He seems to punch a hole in the wall between the writer and reader, breaking through to a form of micro-realism and emotional authenticity that makes other novels seem contrived, "made up", irrelevant.
At its best, Geoff Dyer's writing skims through ideas, not letting readers break for breath.
The app aims to help readers break out of their groups and find books that challenge and inform as well as entertain.
But the consumption of petty luxuries is a habit he is trying to help his readers break, and he intends to lead by example.
Still in this same year, 1980, card readers broke down in jurisdictions in Michigan, Arkansas, Indiana, and Utah.
His stories about how the evidence was collected by scientists working at various locations around the world occasionally appear, breaking up the more technical passages and also giving the reader a break from the jargon that may intimidate non-scientists.
Let's give the reader a break, and some help.
You need to give the reader a break from information; you need to pace things in the right way".
Taylor here shows his real strengths as a novelist, and the compassionate yet impersonal episode offers the reader a break from the garrulous Ross's self-regarding monologues.
Richard Simon's motto was "Give the reader a break"; Max Schuster said that a good book is like a woman's dress, "long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting".
A 1938 form rejection from the Disney corporation filed under "Sexism" informs the recipient that women cannot animate, while a letter from the Zodiac killer, written carefully in bright blue ink, taunts the reader to break a code at the bottom, and is filed under "Mystery".
