Word: readerly
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...secret. Over the years, his material has been almost absurdly diverse - he's written about Billy the Kid, jazz musician Buddy Bolden, his own family's history, contemporary Sri Lanka - but his idea of how to structure a book has been reasonably consistent: start a story that whets the reader's appetite with exquisite metaphors and sharp observations of psychology and society, then abruptly slip into another story, which may involve the same character or may introduce new ones. He will return later to the stories he has apparently abandoned. Or he may not. Yet the reader who makes...
...going to deny you the pleasure of finding out on your own what those are.) It's pure pleasure to watch Rowling showing off her chops, managing the tension and throttling the pace up and down, and it's also a precious gift to the reader: we have plenty of time to bask in, and say goodbye to, the principals' three-sided chemistry, which sparkles in the deepening martial gloom. This is the saddest of the Harry Potter books, but it's also the funniest...
...kind of thing you appreciate on later re-readings, when you can stop and let chance details catch the light, and groove on the richness and sheer high-resolution of Rowling's fictional world. As writer Rowling doesn't have anything like the technical firepower to ravish a reader with her prose, but she is a peerless charmer, and she doesn't hold back...
Owen C. Barron ‘10 may best embodies Tatar’s idea of a “bifocal” reader. He said he was openly skeptical of Rowling’s writing style, employing the ultimate Potter put-downs: “She can’t write like Tolkien.” But still, he’s hooked...
...safe sex: in the bottom-left corner of each poster, regardless of produce type, condom color, or slogan, is a box containing the words “Gib AIDS keine Chance”—don’t give AIDS a chance. The smaller print reminds the reader that every instance of unsafe sex is an invitation to premature death...