02-26-2014, 11:09 AM | #46 | |
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But if you say or write that you had a blue teddy bear, and I've never seen it or touched it, I simply remember the words "blue teddy bear." I don't picture you with it, I just see the words. |
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02-26-2014, 11:10 PM | #47 | |
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02-27-2014, 11:14 PM | #48 |
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Can't get that blue teddy bear out of my brain now or the alphabet blocks beside it.
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I picture a threadbare stuffed panda covered in dried blue paint, its fur unpleasantly stiff and its grin widened unnaturally by torn stitches. A crank that activates an internal phonograph protrudes from its back and its singsong growl, which issues from a damaged wax record, is mostly obscured by scratches. Every time the crank is wound, something unfortunate happens.
And yes, I owned this toy (in my imagination, anyway). |
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Nice musings everybody. However mundane they are. We all know real teddy bears are more like this:
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02-28-2014, 10:25 AM | #51 |
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Some of you are seriously weird.
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Without us, there would be no fantasy or science fiction. Or horror. Or... Whatever
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02-28-2014, 12:17 PM | #53 |
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02-28-2014, 12:59 PM | #54 |
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But... but... The world would be left with Harlequin and Vampire Romance in EVERY genre
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Back to savoring a slow read (not that the previous discussion wasn't interesting): I read at the speed I read (and sometimes at the speed the author allows me to read at--if that should happen to be slower than MY speed).
Long story short: I don't take any pleasure in purposely reading a book at a pace slower than I could comfortably be reading it at. So the only way I could "savor" a book would be to read it in shorter sessions with more time between those sessions. I couldn't imagine anything more frustrating than forcing myself to go through longer periods of NOT reading a book that really want to be reading. But then again, I've never really been bitten by the "I never want this book to end" bug. I love endings—great ones, especially. The more the merrier I say! BTW: I loved the book the OP is referring to here--DeWitt's The Sisters Brothers (shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Giller Prizes, among others). Read it in about 3 days. |
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Your mention of being uncomfortable with slower speeds mirrors my discomfort at letting the colors go by too quickly (even though my preference seems the opposite of yours). I don't like to hear certain piano pieces by Ravel played too rapidly because the harmonies seem (to me) to be too rich to be appreciated at breakneck speeds. Yet I had a Hungarian teacher once who wanted me to play him that way (and Bartok himself would have played Ravel that way, too). I can understand other readers' wanting to pursue a story at higher velocities. But when your interests tend toward admiring how a thing is built as much as (or even more than) its intended function, then reading slowly becomes delicious and revealing. It's like walking in the space beneath the iridescent paper sheet of the ocean. Last edited by Prestidigitweeze; 02-28-2014 at 01:24 PM. Reason: Avoid repeated words! |
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Perhaps I was also mistakenly associating the "savoring" the OP was implying with the very different (at least in my opinion) "never wanting the book to end" syndrome. Where people simply stop reading--not because they want to digest what they've read, but simply because they're too close to finishing it. I would never consider slowing down simply because the end was imminent. *shrug* |
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I have no idea what the characters in a book look like, unless there are illustrations in the book, which is why I hate poor illustrators who don't read the book first to know what the characters are supposed to look like. While I don't know what they look like I do know all the details mentioned about them in the book and will be able to spot any discrepancies in the illustrations. |
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Ironically, if a story is really strong I'll race ahead to find out what happens - hence shortening an enjoyable book. But I do also savour good writing and that's a big advantage of an eReader over a physical book since I would never the mark paper pages, but it's easy peasy to highlight a Kindle.
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