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Danielle Steel's Production Function
- cafard 4y ago> The closer one comes to Steel, the clearer it becomes that the madness of her being is the madness of our times: working 20 hours each day, she has become vertiginous sublimity itself. Whose is "ours"? On the rare occasions that I have worked more than twelve hours in a day, it has been for distinctly pedestrian stuff.
- pessimizer 4y agoUpper-middle class professional overachievers who have their dream jobs.
- de6u99er 4y ago... usually found dead behind their desk by co-workers on Monday mornings.
- vixen99 4y agoAnd so? Death awaits us all; it's what do we do while we're waiting that matters, at least for some.
- rnk 4y agoVery nice comment. Wraps all of life up in one brief statement.
- mbrodersen 4y agoNot really. Very few people will remember you and they will die too. So don’t worry too much about what “matters” or your legacy. Do what makes you happy.
- lurquer 4y agoMandela? Wasn’t it ‘Danielle Steele’?
- teddyh 4y agoIt was Remington Steele.
- dave_sullivan 4y ago100%
- dwighttk 4y ago“The Sublime Danielle Steel: For the Love of Supermarket Schlock“ is the article title. Tyler Cowen linked to it with “Danielle Steel’s Production Function”
- telesilla 4y ago"His eyes were cobalt and intensely present", the article's author wrote, summoning Danielle Steel's style. I'm thrown back my childhood, reading whatever books my mother left open around the house. Don't do the same for your kids with these novels, there's not much in them to be remembered.
- actionfromafar 4y agoKids have phones these days and don’t even notice books, or anything else really.