Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society

[Paul Mackin]

On 1/30/2012 12:59 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
> Franzen is one of our greatest living novelists (according to the article)?  Yikes!
>
> Laura


Franzen is a bit of a prankster.  Shocking people seems to be his way of 
relieving tension--between bouts of novel writing.

P
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> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Richard Ryan<himself at richardryan.com>
>> Sent: Jan 30, 2012 11:57 AM
>> To: "Erik T. Burns"<eburns at gmail.com>
>> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Subject: Re: Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society
>>
>> It's not so much him being on the lawn....it's the steaming piles he
>> leaves behind.
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Erik T. Burns<eburns at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Hey Franzzzzen, get off my lawn.
>>>
>>> an alternative view:
>>> http://technologizer.com/2012/01/23/why-history-needs-software-piracy/
>>>
>>>
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>>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Chiang Wang<ooiioocc at hotmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> Jonathan Franzen has launched a passionate defence of the printed book,
>>>> warning that our desire for
>>>> the instant gratification of e-books is damaging for society.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay-festival/9047981/Jonathan-Franzen-e-books-are-damaging-society.html
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Richard Ryan
>> New York and the World
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>> "The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround
>> him. The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself.
>> All progress depends on the unreasonable man." - Shaw
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