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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
So I really tried to if not like this month's selection to at least get it. That is understand why so many, why so many here in the Literary Club, enjoyed and found such significance in this. I even read Burnt Norton twice to make sure that I gave it least that a double chance.
In the end though all I saw in it was blah, blah, blah. Mental masturbation written out. I guess that I'm just not a spiritual enough person  . |
No, the mental masturbation written out award goes to Roland Barthes' Mythologies that I read last year. I apologize for nominating it for non-fiction the one year.
Reading is reading. Some times we like things, some times we don't. Some times we can appreciate what the author is doing even when we don't really become engaged by it and some times we can't. The most interesting thing about reading that I've found is some times it is the reader, some times it is the book, but most times it is the reader's context when reading a book that makes things magical.
And I'm sure in the right context I would have enjoyed Mythologies, but I didn't.