That's what she said. Actually, "she" was the fourth person to say that. That day.
It got me to thinking. Is saying, "That must be a good book" (or its equivalent) tantamount to saying, "I'm functionally illiterate and will take any opportunity to avoid reading"?
In my experience, the title of this post is only invoked when I don't immediately put my book down and engage in whatever other activity the speaker thinks I should be attending to. Almost like I'm rubbing their nose in their inability to gain knowledge, or joy, if it's not coming from a TV. And they want me to stop. Like it's my fault they're not on board the reading rainbow.
I think I'll stop now, before I get all vitriolic and stuff.
01 December 2007
"That must be a good book"
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Release the vitriol, sir. It can be quite cathartic. I enjoy it. Though I can go overboard, sometimes.
I would have a tough time recollecting more that a few instances where you didn’t have a book in hand…no matter the event or conversation or people at the event or in the conversation…mostly you just don’t care. You have no doubt heard that statement more than anyone, or close to it. Why now would it bother you? To get all mordant (on us who have made that exact statement to you many times) now would be odd, no?
zbs...stop it!
My friend with the boom, I don't think our anonymous poster likes it when you encourage me. How very uncharitable of them. I wasn't for them, or at them, that the post was written. If it is the poster I believe it to be, then they learned long ago that the quality of a book cannot be judged by the ferocity of my attack.
good enough,
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