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"Good read"

Presented by Kel Richards

The most recent edition of The Vocabula Review (in the “Dimwitticisms” column) attacks the expression a "good read" saying (quote): “This is a hideous expression that only the very badly read — those, that is, who read merely to be entertained — could possibly verbalize. The people who use this phrase are the people who read best-selling authors.”

there’s nothing good about a book that reads badly

Well, I disagree. There’s nothing wrong with the expression a "good read": because there’s nothing good about a book that reads badly. Only the pretentious would dismiss a book because it is an easy, or entertaining, read. We must get rid of the idea that obscurity is profound. As an example: the deconstructionists can sometimes be obscure and awkward to read not because they’re profound, but because they write unintellectual muddled nonsense. As the British philosophy J L Austin pointed out half a century ago, there’s a lot to be said for clarity. A good read is a good thing.