M&D thoughts -- no spoiler

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

Paul Murphy wrote:
> I am baffled by some of the negative reviews, particularly the Slate piece.
> The critic (whose name escapes me) bellyaches at length about how 'no
> normal human being can read it in 2 weeks' -- guess that makes me abnormal,
> since I read it in 11 days, and I wasn't exactly racing. I had absolutely
> no difficulty taking a few hours to read 70 pages, since I found it
> enormously entertaining and continually stimulating; the rhythm of reading
> M&D (or of reading any of TRP's works) is singular for me, in that it
> constantly demands that I pause, reflect, re-read, turn back to an earlier
> passage, or just linger in the sway of the language and of the fecundity of
> TRP's imagination. The pleasure to be had from reading M&D is so much more
> than mere academic interest, as some detractors argue ...

I agree with all of this--but how in the hell do you all find one or two
hours a day to read?  By the time I get home from work, eat dinner, and
spend a couple of hours with my woman it's time to go to sleep.  And I
don't even have kids!  Must be those perfessers readin' on the job. :-)

	Steve Maas (fuming because he's only at about page 150)