Like more than a few people I know, I am stricken with the inability to form my own opinions on several important things. Most of them have to do with "trivial" things like whether I like this music or that movie, and so and so forth, other things I am currently reticent to write or speak about right now. I think one of the results of my education is that I am more hesitant to put forward an opinion on something I am not completely aware of...
I'm having this feeling with a book by a noted French philosopher named Bernard-Henri Lvy called American Vertigo: Travelling in the Footsteps of Tocqueville... Though I'm only partially through it, I was intrigued enough to do some research on the men, Alexis de Tocqueville and BHL, behind the book.
What I've read so far as struck a chord with me, but it seems as though the reviews I've read have coloured by perception of the messenger. It seems like this will change how I look at the books, which is a bit disappointing -- almost like when you figure out the plot to a mystery or suspense movie, but not quite.
Does that make sense?
I'm having this feeling with a book by a noted French philosopher named Bernard-Henri Lvy called American Vertigo: Travelling in the Footsteps of Tocqueville... Though I'm only partially through it, I was intrigued enough to do some research on the men, Alexis de Tocqueville and BHL, behind the book.
What I've read so far as struck a chord with me, but it seems as though the reviews I've read have coloured by perception of the messenger. It seems like this will change how I look at the books, which is a bit disappointing -- almost like when you figure out the plot to a mystery or suspense movie, but not quite.
Does that make sense?