E-books banish being boring

[Dave Monroe]

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es> wrote:

> I thought that this piece clearly demonstrated why technophiles still need the humanities. The very premise is flawed. Boring? Who decides what boring is or what books are boring? I've heard people say Joyce is boring! They might as well claim that it will eliminate boredom. What rubbish.
> Eh-books. In 20 years we'll start to see what comes of it all. Fools rush in.

Exactly.  This sort of unnatural selection doesn't necessarily/won't
likely lead to innovation (much less, say, Laurence Sterne, Samuel
Beckett, Alain Robbe-Grillet, et al.; Charles Dickens, on the other
hand [NOT a slight, he simply wroite for serial publication, is all],
or Mark Danielewski [I'm surprsied tehre's not an intereactive House
of Leaves [or is ther?] ...).  I actually read The Da Vinci Code way
back when.  I'd never read anything before that had a cliffahnger
every other page or so.  Meanwhile, I was actually yelling @ it out
loud, "Fibonacci Sequence!" "Newton!" "Sophia!" u. s. w., et
soforthiam.  THAT'S what I'd expect ...