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LAST BOOKS READ: "Jocks Are Not All Dumb" by coach Harry Gamble, PhD, the Classics Illustrated version of the "Autobiography of Ben Franklin" and the Reader's Digest condensed version of "Talking to Your Plants...
...perception of these incidents was difficult at the time; today, given the remove of history, actions and characters should prove less elusive to reader and writer. But the authors' overheated prose does more to inflame than enlighten. Exposure to their narrative style is an experience akin to sitting through hundreds of newsreels booming of "blood-spattered byways" and "hate-inflamed ravings." Moreover, Collins and Lapierre's uncritical admiration for things British creates the impression that colonialists were innocent victims, rather than coauthors, of India's ceaseless agonies. The land and its people deserve more than a series...
Singer's work sometimes drops precipitously from reasoned metaphysics to unexamined mysticism. In ghost stories, where everything is possible for the narrator, too little is plausible for the reader. It is in his least adorned works that the mysteries of affection and identity are hauntingly stated. Sam Palka and David Vishkover, for example, is not merely the richest tale in Passions, but one of the most provocative short fictions of the last decade. In his customary role, Sam Palka, self-made entrepreneur, swaggers through a career of indulgence. In off-hours he assumes the role of Vishkover, a modest...
...explorations of James, Stevenson and Conrad. Yet it is none of these authors whom he most resembles. In the illumination of the ordinary, in the acuity of his observations, Singer is sounding a theme that has not been heard in a hundred years. Bending close to the page, the reader can see the characters of Anton Chekhov - and hear once again the passionate wail of Rothschild's fiddle...
...they are not enough. Now 45 and quoting the beginning of Dante's Divine Comedy ("Midway upon the journey of our life,/ I found that I was in a dusky wood"), Goodman takes the reader on a well-packaged tour just the other side of that wall we call common sense...