Doug wrote:
"If so, I remember liking it, but thinking that it was one of
those relatively rare books who's impact has been lost as
time has marched forward."
Rare? I'd say it might be just the opposite. Isn't that why
so many books are lost by the wayside? I'm not claiming that
everything that's lost deserves such a fate, or that we'd all
agree on what the lost classics are, but isn't that one of
the measures of whether or not a book continues to be read?
And even among those that continue to be read, don't we have
a whole category of books that are read more for historical
importance than anything else, to see how the genre got from
there to here?
I'm not arguing there aren't many books that do retain their
impact, just that as many as there are, they aren't the
majority. Hell, they aren't even the majority of new
books.
Mark
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