Rap and Tolkien via Stephen Colbert, and a question
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shirebound, a really nifty five minute talk by Colbert, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmr_CtN1K3g
Also, would it be fun or interesting to talk about reading protocols? The other day a friend was recommending a book. When I said the subject matter (it concerns the POV of a mass murderer in the middle of an especially bloody uprising in history) turned me off, the recommender read some of the prose, and it really was excellent prose. But . . . I still don't want to read fiction about that subject.
I was thinking about it off and on while trudging through chores yesterday. I'm sure I make no sense in saying that i will read nonfiction about certain subjects, but I don't want to read fiction about them. The Holocaust is one. I read a ton of Holocaust memoirs that slowly vanished from the library as the sixties wore on. Later, when I studied German, I read a great deal trying to understand how ordinary people like us could go from here to there (and it made me much more aware of how our own society has slipped in the direction of "there") but if I saw a piece of fiction about it, back on the shelf it went.
In my old age, I've become more rigid about avoiding downers, as I don't feel there is anything to be learned from such, and I won't enjoy them. Even if they're hailed as brilliant. So, for example, books lauded as grimdark win awards, and I say, good for the author--they deserve whatever plaudits they get--but I have zero interest in reading said work.
Reasons for reading: they don't always make sense. At least mine don't.
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shirebound, a really nifty five minute talk by Colbert, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmr_CtN1K3g
Also, would it be fun or interesting to talk about reading protocols? The other day a friend was recommending a book. When I said the subject matter (it concerns the POV of a mass murderer in the middle of an especially bloody uprising in history) turned me off, the recommender read some of the prose, and it really was excellent prose. But . . . I still don't want to read fiction about that subject.
I was thinking about it off and on while trudging through chores yesterday. I'm sure I make no sense in saying that i will read nonfiction about certain subjects, but I don't want to read fiction about them. The Holocaust is one. I read a ton of Holocaust memoirs that slowly vanished from the library as the sixties wore on. Later, when I studied German, I read a great deal trying to understand how ordinary people like us could go from here to there (and it made me much more aware of how our own society has slipped in the direction of "there") but if I saw a piece of fiction about it, back on the shelf it went.
In my old age, I've become more rigid about avoiding downers, as I don't feel there is anything to be learned from such, and I won't enjoy them. Even if they're hailed as brilliant. So, for example, books lauded as grimdark win awards, and I say, good for the author--they deserve whatever plaudits they get--but I have zero interest in reading said work.
Reasons for reading: they don't always make sense. At least mine don't.
This entry was originally posted at https://sartorias.dreamwidth.org/985127.html. Please comment there using OpenID.