While many of us no longer think Wheel of Time is nearly as amazing as we did when we were teenagers, a lot of us do recognize that it had at least some impact on our reading development.
"We feel safe when we read what we recognise, what does not challenge our way of thinking.... a steady acceptance of pre-arranged patterns leads to the inability to question what we are told."
~Camilla
Ghavrel is Ghavrel is Ghavrel
*MySmiley*
~Camilla
Ghavrel is Ghavrel is Ghavrel
*MySmiley*
John Sutherland's Lives of Novelists includes Jordan, but not Tolkien
07/12/2011 04:43:14 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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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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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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