Reviewing

[Jay Herzog]

	I recently did a four sentence review of Infinite Jest for a local
	magazine...there is a certain (dare I say it) poetry in writing a
	vivid blurb. Or perhaps I should just move on to bumper stickers.

On Thu, 8 May 1997, Paul DiFilippo wrote:

> 
> 
> Man, I thought I was a martyr to literature!  I just read
> approx 1200 pages of a Gene Wolfe quartet in order to write
> a 1000-word review, and then Spillman at Details goes and 
> reads (presumably)  all of M&D just to write 35 words!  Way to
> go, the Spill-man!
> 
> --
> Paul Di Filippo & Deborah Newton/2 Poplar St./Prov., RI 02906
> "So far as the interests of the capitalist go it does not matter
> whether he invests his money at home or abroad; it does not matter
> whether his goods are manufactured in London or Timbuctoo." HG Wells
>