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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine (Book & 8 DVD-ROMs) (2005) How to mark this as anything but currently reading, since it will take decades to complete. I bought the mini-hd version and it's well worth the price. To be able to search on authors and topics of articles written decades ago is simply marvelous. Or, just to pick a year and wander through the magazine. I have subscribed to the New Yorker for years and still consider it one of the finest magazines (except for the short term of Tina Brown at the helm when it was almost ruined -- thank goodness for David Remnick.) An astonishing resource. Everything is there, including the cartoons. Every word, article, cartoon, advertisement, poem, and short story in 80 years of a fine magazine. It's overwhelming, and a treasure, and though it can be searched, the DVD version is slow. They have released the same content on a portable hard disk drive that doesn't require swapping disks and is a lot faster. Buy a good, large video screen and read and browse for the rest of your life. Glorious. I am honestly planning a full day (or days) off work so i can trawl through this collection. Since they are scanned pages, rather than just the text of the articles, you get the old advertisements, and importantly the cartoons! You can even choose to just go through the cartoons in an edition. Heaven! And since the New Yorker will be issuing updates, i have decided to pass on my magazines once i have read them.
I had read a few raised-nostril reviews of The Complete New Yorker that lauded its scope, refinement, and handsome presentation, but criticized its search engine, the awkwardness of inserting a different disk for each decade, the misspellings in the synopses (dismaying, given the magazine's reputation for meticulousness), and the inability to cut-and-paste. But it wasn't underwhelmed reviews that deterred me from cracking open the package, and I discovered through comparing notes that others shared my paralysis. Wherever literati types gathered to namedrop and glance over each other's shoulders, unopened sets of The Complete New Yorker seemed to loom in the background, like the slab from 2001. Editors, agents, and fellow writers admitted that they too had bought the set or received it as a gift, but somehow "hadn't gotten around" to opening it yet--or hadn't been able to bring themselves to. They sounded vaguely sheepish and guilty, as if shirking their duty, or shying away from what lay within. You would have thought that to pry open the gatefold to The Complete New Yorker was to enter the forbidden tomb from which no man or woman returns... The indispensable worth of The Complete New Yorker is that it resupplies the stage on which a Veronica Geng and a vested man of letters such as V. S. Pritchett could share editorial floor space without either seeming out of place. Excellence established its own gestalt. Distinctions
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