Re: The Sparrow

On May 13, 11:55=A0pm, Gene <g...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Kurt Busiek <k...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
innews:2008051320400977923-kurt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Where's the arrogance? =A0Is it now arrogant to say "I don't
> think I read
> > that, but if I did, I don't remember it"?
>
> The *little* arrogance? Here's a book which won the Hugo, and
> which people keep comparing to hers, but she can't be bothered
> to check it out, and suggests that possibly it's just not very
> memorable.
>
> Not a major deal, but just a touch of it, I think.

Now that you put it that way, not at least looking up the books seems
kind of odd. I don't find her statement arrogant but one would think
she would have looked up the book to see what people were talking
about. Unless she had and didn't want to say "I thought it stunk."

--
Will in New Haven