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When I say pot-boiler or techno thriller-that is a heartfelt compliment: The plotting was * dense*-the cast of characters was Huge!
Tor Blogging grrm 2010
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That's also supposed to be a big no-no in graduate creative writing programs, you hear a lot about how you're supposed to come up with characters first unless you're just writing a mindless pot-boiler.
A Conversation with Laura Moriarty author of The Rest of Her Life 2010
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Not so much for those of us that found the flick, along with its original source material, to be an adequate pot-boiler but ultimately middling effort.
Flixnjoystix.com! » New Release Tuesday! Bobert Takes A Look At The DVD/Blu-rays Of The Week! 2009
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Travelling to GF Watts's gallery at Compton, Surrey Lloyd picks out Found Drowned, a melodramatic pot-boiler which has often been categorised as mere social reportage, illustration at best.
In Search of a Masterpiece by Christopher Lloyd – review 2011
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Unless you're an avid pot-boiler bake-off watcher, you may not know George's name, but the famous restaurants he's worked for -- Robert De Niro's TriBeCa Grill, Nobu, Butter NYC, Café Boulud, Veritas and Blue Fin -- cannot have escaped your tongue.
Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Celebrity Pastry Chef Nancy Ruhling 2010
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Unless you're an avid pot-boiler bake-off watcher, you may not know George's name, but the famous restaurants he's worked for -- Robert De Niro's TriBeCa Grill, Nobu, Butter NYC, Café Boulud, Veritas and Blue Fin -- cannot have escaped your tongue.
Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Celebrity Pastry Chef Nancy Ruhling 2010
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Come what may, I fully expect this little pot-boiler to be remade in the next five years.
Scott Mendelson: 2010 in Review: Good Movies You Missed Scott Mendelson 2010
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Pillars Of The Earth9pm, Channel 4Last in the series of the sackcloth and skullduggery pot-boiler.
The weekend's TV highlights Will Dean 2010
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Come what may, I fully expect this little pot-boiler to be remade in the next five years.
Scott Mendelson: 2010 in Review: Good Movies You Missed Scott Mendelson 2010
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It reads partly like a L. Ron Hubbard pot-boiler though, partly as a poor-man version of H.G. Wells. review: 10-Jan-08 (read in 2008)
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