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...reader who has just turned 21 and a Colorado native, I was excited to see Joel Stein's article on breweries in my home state [April 21]. I was disappointed, however, to find that the story makes no special mention of even one brewing company south of Denver. The state's capital may be considered the "Napa Valley of Beer," but our "playland of tasting bars" doesn't end at the city's limits. Emily Silver, COLORADO SPRINGS...
...unrealistic. When you're writing about adolescents, melodrama and realism are the same thing.) Rowling labors over her intricate plots, but Meyer's stories never bend or twist or branch. They have one gear, and she guns it straight ahead till the last page. The way she manages the reader's curiosity, maintaining tension and controlling the flow of information, is simply virtuosic. She creates a compulsion in the reader that is not unvampiric...
...night over a Guinness Stout and a cigarette - men who wore open-necked shirts and small gold chains around their neck. They would sit for hours at a time, then grunt an observation, tap the cigarette on the ashtray and then shake their heads." Images like this make the reader want to read Poon on Singapore, not London, Toronto or New York City...
...they just end. Mark dumps Celeste because he wants to be with the younger Gwyn, but there’s no change in his attitude towards Celeste. When asked what happened to Celeste, he says “nothing,” and it’s true. The reader can’t get involved in this, can’t grow attached, and so, even though there is some sort of emotional trajectory written into the story and some sort of movement in the work, it feels as if there is none. The only real action that...
...love is a strange place,” says the narrator of “Love Marriage,” the debut novel of V. V. Ganeshananthan ‘02, a former Crimson managing editor. While certainly not a new and innovative idea, Ganeshananthan draws the reader into this “strange place” in a poetic and informative fashion. Through beautiful language and memorable characters, Ganeshananthan creates a world that, while not completely original, provides insight into the unique experiences of Sri Lankan Tamil immigrants. Just as authors like Gabriel García Márquez...