“The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination, and whether these poor people would not fare far better if they were entrusted to the devils in Hell than they do at the hands of the devils of the New World who masquerade as Christians.” PeopleIfsWorldKindMayHandsChristianAsksImaginationPoorHellAtheismReaderTerribleDevilInjusticePositive AtheismCrueltyNew WorldPoor PeopleBeggarMasquerade Author:Bartolome de las Casas
“The little dog-eared books in the meeting-house proved poor reading ... So many of them were about unnaturally good children who never did wrong, and unnaturally bad children who never did right. At the end there was always the word MORAL, in big capital letters, as if the readers were supposed to be too blind to find it for themselves, and it had to be put directly across the path for them to stumble over.” IfsChildrenLittlesBookEndsBigsReadingHousePoorEducationMoralPathDogReaderLettersBlindMeetingsSupposed To Be Author:Annie Fellows Johnston
“It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of mustard on page 331, a whiff of some reader's spilled after-dinner whiskey on page 468. Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us, how good stories abide, unchanged and mutely wise, while we poor humans grow older and slower.” HumansLooksBookStoriesSpeakGrowsPoorWiseReaderPagesLibraryCornersDinnerBentEloquenceWhiskeyGood StoryLivelyCirculationSprungLibrary BooksMustardDabs Book:Salem's Lot Source: Salem's Lot
“I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.” PoorReaderInvestmentBlogsWheatRatios Author:Garry Trudeau
“I barely read. I'm not a good reader at all. Rather than reading, I used to sit in front of the TV and watch black-and-white cowboy movies. I'm a painfully slow reader. It's really bad as an actor, because you have to read a lot of scripts. It takes me like an average of three hours to read a script, which is pretty poor.” UsedThreeReadingActorsBlackHoursWhitePoorWatchesFrontsTvsReaderAverageScriptsTake MeBlack And WhiteCowboyCowboy Movie Author:Will Poulter
“Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading.” ReadingPleasurePoorReader Author:Stephen D. Krashen
“It's completely different, for instance, to report on poor farmers in Africa than it is to report on, say, poor African-Americans. The familiarity of my readers with the terrain, and their preconceptions, are quite different in those two cases, and their perspective, as I imagine it, has to be taken into account at every turn.” TwoDifferentTurnsPoorCasesTakenImaginePerspectiveReaderAccountsInstanceAfrican AmericanReportsFarmersFamiliarityTerrainPreconceptions Author:William Finnegan