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Although melancholy, it is never soppy. Adams' stories offer a sharply written, unsentimental look into the lives of a remarkable set of aging characters. The first nine stories, though unrelated, are alike in tone. They are peopled by educated characters who have led interesting, often highly fulfilling professional lives as successful musicians, actresses, writers. Now older, they reflect back on those lives and compare them to their present unsatisfying personal situations...
...consistently weaker--Doctor Zamora flees when he can't face his life. Carter, a college professor, is maddeningly passive in "His Women" and makes up with his ex-wife because he doesn't know what to do with himself now that he's alone. Adams smartly refuses to offer tidy explanations at the end of each story. The characters drives are ultimately a mystery. When the book is over we still don't understand why Julian needs his alcoholic pianist wife though he loves someone else, or why Alison goes back to Jack in "Great Sex," (the title refers...
...Although melancholy, it is never soppy. Adams' stories offer a sharply written, unsentimental look into the lives of a remarkable set of aging characters. The first nine stories, though unrelated, are alike in tone. They are peopled by educated characters who have led interesting, often highly fulfilling professional lives as successful musicians, actresses, writers. Now older, they reflect back on those lives and compare them to their present unsatisfying personal situations...
...consistently weaker--Doctor Zamora flees when he can't face his life. Carter, a college professor, is maddeningly passive in "His Women" and makes up with his ex-wife because he doesn't know what to do with himself now that he's alone. Adams smartly refuses to offer tidy explanations at the end of each story. The characters' drives are ultimately a mystery. When the book is over we still don't understand why Julian needs his alcoholic pianist wife though he loves someone else, or why Alison goes back to Jack in "Great Sex,"(the title refers...
...least, Episode 1 does offer a few new mysteries, presenting new races, worlds and a ridiculous new rabbit-like character, Jar-Jar, but these originalities are few and flaccid compared to the rich detail of the first movies. More often, Lucas simply resorts to twisting the plot which is mandated by the originals. Anakin has to marry someone in order to be Luke's father, thus in _Episode1_ he develops a budding affection for a queen, but she's twice his age. That--and new spaceships--is Lucas' current creativity...