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...season when Hollywood gets literate. Since the Oscar deadline coincides with New Year's Eve and a bookish pedigree is a sure way to get Academy members' attention, studios turn to acclaimed novels for their holiday fodder. But there's a risk involved. Ask any reader who has seen the movie version of a favorite novel, and the answer will usually be, "The book was better...
...plug in a camera to get a slideshow? I plugged an Olympus E-Volt E-500 full of shots directly into the Xbox, and got a high-definition slideshow better than any I would see from a burned CD in a DVD player or any other less competent media reader. It's impressive...
...fled first to Switzerland, then to Britain, and then, after a bizarre spat with David Hume, back to Paris—where he now lies in the crypt of the Pantheon.In choosing to present rather than to judge Rousseau’s character, Damrosch effectively frees the reader from judging. People who have heard of Rousseau sometimes feel compelled to stake out one of two positions on his personal failings. Either he was an unbearably nasty man who, by sheer happenstance, wrote books that have inspired humanity for two centuries, or he was a saint pushed into his crimes...
...language can be annoying at first, it quickly becomes extremely engaging, lively, and believable as Agu’s original voice. The spontaneous and dynamic narration causes an early attachment to Agu. When he does begin to kill alongside the rebel fighters, the result is a surprising complicity: The reader feels his guilt. The narrative commences in the midst of an extremely violent and inexplicable war, during which his mother and sister flee and his father is killed. Agu is then abducted by a second group, rebel fighters who force him to become one of them: a soldier. From this...
...Reader, take note: on your Saturday morning stroll to New Haven’s Yale Bowl, which is currently being renovated, make sure you look both ways before crossing the street. You don’t want to get bulldozed...