Ritika Jain, of the DNA India website, offered a mixed review of this book, saying, " Book six of the Clifton Chronicles is a page turner and often unputdownable, but, perhaps, it's time for Jeffrey Archer to give the story the closure it deserves ."
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"The Sunday Times " described The Cutting Room as : " one of the most intriguing, assured and unputdownable debuts to come out of Scotland in recent years " . " The List " was particularly impressed by Welsh's portrayal of Glasgow : " . . . the city becomes a character in its own right; Gothic, dismal, decaying and frightening in equal measure ".
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A reviewer of his " Violence in the Arts " ( 1973 ) spoke of Fraser s extremely agile and incessantly active mind which illuminates almost every subject it touches . Another called his magnum opus, " America and the Patterns of Chivalry " ( 1983 ), a brilliant and utterly absorbing work and said that There are not many learned books which have the unputdownable quality of a thriller; this is one of them .
