Horatio Alger post
Bookworm on May 12 2008 at 8:49 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
I wrote a longish post the other day about Horatio Alger. I kind of liked it and was a little surprised when no one said anything at all about it.
Did you all miss it, or was it completely unworthy of comments? I ask, not out of ego (although, Lord knows, I’ve got enough of that), but as a form of quality control. I might continue similar types of posts at my blog — non-political and historical but somehow related to the current American scene — but if they’re really dead in the water, I’m not sure it’s worth the effort.
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Actually, I felt that it was very informative. I had always heard or read references to “Horatio Alger stories” but didn’t quite know to what they referred. Your post filled in that missing part of my education. Speaking for myself, I generally don’t post comments unless I feel that I have something to add. Sometimes, Book, your posts say it all. ’nuff said!
I liked it too. Thanks for reminding us to serve up some well-desrved praise once in a while. It’s easy to forget how much work you do.
Ditto Danny’s post. There are times that nothing more need be said.
Missed it. Went and commented. Good stuff, Toots!
Great Stuff. Like the others I’d heard the name but didn’t know anything about him. Although I haven’t had time to comment much lately, I do enjoy this blog for the variety of interesting content.
I knew about Horatio Alger, and what his story was - even that there really was a guy by that name, that it wasn’t just the name of a character in a book.
However, I’d never read any of his books! I found that part interesting, but with limited time, there didn’t seem to be enough to say to take time to post.
It can’t be fun to drop a post into what seems like a black hole, though…….sorry.
It takes a writer time and work to put together thoughts about a topic, like Alger.
The least we readers can do is acknowledge the work. As Earl says, we can’t let the author feel that all the effort was dropped into .”.a black hole..”.