Rather, he drops the reader (and his characters) into situations of the most mind-bending complexity and forces them to work things out for themselves.
This gives the book a startling immediacy, dropping the reader again and again into+the noise, confusion and horror of a Civil War battlefield.
The 1928 section drops the reader, with little preamble, into an old Chicago studded with still recognizable landmarks: Maxwell Street Market; Louis Sullivan's foliated Carson Pirie Scott building; the Michigan Avenue Bridge, reached by bicycle, streetcar, and elevated train.
"Forgetfulness," Ward Just's fifteenth novel (Houghton Mifflin; $25), from its first pages drops the reader into a level deeper than animated news reports, into the wandering mind of a middle-aged Frenchwoman while she lies freezing and disabled by a broken ankle on the darkening slope of a mountain in the Pyrenees.
Grant Morrison's epic conspiracy thriller began conventionally enough, with a young tearaway recruited by a gang of misfit rebels – but then issue five dropped the reader back into 1819 Venice, where two Romantic poets in floppy white shirts walk on a beach.
Even Sony seemingly can't grab onto any marketshare and recently dropped the Reader's price.
The Anchor has to have a few interesting facts that will make your reader not drop the book even if he/she was about to fall off a 900 meter (2,952.8 ft) cliff.
Has the magazine dropped from the reader's hand?
But there is a better way to maximise the number of readers, Mr Myhrvold argues: drop the price to zero and make your money from advertising.
But unlike Dr. Seuss's tale, which leaves readers wondering who will drop the Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo bomb, this theatrical rendition concludes peaceably.
