From the “this is what I’m talking about” department at EduKindle: I was reading the Weekend Journal on the Kindle (still on the free two-week Wall Street Journal trial) and saw a review of Grand Theft Auto IV by Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Junot Diaz. This guy can write: “for me, GTA IV is more an example of our evasions as a culture, more of a fairy tale, more of a story of consolation than a shattering cultural critique…” So I look for the prize-winning novel in the Kindle store, and seconds later I am reading the sample of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. In a WSJ interview/feature earlier this year, Junot Diaz said something that resonates:
The point of reading was that it was an excuse to talk to other people. It was an excuse to ask questions; it was an excuse to build a community out of nothing but a strange book that two or three people happened to cross paths on.
Read the whole piece here. All in 20 minutes on the Kindle.