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Originally Posted by tomsem
Sherman Alexie responds (Amazon Kindle discussion):
If any of you have read his books or seen the movie, "Smoke Signals" (he wrote the screenplay), you'll know that he has a playfully provocative style. He's much less interested in being rigorously 'correct' than in getting people to look at their stuff, whatever it might be. In the tradition of clowns, or perhaps more appropriately here, of mythic Coyote of Native American lore. In this case, getting us to Question Technology. We can question how artfully he has succeeded here, and though I don't find much to agree with him about concerning the evils of digital publishing, and he's not one of my favorite writers, I think it is great what he's doing, and yes - he's worth a read.
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"Playfully Provacative" We must have different dictionarys.
I call what he said obnoxious crap.