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Most strikingly, the magazine devotes a disproportionate share of its space to advertisements. The articles act more as breaks from the incessant and unceasing commercialism than vice versa. Such a format stands in stark contrast to that of serious political journals, which place greater emphasis on actually informing the reader about complex political issues than on selling perfume...
...Christmas are swiftly becoming clear. Topping most wish lists are consumer-electronics items ranging from Apple laptop computers that can cost thousands of dollars to kid's gadgets like Ricochet, a big-wheeled, radio-controlled car by Hasbro that sells for about $55. Educational cd-rom titles, such as Reader Rabbit and the Encarta encyclopedia, and videogame players like Sony's new 32-bit PlayStation ($300) are also likely to be in big demand this year...
...1950s by other so-called Angries--novels by John Wain (Hurry on Down) and John Braine (Room at the Top), the plays of John Osborne (Look Back in Anger)--no longer excite much passion or even interest. Lucky Jim is still as fresh, and as capable of reducing a reader to helpless laughter, as it was 41 years...
This extreme awkwardness of construction makes Dreams, which belabors the smugness and provincialism of Danish society from feudal times to the present, seem far longer than it is. There are passages, not murky but mightily centrifugal, in which the reader's eyes slide off the page. And in something like equal number, or a bit more, there are set pieces, two or three or several dozen pages long, that are among the funniest satirical sketches seen in years...
Donald is an excellent historian and writer, not to mention the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for biography. Fortunately, Lincoln's life is interesting enough that even when retold in Donald's careful, dry and factual way it holds the reader's attention for all 600 pages. Lincoln is an excellent, extremely informative biography that has deservedly been hailed as the best in a generation and among the best of all time...