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Look in the Art and Engineering Section for these and other specii Ijjggg University Bookst 'Your Partner in Edui By Chris Handal "The Case of Lucy pretentious novel dev Sanders, best knov Deadly Sin," "The Deadly Sin"), branch though detection is at Til I 1. ,1 1 ? .. Ix iic uuur uraia v . ? seemingly well-adjus - I is around Bending sh< 1 words, all "red and gi - I psychiatrist. It is his = .! misbehavior. In this s B But this is not a de j stage. Neither is Be or i , major flaw of "The C - ! on no one. It is merely The novel is comf i chapter introduces; novel these switche destroy the coherenc; Then again, Sandei r'Mi when he chose this t Ifip? concentrated on Levi amateurish as a dete 1 detective. Even durii i7 , the novel, the reade V _ ] Levin makes his " ; '1 revelation, for the r< - realizes. I The reader is able information that 85 Levin does not grasp T'Virt nUorvf A??n session runs through red. weak he has experienced a , of the chapters. ' Sanders does not a having a transition f id the Gamecock evei ]: A NATL ^\<>r i [ NICE - N - NAT! |i 799-3471 ^{ j 1217 College St. I Have | Ho Kits. :?TOei : Eve ach I ; Tues ier I [ iing shield 1 J n mechanical 1 QgC 1 incil and lead > ^ luare J ders lbination triangle > : MOl I a : I > ,re 151 ! ation" IbI I f Bookstore S jfe> falfc iiffci dt> ii%i <1 <Oi >i s flounders \ pH pffnrt in Bending," by Lawrence Sanders, is oid of any depth or feeling. m for his detective novels ("The Fii Tenth Commandment," "The Thi les into a different area with this boc its core. vith eight-year old Lucy Bending, ited child. Yet whenever an adult ma 5 trys to seduce him, to make him, in h Lggly." ake her to Dr. Theodore Levin, a ch job to ferret out the cause of Bendinj tense, Levin is a detective. tective novel. Levin is not given cent >nding given center stage. This is t ase of Lucy Bending " . the novel focus / a myriad of subplots. >osed of short, snappy chapters. Ea a new subplot. In the early stages of t s annoy, and in the latter stages th y a novel should have. *s may have known what he was doi ack. If "The Case of Lucy Bending" h n or Bending, the book would have be ctive novel. ;ood child psychiatrist but he falters a ng the little time that Levin is given r is able to jump ahead of him. Wh big discovery," it is no surprise iader has already deduced what Lei to outguess Levin not because was unavailable to Levin but becai the obvious. also damage the passage of time in t ons wiui trending or ner pa renis sed to last 45 minutes, and indeed, ea its entirety. But the reader does not f< 45 minute session because of the brev ttempt to mask the passage of time rom one part of the session to anoth y Monday, Wednes JRAL FOOD RESTAURANT V (L ACTO-VEGET ARI AN) ^ Serving: ? Soups - Salads ?i|i Sandwiches I Yogurt - Frozen Yogurt ^ 21 Natural Juices URAL I I am-8pm Mon. - Fri. ii a . i lam-tpm :>at. on USC Campus next to Burger King rs -SllS l?res=^< >ry f|| (day restaur 1928 I Wed: Pitchers of Til 11 LSON GOLI Saturday H Monday Mi{ An wiriii t" w in* w w/baby 1 with pretentioi latest novel - book revi< d - i?x-iimni-Tnii ?ia _ hut nrpsonts the comDlete session a rd accept that what was read took 45 mir ik A TRADEMARK of Sanders' nc a unusual character (in "The Tenth ,le detective was less than five feet tall) er increased scope, everyone is bizarre 8 There is a child-like hooker with a i aging senator confined to his whee formation for the pleasures of a p ,'s woman. Another woman discovers he ' ager. er The concept of friendship, except ii the characters who inhabit "The Cas (es a result, none of the characters are 1 no character is truly evil, none of the < ch The reader soon becomes detach jle uninterested in the fate of the charact ey thin. With more than ten major chara gives no depth to any one characte ng needed to double the length to achiev ad for?n ANOTHER FAILING of the nov awkward and unintentionally hilar s a Bending's need for women is describe m "Ronald Bending needed women ien man might need alcohol, golf, or th V1 the crutch that supported, the onl /in during. Bending was incapable of timents; he only knew that he was ?f need. "He came from his office to the pi the driver's seat of his silve "e Turbo...Bending loved this beauti 0,r sorrow being that he couldn't get it ii ich eel Sanders needs to return to the det ity dust-cover writer said that Sanders1 side of the heart and that with "The by he was moving to a new, ambitioi er, Sanders forgot to include any heart ii Evlrltt/ >uay anu i nuay 1 4??-^ I nufT ai ant & lounge Rosewood Drive nesday : BUD 8 til irsday DEN 85* s til [eineken 8s? ght Football ! screen TW Buds for 40* LIS/ . I iw 1 . ' ind asks the reader to lutes. ivels is the bizarre or Commandment," the i. In this novel, with its ind unusual. shriveled leg. A retired lchair trades stock in ower hungry, beautiful :r sexuality with a teen11 rare cases, is alien to e of Lucy Bending." As likeable. And yet, since iharacters are hated, ed from the book and ers; they are only paper cters, the 400 page book r. Sanders would have e the scope he is hoping el is that the prose is ious, as when Ronald i as much as another e Cross. Women were y justification for enexpressing such sena willing slave to his irking lot and slid into r-gray Porsche 924 ful car, his greatest nto bed." ective novel. The book's was a master of the dark i Case of Lucy Bending" us level. Unfortunately, n this novel. ; Sleeve I >hirts I ?ree pcorn I I "!*/ ?? tS> i i losing; i < < i closing ; i i i i i i i 1 : < 5 i < i i k A j- fft A rtt> rt