Although only as far as one third worthy, two-thirds pointless, because Karen's story was as bleak as Melvyn's.
If, however, you're a fan of Alfie Deyes and have just bought his second Pointless Book, the app is definitely worth a look.
A pristine copy of Neil Gaiman's Coraline, borrowed 48 times, would have been needlessly re-bought, while Stuart Woods's Swimming to Catalina, still going at 120 loans, would be on its fifth, pointless reincarnation.
Each new Die Hard film – the gratuitous second, the pointless fourth, the actively terrible fifth – serves only to diminish the glory of the original.
(Cotter) Marc Quinn: 'All the Time in the World' (closes on Saturday) Four much enlarged, bronze sculptures of seashells made by high-tech 3-D replication seem, at first, like pointless baubles for rich collectors.
I no longer care what sound it makes when was I silenced, when did it first seem pointless to describe that sound what it sounds like can't change what it is- didn't the night end, wasn't the earth safe when it was planted didn't we plant the seeds, weren't we necessary to the earth, the vines, were they harvested?
We have to sort resumes the old-fashioned way, begging the question "Why did we pay for all this technology in the first place?" Pointless keyword-searching isn't the only knock against automated recruiting.
His team wallow uncomfortably, third and pointless, in Group E after the sloppy opening defeat by Basel.
They cite his habit of holding the ball in right field, or the way he has allowed a runner to advance to second with a pointless throw to third.
It looked like being a pointless first half, in more ways than one, but when Thomas was again blown for taking down a scrum, Hook landed the penalty from the halfway line.
