I read every author purely on one-on-one terms. Doesn't matter who. He or she either has something to say to me or doesn't.
I read every author as though I were a member of his or her contemporary audience; not as a student in a classroom accepting greatness as a given and swallowing spoon-fed thematic insights from the swooping-airplane of an instructor's hand.
I read every author with one simple condition in place: Entertain me, inform me, challenge me, inspire me, shake, rattle, or roll my soul. Be ye literary giant or novice novelist, do one or some or all of these things—or suffer utter rejection by me. Bitch.
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I liked this post. A lot. AND laughed out loud at the end.
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"... swallowing spoon-fed thematic insights from the swooping-airplane of an instructor's hand."
ReplyDeleteI love to start my day with a new Crapsack post.
I read every author hoping for an infusion of brilliant brain exercise, expertise in profound verbage, or the ability to make me wish the book had no end because the characters continue to live on in my mind and have affected me emotionally. Otherwise I probably won't finish the book, no matter who wrote it.
ReplyDeleteAre you using the term "bitch" as one would utter under one's breath when one turns their back on a moron, or as an exclamation point?
I too laughed at the end. Way to throw Bitch in there!!! Brill, brill.
ReplyDeleteI never expected this one to generate a lot of comments. Thanks so much to all of you. I feed off this.
ReplyDeleteOwlcat: I used "bitch" as a means of further putting the likes of Ernest Hemingway in their places (Hemingway had squat to say to ME in his novel "The Garden of Eden," for example. I was all, "Dude, you just don't have a clue.")
Nicely done! Oh, the power of the mighty pen!
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