Comments on: Scarlett, Your Novel is Burning http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2005/10/31/136/ One more bite of the apple. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:30:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: David I http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2005/10/31/136/#comment-23 David I Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:08:15 +0000 http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2005/10/31/136/#comment-23 There you go. With properly targeted marketing, it might be that readers would only need one novel, ever--one that would be so satisfying that their thirst for reading would be forever quenched. (I've seen a couple of them that almost put me off reading permanently, but not because of an excess of satisfaction). Speaking of the thirst for reading, did you see that Time has published thier list of 100 greatest novels in English since 1923 (the year they atarted publication)? http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html I find I have read only 44 of these. (45 if you include one I put down and never picked up again.) Most interesting is their inclusion of "Watchmen", which is a comic book. (Excuse me: A Graphic Novel). Maybe I should stop reading everything else until I've read these, huh? DI There you go. With properly targeted marketing, it might be that readers would only need one novel, ever–one that would be so satisfying that their thirst for reading would be forever quenched. (I’ve seen a couple of them that almost put me off reading permanently, but not because of an excess of satisfaction).

Speaking of the thirst for reading, did you see that Time has published thier list of 100 greatest novels in English since 1923 (the year they atarted publication)?

http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html

I find I have read only 44 of these. (45 if you include one I put down and never picked up again.) Most interesting is their inclusion of “Watchmen”, which is a comic book. (Excuse me: A Graphic Novel).

Maybe I should stop reading everything else until I’ve read these, huh?

DI

]]>