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...Careful readers of this space will have noticed that if you had been following the advice of Mean Josie Greene, the Kurt Warner of the "Covers" crew, you would be winning at an alarming rate. Careful readers of this space will also have noticed that if you had not been following the advice of Ms. Greene and had instead been relying on L.I. Slim and the K.C. Line, you would not be winning so very much. And you would be sad. From this, the careful reader could reasonably conclude that since Josie is off this week (something about the Jewish...
...rare academic who can make a reader cry. Maybe that's why, with each new installment, Wallerstein's study has created shock waves, shaping public opinion and even the law. Her attention-getting style has proved divisive. For experts in the field of family studies (who tend to quarrel at least as bitterly as the dysfunctional clans they analyze), she's a polarizing figure. To her admirers, this mother of three and grandmother of five, who has been married to the same man for 53 years, is a brave, compassionate voice in the wilderness. To her detractors...
Admit it, you snickered when you first heard that women would be weight lifting in these Olympics. You imagined huge hairy-chested Belarussians with no teeth who built up muscle from pushing a handheld stump-jump plough. But I have seen this sport and, reader, it is glorious. This is the kind of sport for which the Olympics were invented...
...unfair." Similar silly prose dominates the book, which is an easy read if you can keep from gouging your own eyes out. In addition, annoying quirks like referring to the first chapter as "Evolution One" and Probst as "Chief Jeff" challenge the patience of even the trashiest reader...
...this point the tone of Ishiguro's novel changes abruptly. Gone is the precise realism of The Remains of the Day, replaced by the phantasmagoric fugue state that governed his subsequent novel, The Unconsoled (1995). Assuming that Banks' view of the world around him is correct, if constrained, the reader must now start wondering whether he has, without warning, completely lost his mind...