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That is not to say that the book's theme is casual, for Honey comes to grips with social aspects of language that are seldom treated, even in a clinical manner, by linguists.
"[F]or a while, at least, the sheer journalistic energy of what we're seeing grips us in a casually exotic way" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The trouble: The plot is horrendous and ends up with an "obligatory traffic control emergency crisis" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) that takes all the spice out of what had been an unusual study of group dynamics.
But there is no excuse for McInnis' just coming to grips with these objections.
Uniformly first-rate reviews for this memoir of two brothers, both professors of English, who become obsessed with gambling after their parents' deaths: "superb and horrifying" (Tom De Haven, Entertainment Weekly ); "an exquisitely crafted memoir of their three years in the grips of Mississippi casinos" (Lisa Gubernick, the Wall Street Journal ). Not only is their story surprising, but the ending is a real doozy: They are charged with conspiring to cheat at blackjack, even though they have managed to lose their entire $250,000 inheritance in just three years.
That Speakermania grips the papers this way shows they're a bit out of touch with what seems to be the point of last week's election results: the public doesn't care about what Washington cares about.