On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:15:04AM -0800, Chris Olson - SunPS <Chrisf.Olson at Sun.COM> wrote: > > You read thousand-page novels to get the payoff for a 5-10 page > > comedy skit? > Why not? I've read novels/books just because I feel > I should at some point in my life. I've pushed myself > through "difficult" books because I wanted to read them, > if only to say I did it. > > Though, I'll admit, I read rather quickly, and a thousand-page > novel is only going to take a couple weeks, at most, to > get through... :) I read Atlas Shrugged in under 2 days. But the problem is, I agree with her politics, and even with that understanding her writing was ... very poor in places. I would never wade through that book (especially the 100-page speech in the middle -- no, I'm not kidding) just to get the payoff for a usenet joke. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp