Thanks so much for the reply JMG. That's good to hear you think it is a learned skill; I find learning new things hard, but I suppose most folk do to one extent or another and it's about having an ethic. I'd love it if you started a project here on that theme!
I do read a lot more fiction now, sytematically, after a lengthy period where I felt I had so much non-fiction to get through. For the reasons stated before I'm not really a genre reader, but have no problem with reading genre fiction if it's good (I've always loved the Dune series for instance). Recently I have been trying to plug some of the enormous gaps in the category of classic-novels-not-yet-read, and decided to narrow it down, rather arbitrarily it must be said, by nation, starting with Scotland (my own). So I'm reading Sunset Song now, to be followed shortly by Voyage to Arcturus which I think I got to via yourself (you've turned me on to some interesting fiction over the years...Glass Bead Game, Algernon Blackwood's John Silence stories...), then I'd like to read some German and Russian classic stuff (never read any Dostoyevsky for instance).
So I'm kind of casting the net wide...too wide from a craft learning point of view?
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Re: Too late?
Date: 2018-03-07 09:54 pm (UTC)I do read a lot more fiction now, sytematically, after a lengthy period where I felt I had so much non-fiction to get through. For the reasons stated before I'm not really a genre reader, but have no problem with reading genre fiction if it's good (I've always loved the Dune series for instance). Recently I have been trying to plug some of the enormous gaps in the category of classic-novels-not-yet-read, and decided to narrow it down, rather arbitrarily it must be said, by nation, starting with Scotland (my own). So I'm reading Sunset Song now, to be followed shortly by Voyage to Arcturus which I think I got to via yourself (you've turned me on to some interesting fiction over the years...Glass Bead Game, Algernon Blackwood's John Silence stories...), then I'd like to read some German and Russian classic stuff (never read any Dostoyevsky for instance).
So I'm kind of casting the net wide...too wide from a craft learning point of view?