Bleeding Edge - A Rolling Assessment

[David Morris]

Err:  "In the history of the world"
Sound like he rilly meant to be seriously serious!

On Tuesday, September 24, 2013, John Bailey wrote:

> The "best novel trailer in history" does seem pretty funny, given the
> limited field and generally uninspiring competition...
>
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > Right. You know this.
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > On Sep 24, 2013, at 7:34 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >
> > Gibson is too smart to have been serious.  He was being flip about a flip
> > novel trailer.  In fact  "novel trailer" seems almost ridiculous by
> > definition.
> >
> > On Tuesday, September 24, 2013, Markekohut wrote:
> >>
> >> No, afraid he meant it. Doesn't make him right but I think he was.
> >> But I sent my opinion around on the guitar long ago now.
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPad
> >>
> >> On Sep 24, 2013, at 7:05 PM, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> >The author  William Gibson called it, "Absolutely the best novel
> trailer
> >> > so far in the history of the world."
> >>
> >> Right. But he was presumably just exercising his authorial right to be
> >> ridiculous. I mean, this wasn't even the best novel trailer since
> Pynchon's
> >> last novel trailer.
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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