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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
My mind sees "ca'n't" and wants to divide it into two syllables. What really is the point of shortening a word if you don't really shorten it but simply replace each and every missing letter by a symbol?
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Most unfortunately, the narrator of the version I started to listen to
did pronounce the contractions with an extra syllable. I couldn't stand it and had to abandon it. What was he thinking?
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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
I love this! I think we are getting more fun out of a bad book than we would have done with a good one.
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This reminds me, obviously tangentially, of Hollywood's penchant for remaking classic films. It has been suggested it would be much more productive if they picked interesting failures and tried to address what went wrong.
Sylvie and Bruno has that quality of being an interesting failure. The discussion has certainly more than redeemed the occasional tedium of reading the book for me.