--- On Thu, 7/3/08, ssshapir <ssshapir@yahoo.com> wrote:
'If you encounter a great book without chapters, I can't believe you
won't read it just because it doesn't meet your preconceived notions
of a book.'
A good point.
But consideration for the needs of a reader is nonetheless
appreciated. I remember reading a book by Samuel Beckett that not only
didn't have chapters, it had no paragraph breaks. Or plot or
distinguishable characters for that matter. I read it. I read it not
so I could say I'd read it. I read it because I enjoyed Beckett's
'Malone Dies'. Am I allowed to say that -- aside from it's success as
an experiment -- it was an outright failure in storytelling? Am I
allowed to point at the emperor and say he has no chapter breaks?
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Absolutely! As I say, I agree with you. I just wouldn't miss a good book simply because the author was experimenting with form.
Patrick King
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