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...someone seeking advice about what to do for an ache, for example, or who is secretly worried about occasional bowel bleeding or vague chest discomfort, the search through a standard handbook may produce more anxiety than the malady; the reader must hop from disease to disease until he finds one with symptoms that match his complaint. Symptoms adroitly solves that difficulty. It catalogues not only diseases but, in a separate section, their symptoms as well. Thus if the reader has, say, a swelling in his leg, he simply looks in the table of symptoms under the heading "Bones, Joints, Muscles...
...while Marlowe's gone and slips naked as Isis under his bedcovers. His reaction when he comes in says a lot about Marlowe. The woman offers herself up; he politely refuses. She flexes up on all fours and calls him by a filthy epithet. Then he tells the reader...
...North Atlantic, and then defends its catch against some nasty Soviet spies and an even nastier hurricane. Cussler certainly deserves brownie points for originality, but he doesn't win any for intelligibility. Even with a handful of standard love scenes and assassinations thrown in to keep the reader's mind from wandering off amidst a maze of subplots, the book is a hopelessly convoluted mess that only the most die-hard "Mission: Impossible" fan could possibly enjoy...
...makes no effort to analyze the causes of the war in Vietnam; that is not her mission. Her goal is that of a reporter, to describe what has happened, and she makes little attempt to move beyond that limited role. In some ways that omission is unfortunate: the reader is left curious about the meaning of Emerson's experience about just what it is that she expects people to remember. The horror of it she presents clearly. The reasons the Vietnam war is a more horrible episode than other colonial wars, than, say, Korea, is less clear. The lessons...
...that were all the reason I had for sitting and writing, I would stop now and save my reader the reading time...