"I love the manipulation of readers' emotions," Kennedy has said.
Their tale, as told by Simon, is engrossing in detail and adroit in its manipulation of readers' emotions - ranging from the grim central stories of the rape and murder of 12-year-old Latonya Wallace and the gunning down, and blinding, of homicide detective Gene Cassidy to the bleakly comedic moments enjoyed by cops as they while away their late-night shifts.
This masterly manipulation of her readers established a powerful new approach to creating thrilling sensations of wonder and fear.
The manipulation of the reader is one of the book's most arresting features.
Those reactions were mainly directed towards the passages of extreme violence contained in the book, the objectification of women, the use of pornography and the supposed "manipulation" of the reader.
Franklin identifies the novel's close as an instance of Franzen's "manipulation" of the reader, a last-ditch shortcut to the kind of emotional connection that she feels he does not achieve elsewhere in the novel.
The fictional scene that taught him to understand the subtlety of Austen's manipulation of the reader was the picnic at which Emma, cocksure as ever, orders gentle Miss Bates to restrict her utterance of platitudes during the meal.
It avoids manipulation of the reader by invoking sympathy or sentiment.
Just look, for example, at the manipulation of the reader in the sentence that begins, "Journalist Jack Cashill has credibly speculated... .. and the author then continues the sentence as though speculation means proved.
During his time at 1UP the site developed a greater profile and stepped out of its sister publication's shadow, but Smith grew frustrated with the contemporary state of gaming news and what he considered manipulation of journalists and readers into accepting promotional material as news.
The increased manipulation of images has conditioned readers, already accustomed to digital effects in movies and on television, to expect not an accurate photo, but an image that's a heightened version of the truth.
