I don't see how one could be a book critic without returning regularly to the classics.
I know some reviewers who chomp through books like a bucket of movie popcorn. I've never understood it. How can you evaluate current books without a thorough and recurring immersion in the best of the past? How can you savor a book read at top speed?
Cynthia, I did not intend to suggest that I was engaging in a revolution but merely a change of direction. There are, it seems, critics, reviewers, and readers of various stripes, and those terms are not interchangeable. But perhaps I am overstating the obvious.
This is a revolution?
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I know some reviewers who chomp through books like a bucket of movie popcorn. I've never understood it. How can you evaluate current books without a thorough and recurring immersion in the best of the past? How can you savor a book read at top speed?
It explains a lot in today's book pages. Alas.
Cynthia, I did not intend to suggest that I was engaging in a revolution but merely a change of direction. There are, it seems, critics, reviewers, and readers of various stripes, and those terms are not interchangeable. But perhaps I am overstating the obvious.
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