In a message dated 4/29/2008 9:09:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You cannot generalize and say all books in a genre are the same. My books are my books, and other publishers' are theirs. I am not responsible for the contents of anyone else's books. But isn't that what you did when you said the following: In a message dated 4/27/2008 3:28:23 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Civil War reenactors are a very large group but with few exceptions, tend not to be very interested in books or research. They seem to regard it as somehow virtuous to be conspicuously disinterested in everything beyond their immediate and very narrow time frame and geographic area, thus tend to lack a sense of context. They are conformist in ideas, and rely heavily on the system of one group "authority" reading a book and giving them a set of approved ideas to worth with. All reenactment communities do this to some extent, but the CW reenactors are the most likely to come onto an e-group and say, "What is OK for me to wear? I want to 'fit in,'" rather than doing any research or original thinking themselves. They also seem to have less formal education than the other groups, judging by how they write, spell, etc. Granted, we're individual people, not books, but the same concept applies. ~Joseph **************Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used car listings at AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851) _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
