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10 reasons NOT to love books (compliments of H.L. Mencken)
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10 reasons NOT to love books (compliments of H.L. Mencken)
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When the American Booksellers Association asked gadfly journalist H.L. Mencken to address its members in 1940, Mencken lived up to his joyfully contrarian reputation, treating his listeners to a survey of critics over several centuries who doubted that books were worth the trouble.
Mencken was good at this sort of thing. In addition to being a prolific writer, he was also a voracious reader, collecting enough quotations along the way to fill his massive āA New Dictionary of Quotations,ā first published in 1942.
Menckenās speech to the ABA has just been reprinted in the latest issue of Menckeniana, the official journal of the H.L. Mencken Society. Although the journal is available online only to Mencken Society members, hereās a sampling of 10 quotations that Mencken used to remind his audience that not everyone is a book lover.
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Books may seem universally beloved, but these historical persons, from Martin Luther to Woodrow Wilson, weren't such big fans.
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By Danny Heitman , Contributor
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