Kerry Schooley wrote:
Me, I think the novel's a failure if people stop reading, for
whatever reason. Sometimes that reason is because there's not
enough happening, not enough plot, to engage their
interest.
*********** A friend at work was telling me about the glowing
reviews that Siskel and Ebert were giving a movie that he had
seen and thought was boring as hell. He noted all the reasons
why the critics had loved it, and none of those reasons
involved whether it was actually entertaining.
There's a bunch of reasons to read, and the esoteric,
mind-expanding, artsy-fartsy-touchy-feely one is always a
good card to play. All that is fine, I guess, but this callow
hillbilly's number one reason for reading is for
entertainment.
I found your comment, Kerry, about people talking about books
they haven't read, amusing. I read somewhere that many of the
fashionable but dull bestsellers are bought but not read. Now
that I think about it, I think that came up in Willeford's
Writing and Other Blood Sports.
miker
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