tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post115357362491408395..comments2024-03-18T16:55:31.971+00:00Comments on This Space: There's more to life than books, you knowStephen Mitchelmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658772259307446873noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-50838587957565702252007-05-15T09:00:00.000+01:002007-05-15T09:00:00.000+01:00Stephen, I just started in on the 13 Ways book and...Stephen, I just started in on the 13 Ways book and got a bit annoyed with it, so decided to search here and see what you had to say about it. I'm relieved to hear other people had problems as well...I read the intro, found Chapter 1 to be full of generalisations, then hit bumps here and there whilst skipping around it quickly. However her summary of her reading of <I>The Great Gatsby</I> made me throw it down in disgust. 100 pages longer???Underdeveloped? Who IS this person? She lost me with that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-1153649160192521972006-07-23T11:06:00.000+01:002006-07-23T11:06:00.000+01:00Yes, just imagine. In tomorrow's world perhaps we ...Yes, just imagine. In tomorrow's world perhaps we can eliminate life altogether, and just have the books - electronic, of course. But wait a minute - we've already got...Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-1153638216736954652006-07-23T08:03:00.000+01:002006-07-23T08:03:00.000+01:00Books about books... What I found interesting abou...Books about books... What I found interesting about Nick Hornby's Polysyllabic Spree was not his defiantly middlebrow views about the books themselves (his loathing for critics is amusing to start with, but we tire rapidly) but his ideas about reading itself. Each chapter begins with a list of books read and books bought. The Quixotic task of reconciling the two (art vs commerce?) is something I understand only too well.Tim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.com