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...best, pop literature provides a set of tracks along which the reader's fantasies can chug-chug-chug and toot-toot-toot. Len Deighton or Harold Robbins or Erich Segal paints up a few props as passive scenery-model villages with lifelike residents, a plaster panther forever in the act of springing-and the reader's imagination makes it all real. Oliver Lange, for example, posits a brief, one-sided and almost painless Russo-American war-Washington is taken, and that's about it. Afterwards, the Soviets occupy...
...then? Well, it depends on what the reader has in mind. But to help him out, the author furnishes costumes and scenery for two of the era's pervasive daydreams. One is that of facing the Grand Inquisitor, having one's day in a hopelessly hostile court. The other is that of taking to the hills, a self-reliant survivor, after...
...Have you seen any of these articles [major articles in The New Yorker, New York, Reader's Digest...
...took the cash and let the culture go-are presented pretty much in their own words. The result often brings to mind Nancy Mitford's unkind remark that citizens of the U.S. speak English as if wrestling with a foreign tongue. That confronts the thoughtful pro-Jones reader with a dilemma. If Jones takes these clichés seriously, can he be any smarter than the people he writes about? If he doesn't, can he-pure commerce aside-be taken seriously...
...with a straight face that female bodies interest him "less than female minds." Like many Jones characters he suffers from acute typecasting. As narrator, moreover, Hartley can be tiresomely chatty when extolling food or explaining that a beer at the Brasserie Lipp is called un serieux. But what weary reader will not thank him for such mercifully brief love-making moments as this: "I suppose we did just about everything that two people do together...