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Reading International also takes care to highlight books of particular interest to the selective reader. Special racks devoted to Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, and an entire section featuring books by local authors make browsing at RI a unique experience. And although it seems to be out of the way, RI is on the corner of Brattle and Church streets, making it a perfect place to kill an hour while waiting for a table at the Border Cafe...
...lover of a novel turned into a movie, the book is always better. Turning the pages, the reader creates an ideal film version, with the perfect stars, shots and atmosphere. So when Alan J. Pakula set out to film Presumed Innocent, he knew he had to please not only this summer's moviegoers -- the film premieres July 27 -- but also the best seller's legions of fans...
...worth the trouble? One close reader of the book is already sold. Turow's wife Annette was on the set watching a rehearsal when she burst into tears. "I knew the dialogue by heart," she says, "but suddenly it got the better of me, to hear it spoken in such a realistic setting -- and to realize that soon millions of other people would hear...
...Readers of Scott Turow's previous blockbuster, Presumed Innocent, will know better than to hold their breath for answers. Turow, a lawyer who has kept jurors as well as readers on the edge of their chairs, has a preternatural knack for drawing out the suspense. The gimmick in Presumed Innocent was to follow the mystery through the eyes of the accused murderer, Rusty Sabich, a public prosecutor on trial for the murder of an amorous colleague. The intimate narrative device ensured reader sympathy, even though Sabich waited until the final pages to tell all he knew about the corpus delectable...
Though an avid reader--Robertson says she enjoys the unabridged version of Clarissa, Samuel Richardson's 1500-page novel-her friends and professors note that she is far from conventionally bookish. Rather, she combines an academic bent with social activism and a piercing, ironic...