Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!esherman@BBN-UNIX From: esherman%BBN-UNIX@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Who reads the GOR books and WHY? (neff) Message-ID: <1659@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Jun-83 16:15:43 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.1659 Posted: Wed Jun 1 16:15:43 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Jun-83 22:06:48 EDT Lines: 21 From: Erik ShermanI shall preface by saying that I have never read a "GOR" book and am not attempting to defend them. Nevertheless, I question the vehemence displayed by the message's author. If Norman's views of women genuinely offend you, why do you constantly return to skimming the books in bookstores? Do you find something particularly titilating, like the jurors who had to see an x-rated movie multiple times to decide if it was obscene? Furthermore, the quote you present as the author's personal creed is taken completely out of context. Is it the author expressing his own views? Is it a bit of fictional characterization? Readers of your message cannot know. I could as easily say that Harper Lee advocates racism by culling selected quoted from "To Kill a Mockingbird." If you must critize someone's work, try to be fair. Erik Sherman (esherman @BBNCCD)