Today's accomplishments

[hawkwing_lb]

I translated some Greek. I finished one column and read a book for review. I have not yet wrote the review. I went for a walk. I found a new comment on a review I wrote last January that made me giggle.

I am curious what the reviewer's "broad experience" entails. I, for one, have probably only read a few hundred books in my life (I wouldn't hope to compete with a scholar in Classics), but I have certainly read a great many that are much worse than Theft of Swords.

Of course, it all depends on how we define "worse" and "better," but I found Mr. Sullivan's story fun and thoroughly entertaining, and I would easily rank it as one of my better reading experiences of the past several years.

I laugh because a) last January and b) my qualifications to make a judgement of taste, someone is still calling them into question? I am shocked! Shocked!

Actually, I'm not shocked - though nine months after the fact, I am a little puzzled.

Comments

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

It has never yet occurred to me to use "I have experienced things worse than this!" as an argument for why something is good. There are many things in life which I think are not very good which are not the absolute worst things I've experienced.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

In very deed.

[jennygadget.livejournal.com]

I rather shudder to think what else he has been reading. Supernatural fanfic? Instruction manuals? Children's novels written by celebrities? Business textbooks?

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Let's not be... cruel. Quite possibly he merely has strange definitions of "better" and "worse".

[atheilen.livejournal.com]

Hey, no slamming Supernatural fanfic. I've read some that's quite good.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Fanfic and good are not exclusive categories, it's true. Still, one must admit that as with everything, there is better and worse.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

I can't help it, so do I.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

But you are a women in public so you must be made to explain yourself. You might not be qualified, because, y'know, breasts!
Headdesk.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Disagreeing with the mighty PHALLUS!

...I may possibly be overcaffeinated.

[jennygadget.livejournal.com]

Or possibly just the right amount of caffeinated.