Re: Why didn't you tell me about this before?

nebusj-@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Joseph Nebus) wrote in news:nebusj.1206500570@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> 
>>nebusj-@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Joseph Nebus) wrote in
>>news:nebusj.1206397398@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
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>>> Also, actually, a
>>> set of strong unsolicited recommendations from friends would
>>> probably have put me off reading the books, since my friends
>>> haven't got a great track record in predicting what I'd like.  
> 
>>I find that certain types of comments by certain regulars here are 
>>among the best recommendations. Not necessarily good comments, 
>>either. Somtimes, it's comments like "XXX sucked because it had this 
>>kind of stuff in it," and I think "Well, I like that kind of stuff in 
>>books, maybe I'll try it."
> 
>      Oh, yes, just describing that there is some particular material 
> in a book can go a long way to making me or, I grant, others interested 
> in that, regardless of the tone of the commentary.  Sometimes a set of 
> good keywords is better than an opinion.  

And sometimes, you just *know* that somebody is so full of **** that they 
are utterly reliable in a "if he hated it, I'll like it" sort of way. 
Like the staff movie reviewer on the Orange County Register, years ago. 
Most reliable reviewer I've ever seen. The only movie I ever thought was 
decent that he didn't just pan was the first Batman movie (the one with 
Nicholson). He gave it a good review. But if you blackedout every other 
line, and read every third word through green tinted sungl*****, it said 
"I was forced to write a good review of this movie or our advertisers 
would be allowed to bury me in a shallow grave in the desert covered in 
quicklime."
> 
>      Still, there are few things like the joy of discovering there 
> was something cool you didn't realize you were going to be interested 
> in.  
> 
Indeed. Just finished a movie that did that to me. It was better for 
having will Ferrel in it. Who would ever have dreamed?

-- 
Terry Austin
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                                           - tussock

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