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This method effectively gives the reader a full, three-dimensional view of the plot, characters and historical context. Nonetheless, it can be confusing, particularly in the beginning when one does not yet have a comprehensive grasp of who all the characters are. Additionally, although the flashback from Berlin in 2003 helps to set the scene and ties in rather well with some of the obscure details that appear in the bulk of the novel, the departure from and return to the present day serve as rather weak bookends for what is a very self-contained story. The exploits...
Despite this one weakness, The Rotters’ Club is a fun and informative read, capable of both making the reader laugh and of delivering profound statements. In many instances, the novel serves as a light satire of British institutions, gently poking fun at their interesting idiosyncrasies. A particularly funny example of this is a classroom scene in which a student asks the teacher if a poet whom the class is studying is gay. After berating the student, accusing him of having a “grubby and ultimately rather banal little mind” and insisting that...
After a quick glance around he cabin, Glamourpuss has spotted first character: the Avid Book-Reader. Middle-aged woman with a tattered copy of something long. Though flight time is knocking at the door of infinity, Avid Book-Reader never really advances in her reading. The yellowed pages of said book remain frozen though she’s even got it open during snack time and the in flight movie. (No, Avid Book-Reader does not enjoy the TNT air-network premier of Bound and Gagged: the Life and Times of Harry Houdini). Avid Book-Reader hates to be disturbed...
...behind the Avid Book-Reader sits the silver haired Business Man. Wire rimed glasses, bloody Mary in the middle of the afternoon, cell phone and laptop. Business Man always asks for more peanuts. Crisp oxford shirt, paisley tie. Business Man talks loudly in the airport terminal, to his wife, to his secretary, to himself. Business Man reads Business Week or Fortune 500. Glamourpuss has never touched these publications and therefore has nothing in common with Business Man. Flights next to men such as these tend to seem twice as long as they actually are. Especially if Business Man falls asleep...
...family’s teenaged girl eyes Galmourpuss’ Seventeen magazine. Grrr…. this two-paged ‘Are You Way Too Jealous?’ quiz is not communal property, missy. Established Family will have ten hours of tension if mom is an Avid Book-Reader and dad is a Business Man. They’ve got nothing to talk about and make the stewardesses nervous...