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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1978
Page
12
Patrons seek ongoing engagement after finishing a book or show. The piece compares serial enjoyment to the salted peanut theory, noting fans crave the next installment, whether from an author or a TV series, to sustain interest and pleasure.
Book review of The Secret of Stalingrad by Walter Kerr from Doubleday. Kerr presents a three level view of the 1942 43 battle linking Allied politics Kremlin and Nazi high command with battlefield fighting. He argues Stalin concealed reserve strength altering Western Allied strategy and notes the work draws on Kerrs wartime reporting and archives.
A roundup highlights current books and series beyond fiction, noting James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small as a career spanning veterinary tales, Tolkien’s Ring trilogy, and Stephen Donaldson’s Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever for fantasy fans.
The fiction top five includes Bloodline Sheldon Scruples Krantz The Holcroft Covenant Ludlum Stained Glass Buckley The Human Factor Greene. Nonfiction list features If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries Bombeck The Complete Book of Running Fixx My Mother My Self Friday Pulling Your Own Strings Dyer Memoirs of Richard Nixon Nixon. Mystery series rely on familiar characters. readers stay loyal to long time favorites.
Dudley Lehew of the Associated Press reviews On Spider Creek, praising Roper’s unusual long sentence style and clear focus on thoughts, but criticizing the thin plot and weak character development which distracts from the writing. He hopes for a stronger story in the next work.
The 1978 O Henry Awards prize piece by Woody Allen tops a collection of 18 stories. Kugelmass, a disenchanted humanities professor, visits a magician with a machine to enter novels and meets Emma Bovary. The volume also features James Schevill, Alice Adams, Blair Fuller, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien and others in a varied anthology.
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