A very satisfying and perceptive read from a master craftsman.
The more perceptive, however, will read it quite differently.
They are very perceptive, and they read people's energy.
All this week on Radio 4, Simon Russell Beale has been reading The Screwtape Letters – Lewis's perceptive inquiry into temptation cast as a series of witty letters between a demon and his apprentice.
You can study standup at university nowadays, watch Daniel Kitson at the National Theatre or read (erudite, perceptive) comedy reviews in the broadsheets.
An enjoyable and perceptive group biography that reads as fluently as a novel, it was written with the help of a "pale green spiral notebook" — Fisher's diary in 1970, a year when, as Barr puts it, "everyone who was anyone in the American food world" showed up in southern France.
3/ Then read this perceptive piece by David Thomson from 2009 in which he says Seymour Hoffman had stopped testing himself and that: There is something uneasy in him (it seems to me), as if he has not been able to settle in his own mind the question of whether he is meant to be a spectacular, ever-changing support, or a real actor who can take over the emotional centre of a movie and dominate it.
He'd been a book group participant three sessions in a row and had devoured everything we read with perceptive and illuminating observations.
Plates were read with Perceptive Biosystems, Cytoflour Series 4000 at Excitation 450/50 and Emission 580/50 with gain of 25.
For the most part the writing is vivid, perceptive and a pleasure to read: "George and Ira Gershwin were as different as a major and a minor chord.
