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I was so long writing my review that i never got around to reading the book.
-Groucho Marx
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I Was So Long Writing My Review

Groucho Marx
I was so long writing my review that i never got around to reading the book.
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Reading is everything. reading makes me feel like i've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. reading makes me smarter. reading gives me something to talk about later on. reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. reading is grist. reading is bliss.
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A writer writes a book. people read it. you don't know what they're reading, really. you read a review and think, "that is so inaccurate. you can't have been reading my book with any kind of attention, because that is all wrong, that's even the wrong name you're including there." but these reviewers have been diminished in importance, the work is so little respected. if you're reviewed by a real critic, by james wood or louis menand, then you get something that is informed, interesting, and highly articulate. but the average review doesn't have that kind of depth anymore.
Real Reading Book
So, you see, it's a real chore for me to write a book review because it's like a contest. it's like i'm writing that book review for every bad book reviewer i've ever known and it's a way of saying [thrusts a middle finger into the air] this is how you ought to do it. i like to rub their noses in it.
Real Book Writing
The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is completed as a result of the writing, let alone the success or failure that book may have after it is written . . . the book is merely a symbol of the writing. in writing the book, i am living. i am growing. i am tapping myself. i am changing. the process is the product.
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The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books. when someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. i mean, they are. they're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. so i think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.
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You will want a book which contains not man's thoughts, but god's - not a book that may amuse you, but a book that can save you - not even a book that can instruct you, but a book on which you can venture an eternity - not only a book which can give relief to your spirit, but redemption to your soul - a book which contains salvation, and conveys it to you, one which shall at once be the saviour's book and the sinner's.
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