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...Kindle turns out to be easier to read in brilliant sunshine than a paperback USER'S GUIDE, PAGE...
...year-old father of six who wrote the book in 2005 as a way of explaining his faith to his kids, takes some swipes at the church and turns the weep meter to 11. Largely on word of mouth, the novel has been a New York Times trade-paperback best seller for five weeks. There's talk, natch, of a movie. Does this mean Oprah finally gets to play...
...English-language paperback edition of Parasite Eve comes just in time for summer getaway reading. The editors at Vertical Press haven't weeded out the slew of mistranslations from the original hardcover English edition. But some of these botched phrases - including real puzzlers like "the unreality of a shimmer at the bottom of a cascade of sunlight" and "pessimism encountered the warmth lingering in his hands from the night before in subtle billows of conflict" - inadvertently achieve a kind of prose poetry reminiscent of the great Dada-influenced poet Chuya Nakahara. Grumbling about their incomprehensibility just keeps you from enjoying...
...that was on the cover of the old Skeleton Crew paperback? Right. And he'd like to do The Long Walk, which is one of the Bachman books [written by King under a pseudonym]. But The Long Walk is so downbeat, it makes The Mist look like Young Frankenstein...
...speed. Even had time to write a response paper on it. Received check minus on said paper. Hypothesis: “45:33” severely affects reading comprehension. RLD: Cried during the sad chapters. Also danced furiously during the sad chapters. The combination of sweat and tears made paperback copy unreadable. Result: LOSER. WATERYOUDOING? The lab subjects played an old summer camp game, “Wateryoudoing?,” in which the titular question is asked and the response is always, “Drinking water.” Copious amounts of water are then consumed. RLD: After...