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...fostered by his painstaking research and meticulous detail. But he does admit to an idyllic childhood in the south on his father's tea estate which gave him a love of his native soil. Even though the scope of Davidar's saga compares to Seth's novel, its capable prose lacks the magical turns of phrase found in A Suitable Boy. Davidar's is a deliberate, enduring tale and one that proves years of plowing through a slush pile?learning how not to write?can produce a master storyteller...
...almost a shame these are wordless stories, since Woodring's prose remains one of the most distinctive in comics. His words form a kind of enigmatic poetry, that, like his "Frank" stories, promise meaning if only considered closely enough. Here's a sample line that floats on the inside back cover: "When all these things we have come to love pass by, the world will seem empty and alone. How strange this place will be without my practicing eye. How devoid of charm that residue of foam...
...known for the graceful style of the prose he wrote in ballpoint pen or banged out on a typewriter that he customized with logical symbols...
...EXPERIENCE Taking a breather from fiction, Martin Amis writes movingly about life with his famous father Kingsley, who died in 1995. The book hums with the same antic prose and looping comic riffs that characterize Martin's novels, along with a surprising admixture of tenderness...
...this summary form, The Elementary Particles does seem to promise a fairly interesting read. But it is the actual prose of the novel which contributes to its generally unbearable nature. Houellebecq simply refuses to let his characters be real human beings. They can exist only as generational archetypes or the embodiments of philosophical speculations. "Was it possible to think of Bruno as an individual?" muses Houellebecq's narrator. "The decay of his organs was particular to him, and he would suffer his decline and death as an individual. On the other hand, his hedonistic worldview and the forces that shaped...