tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post7167638859690640337..comments2024-03-28T05:13:13.921-04:00Comments on Books, Inq. — The Epilogue: Very bad idea ...Frank Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18410473158808750903noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post-21661377180001976482007-10-01T13:01:00.000-04:002007-10-01T13:01:00.000-04:00Ouch! Like Ms Jackson, I've spent a curmudgeonly l...Ouch! Like Ms Jackson, I've spent a curmudgeonly lifetime bemoaning these "shortcuts" to the richness of our artistic and literary heritage. I still thunder every chance I get at any of the atrocious modern translations of the Bible--real men read the KJV. So banal, so little beauty, so little for the mind, yada, yada.<BR/><BR/>But just last week my very distraught and overburdened grade eight son in an accelerated academic programme told me almost tearfully he had seven lengthy passages from <I>The Merchant of Venice</I> to study and report on for the next day, and he couldn't make sense out of any of them. I dashed to the local bookstore to get the Coles Notes of my youth (I never inhaled) and the nice young clerk introduced me to No Fear Shakespeare. Much joy when I returned home and peace and harmony resumed their rightful place at Casa Burnet, but oh, the guilt!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com