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This is not genre writing, agreeable trash to be pigeonholed. If salt-soaked comparison is required, O'Brian's adventures suggest Joseph Conrad's sea tales more than those of C.S. Forester and his Horatio Hornblower. Conrad's prevailing mood is darker; though O'Brian can summon darkness and defeat, he is more arch and owlish. But as Forester did, O'Brian novelizes serially. The precarious lives of two memorable characters, friends and shipmates, thread through his books...
...should change the name of your magazine to Wasting Time. If I wanted to obsess over trash, I'd go out and buy the National Enquirer. SONIA DELGADILLO San Francisco...
However titillating the 13-year-old in all of us might find Bill's latest peccadillo, push past the packaged bash-and-trash spin-cycle, turn off those dammed network excuse-for-national-news shows and pick up a reputable newspaper. Inside, turn to the international section, and read about threats to freedom, war and peace, and a mostly completed Balkan genocide. It's tyranny, oppression and grievous threats to our national security that matter, not Monica...
...small part of the blame for that can be attributed to the Democratic Party's thorough nationalism. This continent's mountain region has always felt itself colonized by the national government. That it still feels that alienation is reflected in the fact that the Republican Party, always willing to trash Big Government, now dominates every level of government in the interior West. As a Democrat, I think the time has come for my party to begin trusting westerners with far more control over their own landscape. But the real issue is not about the Democratic Party, but about the democratic...
...think the trash can symbolizes the way American Indians are treated by the government in today's society," he said...