Comments on: New Reviews, Part 1 — Booklist http://historyman.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/new-reviews-part-1-booklist/ Alexander Rose's Blog Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:26:43 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: rosewriter http://historyman.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/new-reviews-part-1-booklist/#comment-43 rosewriter Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:25:03 +0000 http://historyman.wordpress.com/?p=68#comment-43 Oh no, I just happened to see this Comment -- dating from several months ago. My only excuse is that I was away on book tours, setting up a website, fiddling around with Facebook, and so on. Anyway, the delay's very embarrassing, but I hope you'll forgive me. Thanks for the kind words. Let me have a muse on the abbreviated bibliography. Oh no, I just happened to see this Comment — dating from several months ago. My only excuse is that I was away on book tours, setting up a website, fiddling around with Facebook, and so on. Anyway, the delay’s very embarrassing, but I hope you’ll forgive me. Thanks for the kind words. Let me have a muse on the abbreviated bibliography.

]]> By: Smilin' Jim http://historyman.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/new-reviews-part-1-booklist/#comment-42 Smilin' Jim Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:44:56 +0000 http://historyman.wordpress.com/?p=68#comment-42 "a bumper crop of not-bad trade reviews" The reviewers were possibly taken aback because the book was not what they had expected. I bought the book as a throw-away: A Christmas present for my gun-nut brother-in-law. Then I read the opening. Tough luck brother-in-law, you get the DVD instead. I found the pdf of the bibliography interesting and exhaustive but daunting. The success of the book may allow future editions to include this bibliography. Would you select, say, no more than twenty of the works in this bibliography which you consider to be suburb chronicles of either the technology or of the age and add your comment on them? “a bumper crop of not-bad trade reviews”

The reviewers were possibly taken aback because the book was not what they had expected. I bought the book as a throw-away: A Christmas present for my gun-nut brother-in-law.

Then I read the opening. Tough luck brother-in-law, you get the DVD instead.

I found the pdf of the bibliography interesting and exhaustive but daunting. The success of the book may allow future editions to include this bibliography. Would you select, say, no more than twenty of the works in this bibliography which you consider to be suburb chronicles of either the technology or of the age and add your comment on them?

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