"They've crossed over into the mainstream, and you have a general reader taking an interest.
What is disappointing, however, is how little, in the end, they can offer a general reader.
As a general reader I'm quite happy to let others guide me through the labyrinth.
The result is a text at once too specific for a general reader while insufficient for a specialist.
Kirsch writes with admirable clarity for a general reader not automatically familiar with the poets he discusses.
"Animal Spirits" is addressed to a general reader, but it's hard not to feel that the book's real audience is among economists.
Kadri, an English barrister and author of "The Trial: A History, From Socrates to O. J. Simpson," writes with a breezy, witty tone and excels at synthesizing Islamic scholarship for a general reader.
One publisher said there were doubts about Mr. Smith's ability to write an accessible narrative about his experience working in derivatives, an area that to a general reader is arcane at best.
Every D.S.M. revision is unhappy in its own way, but generally the unhappiness stays in the psychiatric family, as its members argue over arcane subjects of little interest to me, let alone to a general reader.
However, both reporters feel the term was used reasonably, in a manner that would allow a general reader to understand that because the hospital lost, C retained her legal right to refuse treatment.
