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tishaLA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:59 PM Original message |
Ebert: "Does Anyone Want to Be 'Well-Read'?" |
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Adsos Letter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
1. K&R. I can't imagine life without books. |
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Shiver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:19 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. That's because there is no life without books. |
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:42 PM Response to Reply #2 |
43. Not true. There are people who can't read and make a good living. |
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sofa king (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 12:45 PM Response to Reply #43 |
85. I suspect a vast number of Americans haven't read a book this year. |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
3. This is a class distinction, too. |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:54 PM Response to Reply #3 |
15. The death of printed books would contribute also |
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themadstork (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 02:25 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. I love used book stores! |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:31 PM Response to Reply #20 |
77. With companies like Righthaven abusing copyright laws, there could be hope |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 08:12 PM Response to Reply #3 |
73. I disagree. Some of the most avid readers in my Junior High and High school came |
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bengalherder (718 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
4. Good article. |
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themadstork (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:37 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. 'if you haven't read these dead people you aren't literate'. |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:30 PM Response to Reply #8 |
36. Exactly. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 02:56 PM Response to Reply #4 |
23. I'm mostly a sci-fi person and hate the snooty attitude against "genre" lit. |
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REP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:08 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. Some genre fiction is truly amazing: Kornbluth, Hill, Vonnegut are some that come to mind |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:14 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. "100 Years of Solitude" is also good. |
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REP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:35 PM Response to Reply #29 |
40. Lots more good stuff too everywhere |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:39 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. EWWWW!!! |
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WhiteTara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:09 PM Response to Reply #29 |
80. In my top 5. n/t |
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themadstork (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:28 PM Response to Reply #23 |
33. Wow. If you think that Alexander poem is in anyway indicative of the best of what contemp poetry |
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tishaLA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:36 PM Response to Reply #33 |
41. no shit. and it wasn't even postmodern |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 05:25 PM Response to Reply #23 |
49. Exactly! What the hell does it matter |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 05:35 PM Response to Reply #49 |
52. I agree, though I actually like the classics. |
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tishaLA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 07:09 PM Response to Reply #52 |
57. the "death of the author" argument |
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themadstork (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 07:18 PM Response to Reply #52 |
60. Or, you know, people read those books because they're fun. |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 07:48 PM Response to Reply #60 |
66. I think it's cool that people like whatever books they like... |
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Magron (80 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:39 PM Response to Reply #23 |
78. Brother.. |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:25 PM Response to Original message |
5. I have been a bookworm since age 4, when I went from my sister's Dick, Jane, & Sally |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:35 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. I got you one better, I was reading when I was 3. |
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themadstork (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:40 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. I don't have a clue when I started reading. |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 04:42 PM Response to Reply #7 |
48. Well my niece taught herself to read at two. So there! |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:34 PM Response to Original message |
6. I agree with Tom Jefferson: "I could not live withour books!". |
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panader0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
10. I read quite a bit |
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themadstork (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:52 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. "Studies show that most of a persons thought are in word form." |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 05:31 PM Response to Reply #14 |
50. I'm interested in finding out too, especially... |
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Gabi Hayes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:55 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. ever heard this? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:02 PM Response to Reply #10 |
25. I rarely think in words, I "think in pictures", so I reject that claim. |
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Gabi Hayes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
11. former Illini undergrad/grad student checking in with this, from Freakonomics (I know), on |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
12. The funny thing is that the works of Old Will were the popular entertainment of his time. |
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anneboleyn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 02:24 PM Response to Reply #12 |
19. Yes! The groundlings would throw food at the actors if they didn't like something |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:14 PM Response to Reply #19 |
30. Can you imagine the hissing and booing every time a 'bad guy' entered the stage? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:05 PM Response to Reply #12 |
26. Yup, Shakespeare was the popular entertainment of the Elizabethian Age. |
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exboyfil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:20 PM Response to Reply #12 |
32. Kind of like the episode of The Twilight Zone |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:46 PM Response to Reply #32 |
44. I remember that episode distinctly. |
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FloridaJudy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 07:54 PM Response to Reply #12 |
68. And Dickens and Twain were once considered "hacks" |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 08:29 PM Response to Reply #68 |
75. I thought his essay "The Awful German Language" was hilarious. |
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Keith Bee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
13. Shurlee yoojest |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
16. "There's more to life than books, y'know, |
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themadstork (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 02:20 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. yep. . . there's eBooks! |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 02:28 PM Response to Original message |
21. I need books. I must read. |
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anneboleyn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 02:28 PM Response to Original message |
22. as an English lit professor, I appreciated Ebert's observations. Thanks for the link |
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tishaLA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:01 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. I'm in the same boat. |
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exboyfil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:13 PM Response to Reply #22 |
28. I am an engineer and I am amazed at how littile |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:16 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. "keep his daughter out of the 10th grade Honors English class because they read too much." WTF??? |
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exboyfil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:29 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. Takes away from the Math and Science instruction time |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:33 PM Response to Reply #31 |
38. The other day I read on DU that teacher's shouldn't teach fact |
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anneboleyn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:29 PM Response to Reply #28 |
35. Great idea on the homeschooling. "Read too much?" |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 07:12 PM Response to Reply #28 |
59. My husband is an engineer and reads every day. |
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etherealtruth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
37. Books are life |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:33 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. This. |
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Modern_Matthew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:50 PM Response to Original message |
45. I hate elitist garbage like this. What can you expect from a movie critic, though? nt |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 05:32 PM Response to Reply #45 |
51. Books are elitist? |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 06:54 PM Response to Reply #51 |
56. Dangerous ideas can be found in books. |
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themadstork (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 07:47 PM Response to Reply #45 |
65. Movie critics are elitist? |
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Exilednight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 07:56 PM Response to Reply #45 |
70. You forgot the sarcasm tag. n/t |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 08:23 AM Response to Reply #45 |
83. If you aren't jesting, you're defending ignorance. Do you think "Garfield" is literature? |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
46. Why? |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
47. "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." |
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alterfurz (723 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 05:53 PM Response to Original message |
53. "Reading is the meditation of the West... |
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Missy Vixen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
54. Half of Americans did not read a book at all last year |
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Populist_Prole (774 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 06:25 PM Response to Original message |
55. I'm shocked by the utter scorn directed at me and others who read and talk about books |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 07:10 PM Response to Reply #55 |
58. Where we live that is pretty common... |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 07:35 PM Response to Reply #55 |
62. I, on the other hand, consider the local libraries and Barnes and Noble to be a temple. |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 07:55 PM Response to Reply #55 |
69. I wonder what they think about people who like both... |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 10:01 AM Response to Reply #55 |
84. "What are you readin' for?" |
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themadstork (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
61. I don't think the situation is nearly as dire as he seems to. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 07:36 PM Response to Reply #61 |
64. I'm currently readin Moby Dick on my Nook right now. |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 07:59 PM Response to Reply #64 |
71. Reading a light mystery novel now on my Kindle, but next on my list |
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mrmpa (707 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 07:36 PM Response to Original message |
63. I was at the library yesterday, brought home 3 books for my |
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SheilaT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 07:52 PM Response to Original message |
67. Real books are not going to go away. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 08:01 PM Response to Original message |
72. I used to not be able to go to sleep at night |
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66 dmhlt (935 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 08:16 PM Response to Original message |
74. Ebert: "To know you live is to know you die." |
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exboyfil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:30 PM Response to Reply #74 |
76. Some of the fondest memories of my time with my |
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MedleyMisty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:07 PM Response to Original message |
79. I never got the accusations about "elitism" when it came to reading |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 08:14 AM Response to Reply #79 |
81. Great post! |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 08:19 AM Response to Original message |
82. I used to tell h.s. seniors that if they didn't read they were no different from one who can't. |
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