Word: reader
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And—as befits a library director—he is an avid reader. The four walls of his Littauer office are lined with shelves overflowing with books...
Chester Brown doesn't need your love. His shifts in tone and subject have bucked many a reader. Part of the second generation of "underground" comix artists of the mid 1980s, Brown has gone from absurdist humor ("Ed the Happy Clown") to confessional autobiography ("I Never Liked You") to adapting the Gospels, to a fictional series with all-gibberish dialogue. His latest project, "Louis Riel," (Drawn and Quarterly; 24 pp; $2.95) the tenth and final issue of which has just arrived, was yet another radical shift in subject. Although choosing to do a biography of a 19th century mystic...
...Persepolis is told through the eyes of a child. And that is the ideal way for the uninitiated reader to absorb the whiplash of Iran's history. Wide-eyed, Satrapi as a young girl demands an explanation for the crimes of the Shah, and then for the violence of the revolution, and finally for the bombing of her neighborhood during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war. The country - and Satrapi and her family - career from one ideology to the next. She is taught from first grade on that God chose the Shah; every time his name is mentioned...
...Hemley skillfully untangles the accusations and counteraccusations of Tasaday proponents and skeptics, but when he narrates his own fact-finding travels in the Philippines, he can be risibly naive. He tells the reader everything he wrote down in his notebook, interesting or not: "We drove for half an hour, past rice paddies, water buffalo and palm trees." Invented Eden has many such sentences. Worse, Hemley is a complainer, which is no more fun in a book than on the trail: the roads are muddy, his saddle hurts, the locals rip him off, his asthma acts...
...proliferation—let us consider more closely Lennie’s appeal to George: “Tell me ’bout the rabbits.…” This single poignant remark is nothing less than Steinbeck giving voice to the tacit cry of the reader, who in the process of reading this novel implicitly implores the author to “tell [him/her] ’bout the rabbits….” (emphasis added...