Comments on: Linker, Thinker, Soldier, Spy http://www.kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2006/06/27/linker-thinker-soldier-spy/ for posterity and whatnot Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:46:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cowtown Pattie http://www.kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2006/06/27/linker-thinker-soldier-spy/comment-page-1/#comment-3219 Cowtown Pattie Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:20:49 +0000 http://kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2006/06/27/linker-thinker-soldier-spy/#comment-3219 I truly understand. I waffle between the "thinker" and the "linker" myself. Run the gamut between serious and silly. i have read several blogs lately that are ruminating exactly the same quandary. Does being an avid "linker" bring you readers, or keep you popular? Maybe. It is a little awkward and self-gratuitous at times. Personally speaking, I CAN tell you that your reading suggestions have proved to be eduational nuggets for me. Hope you find a happy resolution and compromise! I truly understand. I waffle between the “thinker” and the “linker” myself. Run the gamut between serious and silly. i have read several blogs lately that are ruminating exactly the same quandary.

Does being an avid “linker” bring you readers, or keep you popular? Maybe. It is a little awkward and self-gratuitous at times.

Personally speaking, I CAN tell you that your reading suggestions have proved to be eduational nuggets for me.

Hope you find a happy resolution and compromise!

]]> By: Kevin Holtsberry http://www.kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2006/06/27/linker-thinker-soldier-spy/comment-page-1/#comment-3218 Kevin Holtsberry Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:25:03 +0000 http://kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2006/06/27/linker-thinker-soldier-spy/#comment-3218 JG, I have thought about disucssing books I haven't read and I do on occasion touch on reviews and debates when I haven't read the book in question. But I haven't really developed a system for disscusing books I haven't read all the way through. I really have a hard time not finishing books. So if I start it, I want to finish it. I seem to be an all or nothing type on this one. JG,

I have thought about disucssing books I haven’t read and I do on occasion touch on reviews and debates when I haven’t read the book in question. But I haven’t really developed a system for disscusing books I haven’t read all the way through. I really have a hard time not finishing books. So if I start it, I want to finish it. I seem to be an all or nothing type on this one.

]]> By: jg http://www.kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2006/06/27/linker-thinker-soldier-spy/comment-page-1/#comment-3217 jg Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:19:31 +0000 http://kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2006/06/27/linker-thinker-soldier-spy/#comment-3217 I think you have a good handle here. BTW, does one have to read the entire book? Rigid scholarship may demand it. Yet I once saw an interview with Bernard Lewis in his Princeton home library. Asked about a certain title and whether he had read the volume, he replied something to the effect that he had read enough to know what it was about. An interesting concept. I think you have a good handle here.

BTW, does one have to read the entire book? Rigid scholarship may demand it. Yet I once saw an interview with Bernard Lewis in his Princeton home library. Asked about a certain title and whether he had read the volume, he replied something to the effect that he had read enough to know what it was about.
An interesting concept.

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