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Charles Darwin cut the spines and covers from his books and kept the loose pages in a box. (The sheets were easier to turn that way.)
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Verging on irritating. Several chapters utterly useless. Etiquette at book signings??
— Dec 05, 2009 02:08PM
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This book explains why presidents should not write. (Obviously written pre-Obama.)
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Randomly plucked from bookshelf while wearing blindfold.
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Dec 09, 2009 06:08AM
And a lot of books about books are fairly snobbish as well (who's the fellow who wrote the lifetime reading plan? - Clfton Fadiman, I think. There was a book about books that used charts - if you liked this book, you'd like these books, etc. It was really very good. Does anyone recall this book or its title? It's driving me crazy.
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Yes, Clifton Fadiman wrote the lifetime reading plan (it's on my to-read list). I don't know if you're putting him in the snobbish category, or the looked-down on category; my sense is that there's a whole subgenre of critics/academics who study the Clifton Fadiman types and have categorized them as middlebrow. I have elements of snob and anti-snob within me so I'm able to quickly adopt whatever posture I feel necessary. I don't know the chart book you refer to.
