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Oh a serious note, I want to tell you that I've had a chance to go back and read your guest review of LeVine's book on FDL.  When you showed me what the book was, I was pretty less than impressed (not helped by the fact that Amazon.com tells me that people who bought it also bought Lucas' New Cold War...)  But you managed to do the review really well!  Seriously.  You can review books!  (I cannot; I envy your little talent.)  And you were very fair and diplomatic about it all.  I totally scoffed at you when you mentioned the gig - I think I owe you an apology.  Nice work.

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
by poemless on Wed Oct 15th, 2008 at 03:44:34 PM EST
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Thanks!

Being at the Salon was a mess, as I was attending a formal dinner with my wife for her association, and had to leave before the main course. And I only finished reading the book in the plane the day before, and my first impression was negative (thankfully, I got word from a common friend that DeVine's a good guy).

But the conversation itself in the Salon went well, and was pretty constructive.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Oct 15th, 2008 at 04:38:35 PM EST
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what she said...

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Fri Oct 17th, 2008 at 12:25:55 AM EST
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