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...Details. It is on this point that Letters to a Friend stumbles, falls, and exposes Svetlana's limitations as a chronicler. Infinitely valuable as semi-history and a source for Stalin biographers, the book really dominates its reader as a psychological study of Svetlana Alliluyeva. Torn by unresolved feelings, she is divided between apologizing for Stalin and indicting him. "I spend all my time thinking over what's happened and trying to make sense of it all. It's the kind of thing that can drive you out of your mind." She selects details oddly, noting explicitly...
...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...
...crisp, evocative writing and the persuasive allure of his slightly disturbing Utopia. At the end, he sends Cornelius back to the village to take up life there as if he had never left. It is a neat finish for his tale, but, alas, he has left the reader no road map to that village...
Unfortunately, the facts are pretty numbing. The Lawyers has not so much been written as it has been compiled; the reader can all but see Mayer doggedly arranging his 3-by-5 index cards so that not one piece of information escapes. The result is an intrusively disjointed style. Paragraphs often do not mesh; chapters hardly ever do. The failing was no doubt exacerbated by the fact that parts of chapters appeared in five magazines as varied as Harper's, Redbook and TV Guide. Still, Mayer needs an editor; he ingests better than he digests. On occasion, he even...
...breakdown. Though Eddie at first pegs him as a sentimental phony, their encounter grows from hostility to some understanding, and each leaves with a little more dignity and strength than he had before. A wisp of a theme, but written with a lyrical quality that makes the reader ache for Wideman's sad, inarticulate people...