At 03:04 PM 15/11/2005 -0800, miker wrote:
>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.
I actually did read the English Patient, though I can't
remember much of it now. What kept me going was the knowledge
that in approximately 80% of the conversations I would have
about it afterward, I'd be the only person who'd actually
read the whole thing. I was right.
Goes to show, the main benefit of literary publication is the
increased sales of coffee tables.
Best, Kerry
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