Saturday, February 14, 2009
Too many pages
I'm currently reading a book that I find fascinating and enlightening, yet many people look at me with disbelief when they discover the book has 916 pages. " That's too many pages. Why would you read that with your busy lifestyle when there are so many other great quick reads?" Why indeed? I hail from a family of avid readers-and we grew up reading books like Atlas Shrugged with a thousand pages or more. These were books that allowed us to get lost in the characters, in the times and in the places. It helped us appreciate many different perspectives. It made our family debates interesting. Life is already hurried enough-I'm more than okay with too many pages.
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i think our culture has become a "quick read, high interest, or i'm out!" literary style. an interesting example would be magazines, publications are written in the same fashion as they used to be. just take TIME or Newsweek, where they would have several articles that ran several pages each, now they are formatted for the skimmer and high interest blurb.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what those same people would say if they saw a third grader reading a Harry Potter book?
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