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...fact, the why is what he thinks about and what he wines about. His continent-crossing is not competitive; he's not the first to lope across the states and has no ambition of going the fastest. And in the end, neither reader nor writer is any closer to the answer to this question...
...runner of mountain climber--or anyone who does things merely because they are there--Simpiro's account offers uncommon insight into the question of what motivates the endurance athlete. The sympathetic, curious reader may learn just a bit about how such people think. But to other readers, this 80-day trek that may have been completed by airplane in a few hours may seem nothing but craziness...
Part history, part science lesson, part philosophical treatise, Night Thoughts is a brilliant piece of scholarship and a profoundly moving portrait of a man and his time. Jakob may not have existed. But the place he inhabited did, and by the final chapters of this ruminative, disturbing book, the reader is likely to grieve for the professor and for the world. -By Peter Staler
...another, more important, reason why the reader can never feel so urgent a threat from the debris of the city as Corde lies in the logorrhea of the work, idea-rrhea, maybe, would be a better word. Bellow has long made the wild stringing of ideas a calling card of his, utilizing it next in Herzog. The average Bellow chapter contains mention of more great thinkers than there are on the Modern Library publication list, and usually he pulls it off. But in The Dean's December one senses the so-called "novel of ideas" working back-on itself, turning...
Finally, Molloy maps out a role for executive wives, so that they too can live for success, albeit their husband's. Molloy regales the reader with parables of careers fallen victim to poor marriages, later-day. Eves whose slight inebriations at social functions and general lower-class habits have expelled their husbands from their professional paradises. His tone concerning one wife who publicly gulped a martini is solemn: "It so happened that his wife was a surgeon, and may have had a very good reason for wanting that martini, but it killed his career nevertheless...