Of the small number of translations released in the UK each year – commonly claimed to be 3% of books published, although English PEN fears it may be less – I would read, well, next to nothing.
I feel less depressed because of this and your writing and you, in the same way I'm less depressed when I read any work of art that I like.
Q. Anything more specific in the "less" department? A. I read so much data.
Betzalel Cohn Jerusalem, June 30 , 2009 To the Editor: As one of three generations of Bernard L. Madoff victims myself, and a criminal law professor who calls for proportional punishment — no more nor less than deserved — I read with concern reports claiming that Mr. Madoff received the "maximum".
Over time, I recognized fewer and fewer names, saw the conversations grow coarser, and understood less from what I read until one day, I didn't log on.
With this in mind, I have also started to limit the information channels I read -- less blogs, less magazines and being able to dig deeper into a few sources that I get most enjoyment/benefit from.
Because I have one hundred and fifty channels on my television, I read less.
I read less fiction these days, and it worries me, although my recent discovery that wearing reading glasses makes the action of reading more pleasurable is, I think, up there with discovering how to split the atom or America.
David Mitchell also said: "Murakami's style is rarely less than seductive, and I read Kafka on the Shore in one non-stop feeding frenzy".
As an adult, I read less fantasy (aside from bedtime-story duties), but perhaps nomenclature plays a role here, too: both fantasy and S.F. have made inroads into literary fiction and influences even those novels whose imprint logo is reassuringly conservative.
