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Last year, Misty bestowed upon us the most overweeningly self-involved social critique of our time.
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Sharp Objects isn't the first series to try to stake out territory for female-driven stories in the overweeningly masculine realm of the prestige drama.
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The previous shows, first Perilous Bodies, and then Radical Love in turn, set the table by instilling a sense of crisis for the varied calamities that threaten human life and agency, and then suggesting that an untrammeled, overweeningly lush care for the self and the other might save us.
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Critics complained that the book lacked interesting stories and was aimed mostly at fans of The Simpsons rather than a general audience. Cartwright adapted My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy into a one-woman play in 2004. Cartwright has performed it at a variety of venues, including the August 2004 Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. The play received modest reviews, including criticism for a lack of inside stories about The Simpsons, and its "overweeningly upbeat" tone.
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" Brian Logan of The Guardian described Cartwright as "a lively host eager to please", but found the play to be "an overweeningly upbeat collection of Simpsons chitchat." David Chatterton of British Theatre Guide described it as "interesting and entertaining, but not really a 'must see' even for Simpsons fans." Clive Davis of The Times wrote that "In contrast to The Simpsons itself, where not a line, not a syllable, goes to waste, Cartwright has a habit of losing herself in anecdotes that stumble into dead-ends. The half- hearted trivia quiz involving volunteers from the audience soon dies a death too.
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Reviews of the novel were generally appreciative, while claiming that for many reasons it was unlikely to be a popular success. The poet James Thomson, writing in The Secularist, complained ironically: > As if he were not sufficiently offensive in being original, he dares to be > wayward and wilful, not theatrically or overweeningly like Charles Reade, > but freakishly and humoristically, to the open-eyed disgust of our prim > public.Ioan Williams (ed.) George Meredith: The Critical Heritage (London: > Routledge, 1995) p. 190. The Times said that Meredith did not have > the knack of stooping to the tastes of his readers…His books are over- > charged with brilliancy of thought, and overdone with epigram and sarcasm > and dry shrewd humour.
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