tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post1733480275633668741..comments2024-03-27T02:00:49.152-04:00Comments on Kate's Book Blog: George Orwell on Losing His Love of BooksKate S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16897618197257393697noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-87538454680041996172009-03-22T12:43:00.000-04:002009-03-22T12:43:00.000-04:00Lovely post this - I'm coming to it a bit late... ...Lovely post this - I'm coming to it a bit late... Yes, it must be easy to lose the love of something, including books, when they become a commodity like so many other things on a shelf.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-85549824741145165252009-03-20T05:45:00.000-04:002009-03-20T05:45:00.000-04:00Or, as I told a friend the other day, "used books ...Or, as I told a friend the other day, "used books smell."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-22312752855595086572009-03-19T22:39:00.000-04:002009-03-19T22:39:00.000-04:00Thanks for sharing - I can relate to George here, ...Thanks for sharing - I can relate to George here, dead bluebottles and all.Melwykhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04885378201188978664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-39594441526180365132009-03-18T19:40:00.000-04:002009-03-18T19:40:00.000-04:00This is a beautiful -- perhaps because it is intel...This is a beautiful -- perhaps because it is intelligent and does not try overly hard to be beautiful -- description of losing one's sense of mystification; in this sense, it describes a process all literary people must go through, since it is middle-brow to "love books" in a manner that fetishizes the object, not the text.<BR/><BR/>So the question becomes: how do we assess texts objectively -- granting admiration (and yes, love) to those that deserve it? This, it seems to me, is a question literate Canadians in particular need to ask themselves, since some of our largest cultural institutions have a proclivity for promoting the middle-brow and the "done before".Finn Harvorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05120886779348342519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-69668404820394709152009-03-18T11:53:00.000-04:002009-03-18T11:53:00.000-04:00This loss of love may be a direct result of "book ...This loss of love may be a direct result of "book overload", association with unpleasant, heavy work and dealings with disgruntled customers, which could make the greatest writer, bookworm, or bibliophile renounce books--at least temporarily. That is the danger of turning a passion into a job: it becomes work.Sukohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11893742747135555499noreply@blogger.com