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Nancy was put on Zoloft. When that didn't work, the doctor added Paxil and then several other drugs. But there was a panoply of side effects: her hands would shake, she would bang her head against the wall. A voracious reader, she became too withdrawn and listless to pick up a book. There were times she couldn't sleep, but on one occasion she slept 72 hours straight...
Once Wallace gets our gawking attention, his deviants become like the Krafft-Ebing case histories in Psychopathia Sexualis, grotesque illustrations of fundamental errors in personal relations. To what point? Wallace suggests coyly that Hideous Men is meant to interrogate the reader, to elicit fresh responses to horrors that have lost their edge in the age of information overload. Sometimes this works; when it doesn't, we get a facetious exercise like the "pop quizzes" in Octet that pose dire situations mimicking academic test questions...
True to any soap opera worthy of the name, the reader does race ahead, eager to see how it will all come out. But this time around, Seth appears to have hit a flat note...
After reading the accounts of Yugoslav readers describing what it is like to be under attack [LETTERS, May 3], I have to respond. A million Bosnians could explain how it feels to be bombed at night, with descriptions of wet basements or shelters. I'm sorry about reader Vid Stanulovic's 5 1/2-month-old daughter, but he is lucky because she is better and alive. How many Bosnians, Croats and Albanians can see their babies only in photographs? Where were the Yugoslavs when the kids of Sarajevo and Srebrenica were killed by bombs? AHMED HADROVIC Istanbul...
...have been right, incidentally, not to present this rough man's thoughts in rough dialect. For long paragraphs, however, the words that come out of Watson's mouth are, somewhat jarringly, the worthy, scholarly, perceptive, always interesting, late 20th century observations of Peter Matthiessen. About his quirky trilogy a reader might conclude: brilliant, obsessive, panoramic--and two novels too many...