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Roberts is lightly anthropomorphic. But his extraordinary knowledge, affection and descriptive powers irresistibly transform any sympathetic reader over nine into a fox, then turn him loose in the woods to foil dogs, fight with black snakes, chase partridges caught under a crusted snow and escape a forest fire...
...Rambo, the Kid; Teasle, the Cop. Rambo hitchhiking, Teasle rodding him on to the edge of town. But Rambo doesn't shuffle down the road. Instead (the reader is cold and sure as the adrenaline shoots: oh, man, it will come ...) he walks back into town. A second time: the Cop, the Kid, back to the edge of town. And walks back in. (The reader: right, right, now let him be a discharged Green Beret...
...done well. David Morrell, a young Canadian first-novelist, is an expert technician. This is important, an absolute requirement of the genre. When the meat flies off the head, it must fly just right. Through the lens, spraying the viewer with reality. Except that the reader reader/viewer is safe in his chair. That is the fun of voyeurism - its safety...
Where else, after all, can a reader get the best of both the Post and Times, expertly presented along with comics and commentary? As a bonus, there is also the Trib's own crew of offbeat freelancers who lend the paper a welcome air of leisured whimsy. Souren Melikian, a Persian prince, covers art and artifact auctions with the colorful authority of both expert and buyer. Gastronome Waverly Root writes lovingly of rare, night-blooming mushrooms and the perils of absinthe, interspersed with an occasional reminiscence of Paris whores of the 1920s. Among Trib critics, Henry Pleasants comments...
...Times's output. Material also comes from the Los Angeles Times and Chicago's Daily News and Sun-Times, in addition to a full range of U.S. and foreign news agencies. Weiss and his colleagues are free to choose whichever story says it best for the international reader. No copy quotas are imposed by the owner papers, and big names on both the Post and New York Times often find their stories either drastically shortened or entirely ignored by the Trib...