[Shotimes] OT people are funny

[Jarrod Clift]

Equally as sad is this quote reviewing Orwell's 1984:

"This book isn't as good as Harry Potter in MY opinion, and no one can
refute me. Tastes are relative!"



-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Noah South III
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 5:18 PM
To: SHOTimes-Mailing List
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] OT people are funny

Heh that's great.  I read some of those reviews about books that I
myself
have read and it's astounding how some people react to a book they just
didn't like.  I mean c'mon, I got down to the part about William
Gibson's
Neuromancer and I just cracked up.  Most of the reviews are written in
an
extremely snooty and arrogant manner.  It's like they feel that if they
use
big words and unique literary references then what they say will have
more
validity (uh oh, there I go using big words).  I think the best
description
of the manner in which they were written would be arrogant and ignorant.
This could turn into a lovely OT rant, so I'll keep it short and simple:

"Neuromancer is an uninteresting, unimaginative and ultimately daft book
whose inexplicable popularity is just further evidence that the tendency
to
mistake opacity for profundity is becoming as common in fiction as it is
in
literary criticism. Truly dreadful."

This is what someone said about the book that has more importance to the
internet than ANYTHING else or ANYONE else.  The word Cyberspace was
William
Gibson's invention, the very CONCEPT of the internet was this man's
greatest
accomplishment.

It's really just funny anyway.  I mean these ARE the lowest rated
reviews....that's what makes them so entertaining.  I'm always amused at
least in some part by ignorance.

-Noah South III