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...perform." What can be seen has grown more interesting as well. Many of the video releases of 20 or 30 years ago were shot with a single, fixed camera and suffered from grainy images and muddy sound. They were also more expensive than audio recordings. Today's DVDs--often drawn from elaborate television productions and documentaries--offer multiple camera angles, crystalline images and superb sound. And they tend to cost $20 to $40, still somewhat pricier than CDs, but they are getting more competitive all the time...
...great deal happens in the novel: a cerebral, surly young man awaiting induction into the Army loiters through his days and keeps a journal filled with gnomic entries: "We are all drawn toward the same craters of the spirit--to know what we are and what we are for, to know our purpose, to seek grace." There was an originality to this insight; it was possible to live a meaningful life on one's own terms, to secularize spirituality...
...that his real self is found in his music. But this too fails in a puzzlingly flat description of one of his band’s rehearsals. Even Baxter is dull in the peril he presents. He has little power over the Perownes and is too erratic and crudely drawn to seem menacing as opposed to merely unpleasant. Perowne is solid if not especially likable but does not provide enough of a solid center to forgive the weak sketches that surround...
...mind readers discover that, behind his tough façade is a sad, mentally unstable man hoping he can live the right way as he tracks down the girl’s killers—from a silent cannibal to a Kennedyesque Cardinal—and we are drawn into his fight against the system without giving into mindless nihilism...
...because it seems like there’s a big disconnect between what he was in the eighties and who he is now. I don’t know why people care so much about him now, I guess it just seems so bizarre that it’s drawn people...