Blog #2 The Price of Reading is Eternal Vigilance

                     I find reading " The Price of Reading is Eternal Vigilance" an interesting read and would of never thought much about the authority of books and the effects of books on my reading before.When I  read books I always find myself questioning what the authors reasoning for doing the things they do to characters in their books. I did that recently with a fantasy series that I have been reading for a long time. The author over the years created four protagonist that you really grow to like because of their intricate ties to the main character of the series. He recently decided that the four needed to be killed off over the last set of the most recent series of stories before he started with a new one and i found myself getting very agitated over their deaths. Just as Anatole was getting angry with the authors he was reading. I think that Anatole Broyard makes really good use of analogies in his writings; one my favorite ones from this writing is when Anatole compared most writers to that of beggars that are willing to lie to take advantage of the unsuspecting.

                 
                     Anatole's mentioning of how he would revere books by making sure to gently turn their pages and having a fear of ever opening in the chance of ripping or damaging the book; reminds me of my Uncle Tony he would always let me read one of his books but you had to sit at a table and turn each page a certain way. I would for the longest time treat every book I read the same way that he had expected me to treat his and then I realized that no matter how gently you treat some books they're never going to last forever. Another interesting part of the article was when Anatole talks about getting into the authors head and try to envision the writings of the book from the author's point of view. I've caught myself attempting to do this some of the science fiction novels that I have read but never really stayed focused on it for to long. I'm the kind of reader that gets caught up in the story and the development of the characters to care for much else, which makes me wonder if that makes me a weak reader since I tend to not think to much about the author's point of view.