Apr 20 2006
Reader’s Bill of Rights
Jayne and I believe whole heartedly in the Reader’s Bill of Rights excerpted from the 1999 book by Daniel Pennac, Better Than Life.
1. The right not to read.
2. The right to skip pages.
3. The right to not finish.
4. The right to reread.
5. The right to read anything.
6. The right to escapism.
7. The right to read anywhere.
8. The right to browse.
9. The right to read out loud.
10. The right to not defend your tastes.
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Apr 21, 2006 @ 11:14:56
Very nice! It is just missing the right to disagree and the right to not ‘get it’.
The authors have those rights as well. And really some… no most authors I have come in contact with are great about it. About reviews and with not thinking you are the goo on the bottom of their shoe if you didn’t ‘get’ their baby.
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Apr 21, 2006 @ 11:17:20
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Apr 22, 2006 @ 20:57:14
[...] I figured by the name of the book that this was a story not to be taken seriously and I tried hard to read it in that vein but certain things bothered me. For example, about 3 pages in, there is a three paragraph promo explaining the pricing structure of Paranormal Mates. Who cares? It was like reading spam in the middle of a book. I glossed over it, needless to say (see RBOR #2). [...]