Review: what makes shanghai ghetto move beyond a good , dry , reliable textbook 
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Review: good one 
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Review: in its understanding , often funny way 
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Review: shows crushingly little curiosity about , 
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Review: off with an inauspicious premise , mopes through a dreary tract of virtually plotless meanderings and then ends with a whimper .