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So we are delivered a story of the average man in the street, suffering intolerable mental torture as a result of a terrorist atrocity touching his family and friends.

At the end of 2005, the NSA released a report giving recommendations on how to safely sanitize a Microsoft Word document. [6] One of the first rules in writing is to make the reader develop a relationship of understanding & care for the principle character. With a plot like this it should have been easy but somehow the author manages to blow it. Don’t be fooled by the terrorist theme in the summary, this is all about the character of Michael and his many faults and sometimes psychopathic behaviours, these revealed as he increasingly tells us his inner truths. He writes a lot of this diary to his therapist, so withholds some information in these parts, which is contained in his personal section of the diary. There is a great dynamic between the therapist and Michael, this working relationship appears to come on in stilted spurts and bounds, although it doesn’t come across as truly authentic, there is a solid contrast between the characters, but we see some similar flaws in each of their character unfurl. Cruelty and ignorance are targets too for Raymond Antrobus, poet-advocate for the D/deaf community. Antrobus made a powerful statement against the ignorance he perceived in Ted Hughes’s poem Deaf School when he included it, fully redacted, in his ( Ted Hughes award-winning) collection The Perseverance. It's not fair of the reader to judge a book for it's failure to match their high hopes but, I think it's a little fair if the writer contributes in the building of the reader's expectations. Anthony Good writes well, he builds a sharp, bullet-proof narrative but the outcome of all his efforts was quite disappointing. Now, if you've read the book yourself, you might tell me that was the whole point of it. And it may very well be but, I think ending the book with your reader feeling disappointed is a risk that is not without consequence.

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A terrorist bombing on the London Underground kills scores of people, one casualty being the wife of Michael, headteacher of an inner-city comprehensive boy’s school. Michael is devastated, he loved his wife, idolised her. But Michael does not sink into a pit of despair, though he is certainly depressed and has more than his fair share of bad days. Neither does he channel his energies into charity work or campaigning, as some might do. Instead, Michael’s mind turns to revenge. It is not the terrorists or their masterminds who are the focus of his ire however, but rather the British Prime Minister whose policies Michael feels provoked the terrorist outrage. at no point did i read thinking the point was for me to like michael - on the contrary, it's an exploration of grief and anger on this person; this specific person. it feels to me like people who complain about not connecting to the main character would have liked this story from the perspective of someone kinder, better, more 'relatable,' so they can make abstraction of the character completely and experience the narrative in first person.

In other cases, such as the NSA report on the USS Liberty incident (right), the report may be sanitized to remove all sensitive data, so that the report may be released to the general public. Printed documents which contain classified or sensitive information frequently contain a great deal of information which is less sensitive. There may be a need to release the less sensitive portions to uncleared personnel. The printed document will consequently be sanitized to obscure or remove the sensitive information. Maps have also been redacted for the same reason, with highly sensitive areas covered with a slip of white paper.

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In the end, this reminded me of Andy Weir's "The Martian" in terms of character-building, attention to (most) detail(s), and excitement. It's more of a 'Young Adult' view of a revenge-killing story, but set in the real world with adult themes. He never delves too deeply into them, but provides just enough tidbits and details to wet the appetite.The last words I said to my wife: Please don't leave. I said to my wife please don't leave, while we were arguing and she said she was going to be late and so she had to leave, and she did and on her journey she was killed by an explosion on the Underground" The James Bond books are antiquated but there is an argument to be made that the writing needs to be appreciated within its context and seen as a reflection of past values. As a central room exploring portraiture and narrative attests, Pollard is a captivating photographer, but there are many layers of enquiry going on beyond the surface seduction. This is not easy art – it doesn’t come with a neat punchline. I think even for the artist, associations shift with every turn of the compost heap. I personally felt like the ending came a little abruptly and I’m still left with so many questions which in some books works fine but for me I really felt like with this particular book I needed the answers to what happens next and how things conclude. I have an appreciation for how gifted the author is. There is no doubt that as a debut novel he has a bright future but I ended up finding it just a little too much of a chore rather than a pleasure to get through.

The most egregious for me was the use of the cell phone at the end of the book. Given that this wasn't a burner phone, and that he had received calls from someone who was planning to turn him in just shortly before embarking on his 'mission', the police would've been able to trace the signal via cell phone towers, etc. They might've lost the signal once he entered the tunnels, but as he claims to be able to receive slow signals here too, then my point stands. And unless he's tapping into wifi, then he would've been unlikely to be able to receive cell phone signals, let alone usable video once he went into the tunnels and/or underground.

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As is seen in the USS Liberty report, paper documents are usually sanitized by covering the classified and sensitive portions before photocopying the document.