M&D thoughts -- no spoiler

[Ted Samsel]

Steve M sez:
> 
> 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. :-)

Caffeine abuse? Insomnia? Hey, I've been reading parts to my wife as
we prepare for sleep (until the allergies kick in) and she is quite amused.
She's dyslexic and does not read for pleasure.... in fact, I read
all of THE SOTWEED FACTOR to her and our daughter whilst she was
waiting for our daughter to "birth". Didn't take 9 months, btw.
The book, that is.

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net 
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