Si alguna vez habéis leído best-sellers, o cualquier libro en edición anglosajona, sabréis que vienen con una cubierta trufada de elogios al libro o al autor por trabajos anteriores. Y siempre son trocitos de frases. Por ejemplo, de Avoid Boring People, de Watson, podemos leer que Henry Gee, editor de Nature, dice '...an engaging writer...'. Esto de las microcitas es algo que siempre me ha puesto los pelos de punta. ¿Qué hay antes y depués de ellas? ¿"(This is an example of what) an engaging writer (would have never done)" quizás? ¿No cambiaría eso por completo el significado de la cita? A esto lo llaman " quote-mining" y ya sabemos lo adeptos que son los creacionistas a ello. Henry Gee mismo ya fue víctima de ellos (y, si se me permite el autobombo, mi jefe también) así que no se me ocurre cómo a los de la Oxford University Press se les pudo pasar por la cabeza hacerle la misma jugada. Porque esto es lo que Henry Gee realmente opina del libro: Well, it's quite true that I reviewed the book for Focus, and also true that I said Watson was 'an engaging writer', because he is.
But it's very annoying, and, indeed, quite offensive, to see this highly selective quote plastered all over the web in support of this book, when the rest of my review made it clear, given the circumlocutions required when one is offered a lead review slot and one doesn't want to cast too much of a downer on things, that, in my humble opinion, Avoid Boring People by James D Watson is an arrogant, illiterate, narcissistic, pompous, pustulocrustaceous, shrill, noisome, vile, risible and above all steamingly feculent carcass of a book whose purpose can only be to distract me from from more worthwhile pursuits such as listening to my collection of tapes of kittens being impaled on red-hot skewers. Pero este tipo de opiniones nunca las pondrán en la contraportada de libro alguno. Eso sí, sigo pensando que, si bien es cierto que el libro es narcisista, pomposo y todo lo demás, no esperaba menos de una autobiografía de nada menos que Jim Watson. Pero este tío ha ganado un Nobel y, sobre todo, ha tenido las narices de decirle al mundo por escrito cómo funciona esto de la ciencia de verdad, con sus trapicheos para conseguir financiación, las intrigas intra e inter laboratorios, y la muy lamentable ausencia de más chicas bonitas. Pero para todo eso, mejor leer la Doble Hélice; Avoid Boring People sólo se lo recomendaría personalmente a quienes crea que pueden extraer alguna moraleja de aplicabilidad real en sus vidas. PD. Gracias a P.Jorge por engoarme ;-)
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De: Assarhaddón |
Fecha: 2007-12-13 19:02 |
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Pues siendo francos, creo que con esta crítica en la solapa el libro se vendería más.
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De: BioMaxi |
Fecha: 2007-12-13 19:21 |
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Asirio, de ser así tú no tendrías precio como crítico literario.
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De: almacantarus |
Fecha: 2007-12-13 23:44 |
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"la muy lamentable ausencia de más chicas bonitas" ... y la muy lamentable presencia de tantos chicos feos, como Watson. Ay, espera, que igual ambas cosas están relacionadas.
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De: Ana |
Fecha: 2007-12-14 03:37 |
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Muy bueno el Henry Gee (-:
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