Thread: Does anyone want to be "well-read?"
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Old 04-19-2011, 03:00 PM   #52
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Originally Posted by lila55 View Post
I would even like to expand that ... not only do we read through the lens of what we have read before, but also there is the additional lens of what we have experienced in our lives before, so that a book with a particular topic or written in a particular style might appeal strongly to one reader whereas the other cannot relate to it at all.
Jein, there are only as many topics in fiction as there are motives for murder: money and love. So where would that different experience fit in?
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