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I ask for your patience in allowing me another swing at this... I do want to say that I agree with much of what Ell wrote: Reading is reading, and writing is writing. Two separate but intertwined processes. Also, I'm glad that we seem to agree that interpretations are indeed added by...

I do not question at all that, from a writer's perspective a book remains the same no matter who reads it. No argument there. If your definition of a book is what a writer puts on paper no matter how it is understood by readers, then books are static objects that do not change with time or...

Just to tell you that I am reading (and interpreting and adding connotations...!) your responses, and will come back in the dialogue ...

The point I was trying to make I guess is that, from a writer's perspective, a book may be considered a completed work upon publication, but it's "final completion" in reality must await the reader's interaction with it. In that sense, books evolve after they have been published...

Thank you for the reference. I just noticed your post...not yet familiar with the workings of this forum...

I read somewhere that the real authors of written texts are both the writer and the reader who inevitably adds to, or 'reads' into the text interpretations and connotations that were not meant by the writer to be there. Consequently, the book you are reading is unique and cannot be read by any...

Watching books on film carries the danger of replacing a rich and complex experience by an overly simplified, bareboned one. My most recent experience was watching on tape the television series on John Adams, based on the the David McCullough biography which I had read a few years ago. My...

re Avatar... There it is. Thank you!

"...People, get some avatars..." I have submitted an avatar, but it does not show when I post. Do you know how I can corrext this ?

So true. A translation is like an aquarelle rendition of an oil painting. Beautiful in its own rights, but a different kind of beauty from the original. But ...much better to read translations than live in a one silo universe. Every evening my wife and I watch feature films from other...

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Amazing! What happened ?

"..John Dies at the End -David Wong.." No spoilers please!:lol:

I apologize for the double post. I tried to edit my first post and ended up posting twice.

Don't feel you have to read a book from cover to cover. I see the books on my bookshelf as individual universes that I like to visit intermittently. It may take me months to "finish" a book. Those are the books whose content stays with me the longest because each page has had a full day of...

Yes, it is much like going to Disneyland and not bringing back any memories. But one does not go to Disneyland just to bring back memories. There is also the most important pleasure, that of the moment itself. I look at it this way: there are three possible scenarios: 1) pleasure of...

I see a stack of books as a stack of inviting universes. I find it hard to remain in the same universe for a long period of time while surrounded by other compelling worlds. So I do a lot of flittering from universe to universe. At any given time, I have a room in at least ten of them.

on-line, and in-line at the bookstore Recent on-line purchases: - Monasteries in the Landscape - Behind the Scenes at Time-Team The local Borders is having a closing sale. Here is what I bought for less than 30$: - Best Ever Curry (Indian food cookbook, 256 pages) - Absolute...

I like to believe that we have not really lost what we have learned. I think there is a difference between remembering and recalling (saving and retrieving). A bit like a document saved in your computer. Whether or not we are aware of it, it is there. It has been "remembered" (recorded)...

Upsets me too. I guess we have to keep in mind the fact that there is much pleasure in learning and discovering by itself. Whether we need to conserve the information for further use is not really that important in most of our leisure reading. So, from that perspective, I don't...