COWEN: What’s the best book that you never finished?
ORTHOFER: That I never finished? I don’t know because I really finish almost everything. It takes a lot for me to give up on a book.
COWEN: See, I don’t finish most of my books. Maybe I finish 10 percent — I’m not sure — but a clear minority. Why finish books that are not as good as the next book you could be reading in respective value terms?A snippet:
-RW
I knew he couldn't read all of the books he lists on his blog. He might as well list them as "books I have in my possession."
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