His theory might not convince everyone, but Mr Deutsch's explanations and thought experiments along the way are exemplary in their precision and clarity.All these books, in other words, transcend the obvious drawback, for the reader, that they might be wrong.
These challenges don't need to be obvious to the reader, they are for you, to push you to do your best work.
Stothard is a former editor of the Times, and Egypt on the eve of the Arab Spring was an obvious place, the reader might well think, for a journalist to be.
As Robbe-Grillet put it, every time an obvious trap was set for the reader, the American fell into it - he did not understand the rules.
It's not obvious, for instance, why the reader ought now be interested in Garner's 2006 review of British director Paul Greengrass's 9/11 film United 93, other than that her writing on it is typically fine.
Yes, for the reader who doesn't mind rehearing the obvious and who thinks that Nantucket Reds never get old.
For the reader, that's like being around someone who refuses to acknowledge the obvious — it's both irritating and fascinating.
I don't write for the reader.
For the reader - not so much.
