<<And you say "commercial and exploitive" as if its a
bad thing. ;-)>>
Yes, for me that combination is bad. Commercial by itself is
not bad, in fact it's almost meaningless. Authors want to
sell books.
<<Don't many of the excellent Gold Medals we're
discussing this month come under this category?>>
Not the good ones. Take Aarons: he does not try to rope the
reader in through trickery. He tells a plain story, with a
beautiful technique but without demagoguery or facile appeal
to emotions. I am beginning to think that Aarons was a great
writer, strange as that may sound.
Regards,
mrt
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word is the difference between lightning and the lightning
bug." Mark Twain
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