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From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
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Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:27:08 EDT
I have heard the same sentiments expressed by any number of writers. I said
before that if year after year a novel has to be studied by class after
class in an effort to figure out what the author was trying to say, the author
did not say it very well. I think, though, that it is much more likely that
the authors were perfectly clear in writing what they meant. It is just that
literature professors read a lot into those novels that are not there in
order to keep literature professors in business.

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Over the weekend I was traveling. Listening to a talk radio show I heard
someone quote the following. Apparently Hemmingway was intervviewed about The
Old
Man in the sea. He said the thing is, when I wrote the story, The boad was
just a boat, The Old man was an old man, and the shark was just a shark.
Like
many other sharks in the ocean. It could be that good writers just write
good storys and let the symbo.logy take care of itself.

Duane Iverson. 

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From:
Cindy

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Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 10:52 PM

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A powt, I can't remember if it was Robert Frost or Carl and Sandburg, once
remarked after hearing or reading an analysis of something he wrote that he
didn't
realize all of that was in the poem the poem--or he said something to that
effect.

Cindy

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From: Elfqueen <elfqueen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: the worst book ever
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, July 16, 2009, 8:34 PM

I hate that about English classes! If I obtain my goal of being a college
professor, I will never make my students do that. It's so sad, because there
are all these great books...but later, when one looks back on them after
having been forced to hack them to shreds, the shreds are all one sees.

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From:
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Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 11:27 PM

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Hello Dan,
I too enjoyed the grapes of wrath, of mice and men, ETC. I hated Moby Dick.
I am sure Melville was proud of his work, but I personally could not get
through
it. Thankfully it was not required reading for me. Other required readings
that I did not enjoy were Tristram Shandi, Farenheight 451, 1984, Dr. Jeckyl
and Mr. Hyde, and others that I am forgetting at the moment. I do love to
discuss books. I took an English course last semester where I thought we
would
objectively and nicely discuss books, but oh how wrong I was. We did not
discuss books, we analyzed them until they meant nothing because of how
technical
the professor was about them. Thankfully my love for reading was not
destroyed.
Kolby

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