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- From: loki@midway.uchicago.edu (david raoul derbes)
- Subject: Re: I am reading "OUT THERE" by Howard Blum, opinions
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- Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 00:16:53 GMT
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- In article <4q2h5m$d2j@buffnet2.buffnet.net>, <zylka@buffnet.net> wrote:
- >I read Blum's book. I think it was a fairly good book. One has to
- >remember that it was written by a journalist, AS a journalist. The
- >only problem with the book that I had was that I feel Blum didn't do
- >enough "homework" on it. It has a sense to it that he more or less
- >"rushed" it and that he really could've expanded on some of the topics
- >he chose to write about. As I said, "written by a journalist, AS a
- >journalist..."
- >
- >Cathy Z.
-
- I disagree. I think he did a tremendous amount of research, for example,
- the bit about the Coors keychain of the SAC officer, the bit about the
- limp french fry in the face of Frank Drake, and so on... If you haven't
- read the appendix ("A note on sources", I think), you should do so.
-
- David Derbes [loki@midway.uchicago.edu]
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