From: quadibloc@ca.invalid   
      
   Prior to "I blame two things for this review", the review was just a plot   
   summary, and it didn't, as far as I could see, say anything about how   
   terrible the book was.   
   In the following portion of the review... you noted it was difficult for   
   you to read the book, and that it was not of high literary quality... but   
   you didn't really go into the reasons _why_.   
   So I don't think there was really a book review that covered the book's   
   flaws there! (But then one could blame the book's badness, or the book's   
   failure to be your cup of tea, for that problem with the review. Maybe   
   that's what you meant, and I missed it.)   
      
   You can indeed call the book "the right crap at the right time", but I   
   would instead tend to praise Burroughs' work. It was light entertainment,   
   and so it did not excel in all respects, but Edgar Rice Burroughs _was_   
   good at something, and the something that he was good at was something   
   that many readers greatly appreciated.   
   George Lucas may not be another Stephen Spielberg, but that didn't stop   
   Stephen Spielberg from thinking that it would be worthwhile to collaborate   
   with him.   
      
   John Savard   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)