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hawkwing_lb ([personal profile] hawkwing_lb) wrote2012-09-16 11:40 pm

Today's accomplishments

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.

[identity profile] hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com 2012-09-17 10:39 am (UTC)(link)
Let's not be... cruel. Quite possibly he merely has strange definitions of "better" and "worse".

[identity profile] atheilen.livejournal.com 2012-09-17 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, no slamming Supernatural fanfic. I've read some that's quite good.

[identity profile] hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com 2012-09-17 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Fanfic and good are not exclusive categories, it's true. Still, one must admit that as with everything, there is better and worse.