Richard and Judy's bookclub, teachers at Emmanuel College of literary censorship, every woman in love with Jack Reacher, every man who wants to be Jack Reacher, anyone who looks like a condom full of wallnuts, people who live their lives on finance at the advice of Sophie Kinsella, anyone with a job in PR and a boyfriend called Luke, writers who dedicate texts to 'the Holy Spirit', crap local authors who pretend to have IRA connections, anyone who takes a strop because you can't pay for DVDs with National Book Tokens, Daily Mail readers, anyone who takes the credit for the work of a ghost writer (James Patterson, I'm looking at you), TV tie ins, Life, Death and Prizes!, designing your novel a Da Vinci rip-off cover to try and boost sales on the back of Dan Brown's wholly undeserved popularity, Katie Price's series of Pony books for children, awful pseudo-poetry about brokendownmachinetypethings, Heat magazine (and the rest), Instant Messenger users, Lee Child, Patrica Scanlan, Maeve Binchey, Ian Rankin, Jeffrey Deaver, Dean Koontz, Khaled Hosseini, James Ellory, Marian Keyes, Tess Gerritsen, Linwood Barclay, Jodi Picoult, Harlen Coben, Philippa Gregory and the rest.
A word of advice:
One should only read books which bite and sting one. If the book we are reading does not wake us up with a blow to the head, what's the point in reading? A book must be the axe which smashes the frozen sea within us.
--- Franz Kafka
One of the most inspirational quotes literature in that it caputures the raging gulf between what it 'should be' and what it actually 'is'. There's so much more out there, and people are just blinkered, they refuse to see it. Writing is fundamentally a form of entertainment, or escapism, but it has the potential to be so much more. It has the power to make us look at things in a different way, to challenge our opinions, to educate and to comfort. It forces us to revise our viewpoints and puts us more in tune with the world.
But the majority of people can't even see it.
Open your mind, open a book.
Please?
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