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Carpal Tunnel
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Perhaps the individual writers are not as important as the quantity and variety of works one has read.
I look at all your lists and realize that even if many of the authors are considered masters, or “must reads,” I have read very little by most of them. I <know of> Austen, Keats, Byron and Hemingway but have never read any of their works. The same goes for most of the authors listed, yet, I have a better than average grasp of the English language and my writing skills are quite good.
I do not attribute my knowledge to reading a prescribed set of authors but to my voracious appetite at reading anything I got my hands on.
Why is reading William Shakespeare more important than reading Asimov; or Reader’s Digest for that matter?
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Now that it's back up…
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Stumbling through the grumbling
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*Re: *Reading mav's original post
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Red light (stop!)
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What the hey ,,,, ?
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