A jug is a hole with matter dangling from it

[Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt]

Richard Romeo writes:
 
> As for the general discussion on good writing/bad writing:  When I was 
> young I immersed myself with the Stephen Kings and Robert Ludlums 
> thinking serious lit boring and elitist. 
[...]
>                                     I guess my point is that the books I have 
> come to love have always embodied or have been about the boring average 
> Joe.  Though I don't read pop fiction anymore I am thankful that it got 
> me reading in the first place and heck if people want to be entertained 
> there ain't nuttin wrong with that (reading S. King could lead to 
> somebody attempting GR down the road somewhere) is there?  it's writers 
> who can entertain and teach-now there's a rarity...

I have the same reading history. I often wish, however, that somebody 
would have started me off by reading me bed-time stories from Kafka 
and Pynchon and Nietzsche instead of Blyton etc.. Ah well, useless 
speculation, I guess. (For one, I wouldn't know what the hell all the 
less 'elitist' references in P's work are about, and would have to do 
some elementary research... ugh, too ghastly to contemplate....:)

hg
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