But when it comes to a TV adaptation, two points seem salient: One, the books take place over hundreds of years, with a constantly rotating cast of characters, and two, they consist almost entirely of conversation, with just a few brief scenes of action.
The style is what you notice first in both books, its salient feature being a kind of compulsive efflorescence of imagery at everything the narrator's mind settles on.
There was also an instruction book with salient information -- "Important: Incredibly, you should stop feeding your tadpole after the front arms come all the way out.
In our own moment of horror and heroism, it is a book more salient than ever -- unflinchingly honest about the human capacity for hate and brutality, yet filled with an undiscourageable love of humanity.
I started reading Walden by Thoreau (Princeton), which is as full of salient commonsense as any book I have ever read so have collected Maine Woods (Princeton), Cape Cod (Princeton), and Civil Disobedience (Penguin Classics) so I can delight in his independence of mind.
Early on he quotes Harvard Law School professor Mark Roe, in perhaps the most salient passage in the book: We can resolve the immediate problem, and move on, [but] new problems will arise.
The book displays his salient strengths as a commentator, as well as some weaknesses.
One of the book's most salient, original themes is Jobs's singular focus, even during his gloomiest periods, on promotion and storytelling.
It is in this respect that Le Pen's book seems most salient at the present, when women in several countries are playing crucial roles in promoting and sanitizing far-right populism.
This underscores one of the book's most salient conflicts -- the need to belong versus the renouncing of patrimony -- which Smith attempts to spell out in a grand finale, a fortuitous meeting of parents and children at Marcus's FutureMouse exhibition on New Year's Eve 1992.
