Dragaera

Reading (was Re: Tim O'Reilly on piracy, etc.)

Fri Dec 13 10:11:51 PST 2002

> > 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.

Heh. I think it was Mark Twain who said that a book was a classic if it was 
one you want to have read, not
one you want to read.

>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... :)

Oh, to have such free time.


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