And given my obsession with copyright law, it's equally shameful that, until reading Slater's book, I knew nothing of his campaign for an International copyright treaty.
Acclaimed novelist and artist Dave Eggers has already hyped Vonnegut's writing in the book's foreword, saying, "This collection pulses with relevance... and provides an almost shameful amount of unadulterated reading pleasure.
One sign read: "Shame on shameful shame!" A man passed by holding a poster that said: "I didn't vote for these scoundrels!
A mass e-mail circulated, reading "The Following Is Shameful, El Paso Has an Anti-Israel Congressman.... Do Not Reëlect Beto O'Rourke".
Nor does it strike me as shameful for adults to spend a lot of time reading these simplified treatments.
"Shameful, despicable, barbaric attempt," read a message on the group's official Twitter feed.
Once upon a time it would have been shameful for adults to read books written for teenagers, never mind admitting that publicly, but nowadays it has become so common that many have even taken to blogging to discuss and review what they have read.
Here are some of the letters that poured in to Playboy from readers reacting to the magazine's new safe-for-work content policy: A SHAMEFUL COVER-UP I read in the New York Times that Playboy is losing three million dollars a year.
Sadly, in private, people do want to read about shameful secrets, gossip, and other things that people think, but are too polite to say publicly.
One of those messages read, "This is shameful!
