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Plot Summary of So Long As You Both Shall Live
"It is Bert Kling's wedding night. He steps into the bathroom to take a shower. When he returns his new bride has been kidnapped! Why and where did she go? Augusta didn't know that in her career as a model that she was inflaming this man who became obsessed with her. Now he snatches her, because he feels no one else can have her but him."
BethG, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of So Long As You Both Shall Live
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Plot

Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20%




Tone of story - Dry-cynical
Time/era of story: - 1960's-1970's
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Crime Thriller Yes
Crime plotlets: - escape/rescue from kidnappers
General Crime (including known murderer) Yes

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - police/lawman
Age: - 20's-30's
How much violence does he/she use? - just the right amount
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - doctor
Eccentric: Yes - obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - an average amount
Motive of antagonist - jealousy
The antagonists are: - evil doctors
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - bulging muscles

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast
City? Yes
City: - Dirty, dangerous (like New York)

Style
Part of a series? Yes
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
How many deaths? - 0 (not a murder mystery)
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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