Capital City Notes & Gossip, plus Tales from Library Land
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Ethics Department
If our book club met, if we already discussed the book (Everything is Illuminated), do I have to finish reading it? Does it matter that I (we) didn't like it? (Too tricksy, too pretentious.)
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Assuming you gave the book a fair chance to start with, that you didn't sit down and say to yourself "Why the heck do those idiots want to read this drivel?"... You have no moral obligation to finish a book you don't like. Think of it as trying a recommended dish at a restaurant: order it, smell it, taste it, and if you don't like it, stop at Subway on the way home after not eating the rest of it.
2 comments:
Assuming you gave the book a fair chance to start with, that you didn't sit down and say to yourself "Why the heck do those idiots want to read this drivel?"... You have no moral obligation to finish a book you don't like. Think of it as trying a recommended dish at a restaurant: order it, smell it, taste it, and if you don't like it, stop at Subway on the way home after not eating the rest of it.
P.
I prefer Stuffy's to Subway.
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