The new therapies 1 ) are hugely expensive, cumbersome to take and capable of producing horrible side effects; 2 ) are largely inaccessible where AIDS is exploding most rapidly, among poor Americans and in the developing world; 3 ) don't work at all in some cases; 4 ) don't work if improperly followed or inexpertly prescribed; 5 ) are already failing in some patients in whom they had previously produced results.
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In her article The Novelist Goes to the Movies : Marisha Pessl's " Night Film ", Maggie Doherty claims that Night Film : A Novel is inexpertly plotted and peppered with screenshots, Night Film offers not an absorbing reading experience but an alienating one . She also believes that Night Film is a novel for the digital age, but if this is the kind of fiction our age produces, then these are dark times indeed, and she links Night Film : A Novel to the death of the novel.
