Adam Levin, author of this month’s Rumpus Book Club pick The Instructions, shares his thoughts about eReaders:
My parents have a (expletive) Kindle. They buy (expletive) like crazy and I don’t know how they even (expletive) read it all, but if a whole (expletive) load of (expletive) nice middle-class folks will (expletive) buy my book and not (expletive) read it, I guess I’ll never (expletive) know. But no, you’re right, the book is a sweet (expletive) object. And the book itself is about, to some extent, its own (expletive) bookness. Not that I’m going all (expletive) Holden Caulfield and saying don’t (expletive) make a movie out of my (expletive) book. But the e-reader thing is a choice. Make a (expletive) Venn diagram. There will be the people who would read this book in print. And there will be the (expletive) people who won’t read it unless it’s on Kindle. I’m (expletive) happy for those people who won’t read it unless it’s on (expletive) Kindle. Their choice. I’m no (expletive) fascist. But there’s that third segment, the ones who would (expletive) read it in print but don’t because they own a Kindle, so why (expletive) (carry around) a book? Those (expletive) people make me (expletive) sad.
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2 responses
i enjoyed this. is “the instructions” salinger-y at all? because that’d be sweet in my book.
It certainly has some similarities. If someone told me they were a big fan of Catcher in the Rye and also happened to love The Instructions, I wouldn’t be surprised. The narrator is a kid who’s very anti-establishment ( “The Arrangement” to take the book’s term), and his voice is enthralling somewhat like Holden Caulfield’s. However, it’s not the case that every other word is an expletive.
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