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Contributors’ reflections seem to be presented almost entirely unedited. When Chandler’s prose does appear, it is often only to insinuate her intimacy with the glitzy figures she is quoting. Chandler is a skilled reporter, but many comments appear that should never have made it onto the page at all. The fact that Hitchcock drew out each of his shots beforehand may be interesting the first time we hear it, but not the fifth. It adds nothing...
...Atonement were seamlessly contained by the narratives, in Saturday McEwan’s efforts become obtrusive. The medical terms used to describe the operations Perowne performs are obviously necessary to any genuine effort to record what is happening, but often these terms swamp the scenes themselves, smothering the prose with a desperate anxiety for accuracy...
...important to emphasize that Saturday is not a slight misstep for McEwan but an almost complete failure. The stultifying prose surrounding his time in the surgery, the flimsiness of the characters, and the dull pacing of the narrative itself—unable to create real suspense surrounding even the most extreme of scenarios—conspire to sink Saturday like a lead balloon. It is perhaps no wonder then that McEwan was testy at his reading, snapping at the audience’s admittedly fatuous questions and reading a lengthy segment spanning each of the novel?...
With incidents this familiar and prose so simplistic, it’s hard to mock this book—I have plenty of friends who would be happy and satisfied with its lessons—so, if this is helpful, God be with...
Princess Ida differs from most Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. Gilbert and Sullivan were famous for popularizing the opera with their simple prose and topsy-turvy plots. Not only is Princess Ida written in blank verse, its characters and basic plot line are taken from a quite serious poem by Tennyson...