And it drags the reader into "Flesh and Blood," too.
Sticking to what she does best, Beauman drags the reader into breathless melodrama.
Stylistically, the story initially seems like a bit of Millhauserian whimsy, but it soon drags the reader into a realm of blackness reminiscent of Kafka.
Yet this domesticated bourgeois pet would never, as it were, lose a capacity to bare its teeth and drag the reader back into the wild.
Remarkably, after more than 30 years, the novel exudes a desperate fury as Marlantes drags the reader (and Bravo Company) through firefight after firefight.
But instead it drags the reader with feverish energy through a few days that see the Augenbaughs' fractured existence blown apart.
He introduces an overwhelming cast of characters with wacky names (Wolf Loner, Morton Opperly, Rama Joan, Tigerishka) and drags the reader around an exhausting number of locations in their pursuit.
Bad Sex by Clancy Martin This dark novella drags the reader through a whirlwind of infatuation, sacrifice, lying, lusting, drinking, crying and nearly dying.
They have just reached the first word, perhaps attracted by the picture, the extracted quote, or any of the other presentational devices used to drag the reader to the story.
Instead, it drags the reader along by the sheer energy of its prose, its surreal-to-the-point-of-implausible plot and several extravagant set pieces that, in the extremity of their vision, recall Ballard or Burroughs.
