Mr Burke someone e-mailed me your article and I had the pleasure of reading it, as I thougt it very thoughtful, and very well written.
In his fiction, the ratio of smart to stupid is far more advantageous than it is in real life, but this is a minor complaint, gladly passed over for the pleasure of reading pages of implausibly brilliant speech.
The editorial hand here is very light, which is why I have the pleasure of reading intelligent conservatives like Avik Roy and Lawrence Hunter while also reading intelligent liberals like Rick Ungar and Erik Kain without having to leave the site.
This serendipity of discovery is key to the pleasure of magazine reading and the financial success of the magazine business, but it has not translated all that well online.
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By far the biggest pleasure of reading Mamet is reading Mamet.
Overall, Britain has the lowest rates of reading for pleasure in the developed world.
The main argument in favor of realistic novels, aside from the pleasure in reading them, is that they instruct us.
Ta-Nehisi Coates has a good post up on reading-for-pleasure vs. forced-reading in the context of schooling and public education.
It may simply be the distractions of videos, computer games, and television which explain the decline in reading for pleasure.
And part of the pleasure we derive from them is the knowledge that we could be reading something better.
Besides being evened out and pulled in, the Kindle 2 is also astonishingly thin -- just 0.36-inches -- which makes it a pleasure to carry, though we miss some of the bulk of the original for reading duties.
Immediately upon finishing Great House, I felt I had to read History of Love and counted the days until my vacation, when I would finally have a few blissful evenings of reading for pleasure.
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