Comments on: Humbug http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/05/31/1594/ by Jeff Jarvis Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:41:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Exploding books II: Person v. paper http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/05/31/1594/#comment-103898 BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Exploding books II: Person v. paper Sat, 05 Aug 2006 12:17:10 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/05/31/1594/#comment-103898 [...] Now this may start to look like what Kevin Kelly proposed in the New York Times magazine — to which John Updike so strenuously objected: the notion that authors may make their money from performance over print, that books become — like CDs for some acts — the value-added that sells the tickets. Now I do understand Updike’s objection from his perspective: He worked hard to write a book and now he still has to sing for his supper? [...] [...] Now this may start to look like what Kevin Kelly proposed in the New York Times magazine — to which John Updike so strenuously objected: the notion that authors may make their money from performance over print, that books become — like CDs for some acts — the value-added that sells the tickets. Now I do understand Updike’s objection from his perspective: He worked hard to write a book and now he still has to sing for his supper? [...]

]]> By: Patricia http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/05/31/1594/#comment-61176 Patricia Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:32:53 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/05/31/1594/#comment-61176 Radical chic lives on. Radical chic lives on.

]]> By: Mike G http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/05/31/1594/#comment-61171 Mike G Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:24:39 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/05/31/1594/#comment-61171 Oh, gosh, how original. Nobody's trying to see it from that point of view? I'd say the whole New York intellectual establishment is trying very hard not to see it from the real point of view of religious absolutists drunk on the glory of killing for God. Updike is the latest voice of the new Cliveden set. Oh, gosh, how original. Nobody’s trying to see it from that point of view? I’d say the whole New York intellectual establishment is trying very hard not to see it from the real point of view of religious absolutists drunk on the glory of killing for God.

Updike is the latest voice of the new Cliveden set.

]]> By: Christopher Francis http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/05/31/1594/#comment-61017 Christopher Francis Thu, 01 Jun 2006 07:36:22 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/05/31/1594/#comment-61017 >>Ahmad is lovable, or at least appealing; he’s in many ways the most moral and thoughtful character in the entire book... Even serial murderers can have charm, a la Hannibal Lechter. But that doesn't null their culpability. Having not read the book, I don't know where this character's hatred for "our system" came from. But how is this different from non-Islamic criminals we hear about every day, the ones murdering, peddling dope, robbing and raping? They have their own contempt for "our system," even if it is not expressed in some "death to America" manifesto. And that's not the "system's" fault, is it? Is Updike trying to transfer blame? >>Ahmad is lovable, or at least appealing; he’s in many ways the most moral and thoughtful character in the entire book…

Even serial murderers can have charm, a la Hannibal Lechter. But that doesn’t null their culpability. Having not read the book, I don’t know where this character’s hatred for “our system” came from. But how is this different from non-Islamic criminals we hear about every day, the ones murdering, peddling dope, robbing and raping? They have their own contempt for “our system,” even if it is not expressed in some “death to America” manifesto. And that’s not the “system’s” fault, is it? Is Updike trying to transfer blame?

]]> By: Jimmy http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/05/31/1594/#comment-60768 Jimmy Wed, 31 May 2006 23:51:52 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/05/31/1594/#comment-60768 John Updike, old far that he is, doesn't like modern technology? Well, knock me over with a feather! As for the book: Updike hasn't written anything good for well over a decade. John Updike, old far that he is, doesn’t like modern technology? Well, knock me over with a feather!

As for the book: Updike hasn’t written anything good for well over a decade.

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