The guy’s an idiot but in an, unintentionally amusing, kind of way. Here’s a nice little quote about the benefits of knowing how to read.
"The fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don’t, then you’ve got the Army, Iraq, I don’t know, something like that,"
So, what have we learned from Mr. King? Well, if you can read, you can just walk into a job. I’m not sure what that means but it’s something that people have the ability to do if they can read. Then he tells us that "If you don’t read", notice he says "don’t" and not "can’t", "then you’ve got the Army, Iraq, I don’t know, something like that". So, if you don’t (as opposed to can’t) read, he tells us that you’re stuck with the Army and Iraq. However, then he tells us that he doesn’t really know. It’s not necessarily the Army and Iraq. It could just be something like the Army and Iraq. It could the the Air Force and Hawaii. That would be a pretty sweet gig.
Of course we all know the gist of what he was trying to say. If you can read you have a chance for a normal job and if you can’t you’re options are limited to something that takes no knowledge which he mistakenly thinks is military service.
What I’ve learned from Mr. King is that if your command of your mother tongue is equal to that of a first generation Russian immigrant, you can become a best selling author. You’d think that a guy who writes for a living would be able to put a couple coherent sentences together. Oh well, just because someone can write doesn’t mean that they are great or even decent public speaker. I hear the military can use people like that.
December 29, 2008 at 3:29 am |
while i read the first paragraph of your little rant i was thinking that picking apart a sentence when you know full well what it really means is not a hard thing to do. False rhetoric is not either. Then in the second paragraph you go on to explain how you really knew what he meant, therefore making your first just a worthless mess of letters. Your sentences are well formed but your thought process is most definitely not, you should spend more time thinking and less time writing.
Thanks for the comment C4M. Sorry you didn’t get my point. I just found it to be a bit humorous that he, a professional writer, would say that, if you can’t read you are destine to a life in the military. Yet, as fine of a writer as he is, he seems to have pretty crappy communication skills. This seems to be a trait he and I share.