Dan on Santa Claus - Readre's Digest

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Amy Z <lupinesque at y...>"
<lupinesque at y...> wrote:
> <Daniel Radcliffe's Reader's Digest Christmas piece snipped because 
> it's probably a copyright violation to post it here at such length 
> anyway>
> 
> bboy wrote:
> 
> > Certainly look at the sentiment of what he said but also look at
> > the used of the English language and construction of his 
> > sentences. 
> > 
> > Very few adults, even some professional writers, could write so
> > expressively.
> 
> I'm not *intimately* familiar with the style of Reader's Digest, 
> ...edited... but this sounds ghost-written to me--or at least 
> heavily edited.  There is a Reader's-Digest-y tone that makes me 
> think DR might've jotted down  some memories and thoughts and then 
> an editor shaped it into RD prose.
> 
> Amy

bboy_mn:

The whole article was made up of short comments similar to this by
celebrities from all over the world. I think I may have thrown the
book away, but there clearly was no identifiable 'editorial' style to
these. They we all very individual and unique.

It is that individual and very unique application of language and
structure that make me think it must be real. I have to believe that
if some editor were just paraphrasing Dan, the language and structure
would have come out in a more common form.

Just a few thoughts.

bboy_mn