On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 Gaertk at aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 2/19/2004 2:27:41 AM Eastern Standard Time, Matthew Hunter <matthew at infodancer.org> writes: > > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 04:42:21PM -0600, Bradford Holden > >> I saw a sign that said, "If you like Robert Jordan, you > >> might also like Steven Brust." > > > > And you take issue with this assertion why, exactly? > > I myself first heard about Brust when I was hanging out on > rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan. Ooh, ooh - I was involved in agitating for the creation of r.a.sf.w.r-j back when I was reading r.a.sf.w. (weren't there a few dozen more dots?) and Jordan posts periodically took it over. But that was in another country... Makes me miss my .cern address. As to the exploding head issue: As a logical construct, the statement doesn't have a lot of information content - "there exists at least one person who likes RJ and SKZB." Beyond that, De gustibus non disputandum est.