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Mr. Mueenuddin, 46, offers a richly observed landscape that is written with the tenderness and familiarity of an old friend.
This is very pleasant, seductive even, because after a short while it takes on the easy familiarity of an extended family.
Modern readers find collective first-person narrators unsettling; the contemporary mind keeps searching for the familiarity of an individual point of view, since it seems impossible that a group could think and feel, let alone act, as one.
The discomfort that I and so many others share stems from something vague and possibly indefensible, something about the natural course of events, the familiarity of an arc that's thought to be inviolable.
That's one more reminder that he belongs in the pantheon of great American gumshoe, and that he reappears in each new book with the familiarity of an old friend.
A related question also involves misremembering the personal past, but focuses on how the familiarity of an event may be misinterpreted as evidence that the event actually occurred in one's past.
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In many ways, the familiarity of A Christmas Carol makes it a perfect comfort read.
The pairing of Hollywood talent and Silicon Valley financiers has all the familiarity of a movie sequel.
Of course, media moguls and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs working together again has all the familiarity of a late-night rerun.
The familiarity of a brilliant pop song, played by a brilliant pop group, worked its weird magic.
But it also confuses ubiquity for importance, the familiarity of a celebrity's face for true authority".
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