(urth) Weekly blog links

James Wynn crushtv at gmail.com
Tue Apr 14 07:37:13 PDT 2009


>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:32 AM,  <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
>>> Josh: So why don't you like the book, Jon? I understand from your 
>>> article
>>> that you don't like it: that is abundantly obvious. But I think a review 
>>> of
>>> this nature would be more useful if you would include a paragraph - even
>>> half a paragraph - where you give your reasons for not liking it.

>> Jon: I thought I did in the post, but here it is again: I think the book
>> (and several others) rely on the author's well-earned reputation for
>> subtlety to mask or adorn what are essentially undeveloped
>> pot-boilers. The time-travel aspect of Pirate Freedom illustrates this
>> nicely, I think.

> Josh: i want to apologize for my last remark, which I was very wrong to 
> pass.
> You are entitled to your opinion, of course, I was at the tail end of a
> frazzled day.
> I don't agree with you about Pirate Freedom, but these couple of sentences
> do make more clear your problems with the book.  Again, my apologies.

FWIW I think it was an appropriate question. It seems I'm not the only one 
who thought so.

J. 




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