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Patrick divides the world into two categories. "You are either a reader or not," he says. "Most people have no time. They do not want to read. They'd rather have a beer." Luckily for McIntyre and Moore, they have an international reputation, cheaper rent than the Square, and devoted customers, including some "who come in every single day, seven days a week." That may seem extreme to some, but McIntyre and Moore is certainly the place to fulfill your longing for books that aren't on the syllabus...
Luve is redder than the red, red rose--dear reader, it's turned a Technicolor shade. Poor old Robert Burns would gi'e a wee turn in his Scots grave if confronted by the all too earnest romping on "Rob Roy"'s highland stage. What is it about mediocrity of the sincerest kind that is so especially depressing? If you can't squeeze out the requisite tears over Liam Neeson's trials and tribulations, turn your thoughts to current mainstream moviedom and weep. "Rob Roy" is only symptomatic of a greater...
...reading about the "underside of life" is always inappropriate for young children. When I was seven years old (more than a half-century ago), Make Way for Ducklings and Peter Churchmouse were my favorite books, and the troll under the bridge was the scariest thing in my second-grade reader. At that time, I read in LIFE magazine how Americans who survived the Bataan death march were forced by their Japanese captors to beat fellow prisoners until they died. We may underestimate children's capacity to handle the truth. My lifelong abhorrence of cruelty and violence is anchored in that...
...highlighting people literally and within his text, Miller emphasizes the actions of individuals over events or trends in gay and lesbian history. Miller's stress on the person serves several purposes. First and most sublime, this tactic is reader friendly. We love to read personal narratives...
...important primary source is quoted. Sections of Havelock Ellis'Sexual Inversion, for example, explain the methods of the famed "sexologist." The unsettling passage from E.M. Forster's Maurice in which a troubled young man confesses his homosexuality to a dismissive, unsympathtic doctor sticks in the mind of the reader. While the use of primary sources in historical works is certainly not an original method, reading what intellectuals had to say about the gay experience of their era is invaluable to the reader's understanding...