On Dec 27, 4:30 pm, "rb608" wrote:
"jeff" wrote in message
there was nothing in your post that required or even invited a negative
comment, imo. i read it and appreciated it. thanks.

Taken in isolation, his Fifty Places post is as you suggest; but coming as
it did less than 24 hours following a complaint about obscene consumerism,
the irony of boasting of one's fly fishing travels practically jumped out of
the screen at me. Personally, I got a chuckle; but I'm not surprised at the
subsequent flames and defensiveness.

It *does* sound like a great book; but the timing of the review coiuld have
been better. :-)

Joe F.

No matter what any of the long term contributors on here post, their
"history", and the invariably biased views of other long term posters,
largely prevents anything simply being taken objectively and simply on
its merits. This is more or less independent of any particular
temporal juxtaposition. Probably another reason why many people post
less and less as time goes by.There is very little point in posting
anything much if the only return is brickbats from the same idiots.

MC