[at-l] A Request for Information

[lharder at attbi.com (Leslie Harder)]

Well, since I'm new here I can't really buy into your "yet another"
scolding.  However even when I'm old here I don't expect to ask your opinion
before I post something.

Settle down.  Speed kills.

Have a nice day,
Leslie
----- Original Message -----
From: <redhead@hack.net>
To: <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] A Request for Information


> Before this turns into a "is Bryson's book a good one" I didn't say that
to
> start yet another Bryson thread. I was simply saying that we'll buy any
book AT
> related, or beg or borrow it, to read it. Which apparently even people who
hate
> Bryson DID. It was an encouragement to go for it if you have it in you to
write
> a book about the AT. It was a very simple "go for it." NOT an invitation
to
> debate Bryson again. Regardless of your opinion of Bryson, his book sold.
THAT
> was the point. NOT whether it was worth buying. Just that us AT junkies
will
> buy any AT related book.  And several listers ARE published writers, of
the AT
> or otherwise. Sorry to have posted that thought, if it starts the 10th
thread
> in the past month that causes animosity and totally off topic debate
ending in
> name calling and and bad manners. Please don't let it happen. Take the
comments
> for what they were, and leave the editorials about Bryson behind.
>
> Red
>
> Quoting Leslie Harder <lharder@attbi.com>:
>
> >
> > > I read Bryson before he did the AT book and I didn't like the way he
> > traveled, demeaning things and people instead of giving any sense that
> > he was really being IN the place and WITH the people and learning
anything.
> >  I read his AT book, of course, and didn't see much there to dissuade me
> > from my earlier opinions.
> >
> > Leslie
> >
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