Re:DID YOU EVEN READ THE ARTICLE!?
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David Brin On LOTR
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But I don't *want* to 'examine the story from a different perspective'. I spend most of my waking hours 'analyzing' things. I get up in the morning and analyze the news considering the slant the reposrter maybe putting on it, I get to work and analyze log and unit-test results to determine failures in software considering what elese might be intersfring with tims given the current projects, I analyze the info coleagues and amangers feed me given the prevailing politics at the time etc. etc. etc.
When I open a book/watch a movie I want to drop into a different world and not analyze it, I want to trust the author and believe him, I want to *escape* and the best bit is I can, because there are no realities and no consquences to impinge upon this luxury.
I hate this kind of article: 'don't forget the real world when reading/watching fantasy'. That is *exactly* what I want to do, in fact it is the whole damned point!
By that defintion, any news is new if you happen to not have heard it before: "Ug not-so-recently made break through with a revolutionary circular rock he calls a wheel, critics dispute its usefulness!". Doesn't make it relevant, or 'matter'.
For me the whole point of/. is that it is the very latest. If I want to read old news I will go elsewhere.
Perdido Street Station, as good as it is, has been around for ages, and as such has innumerable reviews elsewhere. Why waste bandwidth on Slashdot?
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Got them the wrong way round, there.
Now that *does* make me mad!
STRONT SMASH!
But I don't *want* to 'examine the story from a different perspective'. I spend most of my waking hours 'analyzing' things. I get up in the morning and analyze the news considering the slant the reposrter maybe putting on it, I get to work and analyze log and unit-test results to determine failures in software considering what elese might be intersfring with tims given the current projects, I analyze the info coleagues and amangers feed me given the prevailing politics at the time etc. etc. etc.
When I open a book/watch a movie I want to drop into a different world and not analyze it, I want to trust the author and believe him, I want to *escape* and the best bit is I can, because there are no realities and no consquences to impinge upon this luxury.
I hate this kind of article: 'don't forget the real world when reading/watching fantasy'. That is *exactly* what I want to do, in fact it is the whole damned point!
By that defintion, any news is new if you happen to not have heard it before: "Ug not-so-recently made break through with a revolutionary circular rock he calls a wheel, critics dispute its usefulness!". Doesn't make it relevant, or 'matter'.
For me the whole point of /. is that it is the very latest. If I want to read old news I will go elsewhere.
Perdido Street Station, as good as it is, has been around for ages, and as such has innumerable reviews elsewhere. Why waste bandwidth on Slashdot?
This book has been around for ages (more than a year) so why is it being reviewed on Slashdot, source of cool up-to-date news, now?