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...Stories fits into the first category. Appealing to a broad, mainstream audience, it represents one of the first endeavors by a major publishing house to tap into this tradition. It includes the most renowned naturalized or U.S. born Latino writers and some alluring tales, but ultimately only leaves the reader with a hunger for more--it's like being taunted by the smells of Hispanic cooking at a food fest without getting to sit down and enjoy a full satisfying meal...
James weaves all these themes into a knuckle-whitening story which keeps the reader avidly turning the pages, right up to the fabulously ambiguous conclusion. Her capacity to astonish with an utterly unexpected twist shines forth on several occasions she characterizes Faron with detail and insight: he occupies a different league from her standard murder mystery suspects. Her projection of the future manages to be both darkly visionary and depressingly realistic...
...first of a weekly series of Norton lectures entitled "Six Walks in the Fictional Woods," Eco addressed the role of the reader as an active participant in relation to the text...
...There is an interplay that takes place in the text with the act of reading," he said. "The concept of the implied reader is a textual structure...
...Many stories asks the reader to fill in the gaps," Eco said. "If a text were to say everything, it would go on forever...