It's the kind of book that requires the reader's complete participation, the sense of place is so strong you feel you inhabit the remote crofters' community, and it bends and blends genres with apparent effortlessness.
If we read on after this point, we have already signed our own pact with Leine's imaginative world: the reader's proxy participation in the opening "snuff" scene charges the experience of the next 500-plus pages with an intense emotional urgency that goes well beyond narrative curiosity.
The final player engaged by Payne's playing is the reader, whose participation can bring him closer to appreciating the mystery of genius.
Celebrity guest editors can have a big impact on that day's edition, can increase circulation and can also increase reader participation, if readers are invited to work as assistant editors to a star for the day.
The friendships that develop between like-minded readers are almost as critical to the trip as an author's participation.
Words are only a sequence of glyphs without the participation of a skilled reader's imagination, memory and wit to dress them with the gifts the senses bring.
This is an author who assures the reader that "participation in modern market economies, far from turning us into selfish bean counters, has expanded the scope of human kindness".
We've also embraced data-based audience feedback loops, new reader participation tools and ways for marketers to publish on our platforms to interact with readers in new ways.
LAST CALL Reader participation time.
