"There is not in this slender book one stale sentence, redundant word or unfinished thought".
Personally, I find the Grade A business redundant; if a book is astonishing, you're obviously not going to give it a B. The Book Review itself has not been hesitant to use the word "astonishing," which appeared recently in reviews of books by Thomas McGuane and George Pelecanos.
And each spread contains a sidebar, which might seem redundant in a book of this nature.
Electronic correspondence need not superannuate the written letter, just as an e-reader does not render the physical book redundant.
Perhaps the repackaging of redundant journalism in book form (much of this material comes from his column for The Guardian of London, though some originally appeared in Harper's Magazine) belongs on the same list of transgressions, but no matter.
Preoccupied with rendering biographical detail (impressive but occasionally redundant in both books), Love and Syman rarely step back to give a broad overview of culture and society.
They can also be accessed through a variety of internet sites; the starting point for anyone researching BMDs between 1837 and 1915 is freebmd.org.uk, which has made time-consuming trawls through heavy index books redundant.
People were more connected than ever, accessing video, music, mail (the "e" soon became redundant), the web, books, news (with no distinction between papers, websites or television) and magazines whenever they liked, wherever they liked.
Or perhaps a new type of device that makes the very idea of books redundant.
I was inspired, that is, to go to the library and check out John Huston's film version of the novel, hoping that watching it would make reading the book either redundant or like a cheap vacation to Mexico.
