> -----Original Message----- > From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 11:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Chapter by Chapter summary/discussion of a > different Brin book? > > > Erik Reuter wrote: > > > > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 09:47:29PM -0800, Doug Pensinger wrote: > > > Alberto Monteiro wrote: > > > > > > >Can I offer two suggestions? What about _Atlas > Shrugged_, or one of > > > >the Gor books? > > > > > > > ROTFL! Thanks for that, Alberto, needed a good laugh. > > > > I didn't know anything about the Gor books so I went to Amazon, > > expecting to see a lot of very low ratings. But the first > few I looked > > at had pretty good ratings, one even averaging over 4 (out > of 5). I'm > > not sure what to make of this. > > I'm guessing that the people who didn't like them or really > object to them haven't bothered to do any reviews. Also, I'm > sure that there are a *lot* of people who have been warned by > people that they trust that they don't want to waste any time > on them, and it's not likely any of *those* people would be > reviewing any of them. (I fall into that category.)
*nod* "Specialty" items suffer from that phenomenom. There's also the issue that people who LOVE things rate things a 5, and people who HATE things rate it a 1, regardless of the relative quality. The best results seem to be high-traffic, high-interest items. ...but then, this isn't techincally my department ^_^ Gor is a funny land of sexuality that I've never actually met anyone who admitted practicing it, but plenty of people who've read them. Pretty poorly written pulp, imho. A parody that is actually pretty spot-on: http://www.sexuality.org/l/bdsm/housegor.html HOUSEPLANTS OF GOR The spider plant cringed as its owner brought forth the watering can. "I am a spider plant!" it cried indignantly. "How dare you water me before my time! Guards!" it called. "Guards!" Borin, its owner, placed the watering can on the table and looked at it. "You will be watered," he said. "You do not dare to water me!" laughed the plant. "You will be watered," said Borin. "Do not water me!" wept the plant. "You will be watered," said Borin. I watched this exchange. Truly, I believed the plant would be watered. It was plant, and on Gor it had no rights. Perhaps on Earth, in its permissive society, which distorts the true roles of all beings, which forces both plant and waterer to go unhappy and constrained, which forbids the fulfillment of owner and houseplant, such might not happen. Perhaps there, it would not be watered. But it was on Gor now, and would undoubtedly feel its true place, that of houseplant. It was plant. It would be watered at will. Such is the way with plants. -j- _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
