http://stormyscorner.com/2004/05/off-with-their-heads-by-dick-morris.html Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:13:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://stormyscorner.com/2004/05/off-with-their-heads-by-dick-morris.html/comment-page-1#comment-1897 Bill Sat, 08 May 2004 10:19:15 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/2004/05/off-with-their-heads-by-dick-morris.html#comment-1897 Yes, there is a wide variety of people and what will disgust some of us is going to really appeal to others. You might also apply a little bit of that idea to your post on fat and the "ideal" woman's body. But that's a side track. I guess this wide diversity is better than complete uniformity, but I sometimes wonder where good judgment and taste have gone. Also, I think that people are more likely to post a review if they strongly agree with a position. If they are ambivalent or opposed they will not give it their time. Just my suggestion. As for your stealth blog, you might work a deal with the NYT to have them post it. That will get you some prominence. :-) Yes, there is a wide variety of people and what will disgust some of us is going to really appeal to others. You might also apply a little bit of that idea to your post on fat and the “ideal” woman’s body. But that’s a side track.
I guess this wide diversity is better than complete uniformity, but I sometimes wonder where good judgment and taste have gone. Also, I think that people are more likely to post a review if they strongly agree with a position. If they are ambivalent or opposed they will not give it their time. Just my suggestion.
As for your stealth blog, you might work a deal with the NYT to have them post it. That will get you some prominence.

]]> http://stormyscorner.com/2004/05/off-with-their-heads-by-dick-morris.html/comment-page-1#comment-1896 Stormy Fri, 07 May 2004 12:43:29 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/2004/05/off-with-their-heads-by-dick-morris.html#comment-1896 I definitely heard that you didn't like the book! :) The problem is how to explain the 3.5 average rating by 51 people on Amazon.com, especially since there are quite a few, like me, who gave it 1 star ratings. Not to mention the five reviewers in Barnesandnoble.com that gave it 5 star ratings. While this guy might be ranting, it seems like there are a few people out there that completely agree with his rantings. My guess though is that those people aren't reading my blog. :) I definitely heard that you didn’t like the book!
The problem is how to explain the 3.5 average rating by 51 people on Amazon.com, especially since there are quite a few, like me, who gave it 1 star ratings. Not to mention the five reviewers in Barnesandnoble.com that gave it 5 star ratings.
While this guy might be ranting, it seems like there are a few people out there that completely agree with his rantings. My guess though is that those people aren’t reading my blog.

]]> http://stormyscorner.com/2004/05/off-with-their-heads-by-dick-morris.html/comment-page-1#comment-1895 Bill Fri, 07 May 2004 09:17:19 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/2004/05/off-with-their-heads-by-dick-morris.html#comment-1895 Your views are right on the target, but relatively mellow. I was in the library several days after I first read your review of this book. I sought out their copy and, even though I was short on time, I took five minutes to scan it. That was enough for me. Most people who suffer from diarrhea cope with their problem quietly and its manifestations privately. This author seems to have taken his symptoms, not to a doctor, but to his publisher. Rather than telling him to go stuff a cork in it, they wrap his output in a cover and slap a price tag on it. There are many people who can present the view from that part of the political or social spectrum, and present it well. Equally so, there are good, lucid spokesmen for most other views. It takes time to study what they each have to say in an effort to establish an informed opinion. Time spent reading this author’s rants is taken at the expense of worthwhile reading. I probably ought to resent that, but I have already given this book more time than it deserves. Your views are right on the target, but relatively mellow. I was in the library several days after I first read your review of this book. I sought out their copy and, even though I was short on time, I took five minutes to scan it. That was enough for me.
Most people who suffer from diarrhea cope with their problem quietly and its manifestations privately. This author seems to have taken his symptoms, not to a doctor, but to his publisher. Rather than telling him to go stuff a cork in it, they wrap his output in a cover and slap a price tag on it.
There are many people who can present the view from that part of the political or social spectrum, and present it well. Equally so, there are good, lucid spokesmen for most other views. It takes time to study what they each have to say in an effort to establish an informed opinion. Time spent reading this author’s rants is taken at the expense of worthwhile reading. I probably ought to resent that, but I have already given this book more time than it deserves.

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