Reading styles

[David Morris]

I've found myself beginning to think and write in a style similar to an
author's voice when reading a great book, and not intentionally.


On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Something occurred to me as a result of a discussion off-list, and
> connecting with a previous discussion about the "Pynchon blurb list". I'm
> reading something that presents certain difficulties, and I'm enjoying it,
> and part of the reason is that it's making me change my reading style, the
> same thing that happened when I first read Mr. P and other writers that
> I've come to love and respect.
>
> I made a comment about reading some of the books that our esteemed Mr. P
> had written blurbs for and someone commented that they all sucked, which I
> found both amusing and interesting (if there's a difference). Now, with the
> current discussion, I'm wondering if our fearless leader blurbed some of
> those books because they gave him that same experience, of causing him to
> have to read in a different way, possibly expanding the possibilities,
> feeding his curiosity and sense of literary adventurousness. Just a
> possibly random thought.
>
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