Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society

[rich]

reading the new dalkey edition of the Recognitions it is somewhat ironic
that Mr Franzen's praise is mentioned on the back cover

p.s. somewhat mystified as to why the new edition's title page does not
include the image of the ouroboros!

rich

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The F,S & G hype machine of intellectual intimidation is
>
> a good one...........
>
> unfortunately..........
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 12:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society
>
> Franzen is one of our greatest living novelists (according to the
> article)?  Yikes!
>
> Laura
>
>
> -----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/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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
> >~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
> >"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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