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- From: nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu (Nathan Engle)
- Subject: Re: The Way Things Ought to Be
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- scasburn@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Steven M Casburn) writes:
- >mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) writes:
- >>So how many of you got a copy of the book for Christmas?
-
- > I did! I did!
-
- Not me, unfortunately. I did get a copy of Garry Trudeau's
- _Action_Figure_ (which comes with a life-like plastic figure of Zonker's
- Uncle Duke with extra attachments [Uzi, chain saw, and cocktail glass]),
- but no dittohead stuff whatsoever. My left-wing, liberal family doesn't
- have much interest in Rush, and I'm afraid that they view my avid listening
- as something of an embarassment.
-
- >>Slow start. He keeps emphasizing how hard he worked to actually
- >>*write* a book, then describes in detail how much other people did to
- >>actually *write* the book.
- >> [...]
- >>But the pace picks up nicely about a third of the way through, and
- >>becomes vintage Limbaugh.
-
- > I agree that the book started slow, but, IMO, it didn't really hit its
- >stride until late -- like around Chapter 18 or so. I was pretty disappointed
- >with the first 175 pages. Long on abuse; short on substance. I hope Rush wasn't
- >trying to win over liberals with the book; none of them will read it to the
- >point where he starts to score heavily.
-
- That's unfortunate. I believe that there's a great deal of substance
- in what Rush has to say, but it doesn't do Rush or anybody else any good
- if all he's going to do is preach to the already-converted.
-
- > On the whole I like the book, but it's not written for the Limbaugh
- >novice. It's solely for the hard core.
-
- I'll bear that in mind; I was thinking that maybe I should toddle over
- to the bookstore and pick up a copy sometime, but I already had this feeling
- that the contents of the book are basically just a restatement of the line
- of reasoning I hear on his radio show every day and see on his TV program
- at night.
-
- --
- Nathan Engle Software Juggler
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