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...underworld's most visible agent, the fence has generally escaped the scrutiny of journalists, cameras and sociologists. Until recently, that is. In The Professional Fence (Free Press; $8.95), Sociologist Carl B. Klockars offers the latest word on the ancient practice of selling filched goods by introducing the reader to a true-life fence whom he has playfully named Vincent Swaggi. Klockars analyzes Swaggi's business methods, personnel problems and regular customers, and, best of all, allows his subject, who is an intelligent, fast-talking crook, to speak for himself...
...best in us, and to appeal to our nation's limitless wellsprings of hope and compassion and decency." Making no claim to writing talents, O'Brien is aware that such terms are cliches. But it is a measure of the book's achievement that the reader is convinced that phrases like "bringing out the best" and "compassion" hold much meaning for Larry O'Brien...
...died horribly. Leukemia books all end that way. But each story of a life ends with a death. What Eric Lund's mother says in this book, with much courage and dignity of her own, is that Eric lived a lifetime. The reader turns the last page hoping he will never see another book about leukemia but grateful for this one. ∙John Skow
...three grow on the reader who is soon lost in comic-strip chronicles marked by great wit, suspense and true humor rising both from character and from a remarkably sophisticated view of the world. These four books variously send Tintin, Haddock, Snowy and two idiot detectives in black bowlers into the desert to chase opium smugglers, into central Europe to try to keep King Ottokar from losing the throne of Syldavia, back into history to recall the voyages of Haddock's pirate ancestor Red Rackham on the ship Unicorn, and, finally, down to the bottom of the Caribbean...
...think he was either Captain Scarlet or Matt Busby from the Beatles' White Album but never quite made up his mind which (though it took him only a week to decide he hated Harvard Medical School) and Truck. In between halves, Truck tells me about an article in the Reader's Digest. When I acknowledge that I've missed the article, Truck allows that that's always a problem with the Reader's Digest. There's so much in it, he explains, and so little time to read...