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Old 09-16-2008, 05:43 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by tompe View Post
Well, the point of the article was that the skill to read something more complicated or deeper than Robert Jordan had disappeared or was disappearing.

And that very well might be true.
On the other hand, a publisher like Random House has found it worthwhile to translate increasing numbers of books from the Modern Library, for instance.

Few of them are light reading.
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