Comments on: Gratuitous Attack on Egan's Oracle http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2006/10/06/gratuitous-attack-on-egans-ioraclei/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gratuitous-attack-on-egans-ioraclei Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:32:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rudy http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2006/10/06/gratuitous-attack-on-egans-ioraclei/comment-page-1/#comment-20024 Rudy Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:49:31 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/wordpress/?p=35#comment-20024 Mimsy, I did have some specific reasons for not liking the Egan story, but then I decided not to get into the details, as it didn't seem kind to be dissing a writer who is after all, quite talented and is interested in a lot of the same issues that I am. But it struck me as amusing to leave the "Gratiuitous Attack" title on the blog post...precisely because the post doesn't in fact contain the promised attack. Obviously you don't share my sense of humor! That's ok. It's a big world. Mimsy, I did have some specific reasons for not liking the Egan story, but then I decided not to get into the details, as it didn’t seem kind to be dissing a writer who is after all, quite talented and is interested in a lot of the same issues that I am.

But it struck me as amusing to leave the “Gratiuitous Attack” title on the blog post…precisely because the post doesn’t in fact contain the promised attack.

Obviously you don’t share my sense of humor! That’s ok. It’s a big world.

]]> By: MimsyS http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2006/10/06/gratuitous-attack-on-egans-ioraclei/comment-page-1/#comment-20022 MimsyS Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:21:35 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/wordpress/?p=35#comment-20022 It is gratuitous, but barely an attack: there's no substance. You don't offer any reasons or even examples of what you did or didn't like, you don't explain anything at all. I was hunting around on the 'net for others' thoughts on this story and I find this - a complete lack of thought. I'm disappointed, not that you didn't like the story, but that you can't find any way to express what upset you about it so that others' might discuss it with you, or enhance their own understanding of the work through your point of view. It is gratuitous, but barely an attack: there’s no substance. You don’t offer any reasons or even examples of what you did or didn’t like, you don’t explain anything at all. I was hunting around on the ‘net for others’ thoughts on this story and I find this – a complete lack of thought. I’m disappointed, not that you didn’t like the story, but that you can’t find any way to express what upset you about it so that others’ might discuss it with you, or enhance their own understanding of the work through your point of view.

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