Algis Budrys wrote this in 1983:
Budrys brings this up in the context of how our reading of a book is affected by whatever reviews and publicity materials we’ve seen–an interesting point which I became more aware of after going to the bookstore in France and picking out books without having a sense of what they’d be like (see entry under Crédit Illimité in this post. In any case, the main thing is that I just like Budrys’s story and how he tells it. He was a true blogger, which I mean in the best sense of the word.
