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June 11, 2005
SO NOT HIS CUP OF TEA
A reader took notice of my recommendation the other day. (OK, if you must know, it was one of my staff of thousands who took notice.) He writes:
Jan, we bought the Watson book "Ideas." It is good, but not as good as I had hoped. Too breezy. I like a tighter line. He spends a lot of time on religion. Not my idea of important ideas. Those are such subjective beliefs, why even argue about them. Same goes for whether there is some mysterious inner being. Who gives a damn. The business about emptiness is a couple of pages at the very end. He mentions Gray in the discussion, which is perhaps why Gray gave so much weight to that tiny part of the book. It's like reviewing a Mercedes and devoting half the article to the hood ornament.
It's one thing to diss the review, another to diss the book under review. To do both -- a double diss -- rates a 3.6 degree of difficulty. That last sentence puts him in the water without a splash.
Posted by at June 11, 2005 12:57 PM
