Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
They're easily digestible books conforming to what fat, audodidact ex-hippies mistakenly believe to be great literature (stilted, formal language, boredom, epic scale), while allowing them to pretend they're still eight years old. Plus, of course, they were one of those mandatory-reading phenomena in the seventies, when loads of absolutely cack-awful symphonic rock was composed around them.
They're easily digestible books conforming to what fat, audodidact ex-hippies mistakenly believe to be great literature (stilted, formal language, boredom, epic scale), while allowing them to pretend they're still eight years old. Plus, of course, they were one of those mandatory-reading phenomena in the seventies, when loads of absolutely cack-awful symphonic rock was composed around them.
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