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...brought a new and surprisingly realistic voice to the narrator of Notes from Underground, performing a passage dealing with madness, conformity, violence and the causes of destructiveness. Achieving the golden mean between humorous and sober, McClelland used his brilliant instinct for timing, subtle facial expressions and the wit of Dostoevsky to bring his character to life in a very different context from that of the book...
...feel something is desperately missing in our lives despite all our degrees, credentials, careers, money, friendships, wit and humor we throw into the deep emptiness inside us. But what is lacking cannot even be counted without a God to give those things value and purpose...
...frequent rants about America’s failings further blur the distinction between Solanka and Rushdie: “Who let Charlton Heston out of his cage and then wondered why children were getting killed at school?” The novel brims with Rushdie’s acerbic wit, particularly in his portrayal of an ever-more wealthy and jaded America and its accoutrements. He name drops with alarming frequency, so that at times the page is in danger of being overrun by noisy capital letters as he mixes his fictional characters in with real life divas, brands...
...conniving friend (James Gandolfini), a dead-end job and the depressive sense that "life has dealt me some bum cards. Or maybe I didn't play them right." But the Coens do. They lay out their story in pearly, sepulchral black-and-white, infuse the dialogue with mordant wit and somehow blend those two postwar innovations, UFO mania and dry cleaning...
...whom has published new material in a year and a half. "Acme Novelty Library" #15 (September) will be Chris Ware's return to the form since the triumphant hardcover collection, "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth." Lauded even by the mainstream press for his intricate design and sardonic wit, this new issue will be over-sized and full of "gag" pages, rather than part of a continuing story...