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Originally Posted by Catlady
One of my pet peeves is this method of relaying information. I really only wanted to see a list of the names in text. Instead I had to waste time clicking through slides. Why?
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I believe the idea was that if they're going to trash the authors, it was only fairly to explain
why in some detail.
I've read Tan, Cunningham and Lahiri -- decent writers, but I can agree with their inclusion. I've not read Foer or Vollman, but was familiar with the names.
Some of them
really sounded like hard-core Ivory Tower navel gazing, combined with audacious self-promotion!