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- Subject: Re: First 5 Gor Books okay
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 23:47:14 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <4f4Ji7S00iUz86P6Mg@andrew.cmu.edu> db0s+@andrew.cmu.edu (David M. Bartlett) writes:
- >
- >. . . . [John Norman] needs either some serious help or
- >was involved in a (failed) attempt to make people STOP reading his
- >books: ....
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- No, it's very simple. He writes what will sell, not what he personally
- believes in.
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- In fact, I am told that (a) he is a professor of philosophy at some
- Eastern university; (b) if you praise the Gor books he'll sneer at you
- for a clueless barbarian; (c) but if you tell him they're dreck he'll
- agree enthusiastically and greet you as a person of taste.
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