Comments on: Books, always being tricky http://www.dystel.com/blog/2013/08/books-always-being-tricky/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: D. C. DaCosta http://www.dystel.com/blog/2013/08/books-always-being-tricky/comment-page-1/#comment-36526 Wed, 04 Sep 2013 00:47:10 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=9137#comment-36526 The first work that comes to mind is “Anna Karenina”. I was surprised that it interested me, and that it was so readable (esp. since it’s translated).

I didn’t finish it, though — mostly because…it’s too darned long.

It’s not the length per se: it’s that the author takes too long to say what we need to hear. Verbosity is not a flaw (read anything by Garrison Keillor) but using more words than necessary IS.

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