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This is why he can so speedily get a fiction up and running, involve the reader in an invented world.
Where Doreen Rappaport uses understatement to involve the reader, Bryan Collier, the illustrator, uses a magisterial drama to get the reader's attention.
But that is De Waal's undoubted talent: his charm lies in his ability to undertake obsessive research, to pile up and accrue, to involve the reader in this almost frantic travelling and note-taking and reading.
The monologues make clear the radical originality of Browning's new manner: they involve the reader in sympathetic identification with the interior processes of criminal or unconventional minds, requiring active rather than merely passive engagement in the processes of moral judgment and self-discovery.
Algis Budrys concluded his review of The Watch Below with "... this is very nice writing when considered simply as prose and as an attempt to involve the reader's emotions".
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Stuart Broom, of Waterstone's, who is also a judge, said: "The longlist is going to involve the readers in a brisk gallop through history, from the 17th-century London of John Donne to 21st-century China.
His skill is most evident in how closely he involves the reader in Zeitoun's thoughts.
He thereby involves the reader in separating the good, who mostly come to no good, from their persecutors; and suggests the dehumanising (and bureaucratising) nature of tyranny.
Yet getting there involves the reader in over-refined politico-cultural meanders that constantly threaten to drain the characters and dry up the plot.
She is a supremely skilled writer who involves the reader while she remains unobtrusively present herself; who uses the particular to illustrate the general, and scatters grace notes here and there like benefactions.
If the novel was special because it allowed writers and readers to create jointly, to dance together, then it seemed to me that I should try to write novels that maximised this possibility of opening themselves up to being read in different ways, to involving the reader as a kind of character, indeed as a kind of co-writer.
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