Word: reader
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...will launch the new model with a shelfful of titles at 25% to 50% off. Its sister company, RocketBook, is also relaunching, with a monochrome device that will cost nothing as long as you pay $20 a month for a set number of downloads. If you're a voracious reader who doesn't care about color pictures, that will be the model to pick...
...more information about the SoftBook Reader, go to softbook.com Questions for Chris? Send e-mail to cdt@well.com
...poor, unsuspecting reader. Here you are, perusing a perfectly respectable magazine, floating down a river of Americana, and you dock at a story on Keenen Ivory Wayans, whom you may remember from the early-'90s groundbreaking sketch-comedy series In Living Color, and who has now directed a film called Scary Movie, which opens this week. But before we get to Wayans, we must familiarize you with the film, and there's the rub. Scary Movie had this writer giggling like Beavis on helium, yet it's a raunchy piece of work and not easily described in printable detail...
...novel that begins with a man on the brink of being eaten by a crocodile stands a good chance of engaging a reader's attention. Moses Isegawa's Abyssinian Chronicles (Knopf; 462 pages; $26) not only opens with such a bang, or crunch, but also manages to sustain the narrative fireworks over a long, complex haul...
Nothing wrong with that. But the very next day, the syndicated advice columnist Ann Landers reprinted a column a reader had sent her with an eerily similar theme and strikingly similar language: "John Hart was driven from the bedside of his dying wife," the column read. "Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year, he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children gone. He died shortly thereafter, heartbroken." It also so happens that this clip closely resembled a passage from...