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...ever met Thomas Wolfe was likely to forget the force of his personality. A hearty clasp of his huge paw could mean considerable pain to the hand he had shaken. And no reader of his novels, whatever the reservations about their real worth, could easily forget their impact. That is part of the trouble that confronts Biographer Andrew Turnbull. In his conversations, which were really monologues, and in his novels, notably Look Homeward, Angel and The Web and the Rock, Wolfe spilled it all. His autobiographical heat and drive, the boiling response of his senses, are the substance...
Paul began the course at about 370 WPM and now does his textbook reading at about 1200 WPM and novels at 1800 WPM. Both rates represent a minimal three time increase over the rates of the proficient college reader...
...also critical of reading courses that use a mechanical pacer, as students tend to revert to previous reading speeds once the pacer is not there to help them. When reading dynamically, the reader's hand is used as a pacer...
...author does not seem to control the recollections that sweep him along. It is a superb memoir indifferently disguised as fiction. If Albert the world's worst punchball player did not actually become Gerald the novelist, at very least they must have shared Brownsville in the 1930s. The reader sees this after 20 pages of irritation, and the awkward pretense of fiction no longer matters. The book, with all its misty ruefulness, is enormously likable...
Pope-Hennessy seems satisfied that slavery went out of business only when it ceased to be really good business. But in the end, he does not quite convince the reader or himself that the profit motive alone was responsible for the routes of guilt that can be traced from the Gold Coast of Africa in 1441 to the riot-ripped cities of America in the summer of 1967. Beyond the simple, gory melodrama of greed, a margin of evil in human affairs still remains visible but unaccounted...