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...will also need to bring a more sophisticated approach to interpreting media reports and news sources. When any website can be made to look as slick as any other, and rumors race around the net at the speed of light while truth trails in a sometimes futile chase, the reader (or viewer or listener) has to be more skeptical at the outset. Although it seems that younger people are better at this online scrutiny than their elders—a topic that needs much more research—almost everyone needs a BS-detector upgrade. A democratized media sphere...
There is a truth at the heart of this novel, although that doesn't make it good. The truth is that names can reveal the hidden essence of a thing, but they can also conceal it. That is an insight the reader will arrive at long before Whitehead's protagonist does (you may possibly be aware of it before opening the book). In the meantime he mopes around town riffing on the ephemera of small-town America and indulging his obsession with brand names. The tone is light, by turns over- and underwritten. Our hero seems as uninterested...
Narrated from the perspective of a thirtysomething Lee, “Prep” fluidly vacillates between the point of view of the older and wiser and the nervous teenage version of the character. This temporal transition is so seamless, in fact, that the reader easily absorbs the adult musings without growing detached from high school Lee’s emotions...
Like J.D. Salinger before her, Sittenfeld portrays Lee’s adolescent angst as palpable and consistently believable, while guiding the reader through the colorful insight of a character who might be otherwise pegged as an awkward outsider. She wonders why she is no longer the confident 13-year-old she was in South Bend. Why has she allowed Ault to change her? She worries what her working-class parents will think when they see her acting so differently...
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