Monday 15 October 2007

Valuable social service

I decided not to review any more books unless I basically liked them, which was a decision I took on selfish grounds. Many people say that reviews of bad books pointing out their flaws are an important service to the scholarly community, and I can't really argue with that. Here is a certain eminent professor in selfless mode:
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/lapidge.html
Somehow it's making me think twice about being late with the book revisions I owe him...

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