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Originally Posted by ekbell
I agree that it was a quick and easy read but I can just imagine how my grade school kids would react if I tried to read it to them  |
I imagine a lot of the 'lightweight' feeling comes from the fact that we have so little documentation about the life of John Harrison. Shakespeare is the same way. We know little about his actual day to day life in comparison to his plays. Probably in both cases it's a matter of people not thinking in the long term. It likely never occurred to them that someone should really document Harrison's life for the future any more than it probably occurred to friends of Shakespeare to do so in any great detail when they collected the First Folio for publication.