From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   A. Tina Hall used his keyboard to write :   
   > William Vetter   wrote:   
   >   
   >> Some time ago, I read one of those books...   
   >   
   > Maybe it'd be better you didn't. ;P   
   >   
   > You could get so cramped up with the supposed wisdom in those books, you   
   > could not ever get to write anything.   
   >   
   I usually have one around.  I read them while I sit on the crapper.  No   
   worries.   
      
   >> this one was about openings. It's thesis was the belief that it is   
   >> possible to write an opening so strong, that editors, literary agents,   
   >> readers, publishing executives are compelled to read on.   
   >   
   > Did they provide proof, or was that just their wishful thinking? :)   
      
   I have read a lot of them, and they blur together.  It may have been   
   _Hooked_, by Les Eggerton.   
   >   
   >> One of the examples mentioned the assassination of JFK in the first   
   >> sentence. Author claimed that this made it so interesting that people   
   >> MUST read it.   
   >   
   > To me that'd signal "oh, real world, not what I want to read".   
      
   OK, let us say the first sentence mentioned elves.   Why shouldn't you   
   read LoTR instead?   
   >   
   >> What I thought was that, "There are a lot of books about JFK.  Why   
   >> should I read this one?"   
   >   
   > That's another reaction that proves the author wrong. Why believe   
   > anything else they claimed?   
      
   I've had a different relationship with my teachers than most.  When you   
   become a world expert in your specialty, then there are very few people   
   who know much relative to you.  You don't rely on them for truth, you   
   absorb the technical language they use (which they often   
   half-understand), then go to the library.  You expect venality, not   
   truth.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)