Review: Take The Time To Savor
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 20, 2011
Yeah, sure. We all know about lunch break books and stories. Short, punchy and well served up with just deserts going to lousy no goods who deserve such bad endings. Stories that read themselves down well worn brain grooves. Ideal for watching the girls of summer bikini-bounce past.Well, yeah, kinda.Except in these stories, if you slow it down a bit, you'll find the characters talking to you. Whispering their other secrets -- the ones you don't catch on the fast once through. They'll crowd around quietly jostling and whispering the real deal to you. It's all in the way the words are placed. The way they're spoken. The telling tiny actions of the characters amid the gunfire and explosions. The fast glance at a background that's there -- if you take the time to see.Try reading them fast -- like I did. Then read 'em again, slow -- like I did. Either way, these tales of  crime and comuppance work good. It's just that the slow second read is just SO much more satisfying than the wham bam thank you ma'ams of the fast first timers.