{"id":243,"date":"2004-12-21T23:53:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-22T07:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wasnt-the-truth-good-enough\/"},"modified":"2004-12-21T23:53:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-22T07:53:00","slug":"wasnt-the-truth-good-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/21\/wasnt-the-truth-good-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasn’t the truth good enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’m poking around the internet, looking for reviews of my book<\/a>. (Still time to order<\/a> it for Christmas!) And I come across this page<\/a>, with the following enthusiastic collection of quotes: <\/p>\n

“I can only recommend Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction _ to General Relativity. Special thanks to Addison Wesley which produced it. Recently I have got Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction _ to General Relativity, it is very cool. I can only recommend this item. This way I imagined Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction _ to General Relativity. Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction _ to General Relativity is very cool, it is worth all the money Addison Wesley wants for this product. Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction _ to General Relativity was a very nice present when I got it on 20 June, 2003. I was surprised that Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction _ to General Relativity was so nice, Addison Wesley really knows how to please customers.”
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Impressive indeed, except … who thanks the publisher for the appearance of a book? And on closer inspection, it’s especially interesting that they were pleased to receive their copy in June 2003, since I remember quite clearly that I was feverishly writing Chapter Nine during that time. The actual book didn’t appear until October.<\/p>\n

It’s perfectly clear that these people just make stuff up! They’re like Bill O’Reilly talking about Christmas!<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, I’m off for the week, so don’t expect any blogging. Merry Christmas to everyone, especially you ornery atheists out there.
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