ripely 50 hokiness 50 sublime silliness 50 sardonically funny 50 cleverly woven 50 familial dysfunction 50 Nabokovian 50 endearingly quirky 50 self abasing 50 overly melodramatic 50 psychologically astute 50 whipsmart 50 deconstructionist 50 witty acerbic 50 thoroughly engrossing 50 Maurine Watkins 50 Grimms fairy tales 50 satire 50 David Hirson 50 brooding introspective 50 unabashedly romantic 50 catharses 50 thinly veiled autobiographical 50 Partisan Daughter 50 artless 50 decidedly unfunny 50 antiheroic 50 Emily Brontë 50 limning 50 clowning pantomime charades acrobatics 50 meta textual 50 dandyism 50 Hogarthian 50 consummate storyteller 50 Moliere comedy 50 metafictional 50 delightfully demented 50 vividly captures 50 pulp noir 50 wickedly funny 50 outrageous puns 50 documentarylike 50 hyperarticulate 50 delightfully witty 50 surrealist imagery 50 Chandleresque 50 delightfully irreverent 50 deftly captures 50 fabulism 50 eminently readable 50 wickedly entertaining 50 darkly satirical 50 eye rollingly 50 Italian commedia dell'arte 50 Jacobean drama 50 Pardoner Tale 50 screwball romance 50 ironic juxtaposition 50 attitudinizing 50 urbane wit 50 sublimely ridiculous 50 engrossingly 50 feisty heroines 50 deliciously witty 49 ghoulishness 49 unaffecting 49 impeccably researched 49 Jamesian 49 Freudian psychology 49 tableaux vivant 49 Thomas Pynchon Gravity Rainbow 49 exegeses 49 esotericism 49 sweetly sentimental 49 Satirizing 49 limns 49 darkly hilarious 49 richly satisfying 49 Pelevin 49 ripping yarn 49 aphoristic 49 wonderfully droll 49 lubricious 49 darkly comic 49 Oedipus myth 49 Georgette Heyer 49 tragi comedy 49 humorlessness 49 gimcrack 49 acidulous 49 singspiel 49 Python esque 49 faux naïf 49 delightfully quirky 49 Felliniesque 49 disarmingly funny 49 Lady Windemere Fan 49 illuminatingly 49 Mere Anarchy 49 Godardian 49 autobiographical monologue 49 escapist fantasy 49 Pierre Beaumarchais 49 An Infinite Ache 49 hardboiled detective 49 theatricalized 49 Flaubert Madame Bovary 49 literary allusions 49 risqué humor 49 richly imaginative 49 self mythologizing 49 Dercourt 49 self referential humor 49 shtik 49 sketchily drawn 49 knockabout comedy 49 intermittently amusing 49 unpoetic 49 overly romanticized 49 ludic 49 clownishness 49 scholarly tome 49 slyer 49 pantomimic 49 Astaire Rogers 49 nonliterary 49 phallocentric 49 wincingly 49 Skewering 49 monster mash ups 49 wonderfully imaginative 49 existential anguish 49 bawdier 49 mildly risqué 49 witty urbane 49 acutely perceptive 49 Pythonesque 49 lyrical sensibility 49 deadpan comic 49 madcap romp 49 Paul Virilio 49 literalized 49 Minstrelsy 49 tawdrier 49 intricately constructed 49 digressive 49 Abstinence Teacher 49 hilariously absurd 49 longform improv 49 film noire 49 Sophomoric 49 Biblical allusions 49 lyrical abstraction 49 courtly intrigue 49 grittily realistic 49 imagist 49 scatology 49 divertingly 49 Marc Camoletti 49 nonfictional 49 Grand Manner 49 absurdist comedy 49 pure escapist 48 gorgeously wrought 48 scrupulously researched 48 unadorned prose 48 Drama Mex 48 knowingness 48 Wickedly funny 48 literary pretensions 48 foppery 48 purveys 48 Dada esque 48 self dramatizing 48 imaginatively conceived 48 hilariously profane 48 lit crit 48 comically absurd 48 weaves tapestry 48 absurdist 48 bodice rippers 48 performativity 48 fading Southern belle 48 Camoletti 48 Charles Schulz Peanuts 48 wholly believable 48 Krafft Ebing 48 child's eye view 48 philosophical ruminations 48 earthy sensuality 48 intricate wordplay 48 Aubrey Maturin 48 Magic Flute Mozart 48 deliriously funny 48 engrossing tale 48 Seinfeldian 48 caricaturized 48 plagiaristic 48 squirmingly 48 densely textured 48 Runyonesque 48 nature morte 48 deftly blends 48 Harlem Duet 48 Elizabethan playwright 48 opera buffa 48 Paul Bernbaum 48 Plato Symposium 48 Thomas Hobbes Leviathan 48 Situationist 48 self referential jokes 48 witty erudite 48 ribald 48 Interspersing 48 Tolkien esque 48 sententious 48 Shakespeare canon 48 screwball romantic comedy 48 Satiric 48 vividly evoked 48 ripping yarns 48 deadpan wit 48 SJ Perelman 48 Yiddish inflected 48 dryly humorous 48 monologists 48 hilarious sendup 48 blackly funny 48 Larry Beinhart 48 sumptuously photographed 48 sidesplitting comedy 48 Euripides Medea 48 ballet Pulcinella 48 Monty Python esque 48 EM Cioran 48 scabrously funny 48 lyric poetry 48 slyly humorous 48 Meticulously researched 48 intertextuality 48 pomo 48 seamlessly weaves 48 trenchant commentary 48 postmodern irony 48 Shake speare 48 Louvish 48 satirical sketches 48 anthropomorphized animals 48 Yiddishisms 48 Self referential 48 Giraudoux 48 hippy trippy 48 Ethan Mordden 48 caricatural 48 magic realist 48 Beckettian 48 nonlinear storytelling 48 Feydeau 48 evocative prose 48 comfortingly familiar 48 journalistic reportage 48 Richard Brinsley Sheridan 48 Marivaux 48 Elizabethan era 48 ruefulness 48 anecdotage 48 uninflected 48 Cartoonish 48 unhistorical 48 musicalized 48 Benito Cereno 48 hyperreal 48 ecchi 48 cleverly interwoven 48 unflinchingly honest 48 savagely satirical 48 unflinching depiction 48 zeitgeisty 48 biting satire 48 George Orwell dystopian 48 tautly constructed 48 witty lyrics 48 wistful melodies 47 Thought provoking 47 Cinematically 47 sermonic 47 romantic roundelay 47 O tempora o 47 Vile Bodies 47 quippy 47 Couched 47 picaresque tale 47 melodiousness 47 Polanski Oliver Twist 47 teacherly 47 psychodramas 47 thinky 47 Max Beerbohm 47 millenarianism 47 droll deadpan 47 Kafka Metamorphosis 47 richly atmospheric 47 Purloined Letter 47 undogmatic 47 endlessly quotable 47 supernatural overtones 47 Satires 47 philosophical musings 47 hilarious 47 Tom Nelis 47 uproariously funny 47 Pierre Corneille 47 richly layered 47 Magical realism 47 madcap comedy 47 morbidly fascinating 47 pokes gentle 47 heartstring pulling 47 soap operatic 47 biodrama 47 Seinfeld ian 47 Aristotle Poetics 47 apercus 47 achingly funny 47 Harlequin Romance 47 whimsicality 47 verbal repartee 47 deliciously subversive 47 bildungsroman 47 polymorphous 47 timeless melodies 47 hyperrealism 47 endlessly watchable 47 playwright Christopher Durang 47 gothic vampire 47 mordant 47 self parodying 47 meta narrative 47 Philip Lopate 47 titillations 47 tragi 47 delightfully offbeat 47 smarminess 47 irreverent wit 47 multicharacter 47 mysterious alchemy 47 verismo opera 47 deliciously wicked 47 archetypally 47 wry self deprecating 47 Ovid Metamorphosis 47 Théophile Gautier 47 gimcrackery 47 aching tenderness 47 intellectualized 47 Shavian 47 erotics 47 inflects 47 gaucherie 47 wry asides 47 famously lampooned 47 imagistic 47 subtextual 47 poetic sensibility 47 humorous 47 orotund 47 postfeminist 47 Morrie Ryskind 47 shlocky 47 Darkly funny 47 wonderfully evocative 47 vaudeville burlesque 47 bitchery 47 roundelay 47 enthrallingly 47 veers perilously close 47 humoristic 47 suspenseful tale 47 unlikeable characters 47 Revelatory 47 mawkish sentimentality 47 overly stagy 47 Pithy 47 Grimonprez 47 Cibber 47 cliche ridden 47 comedic monologues 47 Brian Helgeland script 47 intellectually vapid 47 off puttingly 47 Stephen Dolginoff 47 terpsichorean 47 mustache twirling villains 47 viscerally thrilling 47 Nixon Agonistes 47 limn 47 repressed sexuality 47 blackly comic 47 sentimentalizes 47 Hitchcockian suspense 47 darkly comedic 47 Uncommon Reader 47 witty 47 Alphonse Daudet 47 triteness 47 lyrical prose 47 prissiness 47 Jules Verne HG Wells 47 humourlessness 47 restages 47 Luna Lovegood Evanna Lynch 47 Brecht Weill 47 reductively 47 Paddy Cunneen 47 Expertly crafted 47 overused adjective 47 grotesque caricature 47 gallimaufry 47 Chekhovian 47 twentysomething angst 47 avant gardism 47 endlessly adaptable 47 Psychopathia Sexualis 47 scatological 47 Jon Marans 47 Judith Mackrell 47 earthily 47 parody 47 muckraking journalism 47 Gothic melodrama 47 meta fictional 47 interlaces 47 Pinteresque 47 rom com clichés 47 superheroics 47 pentameter 47 Dostoevsky novel 47 fabulist 47 thesis antithesis 47 intermingles 47 subtly shaded 47 book CostaLiving Laughing 47 ingeniously constructed 47 escapist fiction 47 roguishness 47 intricately structured 47 layerings 47 psychodynamics 47 counterpointing 47 beautifully nuanced 47 frug 47 mythological characters 47 blackly 47 dramatisations 47 unabashedly sentimental 47 philosopher Roger Scruton 47 poetic musings 47 mordant wit 47 lowbrow 47 roman clef 47 comedy Blithe Spirit 47 bodice ripping 47 puerile humor 47 sonic collage 47 Weimar cabaret 47 Diego Arciniegas 47 blackly humorous 47 Postmodernist 47 tragicomedies 47 Jim Lichtscheidl 47 meticulously recreates 47 authorial voice 47 devilishly delightful 47 dottiness 47 auteurism 47 Playfulness 47 vulgarised 47 contemporary resonances 47 metanarrative 47 sexploitation films 47 overly preachy 47 Poplavskaya 46 aperçus 46 Anglophilic 46 Orpheus myth 46 Borgesian 46 Choderlos de Laclos 46 slangy 46 trenchant observations 46 poignantly captures 46 lushly illustrated 46 epistolary novel 46 wearyingly 46 neo classicism 46 Devil Dictionary 46 satirizing 46 Homo Politicus 46 frothy confection 46 elegant prose 46 playwright Frank Wedekind 46 charmingly quirky 46 trenchant 46 parodies 46 overgeneralizations 46 shmaltz 46 Menander 46 zany 46 subversiveness 46 primness 46 Todd Solondz Happiness 46 puerility 46 acter 46 Sophocles Oedipus Rex 46 La Boheme Baz Luhrmann 46 undeniably charming 46 electrifyingly 46 nouveau roman 46 minidramas 46 archness 46 campily 46 marvelously evocative 46 bathetic 46 pompousness 46 irreducibly 46 hummable tune 46 homosocial 46 Polish Joke 46 Greek tragedians 46 Gothic horror 46 richly evocative 46 jokiness 46 wryly amusing 46 Blakean 46 geometric patterning 46 grotesqueness 46 farce Noises Off 46 Whiggish 46 slapstick antics 46 deliciously campy 46 poetic lyricism 46 Kleinzahler 46 wonderfully idiosyncratic 46 recontextualized 46 utter randomness 46 Baroque operas 46 Russian Debutante Handbook 46 wonderfully nuanced 46 Darkly comic 46 grotesqueries 46 rhyming verse 46 overemphatic 46 Robin Hawdon 46 risqu 46 rhymed verse 46 onanism 46 retro futurist 46 Kenny Shopsin 46 Fellini esque 46 intellectual pretensions 46 satirical revue 46 scholarly essays 46 noir detective 46 sly wit 46 Renata Adler 46 dreamlike sequences 46 effaces 46 hilariously 46 Alexander Woollcott 46 Existentialism 46 epigrammatic 46 larky 46 instrumentalism 46 densely plotted 46 jazzlike 46 farceur 46 coarsens 46 contextualizes 46 Humorists 46 perspicuous 46 Masculine Feminine 46 Flannery O'Conner 46 Camera Lucida 46 noir tinged 46 recognizably human 46 liltingly 46 grossout 46 terrifically funny 46 performative aspect 46 barbed wit 46 kitchen sink realism 46 novelist Evelyn Waugh 46 winsomeness 46 spoofery 46 quasi operatic 46 clever quips 46 visual puns 46 La Fille mal 46 Cookbook Collector 46 Wellesian 46 beautifully modulated 46 slyly witty 46 absurdist playwright 46 grrrl power 46 seamy underside 46 slapstick 46 Kit Hesketh 46 erudite 46 Shaggs 46 sociopolitical commentary 46 Norman Rockwellian 46 objective correlative 46 irreverent 46 belles lettres 46 dives headfirst 46 Jeff Steitzer 46 Wordy Shipmates 46 thinly plotted 46 Hindu epics 46 snarkier 46 eggheaded 46 carnivalesque 46 Twelfth Night Shakespeare 46 fictionalizing 46 historicism 46 hagiographical 46 hummable tunes 46 novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne 46 Exploding Plastic Inevitable 46 lacerating wit 46 darkly comic tale 46 philosophical musing 46 romantic fable 46 unblushing 46 Baricco 46 thematically linked 46 strange juxtapositions 46 sitcomish 46 Grimm fairy tales 46 Herzogian 46 chiaroscuro lighting 46 Melancholic 46 unrequited romance 46 Roger O. Hirson 46 Electile Dysfunction 46 outre 46 gothic romance 46 populariser 46 toe curlingly embarrassing 46 guffaw inducing 46 fantastical magical 46 conflations 46 Wildean wit 46 delightfully wacky 46 Otherwise Engaged 46 Exterminating Angels 46 literary allusion 46 gut bustingly hilarious 46 topical gags 46 side splittingly 46 interwoven strands 46 culturally resonant 46 disaffected slackers 46 crasser 46 rawly 46 exquisitely attuned 46 hoariest 46 knockabout farce 46 hyperreality 46 Euclid Elements 46 dystopian fiction 46 suspense thrillers 46 poetic prose 46 Mordden 46 Yevgeny Onegin 46 poeticism 46 comedic 46 satirical comedy 46 brilliantly crafted 46 self lacerating 46 kaleidoscopic portrait 46 slapsticky 46 clunky exposition 46 finely nuanced 46 salaciousness 46 melodramatic flourishes 46 fertile imaginations 46 unremittingly bleak 46 unembellished 46 Pudd'nhead Wilson 46 Hubert Dreyfus 46 cleareyed 46 witty insightful 46 Ealing comedies 46 sendup 46 Sophistry 46 Pulitzer Prizewinning 46 nostalgia inducing 46 sketch comedy revue 46 self referentially 46 writes Philippa Hawker 46 nuanced 46 hilariously subversive 46 unrelievedly 46 Gautam Malkani 46 delicately nuanced 46 sordidness 46 Cliffs Notes 46 wickedly humorous 45 hamminess 45 dilettantism 45 textural richness 45 richly nuanced 45 sly humor 45 Parodying 45 soap operatics 45 self mythologising 45 Victorianism 45 affectedly 45 habitude 45 Francophilia 45 relateable 45 Norse Mythology 45 Hosker Bouley 45 valorizes 45 mummery 45 Premature Burial 45 abjection 45 killingly funny 45 seaside postcard 45 pulsing electro 45 hackwork 45 Norse myths 45 bonkbuster 45 hummable songs 45 vulgarized 45 absurdist satire 45 recountings 45 costumery 45 radiantly beautiful 45 wry observations 45 musicals comedies 45 Here endeth 45 sublimely silly 45 mirthless 45 daffiness 45 Altmanesque 45 Swiftian satire 45 Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 45 campy horror 45 ribald comedy 45 uncinematic 45 Ford Madox Ford 45 SN Behrman 45 neatly encapsulates 45 connotative 45 Pultizer Prize winning 45 unintentionally hilarious 45 Claudia Dey 45 Signifying Monkey 45 zanily 45 soapier 45 anachronistically 45 Neo Realist 45 artfully constructed 45 Anita Brookner 45 stylisation 45 Fractured Fairy Tales 45 Politically incorrect 45 sybarite 45 Superficiality 45 illusionism 45 trenchant wit 45 campy 45 opera libretto 45 wry 45 formalists 45 Wittgenstein Mistress 45 Anaïs Nin 45 autobiographic 45 lexicography 45 vaudeville routines 45 juicily 45 baroquely 45 Harold Brodkey 45 W Somerset Maugham 45 filmable 45 Seuss classics 45 knob gags 45 Laurence Sterne 45 strangely alluring 45 overly talky 45 cliché ridden 45 crass 45 florid descriptions 45 Interweaving 45 fin de siecle 45 compulsively watchable 45 exquisitely nuanced 45 campy spoof 45 unclever 45 Abdel Raouf Dafri 45 Puckish 45 juvenilia 45 rebarbative 45 Lanky brooding Superman 45 Mahlerian 45 Tractatus 45 critic Camille Paglia 45 delightfully subversive 45 vivid evocation 45 explicates 45 quasi Marxist 45 hilarious parody 45 expository prose 45 schticky 45 theatrical artifice 45 Sadism 45 crudities 45 Daphne Merkin 45 novelettes 45 Flo Ziegfeld 45 Grand Guignol 45 transgressive 45 retro kitsch 45 vaudevillian 45 Don Armado 45 Formulaic 45 mythmaker 45 epigrams 45 shamelessly manipulative 45 offhandedness 45 conceptualizations 45 diabolism 45 ballet Coppelia 45 Silent Echoes 45 comically exaggerated 45 dystopian sci fi 45 deliciously creepy 45 Foucheux 45 Benjamin Markovits 45 tawdriness 45 Prodigal Daughter 45 bloggery 45 historiographical 45 commedia 45 witlessness 45 sidesplitting 45 Stanley Kauffmann 45 affectionate portrait 45 L' il Abner 45 terrifically entertaining 45 wonkier 45 sexologist Alfred Kinsey 45 tautly paced 45 omniscient narrator