http://www.mantex.co.uk/2009/07/05/the-history-and-power-of-writing/ Writng, arts, media, books, and software Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:42:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.mantex.co.uk/2009/07/05/the-history-and-power-of-writing/#comment-378592 mantex Tue, 17 May 2011 14:44:11 +0000 http://www.mantex.co.uk/?p=2321#comment-378592 You have my sympathy Simon. It is fairly hard going - though of course I assume we've both read it in English translation, which might be a factor. But some quite impressive and important books are like this. Elizabeth Eisenstein's "The printing press as an agent of change" is rather similar - encyclopedic, but hard-going. You have my sympathy Simon. It is fairly hard going – though of course I assume we’ve both read it in English translation, which might be a factor. But some quite impressive and important books are like this. Elizabeth Eisenstein’s “The printing press as an agent of change” is rather similar – encyclopedic, but hard-going.

]]> http://www.mantex.co.uk/2009/07/05/the-history-and-power-of-writing/#comment-378572 Ho Simon Wang Tue, 17 May 2011 14:27:53 +0000 http://www.mantex.co.uk/?p=2321#comment-378572 I have found this book rather inaccessible because it is too long and hard to follow. It may be the case that the author has assumed that the readers must have known a lot about the topics and I just failed to meet his expectations. Nevertheless, I do not believe that I should be deprived of the information in the book because of the lack of prior knowledge. This book review helped a little bit by highlighting the most important arguments of the book. Yet, I wish the author could have summarized the book in a few hundred words. I have found this book rather inaccessible because it is too long and hard to follow. It may be the case that the author has assumed that the readers must have known a lot about the topics and I just failed to meet his expectations. Nevertheless, I do not believe that I should be deprived of the information in the book because of the lack of prior knowledge. This book review helped a little bit by highlighting the most important arguments of the book. Yet, I wish the author could have summarized the book in a few hundred words.

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