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Pennac's main point is very simple: no one is ever going to read a book if they don't want to. Reading, he says, is mostly about pleasure. From that, other things will follow. If people choose to spend their time doing something else, that's their right. He looks on them with sorrow, not contempt: without books, they are condemned to lead "a life without answers ... and before long without questions too".
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In its preface, the book by Daniel Pennac called Comme un roman (Paris: Editions Gallimard/Folio, 1992), begs its reader not to use the book as an "instrument de torture pedagogique." Pennac enumerates 10 Inalienable Rights of the Reader:
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Option | Votes |
The right to read anything, | 6 |
The right to not finish a book, | 4 |
The right to be silent. | 1 |
The right to read out-loud, and, | 1 |
The right to reread, | 1 |
The right to read anywhere, | 1 |
The right to sample and steal ("grappiller") | 0 |
The right to "Bovary-ism," a textually-transmitted disease, | 0 |
The right to skip pages, | 0 |
The right to not read, | 0 |
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