Word: readerly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...feels wrong, looking at 75-year-old jokes. It's like looking at old porn: you can't expect people who had body hair and no Pilates to seem hot now. But if you give yourself a chance to settle into it, as any good New Yorker reader trained on 5,000-word stories about ketchup would, you start to laugh at even the 1925 section of The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker. The rhythms might be slower, the references outdated and the attitude more restrained, but funny, it turns out, stays funny. Old porn, it turns out, also...
This fall brings books by two authors who lost an arm in gruesome sporting accidents and continue to play the game. For the curious--if not brave--armchair athlete, a reader's guide...
Lost amidst the broader issue of love in strange places is a series of smaller subtle observations about the human condition. The reader is left in limbo not only as to whether these two star-crossed lovers will overcome their differences to find romance, but also as to whether they can balance their own personal activities in their hectic lives. For her, will keeping up with music lessons, chemistry labs, short-skirt fashion tips and HSA reading requirements keep her from such mundane activities as bathing? For him, will his athlete friends ever accept his metrosexual sense of style? These...
...There are too many such false notes. None of them are egregious enough individually to lose the reader, but collectively they undermine the tale's impact. Another example: although $500,000 is a lot of money for most people, as the biggest legacy of a legendary sugar tycoon?representing the wealthiest class of a nation in which the divide between rich and poor yawns wide?it's a weirdly under-the-top figure...
...What sustains the reader's interest is Ong's rich use of language, which at its best reflects "the pell-mell, absurd, bountiful, magical nature of the Philippines," in Ong's generous phrase. Yet if this gifted writer is to realize his potential as a novelist-bard for the Philippines, his vision needs to be tempered by a stringent course of narrative basics...