WMBR Music Director's Daily Drop

I just came across this Rick Bass quote on the back of the hardcover edition of Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain. Please, please, please don’t ever be this big an asshole…even if the person you are complimenting is your buddy, student, lover, pal, or what-have-you.

““This novel is so magnificent—in every conceivable aspect, and others previously unimagined—that it has occurred to me that the shadow of this book, and the joy I received in reading it, will fall over every other book I ever read. It seems even more possible to never want to read another book, so wonderful is this one. Cold Mountain is one of the great accomplishments in American literature.”

So great you may never want to read again? Maybe that is laying it on a little thick, you think? Just sayin’. I realize this has no place on a music director tumblr but it was just so astonishing that I couldn’t resist.

- CV