--- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: <snip> > People have different reasons for reading. Some do it to > relax, or as you say to distract them from their lives. I > do it because I love good writing. Sadly, that is often > my bane when it comes to modern writing, because I have > high standards based on reading earlier writers. I think > I stopped reading for a year after having plowed through > my first Dan Brown novel. It took a re-read of Dorothy > Dunnett to get me back on track. :-) > <[email protected]>
Your *first* Dan Brown novel? You mean you actually had the stomach to read more than one? You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din :-) Was it Stephen King that said: "If you want to avoid writing a lot of crap, you have to read a pile of it"? _
