Will this help us! Or just make me feel more inadequate.

First thoughts from Vicky(from...http://www.themanbookerprize.com/blog/)
Purely coincidentally I came across this quote from Samuel Johnson (quoted by Colin Dexter in “The Way through the Woods” - so don’t think I’m being too intellectual:
“He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood…”
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