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...reader who is unfamiliar with Chicanos, Eskimos and Indians, volume four ultimately fails. The book has already received less attention than Privileged Ones, not because the former's subject matter is not necessarily less interesting, but because Coles does not have a strong handle on the way these children perceive their world. One sketch reads like another, until finally, all the narratives melt into one. In my impressions of these children, I am left thinking that the children who do not live in or near big cities, who have less opportunities than privileged ones, are generally less narcissistic and more...
Bagley's essay describes archaic Chinese writing and instructs the reader how to translate it into English...
...that, though, The Offering is not a bad book. Granted, the "Irishmen" found therein speak largely in some strange tongue found only in that mysterious land that produces moronic commercials for Irish Spring deodorant soap. And granted, the reader sometimes finds it difficult to believe that Reid's characters can daily consume enough Irish whiskey to stagger a water buffalo, yet retain enough brain cells to run around breaking each other's kneecaps with undiminished fervor. But trivialities and stereotypes aside, Reid still manages to entertain: his federal agents and seductresses, while quite familiar, are still endearing. And his friendly...
...Bogart, but without the "sentimentalist" soft spots of Rick in "Casablanca" or the nervousness of the hunted criminal in "Petrified Forest." Bogart is nothing more nor less than leather-skinned in this role: cool, jaded, manipulative. Dashiell Hammit included a last scene in his book during which the reader really grasps what a contemptible specimen Spade is. But Huston thankfully understood that a film version could dispense with this redeeming moralism especially at the expense of Bogart's persona. A remarkably sophisticated insight for a director so seemingly wet behind the ears...
...Gnomes, this sort of short people's Roots, ended here it would leave the reader wondering what all the fuss is about. Sure, little bearded men gamboling through the glades are cute, (bordering on the too-cute), but why would a grown man spend all that time and effort writing about not-so-full-grown people, especially when Tolkien and his hobbit horde seem to have preempted the field? Ignoring possible monetary reasons, it seems Huygen is trying to tell us something here. By attributing to gnomes a host of qualities he sees as lacking in human beings, like peacefulness...