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...Greek scholar and sometimes forgot that all of us lived in the twentieth century. He would, over a glass of sherry, refer to the traffic along the river as those boxes traveling from nowhere to some place else! Also resident in Eliot House was a senior editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica. He used to do his morning exercises in the buff and one day the biddy (a term used to describe the wonderful Irish maids who, as long as the remuneration was adequate, looked after the students) walked into his room using her latchkey and found him on the floor...
...certified wunderkind at 25, Foer spares no expense with his typographical special effects?italics, capital letters, parentheses within parentheses, onomatopoeia, song lyrics and encyclopedia entries?and the book comes laden with bloated blurbs ("He will win your admiration, and he will break your heart," croons Joyce Carol Oates), but don't let that distract you. Under it all there's a funny, moving, unsteady, deeply felt novel about the dangers of confronting the past and the redemption that comes with laughing at it, even when that seems all but impossible. As Perchov would say, it's the right thing...
...going to explore the more mystical and dark side of the He-Man legend.” Angell is not just an eager fan in this case. He has played a direct role in the He-Man revival. Mattel has contracted him and Eatock to create an encyclopedia of all the He-Man and She-Ra cartoons so the writers can stay true to the original cartoon...
...certified wunderkind at 25, Foer spares no expense with his typographical special effects--italics, CAPITAL LETTERS, parentheses within parentheses, onomatopoeia, song lyrics and encyclopedia entries--and the book comes laden with bloated blurbs ("He will win your admiration, and he will break your heart," croons Joyce Carol Oates), but don't let that distract you. Under it all there's a funny, moving, unsteady, deeply felt novel about the dangers of confronting the past and the redemption that comes with laughing at it, even when that seems all but impossible. As Perchov would say, it's the right thing...
...mystery shows have a lower bar, and this one's whodunit is appropriately ridiculous, innovative and suspenseful. Cahill makes Mike a smoother Encyclopedia Brown, poking his nose into the town's strange goings-on with as much believability as could be hoped for. And, most important, he's way better looking than Angela Lansbury...