Fouler Fowler

[Alan Westrope]

On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU wrote:

>Steve Maas wonders:
>"I don't remember ever seeing any mention of Fowler's "A Reader's Guide to
>GR," a useful reference book.

>Fowler has a few useful suggestions and a few helpful explications, but his
>book is so riddled with judgments that replace actual observation and has so
>little to support many of his factual speculations that it makes me extremely
>impatient.  There are many times when I was led to wonder if he
>ever bothered to crack the simplest reference work (like a dictionary, for
>example).

I also noticed some blatant errors, like a reference to *Franz* Webern,
that made me chary about accepting the book's assertions.

>Steve Weisenburger's A GRAVITY'S RAINBOW COMPANION is so far superior (despite
>some errors and omissions of its own)that the two cannot even be compared!

Yes!  Anyone who's participating in the GRGR should grab it from a library
-- via interlibrary loan if necessary -- or, better yet, buy a copy, even
if it means spending a day washing cars to raise some cash. :-)

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