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...ranges freely and effortlessly through history, literature and philosophy, taking the reader in the course of a few pages from the Harlem of James Baldwin to the Rome of Sixtus V, from Edmund Spenser to Hannah Arendt to Mies van der Rohe...
...difficult without ever being jargony or abstruse; like his ideas, Sennett's prose is densely packed and complicated. In his aesthetics as well as his social philosophy, he is heavily influenced by modernist and existentialist demands for involvedness and interaction. In fact, Sennett's language creates for the reader exactly the kind of environment that he hopes our cities will one day embody. It is a landscape of the unexpected, of twists and turns and delightful discoveries. Familiar monuments spring to life, like Pushkin's bronze horseman, to claim a place as actors in the drama of history...
...Woman. And Frears has turned it into a minor movie. Its characters are too small and twisted for sympathy; its pace is too studied, a little too in awe of its artfulness, to pack a wallop. It needs to move, but doesn't, at the pace a bus-station reader would devour a paperback thriller...
...Raise the Pequod" is a an exquisite parody, both humorous and accurate, and most of The Book of Sequels rises to this standard. The reader may occasionally conclude that certain sequels in this book did not merit the space assigned to them, but one more often wonders whether, given their considerable talent, the authors may soon be adapting in earnest for Hollywood those sequels which are here presented in jest...
...didn't happen to catch that tale, but would like to, you are probably the kind of reader who would savor the unlikely hybrids and saucy aromas of Russell Lucas' Bombay streets. A London bank manager for many of his 61 years, the Anglo-Indian Lucas makes his literary debut with a collection of 10 stories as tightly constructed as bejeweled Indian snuffboxes, all odd springs and curious kinks. Nearly every one is pungent with the "damp hessian, methylated spirits and freshly planed deal" of Bombay in the '40s, and colorful families "big in rawolfia serpentina and chinchona bark...