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Date Posted: 04:58:05 10/24/05 Mon
Author: Miffy
Subject: Re: Saturday
In reply to: Lucia 's message, "Saturday" on 10:01:05 04/25/05 Mon

Really , I have never looked up an author's web site or written to one.
Reading is a hobby of mine and although I am a teacher I don't think of myself as an academic.

I belong to a book group ( started 16 years ago when friends and I had kids at home. We never miss a month and it's the original 7)

All about me ? Well, just as antecedents to put my view into context.
I read for entertainment , primarily, and sometimes I pick up subtle themes and inferences and references to other writing.

I wish I could write a personal letter to Mr McEwan but this is epedient. I trust that he is pleased to be USED for academic studies. So it should be, he is one of our greatest writers. I doubt he cares what the reason is that people buy his books , especially at £18 for the hard back( I just could not wait til January) personally, I was drawn to the jacket art .

I am in no way qualified to make academic judgement of his writing, nor do I want to, but all of us have the excellent right to evaluate and then have opinions.Thank fuck for that .

It is important to teach readers how to analyse writing ( is it?...)
Sometimes readers can have their reading senses ignited by O and A level study. I recall ," Awe and Wonder" at ,The Rover, Catcher in the Rye and Death in Venice.
Reading is a joy so let's get over ourselves. Yes, there are many layers in writing and because some can smugly pick up Darwinian themes etc doesn't necessarily mean the joy of reading is diminished for others because they don't.

Returning to a book many times , maybe with other reader's insights and views , swells the joy.

I am writing because I have been moved to write, not just to show my admiration or to congratulate a piece of work brilliantly done but to thank Mr McEwan for many hours of sheer enjoyment ( fom all his books) or maybe the better word - joy.

Of all the books I have read in my reading life there have been a few near perfect, in my view.
Saturday should have won the Booker Prize and Mr McEwan know's that. Hopefully he also knows this is is the perfect book. END OF!
Miffy .

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  • Re: Saturday -- Mª Jesús Hernández, 11:57:09 12/16/05 Fri
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