"[Friedrich] Hölderlin deconstructs syntax, [Marcel] Proust's sentences are too long, obliging the reader to slow down.
Toni Morrison only gradually reveals the mystery of their bond through Cosey, obliging the reader to constantly re-evaluate the plot and characters' relationships with one another.
The bareness of style and absence of ornament oblige the reader to an active imaginative collaboration, endowing Laish's account with a feeling of total honesty, of being impelled by the pressures of circumstance, not elaborated beforehand, almost improvised.
The legal struggles to publish Joyce's Ulysses, the Lady Chatterley trial, the wild transgressions of books such as Roth's Portnoy's Complaint and Burroughs's Naked Lunch persuaded me that to write fiction was to be obliged to take the reader by the hand to the edge – and jump.
1914 is not so remote a date that he has to worry much about period detail, but he is obliged to give the reader quite a lot of information about geology, petroleum deposits, ancient Mesopotamia, how digs are dug and so on.
Yet her writing achieves its own kind of narrative tension, a spell that obliges even the readers already clued in to Tiptree's secret to turn the book's pages with increasing suspense as they wait for its real-life inhabitants to catch up with them.
All to oblige the Americans?
Puig obliged the request.
The answer to the book's chief matter of suspense -- the source of the Zycron stories -- answers itself so obviously and early that Iris, while disclosing the truth in the book's last pages, feels obliged to concede to the reader, "You must have known that for some time".
Suffice it to say that we are obliged, dear reader, to refer to a bitter, bitter enemy "Samsung" and tell you guys that you won't be able to confuse the Tab with the iPad because Galaxy Tabs are "significantly" thinner than our iPad (like, who cares?).
