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...standards of pop novelists, Archer's prose is plodding and mechanical. Scenery creaks as the Washington set is wheeled out of the way and the Paris or Baghdad set is trundled in from the wings. Now and then a stagehand is visible. Characters speak lines (it seems to the reader) without force or emphasis, as if reading from scripts at a play's first run-through...
...doing, he runs the risk of leaving the reader cold, but the intensity of his career as editor and publisher, as recounted in the book, have the effect of humanizing Brook and making him quite a sympathetic character...
...reader, and the good of the community, come first, before the needs of the advertiser or the profit of the owner. The hard way's the best (the initials should sometimes stand for the hell with the bastards). Local ownership is better and more accountable than chain ownership Increasing capital costs associated with technology make local ownership rarer and more difficult...
...book, Brook has the reader believing that the hard way really is the best--and wishing that more newspapers tried to do it the hard way more often...
...novel, in spite of its erotic theme, is strangely sterile and unappealing. The characters are not fully developed. They do not engage us. The reader neither cares about nor understands their motivations or the tortured questionings of their hermetically sealed, inconsequential lives. This work reads like an unfinished draft, a semi-literate assault on what the author perceives as society's narrow-minded preconceptions...