Word: blurbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from self-help books to celebrity biographies, from John Grisham thrillers to the works of Dickens and Shakespeare, most narrated by well-known actors (Sam Waterston, Whoopi Goldberg, Glenda Jackson, Michael York) and compressed into easy-listening chunks of three or four hours -- "because," as one audio publisher's blurb puts it, "books are long and life is short...
...Another grand theme of this novel is the attempt to use the sea as a link between the little village and the world at large, using the notion of the sea as a universal constant to extrapolate this story into a commentary on human Existence. To quote the blurb on the jacket of this book, Benitez is trying to create "a picture of life that is both a universal portrait and an insider's look at life in Latin America...
...improbable Remedios, who performs short rituals every so often, each time summoning one of the four elements of tierra, fuego, agua, aire to her, to remind us of her latent existence. Remedios provides a superficial and irritating Great Earth Mother feel to A Place Where the Sea Remembers, the blurb on the book's jacket waxes fulsome over the "secret dreams and desires known only to the omniscient sea and to the curandera Remedios' a healer who hears them all." Remedios' chants sound like the most simplistic of goddess workshop: "I am she who knows. I am bone woman...
...delicacy. The truth and nothing but the truth is something only a judge wants to hear." He fibs about Syria; he shamelessly serves up his heritage, re-seasoned for Western palates while still claiming authenticity, and passes his work off as a critical development in fiction. To quote the blurb on the back cover: "Slyly oblivious to the Western cartographies of narrative art and faithful only to the oral itineraries of the classic Arab story-tellers, Rafik Schami plays with the genre of the Western novel, and he explodes it from within." Well I guesses I'd better go throw...
...their mix-and-match approach to different forms of entertainment. The Link seemed to jump at every chance to show they're on the cutting edge of both media culture and digital communications. The Link advertises itself on the bottom of many pages as "LINK digital mag." One blurb reads: "Want to read more reviews, tour dates, release schedules, vote for your fave new CD?" Another urges readers to "Be the mag at 317-465-9455...or spin us some messages at editor@linkmag.com (And if you're playin' in the band, send us your tunes...