I'd rather read about someone's life I've not read about before.
Rebekah Send a noteboard - 07/12/2011 05:33:02 PM
Tolkien's not for everyone. The author states that the people chosen are those who meant something to him.
De gustibus non disputandum?
It's basically a case of snobbery on the part of TLS, though. </hypocrisy>
De gustibus non disputandum?
It's basically a case of snobbery on the part of TLS, though. </hypocrisy>
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
John Sutherland's Lives of Novelists includes Jordan, but not Tolkien
- 07/12/2011 04:43:14 PM
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I'd rather read about someone's life I've not read about before.
- 07/12/2011 05:33:02 PM
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Re: John Sutherland's Lives of Novelists includes Jordan, but not Tolkien
- 08/12/2011 02:19:14 AM
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to be fair, every generation says culture is going down the drain 
- 08/12/2011 03:04:27 AM
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- 08/12/2011 03:04:27 AM
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The article states that the novelists chosen were of personal interest to the author. *NM*
- 08/12/2011 09:01:09 AM
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My mind boggles a little
- 08/12/2011 09:47:23 AM
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Why not? All of us did at one point or another.
- 08/12/2011 03:55:52 PM
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All of us did at one point or another.
- 08/12/2011 03:55:52 PM
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Although Sutherland was hardly a teenager like most of us when he read them. *NM*
- 08/12/2011 04:15:04 PM
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Well...he's hardly the first scholar...
- 09/12/2011 02:29:25 AM
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