Monday, July 11, 2011

Making Good Books A Bit Simpler


...but no matter what, they are not "far, far better" books.



Jessa Crispin said that as a kid she read books for the story – "...murder and intrigue and violence and revolution – and then for the prose later on, when it wasn't so off-puttin­g."



Ok, fair enough, but not everyone will do the second read, and when Fitzgerald is mentioned in conversati­on later in life, they might be in a serious disadvanta­ge, having mistakenly based their thinking on the fake book. That's not "far, far, better" anything.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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