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I don't read for entertainment.
And, of course, people read for entertainment, as well as for intellectual or emotional rewards.
"What shocks me," he says, "is the number of people who are willing to read for entertainment on screen".
Not only is poetry today not being read for entertainment (as its lack of sales on any best-seller list will attest, not to mention its once-a-month-if-we're-lucky appearance in The Times Book Review), but poetry as a genre has never been meant to be non-nutritive.
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(Lupia jokes that horse-race polls ought to have a warning label that reads "For entertainment purposes only").
Mr. Leen's book can be read for its offbeat entertainment value.
She likens the choice between fiction and non-fiction to "a deeper conversation about what truth is at some level, because I think there's a suspicion among some men that you read novels for entertainment, but for finding out about life you read non-fiction.
Marina had always read newspapers for entertainment, rather than for information.
In some ways, certainly — we read poetry for entertainment, not nutritional value.
I can think of nothing less true than David Orr's concluding statement in his discussion of various translations of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Tomas Transtromer ("On Poetry: Versions," March 11): "We read poetry for entertainment, not nutritional value".
Trust me, there is a relationship (or don't trust me and just read along for entertainment).
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