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...like that [March 8], the entire concept of reading, which is, of course, to find out about something, will be a mystery. Reading for meaning must be the aim from the very beginning, and if this concept is not established, there will be difficulties later. Even if the beginning reader knows the meaning of such words as igloo, bamboo, racoon, etc., which is doubtful, he will have a tough time with the context of something like "The song of the toot root has made the princess snore...
...number of things wrong with the presentation of the study. Statistically, the book discusses only the most general and superficial findings of the survey, presented graphically--and occasionally ambiguously. In particular, the text too often fails to indicate which figures are statistically significant, and which are not. The casual reader may pick out seeming trends which actually do not exist; he ought to be forewarned...
...checks and the patience of his wife abandoned back in the U.S. He has hocked his typewriter, and in any case has given up even the pretense of writing his novel, which was about the U.S. landing at Salerno. Another first novelist is at it again, the reader might well think, huffing and puffing and looking for metaphors...
...reader will be right about one thing: The Second Stone is indeed a first novel. After that, heaven help the reader if he tries to play it straight. For The Second Stone is booby-trapped at every turn of the narrative with tricky bits from the complicated and ingenious philosophical apparatus of Leslie Fiedler, who is a critic, scholar and professor of English at Montana State University...
...does Stone stone Stone? The unwary reader may think it is out of sheer petulance. But the real clue to this odd story is to be found not in the novel itself, but in Dr. Fiedler's critical writings-notably Love and Death in the American Novel. Read thus, The Second Stone offers some of the rarest pleasure of the year, combining the attractions of Scrabble, the double-crostic, literary name-spotting and one-upmanship with the humbler delights of the whodunit. This is a parable and the characters are crazy mythed-up people...