Word: ramblinge
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Although McEwan has drawn on his peers for the structure of Black Dogs, he owes much to Conrad in tone. Black Dogs conjures forth the same malign essence as Heart of Darkness. The two novels generate the same suspense, as the readers churn through the pages to reveal the secret...
After two days of negotiation that followed the shootout, Koresh promised to surrender himself peacefully if he could deliver a statement on radio. But after his rambling 58-minute address was broadcast on Christian stations around the country, he reneged, saying he was still awaiting "further instructions from God." With...
The first half of the action is dominated by Lois Smith as the family's beleaguered matriarch, a woman whose rambling talk can disarm a felon through sheer boredom. The second half is dominated by Pippa Pearthree as the most successful of the clan's three adult daughters, a lesbian...
JOHN GRISHAM'S EARLIER THRILLERS The Firm and The Pelican Brief were a bit overwhooped and underthrilling. But his newest novel THE CLIENT (Doubleday; $23.50) works a lot better, possibly because the author's wide-eyed narrative style fits the title figure. Mark Sway is the kind of 11-year...
The book and the magazine that inspired it are the product of a group of brainy (if eccentric) visionaries holed up in a rambling Victorian mansion perched on a hillside in Berkeley, California. The MTV-style graphics are supplied by designer Bart Nagel, the overcaffeinated prose by Ken Goffman (writing...